Folks,

This is a point blank Vote of No Confidence by the Parliamentarians. We are treated to dramatic yet another misuse of Public Office using acquired powers for matipulative excercise against powerless/voiceless Kenyans Citizens being robbed of their rights.

Can we trust Parliamentarians for this one motion to be tabled in the house people? Start making calls and sending emails to your Legislatures.

This is the only way you can gain your powers and voices back. The power that will bring Justice to your doors people. The Civic Society must stand up together with the rest of Kenyans in Staying the Course for their DEMANDs for Justice, Human Rights and Good Democratic Rulership. Dont faulter people, we will be with you all steps of the way.

The Day is Today, and the Time is Now…………

Keep on keeping on!!!!!!!

Judy Miriga
USA

Uhuru: Here is ECK evidence
Published on 16/07/2008

By Evelyn Kwamboka

Evidence is now available that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta was warned that he had broken the law when he nominated councillors whose names were not forwarded by political parties.

In a development that shoots down Uhuru’s insistence that he acted within the law, it has emerged that Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) Chairman Samuel Kivuitu told the then Local Government minister, now in charge of the Trade docket, that he had broken the law by trashing names given by parties and coming up with his own. In a letter obtained by The Standard, Kivuitu wrote to Uhuru as soon as the minister gazetted the list of nominated councillors and told him it was against the law.

The letter is stamped as having been received by Uhuru.

Kivuitu told the minister that he had no option but to re-gazette the correct list as given by ECK, instructions that Uhuru defied up to the time he left the Local Government docket in April.

Kivuitu’s February 28 letter reads in part: “The Electoral Commission of Kenya has perused the special issue of the Kenya Gazette No 1276 dated February 22 and noted various discrepancies where the names that ECK submitted on February 21, 2008 have been substituted with other names.”

Kivuitu added: “However, as it offends the law it has to be corrected and the corrections gazetted to reflect accurately the list of candidates the ECK supplied to you.”

Kivuitu pointed out the 93 names in the Uhuru list to the minister, plus the names ECK forwarded to him from political parties and local authorities affected. He implored him to amend the records.

The names are expected to be deleted and replaced with the ECK list by Uhuru’s successor in the ministry, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi.

Likely to be axed

Notable among those who could be affected by Mudavadi’s pen are Mombasa Mayor Ali Abubakar Modhar, who could be dropped because he was picked outside the ECK list, as well as Ms Esther Passaris who could be reinstated as her name was dropped.

In the same letter also, Kivuitu made it clear to the minister that he had nominated more councillors than allowed under the Local Government Act.

“Under the Local Government Act, nominated councillors cannot exceed one-third of the elected councillors in any given local authority,” Kivuitu stated.

Uhuru nominated 33 more councillors over and above the 729 slots available according to the ECK slots.

The minister also filled slots where no parties had forwarded names of nominees.

In subsequent letters, which The Standard obtained, Kivuitu asked Uhuru to replace such nominees with names forwarded late by parties. Uhuru never did.

The most affected authorities by the alterations were Nairobi and councils in the Coast, North Eastern, Central, Eastern and parts of Rift Valley.

In Nairobi, ODM had forwarded 12 names to ECK and PNU seven, making it a total of 19. However, PNU was awarded 13 slots as opposed to the seven the ECK provided.

ODM was given 11 as opposed to 12 it had forwarded. The minister omitted ODM’s Passaris and PNU’s Wilfred Magara Apencha and Rachel Wanjiku Kamweru’s from the Nairobi City Council list submitted by ECK.

The Nairobi list featured eight new people whom Uhuru gazetted. They were not in the ECK list.

They are Mr Lee Muchiri, Ms Amina Mohamed, Mr Paul Mutunga Mutungi, Mr Badi Ali, Mr Alex ole Magelo, Mr Dishon Njoka Nyaga, Mr Abdulrahman Ahmed Abdalla and Mr Thomas Kinuthia Ng’ang’a.

In the Mombasa Municipal Council, where ODM had submitted 10 names to ECK, four new names appeared in the gazette notice, with the sitting mayor, Modhar, being among those the minister picked.

Pressure piled on Mudavadi to revoke Uhuru’s nominees and settle the issue once and for all.

Nairobi Mayor Godfrey Majiwa has deplored the delay in degazettement of excess councillors, saying it was straining the council’s coffers.

“We appeal to the minister to ensure that excess councillors are defrocked accordingly because we have a Sh9 billion debt and we cannot continue wasting money,” Majiwa said in an interview.

At a glance

– The number of councillors in a county or town shall be as follows:
– Such number of councillors (if any) as the minister may by order determine, elected for each electoral area by the electorate thereof;
– Where the minister by order so determines, in lieu of the councillor or councillors to be elected by any electoral area within a county or township, a councillor or the same number of councillors, appointed by the council of a county division within which the electorate area wholly falls
– Such number of councillors nominated by the minister to represent the Government or any special interests as the minister may by order determine
– Where the county or town council in its discretion so agrees with the council of any municipality or county, one councillor from among the councillors of that council appointed by that council
– Provided that the total number of councillors nominated or appointed shall not exceed one third of the number of elected councillors or where the number of elected councillors is not divisible by three, the next lowest number is divisible
– Every councillor appointed shall, for all the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be an elected councillor of the county or town council

Uhuru Kenyatta wild and Dangerous Ambition !!!!
Posted in July 14th, 2008
by Editor in Western

By Khaguli Maurice Nandwa

Western Kenya, Movement for Change.

Following the meeting at Blue Post Hotel Thika (Uhuru Kenyatta’s Hotel), a look at what elected MP’s from PNU and central Kenya were doing in one day, two weeks ago is revealing itself.

Some of the MP’s committees sitting, only a few were examining Kimunya protection and how they can front another one from the community, which was a success (Michuki).

Uhuru Kenyatta sympathizer’s engaged the rest of MP’s in various studies and reviews of topics ranging from failure to post-traumatic political stress disorder of last year election violence in rift valley and Nairobi.

“Some might call it make-work projects,” concede this insider, who acknowledged the PNU wing of government has taken ago-slow approach, only introducing bills it is confidence can gain the support of at least the self declared grand opposition members to brake ODM inner unity.

Even with that, kimunya had to use the hammer of declaring non-money matters like on constitution review and MP’S taxation to force confidence and support from the ODM and self declared grand opposition, which is desperate to a void triggering discontent in the parliament on issues that play tribal and ethnic traditions strength that has been played by the last three brutal regimes. Expect to see more of that he claimed.

“This is the most divided parliament,” It was supposed to be the strongest and united but it’s turned to be the most un-trusted and unstable, and in a way, the most unproductive which is to their advantage.

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:00:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: Uhuru: Here is ECK evidence / Uhuru Kenyatta wild and Dangerous Ambition !!!!