Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Homa-Bay Town
THE Homa-Bay County governor Cyprian Otieno Awiti has completed nomination and vetting of members of the Assembly committee comprising of seven individual talented men and three women.
The governor, however, faced serious accusation and allegations that two of the women nominated to the Assembly executive governing committee are known for political activities and long time social associates of senior ODM leadership in the region.
Mrs Consilata Yambo Migowa from Gwasssi will head waters services and environment, Ms Dorothy Atieno Okello will head Tourism, culture and Sports, Ms Beatrice A.Olomo will head housing physical planning,Nicholas Obuya Koriko will head the Finance and Economic Planning,
Also included in the County cabinet is Phrase Ogweno Ratego from Rusinga Island who will head the Natural Resources, Dr Odiwuor David Okeyo will be in-charge of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Dr. Lawrence Odong will take care of Health Services , Naphutally Matta will head Education, Information Communication and Technology and Eliud Otieno Ochieng is to head Transport and Infrastructure.
Governor Awiti was away and could not be reached to clarify the claims that his cabinet is dotted by women of low immorality who have been associating socially with some of the former ODM party Big-Wigs.
On two occasions his phone No 0722 539627 rang , but he promised he would contact this writer, but never called again.
Political pundits and local observers felt that only Mrs Consilata Yambo Migowa is fit to sit in the cabinet, but others two would fail to pass the immorality test.
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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kapsabet Town
DISCONTENT is high in the north rift part of the expansive Rift Valley Province following the allegation and accusations that the Deputy President William Ruto had influenced the nominations and elections to the plum position within the jubilee alliance of his fellow Kipsigis tribesmen at the expense of the indigenous Nandis.
This has now turned the Nandi County into an enclave of the Kipsigis. All the plum elective positions went to the Kipsigis aspirants. These position included that of the County Senator and that of the governor, leaving the Nandis with nothing to take home, retorted Joshua Kiplimoa, Kapsabet politician.
The Nandi County is covering several parliamentary constituencies, which included Aldai, Emngwen, Tinderet,Mosop. There are two other coveted and lucrative position, that of County governor and that of Senate, said Mr. Kiplimo.
The newly elected Senator for the area is Stephen Sang who is a Kipsigis by blood. And so is the Nandi County Senator Stephen Sang, Nandi Hills MP Afred Keter is also a man of Kipsigis by blood. The MP for Kapsaret Hon Sudi In Uasin Gishu is also a Kipsigis.
The residents of both North an southern Nandi district have faulted the jubilee alliance for having given the preferences to the people with the Kipsigis blood, and as such have short-caned the indignant Nandis.
William Ruto himself is a man of mixed blood between the Kipsigis and the Nandis. His family had migrate fro Kiptere / Sosiot area of upper Belgut and have settled in Nandi many years, but later moved further to the Uasi Gishu County after Kenya had attained its political independence in 1963.
The Nandi elders further decried the importation of Kiposigis people from Kericho and Bomet Counties in the South Rift by William Ruto and giving them plum political appointments at the expense of the Nandis.
A resident of Nandi Hills claimed that even most of the County representatives in the entire region were carefully chosen from people with Kipsigis blood relations.
The scheme was hatched by Ruto and his henchmen
Ruto and his protégés and even extended to areas further interior like West and East Pokot, Cheranganyi, Tran-Nzoia an other places. This is a modern day tribal discrimination, said Mr John Chepkuony, of a son in Kericho.
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from: Samuel Omwenga
http://omwenga.com/2013/04/12/supreme-court-struggles-with-written-opinion-in-dismissed-raila-petition/
Supreme Court Struggles With Written Opinion In Dismissed Raila Petition
I have learned from a reliable source the Supreme Court has been struggling to put together a written opinion not so much so to convince us Kenyans that their decision was right but to avoid being viewed with disdain among the international jurisprudential community.
The Court's primary concern is having been recently heralded in both Kenya and in international circles as an emerging model of African jurisprudence operating in an independent environment without interference from outside, that notion is on balance and how the court explains its decision will determine whether that notion still holds or not.
In other words, whether the Court is deemed to be finally independent and judicious all depends on its written opinion, an opinion I have also learned from a different source will be issued on Tuesday.
There are a number of factual contradictions flying in the face of the Court's decision that the Court must convincingly explain but one that stands out the most, is the Court's own re-tallying which clearly shows inflation of votes in Jubilee strongholds and deflation of votes in Cord strongholds.
Although the numbers evincing this was small in the pre-decision partial results for the Court to get away with dismissing as "insignificant," which is laughable, anyway, as each vote counts, it is believed the final results of the Court's own ordered re-tallying shows an inflation and deflation of numbers the Court cannot possibly dismiss as insignificant and thus the reason many are dying to see what the explanation is.
I can confidently state based on what I know there is no explanation the Court will provide that can make sense even to those propagating it.
But something must be offered as an explanation and what that is is what we await knowing it'll have a direct bearing on the Court's credibility as the final arbiter of justice in our beloved country.
Peace, Unity and Truth
Omwenga
Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.
The political mood inside Luo-Nyanza after yesterday’s swearing in of President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and his deputy William Samoe Ruto is all soberly and the residents of this region have said they are willing to cooperate fully and work with new Kenyatta administrati9on for the better future.
Contrary to the beliefs in certain quarters that the chaos which had erupted last week following the Supreme court’s verdict on electi9n petition filed by the CORD leader Raila Odinga would erupt again.
But no ugly incident was reported in any parts of the Luo-Nyanza as Kenyans celebrated the colorful swearing-in ceremony at the Ksarani Sports ground in Nairobi
Some motorists, particularly matatus which are usually plying the Eldoret Kisumu and Kericho Kisumu roads kept out of business for the better part of yesterday morning fearing that youths would set illegal road blocks and lit bonfire on the roads.
This caused a lot of difficulties for passengers travelling the same distances would set illegal road block sand lit bonfires as they did last week that provoked the two day running battles between them and the police.Two people died from the police gun-shot wounds, scores were arrested and 24 others were hospitalized.
The popular issues, however, is that President Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto and their closest advisers should be given free hand and breathing space to select the new cabinet team of youthful technocrats with unstained names
All the political deadwoods and old and tired politicians whose performance in the past regimes were riddled with the mega financial scandals should retire honorably and go home.
Across section of those interviewed by this write within Kisumu City and its environs have supported the views expressed by Kiambu governor William Kabogo that those who had lost the elections on March 4, 2013 should be excluded from the cabinet after their rejections by the voters.
Govern9or Kabogo had mentioned the names of Charity Ngilu, Najib Balala,ChirauAli Mwakwere,and Naomi Shaban.
But also the persons the residents of Nyanza be excluded from the cabinet included the former Minister for Foreign Affairs Prof. Sam Ongeri, Raphael Tuju and Omingo Magara, Otieno Kajwang’of Anyang’ Nyong’o.Charity Ngilu’s yesterday speech at the State House did not go down well and was not well received by the residents of this city who argued that despite being a partner in the jubilee alliance an election loser like Ngilu should not beall9owedtoaddress Kenyans n an important state functi0n.She is a political reject and should stop pestering Kenyatta and Ruto for cabinet appointment
Appointment together with other election loser would amount t an insult to Kenyans.The new cabinet should be free of political turn-coats, party hoppers and political chameleons.
Meanwhile the news making the round in Kisumu and its environs is that prominent Luo leaders and members of the Luo Council of elders are currently conducting the behind the scene meetings while plotting and strategizing or plans to have the community send a very powerful delegation to President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto in the near future on a mission dabbed as “To pledge the community’s unswerving loyalty to the new government.”.
The community had voted form President Kenyatta arch-rival Raila Odinga during the recently concluded general election. Although their presidential candidate had lost the election to Kenyatta, thr community did not want to live in isolation, but wouldliket9pulltheir strength and resources together wit other Kenyatta in the real task of nation building, “said one the elders in Kisumu who is part of the team, but who requested for his identtytobeke0tmsecret for the time being.
‘Ker” Meshack Riaga Ogalo, the de facto chairman of the Luo Council of Elders is said to have already blessed the plan for the community to warming itself up to President Kenyatta and, the new government.
Ker Riaga Ogalo could not be reached for his immediate comment over the issue.
Another rumor making the round in Kisumu City and its environs is that the youthful MP for,Kisumu Town Central Ken Obura has accepted to stand down and resign his parliamentary seat in order to facilitate the entry into parliament by the CORD leader Raila Odinga.The deal is said to have been concluded and its in its advanced stage.
Hon Obura who hails from Kabonyo area of West Kano has the blood relations with Mr.Odinga his mother hails from Bondo not far away from Raila’s rural home.When his father the late Obura MaugoTipo a former civic leader in the defunct Kisumu County Council, the young Obura moved out of Kano plains and established a home for his mother in Bondo among their uncles.
Obura could not be reached immediately to confirm or deny the rumor..
Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kericho Town.
The recently concluded general election in which the euphoria of the URP party swept the board in the South Rift like a tsunami winning nearly all parliamentary, senatorial and governorship positions has created a new political dimension in the South Rift region of the expansive Rift Valley Province.
IT has created a new political dimension among the members of the most populace Kipsigis sub-tribe of the larger Kalenjin ethnic groups. It has also created what the political pundits have termed as vacuum political leadership in the agriculturally rich region.
For many years ever since KADU a political party that was involved in s cut-throat competition with the ruling KANU during the pre-independence and post-independence era voluntarily dissolved itself soon after independence in 1963 and merged with KANU.
The Kipsigis land has ever since steadfastly remained under the grip of the ruling KANU. However, the miraculous turn of events occurred during the 2007 general election when the former Kipsigis political kingpin, the late Donald Kipkemoi Kipkalya Kones, the longer serving cabinet Minister under the Moi KANU regime rebelled and teamed up together with the influential Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the combined armed forced of Kenya, Lt. General John Arap Koech and changed the political land-map of the region.
The two forcefully introduced the ODM and its leader Raila Amolo Odinga in the region against the vehement opposition from the pro-Moi die-hard elements. The two criss crossed the full length and width of the region and vigorously campaigned for the ODM, which in turn clinched all the eight parliamentary seats in the South Rift.
Kones retained his Bomet parliamentary seat and was appointed to the Ministry of Works slot in the PNU / ODM coalition government. Unfortunately Kones perished in an aircraft mish up together with the former Sotik MP Miss Lorna Laboso.
Raila Odinga then appointed the colorless former State House Comptroller and businessman Franklin who succeeded Kones at the Works Ministry. Bett, however, lacked the political masterly and magnanimity of the Kones caliber. Under Bett’s stewardship, the former Eldoret North MP William Ruto who had fallen out with the ODM and Odinga began fishing out the party MPs one by one and at the time of March 4, 2013 general election it was only better and the youthful Kipkellion.
The man who should have taken over from Kones had left is Zakayo.K Cheruiyot the current Kuresoi South MP elect. He had served in a powerful position of the PS for the International Security in the Office of the President under the Moi regime.
However, Cheruiyot who is highly respected in Kipsigisland is a man who did not cherish controversies. He is always shying away from controversial political issues, most of the time preferring to concentrate on his own expansive businesses and farming empire. He is arguably the wealthiest Kipsigis man.
Heruiyot the son of an assistant chief in the colonial era the late Mzee Daniel Arap Komuilong from Kapsuito near Litein runs an ultra dairy farm in Kuresoi, several large scale tea farms, sugar cane farm in Kimwani area near Songhor, a wheat farm in Njoro a mixed maize farm in Trans-Mara, and a horticultural farm in Kitengela near Nairobi.
He has also established an ultra modern ICT commercial college in Litein town and sent most of hi spare time supervising his own business and as such shies away from intrigues of local politics.
The politics of the South Rift region has had along history of intrigues. This could be traced back to the days of the late Dr Taaitta Araap Towett, the early Kipsigis nationalist who dominated the politics of the Kipsigis land ever since 1958 when he first won the election to the colonial Legislative Council as the member for Southern area. Towett and his team won all the four seats in the national Assembly. However, Towett resigned his Buret seat when KADU dissolved itself and merged with KANU arguing that since he was elected on KADU ticket he must go back and consult the electorate and seek for their permission.
IN the consequence by-election that followed, Daniel Moi sponsored a primary school teacher in the name of Alexander Arap Bii who consigned Dr. Towett into premature political retirement. After Towett’s defeat it was the late Ex-Senior Chief Cheborge Arap Tengecha who led a group of ex-chiefs, councilors, missionaries and local leaders to the late President Jomo Kenyatta and to presurerize him to appoint Danile Arap Moi his Vice President, though man believed Dr. Towett had already been tipped for the veep job.,
Toweett regained his seat three years later, but while serving as the Education Minister, he was confronted by Moi at a public rally in Kapkatet and forced to vacate his Buret seat in order to give way for the entry of Prof .Jonathan Ng’eno into parliamentary politics.
At the moment the power politics of the South Rift is gravitating between Isaac Ruto and Charles Keter. The two are staunch supporters of Ruto, but at times acting as protagonists when it comes to local political derby.
In the 2007 there were only eight constituencies in both Kericho and Bomet Counties, but during the March 4 general elections four more constituencies were added. These were Sigowet in lower Belgut near Sondu and Kipkellion West in Chilchila area, Bomet and Chepalungu. This can now give the region a total of 12 parliamentary strength, plus two in Kuresoi South and Kuresoi North in Molo.
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From: Gordon Teti
What Kenyans did not know is that both Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta were projects of the former dictator Daniel arap Moi. To ensure that KANU rules for over 100 years as Joseph Kamotho, the former KANU Secretary-General declared, the ruling elites during Moi presidency dispatched Kibaki to the opposition to disorganize it. That is how Kenneth Matiba, who both Moi and Kibaki feared was stopped from becoming the president by dividing the Kikuyu votes in 1992. When Kibaki won the 2002 presidential elections, Uhuru conceded defeat easily because Kibaki belongs to the same camp of the ruling elites and therefore was going to continue with the same policies of the past. Indeed, for the past 10 years of Kibaki presidency he brought back the policiesJomo Kenyatta's presidency, which he blended with those policies of Moi presidency. With Kibaki'ssettled second term settled after rigging the December 2007 presidential elections , the KANU machine settled for Uhuru Kenyatta to succeed Kibaki. Uhuru Kenyatta represents the interests of the following familes: Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki, Simeon Nyachae, Moses Budamba Mudavadi and a few others.
The plan to rig the Kenya Presidential Elections 2013 was put in place well in advance. Immediately after Kibaki was rigged back to power after the December 2007 Presidential Elections and the formation of the forced marriage known commonly as the Coalition Government, Kibaki and those surrounding and supporting him, which include the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service (aka the National Security Intelligence Service) went to the drawing board to work on a plan that will ensure that Uhuru Kenyatta would take over the presidency when Kibaki retires. When Uhuru Kenyatta, as the opposition leader, declined to contest the presidency in December 2007 and instead gave his support to Kibaki, that was the time an arrangement was reached that Uhuru will succeed Kibaki.Therefore, the grooming of Uhuru Kenyatta started in earnest with appointments to very strategic positions in the Coalition government as the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Those who think that Uhuru Kenyatta started receiving intelligence briefing after being rigged and declared the president-elect are in darkness. The Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service has been working very closely with Uhuru Kenyatta on the succession politics since the inception of the Coalition government.
The following is the geneology and a well coordinated plan that was put in place over the past 5 years by the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service to ensure that Uhuru Kenyatta succeeds Mwai Kibaki:
Raila Odinga who is the most credible challenger and opponent to Uhuru's presidency had to be stopped. To stop Raila from reclaiming his stolen presidential victory in December 2007, the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service hatched a plot to destroy Raila's political machine and vehicle; the ODM Political party. How? By ensuring that ODM is reduced to a one man show; Raila's party and that of his luo people. ODM had to be reduced by all means possible so that the national outlook it enjoyed during the December 2007 general elections is dealt a big blow.
How was this to be acheived? The former ODM Pentagon members had to be induced to desert Raila Odinga. Therefore, a strategy of both carrot and stick was employed by the the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service to ensure that William Ruto, Najib Balala, Charity Ngilu, Joseph Nyaga and Musalia Mudavadi all left ODM as a sinking boat. The first to be approached was William Ruto who was considered very vulnerable due to the ongoing court cases both in Kenya and at the ICC in the Hague. The Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service informed Ruto that he could choose a bright future with Uhuru Kenyatta or a doomed one with Raila Odinga. Ruto was informed that Raila Odinga will never be allowed to be president of Kenya and was reminded that if Raila Odinga's presidency was stolen in broad day light in December 2007, the same will be repeated in future elections.
Consequently, Ruto was reminded of his involvement in the post election violence of 2007/2008 and was warned that it was the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service that provided evidence to the ICC and as such the case against him is water-tight. It was at this point that Ruto was dangled a carrot to choose between supporting Uhuru Kenyatta or continue following Raila Odinga to the dungeons since it is only the Kenya Government under Uhuru Kenyatta who will save Ruto from being jailed for over 50 years by the ICC. Ruto succumbed and was immediately enlisted and tasked to assist the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service in destroying Raila politically. It was agreed that the other former members of the ODM Pentagon would not leave the party at the same time with Ruto for two reasons; one, to help with information gathering; and two, to confuse Raila that he still had their support only for them to leave at the last minute when elections are around the corner thereby making Raila extremely vulnerable. Otherwise, all of them were induced with money and alot of it infact, and were all privy to the rigging of presidential elections 2013 since Raila will never be allowed to be president of Kenya so it would useless backing a donkey who is going no where.
Confirmation of the involvement of the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service in rigging of Uhuru Kenyatta to the presidency is all over the place for Kenyans and the world to see. The Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service beefed up security at the Bomas of Kenya a few moments before the Election & Boundary Commission declared Uhuru Kenyatta president -elect in the same manner heavily police officer stopped the KICC in December 2007 and forced the late Samuel Kivuiti to declare Kibaki as the "duly" elected president of the republic of Kenya.
By visiting Uhuru Kenyatta after a few days of being declared president-elect at his private residence and publicly saluting him infront of TV cameras, the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service sent a strong message to Kenyans and the world that it has recognized Uhuru Kenyatta as the in-coming Commander-in-chief. The reigns of power shifted on that day from Kibaki to Uhuru Kenyatta.
Closely after the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service visited Uhuru and saulted him at private residence, President Kibaki invited Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto to the State House and completed the transfer of power.
After the State House visit, to confirm that power is being transferred to Uhuru Kenyatta by Kibaki, Uhuru was flown to Mombasa using the presidential jet and while in Mombasa, he was received and treated by the Coast Province senior government and security officials as the president.
To complete the transfer of power from Kibaki to Uhuru Kenyatta, Kibaki finally relinguished all the power of the Commander-in-Chief to Uhuru Kenyatta through the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service when the military bade him farewell last week. Kenyans should therefore not be cheated, Uhuru Kenyatta with the support of the Kikuyu Security Intelligence Service has been forced to the Kenyan people as the president.
From: odhiambo okecth
Africa must rise and shine.
We must re-live the dreams of our fathers,
The men who fought for our Independence.
We must rise and make Africa shine.
For so long we have been a Dark Continent,
and now, we are increasingly becoming The Dirty Continent.
Dark and Dirty,
Yet,
We have Leaders, Leaders who have refused to Dream for Africa.
Our Fathers dreamt for Africa,
Even if their dreams were never realized.
They were dreams.
Do we have dreamers now?
How many of us are dreaming big dreams for Africa?
What with the immense opportunities waste and garbage is presenting us?
Africa must rise and shine,
And we must dream huge dreams for Africa.
Africa must stop being small and intimidated,
Rooming the World with huge begging bowls,
At a time when all wee need is discipline,
Financial discipline to help manage the huge mineral resources we have in Africa.
Africa has enough wealth for all of us,
But she does not have enough wealth for the greed of our leaders.
Routinely we troop to the ballot,
Only to elect thieves, pimps, drug pushers and charlatans,
For our leaders.
Africa must rise and shine,
And we must start respecting the huge human resource we have.
Let us start new dreams for Africa,
Dreams that will see us clean our Cities and Towns.
dreams that will see us see Waste as huge Investment Opportunities.
Dreams that will help clean Africa of ineptness and impunity,
And usher in hope and satisfaction.
We must re-live the shuttered dreams of our Fathers.
We must have our own new dreams for Africa,
Not dreams to entrench impunity, greed and tribalism.
Those are worthless Dreams.
Oto
Writes Leo Odera Omolo
INFORMATION emerging from the multiple sources in the Tanzanian city of Dar Es Salaam are all indicating that the majority of Tanzanian citizens are closely watching the unfolding political events inside their northern neighboring state.
All the indications that leaders of the various political parties, the ruling CCM party and its ach-rival the CHADEMA are said to be keenly watching events in Kenya.
President Jakaya Kikwete is reported to be neutral and keeping his cards to his chest. He has yet to sent a personal congratulatory message to Kenya’s president - elect Uhuru Kenyatta. However, junior cadre of CCM leadership including member of parliament are said to be leaning towards the Jubilee side of Kenya’s political divide, while Chadema leadership is said to be sympathetic to the CORD alliance.
The CCM stand on the Kenya’s election dispute is said to have been prompted by unfounded rumor that CHADEMA has been covertly cultivating close working relation with the CORD ALLIANCE.
Chadema is reported to have donated several motor vehicles to the CORD alliance during the recently concluded electioneering campaign in Kenya. It has also been reported that President Paul Kagame of Rwanda is another regional leader who has yet to offer any comment about the election despite in Kenya. Rwanda is another important trade partner of Kenya. Lie the other land-locked countries, which depended entirely on the Kenyan port of Mombasa or their export and import.
From the neighboring Uganda the current presidential election results dispute between the h . . .
Uganda was embroiled in a mega financial scandal involved the reported theft of millions of dollars from donor nations meant for its development in the North. The money is said to have been siphoned with the Office of the Prime Minster in Kamala.
Although it has its own sea port of Dar Es Salaam, its northern parts of the country as well as western, especially towns and gold mines , which are allocated around the LAKE Victoria also depended on Kenya for supplies via Lake Victoria.
The mayhem that broke out following a similarly the disputed presidential election of Dec. 2007 had impacted negatively to the economies of both Tanzania and in particularly when the political goons in Nairobi uprooted the rail LINE LINKING THE Kenyan port of Mombasa and Uganda at a section in Kibera within Nairobi suburbs.
The incident sparked off the fuel shortage in Uganda and other land-locked nations in the hinterland and almost crippled that country’s economy.
These are some of the valid reasons why Tanzanians and Ugandans, particularly the big business people would not entertain seeing Kenya collapsing into a distasteful conditions.
A correspondent operating in the northern Tanzania town of Arusha described the recently concluded presidential election in Kenya a sham and not credible enough to convince the neighboring states that it was held in good faith.
However, we love Kenya and its people and as such would go with their wishes, said the TANZANIAN WRITER, ADDING THAT IT WAS TIME Kenya learn how to organize its elections and put only the most credible people to the task of overseeing the elections.This time around people tasked with the handling of the elections in Kenya were not sufficiently qualified for the task.
One Tananian politician commented that the time is ripe or those organizing elections in Kenya to put aside their monetary interest and make sure that such elections are helped in a better manner for the prosperity of the country and its future generation. Must be strictly devoid of corruptive deals.
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From: Samuel Omwenga
In Open Letter To Dr. Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya,
http://omwenga.com/2013/03/15/open-letter-to-dr-willy-munyoki-mutunga-chief-justice-and-president-of-the-supreme-court-of-kenya/
I openly share my thoughts as a concerned Kenyan with the Chief Justice concerning the cross-road our country yet again finds herself and this time we look to a legal than political solution to fix what Raila and Cord say were botched elections on account of widespread irregularities and rigging.
Peace, Unity and Truth
Omwenga
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THE ODM SHOULD CARRY OUT A POST-MORTEM THROUGH AUDITING AND DISCOVER ITS AFTERMATH OF THEIR DISMALL PERFORMANCE AND ANY OTHER LOOP HOLES.
News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo
NOW that the genera elections of March 4, 2013 has come and gone leaving behind many looming faces of the election losers, and at the same time, the jovial faces of the winners, the time is ripe for major political parties to take the stock of what happened during the polls.
Instead of engaging in the blame games, these parties should go back to the drawing boards of their secretariat and immediately start examining the reasons why some of them had performed disastrously below their expectation.
I would rather concentrate in examining in detailed accounts, some of the most valid reasons why the Orange Democratic Movement {ODM], the party which has its stronghold inside Luo-Nyanza.
The ODM performed dismally in Nyanza. First of all there was apathy on the part of the registered voters. Only a paltry number came out to cast their voters, while the majority stayed at home. This is contrary to claims by the IEBC that the turn out in many places of Nyanza Province, the turn out was slightly above the 75 percent.
The most populous constituencies inside Luo-Nyanza are Ugenya, Rongo,Kasipul-Kabondo and Karachuoyo. And going by the statistics of the votes casted, this was far much below the voting patter shown in 2007, Rongo,Ugenya,Kasipul-Kabondo had all been subdivided into two parliamentary constituencies.
The populous Karachuonyo remained intact, while the old Rangwe created the Homa-Bay Town constituency. At the same time Migori saw the birth of the Suna East and Suna West
Ugunja was curved out of the of Ugenya, while there were major constituencies realignment in areas like Kisumu Town West and Kisumu Rural constituencies with the creation of the Kisumu Town Central and Seme constituencies. The creations of these rather smaller constituencies, however, were insignificant as far as the voting pattern in the region was concerned. This did not alter the voting pattern
What happened is the fact that the immediate former Luo MPs who had served in the 10th Parlilament did not bother to sensitize the population to register themselves as voters in their respective constituencies during the registration of voter’s exercises.
Out of the 21 MPs from Luo-Nyanza none came home and mobilized or sensitized the rural folks in their respective constituencies to take the voter’s registration exercise seriously.
The Luo MPs only made cosmetic appearances in their rural constituencies during the emotionally charged burial and funeral ceremonies. These MPs spent most their valuable times trailing the Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga wherever he went.
The people who are credited for having let down the Prime Minister down were Ministers Gerald Otieno Kajwang’, {Immigration and Registration of Persons, Dalmas Otieno {Public Services}, James Aggrey Orengo,{Lands}and Prof.Anyang’ Nyong’o{Medical Services}.
Two Assistant Ministers also had the lackluster performance. These were the PM’s own elder brother Dr Oburu Oginga, the Finance Assistant Minister. Also contributing immensely to the ODM waned popularity were the frequent belligerence and reckless utterances of the PM’s cousin Jakoyo Midiwo the MP for Gem.
There were too much undercurrent and undercutting among the Luo MPs and the ODM local party branch officials, something which had placed the Luo-Nyanza under the election mood all the time.
The registration of voter’s exercises came about in Luo-Nyanza at the time when the relations between the Luo MPs and members of the Provincial Administration had gone a sour.
The administrators who included PCs, DCs.Dos, Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs are the pillers of administration within the localities and have always been responsible f9rmobilizingthe voters during the voters registration exercises.
IMMEDIATELY SOON AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW Constitution, some of the Luo MPs went around shouting at the members of the Provincial Administration asking them to pack and go, “because their services were no longer needed. These administrators were humiliated in nearly all the public gatherings. This what killed their morale of serving the public.
On one occassi9on the whole Minister Otieno Kajwang’ [Immigration and MP for Mbita went public and requested the administrat0orstopackandgo.
The Minister’s utterances prompted the then Assistant Minister for the Internal Security and Provincial Administration the late Joshua Orwa Oj0de and his then boss Prof.George Saitoti to withdrew the entire administration officials in Mbita district.
Mbita district despite its proximity to the sensitive border was without the D.C. for close to six months.It was the OCPD who remained the senior most government official in Mbita durng the period when the D.C. was not there.There were no DO
[1], Do for Lambwe Division and D.O.in-charge of Mfangano Dvision.
Answering a parliamentary question as to why the government had not posted a DC to Mbita, Ojode told hushed House that there were no plan of posting any D.C. to the area as the services of this calibre of officer were not required by the residents. And this was precisely the time when the voter’s registration exercises was taking place in the area. The chiefs relaxed and went about their daily scores without urging the population to register themselves as the voters.
In Rongo district some unknown people hired six vehicle loaded with political goons hired from 0utside Rongo constituency and send them to Kitere village specifically to go and break a meeting of local elders.The fighting that ensued saw close to7people hacked to death by the villagers.
Despite of the death of people, investigations were done haphazardly carried out and nobody was punished for this heinous crime. Rongo is the constituency represented by Hon.Dalmas Otieno.
On top of all this the ODM primary nomination was the most flawed exercises.It was mismanaged by the ODM headquarters and even some senior staff at the PM’s office and also at the Orange House headquarters were heard giving the names of people considered as not favored by Raila Odinga whom they advised not to be issued with nomination certificates even if such persons had won their primaries.
As Raila Odinga traversed the country while canvassing for the votes for his presidential bid,some people perceived to be close to him were engaged in political war of attrition in his Luo backyard.
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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Migori Town.
Political row is simmering between the Luos and their neighboring Kuria community in Migori county following the power-sharing deal which was hurriedly brokered by the cord leader Raila Amolo Odinga shortly before the March 4, 2013 election.
Under the deal, most key positions within Mogori County governance were supposed to be the preserved to the minority Kuria community.
In return the Kuria voters in the two parliamentary constituencies of Kuria East and Kuria west were to vote as a bloc for the ODM and Raila Odinga.
One of the posts which was at stake is that of the Senate representative for Migori County. The deal was brokered by Dalmas Otieno the Minister for Public Services and the four other former Luo MPS representing various constituencies and the former Kuria MP Dr Wilfred Machage.
The deal, however, flopped and did not materialize. On march 4th, 2013, the voters in both Kuria east and Kuria West constituencies voted heavily for the jubilee candidate Uhuru Kenyatta who appeared to have shared the votes in the region with Raila Odinga on almost equal terms.
The elective positions which were at stake include the coveted Senate seat, women representative, deputy county governor.
Dr. Machage went on and contested the Senator seat during the ODM primary nomination and was beaten hands down by one John Magaiwa from.the party headquarter in Nairobi which turned the results of the election upside down and handed the nomination certificate to Dr.Machage, who went on to win the seat.
The Minority Kuria community are sharing the Migori County with their neighboring majority Luos. However, the Luos have a bone to chew with Raila Odinga and all those who brokered the deal which left the community with no senior position in the County governance.
However, the Kuria attitude leaned toward voting for Uhuru Kenyatta, instead of Raila Odinga as had earlier been agreed on between the two communities. The issue has raised political temperature in the region. And the Luos are now demanding that the ODM should appoint Gilbert Ochieng’ Mbeo, the former Mathare MP as the Speaker of the Migori Regional Assembly in order to strike the tribal balance.
After the deal was struck, Ochieng’ Mbeo, Magaiwa and Phares Oluoch Kanindo who is also the former Homa-Bay Mp who were on the campaign trail for the Migori Senate seat, were prevailed upon to stop their bid so that Dr. Machage could win the seat.
And now the Luos feel they were short-changed in the deal. They want the ODM to appoint Mbeo the Assembly speakers because their Kuria neighbors failed to honor the arrangement and voted for the jubilee candidate instead of the ODM and Raila Odinga.
The mandarins at the ODM head office who took part in the discussion and negotiation for this arrangement have been urged to reconsider the possibility of appointing Ochieng’ Mbeo the Speaker of the regional Assembly.
The Luos clinched the position of County governor which was won by Zachariah Okoth Obado, who had also a Kuria as his running-mate, meaning the Luos have been left empty handed.
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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Migori Town.
The much highlighted Luo-Kuria political marriage of convenience, which was brokered hastily and shortly before the March 4, 2013 general election specifically for the purpose of persuading the minority Kuria community to vote for the ODM leader Raila Odinga flopped disastrously.
The deal did not materialize as the Kuria voters in the region’s two parliamentary constituencies voted heavily for Raila’s arch-rival Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta.
The deal was the brain-child of the Minister for Public Works Dalmas Otieno and quite a good number of Luo MPs and the former Kuria MP Dr Wilfred Machage.
The arrangement was brokered during a series of night meetings held behind the closed doors of hotel rooms in some of the Nairobi’s posh hotels.
The details of the power-sharing deal was later was later passed on to Raila Odinga by Dalmas Otieno and his parliamentary colleagues who in turn r5eadily accepted the proposals contained therein it.
It apportioned all the elective positions within the Migori County governance to be shared by members of the Kuria minority and their Luo majority neighbors. But it didn’t take the interests of all the stakeholders into acco8unt.It also required wide consultation between the local ODM leaders on the ground, which didn’t happen.
Raila Odinga made quick hurriedly organized tour of Kuria a district and Migori town to drum up the proposals to the members of the public, and to coerce them to accept it.
Kuria community had two parliamentary seats , namely Kuria East with its headquarters at Kehanca,and Kuria west with its administrative headquarters at Mabera near Isebenia border town.. However, the Kuria voters turned out in full swing and voted for Uhuru Kenyatta’s jubilee alliance.The electorate turned hostile to Raila Odinga and voted Uhuru Kenyatta, even at Dr.Machage’s own home turf of Kehancha where Kenyatta got 14,000 votes. The trend was the same in Kuria West and other places.
What Raila Odinga appeared not to have adequately advised about the Kuria community was that Dr. Machage who had represented the area ever since 2002 was not a popular leader among the community. It happened when he was under heavy pressure and was about to be kicked out of the parliament.
In the much dissented deal, the Kuria community were given the lucrative position of Migori County governor, and also Migori women representative in Parliament, the County CEO.
Raila and his handlers were not bothered to inquire about more details of Dr. Machage’s status. On April 17, Dr Machage participatred in the ODM Primary nomination even before resigning his position as the PNU leader. He stood against the ODM stalwart John Magaiwa who had already campaigned for the same seat for a long period spaning two years. Other aspirants included Gilbert Ochieng’ Mbeo , the former Mathare MP, a two others MP for the larger Homa-Bay constituency Phares Ouoch Kanindo.
Magaiwa the populist local leader and a former Councilor Machage won the Senatorial seat on an ODM ticket. Magaiwa challenged Dr. Machage in the ODM Primary and came out the victor with 72,000against Dr Machage’s 51,000 votes. The ODM headquarter instead of issuing Magaiwa with nomination certificate gave it to Dr. Machage.
Dr Machage, however, failed to deliver the Kuria voters to Raila Odinga as promised. Those Luo MPs who supported the idea, have since been shown the exit door by the voters. They included former Uriri Mp Cyprian Ojwang’ Omolo, former Suna East MP John Pesa and Nyatike MP Edick Omondi Anyanga. And Dalmas Otieno. Only Otieno and Anyanga retained their parliamentary seats..
Prof. Edward Akong’Oyugi who contested the Migori governor position also lost his bid. He was defeated by one Zachary Okoth Obado a member of the Kenya Sugar Board representing Awendo zone.
Obado hails from Uriri and was denied his victory at the ODM Primary as a result of the nomination certificate being irregularly given to Prof. Oyugis.He contested on People Democratic Party of Omingo Magara party and won the governor position.
The whole exercises was the case of miscalculation and underestimation of the intelligence of the voters in Migori
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Reports leo Odera Omolo
This month’s general election has seen the sudden return into political limelight of the former firebrand Rangwe MP Dr. Shem Ochuodho.
Dr Ochuodho a genius computer engineer represented Rangwe constituency in Homa-0Bay district between 1997 and 2002.He had won the seat on an NDP ticket beating the late Mrs Phelgona Okundi of KANU in a controversial election battle which saw the two ending up before a court of law on charges of assault and causing damages to property.
The charges landed Ohuodho in jail in Kisumu in Kodiaga Prison for a month before he was released on appeal.
Thereafter Ochuy 0odho and Raila Odinga parted the company. And the two became bitter rivals The computer scientist could not stomach the culture of political worshipping, which is normally ascribed by Raila close Lu0 supporters.Tips led to a series of bloody violence battle with between his supporters in Homa-Bay town and a group of hired political goons ferried in Nissan vans from Nairobi to Homa-Bay town ready to cause mayhem.
Prior to the 2002 general election, Raila Odinga had formed an alliance with the apologist and wealthy Eng.Phillip Okoth Okundi who had served the KANU regime in various capacities as KPA MD and also the MD of Kenya Broadcasting Corporation and finally the Kenya Bureau of the Standards as its MD.
After losing the Rangwe seat to Okundi, Dr Ochuodho was appointed the MD of the Kenya Oil Pipeline Company, a parastatal where he worked briefly before leaving in huff. He then joined the Rwandan government in Kigali as ICT consoltuant for close to three years before returning home and engaged in business as a consultant.
And until very recently, Dr Ochudho was an ICT adviser to the South Sudan government based in Juba. It was in Juba where the head of Safina party Paul K Mute fished Dr Ochuodho last month and made him is running-mate in the just concluded presidential race in Kenya.
The pair, however, made very little impact in the just concluded Presidential contest,-perhaps due to lack of preparation and sufficient logistics, but the exercise brought Dr Ochuodho back into political limelight as he was able to bring Paul Kabugi Muite to many interior parts of Luo-Nyanza in their joint hunt for votes.
Rumors making the round in Homa-Bay and its environs says Dr Ochuodho and a good number of intellectuals in various parts of Southern Nyanza would soon launch a major and second largest political party to rival Raila Odinga's ODM following its last month flawed and poorly managed primary nominations exercises in the region./
Dr Ochuodho is a highly respected leader, particularly in the greater old
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A teenager has made history in Kenya by winning a county assembly seat.
Nineteen-year-old Kibiwott Munge, who vied on a URP ticket, won the Lembus Perkera ward in Baringo with 3,333 votes, becoming the youngest Kenyan to clinch a political seat in an election.
There were shouts of joy when the former Tenges Boys High student was announced winner in Eldama Ravine town on Monday night.
“This is a victory for young people and a clear indication they have what it takes to lead this country,” said Mr Munge in his acceptance speech.
Last year, 19-year-old Proscovia Alengot Oromait was elected to the Ugandan Parliament, making her the youngest and first teenage politician in Africa.
Mr Munge thanked his parents for giving him their blessings. “I also thank my friend Njoroge who lent me his motorbike to campaign,” he said.
The young leader said he honed his political skills by reading Taifa Leo.
He said he would focus on empowering the youth to earn a decent living.
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By Agwanda Saye
THE High court in Kisumu yesterday gave Muhoroni PDP parliamentary aspirant James Onyango K ‘Oyoo the nod to vie for the seat after dismissing a petition lodged by a voter seeking to stop his candidature.
The petition which was filed by a voter was seeking to stop K’Oyoo from contesting for the seat on grounds that he flouted IEBC rules by defecting to a party after the expiry of the party hopping Period.
Justice Hilary Chemitei dismissed the petition lodged by Mr. Peter Oyuko against Mr K’Oyoo who defected from ODM to PDP after being denied the ticket in his former party.
In his petition Oyuko contended that Mr K’Oyoo defected from ODM to PDP after the grace period which was given by the registrar of political parties.
The petitioner wanted Mr K’Oyoo’s name not to be included in the IEBC ballot papers for the forthcoming general elections.
He also wanted the court to declare that K’Oyoo is still a bona fide member of the ODM and therefore bar him from contesting the seat on a PDP ticket.
K’Oyoo’s lawyer Onyango Jamsumba argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the petition and instead the petition should have exhaust all the dispute resolution mechanisms before moving to court.
In his ruling the judge observed that the ODM elections shad been shambolic and said that K’Oyoo has a right to participate in the general elections.
Justice Chemitei further found out that the petitioner’s right had not been infringed as he could not explain the right in question.
The petition the judge ruled had no locus standi in filing the petition before court.
The petitioner is a primary school teacher at Sanda primary school in Muhoroni and was represented by a Kisumu Mr Stephen Aluoch K’Opot.
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From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste in images
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Kenyans were surprised yesterday when Uhuru Kenyatta appeared on second presidential debate when his party, TNA had sent a letter to the Presidential Debate Steering Committee explaining why Uhuru could not attend the second debate.
The party had cited bias and failure of the moderators to ask other candidates other than Uhuru hard questions. The party claimed moderato Linus Kaikai had a bone to chew with their candidate and that he had been coached on how to set the stage for direct attacks on Uhuru. Kenya’s first-ever Presidential Debate took place on 11th February, 2013.
The party claimed it was profoundly unprofessional and tasteless for Kaikai to use the ICC indictments as a platform for allowing the other candidates to ride roughshod over Uhuru without equally raising questions related to their suitability and competency.
The argument was based on the fact that if Kaikai had genuine intentions of exposing the weaknesses of all the candidates in the debate, then he would have dredged into the shady past of candidates like the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Raila Odinga, Hon Peter Kenneth, Paul Muite, Hon Martha Karua and Hon Musalia Mudavadi, and former PS John ole Kiyiapi, all of whom are burdened by varying degrees of either graft allegations or issues of moral probity.
They wondered why Kakai did not probe Odinga over his alleged role in several multi-billion shilling instances of grand corruption; most notably the Triton, Maize, and Kazi Kwa Vijana scandals that have blighted the Prime Minister’s Office for a number of years.
In addition, the two moderators failed to put Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi on the spot for his alleged role in the complex Goldenberg Scandal when he served as Finance Minister.
Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua was not grilled on her dubious role in the South Ngariama Ranch and allegations of moral impropriety, all hard issues in the public domain.
Peter Kenneth was not questioned on his suspected role in scandals involving the Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation and the Kenya Football Federation (KFF) when he was the head of the two institutions.
And James ole Kiyiapi was not questioned on his suspect role in the Education Fund scandal while Paul Muite was not taken to task on allegations that the Goldenberg Scandal chief architect Kamlesh Pattni paid him KSh20 million.
Pattni made the allegations, complete with facsimiles of the cheques involved, and a senior business associate of Muite’s confirmed that the cheques were indeed banked in their firm’s account.
The party alluded that perhaps the choice of Kaikai as Moderator was not a well-thought-out decision by the organizers. This moderator has previously and publicly displayed a soft spot for the Prime Minister.
Kaikai they claimed is known to have expressed interest in seeking a parliamentary seat in Narok on an ODM ticket in the 2007 elections, but was reportedly talked out of his ambitions and promised the post of Director of Communications in a Raila Presidency.
The party further claimed that some of the organizers were keen to use the Debate to further their own political agendas and support their favoured candidates.. For example, Samuel K. Macharia, the proprietor of Royal Media Services (RMS) – which contributed one of the moderators – has openly opposed Kenyatta’s candidature and aligned his broadcasting empire to bolstering Odinga’s campaigns.
They claimed Macharia was recently appointed head of CORD’s so-called Summit, becoming the first media owner in Kenya to participate directly in the affairs of a political formation.
The second debate was intended to cover economy, land and international relations. KTN’s Joe Ageyo and Citizen TV’s Uduak Amimo were slated to moderate. The first debate covered governance, social services, health and education, security and resource management.
Kenyatta has maintained that the ICC charges shouldn’t affect the election and has dismissed potential sanctions that could come from cautious foreign governments by claiming that the economy will survive on trade with neighbouring countries and the Chinese.
But even if sanctions were to be imposed on Kenyans, the fact that elections in Kenya are tribally based, Uhuru will still have votes from his fellow tribes, and with William Ruto as his running mate, Kenyatta will have strong support from both Central Province and the Rift Valley.
The two communities would not mind whether Uhuru’s government will reform land, efficient use of government land, a reverse in the pattern of fragmentation, with smallholder farmers on private land, and whether to establish individual land rights for those on community land or not. What they want is ‘our own has made it’.
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Real change must come from ordinary people who refuse to be taken hostage by the weapons of politicians in the face of inequality, racism and oppression, but march together towards a clear and unambiguous goal.
-Anne Montgomery, RSCJ UN Disarmament Conference, 2002
By Our Reporter
RESIDENTS of Kisumu East district have called on the area district security committee to crack down on an ODM goon who has now transformed himself into a serial killer in the area.
The residents who mostly reside in various parts of Kolwa say that the goon wears a Legio Maria sect catena at night while in the course of his reign of terror.
The terrified residents says that the goon whose name has been released wears the catena at night while caring an iron bar which he uses to silence members of the public. Many residents of Nyalenda where the hit man operates have called on the government to arrest the man who is a standard three drop out before he causes further harm to innocent members of the public.
He recently went underground after leading a vicious attack against supporters of Kisumu central aspirant Abdul Omar where CORD effect official John Kiarie was also manhandled. Supporters of Omar such as Martin Shikuku sustained deep cuts on the head following the ugly incident.
Kisumu police Chief Musa Kongoli promised to take stern action against the man.
Fearful members of the public say that the man who is a standard three drop out is out to harm everyone in sight once he is gripped by a strange spell of fits. Four people have been injured as a result of the attacks using an iron bar.
He normally hangs around Alfa house in the morning before teeming up with politicians and aspirants whom he extorts money from with menaces. Many leaders who have known his activities take cover once they spot him at various Hotels in Kisumu town.
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From: Judy Miriga
From: Judy Miriga
Folks,
This is fooling people. The Immigration Officer had no powers of stopping Chief Justistice from travelling unless order were issued from the police side requiring Chief Justice to get clearance from Kimemia. For this I agree with CORD that Kimemia MUST RESIGN.
He has ilicitly and unconstitutionally taken powers of Transitioning which does not belong to him. The buck stops with Kimemia if Kenya has to remain peaceful. All good people must demand that Kimemia step down for the sake of Peace and Unity in Kenya.
In the absence of the Political system being head of the Government, Chief Justice is Supreme. It is the law. In otherwords, Chief Justice is superior to Kimemia and therefore Kimemia faulted in messing with Chief Justice Mutunga. We demand for urgent clarity and thorough investigations in this matter.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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Cord wants Kimemia to resign
By Geoffrey Mosoku
NAIROBI, KENYA: CORD leaders Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka have demanded the resignation of Head of Civil Service Francis Kimemia whom they accuse of partisan politics.
The two leaders claimed Kimemia has been using the provincial administration to campaign for their rivals.
“He has become a party activist. If someone wants to participate in politics he should quit,” said Raila.
Kalonzo alleged that they have information that Kimemia has been using chiefs to woo voters for Jubilee in hunger stricken areas through distribution of relief food.
The two leaders were addressing the press at Wilson Airport before flying to Marakwet and Kitui to campaign ahead of the March 4 elections.
The leaders were reacting to a statement by Chief Justice Willy Mutunga who said that he was threatened over the integrity case against Jubilee leaders Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto.
Raila and Kalonzo alleged that the move to threat the CJ were part o a wider scheme to compromise the elections .
On Tuesday, Kimemia denied allegations that he favoured any political party and warned that any civil servant found engaging in partisan politics would be sacked.
Immigration officer in CJ airport saga interdicted
By Cyrus Ombati
NAIROBI, KENYA: An immigration officer who temporarily blocked Chief Justice Willy Mutunga from boarding a plane at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport while demanding that he gets clearance from the Office of the President has been interdicted.
The National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) made the announcement after meeting on Tuesday.
The committee chaired by Head of Civil Service Francis Kimemia also appointed a team to lead investigations into threats made to the CJ.
The committee members are Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo, Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko and Attorney General Githu Muigai and they will present their findings on Monday.
The officer had barred the CJ from travelling to Dar-es-Salaam until he gets clearance from the Head of Public Service, Mr Francis Kimemia.
“The government highly regrets that the CJ was subjected to such kind of treatment and undertakes to urgently investigate the matter. In the meantime, the officer involved in the incident has been interdicted to pave way for the investigations,” said part of a statement by NSAC sent to newsrooms.
The statement added a circular issued on those who should seek clearance from the Office of the President did not include the CJ, Judiciary and the National Assembly.
It added that there is a protocol officer at the airport is there to ensure all VIPs travel with ease and are accorded appropriate protocols.
The meeting was held to deliberate on Dr Mutunga's assertions that his life is in danger and he had been harassed at the airport.
Kimemia summoned the meeting on Wednesday after also being criticized of harassing the CJ by requiring that he and other judicial officers be cleared by his office.
The CJ has complained of receiving death threats and being harassed by immigration officers at the Airport.
Apart from Kimemia, National Intelligence Service Director General Michael Gichangi, internal security Permanent Secretary Mutea Iringo, his Foreign Affairs counterpart Thuita Mwangi and Kimaiyo with his deputies Grace Kaindi and Samuel Arachi sit on the committee.
Attorney General Githu Muigai and Chief of Defence Forces Gen Julius Karangi also attended the meeting.
Top security organ meets over threats to CJ
By Cyrus Ombati
Nairobi, Kenya: The National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) is set to meet in Nairobi Thursday to discuss threats to the Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and judicial officers.
The NSAC that is chaired by head of Civil Service Francis Kimemia will meet at the Office of the President to discuss the issue.
Kimemia summoned the meeting on Wednesday after he was also being criticised of allegedly harassing the CJ when he was nearly stopped from travelling outside the country by immigration officers.
The CJ has complained of receiving death threats and being harassed by immigration officers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Apart from Kimemia, National Intelligence Service Director General Michael Gichangi, internal security Permanent Secretary Mutea Iringo, his Foreign Affairs counterpart Thuita Mwangi and Inspector General of police David Kimaiyo sit on the committee.
It is not clear if NSAC will issue a statement later after their meeting. They have not issued a statement in the past meetings.
Already, the Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko has directed Kimaiyo to investigate threats against the Chief Justice and judicial officers.
Tobiko said he had received a letter from Mutunga written by a group claiming to be Mungiki Veterans Group/Kenya Sovereignty Defence Squad in which the CJ and other judges are warned or dire consequences over their work
The threats to the judges were issued before the ruling on an integrity suit against Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee running mate William Ruto.
“The threats contained in the aforesaid letter amount to incitement to violence and a serious interference with and subversion of the administration of justice,” said Tobiko.
“Due to the nature, gravity and implication of this matter, this is to direct you to cause a thorough and speedy investigation to be carried out with a view to apprehending and bringing to justice the perpetrators of these crimes,” added the DPP.
He said he had appointed a team of prosecution counsel in his office to provide legal guidance and advice in the course of the investigation.
“Upon completion of the investigation, the report and findings thereon should be submitted to me for appropriate directions,” said Tobiko.
Kimaiyo said earlier he has confidence in the security seconded to the CJ and other members of the judiciary.
Mama Ngina Kenyatta in court battle over land
By PATRICK KIBET
Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta wants a case challenging her ownership of two prime plots in Nakuru Central Business District dismissed by the High Court in Nakuru.
Mama Ngina filed an application seeking to dismiss the case brought by a Nakuru businessman Dr Isack Kirubi on grounds that it did not disclose the cause of action against her.
She also said Dr Kirubi in his own evidence did not at any time exclusively own the properties subject to the court case. Mama Ngina added that it would be a violation of her rights for the case to proceed to full hearing without the petitioner justifying the reason for suing her.
FORCIBLY TAKEN
Kirubi had filed a constitutional petition in 2010 alleging infringement of his rights to own property after claiming the prime plot was forcibly taken by Government in 1974. He contended that the then Commissioner of Lands James Aloysius O’Loughlin in May 7, 1974, conspired with the late Jomo Kenyatta to forcibly take the land.
Kirubi wants the High Court to declare the acquisition null and void and the land reverted to him.
In sworn affidavits before Justice Anyara Emukule, Kirubi said he was at all times the registered allotee of the disputed land in Nakuru.
He adds that actions by Mama Ngina in collusion with the Commissioner of Lands were in breach and violation of his rights to protection from deprivation of property as provided by the Constitution. Kirubi also availed documents showing a loan he obtained with the intention of using the money in developing the disputed parcels of land. He claims he was paid the compensation by Government in 1974 through his bank accounts.
By Leo Odera Omolo in Kisumu City
POLICE in Ahero town, Nyando district within the Kisumu County were at the weekend forced to lob tear gas canister against a section of unruly crowd that turned up to welcome the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his entourage.
Two former MPs for Nyando and Muhoroni constituencies were the new targets for booing and heckling. These were the Muhoroni MP Prof.Patrick Ayiecho Olueny, who is also an assistant Minister for education and Fred Outa the former Nyando MP.
Raila travelling with a team of cabinet Ministers and MPs were on their way to Kisumu after addressing a series of campaign rallies in Kipkellion and Nandi Hills which the incident occurred. During his brief stop at the Chemelil roundabout, the residents booed and heckled Prof.
Accompanying the Prime Minister were the Lands Minister James Orengo, Local Government Minister Fred Gumo, Industrialization Minister Henry Kosgey, Health Services Minister Prof.Anyang’ Nyong’o, Energy Assistat Minister Magarer Lang’at Prof.
The crowd became highly agitated after the Prime Minister tried to introduced the two local MP and told the audience that they should vote on six piece voting pattern, saying that he needed to win the presidency with a strong and experienced team.
The situation remained the same at Awasi, but it developed into very noisy when the group reached Ahero town.The crowd disapproved the candidature of both Ayiecho Oluenya {Muhoroni}, and Fred Outa {Nyando} arguing loudly that the two did not win the elections during the recently concluded, but much flawed ODM primary nomination.
During the violence confrontation between the police and the crowd which fought the running battles into the nearby villages, Ahero-Oyugis-Kisii and Ahero-Kisumu road was blocked from 5.30 P.M. to 8 P.M. Motorists stopped and parked their vehicles by the roadside. They included Matatus,tracks and buses. their vehicles voluntarily while fearing the worse and having them damaged by flying stones.
It became apparently clear that the six piece voting system would not work inside Luo-Nyanza,though the Prime Minister has been crusading for this system aggressively wherever he goes.
The bone of contention everywhere is that the majority of the aspirants for the various elective positions who were sanction by the ODM and cleared by the IEBC to contest the election were not adequately elected by the popular votes, and therefore lacked the blessing of the electorate. The electorate as result are insisting that they should be allowed to cast votes on individual personality cult and not on party line due to the flopped ODM nominations.
Prof Ayiecho Olueny is facing the populist Nairobi businessman James Onyango K’Oyoo who had won the rim\ry in Muhoroni with landslide, but who the ODM party big-wigs had rigged and denied victory, which was corruptively handed over to Prof. Olueny.
In Nyando J.Okello a youthful aspirant had trounced Fred Outa, but the ODM headquarters issued Outa with the nomination certificate to the chagrins of the voters.
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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.
The Minister for Medical Services Prof.Peter Anyang Nyong’o who is the ODM’s Secretary General and who had sailed through the last month’s flawed nomination may not find it that much easier to take his seat in the Senate without a fight.
The man who he defeated in the contest for Kisumu Rural constituency contest two decades ago is upon his feet and ready for another bruising election battle with the Minister.
The aspirant is Winston Ochoro Ayoki who represented Kisumu Rural constituency between 1992 and 2002 has declared that he would challenge Prof.Nyong’o in his bid to become the first Senator for Kisumu County.
An American trained graduate, Ayoki has served the government in the Ministry of Education at first as an Education Officer for the then Migori sub-district before he was promoted and made the Principal the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Science and technology.
Ayoki retired from the civil service and contested the Kisumu Rural parliamentary seat during the first multi-party elections of 1992 and won the election on Ford-Kenya ticket. He was sent packing by Nyong’o in 1997 and there after engage himself in business and farming.
At one time Ochoro-Ayoki was the regional manager for the American-Peace Corps in Kenya. He is also the younger brother of the late Wycliffe Onyango Ayoki who was the Managing Commission of the Kenya Meat Commission in the late 1960s.
Onyango-Ayoki had also served as the KANU MP for Kisumu Rural constituency in the late 1970s.This constituency has since been realigned and separated from the parts of Kisumu with the new constituency which s known as Seme.
Ayoki told this writer that his had an eight point vision for the Kisumu County.If elected he would thrive to promote health care program, promote the delivery of clean water for heath to the rural population, launch very aggressive food production program to make the area self-sufficiency in food and work for food security.
He said he would improve the environment of the area as well of conservations, further improve educational facilities and technology and build good infrastructure such as feeder and access roads to facilitate easy communications between the farming rural folks and market places.
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