Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:54:31 +0000 [03:54:31 PM CST]
From: Kennedy Oduor
Subject: Re: A FRESH ELECTION FOR KENYA’S NATIONAL SALVATION
Thank you Mr.Nyamwamu for this contribution. I started calling upon Kenyans to demand fresh elections immediately I realized that this coalition had zero trust among them and there was nothing that it was going to do to the ordinary Kenyans. Kibaki has no political will to fight graft and to end tribalism while Raila Odinga’s hands are tied. The PM basically has no powers once the Accord specified that the President is both the Head of State and Head of government. The PM cannot sack Ali Hussein the Police Commissioner-only the President can but he has no will to do so. If this coalition was serious, people like Amos Wako..Aaron Ringera..Hussen Ali would have all been gone by now. But it seems the Presidents sees things very differently from the way majority Kenyans are seeing the same things.
I agree with you that only FRESH ELECTIONS will save kenyans from this monster that is driving them to nowhere. We are very likely not going to get a new constitution by 2012. The distrust and the bickering that will engulf the process is coming just like it happened in 2004-2005. This coalition also lacks moral legitimacy. Kenyans are still wondering whether they elected this government. They did not and they want their say very soon. I am calling upon Kenyans to demand a FRESH ELECTIONS so that we have a government by the people and for the people. A legitimate government that has the peoples mandate to do what the people have elected it to do. This negotiated government aint working.Corruption is moving on in full swing and the weak institutions are wobbling in their legs..
I still insist that the buck stops with the President and not anyone else including the Prime Minister. The President is both the head of state and head of government. Lets not hide anything the bickering and confusion between the PM and head of civil service is all created by the President. The confusion in parliament between the VP and the PM on who should be the leader of government business is one that was deliberately created and serves some people well..the BUCKS WILL ALWAYS STOP WITH THE PRESIDENT. This coalition is President Kibaki’s second admnistration and no one else’s administration. He refused to share power and authority and therefore he himself must bear the full responsibility of all that is going on including corruption and distrust in government.
Lets rally together Mr.Nyamwamu and call for fresh elections but the kenyan civil society must also WAKE UP from NOW!!! Mr.Orina where is the civil society? What happened to the civil society? Where is Kenya Human Rights Commission? Where is NCCK? Where is NCEC? Whre is 4Cs? Where is FIDA? Where is League of Women Voters? Where is LSK? Where is CLARION? Where is CGD? Where is TI? Mwalimu Mati is left alone fighting corruption and inefficiency in government. Can civil society call a National Civil Society Meeting and deliberate on the future of this country and the way forward?????
— On Fri, 13/2/09, orina Nyamwamu wrote:
From: orina Nyamwamu
Subject: A FRESH ELECTION FOR KENYA’S NATIONAL SALVATION
Date: Friday, 13 February, 2009, 7:42 AM
Wanabidii,
Pastor Stephen Kameti from Mwingi South told me on Sunday 8th last week that 20% is info rmation, 80% is attitude. And this Principle applies to everything.
From the rot in the NSE, NCPB, KNEC, Cabinet, Parliament, The Judiciary, The police force, the provincial administration to the famine in Kilifi, Kibwezi, Limuru down to the drought in Mandera; this country needs nothing more so urgently and so badly than a fresh election to get rid of all these men and women who have invaded our land.
If you did not realize, the damage that the Kibaki-Raila government is causing to the nation is worse than a foreign invasion from e..g. Uganda .
Foreign invasion is never has bad as internal invasion. Germany was bombed to the ground but this united the Germans to with fervor built within three decades the greatest economy in Europe and the third in the world. Look the damage George Bush has done to the country within 8 short years!
These guys are looting and we are not doing a thing. If it was for example Uganda invading Kenya- it could unite us in repulsing their advance into our territory. Unfortunately these invaders are sitting pretty, pillaging our nation and laughing at us.
If it was Uganda invading us, we could not allow it to steal as much as the amount Yagnesh Devani has stolen from us in a week. What Moi stole from us, what Kibaki and Raila’s ministers have stolen from us.
Imagine that Kibaki-Raila has auctioned all our public assets and as if not painful enough, they have now auctioned nearly 40, 0000 hectare of land in the Tana Delta – the most fertile of our land to the Arabs- for the Arabs to feed their people- as ours starve.
But while a Ugandan invasion will unite us in getting the best out of us, the Kibaki-Raila invasion is destroying all our institutions and undermining our future. They have destroying our values, our self believe, our family institution with their utter and gory corruption, they have subverted the church and other religious institutions, they have subverted our education system to be an education for supporting their corruption and privatization of the nation and selling it to the richest MNCs in the world; they have destroyed our governance institutions;
If Raila and Kibaki;
– have refused to sack Genral Ali even after the Waki report emphatically recommended this
– they have left that KACC man – Ringera in office
– Wako is in office
The Americans are now feeling the effects of Bush’s first 5 years of corruption and misrule. We are just beginning to feel the effects of the Moi era corruption and invasion. The effects of the Kibaki- Raila invasion will be felt in 2016 and they will be severe and irreparable.
If we want Police commissioner Ali to go and be held accountable- we need a fresh election immediately- this year.
If we want an end to Amos Wako’s 19 years of destruction and corruption- we need a fresh election
If we want an end to the Michuki- Saitoti killings of Kenyans using the police force- we need a fresh election today
If we need a democratic and people centered Katiba to entrench democracy and accountable government- we need a leadership that can save the nation from these 46 years of destruction – we need an election
If we want an end to the looting by Ministers and MPs- we need a fresh election
If we want the masterminds of the 2007-8 post election killings and rape- we need a fresh election
If we want an end to the poverty and famine we are witnessing today- we need a CLEAR government- a Clean, Lean, Effective, Accountable and Responsive government – this is only possible through an election to throw out all these cynical men and women of disrepute
Someone is asking where the CSOs of the 1990S WENT. It shouldnt be hard to decipher. the fact that the uniting factor, and therefore, visibility of Kenyan CSOs during the 1990s was ” Moi”, or rather hate for Moi. Please note that most of the CSOs had amongst their ranks key memebrs from Central Kenya. It was later discovered that their 1990’s hate for Moi was not due to his bad governing style, but unfortunately because ” he was not one of our own”
let the truth be said. as soon as Kibaki took over power, he started doing things Moi STYLE (corruption and nepotism, tribalis and impunity have been the hallmarks of his reign). But alas! the COS failed to see and criticise these. rememember how TI was compromised by a Kibaki insider; mwalimu Mati and Gladwell Otieno were hounded out for speaking loudly against corruption by “one of our own” Many vocal cso leaders were compromised by govt positions, where they all joined in the game.