Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:06:16 -0700 [03/10/2009 08:06:16 PM CDT]
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: Committment to Public Demands is What is Needed
Folks,
First things first. It is logical to tackle issues from existing points where mistakes are pinpointed to improve situation for the future. Our future here is 2012. We want food now to save lives in the present. We want responsible good leadership to provide constitutional reform now so that, come 2012 we have policy beacons guides to follow for 2012 election. Without which there will be no election come 2012.
However, there is a team entrusted to do just that. This team is headed by President Kibaki and PM Raila who together own Grand Coalition Government with Party Titles of PNU and ODM. The two teams are on the field playing. If at this point their playing match do not appeal or are below standards then they face disqualification. Disqualification will be met with New Political Order to complete unfinished work by the two grouping parties after which the platform will be levelled to provide for fresh Teams on a race, championing for
fresh mandate for 2012. It will be a waste of time for the likes of Ruto and Uhuru and the rest to scramble for election now. It is foolshardy. New emerging groups (who are not in the current leadership) should show their skills by sharpening their tools now, doing what needs done, what the electorate expects of them and deliver what needs delivered, or challenge what need challenged, confront presents leaders with reality and facts. They should be busy taking present leadership to task to make sure they deliver according to their promises, what needs done and where they have stumbled. We have to discuss in all forums issue oriented backed with facts.
My take therefore, PM Raila for once did the right thing to be able to stand out his ground and call it shots at this moment of grief. It is about time bad boys who have been enjoying protection of the few powerful Mt. Kenya Mafia in the Government system be told off. They are not working for the interest of the Public but of their own stomach. Even though Raila and ODM team have a half backed cake presently, they still have power enough to wield towards wishes of the electorate. With or without powers in the set-up of present ruling Coalition Government, the goal can still be achieved through pressure. They are better off fixing loopholes bit by pieces by denouncing corruption and pushing constitutional change to be top in their Agenda. One good thing PM Raila can do is to speak up aggresively, demonstratively and consistently, leaning on constructive advisors not coward or petty selfish types, to shout down the likes of Mutua, Chief of Police Mr. Ali, Uhuru, Beth Mugo etc., (the people will hear and the world will hear too). Keeping quite or lying low signals a sell-out an inability to function. He must resist to be the salt of Mt. Kenya Mafia dictates. He can only speak and provide change within while the system last not without. If he can do that, he will gain majoirity support and people can start to believe in him.
No human being has the right to be silenced by the gun however immoral, wicked or lithal gun-trotting condemned mafia gang. People must be given a judicial fair hearing and trial and be judged according to the law that prevails, every Citizen without discrimination has a right for fair trial.
What the Government did here was, they rushed to cover-up by silencing these unfortunate people (who were not given chance to defend themselves) so to drum their case home, that these young people are from a deadly gang. Showing Mungiki on TV to prove a case as bad boys without arraigning them in court demonstrates a failed system scrumbling and panicking for cover-up.
Yes, Alston’s report must be adhered to. Mr. Wako and the Police chief Mr. Ali as first suspects, must explain while behind bars, sequences as contained in Alston’s report. Police must not take laws in their own hands, they are creating fear amongst people. Freedome of speech is everyones right.
We all know Mungiki is a dangerous group, but all we see is, we are treated to a movie that the Government is trying to hide something which must be unveiled. We do not want to see people like Mutua who keep trying to preach the gospel under influence.
If Raila would continue to move at this pace, we might say, we are heading somewhere to salvage Kenya. We will not accept intimidation or pressure by allowing Kenyan Government to silence people. It will not work. The PNU group have to stop this kind of drama. 2012 is still too far. We need to steadfastly count on results not stagnation or some kind of shift gear down the cliff. He must stay focused on achieving track. Nothing comes easy, and one cannot relax or sleep when war is up-scale. Raila must show genuine compasion to the plights of pathetic situation of people and not just a temporary curtain demonstration before the camera. He needs to challenge and tell people where all these donor money disappear to once they are received into the country, he must find out through the Finance Ministry and tell the public. We are concerned because this big donor money coming in, desappears mysteriously once it gets into the country. It does not fizzle down to rescue the people, some of which (like maize) disappear to the neighbouring countries where they are sold while Kenyans are starving to death. PM Raila needs proper set-up machinery of the Administration Team to help him do his work efficiently. He needs to have focused clear minded advisors to help him think straight, so he can be able to respond by diving into issues in a spar of moment to salvage situations before they go out of hand. He needs to have a crucial list of activities he want to pursue in a given time frame (say 100 days from now) to be managed by his Administrative Team for forward strategy plan of action. He must entrust his elected Members of Parliament with underscored activities agenda on a by-weekly commissioning. That is what he needs to do, and that is what I expect he should do to be able to cross to Canaan. Yes, Kenya can be salvaged from a Failed State with action pact. Ofcourse, we all love Kenya, but we want a reliable leader, someone who can be trusted no matter who it is.
Let us look on the other side of the coin. How the Mungiki was formed. One thing is very clear that it begun as a religious Kikuyu sect. They were used by the GEMA to cause meyhem during election time. They were thugs for hire. They were politically balooned by the Mt. Kenya Mafia and became unmanageable. They started negotiating for their demands deals which made them fall out of favour with President Kibaki. Their leadership were seen going to State House to meet with Kibaki Team during 2007 preparation for election and after but Kibaki and Team has denied that never happened.
The saying goes, you create a monster, the moster will sooner or later get out of control and eventually overpowers and consumes the owner. Especially when the leadership break-up to form diverse interest groupings. The other reason is when their leadership squables go separate ways, their united front breaks up in divisions forming rebel groups squads headed by different marshals. The Mt. Kenya Mafia did not therefore, have control over the monster after it grew oversize and demands vs. supply stopped matching. It became difficult to contain the group, they got devided as they moved away upon leadership wrangles chasing 2012. They became too powerful with sofisticated weaponry to a point they commanded their own demands as they disintegrated. In order to survive they offered available services to political environment willing buyer willing seller. As the Mt. Kenya Mafia and other PNU of Central leadership groupings eyeing for 2012 begin to disintegrate amongst themselves, they too got divided into groups with independent leadership for divegent opportunities to support varying interests.
Mt. Kenya group must have been terrified when information were leaked to UN Reporteaur Mr. Alston over extraordinary killings by the Police. What is possible, they may have eliminated GPO and partner to cover-up and destroy evidence. In this case, Saitoti should join Wako and Police boss by stepping down from Public Office while investigations are going on.
Consequently, Ruto is no majic bullet win win strategy for ODM. Without him or moving out of Ruto from ODM to join Uhuru is no threat to ODM as long as ODM cleans house and start working as is expected of them by the Public. Kenyans want to enlist corruption behind their back, they want to see change taking effect. This is the time ODM with their half-baked-cake should move to the right direction where the wind is seen to be blowing to. They cannot afford to sit on their comfort chairs, but must work alongside with the general public to wipe corruption, and provide for the much needed constitution reform.
The ODM as a party have enough Silver Bullets to penetrate the dwiddling political jungle before the declaration that “Kenya is a failed State”. This is possible only when they pay attention to the peoples’ cries. Before coalition government is dissolved, Raila must put up a concerted efforts to work towards change and must be seen doing so before change change him as well.
My prayers again to the family of the departed. It is not easy, but take heart. Thank you all and God Bless Kenya.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/
News
Raila on the warpath
By SUNDAY NATION TeamPosted Saturday, March 7 2009 at 21:43
In Summary
• Prime Minister accuses security forces of killing innocent people
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday tore into the country’s security agencies over extrajudicial killings and said acts of impunity must be brought to an end and the rule of law restored.
Mr Odinga spoke a day after the US Embassy in Nairobi offered help in investigating the latest killings – those of Oscar Foundation director Oscar King’ara and official Paul Oulu.
And the matter threatened to throw the struggling grand coalition government into a fresh crisis over the strong positions taken by cabinet ministers.
The Prime Minister, one of the two principals in the coalition, has twice this week lashed out at the same government he serves and half of whose Cabinet members belong to his ODM party.
Mr Odinga appears to be growing frustrated with the government he helped form a year ago and this week asked for a renegotiation of the deal that brought his ODM and President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity together.
On Friday, he fired a salvo at government spokesperson Alfred Mutua saying that he did not speak for the grand coalition government.
Mr Mutua issued a statement on Wednesday alerting the public that the Oscar Foundation and members of the proscribed Mungiki sect were planning to paralyse transport the following day and warned that the law would take its course.
The protests went ahead Thursday, but the day ended tragically with the execution-style killings of Mr King’ara and Mr Oulu.
On Saturday Mr Odinga called for a halt to the “rule by the gun the security officers have displayed while purporting to discharge their duties in recent times. People should not be shot without following the due process of the law. We have had cases where the officers shoot dead innocent citizens before they plant a gun on the body of the deceased.”
He attributed the lawlessness to the collapse of the country’s justice system and said the office of the Attorney-General was guilty of abetting the practice after officers implicate defenceless people with trumped up charges to justify their actions.
On Saturday the police said they were questioning six people in connection with the killings Thursday evening near the junction of Mamlaka Road and State House Road
Intense scrutiny
Two weeks ago, the police and the AG came under intense scrutiny in a report prepared by UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Philip Alston who accused the force of engaging in such killings, sparking outrage from the public.
Speaking in his Gatundu South constituency, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta called on security forces to ensure that the killers of the two human rights activists were apprehended immediately.
“We need justice, and police should speed up investigations. People should also stop politicising the killing and instead seek the truth … you cannot politicise everything,” Mr Kenyatta said.
“We should stop persistent wrangles in the coalition and concentrate on solving problems that face Kenyans for development. We should stop shouting at each other every now and then. ODM should accept whatever the party has been given and serve Kenyans.”
The Sunday Nation learnt that the US government has offered the services of Nairobi-based detectives from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate Thursday’s killings. A diplomatic note to the Foreign Affairs ministry says the American detectives are ready to “offer immediate assistance.”
“The FBI within the US Mission (Nairobi embassy) is standing by and is able to begin working immediately on the investigation,” read part of the note dated March 6, 2009
In Kirinyaga, Justice minister Martha Karua said calls by political leaders and other Kenyans to bring the FBI and other foreign police agencies into the investigation were a sign of grave national concern.
“The public is losing faith in us who are in the government and now want foreigners to carry out probe into crimes committed against humanity in our country,” she said. She said the reaction of Kenyans was a wake-up call to the government.
“For Kenyans to have confidence in what we are doing, then something should be done to improve the performance of the institutions in the spotlight,” she said.
But Public Health minister Beth Mugo insisted the country’s institutions were strong and Kenya did not need foreigners to help solve the killings of Mr King’ara and Mr Oulu.
Criminal activities
“We are a mature nation with strong institutions which we have faith in. We must trust these institutions to look into these criminal activities and take legal action as fast as possible,” she said.
On Friday, Mr Odinga appealed for international investigators to take over the case, but Police Commissioner Hussein Ali said his officers are competent and would continue handling the matter.
The Sunday Nation has learnt that two teams of local detectives have been assigned the investigation. Police say they have been fighting to contain Mungiki, a secretive group accused of beheading and mutilating their victims and levying illegal taxes on the matatu industry and other businesses .
Earlier on Thursday Mr King’ara had spoken by mobile phone to an official of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR) complaining that he was being trailed by people he suspected to be police officers.
“But little did we know that it would end so tragically,” the KNHCR official, who declined to be named for his own safety, told the Sunday Nation.
According to people who are said to have witnessed the early evening shooting by several men who had blocked the victims’ vehicle with their cars, the attackers grabbed the men’s phones, removed the SIM cards and smashed the sets.
The victims had visited various parts of the city during the day to assess the success of the protest that sought, among other things, to force Maj-Gen Ali and Mr Wako to resign.
The protest paralysed transport in various parts of Nairobi, especially Kayole, Kangemi, Banana and Kawangware.
It also affected towns in Central Kenya including Thika, Nyeri, Murang’a and Nyahururu.
Proposed reforms
On Saturday, Mr Odinga told mourners in Siaya district during the burial of historian Prof Atieno Odhiambo that it was time the proposed reforms in the police force were put into effect to redeem the waning public confidence in law enforcement agencies.
Speaking at Alliance Girls’ High School, Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba said, “any help that can support the course of justice is welcome, especially at a time when the police have been accused of incompetence.”
The MP also asked the government to demonstrate a serious legal effort to destroy criminal gangs that threaten the peace and security of citizens. “We can fight crime legally without killing people,” he said.
On Thursday night, a University of Nairobi student was shot dead in a confrontation with police after Mr King’ara and Mr Oulu were killed.
Story by Dan Otieno, David Okwembah, Fred Mukinda and Augustine Oduor
Ruto Moving to Join Uhuru
By Standard Team
> Agriculture Minister and ODM deputy leader William Ruto has broken ranks
> with his party and told off its disgruntled MPs to shape up or ship out.
> Ruto said this even as it emerged that a new political alliance between
> himself and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta could be in the offing.
> Ruto led Rift Valley MPs in roundly condemning their party’s demand that
> the power sharing accord for the grand coalition be renegotiated.
> Speaking at a fundraising at Chematich Secondary School in Cherangany on
> Sunday, Ruto challenged “dissatisfied ODM MPs” to quit the Grand Coalition
> Government.
> He accused the disgruntled ODM MPs of frustrating the working spirit of
> the coalition.
> “We should be talking about hunger, the failing education standards and
> not the improper sharing of power,” said Ruto.
> To prove that he would be willing to go it alone, Ruto further challenged
> the dissatisfied ODM MPs to quit the coalition as “individuals instead of
> threatening that the party was about to withdraw from Government”.
> Ruto, who was accompanied by several ODM MPs, said the current government
> had a mandate of five years to serve Kenyans.
> Fair share
> The Rift Valley MPs drove their message even more clearly yesterday when
> they joined Ruto at yet another fundraising at Kapsabet Showground in
> Emgwen Constituency of Nandi District, where they made it clear that they
> would quickly take up Cabinet positions if their ODM colleagues walked out
> of the coalition.
> And even as ODM pushes for a fair share of government positions in the
> coalition, the Rift Valley MPs re-opened dispute over the sharing of
> government positions among their party members.
> The MPs included Assistant ministers Charles Keter, William Cheptumo and
> Aden Duale.
> Others were area MPs Elijah Lagat, Magerer Langat (Kepkelion), David Koech
> (Mosop), Peris Simam (Eldoret South), Jackson Kiptanui (Keiyo South),
> Charles Keter (Belgut), Julius Kones (Konoin), Lucas Chepkitony (Keiyo
> North), David Koech (Mosop), Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny, nominated MP
> Musa Sirma, Isaac Ruto and politician Alex Kosgey.
> The possibility of the alliance between Ruto and Uhuru – and possibly
> Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka – was given credence by Assistant minister
> Kareke Mbiuki, who sensationally revealed that he had been involved in
> meetings between the two and that a political union was in the offing.
> Mbiuki disclosed that Uhuru and Ruto had met and worked on a possible
> political alliance.
> Mbiuki, a close ally of the Finance minister, said majority of Central
> Kenya MPs -including the chairman of the region’s Parliamentary caucus
> Ephraim Maina, who is also the Mathira MP – were in support of Uhuru’s
> move to forge an alliance with Ruto.
> Mbiuki said he had mediated talks between Uhuru and Ruto, which could
> result in a key political partnership in the run-up to the 2012 General
> Elections.
> Speaking at Ngunga Primary School in his Nithi constituency where he
> distributed relief food to residents of the remote Igamba Ng’ombe division
> on Sunday, Mbiuki said the two had been holding meetings aimed at a
> political union.
> “Mr Ruto is my minister while Mr Kenyatta is my party chairman. Both of
> them are youthful and have a long history in Kanu. I relate with them
> well. I have been the middleman in talks that could result in a major
> political alliance,” said the Nithi MP. He hinted that the alliance would
> also include the Vice-President.
> Efforts to reach Ruto about Mbiuki’s claims were unsuccessful as his
> mobile phone went unanswered.
> The ODM MPs from the North and South Rift region who attended the Ruto
> function said those demanding re-negotiations should tell Kenyans of their
> political intensions.
> Mr Lagat dared those who wanted to quit the coalition saying, “We will
> move in swiftly and replace them as soon as they quit.”
> Isaac Ruto said if fresh negotiations will be done, then a third principal
> should be engaged because “the half a loaf ODM received was not fairly
> distributed.”
> Kutuny said if there was to be any renegotiations, then the distribution
> of the half loaf in ODM should first be addressed.
> Simmering rows
> “The party should not be personalized. It belongs to all Kenyans and there
> should be fairness,” Kuttuny said, revealing the simmering rows within
> ODM.
> Ruto said “As leaders we must strive to focus our energies to develop the
> country by addressing pertinent issues affecting Kenyans,” said Ruto.
> Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny and nominated MP Musa Sirma said some MPs had
> hatched a plot to weaken and destroy the coalition. They vowed to stick to
> the principles of the one-year-old grand coalition.
> “Those out to scuttle the grand coalition have a hidden agenda and we
> challenge them to declare their interests without compromising the party,”
> said Kutuny.
> Duale said ODM MPs from Rift Valley, Coast, Western and North Eastern
> would protect the coalition and termed those agitating for its collapse as
> daydreamers.
> The Agriculture minister censured his Cabinet colleagues for allegedly
> abdicating their responsibilities and instead wasting time in unnecessary
> and unhealthy political talk.
> Ruto’s sentiments were echoed by nine MPs at the function who also
> dismissed threats by their colleagues to quit the Government.
> “It is an unrealistic plot to return the country backwards when we have
> many challenges to overcome,” said Ruto.
> The MPs said ODM was a senior partner in the coalition and would not pull
> out of Government.
> They termed the quit threats orchestrated by some MPs from Nyanza province
> as misplaced.
> This is a clear breakaway from ODM’s National Executive Council (NEC) that
> kicked off the storm last week by demanding that the coalition National
> Accord be re-negotiated to provide for a 50-50 stake for their party and
> PNU.
> Addressing a press conference then, ODM Secretary-General Anyang’ Nyong’o
> said the party was tired of staying in a marriage where their rights were
> being ignored.
> – Reports by Osinde Obare, Patrick Muriungi, Titus Too and Maseme Machuka.
Re: My Prayers with you all
Monday, March 9, 2009 6:57 AM
From: “albert kenyanya”
Judy
I wanna thank you for your comforting message and at the same time try to underscore you and everyone who thinks that Raila is no MOSES anymore. For any Kenyan that is following these leaders very closely can tell where the problem lies. It is politics as usual. For one I want everyone to remember that this is not the government that we can hold Raila responsible for and if you doubt my words read very carefully what the other side is breathing out, then you can absolutely understand what is going on. Of course we’re seeing a lot of corruption cases in this government, but we still don’t know how bad it could have been if Kikuyu’s were left to run this nation by themselves as they had opted to do by stealing the elections in the first place. So we can address the problems of to day and yesterday, but we must never forget about the history of the past ie Anglo leasing, standard media mess, Armenian brothers, constitutional reforms mess, selling of regency Hotel and so many others. Bottom line, we must never expect anything crucial from this government, because Kibaki and Raila are two sworn enemies who are forced to marry each other and up to this moment they don’t know WHO is a man and who is a woman.
— On Sun, 3/8/09, Judy Miriga wrote:
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: My Prayers with you all
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 7:53 AM
Folks,
It is truely sad that Kenya and Kenyan Government has to go down on failed lane. My Prayers to those who have lost loved ones. May God rest the departed souls in peace.
And peace be with all of you. Amen……..
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:32:45 -0700 [04:32:45 AM CDT]
From: Kamau J Njuguna
Subject: Mungiki is a creation of Moi
1] Mungiki is a creation of Moi
It might sound funny, but walk with me down memory lane. Those days when Kanu was baba na mama. When kanu youth wingers called the shots. When kanu youth wingers could invade your home and impound your chicken, and all this with the tacit approval from the President, to the provincial administration.
Those were the days that all the youths, more so in central province got the idea that being jobless was beneficial. With the ideas having come from the then dreaded kanu youth wingers, the groups of Jirongo and Ruto, Youth for Kanu 92 was just an improvement of kanu youth wingers.
They had learnt under the tutelage of Moi that you could coarse and blackmail to get money. You could invade and attack to get money. When Kanu appeared to be loosing steam, the youths in central province, being money minded, had learned quickly and they mutated from kanu youth wingers, to Youth for Kanu 92, to Mungiki.
The end is what you have now.
2] Ruto is sinking
At the time Kenya went for the Referendum in 2005, William Samoei Ruto was able to hoodwink Kenyans that he had some semblance of democracy in him. So eloquent was he in the campaign trail that many Kenyans saw in him a possible future president.
I am sorry that has gone with the winds.
Again, take with me a walk down memory lane; immediately after the referendum win, Ruto started discussions with one Kalonzo Musyoka, he who would in 2007 betray the trust of Kenyans. When he saw that Raila was gaining an upper hand in Rift Valley without him, Ruto promptly jumped ship and strategically joined Team Raila. He knew that a Raila win in Rift Valley was going to add value to him if he played himself strategically.
After Raila won the last elections and signs were clear that Kibaki was stealing the votes, Ruto was strategically at KICC not to fight for Raila, but to fight for William Ruto. He was able to make Kenyans forget that he was the architect of the infamous Youth for Kanu 92. He made Kenyans forget that as rich as he is, he cannot account for how he acquired this wealth.
Then Ruto started playing mind games with Hon Raila. He could go back to his backyard to antagonize Raila at any given opportunity. In between, he would be sneaked to state house for debriefing. He would come back and steal some maize, go back to state house for more debriefings, go to Rift Valley to insight the people against Raila and on and on.
He then rolled out a massive theft of maize and gave his supporters the leeway. This made Kenyans for the first time to buy maize at 120.00 per 2kg packet. I doubt if Kenyans can trust this maize thief. He then bank rolls parliament with proceeds from the maize theft, helped by the proceeds from oil theft [Kiraitu], and he wins. But this does not vindicate him in the eye of Kenyans; he is still a maize thief and many Kenyans are dying of hunger because Ruto played politics with our maize. [Where playing means stealing].
Of late, he is organizing Kanu to reclaim power. He has forgotten what kanu did to the Kenyan economy that made Kenyans vote kanu out in 2002. He has forgotten that Kenyans know how he made his money.. He has forgotten that Kenyans can see through him. Ruto thinks that he is very smart, that he is able. He is just but a maize thief. And we cannot trust such a turn coat with Kenya. If we are to vote in another Kanlenjin, he will not be Ruto. Or Ruto is the best from there? Again, after killing many Kikuyus in Rift Valley and making many more homeless, is Ruto the kind of saviour the Kikuyu want? Gime me a break! As for the Kikuyus, after sacking all Kalenjins from government, can they pretend to be friends with the same Kalenjins now?
Too sad he will never be the President of Kenya. He could only be when elections will be open to thieves only. God save Kenya from the Ruto evil schemes.
3] Uhuru Kenyatta
This is the only person who abdicated the office of the leader of official opposition to join a sitting president who happens to be his tribesman. The case was so clear; power to remain in the house of mumbi for ever.
Then he came out to organize the mungiki attack against the Luo in Naivasha. He even said as much in several rallies across central province. He is the only person besides Ruto who appears deeply tribal even as he wants the presidency. He hates the Luo with a passion. Honestly, can Kenyans choose such an avowed tribalist to the presidency. The little said about Uhuru the better. Just watch him, look at his eyes and tell me if you can see leadership. The man is so angry. He could kill all the Luos on sight.
4] Migingo Island
Has it ever crossed your mind that the Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces has kept a studious silence as Uganda annexes Migingo Island? Do you ever know what he discusses with Museveni? Do you remember how with the help of Museveni they killed many people in kisumu? That should tell you what Kibaki is.
5] Kenyans
I must be very clear on this. Kenya has 42 tribes officially. Since Independence we have had 2 Kikuyu presidents and 1 Kalenjin President. Time has come for someone else. These people have proved that they cannot manage the affairs of Kenya to the best interest of Kenyans.
Kenya is a failed state basically due to the inept leadership from the 2 Kikuyus and the 1 Kalenjin. Not that the Kikuyus and the Kalenjins are bad. But Uhuru and Ruto are the wrong people to tell Kenyans what Kenyans want. Uhuru was imposed on leadership against his will, while Ruto does not see any leadership position from which he cannot steal.
Kenyans must move on and test someone else. That someone else will be Raila Odinga. He is the only person present on the scene who can inspire change if given the reigns. Look at how cool the man is as he is being conned of leadership by Kibaki. Look at how cool the man is as Ruto plays childish games at his backyard. Look at how cool he is handlying his duties against all huddles.
He has the level head that can hold Kenya together. Let us give him a try and shun tribalism to the dustbin of history.
Oh, what about Kalonzo Musyoka? He is lost.
Kamau J Njuguna.
