Updated on: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Story by: EMMANUEL ONYANGO
A fresh round of push and pull looms over the interpretation of the National Accord and Reconciliation agreement signed by President Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga arose yesterday, in a new development that threatens the formation of a coalition government.
Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service Francis Muthaura yesterday differed with ODM officials when he issued a press statement clarifying and interpreting the correct structure and power-sharing in the Kibaki-Raila coalition government to be formed after constitutional changes.
However, moments after Muthaura had released clarification of the new government structure, ODM issued its own interpretation of the Accord that underlined a 50 – 50 division of power in cabinet portfolios and Government appointments.
“The Accord expressly provides for a 50 – 50 power sharing formula which in other words means power sharing at the two levels of Government, that is, the cabinet and government. The Government comprises of the civil service and parastatals,†a statement read out by Amukowa Anangwe stated.
“Any statement clarifying, interpreting or explaining the content of the National Accord must be jointly released by the two principals (Kibaki and Raila) and no other person. The structure of the new Government is being worked on by the two principals.â€
According to Muthaura, the Accord did not take away from President Kibaki executive powers that he is perceived to cede to Prime Minister-Designate Raila Odinga.
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IS IT THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COALITION?
Gordon
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Breaking News: Kenya Government ‘Clarifies’ Peace Accord
The following is a statement read by Francis Muthaura (Head of Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet) a few moments ago. ODM are said to be in a crisis meeting and are expect to respond shortly.
“There have been various media reports that have created concern as to the roles of the position of the Prime Minister, Government appointments and structure of the Government following the national Accord. In that regard the Government wishes to clarify as follows:
• The President remains the Head of State and Head of Government.
• The Vice-President is the Principal Assistant or the President and the Leader of Government Business in Parliament.
• The Prime Minister will coordinate and supervise the Government functions under the authority of the President.
• The Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Ministers will also have ministerial portfolios.
• The President will appoint the Vice-President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers and all Ministers subject to the terms of the Accord. The Vice-President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers and all Ministers are directly responsible to the President. The President will continue to Chair the Cabinet.
• The Accord does not include sharing of jobs in the Public Service.
• Therefore, it should be clear that appointments in the Public Service are governed by the Constitution or Acts of Parliament.
To this end:
• Holders of Constitutional offices, Permanent Secretaries, Ambassadors, Judges of the High Court, Chairpersons of boards and a few chief Executives of Parastatals are appointed by the President.
• All other civil servants in Central Government and Local Authorities are appointed by the Public Service Commission or through its delegated authority.
• Judicial Officers including Magistrates, etc are appointed by the Judicial Service Commission.
• Teachers are appointed by the Teachers Service Commission.
• Almost all Members of the Boards of Parastatals, Except the Chairmen, are appointed by their respective Ministers.
• Chief Executives of Parastatals are appointed by the ministers on recommendation of the respective Boards.
• Other staff or Parastatals are appointed by their respective boards.
I wish to assure public servants that there is nothing to worry about the safety of their jobs or the politicization of the Public Service. I urge public servants to embrace the implementation of the Accord. It is extremely important that professionalism in the Public Service is maintained and free from partisan politics.”
AMB: FRANCIS K. MUTHAURA, EGH
PERMANENT SECRETARY SECRETARY TO THE CABINET AND HEAD OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE
SOURCE: http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/
Sent by Gordon.
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:06:57
Subject: We are watching you
As we congratulate His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister-designate Hon Raila Odinga for signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that brought Kenyans back from the brink of collapse, Kenyans and our International friends must watch these agents of doom who are only interested in throwing spanners in the works.
It is a known fact that President Kibaki and Raila agreed to share power on a 50-50 basis in a win win situation that was meant to pacify the whole country and bring Kenyans back to normalcy.
But people like Muthaura, Karua and Mutua and others seem to be interested in safe guarding their own selfish interests at the expense of National Healing. Kenyans have gone through a rough patch that if it needs the efforts being put into place by both Kibaki and Raila to share power for Kenyans to live in peace, then so be it.
It must take on some sadist to bring us back to that bad past. People like Muthaura, and Karua, without any provocation, seem to revel on our misfortunes as a country. They must be exiled to Siberia, or better still, airlifted to Guantanamo Bay immediately, so that the Kenyans can enjoy their new found happiness in peace.
If we lose track now, it will be a very sorry mess we will be inviting on ourselves.
We must hence dehorn those in the ilk of the Muthaura’s of this world, people who have lived past the recommended Biblical age. To him and his team, they thrive in the misfortune of Kenyans butchering themselves.
All peace loving Kenyans must ensure that Muthaura does not derail our collective quest for peace and a stable Kenya.
That stable Kenya will only be when the Government is shared 50-50 by ODM and PNU in a win win situation that creates peace and stability as we share in the National Resources.
Odhiambo T Oketch
Komarock Nairobi
Posted on behalf of Odhiambo by Jaluo Press.
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:13:11
Subject: We are watching you
Odhiambo,
Ambassador Muthaura is an agent of doom. And they won’t get away with it.
-James
Posted on behalf of James by Jaluo Press.
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:47:56 -0700
Subject: FRANCIS MUTHAURA TAKING AWAY CIVIL LIBERTIES AGAIN
DEAR KENYANS,
HEREUNDER IS A TEXT EXTRACTED FROM TUESDAY’S DAILY NATION NEWSPAPER WHICH COVERED MUTHAURA’S NONSENSE WHICH WAS RELEASED TO KENYANS PREMATURELY OR RATHER TO PREEMPT PARLIAMENT’S DISCUSSION AND CONFUSE THE LEGISLATORS:
“Mr Muthaura said he had come out to spell the structure of the new government and the powers of the President, VP and PM to clear the doubts and different versions that had come up in the public following the signing of the deal.
He also spoke of the concern on the fate of jobs held by people appointed by the Government in line with the Constitution or statutes.
There have been reports that have created concern on the roles of the Prime Minister, Government appointments and the structure of the Government following the national Accord and we have come here to make clarifications, he said.
The structure that he was outlining, he explained, was in line with the National Accord and Reconciliation Agreement that has now been transformed into a Bill to be debated in Parliament.”
PNU AGAIN IS TRYING TO COME THROUGH THE BACK DOORS TO DERAIL THE REFORMS KENYANS BADLY NEED. MUTHAURA CANNOT DEFINE THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR MATTERS TO BE LAGISLATED. HE KNOWS VERY WELL THAT THE PROBLEMS AFFLICTING KENYANS RANGE FROM UNFAIR DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES TO MANPOWER DISTRIBUTION IN BOTH GOVERNMENT AND PARASTETALS. WE CANNOT HAVE OVER FITY PERCENT OF BOTH CIVIL SERVICE AND PARASTETALS SENIOR OR EXECUTIVE POSITIONS OCCUPIED BY KIKUYUS AND MERUS ONLY. MUTHAURA HIMSELF IS ABOUT SEVENTY YEARS OLD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONG RETIRED. MEMBERS FROM CERTAIN COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE MT. KENYA REGION ARE OFTEN RETIRED UPON REACHING AGE 55 YEARS OLD OR EVEN THEY REACH THE RETIREMENT AGE. WHY CANNOT WAKO, MUTHAURA, RINGERE AND MANY OTHERS WHO ARE ALREADY 56 YEARS AND ABOVE ALSO RETIRE? WHY SHOULD PEOPLE LIKE RUFAS HUNJA WITH A LAW DEGREE GET APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIES WHEN HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT SUPPLIES OR PROCUREMENT? THERE ARE MANY ABNORMAL CASES OF APPOINTMENTS OF PEOPLE FROM G.E.M.A GROUP WHICH MUST BE STRAIGHTENED OUT. THE REST OF KENYANS CANNOT BE PAYING TAXES TO BENEFIT ONLY A SMALL SECTION OF PEOPLE OR REGION.
MUTHAURA NEEDS TO STEER CLEAR FROM MATTERS OF PARLIAMENT. HE IS NOT SUPERVISOR OF THE PARLIAMENT BUT HE IS ONLY SECRETARY TO THE CABINET. IT WOULD BE BETTER IF KENYANS CAME BACK TO THE STREETS TO DEMAND FOR CHANGE. WE NEED CHANGE AND WE NEED IT NOW AND NOT TOMORROW.
EVERY KENYAN OF AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE KNOWS KALOSO THE JUDAS OF KENYA HAD SECURED LESS THAN ONE MILLION VOTES IN THE LAST ELECTION AND ANY RIGHTFULL THINKING KENYAN WOULD KNOW THAT THERE IS NO WAY KALONSO THE JUDAS CAN BE THE SUPERVISOR OF RAILA OR ODM STAFF IN THE GOVERNMENT. RAILA GOT OVER FOUR MILLION VOTES AND ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE INSANE ENOUGH TO ALLOW KALONSO THE JUDAS TO SUPERVISE RAILE OR RUTO OR MUDAVADI OR NGILU OR NYAGA, OR BALALA.
MUTHAURA YOUR TIME HAS BEEN UP. STOP MISADVISING AND MISLEADING KIBAKI, WORK FOR CHANGE AND NOT AGAINST CHANGE. GO HOME AND RELAX. YOU HAVE OVERHARVESTED FROM YOUR FELLOW KENYANS.
MR. RAILA ODINGA, KENYANS HAD GIVEN YOU THE MANDATE TO LEAD THEM. STOP CALLING FOR PEACE FOR KIBAKI IS NOT INTERESTED IN SUCH PEACE. STAND AWAY FROM THAT SENILE MAN CALLED KIBAKI AND WORK FOR CHANGE FOR KENYANS. ALSO, BE CAREFULL.
ODM CALL FOR A RALLY WITHOUT KIBAKI. NOBODY AND I REPEAT NOBODY WANTS KIBAKI EXCEPT THE GEMA GROUP.
LONG LIVE KENYA
Kiambu
Edited for content by Jaluo Press. Posted on behalf of Kiambu by Jaluo Press.
Are we back to the ‘vintage’ Kibaki? Preaching water and drinking Wambui! Or are Karua,Muthaura etc having their own treasonable agenda? And where is the Catholic Church are they with us or with the devils?? The answers have to come fast before the hidden devils get up to their old tricks AGAIN!
Date: 10 Mar 2008 13:30:46
Subject: Row flares over Kenya coalition on eve of debate – Yahoo! News
ODM LEADERS HAVE NOT TO FORGET THAT PEOPLE PAYED DEARLY NOT FOR LOVE A FFAIR BUT FOR MAISHA BORA.THE FACT THAT OUR LEADERS ARE WAITING FOR MUNGIKI’S BLESSING IS CONFUSING PEOPLE.PEOPLE HAS STARTED TO THINK THAT DRUG -TRAFFICER MAY BUY THE COALITION.MUTHAURA IS LOOTERS SPOKESMEN AND HIS STATEMENTS ARE BASED ON CRUEL IMAGITNATIONS.ODM WON AND MUNGIKI REGIME LOST THEREFORE RAILA IS TO FORM HIS GOVERNMENT.THE NEGOTIATIONS WERE HISTORY OFYESTERDAYS.RAILA HAS NOT TO LET ANOTHER COUP IT’S ENOUGH.STOP ACTING LIKE A LOVE A FFAIR AND ODM HAS SMELT POWER THEY VOTED FOR ODM AND RECCOMENDED BY UNITED NATIONS.THE MUNGIKI REGIME IS NOT SAFE.THEY HAVE MONEY THAN THE STATE AND PEOPLE GAVE THE MANDATE TO LEADERS THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING!PEOPLE WANT THEIR BIRTHRIGHT! THE SPIRIT OF THE FOLLEN HEROS ARE STILL ACTIVE.THEY NEED ACTION, SERIOUSNESS AND REAL POWER NOW – OPADO
Row flares over Kenya coalition on eve of debate – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080310/wl_nm/kenya_politics_dc_1
Posted on behalf of Opado by Jaluo Press.
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:01
Subject: REMARKS BY FRANCIS MUTHAURA
FELLOW KENYANS QUOTED BELOW ARE WORDS FROM MUTHAURA SPEECH OF MONDAY
“We cannot divide the public service. It is not about politics. It is about serving Kenyans equally regardless of their political standing. That is why the civil service cannot be partisan.”Â
MUTHAURA NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT PUBLIC SERVICE HAS BEEN LONG DIVIDED ALONG ETHNIC LINES WHERE G.E.M.A GROUP GET THE BEST AND THE MOST MINISTRIES WITH VIRTUALLY MAJORITY OF PERMANENT SECRETARIES FROM KIKUYU COMMUNITY. ALL KENYANS PAY TAXES AND THEY DESERVE THEIR FAIR SHARE.
KIBAKI IS PUTTING ALL KENYANS TO MAKE A CHOICE TO LIVE FREE OR DIE. IF CHANGE DOES NOT HAPPEN, WE KENYANS ARE IN FOR A LONG SHORT. THAT IS, OTHER KENYANS MUST PREPARE FOR WAR OR FOR PEACE. FREEDOM IS NEVER GIVEN ON A SILVER PLATE AND CHANGE NEVER COMES WITHOUT LOSSES.
YES, IT IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS. IT IS HOW POLITICIANS LIKE KIBAKI, SAITOTI, KARUA, KALONSO, KILONSO, UHURU ETC ARE BEHAVING. MUTHAURA SHOULD UNDERSTAND YJAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING LIKE SERVING KENYANS EQUALLY AND REGARDLESSLY. HE (MUTHAURA) IS THE ONE ONE WHO HAS BEEN IN CHARGE OF DISTRIBUTING GOVERNMENT AND PARASTETAL JOBS UNEQUALLY. HE IS PREACHING WATER BUT HE IS DRINKING WINE.
CIVIL SERVICE IS DIVED QUITE UNEQUALLY AND MUTHAURA KNOWS IT. ANY FOOL CAN SEE IT AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, CIVIL SERVICE AND PARASETALS. MUTHAURA , MUTUA, LUCY, ETC, ARE THE PROBLEM.
ODM SUPPORTERS TAKE NOTE THAT GUNS HAVE BEEN IMPORTED FROM CHINA TO KILL KENYANS. CHINESE SHOULD LEAVE KENYANS ALONE OR GET OUT OUT.
Kiambu
Posted on behalf of Kiambu by Jaluo Press.
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:25:08
Subject: Re: [MULEMBE] We are watching you
What Muthaura and Martha Karua said yesterday on the Annan Peace accord is a clear manifestation of that bunch of high handed individuals around President Kibaki that are squirming in their chairs when they imagine what this power sharing deal portends for them. These are selfish people who relish in the majority of kenyans forever remaining poor as a few looters enjoy the fruits of our labour.
That brings me to my long held fear that Annan may have left a little bit too soon. The real problem in Kenya is and has always been the unequal distribution of resources and opportunities. When Kenyans joined hands to fight the 21st century Ali Baba and his bunch of forty thieves it was not just for the recognition of Raila Odinga as the Prime Minister. It was never for the mere provision of a motorcade complete with security detail. It was not to just end at forming a 6 man team to work out on the allocation and furnishing of an office for the Prime Minister and his two deputies. That alone wont put ugali, githeri, or biriani to Kenyans’ plates!!!
Kenyans were sending a clear message that, like the French middle class in the 17th century, they were tired of the present day Maria Antoinettes who have lost touch with the reality about the despicable living conditions of the citizens. They were stating loud and clear that ‘WE ALSO WANT A FAIR SHARE IN THE MUCH RESOURCES AND MANY OPPORTUNITES THAT ABOUND OUR BELOVED KENYA!’
It is far much beyond the reach of argument that the public appointments in Kenya are skewed. It is as clear as a cloudless sky that starting from ministerial Permanent Secretaries, to parastatal heads, to the provincial administration to the police and military force, there is so much tribal inequality that ought to have made Agenda number one in the Koffi Annan led peace talks. Because that is what directly affects Kenyans. These are the people who decide which of us from institutions of learning get employed. Go to Kenya Institute of Administration right now and find out the tribal ratio of those undergoing a 2 month training before being absorbed into the provincial administration? The ministry of Agriculture and the parastatals that fall under this ministry are the ones that shall decide who gets financial and material aid that has been promised to farmers in growing of crops this season. Woe unto the rest of kenyans if those institutions shall remain under the same patronage as it stands now!!!!
Going by what Muthaura and Karua said is tanturmount to a father who accepts a young married man with kids as his son but refuses to allocate him a plot on his land on which to build a house and grow crops for his young family!!!! Kenyans should not sit back and watch as people of Muthaura’s ilk who have reached their political, economic and social menopause threaten to destroy what our fallen brothers and sisters have lost their lives for. We should all shout in one voice and tell Muthaura, ‘KENYANS ARE TIRED BEING TREATED LIKE SECOND RATE CITIZENS!!!!’
Posted on behalf of Edwin by Jaluo Press.
I opposed this power sharing agreement from the start and I still oppose it now. Kibaki lost the election period. There is no need for him to hijack the process and hang on to power by force. Once Agenda 4 has been completed and it becomes apparent on how Kibaki, Kivuitu and the rest of the ECK commissioners who were accomplices in this felonious crime, participated in the election stealing, we demand a nullification of the declaration of victory by Kivuitu immediately and a transition government put in place to oversee a new general election. Kibaki and Kalonzo must be barred from being active participants. Their right to vote must be stripped as well because they are criminals belonging to the same gang group.
Raila, should retain the very people who have provided his security all along and avoid mixing with the spies that this Kibaki group are planting on him to study his security arrangement and his home layout. It is important that we stay the course. Raila and Ida, please reject the security details you are being accorded. You have right poeple behind you and you do not need this compromised police force providng your security detail.