Saturday, March 1, 2008 Â Â
Martha Karua barred from travelling to Geneva
Long after we broke this news, the Standard has confirmed it, we are ahead.
Martha Karua has been denied a visa to travel for a human rights meeting in Geneva Switzerland. The Minister was to attend an international forum dubbed “Session of State Counsel Law†in Geneva that is scheduled to kick off tomorrow. The Minister had applied for the visa on Tuesday. Kenya’s delegation to the forum is headed by her Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Dorothy Angote.
As if that was not enough, her son, a university student in Australia had his re-entry to Australia at the end of his stay in Kenya denied. As if this was not enough, more disaster has been visiting her. Another of her kids was deported from another western capital.
For Martha Karua, disaster has come following disaster. After being spurned by bandit Kibaki before he signed the power-sharing arrangement, she is devastated. Ms Karua, one of the hardliners of the bandit regime has been ruffling the Eminent African leaders the wrong way. She was missing in action on Friday when the mediators resumed their places at the Annan table. She was reportedly livid, and said as much to Wetangula because after being instructed to stone-wall the mediation efforts, Kibaki melted the walls that stood in the way of a political settlement, albeit without consulting her.
Switzerland, one of the vociferous foreign powers that was insisting on a settlement. It will be remembered that the wealthy Alpian federal state had threatened to follow the American cue and impose visa bans on anybody who was perceived to be adopting a hardline position on the mediation talks. This frustration of Karua comes as music to the ears of all patriotic Kenyans. She has no respect for anybody. The other day she was reported to have told off her colleagues from th bandit government, Prof Sam Ongeri and Mutula Kilonzo. Apparently, Mutula let the cat out of the bag when he insinuated that Ongeri was hurt by the exchanges. “You have never seen Ongeri as sad as this”, he had said.
Ms Karua was on the BBC’s hardtalk immediately after the election to defend the bandits. In a very articulate and strong-headed manner, she told off the former British High Commissioner to Kenya Edward Clay. At the interview, she even hinted that Clay was persona non grata in Kenya. Of course at that time Clay had no communication of his banning from Kenya. Later he was to be told by the Kenyan Embassy officials at St James Park that he was indeed banned from entering Kenya. She had goofed.
Hot on the heals of that Karua adopted an eloquent posture, arguing at every TV talk-show that the ODM was free to go to court. Of course she knew where that theatre was going to end with a pliant court. The hearing was to be open and fair but she was going to write the ruling at SH and have it read. Na mta do? Well, now things are collapsing all around her. With her children barricaded in Kenya and herself tethered in Kirinyaga, she is going to become more rabid.
Meanwhile, reports reaching us indicate that more hardliners are marked and will soon find themselves isolated much like Karua. Ms Karua can hardly travel to Europe and she certainly now remembers that ambassadors are not junior officials in the pecking order after all. They speak with authority and apart from the president, nobody else can address a meeting and say ‘my government’, except an ambassador. This part of diplomatic etiquette, the former junior magistrate needs to take in her Civics 101.
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  Source: http://kenya-thieves-warlords.blogspot.com/
Sent by Gordon.
I do not know how this writer imagines he can change Kenya by hurling insults at everyone and everything except his candidate.
What did you expect to gain by having an Odinga presidency?
Unless you are blind, very little, if any, powers have been given to the so called Prime Minister. It is evident the Head of the Civil Service has more powers than this minister without portfolio. Supervise and Co-ordinate govt. ministries, my foot! What is that?
And about Karua being banned from visiting Switzerland – it’s all lies. She displayed her visa granted only last Friday 29th. You are liars!
I say there are no saints or sinners – the folks at PNU & ODM are all two sides of the same coin. Its tragic to be so naive as to say that one trumps the other or one is more evil than the other. What’s happening in Kenya is a result of our collective ability to villify one group or one person and pretend that the rest are wearing halos. We really need to wake up. Check out these two blogs:
http://www.kenyaimagine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1204&Itemid=131#josc12037
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/46447
I think after you read these two, you’ll realize that Kenyans are really pawns in a game. We need to wise up and instead of attacking each other and singling out certain people, we need to hold the entire group responsible. Martha is an easy target because she has a big mouth. But is anyone going to say anything about Ruto? In fact someone else on this board is praising him. I thank God for sparing us from further madness and disintegration. Let’s now be wise and willing to get to the truth and the root of our problems. Anything else is just laziness.
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:22:10 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [Mwanyagetinge] Karua refutes media reports on visa hitch
Keen Nyamwange wrote:
To all Kenyan and well wishers,
Karua is not a team player but a divisive leader and one who opens her mouth often without weighing the consequences. I strongly suggest that she has been in the forefront of all the hardliners and may have contributed directly or indirectly to the mayhem that our beloved country mean, woman and children have been subjected to.
Mr Michoma will always fight for ANY PNU associate. This is has been proven time and time again through this forum.
Martha Karua opens her mouth and fires spews out. She is not different from the ringleader, Michuki.
Whosoever stands in the way of PEACE for Kenya is an ENEMY of Kenya.
Enter the minds of the PNU masterminds and supporters:
1. Is this true that Raila is to become executive PM or is it a dream?
2. Is this true that ODM is to share power 50/50 with “us†or is this a bad dream?
3. Is this true that ODM cabinet ministers are in the making or is this a bad dream?
4. Is it true that PNU and ODM-K combined are still minority or is it a bad dream?
5. Is it true that the speaker of the house is an ODM man or is it a bad dream?
6. Is it true that our own sword (Goliath’s own sword) cur our throats or is it a bad dream?
7. Is it true that ODM is to get credit for a better Kenya or is it a bad dream?
IT IS ALL TRUE. IT IS NOT A DREAM.
Keen Nyamwange (Obama’s Illinois for Raila – OIFR)
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Nyagudi wrote:
Michoma,
You read me wrongly thus give and irrelevant response. Truce or no Truce what I am saying and maintain devoid of the visa saga is that Martha Karua is a disgrace to our country, to the women who and to her community. She therefore in my opinion does not deserve to be a leader in our Kenya today.
Michoma, you have always been in the warpath and assume everyone travels the same road. No your are wrong, the Detente, Detente chorus need to first ring in your ears before you can sing it to others. You seem notorious in twisting facts and steering debates towards bottomless pits. Be informed my position and that of many Kenyans and international world about Karua has not been triggered by this visa story hence dragging the good name of Prof. Anyang Nyongo into this issue is inconsequential and irrelevant.
Lastly the negative opinion Kenyans and the international world hold about a Martha Karua does not all over sudden transform to a positive one just because truce has been signed.
Nyagudi
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Michoma wrote:
Nyagudi,
Detente, my friend!! Detente!! It is time for detente, but the Standard had to throw in one last “below-the-belt” jab by publishing a rumor disguised as fact. Shame on them!! What more proof would people have than a copy of the actual visa? Would you find similar juicy words for one Peter Anyang’ Nyong’? Furthermore, what benefit do you hope to reap by continuing on a warpath when a truce has been signed? Isn’t it time for detente?
Thanks.
Michoma
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Original Message
Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2008 9:18:12 PM
Subject: Re: [KACA] Karua refutes media reports on visa hitch
Nyagudi wrote:
Martha Karua is a disgrace first to the women then her community and then to Kenyans. This is a type of a person who should not be a leader in our Kenya of today
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Lucy wrote:
I hope JM etc will show the maturity required to move beyound bad mouthing a Minister as an individual but respecting her as a GOK official who had a very difficult job to do but nevertheless performed it to the best of her ability!
Karua refutes media reports on visa hitch
Written By:Rosalia Omungo
Posted: Sun, Mar 02, 2008
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua has denied reports that the Swiss government had denied her a visa to travel to Geneva for an official trip.
“I obtained a visa to travel to Switzerland on the 29th February 2008 as is manifested on my passport a copy of which is herewith attached. I declined to travel and instead asked my Permanent Secretary to make the Statement on behalf of the country as is the usual practice in such circumstances. ” She said.
“The said news item is deliberately inaccurate and to some extent false.” She added.
Addressing the press in her office Sunday, Karua assured Kenyans that she was not a stumbling block to the on going National dialogue process.
However, she acknowledged that there have been different political viewpoints but affirmed the government’s readiness to work with the grand coalition.
The justice minister said the opening of parliament on Thursday would set the stage for a major re-organization of the government structure in which
Karua assured that she would be a team player.
Sent by Keen Nyamwange. Posted on behalf of Keen Nyamwange by Jaluo Press.