tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44875137627787376112024-03-08T07:06:01.207-08:00JEFF KOINANGE - A 'DISTANT' LOVERThis is the tragic story of the rise and fall of Jeff Koinange, CNN's former Africa Correspondent ....... but those of you who are looking for those 'steamy'-emails only, will be surprised to read that there was so much more we talked and wrote about - as you will be able to read during the next few weeks. And then maybe you will understand what it was all about and why the pain of having lost all this during those few uncontrolled minutes in London is still hurting ....Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-52424188071971145742008-04-16T11:05:00.000-07:002008-04-16T11:08:57.428-07:00Jeff Koinange - the DistantloverIn case you want to receive the complete correspondence between Jeff Koinange and me, please send me a short mail to<br /><br /><a href="mailto:mariannebriner@hotmail.com">mariannebriner@hotmail.com</a><br /><br />and you will receive the complete script - free of charge.<br /><br />Marianne BrinerMarianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-58329498800406500212008-02-18T01:58:00.000-08:002008-02-18T02:35:06.793-08:00Jeff and Oprah Winfrey<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Before going into the subject 'Jeff and Oprah Winfrey', I want you to read part of an article Jeff wrote regarding Oprah's involvement in South Africa ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">When reading his article carefully, you will also note that here is a man 'looking down' on Africa - a man who seems to have 'outgrown' or at least who tries to forget his personal background and roots.....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Just listen to this:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I've been covering this continent for a dozen years. There's very little about Africa that I haven't seen, heard, smelled or felt.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">As a reporter, I've been in parts of Africa that can only be described as Godforsaken, covering stories as varied as famines in Niger, civil wars in devastated regions like Darfur and the victims of civil wars in Uganda and Sierra Leone and mass rapes in the Congo.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I've been up close and personal with the most bizarre characters in war-ravaged places like Libera, people who preferred to go into combat dressed in ways more fitting for a circus than a battle zone and rubbed shoulders with child soldiers barely old enough or tall enough to be carrying weapons of war.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">And in Nation after Nation, one recurring image will always haunt me - the faces of those children scarred by war, famine, disease, children forced to become adults in the blink of an eye, children who never be able to just be kids again.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">These are the times that I - as an African and as a reporter - ask myself, "How much worse can things get for my people?"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">But there are rays of hope. We saw one last week. Oprah Winfrey's decision to spend tens of millions of dollars of her own money to help educate children she's never known in a land so far away from her own....................................................</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">After having seens his Report on Oprah's School (he had told me about the life-coverage before), I wrote on Tuesday, January 9, at 4:13 am !!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">A sleepless night worth it !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">I am impressed - Oprah and Anderson Cooper will for sure be proud of you - this was one of your best 'shows' I have seen up to now.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And his instant reply via his Blackberry:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I am glad you stayed up to watch it ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">One of the PROUDEST moment of my life .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">And I poured my heart out like I've never done before !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Thanks for watching !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I wrote back (still in the middle of the night at 5:24 am):</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">I have realized that - it ws very moving and not just a 'show' ,,,,,,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">This was you with all your heart !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And Jeff:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">...... She's an AMAZING woman ..... and what a presence ...... just being there with her ....... and she 'trusting' me and my reporting (because as you'd expect she's very protective of her reputation and didn't know where I was going with the whole interviewing thing) -</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">But she was simply AMAZING ..... and she's done what NO other woman has been able to do .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">That makes her even more AMAZING !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">And you are right - I've never been so touched ..... or even so moved by one person's actions ..... and so genuine, so practical, so down-to-earth despite her WEALTH and STATUS !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">WHAT A WOMAN !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">After having 'digested' his mail, I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">You're probably right - she is amazing and she has remained what she most probably always was - a 'human being' ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Though having read about her in the Internet, I agree with you that she must have been also sometimes been very hurt by all the funny stories about her private life.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">But then - of course - she trusted you because you are like her and she must have realized that immediately.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">She is very intelligent - and still a woman with a very soft side and very strong feelings for others. And that's what I admire most in her.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And again, he repeated what he had said already before:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">You're right ........ I've never been so touched ....... or even so moved ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">What a WOMAN !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">To this I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">When I saw the Report again, something struck me:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">I realized that it was Oprah who has brought out the best in you ..... it was obviously her influence, her personality and her enchanting way that has let you 'loose your control' .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Am I right ?????????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Oprah was a bit defensive in the beginning as she usually is - but then something happened after she spoke to you for a while:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">There was a bond - a trust between her and you - almost love !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Especially when she started touching your hand and you hers and then putting her arms around you - and so did you .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">And suddenly there were two people talking and feeling the same ..... forgetting (at least that's the impression I got) that there was a camera catching this 'special moment' between two people - two people sharing the same feelings .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">I am glad for you because I have never seen you so happy before !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And Jeff:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I am glad you saw that .......... AMAZING isn't it ??????????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">After this he even felt like calling - still all excited - repeating again and again how 'amazing' Oprah was and how happy he felt for being able to spend some time with her..............</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">--------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">-------------- to be continued ----------</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-61989094235310359212008-02-17T03:20:00.000-08:002008-02-17T12:32:32.049-08:00Jeff: Please don't give up on me .....<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">After I had sent the letter to the CNN Bosses informing them not only about London but also about all the correspondence Jeff and I had exchanged regarding the Nigerian MEND Report, Jeff called several times asking me to send another letter to his Bosses informing them that we were trying to find a solution to our 'problems' and also to tell them that he had apologized for what he did to me in London.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Please don't doubt me now ..... you have shaken me to my SENSES ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">And never ever give up on me ............</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And like a 'release' of being able to leave the subject of what had happened in London aside, he then finally also wrote about his wife and their child:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I feel like I'm about to be RE-BORN ..... whatever it is (boy or girl) .... I'm hoping it will make my mother FINALLY talk to my WIFE .... they haven't spoken in years ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Maybe that's why I'm so NERVOUS .... I always wanted this and always thought this would UNITE our family..</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">And IF it doesn't .... then I don't know what I'll do .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">My sisters have both a son and a daughter each and my brother has a whole bunch of Boys ..</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">But my mother (in true Kikuyu fashion) has never been 're-named' .... so maybe IF it's a girl, then she can finally be 'reborn!!!!!!!!!! If it's a boy, well and good !!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Does any of this make sense ?????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Considering fulfilling Jeff's plea to write another letter to his Bosses, I had an idea how to make him realize what a woman feels after having been raped and how much effort it takes to overcome this trauma.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">CNN Inside Africa had shown a report about a woman in Johannesburg taking care besides of orphans also of young woman who had endured the same situation I had.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">So when Jeff called the next time asking again to write this second letter to CNN, I told him to get into contact with the home and to take over the 'patronage' of three of these young women...... i.e. paying for their living costs, medical care etc.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I explained that it would help him to better understand how women feel after such an ordeal - so my proposal also included spending time with them and not just paying .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Much to my surprise he immediately accepted my condition and promised to go to see Gail the following Saturday when he was coming back from Ghana.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He then passed Gail's email-address to me enabling me to have direct contacts with her. I wrote to her immediately and announced that Jeff would get into contact with her and for which reason without telling her the background of all this.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">It was then Jeff's idea to also include the interview regarding my book in this 'deal'.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Although I did not feel very comfortable about this point since it could give the wrong impression that this was the only thing I was ever interested in. He insisted that he would talk with the people of Inside-Africa whereas the patronage of the girls would kept as his private matter.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">You will agree that I tried my best to reach out to him - inspite of the fact that I was still undergoing medical treatment for the injuries sustained in London - I was still having pain and was sometimes bleeding and had to take strong medication to avoid an infection ..... I also had decided to make an HIV-test and another one for Herpes .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">As I mentioned before, Jeff had to go to Ghana to make a report for CNN on their Independence Anniversary.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">When I did not hear from him anything for some days, I spoke with my daughter what to do and this is her comment which I then also forwarded to Jeff:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Mami - Jeff is just trying to save his ass ..... don't ever trust him again ... promise !!!!!! He has proved not to be a man any woman should ever trust ...... you should never forgive him ..... he only tries to exploit your - maybe - still existing feelings for him for his own selfish reasons ...... he gives a 'shit' about you - that's the reality and please accept this ..... if not, you are only hurting yourself !!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">This damming message from my daughter finally made him react and he also gave the reasons for his silence:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Your Blog is causing all kinds of ripple-effects around the world and I'm starting to get phone calls from all over the place asking about the Date Rape .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I know you've responded but the damage has been done.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I don't know what to say.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Let's talk when you get a chance. I'm back in Joburg now.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">You will realize that he never ever denied anything - nor did he ever comment the letter I had written to all the CNN Officials.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Only once he referred to it when he told me that he understood why I had to do it .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But he never said that the content of the letter was not true - and this referred also to the details about the Nigeria Report.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">On March 8th he then wrote to me:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I have been 'reprimanded' by CNN from emailing anything other than the 'basics' ....... it's causing them great concern. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">A few days later we had a long and serious discussion on the phone and agreed at the end on the text of a letter I proposed to send to the same CNN Officials to whom I had sent the first one - including also Anderson Cooper and Oprah Winfrey - which read as follows:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Dear Mr. Walton,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I herewith wish to confirm that I have accepted Mr. Koinange's explanation and apologies regarding the London 'incident'.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Mr. Koinange is an excellent journalist and I think CNN (and the world) need somebody like him.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Sincerely,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Marianne Briner</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">As I said before, Jeff and I agreed on the text before - and you will have realized that he did not ask me to correct or take back anything I had said in my first letter to CNN. He only wanted them to know that he had apologized to me and that we were trying to come to an agreement.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">----------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">------- to be continued ---------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-65422377252129367842008-02-16T23:16:00.000-08:002008-02-17T04:33:07.662-08:00Jeff Koinange - the 'loving' husband and father-to-be ....<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">How I finally got to know that his wife was pregnant (14th week - so for quite a while already) ..... just read the following:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">After having gone back to Joburg, Jeff wrote on Monday, February 26th, early in the morning:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Robbery !!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Sorry for the 'silence' .... I got involved in an armed robbery incident after I landed in Johannesburg, Saturday.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">If you don't believe me, you can GOOGLE it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I'm trying to get my life back in order .... credit cards, passport, drivers licence, id's, etc. etc.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I'll talk to you when I can.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I did as he had suggested and found the article talking about this. It said</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">... that the award-winning CNN Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange and his pregnant wife were robbed at gunpoint ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I had to read this minimum 10 times to really believe what it meant !!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Why had he hidden this from me and instead continued talking about having a relationship (and child) with my daughter?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And even now in his mail talking about the robbery, just mention himself 'I got involved .... I'm trying to get my life back in order ....'</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I... !!!!!!!!!! I ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not once the word 'we' including his wife in this !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">It took me two days to 'cool down' - and then on Wednesday, February 28th, I wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I still canot believe this !!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">You should have been the happiest man in the world knowing that - finally - your wife is pregnant.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">And you should have told me - since as you said many times before, this was the only 'gap' in your life to really make you a happy man.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">So why did you not say anything to me and instead continued talking about needing a 'heir' and wanting my daughter??????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">How does your wife feel about all this ????? Does she know that you planned to have a child with another woman - just in case ??????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">It makes me really sad just to think about it .... and it makes me furious at the same time .... I do not think you should get away with all this so easily.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Life has given you a lesson with that robbery - but maybe you need a little more than that to realize that you cannot play with the feelings of other people.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I wonder if and what you will reply to this - or if you prefer to go 'underground' because you do not know what to say for your defense ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">MB</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">If I had expected a compassionate reply of a loving husband and father-to-be, Jeff proved me once again wrong.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Instead of giving a decent explanation, he choose to attack and threaten me when he wrote on March 1st:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Two can 'play' the game ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">To BLACKMAIL me will NOT work, Marianne .... and besides, it's the LAST thing you want to do because you stand to LOOSE as much as I do ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">For one, I have a 'lovely' NAKED photo of you on a beach which about a DOZEN newspapers (from Kenya to New York) would be more than interested in getting their hands on ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Especially if the CAPTION under it reads, 'Moi's former Mistress' .... and underneath that 'Moi shared her with others like Harry Bellafonte, Julio Iglesias, Sal Davis and many more ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">And think of the EMBARRASSMENT it would bring to your family .... unless of course you don't give a DAMN about them .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">And don't forget, I have the addresses you gave me to send copies of my book .... and the one you wrote on the FEDEX invoice .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I wonder if a certain Mr. NICK BOIT (Nicholas Biwott) would be interested in that ?????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Are you prepared to 'MOVE' again ??????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">The BOTTOM LINE, don't even think of Blackmailing me ...... it won't work .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">If you want to 'behave' like an adult and continue talking, I am prepared to do so ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Let's 'settle' this like reasonable Human Beings .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I was very upset by his mail - it was the last I had expected him to write after what he did to me London.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But deciding 'to play it cool' I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I was not blackmailing you - I was just putting things right - but you have decided not only to blackmail but also to threaten me - exactly in the way John Troon had warned me you would ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I did not want to believe him .... but now I have to.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">But like in the past - I am not scared - not by you and not by Biwott or anybody else.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">You should know this by now !!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But then I decided I had to 'fight back' and wrote the letter to the CNN President Jim Walton with copies to Chris Cramer, Jim Clansy, Jonathan Mann, Femi Oke and Oprah Winfrey..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But I did not stop here. Since I had the impression that Jeff needed more than that, I also passed the information of the whole sad story to the Kenyan Blogger Kumekucha.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And on March 5th, they published everything under the title</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">' Top Kenyan Journalist in Date Rape Incident' .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">..... and that was the beginning of the end of Jeff Koinange's award-winning career with CNN ..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">---------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">----- to be continued later today --------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-3134057455940585462008-02-16T15:27:00.000-08:002008-02-17T12:40:34.932-08:00London - the truth ......<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">When I was just about boarding the plane on February 22, my cell phone rang. Jeff knew my flight schedule and therefore must have felt 'safe' to call knowing that I was about to leave London.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I decided not to take his call - he rang three times more - and again as soon as my plane landed in Malaga 3 hours later.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And then in the comfort of my apartment, I finally had the courage to call my daughter and tell her everything.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">The following day, February 23rd, I then wrote to Jeff:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I was really tired and very exhausted - so I decided not to take your yesterday's phone calls.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">My only worry now is my health status and then how to carry on trying to forget the whole 'episode' Jeff Koinange.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">One way would be to publish all our correspondence from day one as well as the details about what has happened in London in the Internet - title: "Jeff Koinange - the real man behind the scenes - a warning to all my Sisters out there!!!!!"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">To this he replied immediately via his Blackberry:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I'm asking you as a friend and as a confidante, please do not do that !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">PLEASE !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">You will ruin both you and me forever ..... think about it and let's talk when I'm back in Joburg ..... I'm leaving now !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">A few minutes later he added:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I wish you knew what I went through the last two days .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">As for your health, I can assure you that you are ALRIGHT .... in fact, I can PROMISE you that .... as you know I would NEVER put you in any danger .... I told you that once before .... and I am a man of my word.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">As for publishing my mails, if you, Marianne, want to be the woman who will DESTROY the reputation I've worked so hard to build, to DESTROY the trust I put in you to write from the heart, that will really break my heart.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Take care and please don't worry about your health .... you're a strong and very healthy woman.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Do you realize that there is no word of regret, no explanation nor apology in this mail ...... he is just afraid about his reputation and what it could do to him when and if I talk.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">So I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">From next week onwards you can read about you and me on my blog - and I will send it to all TV- and Newspaper-outlets including some friends in Africa.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I am sorry - but you and your behaviour with me - and I am sure with other women and also with men - has forced me to do this.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">You have damaged not only my body, but also my pride and I am not willing to accept this.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And again his immediate reply via his Blackberry:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">If that's how you feel, then all I can say is SORRY from the bottom of my heart and I hope you can find it in your compassionate heart to forgive me and give me ONE more chance to make it up to you ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I at least deserve that ..... one more chance ...... if I FUCK-UP again, then you can do whatever you want !!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">To this I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Which chance? What do you think you can correct?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Being a lover as you promised to be? Being a man who cares as you said you do? Being somebody I could trust completely as you begged me I should?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Who is the real Jeff Koinange?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">In my memory it is the man who forced himself on me and then left me there in that hotel room - having seen and realized that he had injured me and that I was bleeding - who left without looking back.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Only now - when you fear I could talk - you come out of hiding and beg me to forgive you.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">So give me one reason why I should. You have and you never had any feelings for me - all these sweet words were just empty promises given under false presumptions.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">So again my question: how do you think you could ever make up to this? And how and why should I ever trust you again?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He then also called - already being at the Airport to board the plane to Johannesburg.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">When I answered his call, I immediately realized that this had been a mistake because the only reason why he called was to ask me NOT to tell my daughter anything ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">After this I had another sleepless night and the following day, I then wrote to him:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">The image of a face .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">After you had left me alone in the hotel and after having taken a long shower trying to 'clean' myself, I tried to sleep - but one face appeared again and again in front of me:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">The sad face of the beautiful girl of your Congo Report on the Raped Women. The empty and sad expression on her face - and this is haunting me since then.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">It is exactly how I felt during these days when you left me alone after what you had done to me ..... and not even tried to call to find out how I felt.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">And to think that you received your honors and awards exactly for these reports on mistreated women - what a joke .... and how sad just to think about this. How these women believed in you - trusting you with their sad stories - and the world seeing in you a sensitive and compassionate journalist ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">How wrong we all have been because the reality and my experience with you has proved all this false.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">But as you wrote to me once: "This is all just a show - this is not the real me."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">I did not understand then what this meant. Now I know.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">And then the biggest 'joke' of all: Even in this moment you still think you could have a relationship with my daughter and asking me not to tell her anything what has happened in London because you are still interested in getting to know her (and having a child with her ....)</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">You must be really crazy just to think that I would ever introduce my daughter to you.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">And now you even ask me to 'forgive' you - to allow you a second chance - that you deserve this at least .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">You had all the chances in the world - but you have lost each one of them.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">And I am also of the opinion that you have not only lost your humanity, but tou must have sold your soul to the devil (maybe to a devil like Biwott?????).</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">You will for sure have realized that I never mentioned the fact that his wife Shaila was expecting their first child ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">The reason for this is quite simple: Jeff did not mention this with one word - neither in London nor during the days after.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">On the contrary - also during our conversation in the Lobby - he still asked a lot about my daughter and was a bit disappointed that she had not joined me.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">How I finally got to know that his wife was pregnant ...... just read the following mails .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">----------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">will be continued tomorrow ...........</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-84518315846830716262008-02-16T09:17:00.000-08:002008-02-16T09:33:27.755-08:00London - Part 3<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">And now we come to another part of the whole sad saga:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">As I said, he had a 'pass' to my room and I discovered after he had left that he had taken the pass with him.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">So I always feared that he could come back even in the middle of the night...... so I informed the Hotel that I had lost my pass and was then given a new one. Like this, the one Jeff had was not valid any more.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">And as it turned out, my precautions had been right: He really tried to sneek into the Hotel the second night, at 4.20 am......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">How I found out about this? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">After I had already sent the letter to the CNN President, Jeff started calling me again. He first asked me not to tell my daughter anything since he was still interested to get to know her - and then he asked if my daughter liked the DVD's he had left in my Hotel for her ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I first did not even know what he was talking about. He then said that he had come to my Hotel but since the pass did not work, he went to the Night Concierge but because he was not a registered guest, he could not come to my room as he had planned - so he had left an envelop for me with these 3 DVD's (one about Darfur, one about Somalia and the third one about Oprah's School).</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I first could not believe that he had really have the guts to still think he could come to me in the night like that - so I called the Hotel and I got the confirmation.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">The Manager apologized for not having given me the envelop when I checked out that morning - so they sent it to me by DHL.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Besides the DVD's the envelop contained also a handwritten note by Jeff telling me that he tried to come to my hotel at 4:20 am after having had a 'life' for Anderson Cooper 360 .... and then also the pass to my room was attached .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I have everything here right now - for anybody to see that I am telling the truth.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">--------<span style="color:#3366ff;">to be continued tomorrow --------</span></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-62050995292871450352008-02-15T23:39:00.000-08:002008-02-15T23:57:05.463-08:00London, February 20, 2007 - part 2<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">As I said before, he was dressed quite casual. I felt therefore a bit 'overdressed' and proposed to go to my room to change into something less fancy.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He agreed and asked if he could come up also since he needed to call his people before going out for dinner. I told him to give me 15 minutes so I could change before.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And then I made a big mistake: I had two passes for my room and I gave him one .... still feeling to be in total control of him.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I was still in the bathroom when he entered my room - not after 15 minutes as I had asked him, but after less than 5 minutes.....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Without any warning he opened the sliding doors of my bathroom - pulled me out telling me "Don't feel shy with me....."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And then the big shock: he was already naked .... he then pushed me on the bed and in seconds tried to enter me..... I struggled and asked him several times to stop - but he forced himself into me that's when he must have hurt me.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He held my arms down and started kissing me in a very brutal way - maybe he wanted to stop me from screaming.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He realized the pain in my face since he even made the remark, "Did I hurt you ? "</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I started crying and begged him several times to stop. But he only said, "I can't - so just let me finish.." and continued.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Every move he made was like a knife cutting deeper and deeper into me ....... it was horrible.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">When he finished - and yes, he even had an orgasm - he turned around and for a few minutes he was lying on his stomach next to me without saying one word.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He then got up and - still naked - he even made the phone calls he originally had come for. I heard him talking and even laughing to somebody for abt. 10 minutes.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I later checked the numbers he had called (the Hotel gave me the bills when I checked out). The first one was the London Office of CNN and the second - the call which lasted 10 minutes - was the private cell phone ( 020 - 76931670 ) of Alphonso van Marsh, CNN London.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">After having finished his phone conversation and without even having used the bathroom to clean himself, he got dressed.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I then noticed that he did not even wear any pants - not even socks - just these black trousers, a sweater and a sort of black soft-leather boots.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He then turned around to me saying "I am sorry, but I have to go" - and just touching my cheeks - still wet from my tears - with his fingertips, he left......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">After he had left, I then saw the blood on my body and on the bed sheets - and I had only one thought: to wash away this 'dirt' ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Like if I was cleaning my body, I could also clean my mind and maybe even wash away the memory of what had just happened to me.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">So in spite of still having pain, I took a shower and stayed under the running hot water for more than half an hour .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">--------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">--- will be continued tomorrow -------</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-43971096103502926382008-02-15T10:13:00.000-08:002008-02-15T10:55:55.842-08:00Rape - February 20, 2007<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I arrived in London on February 20th around midday. When I checked in at the Holiday Inn-Forum Plaza, I had expected to find at least a welcoming message from Jeff - or some flowers and maybe even a bottle of Champagne as he had announced before in some of his mails .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But there was nothing at all - and that should have been a first strong warning what to expect ...... since this was so much in contrast to what he had promised to me before in all his 'romantic and loving mails' ..... 'but talk is cheap' as I should soon learn .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I still decided to give him a 'chance' and left a message in his Hotel (Kempinski-Court) as well as on his cell phone....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Finally, Jeff called me back more than 3 hours later around 4 pm announcing that he would be at my Hotel around 6:30 pm.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He proposed that we should meet in in the Lobby, take a drink first, go out for dinner after - and then spend the night together 'to do all the things we have always dreamed of, my Love".......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Since he had mentioned that we should have Dinner at the Langham, I dressed up for such an exclusive place - but he came just wearing black trousers and a black sweater (a little bit like the MEND people in his Nigeria Report).</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I made a remark to this asking if he was really seriously planning to have dinner with me at the Langham since as you may know, the London Top Restaurants have a quite strict dress-code for the evening.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But he assured me that his outfit was o.k. - 'why - what's wrong with what I wear? ..'</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">We then talked for about an hour, sitting in the Lobby, sipping a glass of wine ..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Although I should have been warned: In the middle of our conversation - mainly about the Nigeria Report, his problems with the CNN Lawyers which were still going on also in London - people we both knew in- and outside Kenya etc. - he all of the sudden stopped and said, "I want to make love to you ...... right now !!!!!!"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I started laughing and trying to tease him, I said, "You are crazy. Have you forgotten, we have a date for dinner ..... that's it - at least for now."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But he insisted, "But I am ready .... so let's do it ...... now ........ or don't you want me anymore?"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">He must then have realized that I felt quite embarrassed especially after this last remark, so he quickly returned to our former conversation - and I felt 'safe' again ...........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Especially since something quite strange had happened - at least for me:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">If you have read our former correspondence well, you will have realized that we spoke a lot about a certain 'chemistry' between us - an almost sexual attraction.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But when I saw him there in London and after having spoken with him for some minutes, I realized that - at least for me - this feeling had totally disappeared like it had never even existed.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">...... Yes, he was an intelligent man ...... nice talking to ........ but nothing else.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">I saw him as a quite unsecure young man craving for attention ...... not at all the man I had seen on TV and definitely not the man who had written to me all those lover letters.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">To me he was like an 'empty shell' ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">Based on this impression, I felt 'superior' and in control like I had always been in my life when it came to having a relationship:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">It was me who decided with whom and when and how - not only at the beginning but mainly when and how to finish it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">But how wrong Jeff should prove me to be in his case ..............</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">--------- to be continued ------------</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-19671746550865808882008-02-07T10:59:00.000-08:002008-02-08T01:52:08.107-08:00Jeff Koinange: Obviously not learning anything<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I never thought this possible, but it seems that Jeff continues on the same track as before: .....taking cocain and raping women ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">As I was told, many people around Nairobi have started asking themselves : </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">"What will be happening next?"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Is it just because Jeff is frustrated with his unimportant job at this new K24 Channel - or because it's the fact that he had to return to Kenya after having 'tasted' the big exciting world?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Nobody knows the answer - except Jeff himself.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">But many people have written to me - all asking the same question:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">What's next ???????? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Will Jeff finally get his act together and take over the responsibility not only for his own life but also for the people around him who are still willing to trust him ?????? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">IF and WHEN does Jeff learn to admit the real truth about himself ????????? And this includes not only the real reasons why he left CNN - or better said, had to leave because he was asked to.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I don't know the answer to all these questions - but I am sure about one thing:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">Jeff has to learn to live with himself and not continue distinguishing between his 'private' and his 'professional face behind the scenes'.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">As he described this disturbing fact in many emails:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">"The man you and others see on TV is not me - the REAL me is somebody totally different - but I have learned to hide that private part of me from the public - so I am putting on a SHOW because that's what the people want to see. But believe me, that's only SHOW. That's not ME".</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I found this very sad and realized that it was creating a deep confusion in him - a confusion which has led him to do things he would never have done otherwise.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">- So I beg you, Jeff Koinange, don't hide anymore.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">- Don't be afraid to s</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">how us your real face because only then we will learn again to trust you - learn to believe that your intentions are honest.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">- Don't continue showing us 'a faking face' like a friend of mine has desribed it when seeing you on K24.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">- Because we finally want to see the 'real' Jeff and not some 'artificial product' of the American TV ....... you are back in Kenya now. You are 'safe' amongst your own people to come out with your true self. Learn to trust yourself - and mainly trust the people who still love you ..........</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">-------------------</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">---- to be continued ------</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-62904575108466101572008-02-04T08:54:00.000-08:002008-02-04T12:36:55.501-08:00JEFF KOINANGE: A PAID RAPIST ?<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;">Today I received the most shocking news - although I must admit that it was something many people have already told me in the past, but I always had refused it to be true - but now the following information has finally convinced me:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">A friend of mine who knows practically the whole Koinange family, has told me that a cousin of Jeff has confirmed to him that it was indeed Nicholas Biwott who 'inspired' and even paid Jeff to give me 'a lesson'.... and Jeff accepted to become Biwott's willing 'servant' for his own selfish reasons.......</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Jeff knew when coming to London last February that CNN was about to fire him because of the Nigerian story .... the Government lawyers and CNN were in a clinch and the Nigerians demanded Jeff's dismissal .....</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Furthermore something else was added - something I also had heard already in the past from people who knew Jeff very well: He is since years a cocain-addict and could therefore easily be manipulated and would do anything for the next 'fix'.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;">I still could not believe this to be true but then I remembered that he met Biwott again before coming to London (as he said in one of his mails to me ' we were embracing each other as usual'....) and it seems that it was here where the 'deal' was agreed: </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;">'You give that woman a lesson and I help you to get another job .... and also a certain amount of money to bridge some months without working in order to let the whole story get out of the public eye .....'</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">What none of them expected, was the fact that I informed the President of CNN about this .... they had expected me to be too ashamed and therefore keep quiet. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">And my letter then gave CNN the perfect possibility to fire him without having to expose the real reason.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">But I dare ask you the following: who is more to blame - Biwott for having used Jeff or is it not Jeff himself who is the real guilty one?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I know that many people in Kenya like to watch him on this new channel K24. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">As Chris from the Kumekucha-Blog wrote to me today:</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">" I see Jeff on TV almost every day. My wife loves to watch him, probably fascinated at the fact that he was a rapist in secret but she always asks me what I feel about destroying him. I always answer the same, that if what I reported was a lie, I would now be in court answering to a case.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">I sincerely do not understand why this animal seems to get so much sympathy from Kenyan women, some of whom have been raped and know how terrible a crime this is. His good looks? The fact that he is a Kikuyu? I will probably never know. "</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">----------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;">------- to be continued --------</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-17034647602292628402008-02-04T06:46:00.000-08:002008-02-04T06:58:54.764-08:00Jeff: I am touched by your love for Kenya<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">In the evening Jeff called and we started talking about his family, his Grandfather and his own political future ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Much to my surprise, he then added in writing:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Thanks for your comments .... and for your 'candid' advice about my 'future' ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I hope, you will 'play' a part in it ....... just like I owe it to my Grandfather, you too 'owe' it to Kenya .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">We could strike an agreement ....... I'll give you back your 'house' .... and your life in Kenya ..... and MUCH MUCH MORE .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Thanks for being my friend, Marianne ..... I don't have too many friends. But now I can count on one more ..... friend, LOVER, advisor, guru, LOVER ..... and on and on and on .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Lots of LOVE,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">-------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">After this he called again and I told him how much I missed Kenya - its people - the friends I had made - just everything and that I almost felt like being 'homeless' since I had to leave ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Jeff must have realized how sad I was, because the then wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">....... Promise !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Don't be too disheartened ...... I'm touched by your LOVE for Kenya and your wish to return to 'your' home .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I PROMISE you, I will do all I can to make that DREAM come true for you .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I truly sympathize with you that no matter how GREAT your environment is, how wonderful your Golf Estate is and how beautiful the sunsets etc. - they'll never compare to the KENYA you fell in love with all those years ago ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I have a lot to do for Kenya ..... and a lot to fulfill to my Grandfather's dreams ..... but GOD willing if everything turns out ok (2012 and then 2017), I shall make sure you get back to Kenya and live there for as long as you want ..... this I PROMISE you TODAY ..... and you can HOLD me to it !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">In the meantime, the interview with PRONK went wonderful well ..... he was very candid and very 'strong' against the Sudanese Government (very UN-diplomatic) which we REALLY liked .... look out for it sometimes next week .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Tomorrow we hope to get BASHIR .... and that should be a coup !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">By the way, on our way to the interview I looked up to the sky and there in front of us getting ready to land was - guess what - LUFTHANSA ..... I smiled to myself and kind of wished you were on that plane ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I'll be calling you shortly ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Stay SWEET, my SWEET !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">----------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">----- to be continued -----------</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-45808053982281622852008-02-03T12:18:00.000-08:002008-02-03T13:05:07.874-08:00Khartoum - The craziness continues<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I must admit, I had started to enjoy Jeff's letters. He was a very intelligent man with a thorough grasp of many issues. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">So picking his mind became almost an obsession. When I got back home, I went to my study and turned on the computer. Had Jeff written? - Yes, he had:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Hey there BEAUTIFUL ...... landed a short while ago and wanted to check in with you before getting some rest .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">You will NEVER be a PASSING CLOUD to me .... only ONE MAN holds that title ..... and it NEVER really happened that way in the end anyway !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Sleep well, my SWEET.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And later the same day he added:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">It's been another loooooooooooooooooooong day ...... getting our journalist accreditation as well as travel permits to be able to go to DARFUR ..... so much bureaucracy here !!!!!!!!!!! They really are 'scared' of journalists ..... but hopefully we'll be ok and plan to 'fly out' by the weekend ..... and then begin broadcasting by Monday night (5 am our time ..... 10 pm Atlanta ....). The stories will then hopefully be replayed all day the next day and the same thing all week .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Anderon Cooper in Congo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Chad and yours truly in Sudan ...... and guess what, all three of us were involved in the EMMY award the other day ..... what a team !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">By the way, I again 'felt' something late last night ...... I didn't want to think of it too much but it kept coming back ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">You and I are 'LINKED' .... whether we like it or not !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Missing you like CRAZY ...... and YES, please write me ANY and EVERY time you can ..... even if I don't get to reply as often as I'd want to.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Kisses all over your BODY !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">To complete the picture, he then sent me later the text of an article which he had done for the Anderson-Cooper-Blog-360 - which is good read indeed - so I am including it here:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Mission Darfur, job one: part the red tape .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">We almost failed to make our flight out of Johannesburg, on our way to Darfur as '360' focuses next week on the humanitarian crisis in Africa.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">The booking was fine for the first sector to Nairobi, Kenya, but it was the continuing sector to Sudan that was 'choc-a-bloc'. We did the only thing journalists do in that kind of situation, we begged and begged and begged the airline officials like our lives depended on this 'mission'. They must have seen our sincerity (or is it desperation?) that finally they checked us all the way, complete with 18 pieces of baggage, digital new gathering gear, laptops, satellite phones, bottles of water, clothes, everything we would need for about a week in what's been described as THE world's worst humanitarian crisis.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Both sectors of the flight were uneventful and we finally landed in Sudan later that night. Clearing immigration proved easier than expected and our luggage made it, believe it or not. We were ecstatic as we wheeled our FIVE carts towards the customs officials and the first of what was going to be a lesson in patience and tolerance.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">We showed our paperwork to one of the officials who barely glanced at it before handling it over to his colleague and on it went until the fifth customs officer took a quick look and yelled something back in Arabic to our fixer who'd met us at the airport. "He has to call his superior," Akram told us. "OK", we replied. Five minutes, ten, twenty, half-an-hour. "What's the delay?" we asked. "It's Ramadan," was the answer, "the fasting just ended for the day and no'one's available." This was understandable given the timing of the flight and the Muslim Holy month. "How long do we have to wait?" we asked, "He'll soon come," the official responded.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Two hours later, we'd finally gotten the necessary paperwork sorted we were walking out of the now deserted airport, humbled but happy to have all our gear with us. We eventually got to the hotel, checked-in and crashed for the night.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">The next morning, we were up early. Copies of passports were made, photographs taken, ID at the ready. First we had to register with the authorities, let them know we're in town. Then to the Ministry of External Affairs to get accredited and receive permission to film, then to the Internal Ministry to get permission to fly to Darfur, then to the police to make sure they know we can film in the streets of the capital.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">In a word, Sudan is a bureaucrat's dream - paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Two days later, we have just about everything in hand, except the all-important permission to fly to Darfur. That's been promised by Saturday and we plan to be 'wheels-up' Sunday to a place called El Fasher in Northern Darfur, a region as large as Texas or France. From there it's a helicopter ride to a camp that was the recent scene of bloody clashes. Fingers crossed until we actually set foot in one of the world's most wretched locations.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Before going to sleep that evening, he called just to say 'good night' - he obviously was very exhausted and tired. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">His voice was very soft, almost vulnerable and somehow he sounded very sad and lonely .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I thought about this when I woke up the following morning and then decided to write:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">.... when you read this, it will be already morning. I hope, you slept well.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">You should know that these early morning hours with the light just cropping in have always been my 'special' hours when I liked to make love most.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Sp, please, kepp your eyes closed for a while longer, just feel my hands and my mouth on you - let me carry you away and make you happy.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">And then take this feeling through the following day until the next morning when during the hours of dawn I will be with you again .... making love to you in your dream - until you tell me to stop ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Are you smiling now ??????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And Jeff's answer - also still very early in the morning:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">.... not only am I smiling, I'm as 'STIFF AS A POLE' right now and will have to quickly take a cold shower to 'cool things off' !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">My GOODNESS, Marianne, I'm really IMPRESSED ..... I can't wait for ALL THIS to happen .... for us to be in each other's arms, lips locked together, hands exploting each other, finding those places we both long to be .... in a word, I can't wait to be INSIDE YOU .... first with my tongue ..... and then ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I am glad, I helped awaken the 'Tiger' in you ..... somehow, like you said, you were waiting for the right man to come along ..... and I'm honored to not only come along, but CUM and CUM and CUM !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">And like you, I LOVE early morning LOVE-MAKING ..... Goodness, I'd better stop or I'm going to go CRAZY just thinking of that .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">We're still waiting for our Darfur permission ....... hopefully we'll get it later today or tomorrow ...... we also might get an interview with the President here ..... but that's a BIG maybe .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">In the meantime, stay ready for the time of your life (which is very arrogant of me knowing who you've been with in the past) .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I may be arrogant ......... but GOODNESS, am I CONFIDENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">When I read his mail, I had to smile - and then I wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">.... I am glad, I did excite you ...... I am proud I did ...... I only hope, you are not driving or in a meeting - otherwise I am afraid, you will either crash or blush now .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">I know, you will be a good lover - would I have 'chosen' you otherwise ??????????? Or did you 'chose me' ???????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;">------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">And Jeff's immediate answer:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">No, I wasn't driving or in an interview ...... I'm getting ready for an interview we have in two hours with Jan Pronk, the United Nation's top man in Sudan ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">In the meantime, I'm smiling and smiling ....... and getting HARDER and HARDER and HARDER again thinking of what we're GOING to do with each other .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">-----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">------- to be continued --------------</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-58978233618997630682008-01-31T01:29:00.000-08:002008-02-01T09:08:23.955-08:00Jeff Koinange's Wedding Anniversary and a sleepless Night<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">I must admit that I had a quite sleepless night after all this talking about the 'magic of making love'.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">So the following morning I wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I hope at least you slept well - I didn't. But I have come up with an idea: why don't you come to Spain at the end of October? You could tell CNN that you want to make an interview with me or something like that.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I would feel 'safer' in my own territory - London in October is foggy and cold. The Spanish sun especially here in the South would be much better.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">---------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Jeff replied a short while later via his Blackberry - alredy preparing himself to catch the flight from Johannesburg to Nairobi and from there directly to Khartoum.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">It's funny you should talk about sleep or the lack of it ..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I woke up at 3 am after a very 'vivid' dream of MAKING LOVE to someone I've never met !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">It was an unbelievable feeling ...... I'm sorry if I was the cause of your sleepless night.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Malaga sounds very tempting but unrealistic for now .... </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">After my dream last night, I WANT YOU EVEN MORE NOW .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT THE SEXUAL CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US IS VERY REAL !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I'm leaving for the airport shortly and we can keep chatting for the next couple of hours .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">And I promise, I won't make you too HORNY !!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">He then called twice from the Airport .... always the same subject ..... I want to make love to you ...... I need to make love to you ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">And then also in writing via bis Blackberry:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">..... about my dream last night ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">You and I were having a wonderful dinner with some lovely red wine and the conversation was flowing and I was stroking your hand and you were rubbing me and then after desert and brandy, we headed to my room and as soon as we were in, we started kissing passionately and slowly I started taking off your clothes and you were a bit shy and I reassured you telling you were in SAFE hands and you let go and I undressed you completely and you undressed me and you held on to something that was nice and hard ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">In the meantime, I started to explore your body, licking you and kissing you and when I got down between your legs, I started to kiss you more and lick you more and you started moaning and groaning and saying 'please don't stop' ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Should I stop now or should I continue ?????????? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">My dream was VERY VIVID !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Let me know if you want me to go on ...........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">AND DON'T YOU EVER SHOW THIS TO ANYONE !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Five minutes later he added:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">One more thing:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">By the time I was sliding INSIDE you, we were both in SEVENTH HEAVEN ...........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">And it went on and on until I woke up at 3 am .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">-----------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">If I was blushing yesterday when we were talking, it was nothing compared with now.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I almost did not dare to read what you were saying about your dream. I still have to digest - but maybe we can make it reality - and if you forget what you were saying, I will take this message with me and you will have to fulfill every part of it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I know, you are smiling now - and that's what I wanted to reach.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">And now I am going to swim .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">---------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">It took Jeff just one minute to reply:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Ha Ha Ha ......... I urge you to HOLD me to EVERY WORD !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Enjoy the swim ..... talk soon, my Princess !!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">---------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Although I was already at the door to go down to the pool, I sat down again and wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I dreamed the opposite ......... I was kissing you ..... everywhere ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Now you know what to expect ........... if ..............</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">And Jeff:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Not IF .......... WHEN ??????????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I can't wait to feel your lips, your skin, your smell, your EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Departure in one hour ....... how I wish the destination was Malaga !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Kisses,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">-----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">I answered:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Do not forget to write to me also during the next two weeks ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">You are in my heart,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">---------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">And his response:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I'm glad I'm in your heart .......... I just wish I was INSIDE YOU right now !!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">All I want is to make you feel like a REAL woman again ..... and to make you laugh and feel 'wanted' again .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">I have everything a man can want in life right now ......... except children for now ......... but I feel, you deserve to feel 'wanted' and 'wanting' again.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Is that too much to ask ??????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Marianne, PLEASE let me make you feel the way you once felt !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">The plane is taxiing ......... talk to you soon ..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">And my last mail that day:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I know that you are a very lucky and happy man - and I know my position in this:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I will - if ever - only be a visitor - a 'passing cloud' ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">But it would be nice to pretend - maybe only just for once.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">-------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">When reading in the evening again our correspondence of the day, one idea struck me:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">As he had told me, this was the day of his 8th Wedding Anniversary - so why did he not make love to his wife instead of having a 'sleepless night' dreaming about me ????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Something was obviously very wrong here.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">But since I had already understood that his private life was 'off-limits' for me or at least that he did not like to talk about much, I decided that it was not my business to start an interrogation - at least not for now.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">But if one day he should feel like talking, he knew that I would listen ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I just had to wait until the time was right.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">******************************</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6600cc;">........ to be continued ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-48982882836058738922008-01-28T01:51:00.000-08:002008-01-28T06:45:10.626-08:00Jeff Koinange: SEXUAL CHEMISTRY !!!!!!!?????<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">After having taken a few days of holidays, Jeff called on September 25, 2006. It was a quite long conversation lasting almost one hour. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">After this he sent me by email a private photo showing him and Nelson Mandela. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">He then called for a second time informing me that the annual meeting of all CNN-journalists was scheduled to take place at the end of October in London and this would be a perfect opportunity to meet each other.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I then insisted to know more about his private life .... I had seen the wedding ring on the Mandela-photo ..... Jeff first tried to reply to this ..... but when I insisted, he then wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Ha Ha Ha ..... you're TOO observant .... maybe even too INQUISITIVE .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Yes, I am married .... to a lovely Kenyan Indian (Muslima) from Mombasa.....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Funny you should bring that up now as tomorrow (Sept. 26th) is our 8th anniversary .... time flies ..... we have NO children so far .... I GUESS I'm never home that often enough .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">That's about it - about my 'secrets' - no more surprises, I promise !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I was also married once before .... to an American woman when I lived there .... no kids there either ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Like you, I've been 'around the block' a few times !!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">---------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">The following morning he called again and for the first time started to talk about having 'an intimate relationship' with me ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I was shocked and told him that 'I could easily be his mother' .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">A few minutes after we had finished our conversation on the phone, he wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Are you afraid I might 'hit on you' ?????? I told you, I have an 'old' SOUL .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Besides, I think we've already established that there's something ELSE besides intelligence and good conversation between us ..... there's almost a SEXUAL CHEMISTRY .... so, we'll wait to 'explore' that when/if we meet in London !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Don't worry, I don't get 'offended' if/when 'rejected' ..... believe me, I'm a VERY shy person (except when in front of the camera) but when I 'feel' something stirring in me about someone, then I 'explore' it .... and follow through !!!!!!! Does this make sense ????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">And don't worry about being my 'mother' ..... remember Oedipus ?????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">We leave tomorrow morning for Nairobi and straight thru to Khartoum .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">By the way, I just learned that a story I did on the Famine in Niger last year has just won an EMMY Award in New York last night ..... not bad, eh !!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">-----------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Congratulations for the EMMY - I always knew you were good ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">By the way, I have the picture showing you and Mandela framed here in front of me - although I am still not sure which one I like better, Madiba or you ..... for the moment I settle on both ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I do not go into the other subject you raised - you made me blush - but I try to be realistic - although I have to admit that you are a very attractive man (don't worry, I will never repeat this - but just for once I had to say it).</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">God bless you,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">--------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Five minutes later came his reply:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Ha Ha Ha ...... you make me SMILE .... you are so CONFIDENT one minute, yet so SHY the next .... you can say it .... don't be AFRAID .... remember, you always said you're NOT afraid to tell the TRUTH !!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">So if you feel like I do, then say it .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Thanks for the kind words on the EMMY .... I do what I do because I LOVE what I do .... but when I get an award for it, it makes me realize I was BORN to do this ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">As for the picture ..... here is one of me WITHOUT Madiba .... that way, you don't have to TORTUR yourself choosing !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Always,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">-----------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;">I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;">Let's change the subject, please .... that is for me like walking on 'slippery sand' .... it's not that I am not tempted .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;">You are exactly the type of man I always preferred and I am also sure that you are a good lover ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;">I hope, this makes YOU blush now .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;">--------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6633ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Two minutes later Jeff wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Ha Ha Ha ...... YES, I am BLUSHING !!!!!!! And HAPPY to do it as well ..... I am sure, you are a GREAT lover as well .... and somehow I believe in FATE .... or is it KISMET ????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Thanks for making me SMILE today ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">xoxoxoxox</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">---------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">And then he called again - for the third time that day - elaborating again on his 'dreams' regarding me ..... and when he realized that I had problems talking about these intimate things over the phone, he wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Like I told you, I'm a VERY shy person in general ..... but when I 'CONNECT' with someone ..... and it doesn't HAPPEN very often - but when it does - WATCH OUT .... I'm like a BULL DOG ..... HARD TO LET GO ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">You have a lovely VOICE .... with that GERMAN/SWISS flavor to it .... and your laugh is VERY throaty .... full of energy ..... and most of all, your mind is FULL of ideas .... very ALIVE and ALWAYS wanting to explore and DISCOVER .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">So, having said that, it's UP TO YOU to discover ME !!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">END OF THE SUBJECT ...... FOR NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">---------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I agree - let's go on the 'road of discovery' - </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">End of the subject and full stop .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">-------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">But Jeff did not agree and immediately wrote back:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Noooooooooooooooooooooooo ....... PLEASE DON'T STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Remember, you can't fight SEXUAL CHEMISTRY ....... it doesn't come around everyday ..... but when TWO SOULS MEET, it's MAGIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">YOU and I have SOMETHING .... and YOU CAN'T DENY IT ..... and YOU CAN'T FIGHT IT EITHER !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">So, the best thing is to GIVE IN !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">-------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">.... to be continued ..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-66051825734901896632008-01-26T00:59:00.000-08:002008-01-28T06:32:21.041-08:00Jeff Koinange's opinion about my book<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">After having read the first chapters of my book, Jeff wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Marianne,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">All I can say is WOW !!!!!!!!!!! I'm already HOOKED and would LOVE to get a hold of a copy ..... I don't know if it's available in Johannesburg (which is where I'm based right now).</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">You're a BRAVE woman, my dear ..... and what you're doing is GUTSY and very COMMENDABLE .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I remember reading your testimony in the Kenyan papers when you were in Nairobi .... and I also remember hearing a lot of rumours about you .... that you were 'Mzee's Mistress' ?????? And lots more .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I would be interested to hear what they would have to say about THIS !!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I think, this is a VERY important book about a very DARK period in our HISTORY .... THANK YOY for doing this.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I'll LOVE to do something with this .... I'll have a chat with the folks at CNN's magazine programme, INSIDE AFRICA .... they may require you appear in one of our studios (London, Paris, New York, Atlanta) and do an interview and 'defend' your book .... I think that would be GREAT .... and if you have a 'spare' copy and don't mind sending it (signed of course) I'd greatly appreciate it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">My address is:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Jeff Koinange</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">CNN Africa Correspondent</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">25 Owl Street, 15th Floor</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Auckland Park</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Johannesburg 2092 - South Africa</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Tel.: (27) 11 - 726 4251</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Bests,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Jeff</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">And then he added:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">You are ONE BRAVE WOMAN ..... NO Kenyan has come close to doing what you're doing and for that you are to be COMMENDED !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I don't need to tell you this, but you should be PROUD of what you're doing .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I strongly believe the TRUTH must be told no matter how painful ..... and no matter how long it takes .......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">So I am challenging you, Jeff, try to apply this last sentence also to us - to 'our' story and especially to London. Don't continue telling the 'world' that nothing has happened ..... we both know the truth - and as you rightly said 'the truth has to be told no matter how painful......'</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">to be continued</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-72153582531898450412008-01-22T06:11:00.000-08:002008-01-28T06:33:00.045-08:00Jeff Koinange: ...Hillary YES - Obama NO<strong><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">As I mentioned before, Jeff accompanied Barrack Obama in Kenya.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">On August 28, 2006, he wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">Marianne,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">..... OBAMA-MANIA has been UNBELIEVABLE ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">And since I spoke to you, I'm now looking at KENYA with different light .... you have 'opened' my eyes in many ways .... and for that I shall forever be GRATEFUL !!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">And seeing OBAMA looking so PRESIDENTIAL and so dignified (and 'untainted') makes me really think about what I told you the other day .... that one day I WANT TO BE PRESIDENT of this country .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">To be HONEST, I've wanted nothing else since I was a small boy growing up ....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">I just didn't know how I would ever achieve it .... CNN has been an AMAZING journey of discovery for me ..... I get to 'brush shoulders' with the very BEST and the very WORST ..... and I get a FRONT ROW seat to HISTORY .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">And every day I feel I want to change things .... that I can change things ..... and one day, GOD willing, I will .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">Chatting to you makes me feel all this was meant to be .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">Stay well ..... and let's keep chatting.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">Always,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">Jeff </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">The following day he called and we discussed Barrak Obama's chances to become the next US-President.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">As a follow-up, Jeff then wrote:</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Here is my reply: </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Hillary: YES !!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Obama: NO !!!!!!!</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">Too early - America is not ready yet for a Black President !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;">----------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;">.... to be continued .....</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-68356589766824715182008-01-20T00:48:00.000-08:002008-01-28T06:33:54.572-08:00Jeff Koinange: More about OPRAH WINFREY ....<strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">After having called again from Nairobi, Jeff sent me an article he had just written about OPRAH WINFREY's new school in South Africa.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">I am herewith sharing this with you. It's titled:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">OPRAH's school: Pandemonium and shouts of 'Viva' ! ---------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"Hi, Jeff," she said. "Glad you could make it. By the way, I watch you all the time."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">These were the first words Oprah uttered to me as I held out my hand to greet her stepping off her van, accompanied by her ever-efficient staff.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">I was floored. 'Oprah knows who I am ?', I asked myself. And I had this whole introduction thing planned out.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">What a woman, disarming as ever, and ever the woman in charge. I liked her from the start, even more than I did watching her all these years on television.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">We were in Soweto - a sprawling slum in Johannesburg - which actually stands for South West Township. Oprah seemed as comfortable here as she would be in a five-star hotel.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">She walked right into the home of a couple of prospective students who had applied for entry into her exclusive Leadership Academy and had impressed her to the point she wanted to see where they lived and what their lives were like.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">As you can imagine, the two girls, cousins actually, were instant celebretries. "Oprah's come to our house", they kept saying. "Our friends will never believe us."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Their friends didn't need much convincing. Word in the townships spreads fast. Even before Oprah had taken a tour of the two-room, seven-persons shack, women were outside ululating the famous freedom line of the 1980s - but with a new twist.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"Viva, Oprah Winfrey, Viva," one woman yelled, followed by the chorus line "Viva" from the rest of the growing crowd.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"You've spent $40 million on the school so far," I began.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"40 million and counting," she interrupted. "I think I'll stop at $ 50 million. You can build a good school for $ 50 million."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Fifty-million dollars anywhere in the world is a lot of money. In South Africa, it's an almost unheard-of amount, especially if it's being spent by one person for the benefit of others.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"The money means nothing to me," Oprah continued. "When I look at these girls, I see me. That's why I want to give them everything I didn't have growing up. These are the leaders of tomorrow's Africa."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">The Leadership Academy, set on more than 50 acres of land just outside Johannesburg, is a sight to behold. From the classrooms, to the dormitories, to the dining room, to the library, complete with fireplace, to a 600-seat auditorium, where Oprah will be checking up on her girls by video-conferencing - everything has been made to the highest standards.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"I want this school to be a reflection of me," she says. "I made a promise to Madiba and I intend to keep it."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Madiba is the clan name given to former South African President Nelson Mandela. Back in 2002, Oprah asked Mandela what he wanted from her as a gift to the nation. He simply said, "Build me a school."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">And she did. School begins January 2, 2007.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">It's Sunday afternoon and Oprah leaves for Chicago in a few hours. She's invited all 150 girls that have "made the grade" and will be attending her academy.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">The only thing is: She hasn't told them they have been accepted. She's invited them to an informal get'together. None of the girls suspects Oprah's up to her old tricks.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">She springs the surprise.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"I called you all here today to let you know that you all be part of the first class of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy," she said.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">And then - PANDEMONIUM !</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">The girls scream and shout and jump for joy for a good 15 minutes. Their parents, too, are screaming and shouting. Everyon's crying. Oprah's crying. I'm crying. It's an unbelievable scene.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Then Oprah opens up in a way that surprises even her best friend, Gayle King, who was present and is part of the academy.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"Some people ask me why I never had children," Oprah says, adding, "Maybe this is the reason. So I can help bring up other people's children, your children. I want you to trust me to bring up your children and I promise I'll never let you down."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">This time there's not a dry eye in the room. I'm bawling by now and wiping away tears on my sleeve, "You're such a crybaby," Graham, my cameraman, says, "I can't help it, is all I can offer.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">"What you did back there was simply amazing," I tell Oprah afterward. "You'd have done the same thing, Jeff. Remember, I've seen your stories on CNN," she answers.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">I'm fighting back tears again, "Hey, give me a hug," she says. "Today is a good day, and I feel my life has come full circle."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">----------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">I think, there is nothing to add. Here you see a grown-up man with the soft heart of a small boy - and a strong, much older woman - something Jeff Koinange always preferred and admired ........... as you will see from our following correspondence - also about Oprah Winfrey when the two meet again at the end of 2006, after which he admits to have fallen in love with her - and surprisingly also Oprah with him .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Be patient, I will publish also this written and expressed in his own words.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">But before, I will continue with our 'normal' correspondence which will give you already a good impression of his state of mind ....... </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">You will get to know a man driven by reaching fame 'no matter how' ..... a man driven by his sexual unsatisfied appetite ....... in one word: you will see a man who in reality always stayed being a small child graving for the attention and love of a mother - a mother he is looking and searching for in each woman he meets.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">This explains also the fact that not only did he get married already as a young man to a woman 20 years older than himself, but continued being attracted to older women like OPRAH WINFREY .... and myself all his life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">And even at the moment he follows his old 'pattern': </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">His 'boss' at the Kenyan Television Channel K24 is Rose Kimotho - a woman known to be the lover a.o. of people like the Kenyan Police Commissioner Ali, a man responsible for all the killings taking place at the moment in Kenya ........... </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Rumours going around in Nairobi say that Jeff got the job after having proved his 'sexual capabilities' to Rose Kimotho !!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">----------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#993399;">to be continued</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-20456246257891477862008-01-16T23:42:00.000-08:002008-01-17T00:20:46.449-08:00Jeff Koinange about Oprah Winfrey and Prof. Wangari Matthai<span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">So as Jeff had suggested, I watched Inside-Africa on August 26, and then wrote to him:</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Dear Jeff,</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"><em>Saw the report about <strong>Oprah</strong></em><strong> </strong><em>and I liked it very much and this has given me some ideas about myself.</em></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">You may recall that I mentioned on the phone that I want to set up a <strong>Foundation</strong> out of the eventual proceeds of the book to help underprivileged children (of all tribes) to continue with their school and studies. I will not be able to do it as big as <strong>Oprah</strong>, but if I can help a few, that's a lot and if I can get the help of others, it will be more.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Now here you could come in: I had tried to get into contact with <strong>Oprah</strong> to get my book on her Book Show. But I did not get any reply. Can you help me with this?</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Could you please also mention to her the importance of this book and also the Foundation. I am sure, she will like both. </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Please understand me - I do not want to take advantage of our contact for personal reasons. I think, we can really become friends outside our initial contact regarding the book.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">But I want to reach something with my book. It should help to create some understanding about the dirty political games not only in Kenya - and it could help some children to maybe shape the future of their country in offering them better education.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Maybe we even create some future leaders - like <strong>Oprah</strong> also has envisaged with her project in South Africa.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I will also contact some people like Dr. Njoroge Mungai to assist. I have already established the contact between him and <strong>Father Angelo d'Agostini</strong> from the Nyumbani Village for Aids Orphans.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Father d'Ag is an old friend of mine and he always wanted to get into contact with Njoroge but did not know how. So I managed and the two have met and now Njoroge has come into his project to help these children. Nyumbani is mentioned also in my book and it is true that the money for my stay which the Government had agreed to pay went to them (abt. 1 Million Sh.) since I stayed at the house of friends (they are really horse breeders and Gideon Moi really came there since he had some of his horses with them). Father d'Ag has read the script of my book before it went to the Publisher and he loved it. He also mentioned that he knew about the 'secret' (Moi's girls) .... so did an Official of the Swiss Embassy.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I hope, you find time to read my mail. I do not expect an immediate answer - although I have to admit that I love talking to you.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Enjoy your stay in Kenya - I wish I could be there too.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Marianne</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></em><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Much to my surprise Jeff replied immediately:</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Marianne,</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I think your idea about a school is GREAT .... and so is the book promotion thing on <strong>Oprah</strong>.... but I think we have to take this slowly as I have just established a 'relationship' with her and I don't want to seem like I'm taking advantage of that .... TIMING is everything they say ..... we need to find the right time and the right 'PLUG' for both stories....</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Let me think this through and maybe both of us can come up with a GOOD PLAN TO 'SELL' the idea ...... I'm sure <strong>Oprah</strong> would be 'HAPPY' that someone else is taking up the 'mantle' and doing what she's done in South Africa .....</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">By the way, she told me that her next school will be in KENYA ..... apparantely she's GOOD friends with <strong>Wangari Maathai</strong> and the two have spent time together in Chicago and<em> </em><strong>Wangari </strong>'sold' her the idea of replicating the school in Kenya ....</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Maybe you two can collaborate and 'build' it ..... now that would be a GREAT idea .... you would need some 'land' (50 acres) with a 'real' Title Deed .... and the proper license for an INDEPENDENT school ..... think about that aspect and let's keep discussing this ......</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I too LOVE talking to you ..... <strong>I feel like I've known you ALL MY LIFE !!!!!!!!!</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I'll call you soon .... while I'm still in Kenya ....</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">By the way, I ran into 'TOTAL MAN' Nicholas Biwott at the Norfolk (where I usually stay) ..... he walked up to me and gave me a BIG HUG (I felt a chill go up my spine !!!!!!!!). He said all of KENYA is proud of what I do ..... I wanted to tell him, it's people like him that have given KENYA a BAD NAME !!!!!!!!!! I ran to my room and took a quick shower after that ..... I felt so DIRTY with that HUG !!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Be well, my friend ..... and we'll talk soon.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Jeff</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"><strong>Believe in yourself ...........</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">In the power you have to control your life.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Believe in the strength that you have deep inside</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">And your faith will help show you the way.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Believe in tomorrow and what it will bring,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Let a hopeful heart carry you through.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">For things will work out if you trust and believe,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">There's no limit to what you can do !</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">----------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">.......... to be continued ...............</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-44712449168445389832008-01-15T02:28:00.000-08:002008-01-16T01:19:33.869-08:00Jeff Koinange and some thoughts about Kenyan Politics<strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">On August 23, 2006, Jeff called for the first time.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">It was late in the evening. He was at the Airport in Johannesburg boarding a plane to Nairobi to cover for CNN the arrival of US-Senator and Presidential Candidate Barrack Obama.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">We spoke for more than an hour about people we both knew in and outside Kenya and African politics in general. We found out that we had many mutual friends - although I made for the first time the remark: "Do you realize that you know the sons and the daughters - whereas I know the parents?"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">He also told me that we had another thing in common: He had read in the Media that I had been an Air Hostess before I got married - and he had also worked as Flight Attendant, first in Kenya and then for PanAm based in Miami before he then decided to study Journalism in New York.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">He also confessed that 'one day soon' he will enter politics since this had been always a childhood dream of his. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">He insisted to send me the book he had written on his Grandfather. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Our conversation only finished after somebody approached him saying "Jeff, if you don't come right now, the plane will be leaving without you."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">A couple of hours later he wrote:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Marianne,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Somehow you and I have connected in a way I find hard to describe .... so exciting and at the same time so exhilarating .... I could have chatted on the phone all night .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I feel we have 'bonded' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I've landed in Nairobi and thought of you .... just as we discussed .... I'm already looking at things differently ........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Thank you so much for your trust and kindness !!!!!!!!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Talk soon,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">I wrote to him the same day - and as I look at it now it is almost a kind of 'prophecy' of the outcome of the just concluded December 2007 General Election. </span></strong><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">But keep in mind, I wrote it almost 1.1/2 years earlier.......</span></strong></p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Dear Jeff,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">I think you have gone to Kenya at the right time ending up in the ODM-Kibaki- Moi -Uhuru-Kalonzo-Raila Odinga struggles.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">In 2002 former President Moi knew from the beginning that Uhuru had no chance. It was a power game which Moi directed from A to Z and Uhuru was the victim but with the knowledge of the Kikuyu-leaders. And also the splitting up of Kibaki and Raila a few years later was a move Moi had calculated or even directed.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">I know that Mutula Kilonzo wants to become Attorney General in the next Government. But people should never forget that also here he is just Moi's proxy although he wrote to me once that he is not 'carrying anybody's bag, not even Moi's........ But in becoming A-G, Mutula will guarantee that neither Moi, nor his sons or anybody close to him can be made responsible for any scandal of the past.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">From my point of view, this whole ODM is a very dirty game - and it will be very interesting to see how it develops. Especially Moi's reaction .... I expect him to keep quiet for a while .... and then take distances even from Uhuru. If this happens, it is another game by Moi: it gives Uhuru the possibility to demonstrate that he is separating from Moi and is on his own contrary to 2002.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Maybe that's even the whole reason for this exercise of ODM. But of course, Uhuru cannot do it from one minute to the next. That would look bad in the eyes of the Kikuyus and the Kalenjin where respecting the Elders (and especially Moi) is still a very strong tradition as I have learned in the past. So Uhuru can only move if and when Moi agrees.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Not to loose their faces, they will wait a little and then Moi will declare that he does not want to be in the way for Kibaki and Uhuru to move on - and of course, everything in the interest and for the welfare of the Kenyan People people ... and the real victim will be at the end Raila Odinga - once again.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">But Raila cannot protest since he is in Moi's 'pockets' since 1997/98 when Moi passed him the Molasses Plant 'free of charge', i.e. paying all its debts with the Swiss Banks as Joshua Kulei told me in Raila's presence and even entered as a partner into the company with Kulei as his praxy - this Raila told me even himself.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">At that time the Odingas had financial problems - so Raila accepted Moi's offer: He supports them financially and also politically in helping them to revive the Molasses Plant and with it gaining prestige in the eyes of the Luos and he offered Raila to become a Member of his Government (taking over the very 'lucrative' position as Minister for Energy). So Raila split with Orengo and Muite - joined KANU - and Moi won another term as President of Kenya ....</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Raila knows that I have all this information and that was the reason why he was fearing my evidence in Nairobi. The one who pushed for it was Paul Muite who once was my lawyer at the time the Dr. Ouko investigations and with whom I was still in contact before coming to Nairobi.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">But what about the General Elections in 2007 ? Will Moi 'allow' Uhuru to continue being in the ODM with Raila or will he not 'convince' him to join Kibaki to secure a second term for him? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">As I said in my London Declaration in February this year in front of the Sunguh-Committee: Moi feels safe with Kibaki because they share some very dark secrets - and he feels safe with Uhuru ........ but he definitely will never feel safe with Raila being President ...... this in Moi's eyes should never happen, at least not as long as he is alive....... </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">We should talk again, don't you think so?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Regards,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Marianne</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">On August 25, Jeff replied:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Hey Marianne,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I can't wait to talk to you again .........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I'm in Kisumu waiting for BARRACK OBAMA to 'finally come home' Saturday ..... should be GOOD TV ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Also, don't forget to watch Inside Africa tomorrow .... nice story of OPRAH WINFREY in Africa ......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">You're an AMAZING WOMAN ........ when will we get to MEET ???????????</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Stay well .....</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">JK</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">------------------------------------</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993399;">-----to be continued----------</span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4487513762778737611.post-9131410465619650222008-01-14T03:35:00.000-08:002008-01-14T04:24:04.133-08:00Where did CNN's Jeff Koinange go wrong?<strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I am publishing as a kind of prologue to the full content of all emails exchanged between Jeff Koinange in me between August 2006 and May 2007, an article which was written by Mwende Mwinzi on June 10, 2007, in the Kenyan Daily Nation.......</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Jeff Koinange is now working for a new TV-Channel K24 in Nairobi and I have decided to continue resp. reniew the publication of our correspondence at this very daring time in Kenya. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">It should serve as a kind of warning not to believe everything you see and hear on TV........ as Jeff once wrote: "It is only Show........ and talk is cheap.....".</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">The article by Mwende Mwinzi reads as follows:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">It had been coming for months we now know, but it was still a shock to hear it. Jeff Koinange 'is no longer employed at CNN', said network spokeswoman Christa Robinson on May 29. 'We are not commenting beyond that, there are several different people who will fill in for the time being.'</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">The announcement was brief and cort. The Peabody award-winning journalist who had worked for CNN since 2001 had been fired. With his departure, Koinange would leave CNN with the most sensational story he'd ever made at the network.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">'I'm reeling from this news since I've so much respect and admiration for JK ..... his accomplishments, professionalism, confidence and style', my friend George emailed me in response to the widely read March 6 blog which tagged Koinange "the Kenyan date rape journalist". 'Obviously this is one side of the story if indeed this is what happened .... what are your thoughts?'</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">In the blog called KUMEKUCHA, Koinange allegdly raped a woman old enough to mother him while meeting her in a London hotel in mid-February to discuss her book A Shining Star in Darkness and, as it would be, their love.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Quoting from her blog, Distant-Lovers, the site quotes the victim, Marianne Briner, as emailing Koinange: "I can't remember to have ever felt like that - misused and mistreated by somebody who pretended to love me ..... after you left me - after we had sex in the roughest and most careless way - I felt so dirty .... I am still bleeding and will go to see a Doctor tomorrow." In other email threads, Koinange asks Briner for a tryst ---- a menage a trois ('threesome') --- involving her and her daughter; discussions between the two centre also on health and on Herpes, the sexual disease Koinange allegedley infected her with during their intimate session.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">"Do you remember your nice words: I will never hurt you - I love you and respect you too much to ever disappoint you - just trust me? ...... Just empty words now - like you once said: 'talk is cheap'?"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Up until this week when Briner temporarily deleted the entries, Koinange's adulterous emails (also emailed to CNN boss Jim Walton) were in public domain causing the network tremendous embarrassment. But it is not, it is believed, for their sexual content that Koinange was eventually fired. If the allegations are true, CNN released him for impropriety and corruption.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">According to some reports covering media in Nigeria, "there are allegations that Jeff Koinange has used 'funds' to execute contracts with the Rivers State Government and some Government agencies. "By his own admission, he has also violated journalism ethics by paying for (and some would say staging) stories for CNN.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Following some January correspondence between him and Jomo Gbomo, a reported top member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Koinange visited and reported on the Niger Delta crisis, showing in his footage 24 Fillipino hostages and Delta militants.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">"Of course I had to pay certain people to get the story," he confessed in an email to Briner. ".... You do not get such a story without bribing - you know how the world, especially in Nigeria functions - you have to have financial resources - but at the end it was worth it - CNN has its story and I have my 'fame'."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">MEND comprises militants struggling for the liberation of the Niger Delta which, they believe, is at the marcy of foreign oil companies exploiting it. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer (and the world's six largest exporter of oil) but the conflict, says the US Department of Energy, has cut the distribution by about 500,000 barrels per day.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">"Our fight is against everybody," one of their commanders said.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">"Every institution that doesn't want the people of the Niger Delta to have their fair share."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Since the tail-end of 2005, MEND militants have attacked severally Nigeria's oil sector, abducting dozens of foreign workers. "We are telling all expatriates to leave Nigeria, not only the Niger Delta, but to leave Nigeria. We will take lives, we will destroy lives, we will crumble the economy."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Though CNN has adamently denied staging the issue's coverage, Koinange's email has, through Briner's blog, succeeded in casting doubts on the veracity of the story and, worse, on the network's credibility.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">According to Frank Nweke, Nigeria's Minister for Information, Koinange's footage not only sends "the wrong signals to the international community about the state of affairs in the country, creates unneessary panic and portrays Nigeria as a country in perpetual crisis," but it also "utterly disregards the most elementary principle of journalism because no government official was interviewed."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">".... I have been 'reprimanded' by CNN for emailing anything but the basics," Jeff wrote to Briner shortly before his termination. "It is causing them great concern."</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Globally, CNN reaches an estimated 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries. Like all other net organisations, the company's success hinges tightly on its credibility and the accuracy of its reporting.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Yet, as we all know, such agencies will also go to tremendous lengths to capture, capitalise and cash in on hot news items like ethe now (in)famous Delta story.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">So where did Koinange go wrong? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">"Don't put anything in emails that you wouldn't want the whole world to read," says Keith Crosley of Forrester Consulting for Proofpoint Inc., which makes anti-spam and email monitoring tools for companies. It is a difficult ideal to live up to, he says, but, absent that, workers should at least abide by their company's policy for acceptable email use.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">In satisfying his salacious appetite for lascivious emails and online romps, Koinange indisputably violated CNN's policy for such correspondence in using his official CNN-email-address.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">But do you think that is what did him in or was it perhaps his documented admission contained in those emails to the now much publicized corruption 'done in agreement with CNN?"</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">****************************************</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#993399;">Tomorrow I will start with the 'real' Distant-Lover' ..........</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></strong>Marianne Brinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10981062318508286006noreply@blogger.com