Sunday, July 19, 2008

The Kenyan Community Abroad (KCA) is surprised and would like to express it’s concern by the pronouncement by the Narok North Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister William Ole Ntimama to a peace meeting in the Mau Forest that “they have already killed 600 people”.

In our view, it is very disturbing that the people we rely upon to lead us and the nation from the chaos resulting from the elections in 2007 are still using that anger which irrationally caused the death of close to 2,000 Kenyans as a bargaining chip against administrative duties of elected government officials.

It should be noted that Kenya faces daunting challenges in recreating a national identity. The divisionism caused by people thinking about “our tribe” and “our people” has no place in our society. We believe that we should delegate tribal identity to its traditional and cultural purpose of identifying Kenyans. We should take pride in what we learn from our culture and not use it to destroy each other.

In addition, the majority of Kenyans cannot identify with leaders that incite youth, either through bribing them or training them in terroristic acts. These leaders only do so to satisfy their egos, not to correct any perceived wrongs which current Kenyans know nothing about.

Kenyans abroad believe activities that teach upcoming and future generations lessons of hating their neighbors based on political incitement is not what we want for Kenya. Violence and killing should be punished by measures that fit the crime.

Therefore, we ask the President His Excellency Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Right Honorable Raila Odinga to show the nation the right way to lead by punishing people that brag about killing 600 innocent Kenyans.

· Hon. William Ole Ntimama should be fired as a cabinet minister immediately.

· He must be charged with crimes against humanity because investigations so far indicate pre-meditated murder.

KCA will start a petition to be presented to parliament at the earliest opportunity appealing for legal measures to be instituted.

Jared Oluoch

Secretary,
The Kenyan Community Abroad ( KCA)

Cc: The KCA Executive, Washington D.C.
Clerk, National Assembly.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:45:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jared Oluoch
Subject: KCA Press Release: Killings must never be acceptable