[{MR. UHURU KENYATTA RANKED NO. 3 IN AFRICA IN KUSEMA NA KUTENDA....!!!!!????? We in the political left (Read CORD) don’t dismiss polls, however disagreeable they are to us. However, we dismiss the methodology. For any statistician, the question of variables form the crux of any scientific enquiry. And we ask, what were the variables? When you do ‘ranking’, essentially, you are making ‘comparisons’. How, in God’s earth, do you compare African Presidents by asking their internal citizens? If you do, that’s how you get Uhuru at position three, and Mugabe above Zuma of South Africa even as thousands of Zimbabweans continue to throng South Africa, escaping the poverty and hopelessness of life under Mugabe. But Gallup thinks Mugabe is doing a good job, anyway. Gallup came to Kenya in 2013 (notice it is 8 months into 2014), asked some 1000 people if Uhuru is doing a ‘favourable’ job (whatever this means) and jumped into a plane to Uganda, asked 1000 Ugandans excluding one David Matsanga who was probably getting ready for an interview on #JKL or just idling at Sabina Joy, or Simmers, or Serena, all here in Nairobi, for the vagrant is a state guest, or so we are told. Ha! Thing is, in this Gallup poll, there existed only independent variables, no dependent variable at all. I mean, it is doubtful if those interviewed here knew this ranking would come. Even if they knew, I would be the first person to give ‘my president’ 100 percent ‘job well done’ if I were told he is being compared to some Malian President I know not his second name. Maybe, I am bluffing. President Kenyatta was ranked 3rd. Ask any Jubilee supporter why he wasn’t ranked first, or second, and you see a man and woman so willing to foam in the mouth, sweat in the armpits or ‘release’ pungently from their rear. Complex organisms our friends are. Be all these as they may, we welcome the new jubilee diplomatic breakthrough abroad, and the highly successful media propaganda here at home, for whoever pays the piper calls the tune. That’s the concoction you get when broke (and blank) journalists are served ketepa at the hilly house of Jomo II, the ‘place to be’, as Alfie I of Masaku would put it, succinctly. What they didn’t tell us, and which they think we don’t know, is that Gallup is among the many American PR entities ‘lobbying’ for Nairobi.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:13:24 +0000
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