How organized crime
is demeaning the true spirit of Jubilee
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hen I was about 4 years old, I usually had this dream that
seemed to repeat over and over. There were people chained hands and feet sitting
in a dimly lit place. They were of very poor health, and their chains ran from
one end to the other on their feet and hands as well with one hand and feet
free and the other chained. Using the other free hand they drank from cups
like 500gms tins that were filled with substance like unsweetened porridge that
seemed neither increasing nor decreasing.
The
dream was so significant that it dominated my conscious and subconscious due to
the number of times it came to me. Whenever I dreamed this dream, it was like
hundreds of years have gone by and yet the prisoners were still there, chained
and unhealthy in the dimly lit hole where not even the light of the sun could
be seen.
During the days of persecution, towards the end of Nyayo
regime, I was setup and thrown in prison and falsely accused. Now while being
psychologically and emotionally tormented trying to understand why an innocent
person could be in jail just because of defending his right, the reality stuck.
The whole picture of the dream I had while a kid was replaying before my very
eyes.
Life in remand and later in annex prison depicted the true
picture of my dream. In remand, the cells build by the colonial powers to serve
80 prisoners were overstretched to carry up to 270 prisoners. While this served
to gratify the desires of our accusers, it totally went against faith.
Moreover the cells were bug infested. There were hundreds of
thousands of bedbugs and fleas that at night if by any chance you had means to
stretch your hands and touch your head (because we used to sleep “mbavu
style” or “rib style”) you would make a great catch of fat bedbugs
sucking your blood.
During the day most of us were engaged in fix the bug
activity as we waited for our court cases which took months or years to be
summarized. Fix the bug activity involved removing all your clothes and sitting
down in the sun while plucking the fleas and killing them using the back of the
two thumbs, there was no rest day or night.
Food was also a major problem. As a remandee the ratio and
the manner of food approved by the medics was wanting. In most cases the daily
1 pint of porridge came as a mixture of floor and water. Poorly cooked was the
porridge that water and floor remained separate.
During lunch which came almost immediately, ugali was a very
small solid mixture of floor and water with vegetable soup cooked with magadi
(soda ash) to weaken us.
By 1400hrs or 1500hrs supper was served, another poor
mixture of solid floor and water with poorly cooked beans. After supper we had
to wait until the next day in order to have the same porridge again
Back in the court room the magistrates were intentionally
delaying cases in hope that the prisoners would bribe them. Of course those who
had money bribed their way out but to us who had nothing we had to bear with
cases of lost files, longer mention periods in order to appear again in court,
prosecution witnesses’ failure to turn up as early as possible and more of many
other weaknesses in the system that could make the heart of a man fail in him.
The tactics of intentionally delaying cases is not new and
can be traced back to the Acts of the Apostles when Felix who was the
governor of Caesarea left Paul in prison in hope that Paul would bribe him
[Acts 24:26].
Not all the magistrates were wolverines. In my case there
were two magistrates, one was called Kinyanjui and another we named Mkamba
according to his tribe. Kinyanjui was favorable and concluded most of his cases
quick and with efficiency. He also gave short period for mentions and never
tolerated prosecution weaknesses. Kinyanjui preferred to have his cases heard
and determined in the regular court room where everyone including the public
was.
On the other hand we had MKamba, a short red eyed man with
black skin. He preferred to come to court in a suite and a tie. He never looked
the accused in the eye. Most of his cases were heard and determined in the
chambers where less than 10 people could fit. This included him, the prosecutor
the prosecution witness or witnesses and the warder manning the accused in case
the accused was not on bond. Cases in his court dragged for months or years.
Back in the prison walls the remandees had fear mingled with
rage about him. We talked and judged him as bhang smoker because of how he
behaved and handled our cases. My case was first with Kinyanjui but due to
Kinyanjui’s inability to play the system his transfer came as soon as my first
hearing so my case went to the MKamba court.
The situation here was understandable because of the
political environment of the day. It was evident why Kinyanjui a Kikuyu
and a MKamba a Kamba behaved how they behaved. The scenario is set up in
the heart of luoland so it speaks a lot why the Kamba magistrate
behaved how he behaved and the Kikuyu magistrate behaved how he
behaved.
During the Nyayo regime, Nyayo played tribal. He oppressed
the tribes he perceived to be in opposition of the regime mainly the Kikuyus
and the Luos while playing soft with other tribes like the Kambas who were
subject to his antichrist rule.
When I got out of prison and after many years of searching
for the truth, I got the answer. The prison served to clarify the true picture
of the state of Kenyans. The dream and the time I spent in prison was pointing
towards Kenya itself.
As The lamenter wrote in chapter 3
To crush under
his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
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To turn aside
the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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To subvert a man
in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
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Kenyans have never known freedom. Because our senses are not
trained to distinguish evil and good as the epistle to the Hebrews chapter 5 states:
But strong meat
belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have
their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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…..we do not know when to defend or when to offend.
When laws or enforcement of laws that take our basic rights
are made or enforced, we find ourselves unable to analyze the threats posed by
those laws or their enforcement leave alone making a resistant.
From power surges that destroy our electronic equipments now
and then to anti-piracy (copyright) laws that take away our right to freedom of
information to municipal by-laws that stifle agriculture like the one that led
to the destruction of hundreds of acres of vegetables in Nairobi on grounds of
health, we have to admit that our oppressors are way ahead of us in terms of
intellect and monetary ability.
While in prison, there are things I observed and are
applicable on our daily lives. The prison warders placed fellow prisoners to be
in charge of other prisoners. These prisoners in charge of others placed heavy
burdens on their fellow prisoners and were cruel even than the warders
themselves. In the shamba they used whips to subject their fellow
prisoners to work at the pace they deemed acceptable, meaning a prisoner should
not be too fast or too slow.
Kenyans are prisoners, we are all prisoners under bondage
and those who have been chosen to watch over us are very few rich men. The
perpetrators of oppression are our fellow countrymen most of which are
religious men who use the word of God to keep Gods people in bondage. While
they promise freedom to their disciples, they themselves are slaves of
corruption. For a man is brought into bondage by whom he is overcome.
A matter of concern here is how Kenyans have gone far away
from God and His word in the face of multiple voices in the televisions, fm
stations and open air crusades in the guise of preaching the gospel of truth.
Prophet Isaiah wrote in chapter 51
There is none to
guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there
any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
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These two things
are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction,
and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
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Thy sons have
fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net:
they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
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Again he said in Chapter 35
For the leaders
of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are
destroyed.
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Therefore the LORD
shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their
fatherless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and
every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
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The ignorance of the word of God has given birth to too many
things going terrible bad. Because we have been led astray and lost touch with
God, our senses cannot gauge and determine when we are being reviled or our
rights being trodden upon.
Many of the problems that befell this country can be
categorized as organized crimes whereas the players are the very men in the
Justice System, Law enforcement and religious places. Together with
businessmen, the crimes became lethal organized crimes.
Every organized crime committed against the sons and
daughters of this land has its root and head in religion. While tribal
affiliation plays a crucial role just like religion, religion is it’s beyond
borders connection. Also religion has an upper hand over the hearts and minds
of men.
A good example is the ongoing campaign that has been
televised countrywide about what the perpetrators of oppression called move to
stem sale of fake DVDs and CDs.
In spiritual terms the campaign is hypocritical and lacks
faith and moral. What these people intend to achieve is to create and defile
our conscious making us guilty of a sin that is not while they have eaten to
their fill and are now stooping below the table to strike with evil fist those
feeding on bones they have eaten and thrown down. Scary huh!
As I said our senses must be trained to gauge and judge
everything and anything and to know how to distinguish good and evil. After all
if we will judge angels how can we not be able to know when a group of
individuals who have set themselves against God and his laws are on the
rampage?
The TV advert is a reviling.
Frankly speaking if a distributor cannot sell a million
copies of your album in 1 year in a 40 million population, you are better
selling your CD on your own. Worse then is if you have a fan base throughout
east Africa not excluding Africa or the rest of the world. 1,000,000 copies if
divided by 365 days (1year) equal 2,740 copies per day. 2,740 copies per day if
divided by 47 counties you get 58 copies per county per day.
So logically it is possible unless your distributor is not
telling you the truth or he/she have people in his/her budget feeding on your
sweat without your knowledge. The people in this budget could be people like
the Artur brothers or just local medicine men in your neighborhood standing by
to finish you anytime they get the green light. Organized is the crime!
People like Steven Kanumba always complained of poor payment
from distributors that even the Tanzanian president spoke the day he (Kanumba)
died about government intervention on the matter. But should we wait for
someone to die before we make an empty promise? no. As I said this is a host of
organized criminals aided by religion and tribal affiliations using legal
offices to perform illegalities. Call them “Sons of disobedience”.
As the psalmist wrote in chapter 14-
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The LORD looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
Who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?
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When they do these things their inward thought is that no
one sees them, no not even God who gave them eyes. When they take up horns and
shout in the streets telling us what CD or DVD is genuine they go around
convincing even Gods people that their cause is genuine. They introduce laws
that go against the spirit of freedom of information and God himself who gave
them breadth.
The reason why as an artist, actor or producer you should
make a time frame to benefit from your intellectual work is because of the
following command. It is alive and it works
Deuteronomy 24
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When thou
cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field,
thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the
fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all
the work of thine hands.
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When thou
beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall
be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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When thou
gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it
shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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And thou shalt
remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command
thee to do this thing.
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Because these organized criminals are aware of the word of
God, they cause Christians to err by way of deception and by delaying payments
for their work and failure to account for the albums they have sold so that
they drag God people into the war with the same God they are serving. Perfect
set up Mmm!
Rose Muhando is a very energetic gospel artist. Going by her
fame she represents the perfect image of how God intends most of his ministers
to perform. In her latest album utamu wa yesu, she placed a copyright
issue as the first track urging her listeners to buy her original CDs and shun
fake CDs.
Businesswise she made a leap but coming to carefully observe
her action through the spiritual lens, she diluted her former messages in the
former albums especially for people who came to Christ through those albums she
called fake.
The way out for her is a public apology the same way she did
it in the first track on her utamu wa yesu album.
The world the “sons of disobedience” are building is not a
world of the poor. While the poor are not actually poor because almost all of
them are victims of injustices ranging from inheritance issues, to forced
evictions, miscarriage of justice etc perpetuated by false religion, the way
forward is understanding and standing with and by the word of God.
Do not aid them in their quest in any way.
John wrote in the book of revelation 18
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Reward her even
as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in
the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
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Understanding how the system works is key to success in your
endeavors to serve the living God. Whether you want to be an actor, a singer,
producer or anything similar you must be ready to fight as Rebecca MD stated in
her book titled - prepare for war-.
Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 6
For we wrestle
not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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Simply put wickedness is anything God never intended
for you in his purpose as Moses wrote in the book of Genesis chapter 1
And God said, Let
us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
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………worse of all is that it is wickedness in high places.
Rulers of the darkness of this world are religious
men and women who were once enlightened but because they loved darkness they
found it foolishness to continue in what they were taught and have dragged
unsuspecting Gods elect on to their sin but that also is serving to fulfill the
words of our Lord Jesus in Mathew 24.
For there shall
arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and
wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect.
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Your life as an artist should be for Gods glory and Him
alone. Today most Tanzanian movies have lost touch with God especially after
the death of Steven Kanumba because many of them have too much violence,
witchcraft, sorcery and sex without followable storyline. They are produced
without viewers in mind.
When true followers of Christ will come to realize how
Steven Kanumba contributed positively to the spread of Christianity and the
testimony of Jesus in East Africa, then shall they realize the gap that has
been left by him and why his end came so sudden.
But because of the darkness covering the tribes of the
nations as prophesied by Isaiah in chapter 60…….
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For, behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD
shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
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…..church goers and mere men cannot comprehend or analyze
threats facing the house of the Living God in East Africa.
In reality God expects someone to wear the shoes of fallen
ministers like Steven Kanumba but none of the holy bishops and pastors has
counseled their flock of the possibility of finding another person who will
continue the work of these Great Eastern Africa actors and ministers of our
generation.
The reason why they have not been able to find a way to fill
the gap left by Steven Kanumba is because they are not shepherding their flocks
against wolverines but against seeing the light. Some of the clergy’s are not wolves
themselves but because they don’t have enough light in them, they are unable to
discern the timing.
What these sons of disobedience usually do is replacing a
sheep with a ferocious wolf. And if that happens, they will be way ahead of us.
Deuteronomy 25
If brethren
dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead
shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in
unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's
brother unto her.
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This scripture on inheritance has been demonized by HIV/AIDS
proponents but this law speaks a lot about spiritual warfare.
First and foremost brothers come from the same bloodline and
have many things in common. The stranger here must be the person who shares no
biological connection with the deceased while the wife is the shoes but this is
a message for another day
Summarizing this topic, there are many servants of God who
have died sudden deaths. Their shoes must be worn by new occupants to keep the
fire burning and the flame from quenching. Those coming must not swerve to the
left nor to the right but must keep the vision of the founders alive.
Their deaths fulfilled revelation 13……….
And he had power
to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should
both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the
beast should be killed.
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…………And Revelation 12
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And the dragon was
wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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………And revelation 18
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And in her was found
the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the
earth.
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There is a story I heard of a local gospel artist who was
almost killed when he went to demand payment from music distributors in
Nairobi. After the incident the man retreated to his hometown never to be heard
again. He has never recorded any song since then despite revenues generated by
his music sold in music stores, supermarkets and online.
With this story and many other testimonies alike, you should
know how to go round about the situation. As I said before that our oppressors
are our very own people who are way ahead of us in terms of intellect, monetary
and legal issues. They use tribal affiliation and religious platform to advance
their agenda if necessary they use politics. They get what they want when they
want it using the beast called money amassed from the blood of unpaid laborers.
They are the people shouting on TVs and FM stations about
piracy and fake DVDs trampling on peoples freedom of information. If let loose
they will charge money for everything. They raid peoples businesses
disregarding the privacy act in the guise of enforcing piracy laws.
They introduced laws requiring stickers to be placed on CDs
because they want to protect their business and want to bar people from selling
their own intellectual properties due to costs involved.
I am a preacher of the word of God, should I not sell my
messages through CDs without stickers because few filthy rich businessmen and
politician sat down and crafted means to prevent the spread of the true gospel
that brings deliverance?
But this has happened true according to the word of God they
revile in their businesses…
Revelation 13
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And that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or
the number of his name.
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So God is the winner in all this because they show by way of
their doing that they are the seed of corruption by fulfilling his word. The
word of God therefore must be preached whether the penalty for preaching the
word of God is death or jail term.
Throughout the generations of men, God has always raised a
match for any form of wickedness and this generation is no peculiar.
We must
fully embrace the word of God to identify why a group of people would scoff at
God and the rest of the population after eating the fat of the land to their
fill leaving bones to the rest, yet even before the rest start breaking the
bones in search for marrows, they leave their abodes and stoop below their
tables scaring, beating and condemning those eating the remains of their food
with an evil fist through televised shows full of reviling and hypocrisy in the
name of fighting piracy
It must be stopped either way. An American bishop once told
me, pastor, whatever it takes.
Yes, whatever it takes. We must take our constitutional
right back from those gluttons in sheepskins either way.
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