Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:06:19 -0800
From: komboelijah@ . . .
Subject: Ruto and Uhuru: Kibaki please forget!

The statement goes that the President is holding secret talks with Uhuru and Ruto as part of succession plan come 2012. I submit on this forum that never again will the two ministers ever see or be the Presient in our State House. They need to sit down, think and draw formulas on how to repair their damaged reputation rather start thinking being the country’s CEOs. If i were them, i would start planning my peaceful road to early retirement.The Waki report and Jusitce Minister Martha Karua’s proposal sound to be really good to deter and bar anyone mentioned in the report not fit to hold public office -like that of a Minister.

We cannot allow bad history to keep repeating itself. I am sure Kenyan are fed up with same faces mentioned on corruption, tribal clashes, madoido remarks, etc should be even on the newspaper in the front pages. I tend to think that the current crop of politician have reached their political menopause and should not hand over to another vibrant visioned generation. Few of the current leaders have proved worthy and Raila proves to be that one who was to get Kenya out of tribal cacoon. See the example of Congo – young Kabila has tried to bring sanity and he is still struggling with the old guard who are masterminding and planning mayhems in that country. Why for example is Tanzania getting better and better? We have leaders who are supposed to face the Hague worser like Milesovic!

What holds for us is to keep shouting but grassroot civil education need to be enhanced and equiping citizens with knowledge which will give them power to send the fat cows home. So when the President calls the two ministers to discuss succession politics – it means that there was something common that happened and is prone to happen. We know thta both ministers had a cake in the just ended ethnic cleansing – and therefore do not belong to the calibre of political leaders we want. As a leader, i think i will be ashamed if i am not consistent with my stand – i cannot be swayed and change my mind. Thus both Uhuru and Ruto become leaders of no integrity and stand but of contradictions.

As a patriotic Kenyan, i havent come into terms with what happened during the Moi era and the now the Kibaki era. I tend also to think there too much madness around detriment to politics of development. When i go back to my rural home, i still people drinking unclean water, impassable roads, no electricity, poor state of schools, ill equiped hospitals etc. We are much more worse than when we started!

And yet those who havent seen or experienced this penicious, perpetual pernury take an economic advantage to pass laws and rules that are punitive to the development of our good country. I appeal to newspaper to ignore such leaders and start highlighting, moulding leaders who have shown integrity in the character and conduct.

I therefore submit that both Uhuru and Ruto do not fall under that category of leaders with the country at heart. They have made politics a career and profession! President Kibaki should think twice and plan his succession better not to irritate Kenyans but let us choose who we want to leader the nation.

Kombo Elijah

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Well said Elijah. Both Ruto and Uhuru are following a well-read script crafted and perfected by the Moi era cleptomaniacs who bought, used and dumped political opponents like sanitary tissue.

Both Ruto and Uhuru are in that promising age-group that could re-enact the Obama political trillology in Kenya yet, in line with politics Kenya-style, they are just opportunists who pretend to champion a different and liberating political ideology while they have greedy, glutonous eyes on the State House buffet. As soon as the president opens the gates, they cannot resist the aroma. They will troupe there, salivating at the succulency of the fare spread by the House culinary wizards. And that, as one Martin Shikuku will confirm, will be the end of the dream for the Rutos and Uhurus of Kenya.

As I said, Knya yearns fro a Messiah. That Messiah isn’t yet born, going by the charade that’s Kenya’s politics.

Any one ready to liberat Kenya from political mediocrity? Step forward.

Mathias.

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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:48:09 +0000 [11/30/2008 02:48:09 AM CST]
From: mathias aguta
Subject: RE: Ruto and Uhuru: Kibaki please forget!