Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:06:00 -0700 [04/13/2009 12:06:00 PM CDT]
From: Julius Okelo
Subject: Re: Obama/Annan
The solution is simple. Kibaki should give up the seat that he knows he never won. Once the rightful winner, whom we all know was Raila, takes the office that he was resoundingly elected to, then Kenya will be able to move foreward. And there is no need to juxtaposition the two. Kibaki’s failures are unique from Raila’s failures. Trying to convince everyone into believing that both are responsible for the woes happening in the country is misleading. Kibaki wants to run the country as if he is the bonafide president and yet he knows he never won the elections. The discontent is coming from a lack of clarity as to why this man is dictating to Kenyans.
— On Sun, 4/12/09, david bett wrote:
From: david bett
Subject: Re: Obama/Annan
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 9:17 AM
Kamau, Now you are talking. You forgot agenda # four which is to address past misrules. Without addressing those, even new constitution will be just a document. But the questions and tensions will continue. But I see good spirit in your approach.
David
“FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, MOVE AND EXIST” ACTS 17:28: AND THERE IS SALVATION IN NO ONE ELSE ; FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN AMONG MEN, BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED” ACTS 4:12
— On Sat, 4/11/09, john kamau wrote:
From: john kamau
Subject: Obama/Annan
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 2:22 PM
Time is up not only for Kenya, but for the United Nation and President Obama: to demonstrate leadership while dealing with the coalition Government issues in Kenya, before it’s too late. The Problems facing President Kibaki/ Prime Minister Raila are not of their making. This was a mistake made right from the onset of the formation of the so called grand coalition.
Where in the world did we have too equal centers of power? Please note the contention is not the coalition or the institutions: It’s only the word Equal. Two steeling wheels, with two drivers in one motor vehicle? I do not care whether these two drivers will be Obama and Annan, or Kibaki and Raila… You can not climb a tree from the top. The two institutions, Prime Minister and presidency, should have been formed under the orbits of a constitutionally elected government and not the other way round… An unconstitutional government can not pretend to form constitutional institutions…
What we needed soon after the Serena Accord is a new constitution and Immediate Election under the watchful eye of the United Nations… Today Kenya is like the house of barbell. Raila and his ODM side of government are pulling on one side while Kibaki and PNU are pulling on the other. We can not pretend that things are Going on well for five years, the damage kibaki and Raila are doing will be irreparable. They are pulling the very fabrics that hold Kenya together in to tiny shreds. The world dictated to them to come together, the world can dictate to the two to give Kenya a new constitution.
This will resolve the current institutional confusion. If we keep the office of the president, he will be operating within the constitutional frame work. The Prime minister two will know his boundaries. Ministers and civil servants will then be royal to the institutions of governance, not to the readers of their appointing parties.
Kenya will then become what it should have been, a country heading straight to the vision 2030. And more.