From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013
There are three news making headlines today. One is terrible road accident which took place yesterday night at Ntulele, Narok. This was one of the most disturbing accidents in Kenyan history. About 41 people were killed and several others injured. One family lost 4 sisters. Among the dead were 4 children.
Traffic Police Commandant Samuel Kimaru said the City to City Bus that caused accident was heading to Homa Bay overloaded and did not even have Transport Licensing Board (TLB), a license that allows public vehicles to operate. The Bus is meant to carry 57 passengers but it was carrying 70 at the time of accident.
Second news making headline is about Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejecting Deputy President William Ruto’s request for trial breaks. The judges ruled Ruto’s trial will run daily from September 10 to October 4 and from October 14 to November 1, citing need to ensure a speedy trial.
The three-judge bench led by Chile Eboe-Osuji will issue further sitting schedules in due course. This means the deputy president will be present at The Hague courtroom for the three weeks, with the exception of weekends when court doesn’t sit, and only have 10 days break before the second session begins. Ruto had requested two weeks on and two weeks off in the application that the judges rejected.
Rejection comes shortly Ruto had made a public statement that ICC case against him is to collapse. Ruto made this scathing statement during his three-day tour of Meru, Embu and Tharaka-Nithi counties on Sunday.
Ruto expressed optimism that he would overcome the forthcoming trials at the International Criminal Court, saying his team was secretly working on a strategy which would deal a blow to the ICC prosecutors when the case kicks off.
My take here is that the judges might use these statements against him and jail him. President Uhuru Kenyatta and journalist Joshua arap Sang are silence on the matter and this may work on their favor for their cases acquitted.
Ruto is probably basing his conviction on Dr. Thomas Manton, a regular in making prophesies concerning Kenya who said in February prior to March 4 elections that God had told him that Uhuru Kenyatta had been chosen by God to be Kenya’s next president and Ruto to be his deputy president. This prophesies worked.
Manton also claimed that the same God of his told him that he would soon remove the ICC elephant from Uhuru and Ruto. This case Manton claimed God had told him will not be able to get it through because it is not God’s will that these men be convicted for what they actually did not institute or originate. We only wait to see whether this prophesy works this time.
The third news making headline is to do with Kethi Kilonzo’s case. She is to face charges over IEBC registration forgery. Although the IEBC tribunal also heard a complaint by the Wiper party which wanted Prof Philip Kaloki disqualified from the Makueni senatorial race on basis that he is still registered with the party, Jubilee insisted he must vie.
Rumors are going on that Charity Ngilu approached Kethi that she could vie for Makueni senator with Jubilee ticket. When she agreed she told Ngilu that she was not a registered voter but Ngilu insisted that was not a big deal. It was then that Ngilu helped her to forge the registration certificate.
It was only after Kethi changed her mind to vie on Cord ticket that Ngilu revealed that she was not registered voter. This brings us to a bigger question as to why should Kethi avoid locking horns with Charity Ngilu even though they are both Kamba?
This is because Ngilu is Uhuru’s project. Ngilu is an election loser and for good reason she had to protect her ministry job offered to her by Uhuru even when Ruto did not approve. That is why she also tried to divide Kethi’s family by trying to lure Kethi’s mother-in-law to be Uhuru’s project in Ukambani.
It means that a lot is going to be revealed when the forgery case kicks off. Ngilu is to be one of the witnesses and I tell you this is going to be one of the enjoyable cases to watch. No matter how Jubilee will try to cover up Ngilu truth will definitely come.
I wish Kethi the best of luck-take courage mom!
Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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