My dear friend, let us move from political patronage, masquerading to be benevolent and imposing foreign ideas onto our local Deaf people. As Raila rightly said what this country needs is a bridge – We are happy to be that tool carrying the aspirations of the Kenyan people to the Promised Land.
- Aland that recognizes Kenyan Sign Language
- A land where qualified interpreters are available to the Deaf free
- A land where the Deaf are not oppressed at home, school, work or community
- A land where there is interpretation on TV, Parliament, National holidays and at hospitals, churches, prison…
- A land where Deaf people become doctors, lawyers, business people
- A land where the Deaf are not objects of benevolence but equal partners in development
- A land where Kenyan Deaf students ins schools have teachers speaking their language KSL
- A land where Mzee Bubu and Kiziwi will be a happy place to gossip, share jokes and not fight some experts!
This is my
Vision
Dream
Passion
Mantra
For the Kenyan Deaf Community! This is more tangible than paying 30% PAYE to KRA for the MPs to gulp it into their mheshimiwa potbellies!
JackOwiti!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Disability Act yet to be put in force, says MP
Publication Date: 9/12/2007
An MP yesterday claimed the Disability Act passed by Parliament four years ago was yet to be implemented.
Mr Sammy Weya (Alego Usonga, Narc) rose soon after question time to request a ministerial statement from the minister for Home Affairs, Mr Moody Awori, who doubles as the Vice-President.
The MP accused the Executive of taking members for granted.
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Some one has said the deaf cannot stand on an empty stomach. I am reminded of this truism, "Its better to die on our feet than to live on our knees". Its up to the deaf to make a choice.
An MP yesterday claimed the Disability Act passed by Parliament four years ago was yet to be implemented.
Mr Sammy Weya (Alego Usonga, Narc) rose soon after question time to request a ministerial statement from the minister for Home Affairs, Mr Moody Awori, who doubles as the Vice-President.
The MP accused the Executive of taking members for granted.
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Some one has said the deaf cannot stand on an empty stomach. I am reminded of this truism, "Its better to die on our feet than to live on our knees". Its up to the deaf to make a choice.
DEAF PEOPLE, STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
We are going to use this blog to discuss issues affecting the deaf people. The problems facing the deaf are huge and lets not lie to ourselves that some self styled politicians will look after them once they get to power. The disabled are a tiny minority and no politician will be least bothered with their votes. Already, the deaf are completely divided supporting this or that politician depending on their ethinicity. The Luos, who form the bulk of leadership of the deaf, are already campaigning for Raila, telling the deaf that he will look at their interests (now that interests me. May be those guys believe they will get jobs but if they do the rest of deaf won't get a morsel!).
The deaf should unit and speak with one voice. They should stand up and be counted. You won't be counted when you are begging all the time. The deaf should put their resources to revive KNAD and put in place mechanisms to ensure a few individulas won't hold them hostage by making the national association their family property, like Muirus "Kuna Nuru Gazani"! Placing illiterate leaders at the helmanship of KNAD, such as the current chairman who cannot even speak/write proper english, is to insult ourselves.
Mzee Kiziwi will welcome all positive contributions and publish them in the main page. Come on and speak up.
M.K.
The deaf should unit and speak with one voice. They should stand up and be counted. You won't be counted when you are begging all the time. The deaf should put their resources to revive KNAD and put in place mechanisms to ensure a few individulas won't hold them hostage by making the national association their family property, like Muirus "Kuna Nuru Gazani"! Placing illiterate leaders at the helmanship of KNAD, such as the current chairman who cannot even speak/write proper english, is to insult ourselves.
Mzee Kiziwi will welcome all positive contributions and publish them in the main page. Come on and speak up.
M.K.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Kenya to get award for excellence - Do we need development or empty politics?
Story by PATRICK NZIOKA
Publication Date: 9/11/2007
The Kenyan Government has once again been nominated for an international award for improved performance in the public service.
The nomination by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is awarded to those who excel in innovations in transforming Government service.
Performance contracts
It is the second award for the Government in transforming the civil service in as many months.
Recently, the country got the UN award for comprehensively introducing performance contracts across all cadres in the service.
Government spokesman Alfred Mutua says on the official Web site that the award is in recognition of the democratic growth taking place in the country where the Government is now accountable to the people as a result of reforms.
Rapid results
“The Government is now more accountable to the people through initiatives like the rapid results that is being rolled out whereby ministries deliver results in 100 days as well as other reforms including the performance contracting,” Dr Mutua said yesterday.
According to him, Harvard University conducts its own survey globally and ranks countries. Kenya is among three countries in Africa to make it to the top of the list, according to Dr Mutua.
It is only the top 20 that are selected to fight it out for the overall award.
Five finalists and a first winner of the IBM Award will be chosen from the top 20 and the winner will be announced and honoured at a reception and dinner on September 24, in Washington, DC.
Publication Date: 9/11/2007
The Kenyan Government has once again been nominated for an international award for improved performance in the public service.
The nomination by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is awarded to those who excel in innovations in transforming Government service.
Performance contracts
It is the second award for the Government in transforming the civil service in as many months.
Recently, the country got the UN award for comprehensively introducing performance contracts across all cadres in the service.
Government spokesman Alfred Mutua says on the official Web site that the award is in recognition of the democratic growth taking place in the country where the Government is now accountable to the people as a result of reforms.
Rapid results
“The Government is now more accountable to the people through initiatives like the rapid results that is being rolled out whereby ministries deliver results in 100 days as well as other reforms including the performance contracting,” Dr Mutua said yesterday.
According to him, Harvard University conducts its own survey globally and ranks countries. Kenya is among three countries in Africa to make it to the top of the list, according to Dr Mutua.
It is only the top 20 that are selected to fight it out for the overall award.
Five finalists and a first winner of the IBM Award will be chosen from the top 20 and the winner will be announced and honoured at a reception and dinner on September 24, in Washington, DC.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
‘Human Rights’ a Disguise for Human Wrongs
Editorial by Philip Ochieng, The Nation (Nairobi), 20 May 2001
What explains the crying contradiction that, although lawyers are some of the loudest advocates of “human rights”, they are also some of the crassest thieves from clients? It is that the neo-liberal has only the narrowest understanding of human rights.
To him, human rights are confined to distilled politics and law—distilled, that is, emptied of all economic, cultural and intellectual substrata.
As long as individuals can vote, assemble, speak and move without let or hindrance and are “equal” before the law, they are as free as the birds above us!
Politics and law have become ends in themselves, to be pursued in total isolation from whatever else society is doing. The question is never arises: Why does society need to govern itself?
Sociologists have long provided the answer. People agree to submit to governance only because they are convinced that it is what can optimise and rationalise the production and distribution of their wherewithal.
Econo-material relationships, then, should be the subject matter of all politics and law. This is the whole scandal of liberalism. Although tenure and appropriation are increasingly irrational, and the situation explosive, the need to resolve this tension is never on the agenda of political debate.
That is, indeed, the system's definition. Modern liberalism is economics “liberated” from politics. Capital has been privatised, freed from public policy. What remains public is “pure” politics. Politics has been reduced to procedural issues, a ritual of electing a government, whose job it is merely to police.
To the classical liberal social scientist—from Adam Smith to David Ricardo—there was no separation of economics from “political science”, where “political science” is no more than civics. Politics and economics were studied together as political economy (economy as the content of society and politics as its container).
But once politics has been divested of all material content and the Abstract Individual declared its only beneficiary, society—the political state—has neatly absolved itself from all responsibility for the Concrete Individual.
Because the state has confined all rights to the politico-legal arena, it is easy for it to remain silent on the economics of those rights, namely, their affordability. Liberalism proclaims rights but shirks all social duty to implement them.
The right to sue, for instance, is as useless to the concrete individual as is the claim that Kenyans are free to eat in any Nairobi restaurant. The mass can enjoy these rights only through social action. As individuals, they cannot eat anywhere even if you proclaim a thousand laws. The abstraction of law allows them to enter Allan Bobbe's Bistro. But their poverty is the concrete barrier.
However, since their faculty of thought is so inchoate, the people imagine that they are free as long as they have the licence to bark at the Government, take it court, even vote it out.
As I say, the freeing of economics from political inspection and social responsibility ineluctably results in Grand Canyons between poverty and wealth. Yet these gaps never unduly rankle the consciences of the affuent.
It is what enables our lawyers to speak incessantly about their own “right” to gallivant to pour forth embarrassing political stupidities and, when accosted for it, to whine about their “human rights” being “abused”.
For a liberal is just that: a hollow gut given to eternal meaningless chatter, an empty tin which—as long as his property is safe—makes the loudest noise about freedom.
Democracy is his daily singsong. But, as soon as anything really democratic threatens his wealth, he drops democracy like hot iron. He is totally unmoved by the groaning that his own thick skin occasions at the bottom of society.
Our professionals are not merely untouched by the penury that swallows our people like Okot p’Bitek's “pythons of hunger”. They even descend upon them with the ferocity of Jaws.
More and more of our lawyers are pocketing their clients' money even without intending to represent them in court. They hastily deposit their customers' court awards in their own bank accounts.
Many clients are very old people. Often it is their only money. Some have been saving it all their lives against just such an adversity. Then one day a lawyer calmly grabs it all.
He then attends his political party's rally to utter a whole jeremiad about the Government violating this and that “human right”, his conscience fully at home.
Human rights? Is a human being's humanity important only in the abstraction of gathering for speeches and voting? Does his humanity cease to be important in the concreteness of hunger, disease, nakedness, shelterlessness and the complete ignorance of the choices that may be open to him?
Isn’t free choice meaningful only when the person making the choice enjoys some leisureliness to enable him to become aware of his real self-interests? How can a person who spends all his energy trying to keep death at bay ever enjoy such a freedom?
In practice, such rights as the lawyer is talking about can be enjoyed only by his class. His old client cannot enjoy it because he doesn’t know how to dupe the people with the political abracadabra of many a NCEC. He has never heard of “the civil society” or a “people-driven constitution”.
ochieng@nation.co.ke
Copyright © 2001 The Nation. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).
What explains the crying contradiction that, although lawyers are some of the loudest advocates of “human rights”, they are also some of the crassest thieves from clients? It is that the neo-liberal has only the narrowest understanding of human rights.
To him, human rights are confined to distilled politics and law—distilled, that is, emptied of all economic, cultural and intellectual substrata.
As long as individuals can vote, assemble, speak and move without let or hindrance and are “equal” before the law, they are as free as the birds above us!
Politics and law have become ends in themselves, to be pursued in total isolation from whatever else society is doing. The question is never arises: Why does society need to govern itself?
Sociologists have long provided the answer. People agree to submit to governance only because they are convinced that it is what can optimise and rationalise the production and distribution of their wherewithal.
Econo-material relationships, then, should be the subject matter of all politics and law. This is the whole scandal of liberalism. Although tenure and appropriation are increasingly irrational, and the situation explosive, the need to resolve this tension is never on the agenda of political debate.
That is, indeed, the system's definition. Modern liberalism is economics “liberated” from politics. Capital has been privatised, freed from public policy. What remains public is “pure” politics. Politics has been reduced to procedural issues, a ritual of electing a government, whose job it is merely to police.
To the classical liberal social scientist—from Adam Smith to David Ricardo—there was no separation of economics from “political science”, where “political science” is no more than civics. Politics and economics were studied together as political economy (economy as the content of society and politics as its container).
But once politics has been divested of all material content and the Abstract Individual declared its only beneficiary, society—the political state—has neatly absolved itself from all responsibility for the Concrete Individual.
Because the state has confined all rights to the politico-legal arena, it is easy for it to remain silent on the economics of those rights, namely, their affordability. Liberalism proclaims rights but shirks all social duty to implement them.
The right to sue, for instance, is as useless to the concrete individual as is the claim that Kenyans are free to eat in any Nairobi restaurant. The mass can enjoy these rights only through social action. As individuals, they cannot eat anywhere even if you proclaim a thousand laws. The abstraction of law allows them to enter Allan Bobbe's Bistro. But their poverty is the concrete barrier.
However, since their faculty of thought is so inchoate, the people imagine that they are free as long as they have the licence to bark at the Government, take it court, even vote it out.
As I say, the freeing of economics from political inspection and social responsibility ineluctably results in Grand Canyons between poverty and wealth. Yet these gaps never unduly rankle the consciences of the affuent.
It is what enables our lawyers to speak incessantly about their own “right” to gallivant to pour forth embarrassing political stupidities and, when accosted for it, to whine about their “human rights” being “abused”.
For a liberal is just that: a hollow gut given to eternal meaningless chatter, an empty tin which—as long as his property is safe—makes the loudest noise about freedom.
Democracy is his daily singsong. But, as soon as anything really democratic threatens his wealth, he drops democracy like hot iron. He is totally unmoved by the groaning that his own thick skin occasions at the bottom of society.
Our professionals are not merely untouched by the penury that swallows our people like Okot p’Bitek's “pythons of hunger”. They even descend upon them with the ferocity of Jaws.
More and more of our lawyers are pocketing their clients' money even without intending to represent them in court. They hastily deposit their customers' court awards in their own bank accounts.
Many clients are very old people. Often it is their only money. Some have been saving it all their lives against just such an adversity. Then one day a lawyer calmly grabs it all.
He then attends his political party's rally to utter a whole jeremiad about the Government violating this and that “human right”, his conscience fully at home.
Human rights? Is a human being's humanity important only in the abstraction of gathering for speeches and voting? Does his humanity cease to be important in the concreteness of hunger, disease, nakedness, shelterlessness and the complete ignorance of the choices that may be open to him?
Isn’t free choice meaningful only when the person making the choice enjoys some leisureliness to enable him to become aware of his real self-interests? How can a person who spends all his energy trying to keep death at bay ever enjoy such a freedom?
In practice, such rights as the lawyer is talking about can be enjoyed only by his class. His old client cannot enjoy it because he doesn’t know how to dupe the people with the political abracadabra of many a NCEC. He has never heard of “the civil society” or a “people-driven constitution”.
ochieng@nation.co.ke
Copyright © 2001 The Nation. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).
Jack Owiti Wrote
Dear Mzee Kiziwi,
Here is an article I have for your blog....Please publish for the interest of your readers. thanks JO
Halting the Mask of Benevolence:- Empowering the Deaf Kenyans.
As a friend to the Deaf People in Kenya and throughout the world, I have come to appreciate and be part of a dynamic culture, heritage and history of the Deaf Kenyans. I have met some of the most brilliant people in this community and worked with some very excellent programs working with the Deaf.
However we have had several organizations come to Kenya masquarading as missionaries of benevolence helping and giving hope to the Deaf Kenyans. This has become a multi million venture where people of great intentions are sucked into the unending cycle of oppression, dictatorship and neocolonialism disempowering the Deaf leaders and reducing it to beggers and sweets/cigar peddlers and hawkers.
In 1985 SHIA and the Swedish Deaf people helped Kenya form and manage a national Deaf association. 20 Years later we are back at zero due to lack of capacity and empowerement. This is not to discredit SHIA or paint black it's good name, we acknowledge and are thankful for the benevolence and goodwill though we recognize there have been several mistakes and gaps in this process. Personally I still believe that KNAD was disadvantaged to be funded by one donor for that long without systems or mechanism for accountability and transparency.
Over the last two decades there have been several organizations coming into Kenya and establishing 'great' project ideas and visions. Sadly they have not learnt from the mistakes of their forefather - Perpetuation of the Mask of Benevolence. My opinion is that these organizations have never appreciated community entry approaches, view the Deaf as objects of benevolence and not partners in development and are 'copy/pasting' foreign solutions to complex local issues. Many of these organizations have fueled the continued oppression of the Deaf Kenyans, muzzled the voices of the weak and poor while 'eating the ugali' in their big mansions and driving huge luxurious cars in the name of 'helping' Deaf Kenyans. To name a few such initiatives -
- sponsorship of Deaf children....this is not a new thing in Kenya. KSDC has been doing it since 1950s - WHY Replecate?
- digital/interactive KSL manual/dictionary or learning resource - in 2003 Peace Corps volunteers and KSLRP developed an infrastructure for this. Nothing new under the sun ...dah!!!
- support for KNAD to pass through a foreign INGO? this in my opinion is the highest form of neo colonial mask I have ever seen. How can the monkey sit in the jury judging the matters of the forest?
- We need championing in the area of Deaf blindness - many blind Kenyans have a voice but not the Deaf blind -why?
- We do not have a parents of the Deaf initiative making noise for policy change in the education of the Deaf - Free primary education is a case in point - Deaf children receive KES 2,000 compared to the other who receive 5 or even ten times the amount What went wrong? - Simple wrong people being consulted and key stakeholders being neglected period!
As a Kenyan and a critic of these initiatives and organizations I would like to elaborate the key priorities of the Deaf Kenyans as expressed by faceless Deaf Kenyans in English and in a non threatening environment:-
Clearly we have the following priorities that need to be addressed:-
1. Recognition and acceptance of Kenyan Sign Language as the native language of the Kenyan Deaf people - It is the official language for business, instraction and mode of transfering culture and Deaf history and heritage.
2. Coordination of the various scarce resources available for this community. The Finance, Personell and Infrastructure need to be chaneled, phased and equally distributed to the key areas of need - Education, Employment and Environment.
3. Strengthening of KNAD or similar organizations eg KSLRP, KSLIA, and Regional branches of KNAD to better represent the Deaf from these regions.
4. Policy amendments - PWD Act 2003, Special Education Act/policy need to be amended to explicitly and implicitly talk about the Deaf issues - Language, Education, accessibility, healthcare - deaf VCT is a starting point we need the whole continum of care. Policy change is the begining, implementation strategy is very very critical.
5. Empowerment, Empowerment, empowerment - Deaf Kenyans need to be trained, mentored and see models that work. Shinning examples are right here with us - Liverpool VCT, DOOR International, DMI, Peace Corps/Kenya etc etc They are making a difference because they are educating the Deaf and giving them a chance to prove themselves.
I would like to challenge my fellow development workers and the directors and program managers to rethink the strategies that they are employing and to refocus their energies to the bigger issues
- Policy Change - Key to successful advocating.
- Education - Key to success
- Empowerment - Key to good governance
The resounding prophetic call is - NOTHING FOR US WITHOUT US!!! Those who hear and transform will be saved the hardliners will keep fueling the mask of benevolence and keep disempowering the Kenyan Deaf community - Enriching themselves pretending to make a difference with the little hand outs.
Join me in Halting the Mask of Benevolence and fight for the Empowerment of the Deaf Kenyans. The time for those advocating for change is NOW. Stand or be blown away.
Stop the mask! It is your enemy!
Jack Owiti,
Kenyan and Friend to the Deaf in Kenya.
Here is an article I have for your blog....Please publish for the interest of your readers. thanks JO
Halting the Mask of Benevolence:- Empowering the Deaf Kenyans.
As a friend to the Deaf People in Kenya and throughout the world, I have come to appreciate and be part of a dynamic culture, heritage and history of the Deaf Kenyans. I have met some of the most brilliant people in this community and worked with some very excellent programs working with the Deaf.
However we have had several organizations come to Kenya masquarading as missionaries of benevolence helping and giving hope to the Deaf Kenyans. This has become a multi million venture where people of great intentions are sucked into the unending cycle of oppression, dictatorship and neocolonialism disempowering the Deaf leaders and reducing it to beggers and sweets/cigar peddlers and hawkers.
In 1985 SHIA and the Swedish Deaf people helped Kenya form and manage a national Deaf association. 20 Years later we are back at zero due to lack of capacity and empowerement. This is not to discredit SHIA or paint black it's good name, we acknowledge and are thankful for the benevolence and goodwill though we recognize there have been several mistakes and gaps in this process. Personally I still believe that KNAD was disadvantaged to be funded by one donor for that long without systems or mechanism for accountability and transparency.
Over the last two decades there have been several organizations coming into Kenya and establishing 'great' project ideas and visions. Sadly they have not learnt from the mistakes of their forefather - Perpetuation of the Mask of Benevolence. My opinion is that these organizations have never appreciated community entry approaches, view the Deaf as objects of benevolence and not partners in development and are 'copy/pasting' foreign solutions to complex local issues. Many of these organizations have fueled the continued oppression of the Deaf Kenyans, muzzled the voices of the weak and poor while 'eating the ugali' in their big mansions and driving huge luxurious cars in the name of 'helping' Deaf Kenyans. To name a few such initiatives -
- sponsorship of Deaf children....this is not a new thing in Kenya. KSDC has been doing it since 1950s - WHY Replecate?
- digital/interactive KSL manual/dictionary or learning resource - in 2003 Peace Corps volunteers and KSLRP developed an infrastructure for this. Nothing new under the sun ...dah!!!
- support for KNAD to pass through a foreign INGO? this in my opinion is the highest form of neo colonial mask I have ever seen. How can the monkey sit in the jury judging the matters of the forest?
- We need championing in the area of Deaf blindness - many blind Kenyans have a voice but not the Deaf blind -why?
- We do not have a parents of the Deaf initiative making noise for policy change in the education of the Deaf - Free primary education is a case in point - Deaf children receive KES 2,000 compared to the other who receive 5 or even ten times the amount What went wrong? - Simple wrong people being consulted and key stakeholders being neglected period!
As a Kenyan and a critic of these initiatives and organizations I would like to elaborate the key priorities of the Deaf Kenyans as expressed by faceless Deaf Kenyans in English and in a non threatening environment:-
Clearly we have the following priorities that need to be addressed:-
1. Recognition and acceptance of Kenyan Sign Language as the native language of the Kenyan Deaf people - It is the official language for business, instraction and mode of transfering culture and Deaf history and heritage.
2. Coordination of the various scarce resources available for this community. The Finance, Personell and Infrastructure need to be chaneled, phased and equally distributed to the key areas of need - Education, Employment and Environment.
3. Strengthening of KNAD or similar organizations eg KSLRP, KSLIA, and Regional branches of KNAD to better represent the Deaf from these regions.
4. Policy amendments - PWD Act 2003, Special Education Act/policy need to be amended to explicitly and implicitly talk about the Deaf issues - Language, Education, accessibility, healthcare - deaf VCT is a starting point we need the whole continum of care. Policy change is the begining, implementation strategy is very very critical.
5. Empowerment, Empowerment, empowerment - Deaf Kenyans need to be trained, mentored and see models that work. Shinning examples are right here with us - Liverpool VCT, DOOR International, DMI, Peace Corps/Kenya etc etc They are making a difference because they are educating the Deaf and giving them a chance to prove themselves.
I would like to challenge my fellow development workers and the directors and program managers to rethink the strategies that they are employing and to refocus their energies to the bigger issues
- Policy Change - Key to successful advocating.
- Education - Key to success
- Empowerment - Key to good governance
The resounding prophetic call is - NOTHING FOR US WITHOUT US!!! Those who hear and transform will be saved the hardliners will keep fueling the mask of benevolence and keep disempowering the Kenyan Deaf community - Enriching themselves pretending to make a difference with the little hand outs.
Join me in Halting the Mask of Benevolence and fight for the Empowerment of the Deaf Kenyans. The time for those advocating for change is NOW. Stand or be blown away.
Stop the mask! It is your enemy!
Jack Owiti,
Kenyan and Friend to the Deaf in Kenya.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Shane and Shiru Gilchrist Ó hEorpa?
Is Shane Gilchrist o Euorpa married to one Shiru of Humble Hearts?
Mzee Kiziwi has received this unsubstantiated and annonymous message:
Shane, we await your comments before I remove.
Listen you pigs trying to discredit KSLRP:
You are no match to the achievements of Washington Akaranga, Prof. Okoth Okombo and Jefwa Mweri and all those good Deaf Sign Language Teachers at the University of Nairobi!
KNAD is Dead and burried. The only reason it exists is because of the fertile imagination of Wango and Mzee Bubu.
It cannot be revived since you do not kill a snake and then try to do Cardio Pulmonary Resusciation!
You burn it you fools!
KSLRP has set up Kenyan Sign Language into the force which it is today! They have made dictionaries of our sign language, researched and documented our original aspects of signs at a time when Oralism was the main mode of education in Kenya, taught virtually every interpreter in Kenyan soil, among a host of many achievements!
If they have parted ways with Wango, it is because they cannot accept to be strange bedfellows with an evil and corrupt snake!
Now the whole country respects the pioneering work of Kenyan SIgn Language Research Project. Peace Corps will never work with KNAD's Wango because of the way he has abused the American Taxpayers money, especially that of the August Bomb Blast Funds meant to teach newly Deafened Kenyans basic sign language!
Now even Wango, Opiyo, Joel Runners, whole shit and capoodle including Mzee Bubu and Nickson Kakiri run to KSLRP when they need favours! Shane was there only a few months ago, requesting for a meeting place at KSLRP because he does not wish to pay a hotel space in town. When he leaves he sends a serries of abusive emails against Kenyans including KSLRP!
Let us leave these people at KSLRP alone you pig Mzee Bubu!
If you Mzee Bubu are Shane then you must know that that your prostitute of a Kerugoya girl friend (her former boyfriend, Kamau died of TB/AIDS and now we hear you married her and gave her the name Shiru Gilchrist) goes to KSLRP to learn sign language so as to help you steal money from Humble Hearts primary school in Nairob!
The soonest you realise that you or your Maseno prof. are no match to the member of the National Academy of Science, prof. Okoth Okombo the best for you!
By the way, what qualifications do you have, you gay Shane? I am sure that there are many deaf Kenyans who are more educated than you are.
Your only asset is the pale skin of yours which makes it possible to get more funds than Nilotic Nickson Kakiri!
03 September 2007 12:14 (in mzee bubu and mzee kiziwi)
Mzee Kiziwi has received this unsubstantiated and annonymous message:
Shane, we await your comments before I remove.
Listen you pigs trying to discredit KSLRP:
You are no match to the achievements of Washington Akaranga, Prof. Okoth Okombo and Jefwa Mweri and all those good Deaf Sign Language Teachers at the University of Nairobi!
KNAD is Dead and burried. The only reason it exists is because of the fertile imagination of Wango and Mzee Bubu.
It cannot be revived since you do not kill a snake and then try to do Cardio Pulmonary Resusciation!
You burn it you fools!
KSLRP has set up Kenyan Sign Language into the force which it is today! They have made dictionaries of our sign language, researched and documented our original aspects of signs at a time when Oralism was the main mode of education in Kenya, taught virtually every interpreter in Kenyan soil, among a host of many achievements!
If they have parted ways with Wango, it is because they cannot accept to be strange bedfellows with an evil and corrupt snake!
Now the whole country respects the pioneering work of Kenyan SIgn Language Research Project. Peace Corps will never work with KNAD's Wango because of the way he has abused the American Taxpayers money, especially that of the August Bomb Blast Funds meant to teach newly Deafened Kenyans basic sign language!
Now even Wango, Opiyo, Joel Runners, whole shit and capoodle including Mzee Bubu and Nickson Kakiri run to KSLRP when they need favours! Shane was there only a few months ago, requesting for a meeting place at KSLRP because he does not wish to pay a hotel space in town. When he leaves he sends a serries of abusive emails against Kenyans including KSLRP!
Let us leave these people at KSLRP alone you pig Mzee Bubu!
If you Mzee Bubu are Shane then you must know that that your prostitute of a Kerugoya girl friend (her former boyfriend, Kamau died of TB/AIDS and now we hear you married her and gave her the name Shiru Gilchrist) goes to KSLRP to learn sign language so as to help you steal money from Humble Hearts primary school in Nairob!
The soonest you realise that you or your Maseno prof. are no match to the member of the National Academy of Science, prof. Okoth Okombo the best for you!
By the way, what qualifications do you have, you gay Shane? I am sure that there are many deaf Kenyans who are more educated than you are.
Your only asset is the pale skin of yours which makes it possible to get more funds than Nilotic Nickson Kakiri!
03 September 2007 12:14 (in mzee bubu and mzee kiziwi)
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