Oginga Randiki

21/12/2025

WE SHALL NOT ALLOW QWETU SACCO TO GO DOWN
If you lived in Voi town in the early 1980s like myself, you probably still remember a finance and building society located at the Jumbo House.

Now my family opened and operated a very very healthy account with this society. It was locally owned by indigenous Taita who later went on to incorporate or founded the first private boarding school in Taita-Taveta district. My third born schooled at Taita academy. Why? Because I believed and still believe in local investments. Way back in 1950s my parents, together with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga founded the Luo Thrift and Trading Co which today own many assets in Kisumu town and huge sugarcane plantations

Back to the finance and building society. During this period the economic news was not all bad.
Interest in this particular building society among investors and policy makers in the district was higher.

Indeed in many discussions this society was regarded as goldmine. Mining firms, agricultural firms, workers of Kenya Railway, KWS, Telekom, Posta, Kenya Power, Kenya Pipeline, teachers and members of business community in Taita-Taveta district saved with building society.

Rural and urban finance and building society, owned by the elite Kikuyu business men led by Andrew Gumba, the former mayor Nairobi city tried to open a branch in Voi but found this building society enjoyed unparalleled advantage over all financial institutions in Taita-Taveta district. It tended to have strong balance sheets. This stunning lead and improvement came through several routes.

The building society was early to diversify away from saving to other financial facilities.It increased its use of deposits from 1 percent of total deposits to 14 percent then. The incentive to save was backed by both high interest on deposits.

But none of these successes frees the building society from the need to address its many other problems, whether customership, financial or economic.

But the successes were still major achievements and lessons for other communities in operating their homegrown financial and building society.

Then the orchestrated smear campaigns against the building society, cooked and churned out by a community which wanted to found their own bank and open a branch in Voi.

Darwin's metaphor was apt: even though long necks seem like a waste in normal times, giraffes have advantage in a drought: they can eat the leaves on the tops of trees that are out of reach for other animals.
In an economic downturn communities with their own bank have advantage even though higher interest rate seems like a waste in normal times.

With their locally own Sacco, community is more likely to weather the bad times than a community without homegrown sacco.

If we ask the economic mirror on our financial wall who has the best credit policies between the private banks in Voi and Qwetu SACCO we may not get the answer that we expect. Shall we allow Qwetu SACCO to go down because of conclusion based on ignorance, propaganda and gullibility?

13/12/2025

*MAVERICK AOKO: LEAVE RAILA FAMILY OUT OF YOUR MALICIOUS MAVERICKLAND*

This evening my colleague alerted me about a post on the Facebook account of one 'Maverick Aoko'

When I read the post what came to my mind was ooh! aah! This is a handiwork of the scummiest street pedder with prurient minds on images of helpless old widows, orphans.

This Maverick Aoko thinks everyone could accept to be at the mercy of the slavering beast.

The post is tittle-tattle, gossip, innuendo, malice, weird propaganda, lies, rumours and weird heckling and from paragraph to paragraph the awful truth, pop up as the principle ingredients of the bubbling black witch's brew which is ladelled out in gossip.

The post is an absolutely mess of garbled rubbish. Her tastelessness knows no bounds.The paranoid has wholly gobbled her up. Her post is an imaginative forgery. An example of brilliantly manipulative propaganda which is as pure as Goebbels's hockum.

Certainly, the seething style, written with hands thrusting through the walls of her moral dilemmas and in the heat of the terrifying hallucinations bear the hallmark of a quarrellous forty something trout busking in delusion that everyone is scared of her.

Of course it is an outraged virtue which screams the loudes. It seems sadistic to us to subject a 53-day-old widow and orphans to anymore torment. No punishment that could be imagined could hurt Raila family more than the memory of that nightmarish event of death of the head of their family.

Raila's widow and his orphans are condemned to live with the sad and painful memory to end of their days. In short we give our hearts to every family with the broken heart instead of spewing insultive epithets at them.

Before you ignite fire, you must not forget that fire respects no ownership boundary. What this 'Maverick Aoko' is engaged in, is no better than pouring oil on flames, which by now threatening to engulf Aoko herself.

Raila left his trusted online 'Party Guards'. If you're King kong then pick a fight with Godzilla. But if you're neither King Kong or Godzilla leave King Kong leave Raila family in peace. Whoever insults Rose Odinga is stirring an hornestnest. As MIB Rose Odinga is our symbol

13/12/2025

06/12/2025

Rosalie Gicanda, the last Queen of Rwanda 🇷🇼 is described by those who knew her as a humble, friendly and generous lady who always welcomed visitors to her home and shared whatever she had.

Queen Gicanda was kiIIed on April 20, 1994 during the genocıde.

The Rwanda genocıde is one of the reason why Rwanda banned the recognition of tribe.

06/12/2025

Former South African president Jacob Zuma returned to court on Thursday alongside a French arms manufacturer as the long-running arms deal case once again entered public focus. The case, which has stretched on for years, involves allegations of corruption linked to a major defence procurement contract. Zuma has repeatedly denied the charges, insisting he is innocent and targeting political interference. His latest court appearance has revived national debate around accountability, delayed justice, and political responsibility. Many South Africans are closely watching the proceedings, viewing the case as a crucial test of the country’s judicial independence and commitment to fighting corruption at the highest levels of power.

06/12/2025

NAMPENDA KINANA ATAPATA TABU SANA
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Abdulrahman Kinana ni moja ya wanasiasa wengi kutoka Arusha aliyepata nafasi ya kuwa Mbunge wa Arusha Mjini, katikahistoria yake aliwahi kupata mafunzo ya kijeshi na kuwa mkufunzi katika Chuo cha Kijeshi cha Monduli mkoani humo.

Siku moja, Baba wa rafiki yangu hayati Godfrey, alipata kunisimulia kuhusu mazungumzo yake na aliyekuwa kada mkongwe wa CCM, Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru. Siku hiyo, Kingunge alimweleza Godfrey kuwa katika vijana waliokulia na kulelewa na chama hicho vijana watatu walikuwa wa kipekee; Jakaya Kikwete, Lowassa na Kinana. Kingunge alimwambia Mzee Godfrey kwamba yeyote kati yao angeweza kuwa Rais wa Tanzania na taifa likabaki salama.

Nyerere alikuwa na maoni k**a ya Kingunge mwanzoni lakini alikuja kubadilika baada ya kupewa taarifa kuhusu mali za Lowassa. Jambo moja ambalo Kingunge aliwahi kuambiwa na Baba wa Taifa ni kwamba shida pekee ya Kinana ni kwamba watu wangembagua kwa sababu ya asili yake ya Kisomali. Kwa maneno ya Kingunge, Mwalimu alimwambia; “Nampenda Abdulrahman, lakini atapata shida”.

Na woga huu wa Mwalimu ulitiwa nguvu sana na namna wana-CCM walivyoanza kumbagua Dk. Salim Ahmed Salim kuwa ni mwarabu mara tu ilipoonekana anaandaliwa kuwa Rais. Ilikuwa wazi, kwa Mwalimu, kwamba siku ambayo ingeonekana au Kinana kutangaza tu kuwa anataka Urais, ndiyo siku ambayo mashambulizi na ubaguzi yangeanza.

Chukulia mfano mdogo wa Hussein Bashe. Alikuwa na sifa zote za Utanzania hadi alipotaka kuwania nafasi ya Mwenyekiti wa Umoja wa Vijana wa CCM (UVCCM). Hapo ikaibuka mizengwe yote kuhusu uraia wake. Sina shaka yoyote kuwa ikifika wakati akatangaza nia ya kuwania Urais, tutasikia maneno mengine wakati huo. Lakini huu ni mjadala wa siku nyingine.

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