Mudavadi Sees Politics in Bench Sex Photos

Mudavadi

Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has said that pictures being circulated on blogs showing several people in sex acts in a public bench in Kakamega are political, and meant to spoil Premier Raila Odinga's tour of western Kenya this weekend!

West FM radio quotes Mudavadi speaking in what appears foolhardy and ridiculous comment on the sex pictures, ignoring the most important element surrounding the pictures - HIV/AIDS. As a leader, he should ideally be speaking about the HIV AIDS, and remotely, moral aspect of this story, as opposed to seeing politics in the same.

It is quite difficult to see how sex parade in a public bench can be linked to politics. National politics at that. He, however, did not explain how he saw politics in the pictures, West FM said. 

Maybe, it is because the pictures in question were taken in Masinde Muliro Gardens in Kakamega, the venue of Odinga's weekend rally.

''Mudavadi said the photos are political and thus called upon anybody who has seen the photos not to take the issue seriously and called upon the people spreading the photos to stop immediately saying they were in bad taste,'' Mudavadi was quoted by West FM radio website as saying.

Meanwhile as Mudavadi spoke, the scale of the sex cartel involving the police may be huge. If the pictures are to be completely believed, then, it may be true that police have been taking bribes to protect the sex parade. There are other yet to be published pictures on the Kakamega sex parade.

It has also since emerged that the husband of one of the women appearing in one of the pictures has spoken out. He is embarrassed and is reportedly divorcing her.

We are looking for a clip of Mudavadi speaking; and we will post it here shortly.

See the West FM story here: http://westfm.co.ke/index-page-news-bid-1706.

Thomson Reuters' Africa Journal Winds Up

UK's Thomson Reuters has now officially wound up its weekly Africa Journal TV magazine.

Kenya - Kakamega Public Bench Sex Parade

There is a new vocabulary in town. Bench Kunja! If you speak any Swahili, then you may already be aware of other closely-related vocabularies - Chips Funga, Facebook Funga etc.

Now, this new vocabulary is courtesy of still photos a Twitter user produced, and later published by bloggers; showing how a public bench in Muliro, Kakamega, has become a favourite spot to stage regular sex acts. The pictures from this location are the first pictures from rural Kenya showing people in screaming sex in public bench, of course after the drama with Avril photos and earlier, of Kaz.

See the photos in this blog link (http://walalahoi.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-public-having-sex-ovyo) We have posted one picture from the blog, below.

ICC to manipulate process to try Kenyans

One of the world's most respected opinion magazines, The Economist, has said that the International Criminal Court badly needs to succeed in the Kenya case, not least to impress upon the Japanese and German governments to contribute its over 100m-dollar annual budget.

Now, the ICC must succeed with the Kenya case even if it means rigging some processes or screwing up the entire process, just to make sure it succeeds with the Kenya case. Now, succeeding in this case is having at least two people tried, even if they are acquitted at the end. That is all it wants. This blog is privy to information that the ICC will make sure that the trial of some Kenyans at The Hague-based court goes ahead. America is backing this!

''The ICC badly needs the Kenyan case to succeed, not least to stiffen Japanese and German willingness to continue contributing the largest share of its $100m-plus budget. Missteps and dithering are indeed damaging,'' The Economist says in the current edition, adding that already, the court's chief prosecutor, has made mistakes.

ICC ''judges in the Kenyan case upbraided Moreno-Ocampo for releasing the names of the suspects before the court had ruled that they could be tried. Not all the ICC’s failings can be blamed on him. But some of the criticism sticks,'' The Economist said.

We have published in this blog in the pasts that the ICC is never about justice, rather it is a pawn in foreign power’s chess game. USA is not a member of the ICC, but is backing the court for the sake of its own interest. I cannot allow Kenya to got to the dogs, -  another violence? NO - lest the likes of Fazul Abdullah and the terrorists in Somalia to come and operate in Nairobi; Kenya interior.

Rwandan Minister's Salacious Photos

Unless there are some other pictures! 


The photos we have received of Joseph Habineza - the Rwandan minister who resigned citing improper behaviour following the publication of the pictures - are way below Western threshold of things that can warrant resignation from cabinet. 


In Africa, there is almost non-existent threshold.

But anyway, Joseph Habineza is not any other ordinary minister for culture and sports at all. I met him for a serious of interviews in 2007. He is quite a moral man. He came across as a honest and friendly person. He sits through boring meetings to the end, as opposed to many ministers who'd excuse themselves to attend to other things

But in recent months, he has been attending several youth functions, some which have made him quite uncomfortable.

Now, the reason he is resigning is because photos were circulated on the internet showing him in warmly intimate poses with several women. 

"I have resigned for personal reasons but when you see people publishing pictures and all that, it is not good for your image as a minister," Habineza told the Rwandan New Times.
 

The pictures question are the ones we have published on this post.

 

Habineza says these photos were taken in 2008.

We are on the lookout if there any other pictures in relation to this story.

Kenyan minister infects girl with HIV

I don’t listen to Classic 105 FM radio. But a friend has drawn my attention to a caller to the station's breakfast programme today, with a short moving story.

Sandra, 24, said that she has been working for a cabinet minister sitting in the coalition government. The minister, certainly a male MP has since infected her with HIV/AIDS because she has been sleeping with him. ''I thought I had it all, I had nice stuff. I got myself a house, but you see I am in bed right now. I am actually crying, in bed,'' she said, her voice firm.

''I am telling you this from the bottom of my heart,'' she said, sounding quite honest and almost real, and also asking young girls to work hard and avoid sexual relationships for pay!

She sounded sad that, years ago, she did not have anyone to advice her; and that she would have not have done what she did if she had been adviced. Too late now, she said.

Her story sounded quite genuine and real. She sounded educated, with a sort of good high school accent. It is difficult not to believe her. Of course the difficult bit is knowing who the MP/minister she is talking about is? Any clues?

This story though has gone to underscore how a generation of young boys and girls (young adults) in Kenya is rotting fastl; with prominent people with money and influence buying them things in exchange of dangerous sex.

Women Judges to Hear Berlusconi Sex Case

An all-female panel of judges will preside over the trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power. Berlusconi, 74, denies the charges.



 (Photo Caption: Ruby)
  
Prosecutors say Berlusconi paid for sex with teenage Moroccan belly dancer Karima El Mahroug, also know as Ruby.


Now, the most interesting bit is that, prosecutors say that ‘fondling her and not having intercourse’ would still be a crime as she was under 18, the age of consent to act as a prostitute.

Berlusconi

In a separate case involving the same prostitute, Berlusconi is accused of abusing his power by calling a Milan police station where Ruby was being held, accused of theft, and demanded that she be released.


Berlusconi said she the girl was the granddaughter of Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt.

If the trial goes ahead, three women judges will hear his case! 

Ruby, now 18, has denied sleeping with the prime minister but has said she received 9,400 US dollars from him as a gift after one of his parties.

(Photo Caption: Ruby) 

The trial will start in Milan at 0930 on 6 April 2011.

Fashion writer new Newsweek editor!

The beautiful, controversial and often ruthless Tina Brown, aka Lady Evans, CBE; a British export, top fashion writer and journalist is taking over as editor of American second biggest weekly news magazine, Newsweek.

One of the unusual things with Ms Brown is that she became the editor of Tatler, an British society journal when she was 25 years. Also, the author of ''The Diana Chronicles'', a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, Ms Brown has been the editor of Vanity Fair (1984- 1992 and also, The New Yorker.

(Photo Caption: Tina Brown)

Just before taking up the post at Newsweek, Ms Brown's recent work was as publisher of a news and opinion website, The Daily Beast, that has now merged with Newsweek.

Now, at Newsweek, she has announced that she is re-designing the magazine and that a new copy will be out by April-May this year. 

I suppose one of the biggest issue she will be aiming to do is raise circulation of Newsweek, and maybe ultimately beat USA's leading news weekly, TIME. Of course Newsweek has seen better days, with global circulation having dropped from over four million copies in 2003 to just over 1.5million copies at present; compared to over 3.3 million copies with TIME.

 One of the most controversial moment for Ms Brown when with Vanity Fair was when, in August 1991, she published a nude photo of actress Demi Moore who was seven months pregnant.  

(Photo caption: the controversial Vanity Fair cover page sanctioned by Ms Brown)

 Accused in the past as ''kissing the ass of celebrities'', it will be quite interesting to see how she will manage to reconcile her background in fashion writing/editing and hard news while at Newsweek.