Dikembe Disembe: Kenya's 1st Political Prisoner under the Jubilee Administration

[Dr. Job]

Blogger Seth Odongo alias Dikembe Disembe cited for hate speech

Kenyan Blogger 'Dikembe' Charged Over Hate Speech


By Standard Reporter
Updated Friday, July 25th 2014 at 22:42 GMT +3

Nairobi, Kenya:A former Moi University student leader and blogger Seth Odongo alias Dikembe Disembe was arraigned in a Nairobi court over hate remarks he posted on his FaceBook page in relation to Mpeketoni attacks in Lamu County.

Odongo appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Ellena Nderitu and was released on Sh5 million bond or cash bail of Sh2 million after denying three counts of incitement to violence and disobedience of the law.

According to the charge sheet, the accused is said to have posted a message on Facebook on July 8 with the intent to stir up ethnic animosity between communities in the county.

Nderitu directed the accused to appear in court on August 8 for mention of the case and fixed hearing on September 4.

Standard Digital News - Kenya : Blogger Seth Odongo alias Dikembe Disembe cited for hate speech

 

[Dr. Job]

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[Dr. Job]

OUTRAGE as MAGISTRATE sets HIGH bail for Blogger Dikembe Disembe

Date: July 25, 2014

A court was told that on July 8, the suspect published words on a Facebook targeted at communities living in Lamu following attacks by gunmen.

The said publication, the prosecution said, amounted to incitement to violence by implying that it was desirable to bring death and physical injury to some class of people in Kenya.

Dikembe was represented by Denis Konyang'o who urged the court to release the student on account that he was a student just about to do his final exams at university and he was no flight risk having flown from USA where he was on summer course to come and answer to the charges.

The prosecution said the publications were threatening and intended to stir up ethnic hatred between communities living in Lamu.

"The publications were intended to incite feelings of contempt, hostility and violence against (a specific) community and pit other communities resident in Lamu county," prosecutor Leornard Mwanzia said.

SH2 MILLION CASH BAIL

The court gave Mr Odongo the alternative of depositing a cash bail of Sh2 million to secure his freedom pending a hearing on September 4.

Mr Odongo is the second suspect to be charged for alleged online hate speech after TNA candidate for the Gatundu South parliamentary seat, Moses Kuria, faced similar charges.

Mr Kuria also denied posting hate messages on Facebook three weeks ago and was released on similar terms.

OUTRAGE: Dikembe Disembe gets high bail!

 

[Dr. Job]

Miguna Miguna penned the article which Dikembe Disembe decided to reply to and all hell broke loose because the powers that be had their feathers ruffled. Below is DD's article:


Mr. Miguna, Why shouldn't Luos be Fixated on State Power? State Power Doesn't Belong to anyone's Mother

Jubilee Alliance government mainstream media blogger Miguna Miguna has written a woeful diatribe in The Star, Kenya titled ‘To my Fellow Luos, Emulate Jews, Don't be Fixated on State Power'.

Of course, this is isn't a digression from Miguna's ‘new thinking' after leaving the employ of Raila Odinga and the free world which comes with it.Let me tell you something about Luos who differ with Raila Odinga: Politically, they live bitter lives. Those who regain themselves return to the fold and make out something for themselves and their ‘stories'.

Those who don't fade away due to ignominy of redundancy or regress to self-pity, finding nothing worth to do for themselves if not a never ending shadow-boxing war.

This last team may be re-absorbed in the political establishment of the day as ‘tokens' and, or mere units of the requirements of the constitutional ‘face of Kenya', however, they never stop to be bitter people. It is scary.

Miguna is neither of the two. He has yet to be re-absorbed into the political establishment of President Uhuru. He has also not retreated to oblivion. However, like his other anti-Odinga groupies, he cannot hide bitterness. Sad.

I do not know where this source of passionate negative emotion geysers from, but you see it everywhere. Unluckily, unlike Moses Kuria, he cannot get elected to parliament. He remains, in his bitter Luo soul, ‘cursed' by the same establishment he so worships. But I digress.

In his The Star column (Saturday, July 19, 2014), Mr. Miguna, in order to cloth his apologies, spends the first seventeen (!) paragraphs giving a ‘background' to the verbiage he is about to spew.

‘Uhuru is more democratic than Raila,' the bitter man closes the last paragraph of his ‘background information'.
He knows he has to, for that's the only way he can separate his personal bitterness from his ‘objective' analysis of the political happenstances of the day.

The reader is left with a sour taste of a man struggling to have his cake and eat at the same time. In layman's language, Miguna attempts to cover his trails even before venturing out to commit the sort of unconscioble ‘advice' he gives to the Luo community.

The gist of it is this: Luos should not be ‘fixated' with power. You may think Miguna will at least, in a paragraph, present to us the dangers inherent in this ‘Luo fixation to political power'. Alas, Janyando does not!

Let me pause here and respond to Mr. Miguna: As a Luo, I reject your ‘advice' with the contempt it deserves.

My generation of Luos are not ‘fixated on/with power'. In fact, I dare reveal: no community in Kenya discusses political power merely as an academically construction as Luos. It is not something we would have brought down Westgate to maintain. It is not something we would have messed up BVRs for.

We Luos win squarely. You only need to look at a certain house that is white.

"This will be a bitter pill to many Cord and Raila Odinga supporters to swallow, but it is something that must be dispensed: President Uhuru Kenyatta deserves some peace and quiet to govern," Miguna writes.

It is difficult to tell how the peace and quietude Uhuru ‘deserves' to govern is hindered by ‘Luo fixation' on state power. Mr. Miguna, President Uhuru deserves no peace. He deserves no ambience. To govern. A president who serves in peace is a dictator, for democracies thrive on constant checks and balances, constant deliberations.

President Kenyatta deserves a serious people and strong-willed spirit to keep on demanding of him to achieve his campaign pledges, key among which entailed ‘national reconciliation and cohesion' or what again does the "N" in TNA stands for?
Of course, there is that narrative. The age old narrative of ‘my government' or ‘our government'. It is a narrative that peaked in 2007, when it was challenged bloodily. Do I need to remind Miguna of his own contributions to it during that December fiasco at KICC?

In 2013, ironically, it is probably due to the easiness with which Luos (read Raila Odinga) let go that the post-March 4 events evolved peacefully in a constitutional environment which unleashed other democracy actors -lawyers and judges – to determine the true national character of the new institutions.

"The President must appease Luos and embrace the entire country" Miguna writes. What a pathetic low. The President shouldn't appease any ethnic community. I'll tell this to the President for free: Any attempt to appease Luos, especially, will backfire on you. I hope it is not what you tried by adopting that Owiro boy.

If the president must appease, he should do it to Kalenjins, they love it, or, at least, they deserve it: 50-50!
As I observed earlier, it is difficult to tell the reasons why Luos shouldn't be ‘fixated' with power when reading through Miguna's hogwash.

It is also involving to decipher whether Miguna wanted to advise Raila Odinga or Luos, for in the whole piece, he mentions Raila Odinga by name 19 times, by reference indirectly even more and only mentions the word Luo/Luos a paltry four times. How contradictory!

‘Don't weep for me, weep for yourselves'. Does it ring a bell, Mr Miguna?

Finally, next time you write your warped rantings on The Star, please don't compare yourself to Malcolm X. It so offends my sensibility.

Dikembe Disembe blogs on politics and ethnicity in Kenya. Follow on twitter him at Leftistpolitics and on Facebook

 

[Dhuks]

How pathetic, if that is the narrative you wanted to put forward here then you should have omitted moses kuria from the articles posted.
In your mind its always the jubilee government against my this, my that. Are you able to oppen threads that have nothing to do with the purported persecution by jubilee or its failures?

 

[Dr. Job]

How pathetic, if that is the narrative you wanted to put forward here then you should have omitted moses kuria from the articles posted.
In your mind its always the jubilee government against my this, my that. Are you able to oppen threads that have nothing to do with the purported persecution by jubilee or its failures?

I believe everybody is free to post whatever they want on this forum so long as it appropriate and not abusive. So I don't see what your problem is with my posts. How about you doing what you are telling me to do. Why not open such threads so we can have a 'balanced atmosphere'. I wonder what irks you with my threads. though. You are free to give them a wide berth unless the truth therein is too much for you to handle and you get jerked into answering them.

Moses Kuria is Uhuru Kenyatta's lapdog and nothing will happen to him so long as Uhuru Kenyatta is President. That's why he is imposing him on the people of Gatundu yet MK is not even a registered voter in the Constituency according to his former campaign manager.

 

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