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From: Nyachae Ondimu
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:37 PM
Subject: Why we must support the Implementation of the Waki Report.

Why we must support the Implementation of the Waki Report.

It is well over 10 months since an all out violence engulfed Kenya following a closely contested presidential election. Hundreds of Kenyans lost their lives while thousands more were displaced. To this day thousands more are still IDPs.

It is noteworthy to remember the loud cries to help Kenya. The cries were so loud across the globe that “we” were able to arrest the situation ~Kenya was potentially another Rwanda in the offing.

The two protagonists (President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga) agreed to share power. They signed an agreement. The agreement was enacted by parliament and entrenched in the Kenyan constitution. Among the clauses in the agreement was to establish commissions to investigate the post election violence.

The mandate of the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) was to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the violence, the conduct of state security agencies in their handling of it, and to make recommendations concerning these and other matters.

No right thinking Kenyan would like to see our beloved country sink so low again. Why we found ourselves in the hole was because of impunity since independence. Impunity, corruption, discrimination based on tribe and cronyism are among the reasons we are so shameful of Kenya to this day. (President-elect Barack Obama has so dearly salvaged the image of Kenya). Those of us in the Diaspora had our own share of pain and shame of the violence.

To use Waki report’s words “we have to break the cycle of impunity which is at the heart of the post-election violence.” It is needless for me to recount the many miseries we all went through.

Since the report made its way to the public, we have seen politicians from the political divide (PNU and ODM) come out in full force to reject it! Reason? Because their names are on the list of suspects! This is not only selfish, but also another way of saying, “ come next elections and we have a re-match (including the violence)”.

Unless we prepare for “war” and confront our fears, fears that if the so and so is put in the dock Kenya will be on fire~ unless we stand firm and be a nation of laws and not mass fear, unless we hold individuals to account, we will perpetually be held captive by greed and tribalism!
This is the reason why I fully support the implementation of the Waki report. I fully support all those in positions of power with the same views including the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon Richard Onyonka.

I am asking all Kenyans and Friends of Kenya to make known the views and particularly make known their support by calling and e-mailing MPS and Ministers including the President and Prime Minister- Support Hon Richard Onyanka who has come out as a voice of reason . To e-mail Hon Onyonka for support please use rimo16@yahoo.com

Gerald Nyachae Ondimu
Minneapolis Minnesota

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From: ndiaondiao@ . . .
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:44:46 -0500
Subject: RE: Why we must support the Implementation of the Waki Report.

If you want peace you must seek justice. Justice must not only be done, but it must be seen to be done. Kenyans did not shade blood or die in vain.

Those who planned organise, funded and executed the killings following the disputed elections in Kenya must face justice. That is the only way we as a society will indemnify the families for their losses and also end the culture of impunity that has plagued Kenya since time immemorial.

Justice Wakis report must be implemented in-toto.

Stephen Ochola.

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This idea of calling for the implementation of the Waki report to me is totally uninformed. I am basing my argument on what I have read so far. The report talks of meetings that so and so attended and that those meetings discussed such and such. Evidence of involvement of mentioned key individual, personalities heading armies or arming individuals or heading fighters is luclusture. The real evidence that exist is

1. What and who intiated the violence : Kibaki and those who stole the election did

2. Who responded to the stealing of the election: ODM leadership did verbally

3. Who actually carried out the attack : The small man who is already languishing in prison

So if Waki has done its job then it is practically impossible to leave Kibaki or Odinga out of this. The two have not suffered anything for what happened during the election and yet they were the leaders of the two camps. It is amazing from my point of view for them to insist on implementation if they themselves are the main originators. You cannot prosecute Ruto without doing the same to Odinga unless you want to be unfair. On the same vein, you will never take Uhuru anywhere and close an eye to the comments of Martha Karua during the election if this prosecution has to mean anything. Indeed Kibaki will not be out of this eqauation because the police who killed many people could not have moved without the order from above (Kibaki’s order). So where do you start and end. To implent the Waki report one must start from Raila and Kibaki. This is where Waki should have done. Instead they chose to close the envelope, avoided the nucleus and prosecuted the peripheral agents. This report is going to start nowhere but end nowhere because the investigator is the calprit.

Kibaki and Odinga should stop waisting our time and money with this Waki report. We already know the answer. No one will be jailed if the ceiled envelop has any trueth. The envelope must have both Kibaki and Odinga’s names on it and I will be so happy if they could prosecute themselves first. Let them start by resigning.

I no longer care what the coalition does. We have peace now. Let peace reign untill the next general election comes. Let the displaced be resettled. They are suffering because of the very same things that are beginning to ferment. My point is that selective implementation of this bad one footed report will lead to another violence and this time Kenya will indeed become another Rwanda.

Kibaki and Odinga should stop antagonising Wananchi for their benefit. It is time Kenyans start charting a new path to freedom and prosperity. We are tired of tribal inclinations. We are tired of old guards. We are tired of recycled issues that never get solved. We are tired of reports after reports that never see the light of day. We are tired of poverty. We need new ideas. We need new leadership. We need change.

Dr. Barack O. Abonyo

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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:37:57 +0000
From: barack abonyo
Subject: IMPLEMENTATION OF WAKI REPORT WOULD REQUIRE RESIGNATION OF KIBAKI AND ODINGA