NEWS Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo

KANU national Chairman Uhuru Muigai has been challenged to choose between the party of independence and party of National Unity and make his stand categorically clear whether he belong to KANU or PNU.

KANU branches in Nyanza have come out very strongly in support of the decision taken earlier in the week by more than 150 delegates who converged in Kericho town and gave Mr.Uhuru Kenyatta two weeks ultimatum to call the National delegate conference to discuss the fate of the party.

A KANU leader in Nyando Mr.Ken Opande wondered why Mr. Kenyatta is still hanging on the party’s National chair, and yet he was no longer interested in revitalizing the party.

KANU is a party which has its structures intact on the ground and therefore cannot be a subordinate of any political movement. If Mr.Kenyatta is keen in serving PNU then he should relinquish his responsibility in KANU.He is free to do so without being coerced or forced out.

“Our party is not affiliated to PNU,But it is only individuals like Mr. Kenyatta who have become an affiliate of PNU simply because it is serving their selfish interest,” said Mr. Opande who is also the regional coordinator of KANU in Nyanza.

Mr.Opande appealed to the retired President Daniel Arap Moi to come to the rescue of the party which he had led for close to 30 years and give it direction on how to face the future on its own as a political entity without succumbing to amorphous alliances with other parties whose policies are not clear about the future of this county. Mzee Moi is a reliable , respected and focused leader who ,though now retired from active politics can give credible guidance on which way forward the part,y could follow in order to regain its old glory.

“Mr. Kenyatta said another branch leader from Homa Bay district is no longer consulting the branches on party matters. The retired President Moi did. He has become a lone ranger perhaps thinking he would regain his shuttered Presidential ambition via PNU,” said the Homa-Bay party leader who wished that his name should remain anonymous.

All that KANU members were reading from their National Chairman were all misleading and he is only serving self interest. Two important by-election as currently going on in Bomet district, but KANU is totally silent. Why? It is because the party is currently leaderless.

Mr.Opande backed the suggestion by KANU leaders who met in Kericho and endorsed Mr. Gideon Moi to take over the mantle of KANU leadership. Mr.Moi, he said should visit all the provinces within the next few weeks and asses the irreparable damage done to KANU by Mr. Kenyatta’s application of double standard leadership.

KANU has its structures intact all over Kenya whereas the PNU is only a party that is operating from media houses, but locked operational bases on the ground.

Many KANU members and leaders have read malice on Mr. Kenyatta assertion eelier in the week that KANU was firmly affiliated to PNU. How can our party be affiliated to amorphorous political party with no established structures on the ground, leave alone the branches.Mr.Kenyatta should stop in subordinating KANU and reducing to a subordinate of PNU that is a very wrong, strategy. Kenyans cannot be duped to believe that KANU is in existence under the leadership of Uhuru Kenyatta who not long abducted his responsibility and turned his cousin in PNU said a KANU leader in Kisii.

We support our colleagues in Kericho who have taken a bold step in appealing to Mr. Gideon Moi to come forward and lead KANU. The younger MOI is a dynamic and energetic leader who can transform KANU back to its old glory, said Mr. Opande.

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:18:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: ULTIMATUM TO UHURU KENYATTA TO QUIT KANU ENDORSED BY KANU LEADERS IN NYANZA