On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:58 AM, amenya gibson wrote:
I feel saddened to read in todays Newspapers that Kenyans women are spitting fire and saying that parties major ones have let them done.
I feel this is high sense of hyprocisy from our lovely women
I good faith why can’t great people such as Wangari Maathai, Jelimo, Mugo etc mobilise youth and other women to strenghten a party they feel will give them proper representation
Sitting on fence then cry later is wrong.
They had the voice to say no in PNU,ODM ODM-K and KANU but they did not in fact many women attended those delegates meetings but they did nothing to raise their voices
Bye
Gibson Amenya
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— On Wed, 12/24/08, Otieno Hongo wrote:
From: Otieno Hongo
Subject: Re: Kenyan Women Avoid Crocodile Tears
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 7:32 AM
The recent party elections held by different political parties in a bid to comply with new regulations once again proved that as a country we are still a long way from Democracy. All the major parties basically “staged the elections” and none of the current party leaders deserve to claim that they were elected. The party delegates merely met to rubber stamp board room decisions. What is even frightening is that parties went as far as creating positions to accommodate certain personalities. Nowhere was this so blatant as in ODM where a position of second deputy party leader had to be created to accommodate William Ruto as the party feared the consequences of Ruto and Mudavadi facing each other. In another party, positions for eight vice chairs were created!! While it is laughfable the way our politicians fear to face each other in elections, what is of more concern to be is the fact that doors are effectively shut on new comers or new blood.
While the law will be making it difficult to have anybody come up with a party just for the sake of it, the mainstream parties are effectively being locked up through board-room maneuovers. This might mean that even having some fringe parties to run on with the hope of upsetting the applecart will be more difficult. And with mainstream parties under lock and key of the establishment, it will be a long time before any meaningful democracy is seen in our political space. I see a continuation where the PNU-ODM-ODMK dictatorship is further going to be entrenched as the political space closes up, more so with the continued attempts to frighten the media through legislation. Given that this axis of evil shares the same values, that is to further entrench and enrich the political and big business class at the expense of wananchi, this really is frightening.
It is time that Kenyans started to identify a political movement that can be shaped and controlled by wananchi, that whose leadership can be a reflection of the people’s voice and not crafted to satisfy the bloated egos of some big shot politicians. And how can we do this. I don’t have an exact answer at the moment but one of the first steps can be to identify a fringe party and take it over…just musing
Hongo
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:28:38 -0800
From: oyookraft@ . . .
Subject: Lets Form Ourselves into a Party. Nothing to Loose
We do not have to take over a fringe party. We can register ours. Why is it so hard for us to realize that this can be done and it’s not that hard?
The conditions are that a party must have an office and 200 members in each province and at least one member in each district and 600,000
These are conditions we can meet
All we need is 2500 people paying 1000 each and these people will own the party because they paid for it. Not parties bankrolled by one person of r a few connected people. That will be 2.5M. Thats enough for registartion and 1 years party office rent. If we can get a person in each counstituecy we will have made the district condition.
And we can do an online Convetion using email. it will be a first in the world
Wanabidii, lets nominated proposed party interin Chairperson, Secreratry and Treasurer to start us off on this journey. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.
What are we waiting for. i have been counting people favourable for the idea and the list is growing. What do we have to loose for trying? so much is going for the idea, for one it will be the only non parliamentary, non coucil party giving us all the rights of filling the vacuum of the opposition, albeit outside parliament.
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From: luo31@ . . .
Subject: RE: Lets Form Ourselves into a Party. Nothing to Loose
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:10:48 +0000
Dear Wanabidi
Mr. Peter Odhengo is in the process of registering a party called Young Democrats (YDEM). He has done alot of leg work. I have copied him on this mail. His outfit may be appropriate for this group since it is not registered yet. You can reach him at 722984992.
His emails is ccied above.
Barack
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:23 PM, reca africa wrote:
Dear Wanabidii,
This is to acknowledge with much thanks the receipt of the above mentioned subject. Indeed as Dr. Abonyo indicated, I’m in the final stages of registering a party called Progressive Development Movement-PDM. We’ve done recruitment by getting more then 200 people from all the 8 provinces, we’ve also got founder members from 78 districts as required by the political party Act. We’re still working on the finalist of offcials and I would request that, we join hands NOW to register this party. Iam willing to bring more pro-change agents-wanabidii to enable us raise funds for sumbission to the regitrar. I’ve also discussed the same with Dr. Abonyo and Nick Oyoo.
For more infornation please call me on 0722984992
Regrads.
Peter Odhengo
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Peter
Please tell us what the ideals of the party are. We just dont want people who always come to us for votes and money but we know less of what they stand for. What is the vision of the party? Money should come last not first
Robert
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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:50:21 +0300 [12/26/2008 07:50:21 PM CST]
From: Robert Alai
Subject: Re: Lets Form Ourselves into a Party. Nothing to Loose