Kenya: MPs Praise themselves!
From: Elijah Kombo
MP for Langata Raila Odinga has praised other MPs saying that they have performed well.
There are issues of corruption that hang on some of the MPs
Bills have delayed
They refuse to pay taxes
They this...etc itu mingi
Kombo Elijah
There is urgent need for Kenya Coalition Government to Dissolve immediately
From: Judy Miriga
Good People !
What people of Kenya fought for and hoped for at Referendum, is not the case today after passionately waiting for the New Constitution to be implemented by the Coalition Government, according to National Reform Agenda Accord and the Referendum, that which is of the Public Mandate.
1) Justice Nicholas Ombija citing Executive interferences which soon will see the justice being forced out of his job for remaining firm and excerting the arrests of Al-Bashir incase he steps in Kenya. Kilonzo Mutula for Constitutional Affairs was also seen threatened and demoted with his position taken away from him for doing and advicing rightly according to Reform policy
2) Taxpayers lost Sh2 billion in an exploitative and suspicious money-printing contract entered between the Government and De La Rue through single sourcing.
3) Illegal and unconstitutional deals entered between Coalition Government and the unscrupulous Corporate Special Interest cartels network co-joined with fake lobbyists is a corrupt undertaking, meant to steal and access utilization of Public Wealth Resources as ready cash for wealth creation by the politically corrupt cannot be under-estimated.
4) The non-consultative Unconstitutional and illegal Electoral Boundaries Commission’s decision to alter boundaries
5) The illigal rise of shilling creating economic shock to Kenyans
6) Conspiracy against The Hague under the Coalition Government Watch is seen by many as obstruction of justice and contempt of court.
7) Theft of Land in Turkana between politicians and the Canadian Tullow Oil Company
8) Theft of public and community water resources and Minerals with grabbing of public and peoples' land without consultations and engagement of all stakeholders is illegal and unconstitutional
9) The rise of Drugs trafficking, insecurity and child prostitution
10) Sneaking of Dangerous clauses in the Constitution and more specifically the Devolution of Counties, Land Bill and the Finance Bill
11) Continued Police brutality with extra-judicial killings has become business as usual
12) The Coalition Government under the leadership and watch of Kibaki and Raila supervised take-over of Migingo Island by Museveni and Kenyan fishermen killed with fishing equipment taken by Uganda police, equally, stakeholders and public interest are violated and abused under crime infested case-scenario. The conspiracy between the Coalition Government corrupt players with the unscrupulous international corporate special interest cartels network in Kenya has gained roots and has put Kenyans into a path of extreme poverty situation, hunger, pain and suffering with displacements and destruction of homes of many people and driving victims to homelessness without due care or legal justice.
Without going by the rules of the National Reform Reform Accord Agenda, the election will not be free and fair.
"If a country can't feed its people effectively, if it can't make anything of any use to anybody, "If it can't deliver on any indicators of well-being... for its people... then you'd think you'd want to try something different," Obama said in a highly undiplomatic and unusually frank public appearance.
"There are certain things that just don't work and what they are doing doesn't work."
Without transparency and accountability, sneaking serious and dangerous clauses into the Devolution, Finance and Land Bill with "Treasury arrogated itself exclusive powers that would suffocate other organs successful function-ability to render services according to public needs and demands", is not acceptable. It will deny counties the Constitutional mandatory rights of accessible REVENUE allocation to be effectively operational. The MPs systematically and tactfully obstructed and frustrated the debates of Devolution of Counties, Land and Finance Bill from taking place effectively as planned to meet the required deadline as Parliament and members in the House preempt its hasty passage before thorough scrutiny were done. It was an underscore hoodwink to fool Kenyans and the world that the Treasury and the Ministry of Local Government, which had feuded over the definition of revenue at the drafting stage of the Bills, had healed their differences, but the reality of the matter is that, The National Reform Accord Agenda has not been complied as agreed and that the New Constitution is under siege to capture illegally sneaked dangerous clauses that are against Public Interest and Mandate.
We are sick and tired, and we are able to stop this illegality, impunity, fraud and the unconstitutional behavior by these corrupt and unscrupulous politician in the Coalition Government over thieving of public wealth resources, land and injustices and of messing the Reform Agenda in a stage-managed delaying tactics with sneaking dangerous clauses to serve special interests in the implementation of the constitutional Bills of County Devolution, Land and Finance Bill which is meant to protect public interest cannot be taken lightly.
It can be done people….!!!! In the leadership of both Kibaki and Raila in the Coalition Government, serious Economic Crimes, violation and abuse against human rights was and is still very active. We have no choice but to force and dissolve the Coalition Government through Legal justice at the ICC Hague intervention.
The two Principals are presently preparing to go for election without Devolution of Counties Bill, the Land Bill and Finance Bill. This is against their signed agreement of National Reform Accord Agenda for the New Constitution which made their Coalition Government Office legitimate and authentic.
Change the constitution has been our long time struggle, and we will not sit and watch people being exterminated, killed, forced out of their community homes, driven to extreme poverty and send to slaughter houses through engineered land clashes, organized gang attacks, faked sicknesses and Police Administration hooliganism and brutality with careless extra-judicial killings.
It is fundamentally important that things must change in Kenya and must change fast. It is an approach to achieve sustainable political and social development as part of a feasible economic growth our motto and immediate objective and goals.
The Transitional Caretaker Committee and ICC Hague intervention is the answer people……and this too cannot wait any longer…….The time is now and not later that the Coalition Government must dissolve.
On behalf of the voiceless and victims of circumstances, we continue to appeal to World Leaders, Kofi Annan with team and the United Nations Security Council to jointly step in to help salvage Kenya from total collapse.
Thank you all,
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Ministers feel the heat of new laws in Parliament
By STEVE MKAWALE
Parliament is breathing down the neck of the Executive, as it exercises enhanced constitutional powers, and ministers are feeling the heat.
As a pointer to how real this issue is, Prime Minister Raila Odinga Thursday protested to Members of Parliament over the new powers they had acquired as a result of the new Constitution. He said it had made life unbearable for Cabinet ministers.
The PM expressed ministers’ frustrations at the hands of the Legislature, a move Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim defended, saying it was democracy at work.
The PM appeared to cajole MPs to go easy on the ministers, as he called for dialogue between the Executive and the Legislature over laws aimed at operationalising the new Constitution.
Raila said Parliament must give space to the Executive to function, lamenting it has been challenging for the Cabinet to process the draft pieces of legislations for onward transmission to the House and handling other functions of the Government.
"There has been friction between the Executive and the Legislature over the delay in processing draft legislations. What Parliament needs to understand is that the drafts must go through certain process before coming to the Cabinet for deliberations," the PM explained.
Maalim disagreed with the PM, arguing the friction was as a result of democracy. "Your frustrations are understandable if committees have become a thorn in the flesh of the Executive. That is the price of democracy. That is how things ought to be. If the two work harmoniously, there will be a cause to worry," he said.
House Speaker Kenneth Marende said the success of implementing the Constitution lay in the unity of leaders, and was optimistic the Coalition Government would live its full term.
"For the past four years, the Kenyan nation has, without doubt, added to international experience best practice in the management of a coalition government," he added.
The Speaker pointed out that whereas there have been prophets of doom who had all along wished for the worst to happen to the Coalition Government nothing of the sort had happened.
"Our detractors were cynical and waited for failure, but it has been long coming and is unlikely any time soon. We are, and must remain awake to the reality of the National Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008, and its constitutional factual being," said the Speaker.
Committee meetings
Marende observed Kenya had learnt her lessons well out of the debacle of the Memorandum of Understanding of yesteryear and therefore would uphold the Constitution.
But Raila said law makers had put the Cabinet under pressure over the draft Bills that have constitutional timelines without considering the circumstances and challenges of ministers.
Raila challenged Parliament to look into how Cabinet ministers can be exempted from attending parliamentary committee meetings. He said ministers were taking a lot of time in such meetings at the expense of other Government business.
"As the chairman of the Cabinet committee I have been unable to conduct business of the Government as ministers are often summoned to attend to parliamentary committees. Such functions should be delegated to experts in the ministries," advised the PM.
Raila was speaking at the Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club where he opened the Kenya Legislative Development Conference for MPs.
The two-day conference brought together MPs to reflect on institutional changes and the future of Parliament under the new Constitution.
Raila noted that Parliament has spearheaded some great institutional reforms that have spared the country the perils that other African countries have undergone.
"Some of the changes include the push for the reintroduction of multi-party politics and increased democratic space since 1990, the return to calm after the 2007-2008 post-election violence and the passage of the new Constitution," he went on.
He hailed the 10th Parliament for its role in giving Kenya the new Constitution, but added there was still a lot to be done.
The PM, however, said he was confident that the current Parliament was up to the task and would not fail Kenyans. "The 10th Parliament has worked beyond official hours to pass many pieces of legislations that have gone a long way in implementing the Constitution," said the PM.
Marende argued for the country to make the new dawn a reality, leaders must remain united to build strong institutions and engage in sustainable and democratic practices that embrace the healthy political competition.
"Give dialogue, negotiation, accommodation, and tolerance a chance for the national good. We need to take deliberate steps to replace the norm of zero-sum or winner-takes-it all with a determination to have Kenya win," emphasised the Speaker.
Most desirable
Marende said for the country to realise the fruits of the new Constitution, all holders of constitutional offices must comply with the law.
The Speaker was optimistic that the issues discussed at the conference would give direction and help in giving priorities when implementing the Constitution.
"Our role as leaders shall remain ever so critical in this endeavor and cannot be gainsaid. It is my sincere hope and plea that a most desirable output of this assembly shall be an agreed framework for consensus building so us to expedite the legislative process for the remainder of statutes due in the residue of the life of the 10th Parliament," said the Speaker.
The two-day conference was organised by Kenya National Assembly and development partners – USAid and the UK department for International Development – that have been spearheading good governance and democracy programmes.
How taxpayers lost Sh2 billion
By ALEX NDEGWA
Taxpayers lost Sh2 billion in an exploitative and suspicious money-printing contract entered by the Government and De La Rue through single sourcing.
Though the Government had the option of getting its currencies printed far much cheaply abroad, it curiously chose to give the order to the Ruaraka-based De La Rue. It did so ostensibly to protect 260 Kenyans who would have been rendered jobless if the high-security printing firm did not get this lifeline – albeit at a crushing cost to taxpayers. Details emerged how the taxpayer was paying more to sustain printing of currency way above market rates when a parliamentary committee probed the tendering for printing of local currency.
Central Bank of Kenya Governor Njuguna Ndung’u on Thursday admitted six interim orders for new currencies issued so far were costlier than the quotation for an open international tender cancelled in an unclear circumstances in 2006.
Prof Ndung’u tried to justify the additional cost to the taxpayer, saying it saved jobs at De La Rue, which would have been lost if production was done abroad.
But Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee questioned the rationale of paying the additional money to De La Rue – nearly three times more than competitive international market rates. The MPs say the concern over the 260 jobs was a cover-up for the plunder of public coffers by well-connected individuals.
PAC chairman Boni Khalwale explained the jobs were secure because De La Rue is involved in other ventures like printing security instruments for banks, which would not be affected if the money-printing offer were subjected to competitive bidding.
"You cannot hide behind jobs to justify the fleecing of taxpayers," Dr Khalwale said during a hearing at Parliament Buildings Thursday.
"Is the Sh2.13 billion loss equivalent to the job losses you are suggesting?" he asked Ndung’u.
"Even if you were to pay the 260 Kenyans Sh50, 000 to stay at home for a year it would translate to Sh780 million," added Bula MP Abdi Nuh.
Ndung’u defended the costly "stop gap" contracts saying: "You should consider what is the total welfare loss of exporting the 260 jobs." Khalwale said PAC would shield the employees, but it would not allow billions of shillings in taxpayers’ money to be lost under the guise of protecting in a private enterprise.
The Governor surprised PAC by saying he was in the dark about a contract for the acquisition of 40 per cent stake in De La Rue by the Government, which contains a restrictive clause. The clause grants the firm exclusive rights to print local currency for 10 years.
The international open tender returned a quotation of £31.5 million for the production of 1.7 billion pieces in Malta. This translated to £18.42 pounds (Sh2394) per 1,000 pieces, said Ndung’u.
However, the Government cancelled the tender and continued with expensive prices under a 2002 contract with De La Rue. Under these terms, CBK pays about £28.62 (Sh3, 720) per 1,000 pieces. This means CBK pays Sh1, 326 more per every 1,000 pieces of new currencies.
Inflated prices
The cumulative figure is higher given the enormous quantities involved, with independent calculations showing a loss of up to Sh3.3 billion.
PAC is probing claims that cancellation by National Rainbow Coalition Government of a 10-year contract in 2003, which would have run until December, this year, facilitated a scheme to siphon public funds through interim orders at inflated prices.
The Narc Government then argued the Kanu regime had single-sourced the contract. But the subsequent action to continue without a deal that benefits from economies of scale and the revocation of the competitive international tender in 2006 has raised doubts.
From 2003 to date CBK has issued six interim orders at the inflated prices. Ndung’u said the "stop gap" contracts though expensive are necessary to ensure the bank maintains adequate supply of currency.
CBK has spent close to Sh10 billion between June 2003 and July, last year, to have 2.6 billion pieces of currency notes printed.
Ndung’u has warned CBK could face a shortfall of currency before the General Election, which would require the issuance of another interim order for printing.
CBK recently invited Kenyans to submit proposals for new design of currencies, whose production officials say would take 21 months.
The short term contracts have continued since the cancellation of the international tender, which MPs contend would have allowed the Government to procure new currencies at cheaper rates.
Opposed the deal
Khalwale announced the committee would summon Cabinet minister Amos Kimunya and former CBK acting Governor Jacinta Mwatela. Kimunya is expected to shed light on contents of a letter he wrote on December 14, 2007, as Finance Minister suggesting De La Rue had agreed to termination of a contract and undertook not to claim damages.
In the letter Kimunya, wrote: "Let me know if I need to intervene on De La Rue", wordings the committee interpreted to mean there had been long before the contract was cancelled.
Ms Mwatela had in a letter to the Finance Minister on August 2006, expressed reservations on the design, manufacturing and supply of the new generation notes by De La Rue and asked for the cancellation of the contract.
ON Thursday, Khalwale told Ndung’u that Mwatela was edged out of CBK because she opposed the deal. "They removed Mwatela and put you there and you have been playing ball," Khalwale charged.
"You are wrong," Ndung’u replied, explaining the role of CBK governor is spelt out in law and the holder is independent. Asked why he had not stopped the costly transactions on taking over at CBK, Ndung’u responded: "Our constraints has been to secure adequate supply of currencies."
Ndung’u said CBK would review terms for currency printing after the Government concludes talks with De La Rue on acquisition of a 40 per cent stake in the firm.
Rangwe MP Martin Ogindo, however, said the deal between the Government and De La Rue had a restrictive clause that granted the firm an exclusive 10-year contract.
The governor surprised the committee with a declaration that CBK was not privy to such content. "We are not privy to the documents that you are alluding to," Ndung’u said. "We won’t be bound by a clause for a 10-year contract," he added.
Conspiracy against The Hague?
By Standard Team
Will President Kibaki co-operate with International Criminal Court in the next phase of trials if post-election suspects lose the last appeal standing between them and full trial at The Hague?
This is the big question lurking in the shadows of a series of events and even his own actions, which seem to point at the fact that something could be in the offing, or in the least, that someone may be softening the ground for non-co-operation with ICC.
The speculation something could be afoot rose on Tuesday, not just because of the reshuffle that settled scores over The Hague row in Cabinet.
This was also the same day Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, who with the blessing of the President, led the shuttle diplomacy across the globe to lobby for deferral or return of Kenya’s case at The Hague to the local courts, was in Sudan with a "special message’ for President Omar Al Bashir.
Now, Bashir is the besieged President indicted by ICC and whose movement is limited because an arrest warrant is out for him.
However, it came out he enjoys a cozy relationship with Kibaki’s administration when in 2010 he came to Kenya without fear of arrest and handover to the ICC.
The VP’s office, however, insists the visit had nothing to do with ICC, though it is unlikely a meeting between President Kibaki’s messenger and an ICC VIP suspect would end without discussions on The Hague given the profile of Kenyans fighting off full trial.
Wield influence
"The Vice-President went to deliver a message on behalf of President Kibaki to President Bashir on the South-North (Sudan) conflict," said Kaplich Barsito, the VP’s spokesman.
As Kalonzo met Bashir Kibaki reshuffled his side of the Grand Coalition Cabinet, transferring outspoken Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo from Justice Ministry, and Moses Wetangula from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The changes saw the two replaced at the Cabinet sub-Committee on ICC by their successors in their previous offices – Eugene Wamalwa and Sam Ongeri.
The two newcomers to the sub-committee are perceived to be closer not only to the President, but even more sympathetic to Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret William Ruto, who are the key pillars of the G7 Alliance.
In the ICC trials, particularly for logistical, consultative and co-operation reasons, Justice and Foreign Affairs ministries play a significant role, and wield influence on the committee that is more like a clearing house for Government-ICC talks.
Travel abroad
"The State is slowly gravitating towards an anti-ICC establishment and it is being pushed by anti-reform forces among us," claimed Land minister James Orengo, who is a member of the sub-committee. He complained Mutula’s removal was bound to affect progress made on co-operation with ICC.
"I am seeing an attempt to prepare the stage for non-co-operation with ICC if you examine the recent happenings, but it will boomerang," Orengo warned.
He added: "Yes, you can fail to co-operate with ICC but remain a fugitive who is a villager...you cannot travel abroad."
Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara said he was perturbed the Government had not been categorical on co-operation with ICC. "Going by what has happened one would arrive at the irresistible conclusion that the Government is preparing ground for non-co-operation," he added.
Also ahead of the eagerly awaited ruling on last appeal expected in May, two significant developments took place. In what could be argued to be a precursor to the Cabinet changes, last Friday, Gema (which brings together the Gikuyu, Embu and Meru communities) feted Uhuru in Limuru as central Kenya’s leader. They announced plan to collect two million signatures to petition ICC to postpone the Kenya case until after the General Election.
"The Government has not dissociated itself from the tribal meeting in Limuru yet the President’s name also featured at the meeting," complained Imanyara.
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang’ said if at any stage the court senses non-co-operation it would demand the Head of State personally co-operates by handing over the accused persons.
"If he doesn’t do so then a warrant of arrest would be issued against him personally and that is the nature of the International law as currently crafted," he added.
Earlier, Attorney General Githu Muigai appointed an eminent team of lawyers to advise the State on the ICC trials. It may be significant that the reshuffle and Kalonzo’s trip to Sudan came after these experts told the Government that the government would have no choice but to handover the suspects if their petition flops and ICC issues warrants of arrests.
Further signs that could trigger the question whether there might be a conspiracy building up against The Hague came up when ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo protested the e-mails accounts of some of its witnesses and their associates were being hacked.
Vengeance scheme
Towards this end, police arrested a local journalist and dispatched two senior officers to The Hague to follow up the matter. The claim, if true, has serious implications for the lives of the witnesses, and could even undermine the case at The Hague if they then decide to step down from the dock for fear of their lives.
The State’s plan to reopen the 5,000 old post-election files also triggered debate on whether it was not either a silent threat to or vengeance scheme against some politicians who escaped ICC radar, or even an attempt to persuade The Hague Kenya has come of age and can no be trusted to try all post-election violence cases.
Side by side with this was the other curious action of recording statements from some of the ICC suspects by Criminal Investigations Department. This was seen as an attempt to persuade ICC that the Government can indeed be ‘trusted’ to handle the cases involving the big fish too.
But again this was done just as the Government hired British legal experts to fight off its case at The Hague through a series of appeals and jurisdictional arguments.
Alongside the claims of hacking of e-mail accounts came the so-called ‘UK Dossier’, dismissed as fake by Britain. The dossier purported to show that Kibaki, too, may be indicted on retirement, and that Prime Minister Raila Odinga could have played a role in The Hague cases, and is also the preferred candidate for the West.
Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo who tabled the dossier in Parliament declined to discuss the matter, saying: "I am prohibited to discuss such a matter when it is under investigation so let us wait and see what the committee would come up with."
Change of mind
Wajir West MP Adan Keynan, who is leading parliamentary probe into the dossier, refused to comment on it until the inquiry is over.
The last significant action on this front was President Kibaki’s certain change of mind on support for a December 2012 elections date to March 2013, which gives him the possibility of being in power until around May in case there will be an election run-off.
Kajwang’ argued Kenya tied its hands the moment it ratified the Rome Statue. "If there was any attempt to do any of these then the Government would be committing a serious international crime," he said
KENYA: GOVERNMENT MIGHT LOSE 18 MILLION IF CONTRACT FOR POLICE PROJECT IN NDHIWA IS SIGNED-DC
By Our Reporter.
The fate of a controversial Sh. 118 M Kenya police housing project in Ndhiwa , the backyard of internal security assistant minister Orwa Ojode will be known on Thursday when the public procurement oversight authority meet to look at the issue.
The project which seeks to ease the biting housing problem for the police officers working at Ndhiwa police station in Homa Bay county had a false start last month following a controversy over the award of the tender which saw one of the 12 contractors who participated in the bids petitioning the public procurement administrative review board to review the award citing alleged anomalies of procedure in procurement .
According to documents in our possession ,the tender for the proposed 16 units type E flats was advertised in the newspapers and opened on February 8th this year at the boardroom of the DC, Kisumu East district by the district tender committee chaired by the area DDO.
Twelve tenderers returned their tender documents amongst them, a firm known as Cell Arc Systems. It is this firm which petitioned the board for review of the tender award accusing the procuring entity of irregularly awarding the tender to a firm whose bid they claim was higher than theirs.According to documents we obtained while investigating the matter, Cell Arc Systems was the lowest responsive tenderer out of the four companies which were found to be responsive after evaluation.
The project had been estimated to cost Sh.118.7M by the quantity surveyor from the ministry of public works in Kisumu who prepared the bill of quantity for the project and according to the documents relating to the tender , Cell Arc Systems had a tender sum of Sh107,082,999.80.
Interestingly, the company whose details and name we also obtained and which won the disputed tender had quoted sh.128,336,019.20 which was the highest.
Other two companies which also prequalified after evaluation whose names we can not reveal for legal reasons quited sh.110,045,512.06 and sh 118,120,215.05.
In their petition, Cell Arc advance that the tender committee was required according to section 66(4) of the procurement Act to award them the contract being the lowest'' responsive tenderer at Sh 107,082,999.80.
Instead, the committee awarded the tender to the winning company at Sh 128,336,019.40, a bid which was higher that that of the petitioner by a difference of sh 21.2 M.
Part of their letter to the review board dated 10th of March this year read in part '' the decision by the procuring entity to declare our bid unsuccessful was arrived at without due regard to the evaluation procedure and criteria as set out in the tender documents and the Act''.
It went '' under section 50(3), tenders shall be ranked according to their evaluated price and successful tender shall be the tender with the lowest evaluated price in accordance with section 66(4)of the Act''
The petitioner also states to the board that according to the technical evaluation committee report , the contractor who was given the job has only completed a project of Sh. 9M while Cell Arc has successfully completed a project Of Sh 59.4M and also implementing another worth sh 75.5M project within Kisumu.
'' It is therefore inconceivable and in total breach of the Act and rules of natural practice to award contract to a firm whose bid was higher and also less experienced and technically qualified. Financial analysis also indicate that most of the rates of the contractor were high'' read the letter to the board.
In fact following the appeal, the Kisumu East DC Mabeya Mogaka, in his letter to the Nyanza PPO Njue Njagi dated 14th March, which was also copied to the Nyanza PC and the regional commissioner Central Nyanza, informed the provincial police boss that the contract agreement for the proposed residential units for Ndhiwa police station should not be signed until he is notified that the complaint raised has been adequately addressed by the public procurement oversight authority who have been petitioned.
Notable is the DC's comment in the same letter and we quote '' Indeed the highest tenderer was awarded the contract while it is prescribed that it is the lowest tenderer who should be awarded''.
Mabeya in fact cautioned in his letter to the PPO that '' from my quick observation I note that the government will lose Sh 18 M if this particular contract is signed''.
Most of the contractors we talked to during our investigations claimed officers from the public works inflated the cost of the project with some insisting the project could not be over Sh 70 M. Our efforts to very the claims by the quantity surveyors from the ministry were futile.
In his reply to the grounds of the appeal, the procuring entity on their part insisted it did an evaluation as per the relevant provisions in the Act and regulations by converting preliminary , technical and financial evaluation.
According to his response in a letter dated 16th March , the district procurement officer Mr. Luke Midamba said the award was not based on the lowest tenderer alleged by the applicant rather it was based on lowest evaluated tender after considering the criteria set in tender advertisement.
whether the project will be allowed to proceed to full implementation with issue raised by both the parties now remains to be seen as the board sit to review the award today at a Kisumu hotel.Based on their findings, the tender will either be nullified or be given green light.
ENDS.
Exorcising the Kenyan Pain
From: odhiambo okecth
Friends,
For the last 2 days, I have been attending a Peace Building session with the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission for the Nairobi County. And it has really been refreshing and very informative.
This Forum is a very good build up to us at KCDN and The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign because, in partnership with the Centre for Community Dialogue and Development and other Peace Actors in the Rift Valley, we have been able to bring together the Kalenjin, the Luo and the Luhya who share a common border to a peaceful settlement that is culminating in the Kibigori Chepswerta Peace Treaty on the 22nd April 2012.
I was just reflecting today on the premises under which Kenya settled on setting up the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and juxtaposing the same to the much celebrated South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
It is important to note that in South Africa, they were transitting from the Aparthaid Regime to a new Political Dispensation with completely new actor. The Boars had loaded over the Africans in a very oppressive process, having Mzee Madiba in jail for 27 years, and when he was released in 1994, he decided to forgive and let go.
The healing and forguiveness process hence started right from the top. This is in complete contrust to the Kenyan situation, where our Truth and reconciliation process involved the same players who had been in the seen all along.
We saw cases where the Chair to our process was bogged down by allegations of commission and ommission, with accussations that he was part of the problem. The same could be true of all our political leaders. They have been part of the Kenyan process right from before Independence to right now. Any spilling of beans view Exorcising of Past Pain, could adversely and inadvertently cast them in some dark aspersions.
This made our Commiision fight several wars with under funding being a major challenge.
Now, in a functioning Truth, Justice and Reconciliation process, we must Exorcise the past pain by telling the hard truth, renouncing our past deeds, and then, we seek forgiveness in a process that takes the Country and the People forward. Our case has lacked this process.
All we have seen have been cases of people denying having ever taken part in past atrocities, yet, the bark must surely rest with someone. Our challenge has been that the same decision makers are the people who have been around all along and they are the same people with the power to give or deny.
They have hence chosen to deny and frustrate the efforts of TJRC.
But from the many experiences we have seen across the world, this process must move to its logical conclussion. Kenyans desire peace, and we must all work for peace, with or without resources. Peace is paramount to our Nationhood and all Men and Women of Peace must stand up and be counted.
All is not lost though. In the midst of such wants, and in the midst of greater difficulties at financial mobilization for many Peace Actors, based on what we have witnessed in Rift Valley, we have institutions who are still moving forward and making Peace, National Healing and Reconciliation happen.
We have the many District Peace Committees across the Country composed of Men and Women who are committed to the Peace Process. This are the groups and Institutions who will be joining us on the 22nd April 2012 in celebrating the Kibigori Chepswerta Peace Treaty along the Kalenjin, Luo and Luhya Border.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
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Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of Nairobi Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.
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Kenya: ODM faces disintegration in Southern Nyanza following inter-clans rivalries and false manoeuvres by MPs
News Analysis By Bob Ndira Uradi In Homa-Bay Town
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The Orange Democratic Movement {ODM} is facing lean time as its popularity is facing litmus test in the greater Southern Nyanza region triggered by the reported inter-clans rivalries.
The discontent is showing its ugly head between the indignant communities and the immigrant sub-clans whose original homes could be traced in Siaya County, but who migrated to Southern Nyanza and settled in various locations within the region.
And such conflict of diverse interests and inter-clans differences are allegedly fanned by the local MPs who belong to the immigrant sub-clans who crossed the Lake Victoria from Siaya in search of arable land and settled in the region at the turn of the 20th century.
The two MPs who are members of the immigrant sub-clans include Martin Otieno Ogindo, whose family migrated from Asembo Location in Rarieda district within Siaya County. The MPs settled in Central Kanyada Location.
The other MP who is the son of an immigrant sub-clan is Gerald Otieno Kajwang’,is the Mbita MP Gerald Otieno Kajwang’ whose Waondo minority sub-clan is also reported to have migrated from Asembo in Rarieda district, also within Siaya County. The Waondo sub-clan settled in what used to be Mbita district among the majority Suba people.
The leader from the indignant sub-clans now claims that MPs from the immigrant sub-clans who claims to be the most trusted confidants of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga have the ulterior motive and secret scheme to dominate the indignant people of the region.
Also categorized as falling in the same cartel is the self-styled ODM coordinator in Nyanza Mrs Monica Amolo who also hails from Kanyikela/Asembo sub-clan in Ndhiwa district. Is also being accused of collaborating with the two MPs to undermine the local indignant leadership.
Mrs Amolo is claiming to be the confidant of Mrs Ida Odinga and the gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo who is Raila's maternal cousin. Her role in the party is to undercut and undermine the abrasive Ndhiwa MP Orwa Ojode who has flatly refused to be dragged into vicious political manipulations being exercised in the region by people from Siaya.
During the recently concluded, but much flawed ODM grass root elections in Homa-Bay County, Kajwang was elected the party chairman in the County branch by consensus and not through the balloting. Hon Ogindo was also elected to the office in the same fashion an so was Mrs Monica Amolo.
But immediately after the conclusion of the trio allegedly embarked in changing and replacing the names of those who were elected along with them with their own political cronies.
George Ner from Kagan who had been elected to head the Rangwe sub-branch had his name changed and replaced by one Opondo Kaluma from Kanyada.
The name of the former Rangwe MP Eng.Phillip Okundi who is now there chairman of the ODM electoral board and who was named as a delegate in the Rangwe sub-branch had his name removed and replaced by that of Odhiambo Rare from Kochia.
In Rongo district the same group is said to be fighting the are MP Dalmas Otieno the man who is credited as performing diligently in both the cabinet as the Minister for Public Servants and within the ODM is always being branded as a KANU mole in the party and he is being fought let, right and center.
The group is also allegedly targeting the populist and highly respected former Nyanza PDE Mrs Roselyn Onyuka who has declared her interest in contesting the Homa-Bay County Women Representative and whose records of sterling service to the people is unequaled.Onyuka has the highest profile of leadership and recognized as a workaholic person who is an achiever..
In Ndhiwa district, the hardworking MP Joshua Orwa Ojode is being fought by the same cartel which is branding him as a sympathizer of the PNU? This assertion not based on truth, but simply on falsified assumption because Ojode is working in the same Ministry with Prof. George Saitoti who heads the PNU.
Ojode being tired with the kind of political intrigue has since broken the rank with the Prime Minister and has kept away not to e seen in any official function officiated by the Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
During the public hearing conducted by the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission at Homa-Bay member of the Suba Community from two constituencies whose inhabitants are the majority people of Suba origin had petitioned the IEBC and requested that the names of the two districts of Gwassi and Mbita be changed to Suba South and Suba North. The request was granted, but the Mbita MP came out spitting fire saying that such name could only be changed over his dead body.
The MP who is also the Immigration and Registration of Persons has since hired his own younger brother who is a lawyer of the High Court to institute legal action against the IEBC.
A legal suit is now pending in court in which the MP working through a local civic leader from Rusinga Island is the plaintiff. However, elders from Suba region who had requested for the changes of names of the two constituencies have vowed that they will be in court as the IEBC witnesses when the case come up for hearing.
These political maneuvers by people who claims to be the closes advisers of the Prime Minister is tearing the ODM into pieces, and the party hitherto supremacy in Southern Nyanza is fast evaporating.
Local indignant now feel the Prime Minister is exporting the Siaya brand of politics into Southern Nyanza by way of using his trusted lieutenants in coercing the local leaders into succumbing to the divide and rule policy.
Those allegedly targeted for possible sidelining included the abrasive Nyatike MP Edick Omondi Anyanga, Migori MP John Pesa, Rongo MP Dalmas Otieno and Karachuonyo MP Eng Jame Rege.
The MPs who have been classified as the alleged collaborators of the Siaya cartel included Kasipul Kabondo MP Joseph Oyugi Maguwanga, Gwassi M John Mbadi and Uriri MP Cyprian Ojwang’Omolo. A candidate aspiring for the Homa-Bay governor’s position Cyprian Otieno Awiti is also reported to be playing in the same league with Siaya agents out to exercise their external political supremacy against the indigenous people of Southern Nyanza.
The group it is further being alleged is working under the supervision of Raila Odinga’s elder brother Dr. Oburu Oginga who is the Bondo MP and who is said to be the group’s godfather. The main aim and objective is to have people elected in various position of governance within the counties, Senate and parliament who could toe the lines, and such must be vetted by agents whose loyalties to Raila are unquestionable. Independent minded politician with diverse of opinion stands no chance of clinching ODM ticket to contest the elections in various constituencies in the next general election, even if they could sail through the preliminaries, they would be eventually rigged out and replaced others.
Another immigrant politician whose original home is in Alego Mur in Siaya County who is also suspected to be working in cohort with the group has launched an elaborate campaign to be elected the first Senator for Migori County. He was the once two time Homa-Bay MP Phares Oluoch Kanindo who sat in the August House for close to ten years, but left without uttering even one single word.
Kanindo is involved in serious competitive politics with the academic giants such as Prof. Edward Oyugi Akong’o, former Mathari MP Gilbert Ochieng’ Mbeo and others.
Dr Oburu Oginga, however, could not be reached to deny or confirm the allegation. He was reported to have traveled abroad on government official duties.
The immigrant groups are loosely referred to in Dho- Luo derogatory terminology as “Jodak, Onyalo Biro or Ojuwando” and the rumor making the round is that the group has vowed not to allow anyone who is working independently to win any elective post in the region unless he is allied to the Siaya agents.
Local pundits are quick in pointing out that for the first time the ODM would lose a number of parliamentary and civic seats to other parties unless Raila Odinga himself intervened in time and tell the so called Siaya agents to leave the party members and leers in the region alone to chart their own destiny. People in this region are so much disgusted with these kind of unbecoming political maneuvers.
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RWANDA & KENYA: COME RUN WITH MKU IN SUPPORT OF GENOCIDE ORPHANS
From: AKR|Association of Kenyans Living in Rwanda
Dear Fellow Kenyan,
On behalf of MKU, we are pleased to invite you to a charity run on Sunday 1st April 2012 at Amahoro stadium. All proceeds will go towards support of an orphanage during the genocide week. Find attached brochures for further details.
Please come out in large numbers to support this worthy course. Invite family and friends.
Carol
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KENYA: GEMA AND ETHNOCENTRISM-STRATEGY THAT MAY NOT FAVOUR UHURU
From: Ouko joachim omolo
Colleagues Home & Abroad Regional News
BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENYA
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
Endorsement of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta for president by the Gikuyu, Embu, and Meru Association (Gema) was not well received by some Meru MPs, not because Uhuru is a bad leader but because the move has taken ethnocentric line.
Originally Gema was seen as vehicles to improve the economic, social and cultural conditions of the Gikuyu, Embu and Meru communities. It was also to promote education, welfare, the spirit of brotherhood among the communities and to preserve their cultural heritage.
The association became more attractive to the communities when it set up a Child Welfare Fund to help orphans and destitute children. Young people were lured into it through the formation of Gema football clubs.
Even though its first office bearers were dominated by Gikuyu prominent politicians such as Julius Kiano, Minister for Local Government as its chairman, Mwai Kibaki, Minister for Finance, Economic Planning and Development, treasurer, Jomo Kenyatta, patron, the Embu and Meru were only given two positions, that is Jeremiah Nyagah, Minister for Information and Jackson Angaine, Minister for Lands and Settlement.
The Embu and Meru began to see light during the 1970s when Gema was widely associated with moves to change the constitution of Kenya in an attempt to prevent the, then Vice-President, Daniel arap Moi, not only from gaining automatic succession if president Kenyatta became indisposed, but because that president was meant to come from Gikuyu community.
Mr. Kihika Kimani who made the call for constitutional change was seen by Embu and Meru communities as hijacking the association from them to Gikuyu. Other prominent Gikuyu members who dominated the association included Njenga Karume and Njoroge Mungai.
When Mzee Kenyatta died in his sleep in 1978, Attorney General Charles Njonjo who was ordered by President Kenyatta to register the association in 1971 convened a Cabinet meeting in which it was resolved that the presidency would go to Gema.
Although kingpins such as Koinange, Mungai, and Angaine had been seen as possible candidates to succeed Kenyatta, the whole idea was still that it must be occupied by Gikuyu.
In 1980, months after Moi ascending to power, the association was banned, along with other groups perceived to have been ethnic-based. It is, however, believed to have continued to function under the guise of Agricultural and Industrial Holdings Ltd.
The association was revived in 2003, when President Kibaki came to power, though in a different outlook: Gema Cultural Association with its chairman retired Methodist bishop Lawi Imathiu assisted by retired ACK Bishop Peter Njenga.
This is not the first time the Gikuyu elite have used other ethnic communities to achieve their political interests. Months of formal partnership between Kanu and Kadu Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Tom Mboya were used from Luo community for similar interest.
Paul Ngei had to break from Kanu to form the African People's party when the Mboya group in Kanu challenged his leadership of the Kamba people. The threat was however, that if other political parties, associations or movements were formed it would weaken the Kenyatta’s hidden political ambitions. Kadu for that matter was a threat.
Kanu was predominantly Luo and Kikuyu party. Kadu on the other hand was formed specifically to federate the Kalenjin political alliance, the Maasai United Front, the Kenya African People's party, the Coast African political Union, and the Somali National Association before it attracted other minority ethnic groups.
Had these movements survived Kenyatta would have been removed from power during presidential election. British settlers supported the small tribes against Gikuyu and Luo for the reason that if one of the small tribesmen took over presidency their properties, including land were safe.
Kenyatta and other Gikuyu elites could not wait to see this happen because grabbing the land from the British settlers was one of the main agenda. It explains why Gema became associated with land buying companies through which they acquired huge chunks of land around the country, especially at the Coast and in Rift Valley.
They took most of the land previously owned by the former white settlers, which had initially been earmarked for resettling those who had been turned into squatters by the colonial land policies.
One of the most famous land buying companies was Gema Holdings. Most of the people including retired President Moi and his former Vice President, Mwai Kibaki who had considerable political influence in the Kenyatta regime, were given the opportunity to buy as much land as they could.
That is why when chaos erupted in the Rift Valley shortly after the controversial 2007 Presidential vote tally, the land question became the bone of contention. Kenyatta led a pack of ministers MPs and civil servants in getting plots, mainly in Rift Valley.
Politicians with power and money as well as businessmen with liquid cash managed to acquire thousands of acres. For instance, hardly a year into Kenyatta’s regime, Mama Ngina bought 1,006 acres in Dandora from Messrs Hendrik Rensburg for Sh200, 000.
In the same area, Peter Muigai Kenyatta bought for Sh51, 000 some 700 acres and a further 1266 acres North East of Nairobi for Sh87, 000. Mr Kenyatta also paid Sh45, 000 to acquire 100 acres in Dandora as a “Trustee for minor son Uhuru.”
Former President Daniel arap Moi had by 1964 bought 2,344 acres in Kampi-ya-Moto for Sh60, 000. Mr Kenyatta’s right hand man, Minister of State Mbiyu Koinange, also bought 645 acres in Limuru for Sh497, 000 among others.
First Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga appears not to have bought land using his name but did so under the Luo Thrift and Trading Company. In 1964 he bought 394 acres from the estate of B.H. Patel in Miwani and a further 401 acres in 1965 from C. Patel for Sh255, 000.
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was convinced only Kanu could unite Kenyans. He was the leader of the elected members of Legislative Council (Legico). He took the floor of the house and maintained there would be no independence without Kenyatta and Kanu.
It was only later on that Oginga admitted he calculated falsely that merger of Kadu and Kanu, far from strengthening the party, introduced dangerously divisive policies and forces into Kanu's policy from within.
It is against the background that Gema is now using G7, PNU-Alliance among other parties to make sure that after Kibaki the power must go back to them. It explains why former Thika County Council chairman, Francis Wakahia was quoted to have said that: "Tukuenda ruuri rucoke mukaro na nowe tu ungihota" (we want the river to return to its original course and you are the only person capable of doing this). (Standards, January 28, 2002).
It explains further why according to Limuru MP Peter Mwathi, any Kikuyu politician who doesn’t support Uhuru Kenyatta will fall ill, some of whom include former Cabinet minister Joseph Kamotho who refused to support Uhuru during his address meeting in Murang’a.
According to the MP Njenga Karume fell ill because he was installed a Kikuyu elder contrary to the traditions and against wishes of respected elders who had installed Uhuru as their "king".
The Gema believe that within the G7 Alliance that brings together Mr Kenyatta, fellow ICC suspect William Ruto, Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa, Matuga MP Chirau Mwakwere and other putative community leaders would be a force to bar Prime Minister Raila Odinga from becoming the president. With this number Gema is convinced Uhuru will get it to State House.
Nigerian Catholic bishop Albert Obiefuna was right to say during the first African Synod assemblies that in Africa, the blood of family, clan and tribe is thicker than the water of baptism that is why Christians or even Muslims for that matter are able to fight each other.
This was already seen in Rwanda in 1959 when bishop Perraudin in his famous Lenten pastoral letter saw the ethnic problem in Rwanda as the source of the social injustices. More so when the bishops of Rwanda in 1992 wrote: “Rwanda will never know peace if Hutu, Tutsi and Twa do not understand and accept each other as equal.
Two years later the bishops came to realize that the core of the problem was the ethnic antagonisms following the 1994 genocide. Ethnicity in itself is not bad-it only becomes a problem when it takes the form of ethnocentrism or tribalism, like Gema, G7 or other tribal alliances.
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Kenya: Devolution, Finance and Land Bill is nowhere yet re-groupting & election fever is on climax
From: Judy Miriga
Thank you Machera,
I hear you Machera and you have spoken well.
I will tell you another thing, if we in one voice and in a short notice, we were able muscle to vote in favor for the Referendum to gain Devolution for Public Mandate interest, will it be difficult for us to vote for an independent candidate a choice for public ????? We will keep the fire burning until people get what they want......
My thinking is this, people on the grassroots is well informed and are more educated since the referendum. The public is knowledgeable about the corrupt politicians intentions to make Kenyans their SLAVES and with their ping pong drama, they think they have control of the public. Public Demands for CHANGE are on the walls…..they know where the shoes pinches…….and it is the reason why 90% of people of Kenya want the ICC Hague to take effect for justice to be seen to have been done.
People hate to see the youth jobless and want sustainable jobs not the other way where their children engage in cocaine or any drug peddling or prostitution which is perpetuated and are spread by these same corrupt politicians. People are tired from living a hopeless life, where their homes are demolished to serve special interest, while others are driven to the IDPs, homelessness or to slaughter house, with their blood used as rituals for the "Birds of the Same Feathers" whose survival is based on political conspiracies of man-eat-man society, with increase of poverty, hunger, without any plan for draught management and protection, succumbing to environmental risks and threats, enduring endless pain and sufferings. Women equally want to engage in sustainable and feasible development agenda so they are able to live and own descent homes and bring forth a stable healthy family unit and be able to provide sufficiently to their children's needs. Lastly the public want to vote for a Responsible leader with Integrity who is prepared to deliver genuine and realistic service to people. Money was poured to block referendum by the Corporate Special Interest, but, the Referendum turned to be a huge success......The People won……..Again, this time round, and by the Grace of God, peoples wishes will win against the Corporate Special Interest syndicate conspiracy cartel network of stealing public Wealth Resources and their land…….
We will not give up, we will intensify our campaign far and wide and in every-way we know how. We will reach out to all corners and people will know the cause of their pain and sufferings, and they will vote according to what suits their needs and demands and not of the Special Interest………People will vote CHANGE........
By Faith, we are determined because we Believe that God is in His business of change. That, God has listened to the quite cries and lamentation of His people and God answers Prayers……..He God will not have brought us this far if he did not care for His creations and nature........
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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--- On Sun, 3/25/12, Evans MACHERA wrote:
From: Evans MACHERA
Subject: Devolution, Finance and Land Bill is nowhere yet re-groupting & election fever is on climax
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 1:30 PM
Judy,
Talk of the Finance Bill and the Land Bill,then i will show you the Honey and Buttered side of the Bread. This is the juicy National cake that saw skewd infrustructuring (development) in our country that was the basis for Constitutional Review hence the much needed change.
The old order is sweet forsome and wont watch things fall apart from their handsfor where shall they go!
In his poem "The Leaders",Amos Tabalia write;-
Tomorrow,Today and Yesterday
What is the difference?
All exists not
Tomorrow turns to today
Today to yesterday
Yesterday was tomorrow
And all turned today.
You are the leaders of tomorrow
The old greedy leader never lets go
Promise of nonexistence
That buys time and adds nothing
Why such blatant lie corrupts our minds
I never understand
Today tomorrow and yesterday are now
A time-line separating the three
Exists not
It's now and now or never
Like soldierss with no armour
We have to fight with our hearts
For we can only change now
And not tomorrow,for tomorrow is not.
(Riddles of my Mother) - Amos Tabalia. ( www.Nsemia publishers).
Unless we implement the New Constitution "fight with our hearts" now for any meaningful change,tomorrow wont because "A time-line separating the three Exists not" - yaani,there is no difference.
Divolution was intended to distribute resources from the few to the many in the grassroots where the citizenry make local decisions affecting them - without the Finance and Land Bill put in place,then there is no Devolution,hence no "change" implying that the constitutional review commission were joking with paper work at the expense of kenyans.
Evans MACHERA.
From: Judy Miriga
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 9:50 AM
Subject: Devolution, Finance and Land Bill is nowhere yet re-groupting & election fever is on climax
Folks,
We demand that the Coalition Government to be dissolved immediately now. Kibaki
and Raila will not bring the change we all want. They are co-conspirators, and are
busy playing delaying tactics cards so to stay in public office illegally.
Election cannot go on without Devolution, Finance and Land Bill put in place. For
this case, we must also not keep them in office illegally.
The coalition government has failed and is in office illegally and unconstitutionally.
We want change and justice to be seen to be realistic and we want it now..........
The Mombasa people have woken up and are telling it like it is......the rest of the
country need to do the same.
Our youths, men and women, wake up let us all unite and fight for our rights.
It is now or never.......It is our lives, livelihood, survival and destiny, these politicians are destroying for the benefit of special interest, their greed and selfishness.
Each one everyone, do your part, do it the way you know how and do it best for change to be a reality.
Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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A special team tasked by the attorney general to advise the Kenyan government on the ICC cases, has recommended the appointment of a special prosecutor and trial of post election violence cases, in Kenyan courts. The team comprising of legal experts presented its report to attorney general Githu Muigai on Monday and recommended that all Kenyan post election violence cases, including those faced by the four Kenyan suspects whose cases were confirmed, should have their cases audited afresh by Kenya's judiciary. Abdi Osman has more details.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday denied casting aspersions on the judiciary when he faulted the January 13th advisory opinion rendered by the constitutional court on the date of the next general election. Speaking in Kisii last weekend, Odinga had termed the constitutional court a 'fake or kangaroo court', remarks that did not go unchallenged by Chief Justice Dr. Willy Mutunga. But Odinga has now sought to clarify that he only differed with the court's ruling, and did not intend to demean the entire judiciary. And as Francis Gachuri reports, the premier is courting yet another controversy, for allegedly intimidating the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, which set a march 4th 2013 date for the forthcoming general election.
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NEWSMAKERS: Focus on 'Iron Lady', Orie Rogo Manduli. Manduli: I've fought and won many battles. We crown Newsmakers for the year 2011 with the story of a woman who has continued to fascinate many, not only by her unique sense of style and fashion, but also by her outspoken character that has seen her politically wrestle it out with men for various leadership positions. A former model and rally driver, she has done what most women would consider taboo and what many men term as too aggressive, coming from a woman. But for a woman who at only 19 was a divorced mother of 3...she says she has no apologies to make, and hopes her story remains symbolic in the continued fight for gender equality. Here's Evelyn Wambui with tonight's Newsmaker, the one and only, Ambassador Orie Rogo Manduli.
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Members of parliament will now have 60 extra days to scrutinise debate and enact into law three bills touching on the crucial matter of land after they voted in favour of a motion seeking the extension of the February 27th deadline. The motion was however passed amid tense moments, after 150 of the 151 mps present in the house at the time voted in its favour. Debate on the matter was delayed for two hours as the executive and backbenchers alike desperately rallied mps to raise the 148 votes constitutionally required to pass such a motion, failing which the house would have been forced to sit throughout the weekend or risk an early dissolution. And, as Chris Thairu reports, the executive once again came under fire with cabinet ministers being accused of sabotaging the constitution implementation process by delaying the generation of bills.
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The three bills on devolution sailed through the second reading today with members of parliament proposing several amendments. As the house rushed to beat the February 27th deadline by which the county governments bill, the intergovernmental relations bill and the transition to devolved governments bill must be passed, mps unanimously voted in favour of the 3 bills, which now proceed to the committee stage, where the proposed amendments will either be approved or rejected. House Speaker Kenneth Marende has in the meantime approved a motion sponsored by the constitution implementation oversight committee, seeking to extend the February 27th deadline by three months. And as Chris Thairu reports, that motion is expected on the floor of the house tomorrow. Chris Thairu reports.
Tough times ahead in final year of coalition
By OSCAR OBONYO
There are signs that the life of the Grand Coalition could end the same way it started four years ago — on a turbulent note.
The unhappy marriage between ODM and a PNU-led coalition, sealed to end a political crisis, comes to a close within a year. While it has had its honeymoon periods from time to time, there has been no shortage of domestic disturbances, either playing out in public or behind closed doors.
The latest issues causing rifts between the two coalition partners are so explosive they will require significant goodwill and statesmanship from President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to avoid raising political temperatures in a country still healing from the rifts caused in 2007.
Trouble is brewing between the two on four clear battlefronts — the date of the next election, the Devolution Bill, the composition of the Police Service Commission, and the Government’s position on the International Criminal Court process.
That Kibaki and Raila have taken hard and conflicting stands on these issues is a pointer to the friction ahead. Government Joint Chief Whip, Jakoyo Midiwo, says the issues are so dear to the PM and his ODM party, they must be pushed through.
Disagreement over the election date has proved particularly explosive, with the Judiciary and the electoral commission caught in the crossfire after public statements on the matter by the President and Prime Minister.
A planned meeting between the two to settle the issue failed to take off, as did an Appeals Court hearing that may have informed it.
Dennis Onyango, the Director of Communication in the PM’s Office, said there was no need for the meeting, as it had been pre-empted by events preceding it, including the electoral body’s announcement of the election date.
Days before the scheduled meeting, President Kibaki seemed to imply preference for the option of a March 2013 election proposed in a constitutional court’s advisory opinion in January. This was in a clarification to an offhand remark that suggested he favoured elections "at the end of this year".
This confusion prompted the PM to restate his preference for a December 2012 poll, which was the second option provided for in the advisory opinion. He later went ahead to slam the constitutional court for its judgement, for which he has since apologised.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced March 4, 2013, as the election date, saying it had failed to get Kibaki and Raila to commit to bringing the coalition to an end to allow for elections in December.
Allies of the President say the impasse came about because it was not clear if ending the coalition would trigger the dissolution of Parliament, leading to an election, or create a constitutional crisis. ODM, however, suspects it was not a coincidence that the IEBC made its announcement four days after the President made his preference known.
Respect court’s decision
In a quick rejoinder, however, the Head of President Kibaki’s Press Service Unit, Isaiya Kabira, says the President was not stating a preference, only settling on the only viable court-provided option. Kabira points out that the President "has already stated that he will respect the decisions of the courts with regard to the election date". The Appeals Court ruling on the same matter is set for next week.
"An election date is an important calendar event in any nation. President Kibaki is fully aware of this (and has no reason to delay it). Indeed, it begs the question of what can he do in (an extra) three months that he will not have done in his ten years as President or over 55 years in service to our country," he said.
Recently, Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua asked the President and Prime Minister to demonstrate statesmanship by dissolving the Grand Coalition Government in time for a December General Election. In an open letter to the principals, Karua said the dissolution of Government was an option given by the recent electoral court ruling. The Appeal Court ruling next week may help settle the question of whether dissolution will make a December poll possible.
As the country moves closer to the first election under the new constitution and the Kibaki succession, the feuding between the two coalition partners is likely to intensify. Within the Raila camp, much of the anger arises from the feeling that the President, through the national security apparatus, has allowed Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto to discredit Raila at public rallies across the country. The two ICC accused plan to contest the presidency despite pending trials in The Hague, taking on perceived frontrunner, Raila.
Sponsor rallies
The thinking within the PM’s corner is that the President’s handling of the ICC question favours the two. Indeed, this is what informed the recent remark from the Raila Secretariat that Uhuru and Ruto belong in jail while awaiting trial.
Reached for comment, however, Ruto was categorical that President Kibaki was not the type to sponsor rallies for other people. He said blaming the President for the rallies suggested a poor understanding of how Government works.
"Tinga (PM) and his team must be trapped in (thoughts of) the old order where the Provincial Administration was used to stifle the people’s constitutional right of freedom of assembly and speech," reacted Ruto. The MP opines that ODM should learn to sort out its problems without dragging in other players: "If the prayer rallies are the issue, then why don’t they organise their own rallies and pray for those they wish to pray for?"
Kabira adds that asking the President to stop one group from peacefully propagating its views is calling for him to stop being neutral.
"President Kibaki’s only interest at the moment is a free, fair and credible election and a smooth peaceful transition," he says. Kabira adds that he sees nothing in the recent developments that suggests things are spiralling out of control. "Together they (Kibaki and Raila) have steered the Grand Coalition through both trying and fulfilling moments."
Mathira MP, Ephraim Maina, is optimistic that the coalition leaders will pull through. Stating that he has a lot of respect for the two, Maina instead blames Kibaki-Raila handlers of poisoning the environment for narrow selfish gains.
"It was never easy from the beginning, but these two gentlemen have proved before that, however hot the issues are, they have the capacity to sort them out," says Maina, the Chairman of Central Kenya MPs caucus.
The emerging heat is just part of the wider drama that was re-ignited early this month by the nomination of members to the influential Police Service Commission. Raila raised the red flag by disassociating himself from the list of nominees presented by the President to Parliament. He maintains he was not consulted over the final decision.
The nominees were Amina Masoud as the Chair, and Esther Chui-Colombini, Ronald Musengi, James Atema, Shadrack Mutia, and Mary Auma as Commissioners. Masoud was ranked third behind Johnston Kavuludi who scored 77 per cent, and Murshid Mohamed who had 75. It is not clear why the two were left out.
Local special tribunal
The current standoff rekindles memories of last year on January 27 when President Kibaki nominated Court of Appeal Judge Alnashir Visram as Chief Justice, Prof Githu Muigai as Attorney General and lawyer Kioko Kilukumi as Director of Public Prosecutions. Raila, who was out of the country, rejected the nominations saying he had not been consulted, thereby forcing Kibaki to retreat.
In the meantime, the ICC debate and lately, the alleged forged UK-Government letter, continue to generate more heat. Except for their initial support for setting up a local special tribunal to try the suspects, Kibaki and Raila have walked different paths on the ICC matter.
The latest flap came after a dossier suggesting Western nations were pushing for Kibaki’s indictment by the ICC under a Raila presidency was tabled in Parliament. The dossier, dismissed as "not genuine", has irked the ODM leader greatly for suggesting he was either a foreign puppet or a conspirator in securing the indictments of Uhuru and Ruto. Raila is reportedly surprised that Kibaki has not reprimanded those dragging his (President) name into the ICC process.
Noting that President Kibaki formed an independent team to advise Government following the ICC rulings, Kabira denies alleged ill intentions on the part of the President. That team, he says, included Paul Mwangi, the legal advisor in the PM’s office. The President received the team’s report last week.
Another clashing point revolves around the question of devolution. Raila’s Orange party recently released a statement vowing to fully support the devolved system of Government. The President has, however, declined to sign the Devolution Bill into law raising objections on several issues related to security.
"Kibaki will not be President after the next elections. It is important that his candid views on who will wield the power over security both nationally and locally be heard. To have police officers answerable to a governor is to invite chaos in our country," says Kabira.
Nairobi Star (Nairobi)
Kenya: Police Arrest 'ICC Email Hacker'
23 March 2012
A journalist has been arrested by police on suspicion of hacking into the International Criminal Court server and obtaining confidential information.
Dennis Itumbi was arrested on Thursday night at his rural home in Embu where he was reportedly hiding after evading four attempts at arrest by police. He is likely to spend the weekend in the cells before appearing in court on Monday.
Detectives from the Serious Crime unit started hunting for Itumbi on Monday after investigators from Cyber Crime Unit linked him to the alleged ICC hacking. The investigators staked out his house in Thindigua for days but could not find him. The police eventually tracked his phone in Embu on Thursday night. He was arrested, brought to Nairobi and detained at Muthaiga police station.
Investigators want to recover a computer or a mobile phone that the ex-People daily and Baraka FM reporter allegedly used to hack the ICC system. CID Director Francis Muhoro Ndegwa told the Star that the police were questioning Itumbi on suspicion of hacking into the ICC domain. Yesterday, Itumbi recorded a statement at CID headquarters denying that he had hacked into the ICC domain.
Last month, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo threatened to seek arrest warrants for those interfering with witnesses in the Kenyan cases. Ocampo claimed that some individuals were threatening ICC witnesses who are likely to testify against the four Kenyan suspects facing trial over the 2008 post election violence.
CID Director Francis Muhoro and Serious Crime Unit boss John Kariuki yesterday met to decide the way forward. Police sources said Itumbi will be arraigned in court on Monday to answer two charges of hacking of a website and and email contrary to the Communication Commission Act. "We have no doubt that this the man we have been looking for," said the source.
Last week, Attorney General Githu Muigai directed the Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere, CID boss Francis Muhoro and NSIS boss Michael Gichangi to investigate the claims that a Kenyan had hacked into ICC emails to intimidate witnesses. Muigai said that he had received a complaint from Ocampo that there was "hacking of email accounts of a person of interest" and intimidation of witnesses.
"Without prejudice to the ongoing investigations, I wish to caution that any person guilty of interfering in any way with the process of the cases before the ICC or meddling in the local investigations relating to the post-election violence case, is liable and shall face the full force of law," Muigai advised Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko.
Last month Itumbi threatened to sue fellow blogger Robert Alai for claiming that he was behind the forged UK Foreign Office documents that allegedly proved that Britain was supporting Prime Minister Raila Odinga. MPs on Monday are due to start investigating the origin and authenticity of the documents.
Itumbi was seen in Parliament on the day that the forged documents were distributed to MPs. Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo tabled the alleged briefing papers that apparently showed that the UK wanted to have President Kibaki indicted after he leaves office and to have Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto arrested in April.
Itumbi has been reportedly working as a consultant for Kenyan politicians. He has allegedly been paid for media coordination and other related activities. A document has been circulating showing the alleged monthly expenses of a local politician. It is not known if the document is genuine or forged. The document records that in January 'Dennis' received about Sh238,000 itemized as 'ICC related press conferences' and Sh18,800 for 'Serena Hotel (press conference hall hire bill).' Itumbi runs a popular blog on Facebook.
Kenya: Oto’s Speech during The World Clean-up Day
from odhiambo okecth
Friends,
The Enclosed was my speech today at Umoja during The World Clean-up Day.
Peace and blessings
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
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Umoja Estate- Moi Drive; The World Clean-up Day.
The Permanent Secretary Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government, Prof Karega Mutahi.
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development, Arch Philip Sika.
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development, Dr. James Nyikal.
The Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority- Mr. Erias Lukwago.
His Excellency the Ambassador of Uganda to Kenya His Excellency BP Emmanuel Hatega.
All Protocal Observed.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all today to Umoja Estate in celebrating The World Clean-up Day with us. KCDN has been in the front line in mobilizing Kenyans into action and we are happy that this day has been made a resounding success due to our commitment and focus.
We launched the Clean-up Campaigns in 2009 when we invited the City Council of Nairobi to join with us in cleaning the Komarock Canal. The response was massive and thereafter, we wrote to the Town Clerk requesting if we could do this every Month across the whole of Nairobi.
This request was granted and on the 18th September 2010, His then Worship the Mayor Cllr Geoffrey Majiwa, in the company of several City Fathers and Chief Officers, officially launched the Nairobi City Monthly Clean-up Campaign. From then on, this campaign has been mounted every 3rd Saturday of the Month in Nairobi.
Having seen the success and the willingness of Kenyans to join in this process, and having seen how littered our Towns across the Country were, we decided to Launch The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign to spear head this campaign across all Kenya.
We invited the support of the Provincial Administration at the Office of the President, the Greening Kenya Initiative at the Office of the Prime Minister, the participation of various Local Government Authorities across Kenya as our first Friends, and many Friends of KCDN.
We then invited the Rt Hon Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga to graciously launch this Campaign in Mombasa and on the 20th February 2011, this became a reality when the Rt Hon Prime Minister delegated this invitation to Hon Amazon Kingi- the Minister for Fisheries Development to stand in for him.
From that time on, The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign has grown in stature. We have invited more willing partners to join with us and we have launched the Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisii, Kisumu, Kakamega, Nyeri and Naivasha.
We are happy that our efforts have been supported by the following groups whom we have the confidence of calling Friends of KCDN;
? Provincial Administration- Office of the President
? Public Service Transformation Department- Office of the Prime Minister
? Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Goovernment
? Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources
? Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development
? Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development
? Akiba Uhaki Foundation
? A Better World
? Mugumo Communications Ltd
? Kenya Private Sector Alliance
? And a host of Friends of KCDN listed under Partners in our website- http://www.kcdnkenya.org
Mobilizing and sensitizing Kenyans for this Campaign has not been easy. A few people who do not know think that we are really well funded. But our Friends who know, know how difficult it has been for us to mobilize for the success of this Campaign. We have been knocking constantly on several doors with some modest success.
It is hence our intention today to officially invite for the support, both logistics and financial, to The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign. We have proved that it can be done, and with your support, we can work as a team in this Journey of Hope across Kenya.
During our Consultative Forums across Kenya, we are addressing 3 Thematic Areas which we know has the potential of turning Kenya around namely;
? Environmental Management- where we are inviting Kenyans to keep their neighbourhoods clean
? Peace Building- where we are inviting Kenyans to appreciate that we are One Family under God, and
? Good Governance- where we are inviting Kenyans to become active participants in the affairs of our beloved Country.
We have made a few observations in the course of this Campaign;
? To achieve a Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya, we need to make it official, just like we have it in other Countries, that Kenyans should join in this voluntary process every 3rd Saturday of the Month across the whole Country for 2 hours.
? We must maintain Order
? We must have Discipline
? We must enforce the rule of Law and the Council By-Laws
In so doing, we will surely achieve a Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya.
We would then gladly recommend the following;
? That the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government, being the Ministry that controls our Local Authorities, should embrace the concept of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign and become the Patron to the event
? That the Government allocates resources and office space for this Campaign
? That the Local Authorities should make budgetary allocations for this Campaign every Month
? And the Corporates and other Players be enjoined in this Campaign in the spirit of Private Public Partnership.
It is now my pleasure to declare you the 1st General of the trenches- installation Ceremony to follow- with the Following words-
The Hon John Njoroge Michuki left us, but the Spirit of Michuki lives on. With this Spade, go yee forth and be the New Michuki in our Midst. Welcome to the Big Shoes.
Lastly, I want to sincerely thank you all for making this day a success. More so, I want to thank a lady by the name Hellen Wanjoya- who called me and asked me if we could do something for Umoja. She was very helpful in our mobilization process and we at KCDN would really want to appreciate her.
Thank you and God Bless us all.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
Blog; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
Facebook; Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaign
Facebook; Odhiambo T Oketch
Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of Nairobi Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.
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KENYA: FEARS AS MOMBASA REPUBLICAN COUNCIL STORM MALINDI
From: Ouko joachim omolo
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REGIONAL NEWS TEAM
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012
The news which has just come in says that a police officer has been injured after suspected Mombasa Republican Council youth stormed a polling station during mock elections in Malindi, Coast Province Saturday.
One of the four officers manning the polling station at St Andrews Primary School was forced to fire in the air several times to disperse the rowdy youth. The injured officer also lost his firearm.
The elections were cancelled after the mob attacked the officials with crude weapons and vandalised property belonging to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
According to one of the clerks at the station situated in Kisumu Ndogo area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the group arrived in a car and mingled with others posing as normal voters.
The clerk said that the youth, who had crude weapons, insisted that the elections should be stopped, reports Daily Nation.
“They had rungus (clubs) and immediately they alighted they started wrestling the police and attacked them."
They vandalised several ballot boxes and destroyed many of the ballots that had already been cast.
“The attackers who were about 40 escaped on foot after the police officers shot in the air,” said the clerk.
The IEBC risk and compliance director Abdulrahman Bilacha confirmed the incident and said that security had been beefed up at the rest of the 20 polling stations participating in the exercise.
The reason behind the storm is not very clear, however the Mombasa Republican Council have declared they want to secede from Kenya and create a country based at the Coast province. They claim successive governments have not done much to alleviate poverty at the coast.
In its manifesto, the Mombasa Republican Council laments that “This country (Coast) has become a field of Kenyans looting our wealth,” and demands the removal of Kenya’s administration and, ultimately, independence.
Here is the Mombasa Republican Council Manifesto....
"THE MOMBASA REPUBLICAN COUNCIL
INTRODUCTION
We, the Coast people are not concerned with the Kenya constitution; the Coast Region (Mombasa) has a separate legal status as a protectorate.
The country, Mombasa which extends right from the Indian Ocean to Sultan Hamud, from Lungalunga to Kismayu and owned by natives, namely; the Mijikendas, Taitas, Pokomos, Bajunis, Arabs, Hindus and other Coastal tribes, has suffered a lot since 1963.
Remembering the time after signing of the agreement on 8th October 1963, which placed Mombasa (known as Coast province) under Kenya’s protection, this country (Mombasa) has become a field of Kenyans looting our wealth.
DEMAND
The original communities as named above are now demanding their colonial masters, Kenyans;
1.To repeal the 8/10/1963 Agreement cmnd 2161
2.Remove their administration
To grant our independence
AGREEMENT
By the time Kenya gained independence, it was seen that the British protectorate (Kenya protectorate) was not well organized for an autonomous state. So the British government and the government of Zanzibar placed the Coast region under the protection of the government of Kenya. Agreement No. cmnd 2161, which on its paragraph four (4) third and fourth lines stated that the government of Kenya, entered into certain undertakings concerning the protection after Kenya has attained independence.
Some of the reasons that made this Coast Region be placed under Kenya’s protection was well illustrated in the colony and protectorate of Kenya sessional paper No. 9 of 1961 in chapter ‘V’ examination of proposed solutions. Section (a) clause 50 line 15 stating. A number of people said that they wanted the British to maintain their connexion with the coastal strip and indeed looked to her Majesty’s government to defend them against possible invasion from upcountry Kenya tribes people. If the strip was set up as an autonomous state. The letters written by M. Shamte and J. Kenyatta concluded in London 5th October 1963 and exchanged to each other. Now under the Mombasa Republican council, we can administer ourselves. Therefore, the Republic of Kenya is being urged by the Mombasa republican Council to nullify the 8/10/1963 Agreement. Once these colonial and cruel governing masters are gone and we gain our independence:-
1.We will form our own government which, the Coast region will cease to act as province but instead it will become an autonomous state.
2.We will be able to appoint directly our people (the coast people) to operate our parastatals and other sectors which are conducting within our country Mombasa.
ADMINISTRATION
The Mombasa Republican Council demands to the government of Kenya to remove their administration starting from the executive office, the president office to local village elders.
Thus this government is governing the Coast province illegally as per the 8/10/1963 Agreement. This is why the government leaders use force to grab land within the Coast region i.e. the evicted people at Vipingo-Kikambala, this shamba is now grabbed by the Kenya government leaders, the evicted people we have witnessed in Watamu, not only were they banished but also killed, the titanium eviction, Msambweni eviction etc.
The Coast people are totally fed up with the Kenyan Administration which doesn’t protect as it was agreed but instead loots and kills mercilessly innocent people of the Coast Region. And once the government of Kenya removes their administration;
3. We the Coast people will be able to form our very strong
and fair administration that will comprise of well disciplined security forces, well trained by strong and super power nations with high quality sophisticated machines and modern technology with well experienced trainers.
4. The Mombasa government will see that, the elected
President will not be above the law.
5. The President will be answerable in court incase this person
breached any article of the law.
1. The Mombasa government will keep an eye on all the ministries.
2. That the Mombasa government will make sure a very big competition is witnessed at the Mombasa Ports Authority so to make sure our authority becomes the first and higher speeding in the harbor activities.
3. The government of Mombasa will make sure it is mandated to provide birth certificates, passports, identification cards and other primary documents free of charge within six (6) months as from the birth of the Mombasa citizen.
4. There will be freedom of worship
5.All the worshiping centres i.e. churches, mosques, Kayas, Hindu temples and other recognized centres will be safeguarded under our government.
6.Thus, there will be fair police rules which will eradicate the harassment of the wananchi.
7.The administration will come from the indigenous from the Coast, which will cease the demolition of our houses, burning of our houses, assault of our people, killing of our people, land grabbing, bad governing and many other evils that we witness from the government of Kenya.
8. Will cease the harassment of hawkers’ as per the Mombasa government will arrange enough land from the public land for such people.
9. The Mombasa government will ensure all the towns plus the city of Mombasa have reinstated the free public toilets for the sake of wananchi.
10. Justice will always be maintained at all times and to all people.
11. The Mombasa government will make significant difference within our country Mombasa than how it is today under Kenyan colony.
LAND AND SETTLEMENT
1. The Mombasa government will announce all the Mombasa land belongs to the Mombasa citizens shortly after Mombasa attains independence. 1.All land held by foreigners i.e. Kenyans, and others will be revised so to be known in which the person acquired it.
2. The Mombasa government will make sure all the grabbed land is taken back to the wananchi of Mombasa.
3. A new law concerning land distribution and ownership is going to be used.
4. There will be Regional independence land committees for the land matters which will make sure all the coastals benefit from the motherland, thereby make Mombasa citizens proud to be coastals.
5. All the title deeds which will be offered shall be under the government of Mombasa.
6. The Mombasa government will make sure the term ‘squatters’ and ‘crown lands’ come to an end immediately.
7. The Mombasa government will be entitled to provide proper and permanent settlement to all her citizens.
1. Our government will form a home care unit for widows, orphans, elders and the disabled people.
EDUCATION
1. The government of Mombasa will see that, the education funds is properly utilized as per the intended purpose.
1. The government of Mombasa will be mandated to build different institutions that is: 1.Modern Institutions
2. Nursery and kindergarten schools
3. Primary schools with all facilities i.e. stationery
4. Secondary schools
1. 1 .High schools
2. Colleges
3. Universities etc. which will all be financed and equipped appropriately.
1. The pupils will be educated from nursery to the highest learning freely including provision of uniforms.
1. The Mombasa government will make sure that, all the trained and students have attained the degrees and thus obtain employment opportunities in their home companies and other sectors in line with their profession.
2.The Mombasa citizens will have to resume their studies from where they left due to selfishness of their colonial masters (government of Kenya) in order to enable our new government (Mombasa) provide better performance.
1. The hopeful students will be given opportunities to study abroad.
FINANCE
1.Our government will provide free education for all the Coastal’s recognized religions.
2. The Mombasa government will make sure all resources are distributed equally.
3. The Mombasa government will make sure, the Mombasa cash crops get an international market and become the most important crops in the world.
4. Our government will ensure good relationship with both the developed and developing countries in a manner to ensure the resultant trade benefits the Mombasa traders and uplift the economy of our country.
1. Every Ministry will be provided with funds according to approval of the parliament.
1. There will be minimum tax of duty offered to businesses which is going to be at a reasonable rate, unlike the one we have currently.
1.Our Mombasa government will even reduce the tax fee for all our neighboring countries who use our Ports i.e. Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi etc so to enjoy as they have no any other ports to use.
1.The 68% revenue collected in the Coast province will eradicate the poverty state in the dry rural areas i.e. Kinango, Ganze, Magarini and other areas.
2. The Mombasa government will find that, the ordinary coastal person is effectively considered and necessities like food, shelter, health etc. are met.
3. The Mombasa government will form fair rules to collect tax from the good wealth that God endowed us with i.e. titanium, ocean, petroleum, agricultural land, tourism, gold, wildlife, livestock, industries etc.
4. All Mombasa citizens who are unemployed will be provided with monthly funding assistance.
5. Small scale businesses will not require permit nor licence to operate.
HEALTH
1.There will be modern technology in health sector and free medical care to her citizens.
1. All trained doctors will be given opportunity to work in health sectors.
2. The government will buy and import medicines to all the government hospitals and clinics.
1. The health coverage will be very high that, all citizens will be catered for.
TOURISM/WILDLIFE & NATURAL RESOURCES
1. Tourism is the most important sector, being one of the most revenue earners.
1. The Mombasa government will make sure that, it is highly improved and well protected.
2. The beach is the most attracting area and the good beach hotels. The traditional dances and the traditional culture of the coastal life is going to be modernized and better areas of entertainment be erected.
The museums and our national heritage i.e traditional and cultural dressings/dances, ruins (Gede) will all be protected and better attention accorded so that it’s fame grows to be known globally.
2. All the Mombasa forests together with ranch areas will be reserved for the purpose of our wildlife animals.
1. We will form a very strong fresh water board so as to make sure coastals and our livestock get sufficient water.
1. The government of Mombasa will ensure all the mineral found within our country will be protected accordingly in manner to benefit coastal people but not victimization as we have witnessed in various places within the Coast Region.
1. The land with gem stones minerals will be protected and set a side for gem stone excavation to be done under the government licence.
1.The Mombasa government will make sure the coastals get first priority to the Beach trading, fisheries and other sea facilities so as to empower the coastal indigenous in all the sea sections including the tourists sector, which will experience the coast people with their gift given by God (the ocean).
1. The Mombasa government will ensure the coastals get Utalii college with all facilitation equipments so to enable the coastal community become the most renown experts in the tourism sector.
1. The wildlife is going to be protected much against poachers and properly taken care of.
2. The Mombasa government will ensure that all the hotels and cottages are kept to the best standard to compete with other countries in the world.
3. The charging rate will be reduced to receive as many tourists as possible thus earning more revenue for the Mombasa country.
4. The beach boys and operators will offer the best discipline to the tourists and avoid harassment to the same.
5. They will be given licence.
6. The Mombasa government will maintain high security to the tourists both in town and at the beach.
7. Well trained police officers will be used to fight against terrorism throughout the Mombasa country.
8. Our government is going to protect every tourist along the beach and outside the beach line within our country Mombasa. Good roads will be build inside the parks.
9. The government is going to increase the size of our parks and increase the wildlife by acquisition from other countries.
10. Well trained tour guides and knowledgeable are the ones who will be recruited in the tourist industry.
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Kenya Politicians are stooping too low and practising primitive and parochial politics
Commentary By Bob Ndira-Uradi
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When the Prime Minister Raila Odinga made veiled remarks about a court ruling on the date for the next general elections it received wholesale condemnation from all quarters within the so-called G7 groups.
But when Honorable William Ruto deliberately and flagrantly choose to defend a matter which is already before a court of law, and as such does not need clearance via the media columns, but only required the adversely mentioned person defend himself of her self inside the court room and give his or her version of the matter therein court.
There was total silent on the part of Raila’s detractors. Why? All the events and political scenarios only point to the direction o the worse political intrigues, now shaping in our country.
In Kenya of today, what used to be known in legal terms as the rule of prejudice is no longer there anymore. People don’t see the seriousness of court cases. People facing serious criminal charges do defend themselves through the public acclamation at political rallies.
Doe it mean that our people have got n faith in our judicial system? They only trust the information conveyed to the reading public via newspaper columns?
They hurriedly convened press conferences to clear the air on matters already before the legal constituted court of law. And they do this with impunity. Surely are thee the same person who wants to become our next rulers? I am sure for certain that level minded Kenya will definitely find an answer to the above questions. If not so they will do so at the polling booths next year.
Another million dollar question is; Are these leaders really getting adequate legal experts advice fro their lawyers before they resort to making populist defense of serious criminal charges through newspaper of public rallies?
Reading some of the reaction and comments posted to newspaper b members of the so-called G7 or KKK one could make an intelligent guesswork and see how seriously panicking are member of this amorphous alliance about the presidential candidature of the populist Raila Odinga. And all the tricks in the books are being deployed to undercut and scuttle his presidential ambition.
However, Kenyans are no longer living in the stone age, but very much awake and do understand well who I the genuine reformer an who is sailing inside the boat of anti-reformist group.
Some members of the G7 tribal alliance have made Raila Odinga their punching bags or an open field of learning elementary lessons in politics and the motive behind all these hullaballoo are meant to undermine and undercut “Agwambo’s popularity with Kenyan electorate.
However, God is Great, because while the Prime Minister is busy everyday tending to state work, and at the same time attending to the various important government duties, his fellow cabinet colleagues from half of the coalition government are busy criss-crossing the full length and width of the republic of Kenya hurling scathing criticism of him while scheming how to derail his presidential ambition.
Most of the Ministers allied to the PNU or G7 are no longer performing their duties and are therefore earning the taxpayers money, but not performing any duty that of mutual beneficial to Kenyan taxpayers. Is this is the kind of a government which Kenyans want to remain in Office until March next year?
Surely, can’t anti-Raila forces change their tactics and sale their far-reaching policy when canvassing for votes instead of wasting their time and energies directing their energies on erratic and destructive criticism of only one man, who is arguably doing a donkey’s load of work for the country. Kenyans now feel highly suffocated with the kind of vitriol’s, they watching through television news footage and reading in the newspaper columns on daily basis and truly want a change in the campaign style to that of political maturity.
Personally, I am not a Raila’s man nor am I one of his many sycophants, but judging from the views of some leaders, particularly his competitors for the same job; I am indeed convinced the man has matured up for the job. He has transformed himself from the old radicalism to that of a true statesman.
My belief in this school of thought perhaps represented the views of millions of silent Kenyans who for other reason might be hiding their heads in the sands of tribalism which is devoid of merit at all.
I their well orchestrated attacks on Raila from many prongs, many members of the G7 team have only been displaying their political naivety an mediocrity, which are devoid of what is known as “constructive engagement” in politics. They have only exposed their politic novices convincing Kenyans that none of them is fit to be our next ruler.
Although it is not in my character to engage in names calling, I am gong to single out the name of one politician who is know to be not only erratic, but very vocal among the ant-Raila group. This is no one else but the youthful MP for Cherangany Hon Joshua Kutuny.
Two years ago, especially during the constitutional referendum, Kutuny had joined the ranks with the pro No group headed by the Eldoret North Mp William Samoei Arap Ruto. While Raila Odinga led the pro-Yes camp that did not only triumphed in the Referendum voting result, but Kutuny performed poorly in his own Cherangany constituency where the majority of the electorate voted for Yes.
The outcome of results in the constitutional referendum could have served as deterrent to Kutuny like mined politicians not to underrate or underestimate the influence and enormous popularity of Mr Odinga with the down trodden Kenyans. In fact the result of the referendum itself speaks the volumes, pointing to the direction that the likes of Kutuny could be only one term MPs come the next polls. Kenyans are obviously looking forward to have a better person in Cherangany comes the year 2013,
I am sure for certain that the next year general elections will weed out all the political mediocre and semi-illiterate MPs out of the August House. This will eventually bring to an end the politics of cash handouts. Those thriving on politics o malice will be swept away in the bonfire of the new constitution.
We are all hoping that the IEBC will make sure that the backgrounds of people who want toi become the next generation leaders are scrutinized properly and thoroughly. They should make sure that the Chapter Six of the Constitution of professional ethics is applied to the letter.
Lawyers with the past history of having swindled their poor clients and fleece them of their money should not be allowed to see the inside of either Parliament or Senate and even the regional County governor’s position.
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Kenya: Final arrangements for the World Clean-up Day
From: odhiambo okecth
Friends,
We hosted the final Consultative Forum where the final arrangements for the World Clean-up Day were made.
In attendance with us were the Divisional Environmental Officer Mr. Joseph Nyaga from the City Council of Nairobi, Ms Beatrice Munyao- the Ward Manager Umoja 2, Ms Jane Rose Muthoni- Assistant Chief Umoja, Ms Pamela Odima- KNRC Women Leader Umoja, Mr. Tom Ongoma- Market Master Umoja Market, Mr. Alvin Juma- KMTC Nairobi and a large number of participating organizations.
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The Organizing Team after todays meeting at Umoja- 22nd March 2012
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Participants will meet as from 6.30am at the Umoja 1 Council offices, next to the Catholic Church and the Clean-up Campaign will be flagged off at 7.00am by Prof Karega Mutahi- the Permanent Secretary Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government in the presence of all our Guests.
We will assign the participating Teams the various routes and we hope to converge at Busara Primary School immediately we finish, for closing remarks and an official speech from the PS.
The KCDN Team and Women Leaders; Ms Pamela Odima is on the far left, Ms Hellen Wanjoya- in red, Ms Florence Kanyua in the middle and Ms Sylvia Ntambato
We are inviting all the participating Teams to come with their lists of members for ease of registration and giving out of working tools. We are also inviting all those who can come with their tools to do so.
As I am writing this, we are still seeking out support for the following items;
4 Tents
500 Chairs
PA System
2,000 bottles of water.
We are not being provided with these and so, any well wisher may step in and be of support.
Lastly, if you want to be of any financial support to The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign across Kenya, you can discuss the same with the undersigned and we will post the same online as we have been doing all the times.
The KCDN Team- Hellen Wanjoya- A Friend of KCDN, Oto, Florence Kanyua, Peter Mbol and Sylvia Nyambato.
We are looking forward to meeting for the first time with many bloggers who have been engaging with us on the Clean-up Campaign on Saturday.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
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Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of Nairobi Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.
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Kenya: daggers are drawn in the battle for Sigowet/Soin new parliamentary seat
Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Sondu Market
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The newly created Sigowet/Soin parliamentary constituency could prove to be the biggest hub of more economic activities in the South Rift Region.
The area is unique in that it produces a lot both green leave tea bushes and sugar cane at the same time making it an area where the money could be in the highest circulations.
Sigowet/Soin is also an area where the border is proximity for inter-communal barter trade to flourish between the three major communities in Western Kenya. These are members of the Kipsigis, Luos and Kisiis.
The fast growing Sondu Market could be developed into an area of a booming trade. Sondu has half it is land with parts of it and right in Sigowet/Soin and the other half in Nyakach district. It is situated in a beautiful location between several hills overlooking Sondu/Miriu River.
The busy market is also serving the interest of the residents of North Mugirango Borabu who are living just across Sondu Mriu River separate only by the main Sonu-Oyugis road to the residents of Kabondo East in Rachuonyo South district.
Soundu Market is surrounded by five administrative districts, namely Sigowet/Soin, North Mugirango Borabu,Kasipul-Kabondo and Nyakach. Business people and trades from all the five districts have stake in the business and commercial activities of the market, thus the source of rapidly mushrooming new commercial buildings now springing up everywhere in trading center, though in the past its development was for many years hampered by intermittent tribal conflicts of interest and violence.
Insecurity around Sondu Trading Center could be partly attributed to excessive cattle rustling on both sides of the borer, especially between Sigowet/Soin and Nyakach. But with the newer generations of highly educated lots, this primitive culture is slowly being discarded by and replaced by commercial minded people, who prefer putting up beautiful commercial buildings and hotels in the center for the purpose of improving economic activities of the Center.
Unlike the neighboring Belgut and Ainamoi constituencies which boast of several green leave tea manufacturing factories under the management of the Kenya Tea Development Agency, and the multinational foreign tea plantations and factories, this new constituency has only one small size Soin Sugar Factory. A lot of cane produce in the area are finding their ways t the nearby Muhoroni and Chemelil Sugar Mills.
The green leave teas re sent to Mamul, Tegat,Kabianga and other factories in Belgut and Cheptororit in Ainamoi and also crushed by factories owned by multinational tea factories in both Kericho,Konoin and Bureti districts..
The old larger Belgut constituency has had close to seven or eight different MP ever since its inception in 1963. Its first legislator was the late Alfred Kericho who won the 1963 independence general election on a KADU ticket. He was dethroned by Walcey Rono in 1969, but Kerich bounced back in 1974.but was again sent parking by the late Ayub Chepkwony in 1979.
Chepkwony lost the seat in 1983 to Kiptarus Kerior in 1988, but the latter was beaten by Chepkwony again in 1992 only to for Kerior to reclaimed the seat in 1997 and in the 1990, the constituency was subdivided into two with the creation of the Ainamoi constituency.
Eng.Kipng’eno Arap Ng’eny the former Minister for Water Development became the first MP for Ainamoi in 1997, while the former Finance Assistant Minister Charles Kirui captured the old Belgut. However Kirui lost the Belgut seat to his brother in law Charles Keter in 1997.
In 2002 the former CID Director Noah Nondin Arap Too dethroned Ng’eny, while Keter made a history of becoming he first MP to have successfully defended his Belgut seat.All the previous occupants of the seat served only for one time and nobody had served for the consecutive terms, though some of the were sent to the cold and later recaptured the seat, but only after a five year break.
In the coming elections the man who is favored by most of the electorate and is tipped to wit the seat is Justice Kemei, the former Marketing and Communication Director with the Chemelil Sugar Company in Nyando district. He lost narrowly to Charles Keter in 2007 the much flawed ODM nomination system which was open to massive rigging, especially during the preliminaries.
Kemei is now in consultant business in Mombasa and Western Kenya,but frequenting the area almost every weekend while widely consulting with the electorate. He has one of the most attractive track record of development due to the fact that while he was serving at the nearby Chemelil he initiated a lot of development project and also helped many youth secured jobs.
Rumors making the round is that the former MP and Assistant Minister Kipatarus Kerior who is now a member of the Kenya Sugar Boa of service to the constituents. But when reached Kerior evaded questions about his entry into the race, only saying it will depend on the interests of the residents.
Also rearing to go is a senior lecturer at Eggerton University, NjoroDr. Malawi. The other aspirant is the Kericho business tycoon Kenneth Mutai who is a cousin of Keter.
Other potential contestants include the former Agricultural Services Manager at Chemelil Sugar Company Eng. Richard Koech who is currently in consultancy business in East and Southern African regions. The retired former top manager of Finlays Tea and Flower Company Mr Soi and an ex-high shoo teacher Mr.Kemei.
Other areas of economic activities within Sigowet/Soin constituency include the fast growing Soliat border market, which s close to Kericho Nyando border and also Muhoroni Town.
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PHOTO OF Mr Justice Kemei, one of the leading contenders for the newly create Sigowet/Soin seat.
CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING THE SECOND AFRICAN SYNOD IN KENYA
From: Ouko joachim
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BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENYA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
The scourge of corruption and nepotism, lack of democratic principles and accountability in Kenya makes it almost impossible to implement the second African Synod on reconciliation and healing.
This is particularly as the Kenya Episcopal Conference- Catholic Justice and Peace Commission rightly put it in their 2012 Lenten Campaign, many communities suffering cycle of violence throughout their history do so based on negative perception that are devoid of their common values tapped from their valuable resources.
Majority of community or “ethnic” conflicts are often instigated by key people like the political elite, community elders who unfortunately, never suffer the brunt of conflicts brought about by their selfishness for power.
This negative perception and instigation by political elite has also interfered with the implementation of the National Cohesion set up after President assented to the National Cohesion and Integration Bill, 2008. The objective was to promote and facilitate equality of opportunity, good relations, harmony and peaceful co-existence between persons of different ethnic, religious and racial communities in Kenya and to advice the Government on all these aspects.
Kenya has never had opportunity as a country to have candid dialogue on ethnicity and race, even though ordinary Kenyans are willing to dialogue and co-exist as Maryknoll Priest, Fr Joseph Healey highlights in one of his stories with the locale in Kenya.
Two examples: “I Am a Christian First” is Story No. 173 in his database: After the post December, 2007 election crisis and the resulting tribalism-related violence in Kenya in early 2008, a Catholic woman in a St. Paul Chaplaincy Center Prayer Group in Nairobi said: "I am a Christian first, a Kenyan second and a Kikuyu third.”
“Pray for Me to Forgive President Mwai Kibaki” is Story No. 327 in the database: During a meeting of the St. Jude South Small Christian Community (SCC) near the main highway going to Uganda in Yala Parish in Kisumu Archdiocese, Kenya in March, 2008 the members reflected on the Gospel passage from John 20:23: "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
Speaking from the heart one Luo man emotionally asked the SCC members to pray for him. He said: "Pray for me to forgive President Mwai Kibaki." During the post election crisis period in Kenya he said that every time he saw the Kikuyu president on TV he got upset and angry and so he needed healing. The other SCCs members were deeply touched and prayed feelingly for him. He said that he felt peaceful again.
Fr Healey refers to this grassroots level in Small Christian Communities as "living ecclesial communities." The Church as the Family of God Model as a new ecclesial option that focuses on building families and building SCCs that are involved in reconciliation, justice and peace in the Catholic Church and in the wider society.
Fr Healey argues that while revisiting the Small Christian Communities Pastoral Option as a means of responding to the ministry of reconciliation through justice and peace, the Theology of the Church-Family of God must be further explored in view of enhancing reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Africa.
In Kenya the Synod comes at the time slide into 2008 ethnic violence, which so far has generated 300,000 refugees and left more than 1, 500 dead has never been reconciled and healed. The principle here is that those who preach justice and peace must first be seen to be just and peaceful themselves.
There are number of issues to be considered first before we talk of true reconciliation and healing in Kenya. Catholic Bishop Cornelius Korir of Eldoret Diocese says the needs of all communities should be addressed first. Children should be taught about peace and co-existence in their formative years, he adds.
While the bishop maintains that tribal politics was to blame for recurrent election-related violence in Kenya, he also identifies poverty as an underlying cause of conflicts, noting that some idle and unemployed youths are normally misused by politicians to engage in violence.
According to Hassan Omar Hassan of the Kenya Human Rights commission, unless we do away with nepotism and tribalism cannibalises in Kenya reconciliation and healing cannot be possible. Kenya he says is to deal first with the report released by the NCIC detailing the imbalance in public service appointments.
The report indicated that 22 per cent of public servants and over 50 per cent of the State House staff hail from Kibaki’s Kikuyu community. This in both practice and perception he believes illustrates negative ethnicity.
The reality or perception of tribalism manifest in the inequities in public appointments and national resources during Kibaki’s first term Omar says led us to the path of a near national collapse following the disputed 2007 presidential election results.
The recently appointed Chief of Defence Forces, General Julius Karangi, the Commandant of the Administration Police, Kinuthia Mbugua, the Director General of the National Security Intelligence Service Michael Gichangi, the Director of the Criminal Investigations Department Ndegwa Muhoro are all from Kibaki ethnic community. The Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere is a Meru.
This is contrary to the Article 241 (4) of the Constitution which expressly states the composition of the command of the Defence Forces shall reflect the regional and ethnic diversity of the people of Kenya.
It is against the background that the NCIC cannot expect a process of cohesion and reconciliation through hugging and cuddling. It must have the foundations of justice, equity and fairness.
Similar report released recently indicates that ethnic credentials seen to count in the hiring of new college and campus bosses. Colleges and campuses that have appointed local people to head them include Chuka, Kimathi, Kisii, Pwani, Narok, Kabianga, Kitui, Bondo and Taita.
According to the report, one administrator had his appointment withdrawn after local MPs reportedly rejected him on the grounds he was an “outsider” since he came from a neighbouring community.
The report indicates further that the big five ethnic groups in Kenya – Kikuyu, Luhya, Kalenjin, Luo and Kamba – dominate the workforce of the centers of higher education.
Unless all these vices are resolved, it is only then what the G7 leaders led by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Eldoret North MP William Ruto and Sabaoti MP Eugene Wamalwa vowed to unite in the fight against negative ethnicity in the country can be practical.
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Kenya: Politicians Divided Over 2013 Poll Date… They are into theatre of puzzle
From: Judy Miriga
Folks,
Like I have said before, Kenyans are in to a very rude shock and confusion if the present case-scenario is not arrested in time for sanity to set in. They have both failed in their leadership and there are no hope they both can do things differently to benefit public interest according to public mandate. It is about time they both face justice.
Kibaki and Raila's theatric show is getting out of control. The public have no idea the two principles are at their political game of delaying tactics to earn themselves more time against constitutional time-table in the tune of their masters voice their "unscrupulous Special Interest cartels". Raila equally in his flip-flop technique is trying to show political might and supremacy against his opponents, to fool public yet all are "Birds of the Same Feathers".
The Coalition Government under Kibaki and Raila is totally confused and are in panic. The boat is capsizing into a stormy deep sea. None of the leaders are on the road to recovery or are for the good of Kenyans except both are for self interest and greed.
For this case, an urgent setting up of the "Transitional Caretaker Committee" must be seen as the only solution and answer by the world leaders, friends and people of Kenya from both local and in Diaspora.
We believe world leaders, Kofi Annan with team with the United Nations Security Council will take this matter seriously and help lead the formation of the same.
We are on the verge of "Things Fall Apart" in Kenya one more time. Nothing is working and nothing will ever work from this coalition government except confusion and destruction of pubic resource and interest. We need urgent intervention to fix the problem and there is no goodwill or hope for better things to come at this time of Kenya's political upstage.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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The Presidential Running Mates Puzzle
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The next General Election, which according to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is scheduled for March 4th, next year will be historic in nature, and structurally different from any electoral exercise in Kenya's history. So far, none of the presidential hopefuls traversing the country popularising their bids for the country's top job has disclosed who their running mate would be. Why? For the first time, Kenyans will elect the President and his or her Deputy as a pair, and it will no longer be possible for the President to dangle the vice presidency as a campaign carrot. Francis Gachuri deals with the candidates' running mate headache in this week's edition of the Kibaki succession series, as well as likely running mates for the leading presidential aspirants.
The Election Date Debate Rages On
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The March 4th 2013 polls date fixed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Saturday, 17th March continues to draw mixed reactions with Prime Minister Raila Odinga maintaining that Kenyans have been short-changed as the public mood was for a December election. Eldoret North MP William Ruto also feels the IEBC decision should be reversed. But presidential aspirants Professor George Saitoti and Raphael Tuju concur with the Committee on the Implementation of the Constitution that Kenyans must learn to respect constitutionally backed decisions. Alex Chamwada brings us the latest reactions.
Election Date Is 4th March 2013
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Failure by the two principals in the grand coalition, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to agree on when to dissolve the government has earned Kenyans a 2013 election date. Frustrated by the inaction on the part of the two principals, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission settled for March 4th 2013 as the date Kenyans will go to the polls. Citizen TV's associate editor Alex Chamwada begins our special coverage of the election date with a look at why the IEBC settled on that date.
Fire Destroys Mt Kenya Forest
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The Kenya Wildlife Service has enlisted the support of other Kenyan security forces and the local community to contain a forest fire that has destroyed thousands of hectares of forest land in the Mt. Kenya forest. The fire that started over a week ago is yet to be fully contained even though considerable strides have been made to control it in most parts of Mt. Kenya forest. And the KWS Director Dr Julius Kipng'etich is now assuring Kenyans that the fire will be fully contained in the next two to three days. Sally Mbilu reports on a raging fire that has stretched the limited resources of government agencies tasked with fighting it.
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Kenya: CJ Tells Raila to 'Keep Impunity' Off Courts
By Rob Jillo, 19 March 2012
The March 4th 2013 polls date fixed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Saturday, 17th March continues to draw mixed reactions ... ( Resource: The Election Date Debate Rages On
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has once again dug in his heels over the independence of the Judiciary, this time warning Prime Minister Raila Odinga over his remarks on a High Court ruling on the election date.
In a statement, the Chief Justice said the PM's conduct was unacceptable and "reeks of impunity."
"Mr Odinga is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya. As a creature of the law, he is a critical and fundamental arm of the Executive. He must be aware that he bears a duty to uphold and protect the independence of the Judiciary as required by the Constitution - especially in instances where he is unhappy with its decision," Mutunga said in the hard hitting statement.
The Chief Justice was incensed by statement attributed to Odinga in which he allegedly said that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in arriving at the March 4 2013 date was interpreting a decision by 'korti ya bandia' roughly equated to mean a fake or kangaroo court.
"It is therefore, distressing that individuals who bear a special responsibility to uphold the Constitution because of their leadership role would appear to vilify the courts," the Chief Justice who is the President of the Supreme Court said
The announcement by the IEBC on the election date has elicited varying opinions amongst Kenya's leadership with the Prime Minister and his Orange Democratic Party opposing the March 4, 2013 poll date.
On Sunday during Capital FM's political show Talk360, the IEBC's Chief Executive Officer James Oswago had indicated that the electoral body was flexible and could hold the polls on December 17 if the two principals agreed on an early date, or the courts reversed the earlier ruling.
This is not the first time the Chief Justice had stood his ground in defending the Judiciary against apparent interference by the Executive. On December 2 last year, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Justice Nicolas Ombija who had issued a warrant of arrest against Sudan president Omar al Bashir.
Justice Ombija issued a warrant for Bashir's arrest if he sets foot in Kenya following an application by the International Commission of Jurists (Kenya) which argues Kenya is under obligation to detain him as he is facing indictment by the International Criminal Court.
That decision prompted a diplomatic row between the two countries and the Executive - through the Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula - criticised the court decision.
That matter is still pending at the Court of Appeal and the warrant of arrest is still in force.
The Chief Justice has in the meantime appealed to leaders to be conscious of the heavy ramifications some of their statements could have on the public and cautioned them "to exercise their rights to free speech within the realm of the law."
On Monday, Education Minister Sam Ongeri allayed fears that the March polls would disrupt schooling saying his ministry was willing to alter the learning calendar and allow students to go early on half-term to pave way for the elections.
Other leaders including Eldoret North MP William Ruto and his Gichugu counterpart Martha Karua have voiced their reservations on the poll date and have urged the IEBC to rescind the decision.
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Kenya: Politicians Divided Over 2013 Poll Date
By Simon Ndonga, 17 March 2012
The March 4th 2013 polls date fixed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Saturday, 17th March continues to draw mixed reactions ... ( Resource: The Election Date Debate Rages On
Nairobi — The announcement by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that elections will be held on March 4, 2013 has sharply divided politicians.
Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi observed that the IEBC was working within its mandate when it set the election date to March next year.
Speaking in Nyeri, Mudavadi said the commission followed the proper procedure before announcing the date.
He pointed out that the IEBC consulted the president and prime minister and also took the recent court ruling into account.
"What I know is that he was quoting the process of him having consulted with the two principals based on the court ruling and then he indicated that the two principals failed to agree and therefore he was exercising an option," he stated.
He underscored the need for debate now to be focused on how prepared the electoral body was to conduct free, fair and transparent elections.
"What is more important as we move ahead is for us to start looking critically at how prepared the electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election. We do not just want to get a date. We want to get assurances and regular communication from the IEBC that the process is moving smoothly," he said.
Gichugu Member of Parliament Martha Karua however opposed the March 2013 date, saying the extension of the term of the current Parliament would have a negative impact on Kenyans.
She stated that the announcement set a bad precedent as it was in the interest of a few individuals.
"It is a great disappointment and a letdown because elections are always held inside the term of office. If truly they were reacting to the court ruling and not anything else, they should have announced a date inside the January 15th limit. Better still, they could have waited for the outcome of the appeal filed by one lady's organization," Karua said.
She has called on the Court of Appeal to intervene and make a ruling which is acceptable to everyone.
She further urged all Kenyans to strongly oppose the proposed date in a bid to compel the IEBC to change it.
"I also urge Kenyans... let us stop sleeping on our rights because if we do that, they will be trampled upon. Let people speak out on the election date and force the election date to be within the term (of Parliament)," she said.
KANU Secretary General Nick Salat echoed her sentiments saying that the IEBC was wrong in selecting a date next year.
Salat stated that the announcement would bring a lot of confusion in the political scene since most people were advocating for a December election.
"In my opinion, I think it is wrong that instead of actually showing direction, they are sowing the seeds of confusion. But as KANU, we hope they are really reading the mood of the country and from what we took from our members, they are going for the December date," he said.
He called on both the president and prime minister to consult and agree on an election date which is acceptable to everyone.
"We would not want in an election year to continue entering into a crisis and yet we are just from one. We would actually advocate for the two principals to sit together and come up with an appropriate middle ground for both so that the interest of the country is put far above that of individuals," he said.
Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) chairman Abdikadir Mohammed on his part said that there should have been consensus building first before IEBC took the decision to announce the date.
He stressed the need to exercise caution since bold decisions can sometimes be reckless especially if they are unilateral.
He pointed out that IEBC should have got key players to agree on the dates so that the country moves forward in a unified manner.
Eldoret North legislator William Ruto also opposed the March 4 election date, saying most Kenyans prefer polls in December.
He said that IEBC should set the polling day in December since the president's term ends then.
Saboti Member of Parliament Eugene Wamalwa and his Kangundo counterpart Johnson Muthama however supported the date and urged the youth to register for their identity and voter's cards since the future of the country belonged to them.
Earlier on, the Orange Democratic Movement party issued a statement saying the Kenyan people preferred that the next general elections be held in December, as the Cabinet had previously recommended.
According to party secretary general Anyang Nyong'o, this will also be in line with the recent High Court ruling.
"The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission should avoid any temptation of serving any sectarian interests through extension of the life of the coalition government by fixing the date in March 2013," he said in a statement.
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Kenya: 'Kibaki, Raila Rule Beyond 2012 Illegal'
By Mosoku Geoffrey, 15 March 2012
The March 4th 2013 polls date fixed by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission on Saturday, 17th March continues to draw mixed reactions ... ( Resource: The Election Date Debate Rages On
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have been accused of plotting to illegally remain in office by deliberately misinterpreting a court ruling on the election date.
Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua yesterday described as "unfortunate" statements by Kibaki and Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo supporting a March 2013 election date.
"The statements by the President and the Justice minister insisting that elections will be held in 2013 must be seen as an attempt to influence the appeal on the election date that is pending before the courts," Karua said during a news conference at her party's headquarters in Nairobi. "We trust that the courts will ignore such statements and decide the case on its merits," added Karua who served as Kibaki's Justice minister from 2005 until she resigned in April 2009.
Similar allegations were made by the chairman of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy Justin Muturi and former IIEC commissioner Ken Nyaundi who accused the two principals of scheming to stay in power illegally. "The question we must ask ourselves is, will Kibaki be in office legally after December 30? Will he continue discharging his duties after that date? The answer to both questions is No," Nyaundi said. "Neither the President, the PM or MPs should extend their term to 2013," CMD chairman Justin Muturi said after chairing a meeting of over 15 parties at a Nairobi hotel.
However PNU nominated MP George Nyamweya said the question of the President's legality to continue in office after December 2012 should not arise. "There will be no constitutional crisis since the President will be serving in a transitional period. The court ruling was clear that elections can only be 60 days after the expiry of Parliament on January 15," Nyamweya added.
Karua said that even in the worst dictatorships, the electoral term of those in power is never extended. "If anyone wants to extend this term - and this also includes the courts - they should know that it can only happen through a referendum," said Karua. These accusations were made as the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Issack Hassan said he will soon announce the election date.
Hassan has indicated the elections will be held after the term of the current Parliament expires on January 14, 2013. Hassan said the commission was still waiting for a response to the letter it wrote to the two principals asking if they intend to dissolve the coalition government so that elections are held this year. "In the absence of the reply from the two coalition principals, it leaves us with no choice but to come up with an election date," Hassan said during a breakfast meeting to brief the media and civil society on the IEBC's election preparedness. "We have seen the coalition partners speaking at various forums but this cannot be taken to be a reply to our letter to them. We are going ahead on the assumption that they have not given a reply. We will therefore set the date on the assumption that Parliament will first finish its term," said Hassan.
The current MPs were sworn into office on January 14, 2008, therefore their term ends on January 14, 2013. The election date the commission is likely to announce will therefore fall anywhere between January and March 2013. "We will determine the election date based on the constitutional court ruling," said Hassan.
In January, constitutional court judges Isaac Lenaola, David Majanja and Mumbi Ngugi ruled that elections can only be held this year if Kibaki and Raila agree - in writing -to dissolve the grand coalition government. The other option presented by the judges was for Kenyans to go to the polls in March 2013 after the expiry of the Tenth Parliament. The judges also ruled that the IEBC would be the body to determine the exact date.
However, the constitution stipulates that elections be held on the second Tuesday of August every fifth year, which implies that the election date is August 14, 2012. The constitution has not been amended to allow for either a December 2012 or March 2013 election date
Speaking in Sagana last week, Kibaki hinted that he preferred a March 2013 election, a departure from his previously stated preference for a December 2012. Kibaki's statement brought to an end weeks of speculation that he and Raila would soon dissolve the coalition government to pave the way for a December 2012 poll. Raila has been circumspect in indicating the election date he prefers. Whenever the issue comes up, he has been urging Kenyans to remain calm and patiently wait for the election date to be announced
WHY CHURCHES IN KENYA ARE SPIRITUALLY AND MORALLY LOSING DIRECTION
From: Ouko joachim omolo
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BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENYA
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
When evangelical churches say they have the rights to pray for the International Criminal Court (ICC) suspects, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto, the main issue is not in fact a prayer but use prayer meetings to demonstrate to Kenyans that the bad man to fight is Prime Minister Raila Odinga because he is seen as someone trying to spoil for Uhuru Kenyatta.
The fact that Evangelical church leaders are predominantly from Mt Kenya region explains why the fight. Only if we are not careful and look at Kenya beyond tribal and regional then it might turn to be like Rwanda where some church leaders incited people on tribal line.
A catholic priest, Rev Fr Athnase Seromba for example, was not only accused of incitement but also of ordering the slaughter of over 2000 people who had sought refuge in Nyange church, Diocese of Nyundo during the Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Father Seromba appeared before the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, in September 2004 charged with complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity related to the100-day slaughter (from April to July 1994) orchestrated by the extremist Hutu government then in power and carried out by the Interahamwe militia supported by a section of the armed forces. Abour 800,000 people were inhumanly slaughtered.
Other priests accused along with Seromba included Father Hormisdas Nsengimana, the former Rector of Nyanza Christ Roi College, and Father Emmanuel Rukundo. So far two priests had been sentenced to death: Jean Francois Kayiranga and Edouard Nkurikiye.
Catholic Bishop Augustine Misago of Gikongoro Diocese was accused of actively collaborating with Hutu “Interahamwe” militias in the massacre. The bishop was further accused of attending high-level political meetings that organized the 1994 genocide. More than 20 nuns and priests were among top church officials accused along with him. Most of the victims including 30 school children were hacked to death in Catholic churches, where they had sought refuge.
Sister Gertrude, mother superior of the Benedictine convent at Sovu, in Butare Diocese, was accused of ejecting refugees from the building, knowing very well they were being sent to their deaths. She was being tried under her full civil name of Consolata Mukangango.
Sister Maria Kizito was tried as Julienne Mukabutera and was charged with causing deaths by supplying petrol to a mob that burnt the garage at the convent’s health clinic in which some 600 Tutsis were sheltering. These two nuns were found guilty and jailed.
Like Rwanda where genocide survivors, IDPs and human rights groups had bitterly criticized the church for its contribution into the killings and a lack of remorse afterward, in Kenya the evangelical church leaders have been accused of neglecting IDPs and post election violence victims. They have also been accused of allowing their churches to be used by the very politicians prayed for to talk ill against other ethnic communities.
Former Baringo Central MP Gideon Moi is among politicians who have not only called for speedy resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) but also dismissed prayer meetings held by a section of leaders under the G7
Alliance as useless unless they press for compensation and resettlement of IDPs.
Gideon says it was worrying that thousands of children and their parents were languishing in deplorable conditions in camps, almost five years after they lost property in the post-election chaos. The best thing he says we can do is to ensure the IDPs are returned to their homes and compensated for the property they lost.
Ruto and Uhuru have been using such prayer meetings to accuse Prime Minister Raila Odinga for being behind their trials at The Hague, accusations which are likely to incite Kenyans ahead of the general election.
Speaking after attending a church service at the St Mathews ACK Church in Eldoret recently, Ruto said Raila became the PM not because he had won the December 27, 2007 elections but because of the poll violence and thus "the PM should not be the one pointing accusing fingers at others".
He said Raila "should have been the first to be put in jail long ago" because of the poll violence, adding that the PM had been involved in "a consistent pattern of schemes to fix his political rivals". "It's unfortunate that he thinks he will gain anything by scheming against others”.
Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo links Raila to an alleged British plot to have President Kibaki indicted at the ICC. This is very serious allegation indeed and can easily result into serious violence worse than we saw in 2008 post election violence.
This allegation fixes Raila, his Luo ethnic communities and his followers as the target of the “so-called UK government document”. For Kikuyu and Ruto followers this would send a signal that is a bad man because he is trying to ensure that Kibaki goes to The Hague after his term ends.
Even though the British High Commission and the NSIS have dismissed the documents as forgeries, while it is a good step for the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign relations to take over investigation to determine whether the dossier is forged, the fact that majority of those sitting on this committee are affiliated to G7 complicates the matter.
Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo, the composition of the committee appears to have doctored the dossier is also a member of this committee. Other members, majority of whom have been accused of forging the dossier include Hon. Benedict Fondo Gunda, Hon. Wilson Mwotivu Litole, Hon. Edick O. Anyanga, Hon. Ali Hassan Joho, Hon. Joshua Kutuny, Hon. Adan Keynan, Hon. Kiema Kilonzo, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni, Hon. Eugene Wamalwa, and Hon. George Nyamwaye.
Experience has shown that such committees with no political good will have wrong motives, whose results are violence oriented. Take Ndungu Commission of land inquiry for example, the fact that institutions which could have been used to resolve land disputes have not been impartial has encouraged individuals to take matters into their own hands and to use violence to resolve them.
Politicians use youths in such violence because the majority of them are unemployed. Some of them have grown up on the streets and are inured to violence, so nothing they loose. This is because the combination of being rootless, having survived amidst violence, plus their need for an identity and a livelihood makes them ready recruits for violent gangs.
It is against the background that in the past many politicians have used these violent gangs to decimate their opponents, to protect themselves from a dictatorial state. This is why this has itself given gangs such as Mungiki, the Taliban, Chinkororo and others a life and the ability to operate without fear of being caught because they are well protected.
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WHY CHURCHES IN KENYA ARE SPIRITUALLY AND MORALLY LOSING DIRECTION
Kenya: Hon. Ruto-Key Beneficiary of Post Election Violence
From: john vorster
Folks, the screams of the dying from breast-feeding mothers, men and all ages were put in “oven” being fried alive just because of fertile land. The Kiambaa Church was set on fire! Why burn them in Church? Folks it was in the church of God! I bet even the Muslims too mourned to see Christians torched a live in a holy and secluded house on earth-the CHURCH. The atheist to must had the similar feelings. Well, let’s get to the matter at hand, the ICC known and one dangerous only prosecutor and outgoing man Mr. Louise Moreno-Ocampo has set the pace rolling. The curtains are unfolding as to whose motive was all these and why? History has it that Kenya is a nation divided by land grabbers and indeed that’s the root cause for the division of tribes in a country that was considered peaceful in Africa. Kenya didn’t mess up her house for fear or fight that Hon. Raila presidency was denied by Hon. Kibaki during the said elections of 2007/2008. However, some individuals had schemed in advance on how to demand what was perceived inherited land. One and only vocal politician Hon. Ruto has come in the open to actually accept that he did grab a 100ha parcel of land just after the election in the pretence that it was sold to him irregularly. Ruto has been organizing prayer rallies aimed at confusing the general public of how he is a target of the ICC. According to him, he verbally says that Raila was the main beneficiary of post election violence! For many a times this young chap has used the simple arithmetic to engage the idle prayer rally listeners that he is an innocent man and would be ready to prove himself above and beyond the ICC courts. He pleaded with the Kenyan rotten judiciary to accept the case to be settled out of court to avoid public embarrassment on his political carrier. Hon. Ruto, why did you actually grab the land that belonged to the poor man who at the moment has no proper housing to be happy about? You Ruto intentionally displaced this man out of his land and you still purport and claim that you are very innocent? Our archive has it that you used your old theatrics methods to displace Kenyans in Rift Valley of their lands. How many more lands sagas will you spill out so that the coalition government of Kibaki and Raila settle them back once and for all? Indeed you will be a free and electable man as long as you return all the lands that you intentionally grabbed creating a huge margin of internal refugees that Kenya still cannot settle. You are one man who had his case with other co-accused of selling out the KPL land in Nairobi and our judges left you still preaching at top of your voices in public rallies. Ruto, for me, I am never scared of your worth, return all that which belongs to rightful owners otherwise, ICC will spare you nothing but arrange a special accommodation for you very soon. If you had it that Raila was the architect of 2007/08 election fiasco that has given you (Ruto) a soft landing in Hague, why did it take you those years to speak your voice? Unless you want to admit that you were on the reserve bench along the ODM ministers and assistant ministers? Unless you want to admit that you were on the reserve bench along the ODM ministers and assistant ministers? You were given a full ministry and became a Deputy party leader of whom you accuse now. Did Raila and Kibaki silence you with a portfolio ministry and you swallowed without knowing that it would choke you soon? In your own mind, did Raila send you grab the lands? You are the most funny MP Rift Valley has ever produced. I bet this chunk of land must have had its spirits living and so the only remedy was to throw-up before it completely choked your political carrier. Give us some more Ruto, you can do it buddy. ICC on the other hand will give you a lesser charge. I advise you to keep consulting with the Kenyan minds and all is not lost on you as long as you spill more land back to the owners.... Did I miss a point, the far the displaced people from Rift Valley, then comes in man Ruto.....grab, grab, coz he knows the taste of such a land following his past record......
Regards
John Vorster