Kalonzo delivers a POWERFUL SPEECH Deconstructing Ruto at CITAM Leadership Prayer Breakfast today

[00:00:00]Let's put our hands together as we welcome our honorary guest [applause] Kar Busana.

[00:00:12]Honorable Colono.

[00:00:14]>> But but why did you have to stand?

[00:00:16]>> Uh now seated.

[00:00:19]>> Thank you.

[00:00:22]>> Just a question.

[00:00:27]I'm trying to open this. Is it hardware or software?

[00:00:39]I think I should give some in response to Dr. Kisaka's very insightful presentation.

[00:00:48]I was sitting there wondering how do I how do I respond and the book of Nemiah is amazing.

[00:01:00]Um so you know the example of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we went to the house of God and found people turning the house of prayer to something else. He became angry.

[00:01:19]Nemiah also was angry. So it looks to me that after all anger there's such a thing as Russia's anger. And I think we have to at some stage he even went a stepfather did he not shake the the costume. What exactly was that thing he shook senior pastor?

[00:01:42]He shook something and finally h it's like a a robe and it amounted to a some kind of a curse you and and you talked about coming out of the comfort zone was it you Dr. Zaka uh look at all these attributes on leadership.

[00:02:06]But um let me begin once again by appreciating senior pastor. Thank you so much for very warmly welcoming us here and the this overseer Jotham Reverend H that example you gave about the Australian couple wanting to give support in in Gong level four equality type of hospital and and and people still asking for bribes.

[00:02:34]Um that is a country we are living in.

[00:02:37]Um Dr. Tisaka um and and of course Sittum leadership sit whenever I think of Sittum I think of Bishop Aid and I'll tell you why Bishop Agid grew up to become the chair of East Africa.

[00:03:09]I attended his inauguration as bishop uh at yes sitam karan and I spoke my mind. I was then the vice president and we are discussing an important dispensation as a people enactment of a new constitution 2010 and the church had taken a certain position uh they're very concerned about the preeminence given to cut these courts among other things and the church came out in opposition to that document uh which I want to refer to and I remember bishop's inauguration I said church please speak speak your mind now when I was coming in there was a pastor or reverend justice is still in the house thank you I had you about politics and interest and things and that uh a time comes when when people tell the church you you know you you know stay in the pulpit and do whatever. But that day came and said church speak.

[00:04:31]Do you know it earned me a title and the title was watermelon because I said that because I said that those in the and I don't like these classes political class I don't know which other class we are all Kenyans and listening to her sister Madame DCC I have actually even lost touch of what DCC is this is DO D do D do D do D do D do D do D do D do D do D do and who is a DCC >> that is now district commissioner >> you're deputy district commissioner or your district commissioner I think we should hear more of that type of a lady because you touched you touched you you couldn't see that this is a person in some of course the the hardware she'll grab you along with colleagues and and and show you another way. What am I trying to say?

[00:05:36]Um at this level, Embakasi East, Embakasi Central, Embakasi, Embakasi South.

[00:05:50]It is a microcosm perhaps not at the very highest level of our country but sit thinking of organizing a prayer breakfast event at the grassroot is very significant and I want to thank God for you.

[00:06:11][applause] I wish this could go everywhere.

[00:06:17]So, Sittum has taken that leadership because it the story started uh as Sitam Valley Road those many years of Reverend was it what was white?

[00:06:32]James White, Dennis White and others and I remember could come to church with President Moy that time and Dennis White was will preach his heart out and somes and monks cabinet members will go out and at lunch in state house some are criticizing what Reverend Dennis White said. I've seen it all.

[00:06:55]I in my earlier years was organizing Sunday worship at St. Andrew's church. I was actually the secretary to the university Sunday worship.

[00:07:08]It is possible for leaders to leave their testimony. That's my message as I respond because Nemiah lived his testimony.

[00:07:19]Um and then you get confused by people my friend just as Reverend thinking because this man has been vice president. this man who wants to be president. This man is one of them. H and so des I mean kind of separating this the church from from the rest.

[00:07:44]I come from the African inland church background AIC and u it be said and President Moy then would never speak politics. He say you not speak politics in church. You go out u and then address the congregation. And I like to describe myself as a follower of Jesus Christ because his grace is always sufficient for [snorts] me. But I have also taken note of what was said here. political leaders taking advantage of and and the the guest speaker made it made it made it so clear that they'll come and say and they end up actually degrading the message of Jesus Christ they are but it's good to hear them nevertheless so let them say and then pray for them they don't become different when they go out of course Kenya is not a theocracy that we know um a theocracy as we all know is it's a country that is ruled by the church or something by religion but again I I'm reminded of another famous writer who comes from was born in my home county became a scholar the late David Mitti and and to paraphrase him, he wrote a book and actually said Africans are notoriously religious.

[00:09:28][clears throat] Now you have to identify that notoriety um and then separate and look at the changing scenario. I'm sure the days of Na are quite are quite different now from modern day Jerusalem or modern day Kenya. Kenya was not qualified. Nobody.

[00:09:51]You see there are countries like Libya, like Egypt, like Tunisia, even a little island country I went to study in for my postgraduate work called Cyprus.

[00:10:03]in the Bible. But Kenya is described as the country beyond the rivers until he became independent. But nevertheless, we are a country among the community of nations.

[00:10:20]I sometimes am persuaded when people talk about Mount Zion.

[00:10:25]Mount Zion. You look at Mount Kenya. So some of the friends from the mountain look Mount Zion. So all these parallels but lest I go out of the text I just want to say thank you so much Dr. Kisaka listening to you I wish that even other bigger leaders could listen to what you have just said. I think we have to come out of pretense as a nation, as a people and call us paid as paid.

[00:11:03]For such times are this, men and women are called upon to act differently like Madame DCC.

[00:11:11]Meen, thank you. You looked a little timid about talking about environment.

[00:11:17]But so I want to tell you Marine Bet when you may not know that Nairobi is the only capital in the world with a national park attached to it. We should be very proud of that and we should guide it. Guard it.

[00:11:39]But marine because of that capital we have really a forest in Nairobi and that acts as carbon sink and helps to clean the air that Moren was talking about.

[00:11:54]When we decimate Nairobi National Park, do we know what we are doing? So again, this is the age of enlightenment.

[00:12:06]And so when a a chief justice ameritus maraga gets arrested by madame dcc's people and and and and frog marched into a waiting van what again what example are we giving and he's just talk about ethics ethical leadership I when I saw uh Bernard commander in uniform. That reminds me of a gentleman who has since gone to be the Lord. His name was James Marggeria.

[00:12:45]James Marggeria was a policeman like you.

[00:12:50]And uh we were so impressed as students in University of Nairobi then that he was a man, a policeman who was incorruptible.

[00:13:01]So I wrote him a letter of invitation as secretary to the worship committee u to come and address the university congregation. Then we had Reverend Wanja later became I think the moderator was really one of my spiritual mentors and Meria spoke about the incorruptible policeman. It is possible for us to have men in uniform who are not corrupt.

[00:13:27]Do you recall Kenyans that when President Kbaki took over in 2002, this country was unjudged worldwide as the most optimistic nation on earth and what happened thereafter is a matter of national shame.

[00:13:51]I think we are now at our lowest EB.

[00:13:54]I had uh one of my colleagues in the morning talk about 50% of our earnings goes to taxation.

[00:14:05]Well, I must tell you yesterday was an angry Kenyan. I went before the court of appeal because my in my other my actually my training uh which which is my bread and butter issue is is that of an advocate of the high court and senior council and I was trying to say please it's okay Kenyans don't mind you can sell 15% of shares in safariccom right to some photocom country can't company based in South Africa and you look at that even reate is a big issue.

[00:14:43]I'm talk about corruption here Dr. and the 204 billion. I saw these judges were in a hurry in a hurry to lift the orders that were given by another set of three judges whom had the privilege to appear before and I I I got the sense as a Kenyan like Nemiah I became angry because 204 billion shillings you say it is going to infrastructure they don't say which infrastructure all this money is going to get divided in in the clouds software and go some to uh to Dubai, some of it goes to Switzerland, some of it goes where and Kenyans are left high and dry.

[00:15:35]I want to conclude my response by referring all of us to that very important thing chapter six of the Kenyan constitution.

[00:15:48]If we could that there council deanu my friend talked about returning the country to constitutionalism.

[00:15:58]Chapter six of the Kenyan constitution uh 2010 outlines the principles of leadership and integrity.

[00:16:09]It establishes that the state authority is a public trust to be exercised responsibly ensuring public officers demonstrate honesty, accountability and avoid conflicts between their personal interests and public duties.

[00:16:33]And if you are to look at article 73 to 80 that that those are the those are the the articles that uh uh constitute chapter 6 and it binds all of us whoever is a state officer we've seen some of them here those two ladies Moren and and Madame DCC those are state officers and I think that the church has to play a role. I heard I don't know it's the Reverend Justice again who was talking about people like the late um Mong uh the late you know those bishops who stood and the Roman Catholic Church issuing pastoral letters men and women who took seriously the message of the Bible that we are the salt of the earth and if the salt loses is taste.

[00:17:34]Are we not in that kind of a situation?

[00:17:37]So again like I told my friend the reverend bishop bishop church please speak. We are all Kenyans at the end of the day looking at each of us here number unless you come in in speaking costumes senior pastor right but these days even if you're wearing speaking costumes madame dcc will come with hardware okay and throw tear gas and we don't hear anything and then goons I had my friend Daniel Yumbia and I'm going if he's in my party I I will have to talk to he has two goons with him.

[00:18:26]Imagine what happened in front of world media when young Kenyans who have been impatient and I can understand why with the state of governance in our country wanting accountability, responsibility, wanting leaders to adhere to those constitutional values of honesty, integrity, stop the stealing stopped the meltdown, took to the streets and uh a governor said, "We will not allow you."

[00:19:10]And lo and behold, goons carrying huge m huge instruments of warfare.

[00:19:21]They march in to beat these young people.

[00:19:25]in front of world media, CNN, Al Jazzer and uh governor had his way because the police were escorting the goons. Now this has never happened. Not even when we had single party dictatorship some people call it and you know it was only one party called Cano Canoa Dr. I'm a party leader. You spoke to me.

[00:19:59]I believe that my party should have free and fair nomination so that people don't go and do secondary secondary voting. That's what you called it. They do secondary voting. No, no, no. And and I think the challenge the people should come out. Don't allow party leaders, some of them may pocket money to give you a ticket. Some people go around saying I have already a ticket in my pocket. If anybody comes on the patriotic front, please let them know they are lying because the party policy is very clear. So I I think you have spoke to all of us. You spoken to all of us on those values and I summed them up by referring us to chapter six of the constitution on values, national values which are there for us. But who who amongst us cares to follow what is actually expressly stipulated and our constitution itself an amazing heritage document by the late president Kbaki whom I had the honor to serve as his vice president. May God continue to use you in Korat Africa and beyond. Um and so that at least you can speak to the conscience of all of us. All of us. And I said I I I when I go to a place and see so I belong to the wrong uh clan the political class and the other class in the end of the day we are Kenyans particularly if you profess the person of Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

[00:21:37]Thank you Senator Manzo. This young man is leading he leads uh he's a co-chair of the national prayer breakfast and I was privileged to actually start the national prayer breakfast movement. This is what I'm saying at that level. And then of course they follow this a US model when the United States government gets together like I attended this year's edition in February when President Trump is there the judiciary and of course the executive the judiciary and the legislature both houses of parliament the senate and the congress that example has been used here the first chief the the first speaker invited late was not the late general yakub goan who was you know eventually became a civilian president in Nigeria he had been a general and I'm happy that that tradition has caught up Sam Pogisho um Dan Manzo and others who have taken the tradition sometimes not so nicely handled but who are we to judge if anybody comes in the name of Jesus Christ we welcome them but of course check the spirit, test the spirits, test the motives even so that by chance we'll be able to get this country right. It is liberation time for all of us. Liberate our minds and and and face up to the fact that we have only this country and we will not allow the instruments when the foundations are shaken where will the righteous go? We must not allow further shaking of the foundations. I thank you very much for Proverbs 29:2.

[00:23:27]Yeah, this is exactly where we are.

[00:23:29]People are groaning. People are mourning.

[00:23:34]And so we want our country back. The young people say it next week. I understand they're going to church. And my own when I'm in Nairobi, I go to the Baptist church. When I go to the Baptist church, I don't say nothing. I sit there and I thank the leadership for allowing these young men and women to commemorate the second anniversary on Sunday of the JC Gen C revolution. So this country is actually times are changing so fast artificial intelligence and everything we must scale up and thank you so much Dr. Kisaka. I've spoken for long but it was wonderful listening to you. May God continue to issue. Thank you.

[00:24:21]>> Thank you. Thank you very much.