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By Miguna Miguna
My response to Sarah Elderkin today's Daily
Nation post: Sarah Elderkin cut her teeth during the dark days of One-Man rule
under then President Daniel Arap Moi. She worked for the famous ‘Weekly Review’
which was ably run by Nuclear Scientist-turned-journalist, Hilary Ng’weno.
Ng’’weno was good at picking holes in a subtle
way at Moi’s government and was successful for a while. The magazine was
eventually forced to shut down and some like Elderkin jumped ship to support
the ‘burgeoning opposition’ then under leading lights like Kenneth Matiba and
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
She grew close to Odinga and worked her way to
become one of his key speech writers and campaign strategists. This is probably
when she met his son, Raila, and the relationship grew both professionally and
personally.
Her loyalty to the Odinga family is therefore
unquestionable. Somewhere along the way, she fell out with the younger Odinga,
perhaps more to do with personal than professional etiquette.
What Elderkin has done in three pages of what
can only be described as ‘childish ranting and raving’ is nothing short of
‘juvenile jingoism’. She needs to be reminded that long gone are the days of
one-man Dictatorship and if any “Expert’ or ‘Analyst’ wants to talk about this
or that, they should be given the platform and NOT be silenced just because
someone doesn’t agree with what’s being said.
Elderkin is NOT the authority when it comes to
‘Journalistic Ethics and Standards’. If she’s working for Raila she should
state it plain and simple, not use a ‘Rag’ of a newspaperSarah elderkin is
nowhere! Sarah elderkin does not have a personal website, Sarah Elderkin is not
on facebook and Sarah Elderkin is not on twitter; and yet she is an
'authority' on 'online matters'. Since she is an academic, I would expect her
to at least be on scribd where she would publish her dissertations and various
academic works but she is not on scribd, nor is she in any other social
networking website. to ‘pathetically defend’ her paymaster
I am out of the country to market my
book):..Back to the prime minister and his fondness for whites. He has denied
it consistently, but for those who do not know, Sarah Elderkin is white and
that's why she sounds so hateful in her article. How do you expect a white
woman to respect 'black' Kenyans when her parents and grandparents were at the
forefront of shipping off blacks to work as slaves in their plantations? That's
why her article is so barbaric, dangerous, lacking respect for human rights.
If these are the types of whites the prime
minister hangs around then no wonder he has been seeking the presidency for 30
years (from his attempted coup in 1982, through his PEV filled 2007 attempt and
finally to his 2013
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