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    My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations
    My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations
    My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations
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    My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations

    By James Kemoli Amata

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    For too long we looked forward to political leaders for handouts and economic redemption. The result for the last fifty years has been sorrow and poverty. Time has come for us to all look up to God for prosperity and lasting blessings.

    This time round as we wait for 2063 celebrations we need to put forward God and look forward to Him for the happiness that we missed and hope our grandchildren and their children will be reading funny life that they will not imagine was what we lived.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Kemoli Amata
    Release dateJun 14, 2014
    ISBN9781311633231
    My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations
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    James Kemoli Amata

    I am a retired secondary school teacher of Kiswahili (and Christian Religious Education) and an excited preventive healthcare marketer with Green World Health Products Company.I am a 1976 University of Nairobi Bachelor of Education [Arts (Hons)] graduate and a freelance content writer with a passion for writing and indeed I am a farmer-like author with many titles.I published my first book in 1985, by traditional publishing. I have tried self-publishing and now I am in great heat to explore E-publishing.However, I will never forget my Taaluma ya Ushairi (with Kitula King’ei) from which the publisher ate fat alone, and happens to be an E-book without my knowledge.As I do my business, I worship God in African Kenya Sabcrynnsk of Soi (Prayer and Healing) Church.

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      My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations - James Kemoli Amata

      My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations

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      My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations

      © James Kemoli Amata, February 14, 2014

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All scriptures (except in the letter Professional politician thieves) quoted from the Holy Bible New King James Version.

      © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission.

      All right reserved.

      Quote

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      If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

      For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. – 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11

      Dedication to

      The poor

      (For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’ – Deuteronomy 15:11

      My Thanks Go To

      God our Father in heaven. He has given me free life.

      Margaret M’mbone. She is my wife and mother of my sons and daughters.

      Jeniffer Chepkirui, Modern Professionals Worldwide. Without her I would not managed to write this book.

      Catherine Mutakale was of great help throughout the time I worked on the final manuscript.

      Cover design by James Kemoli Amata

      Languages used UK English, Swahili and Ullogoli

      Some of the other books by this author

      Taaluma ya Ushairi, Acacia Stantext Publishers, 2001

      Mwongozo wa Kipekee wa Mwisho wa Kosa, Africawide Network

      Mwongozo wa Kipekee wa Kifo Kisimani, Africawide Network

      Mwongozo wa Kipekee wa Mayai Waziri wa Maradhi na Hadithi Nyingine,

      Africawide Network

      Mwongozo wa Kipekee wa Utengano, Africawide Network

      Highly Regretted: An autobiography of a bad teacher, AuthorHouse, 2010

      Kisa cha Zahara Mage, MvuleAfrica, 2008

      Mashairi Rahisi: Mazoezi na Majibu, Smashwords.Com

      Mitihani Kielelezo ya Kiswahili KCSE, Smashwords.Com

      Ushairi na Aina na Bahari za Mashairi, Smashwords.Com

      How To Fail Any Examination, Smashwords.Com, 2012

      Tuchambue Tamthilia: Mstahiki Meya ya Timothy M. Arege, Smashwords.Com, 2013

      Sweet Tails, Smashwords.Com, 2013

      Siri Kali, Smashwords.Com, 2013

      Fasihi Simulizi kwa Shule za Sekondari, MvuleAfrica Publishers, 2013

      Uandishi wa Insha na Tungo Nzuri, Smashwords.com, Oktoba, 2013

      My 50 Questions For 2013 Jubilee Celebrations, Smashwords.com, 2013

      Fasihi Simulizi kwa Shule za Sekondari, Smashwords.com, 2014

      Maneno na Aina za Maneno, Smashwords.com, 2014

      Forthcoming titles

      Bahati Alikata Kiu

      Funny Investors

      An Itchy Boil: A Guide To Political Power

      About this author

      James Kemoli Amata is a retired secondary school teacher of Kiswahili and Christian Religious Education. He taught at Moi Girls High School, Eldoret (September 1976-1986 and July 1990-February 2000); Wangulu Secondary School, Wodanga (1987-July 1990); and St John The Baptist Likuyani Secondary School, Soy (February 2000-2007) and retired on December 31, 2007.

      He has authored a number of Kiswahili and other books. Although he retired sometime back he concerns himself with writing mainly books that are useful to students. He is so happy with the bright future, unlike many pessimists, that he decided to write this book because God is in control of every bit of his life.

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      My First 50 Days After The December 2013 Political Jubilee Celebrations

      James Kemoli Amata, BEd (Arts) Hons, Rtd Tr, FW, NM

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      Before The Celebrations

      This was former South Africa President Tata Nelson Mandela Madiba’s week. The lovable old man passed away on Thursday, 5th December 2013 having lived for 95 years since 18th July 1918. World leaders paid glorifying tributes to the departed star of Africa, the world.

      Among the leaders that glorified Mandela was the historic US President Barack Obama. His tribute was more than an ordinary tribute. In his mourning he was categorical that some leaders present praised Mandela for virtues which they themselves went against in oppression of their own people.

      Obama’s straight forward sermon was quite timely bearing in mind that many countries in Africa and elsewhere faced many challenges.

      Mandela was well known for his fight against white minority rule in apartheid South Africa. He fought for democracy.

      Democracy is rule by majority fairly put in authority of leadership.

      But is majority always right?

      This is a question for all of us, from the time before and after Mandela’s death.

      In democracy there is always freedom of speech. Freedom of speech goes with freedom of media and freedom to be quoted.

      It is this week that I mourn Mandela with care because I can be easily dragged to court because of what I write and publish. I hate to imagine that someone wants to have power and right to fine and or jail me for what I write.

      If Mandela was to hear me he would repeat his own words:

      A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens. - February 1994

      In media freedom we find editors who decide what to publish, when and what to publish and what not to publish. This is perfect freedom of the media.

      The same editors do not want the government poking its nose in how they should publish and how they should not publish and what they should publish and not publish. This is their right, natural right and constitutional right.

      I recall with pleasure, the days gone when I could write to the daily papers letters that would be published every other day. I do not know what took me out of that people’s space. These days I rarely write letters and when I write I do not know if they get published or not. This is still freedom of the media even if they do not publish my letters.

      And I blame neither the editors nor myself. I no longer regularly buy or read papers. I happen to nowadays hate horrendous headlines and stories that happen to dominate the papers. Good news is no news; bad news is news. Bad news sells but good news remains unsold.

      The people who editors automatically publish their letters and articles, even when they have little or no substance, are those that matter.

      Two days to the Jubilee Celebrations, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 I read Time to celebrate our numerous achievements by Beatrice Elach, Majority Whip, Senate, in The STANDARD, Kenya’s Bold Newspaper.

      The following day I read it again and recalled the days I was an examiner with the Kenya National Examinations Council.

      If her article was a KCPE English Composition, marking it by impression I would have awarded her grade B. This would translate into 21-30 marks. To be specific I would have painfully awarded 25 marks out of 40. She bored me for not enumerating a single achievement. And perhaps, I would have punished her a little by taking away some marks for irrelevance, and given her the minimum mark for her grade, 21 marks.

      If I were marking the same paper, assume it was a KCSE Kiswahili Insha, the writer would have lost all the five marks for theme, maudhui. I would have awarded her at most 13 marks out of 20.

      In this article I saw hatred and sycophancy and got tempted to go against freedom of the media. If I were an editor in the temptation I would have fed my waste paper basket with it or deleted it from my email inbox.

      The next page of the paper had two letters under one heading: Jubilee has no respect for Press at all. In the two letters Deputy President William Ruto is quoted, "Tusome magazeti leo kesho tuifungie nyama" (let’s read newspapers today and tomorrow we use them to wrap meat).

      The same opinion quote was attributed to President Uhuru by one of the nowadays countless radios in the name of media freedom that freed airwaves. I got confused as to who really owned the original story – Ruto or Kenyatta – as I agreed with the president that freedom comes with responsibility.

      As an examiner I would have penalized ½ a mark for grammar at the first ‘i' in ‘tuifungie ’. I would then ignore the point in the theme for being a mediocrity.

      This reminds me of one day when as a teacher in the classrooms I asked, Are newspapers published so that we can have paper in which to wrap meat and to use in the toilet? A student had used the two as points in a composition. I was so upset but I had to now teach on the importance of considering important points (ideas) and the less important ones.

      The student was a form six. I never knew that it would at one time also come from a more highly placed person and for a totally different reason. For the student the reason was to get a mark or marks from me but for the top leadership it was for killing the media.

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