PETITION TO STOP DESTRUCTION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF JEEVANJEE GARDENS PARK NAIROBI

PETITION TO STOP DESTRUCTION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF JEEVANJEE GARDENS PARK NAIROBI.

To.

1. Evans Kidero

   Nairobi Governor.

 Email: info@nairobi.go.ke

2. Dr. Joan Clos  Directior  UN-HABITAT
P.O. Box 30030, GPO,
Nairobi, 00100, Kenya
Tel: (254-20) 7621234 (Operator) / 7 623120 (Information Services Section)
Fax: (254-20) 7624266/7624267/
7624264/7623477/624060
E-mail: infohabitat@unhabitat.org
 

      We members of Bunge la Mwanainchi and residents of Nairobi city are petitioning the  office of Nairobi Governor , Mr Evans Kidero and UN- Habitat Executive Director Joan Clos,  to  stop the  intended  ecological destruction of JEEVANJEE GARDENS  , that will lead to commercialization of the only Green Park in the City of Nairobi.

The Governor of Nairobi and the Executive Director of the UN- Habitant launched a Project at Jeevanjee Gardens on 24 Feburary in the name of  “Nairobi Revitalizing Public Spaces” a joint cooperation of the Nairobi City County and UN-Habitat., which the the plan includes:

1. Cutting down of  trees in the park and fence

2. Introduction of market stalls and exhibitions

3. Introduction of food kiosks.

4. Displacement of Bunge la Mwanainchi members and ordinary citizens from accessing the park, by making the park a tool of revenue collection for the County Government.

JEEVANJEE GARDENS was donated to the people of Nairobi by Alibhai Mulla jeevanjee not to be a market space  but to be a recreation and social space , it is home to many indigenous trees and many bird species and any  the ecological destruction of the park is against article 69 and 70 of the constitution of Kenya which  ensure state protection of the Environment  and ecologically sustainable development.

JEEVANJEE GARDENS is also home to Bunge la Mwanainchi, social movement which advocate for social justice. The Park give ordinary Kenyans a solidarity space  that gives the common people a platform to discuss and address issues affecting their day to day lives and any interference with this platform is interfering with freedom of speech and expression, the constitution also gives room for public participation and the residents of Nairobi and the users of the park were never consulted in the intended changes that are driven by neo-liberal markets forces and business interests.

  Since 1991 the social movements  lead by Prof. Wangari Maathai  have struggled to defend JEEVANJEE GARDENS the only Green Park within the city of Nairobi when Politicians and Business interests tried to grab it .

History of Repression by state.

   Bunge la Mwanainchi  in  coalition with the residence  of Nairobi demand that UN Habitant and Nairobi County Government  of Nairobi be stopped from  proposed destruction of JEEVANJEE GAREDENS. We are calling  for Solidarity  from environmental movements to Protect  and  defend this Historic Gardens  against commercialization and destruction of  its   ecological ecosystem of the Park  as our collective rights and inheritance  to clean and healthy environment as in article 43 of our Kenya Constitution  for the benefit of  present and future generations.

Petition by.

1. Wilfred Oral

   Bunge La Mwananchi National Cordinator

   Email: happy.olal@gmail.com

   Mobile: +254722746164

2.Gacheke Gachihi

   Social Justice advocate Member Bunge La Mwananchi

   Email: ggacheke@gmail.com

   Mobile +254720318049

3.  Hassan Indusa

    Bunge La Mwananchi

    Email: hassan.indusa@gmail.com

Members of Bunge La Mwananchi reading the Map at Jeevjee.

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5 Years Reflection and Memory of Oulu GPO and Kamau Kingara Assassinations.

              5 years Reflections and Memory of Oulu GPO and Kamau Kingara Assasination by kenya neo-colonial state,

        March 5th 2014 this year will be five years since Oulu Gpo, and Kamau Kingrara were assasinated by Kenya neo-colonial state but for as long as the people of  Africa continent continue to live in extream  poverty, another GPO oulu and Kamau kingara will continue to be  born in the same extreme social conditions that had  produced the two human rights activist , Whether, the international human rights community and established Human rights organization , the fascist and imperialist media and kenya  state  ... continue to question them and  the standard that the two used in documenting human rights violations  and extra judicial killings  in Kenya and the source of their funding, 
   This question by corrupt media and neo-liberal civil society  many time intended to  obscure the  neo-liberalism economic conditions  that created the environment of the existence of Oscar foundation , Kamau Kigara and the Late  Oulu GPO  and many  other student from university of Nairobi who worked as  Human rights activist in Oscar foundation, But after every death and burial new  radical social movement   continue to emerge more powerful than that  lead by  Oulu GPO and  Kamau Kingara, Outside,,, the bearer of Human rights standard.

        For Bunge La Mwananchi we must continue to improve the work among the people, we must continue to hold   village bunge meetings with our people as much as possible, our cadres must be permanent in contact with the people, in the village holding community   meetings, disscussion and dabates to create a consciousness of liberation within the peasants and workers, in process of helping our people to govern themselves and the proposed,  Bunge La Wanainchi  congress in the villages  is in the right direction in rooting participatory democracy within the masses, on this Bunge la Mwananchi and community  platform we work with is the leading Vanguard of our people the journey will be full of, betrayals, misunderstanding because of different level of consciousness and commitment in the struggle , there will be setbacks, and great sacrifices to be made but all in all we must create a new  alternative political path from below  in Kenya politics and Africa, as great revolutionary  Amilcar Cabral said, in his Book Unity and Class struggle.

 As Bunge La Mwananchi social movement grow in social resistance against neo-colonial state, it will bring more coalition of classes, from the middle class political parties,  the point of unity may be to bring a new democratic state in kenya,others may want to step in the shoes of Jubilee Coalition  to continued with the privileleges,  while keeping the system of exploitation, but our movement should remain focused on uprooting the neo-colonial order created by imperialism, that continue to maintain the system  to date..
                            

     We must not mourn the death of  comrade today , no tears comrades the only action that should count is that of revolutionary action and organizing in our  village, work places and our homes., Advance the course of our social movement, defend all our political social bases....and develop and build  common revolutionary theory against the reactionary  Ethnic  political coalition in Kenya
                

                                                         Unga Revolution.
                  

       In Africa common conditions will be creating common consciousness and in number of our East Africa community there are formations that are emerging organized in the form Peoples Assemblies and H`uman rights Networks as East Africa Social Justice and Human rights Networks, Cheche Za Africa, a Blog for  terrain of the struggle of ideas on the development and future of Africa.  (http://www.checheafrika.org/) although  this platform advanced in tapping the vibrant Fm stations they have not been involved in direct political action but am sure in future, as contradiction continue to sharpen in Uganda, with emerging  political and economic  fascism and  Tanzania with neo-liberal constitution  the masses will start  re-awaken the revolutionary spirit of Cabral on revolutionary democracy  and organic formation of people assemblies in grassroots emerge  as wheel to build organic  social movement  from below for revolutionary change .

      We must   intensifie our struggle against  reactionary political forces  in power and ethnic chauvinist that have formed  ethnic Coalitions as current Jubilee government  and Cord  opposition coalition  in Kenya , This  phenomena  we must be aware of and combat ,by organizing the youth for social change within our movement as the political instrument for Pan-Africanism liberation.

     The   7th Pan-African Congress in Kampala in April 1994 remains again our fresh calling today, as grassroots political movement  Kenya we must "Dare to dream the same dream that has always filled the villages, ghettos, townships and slave quarters with hope, that has always animated the spirit of resistance, that has united the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the exploited masses of our people for genuine democracy. We the African people are our own liberators and thinkers whose task is to make a mighty stride towards genuine freedom by any means necessary. Our salvation is in our own hands. Don't Agonise, Organise"

Comrades.
Aluta continua.
Gacheke Gachihi.
Reproduced from letters in  31/03/09

in Kampala.