Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 23:34:01 -0700 [01:34:01 AM CDT]
From: henry ouma
Subject: Re: PNU Paralyzing Reforms

Ken,

I think ODM must NOT relent in its quest for reforms.

More specifically, ODM must demand through parliament, that police force related reforms that are not constitutional are undertaken immediately—–this could be achieved through a private members motion to seeking re-organization of police force. Unless this is done, the police “could” be abused to help rig 2012 elections.Such a motion can be accorded the neccessary urgency.It should NOT matter whether police related issues are within the ambit of the executive arm of govt—-the executive is NOT above the law.Legislature must seek to trim useless imperial powers vested in the executive.

Where it appears that Hon. Mutula is not moving with neccessary speed on the reform agenda ,ODM can still use the parliamentary committee on constitution review to expedite constitutional change and engender constitutionalism. Constitution is for kenya and not Mutula Kilonzo. ODM can mobilize the best lawyers, civil society,Kenyans and the international community to orchestrate demands for an acceptable draft constitution before December 2009.

The HBC (Parliamentary house business committee) in which ODM has eleven out of the 21 members is onother critical avenue for spearheading the reform agenda.ODM can demand that no other parliamentary business goes on unless and until new constitution is accorded all priority.ODM has the numbers to steer parliament in this direction.

Another critical area is the leadership of govt business in parliament-The PM must NOT relent in his quest for this.Its either him or Speaker retains it till the legal demise of the 10th parliament. But also since the PM supervises all govt affairs including those of ministries, he should choose to keep the ministry of justice and constitutional affairs on its toes-since delivery of new constitution and reforms inherent are priority number one.

Kenyans should also demand that the teams of experts reviewing the constitution openly inform the public on challenges facing their work—-the revelations yetserday that the team lack sufficient resources to continue their work is a BIG insult to the intelligency of Kenyan tax payers.If govt cannot support such a team working on such a worthy cause then such govt had better resign.And if NOT then perhaps this time around, the mens association should call for a nother boycott as the G10 did.

— On Wed, 5/6/09, Kennedy Oduor wrote:

From: Kennedy Oduor
Subject: PNU Paralyzing Reforms
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 8:55 PM

This is from Nation Newspapers: Now you know who is against Reforms in Kenya:

A day after the ice-breaking meeting of the two principals on Monday, the ODM leadership accused PNU of snubbing all their efforts to meet and agree on a structure of managing the coalition in and out of Parliament.ODM joint secretary to the permanent Grand Coalition Government management committee, Mr Miguna Miguna, told the Nation that he had written to, among others, the Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura to help fast-track the facilitation of a joint secretariat but that he has not received any replies.

“Even Mr Odinga has written letters calling for the permanent committee meeting to resolve the stalemate, but the PNU side are adamant and have no courtesy of replying the letters. Our counterparts are not interested in the reforms and smooth running of the coalition government,” Mr Miguna said. He said that even the appointment of Mbooni MP Mutula Kilonzo as minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs against the advise of Mr Odinga showed that President Kibaki was not treating his counterpart with respect.

“When consulted, Mr Odinga told him that the slot left vacant by the resignation of Gichugu MP Martha Karua was a PNU position and whoever was to be appointed ought to be reform-oriented, but to our surprise the appointment was fixed at the same time with a swearing in ceremony,” he added.

Symbolic position
As regards the post of the Leader of Government Business, the PNU side insists they must take it and make Mr Odinga chairman of House Business Committee, the official said.
“The leader of Government Business is a symbolic position that makes the two principals to be seen to be sharing power and Mr Odinga cannot work under Mr Musyoka as a mere chairman of HBC,” he added.

Mr Miguna said they were more than willing to meet and set structures of managing the coalition government, but even the funds to set up a secretariat are not being released. He added that proposals forwarded to the PNU side for comments had not been acted upon.
“I can assure you that our counterparts are not interested in reforms and there will be none if such a mentality continues. Our letters are not being replied to, all dates we proposed for the meeting were not responded to and our suggestion that they come back to us when they are ready have not yielded any fruit,” Mr Miguna added.

Sources revealed on Tuesday that President Kibaki proposed that the two key slots in Parliament be held by different leaders, one from the PNU coalition and the other from ODM. However, it was said that Mr Odinga rejected the President’s proposal that would have seen Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka continue as the Leader of Government Business.

These were among the details of a brief session of consultation at Harambee House on Monday between the President and the PM before they headed to Kona Baridi in Ngong to launch a tree-planting drive.Sources familiar with the proceedings said that Mr Odinga was opposed to the proposal to have Mr Musyoka as the Leader of Government Business, insisting that it was his preserve because as the PM, he was accountable to Parliament for all government affairs and operations.The Presidential Press Services (PPS), in a statement after the meeting, only indicated that President Kibaki and Mr Odinga had began consultations on the controversial issue of the LGB and HBC.

— On Wed, 6/5/09, Robert Alai wrote:

From: Robert Alai
Subject: Re: whats with companies that dont pay
Date: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009, 9:46 AM

Waseme

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM, monicah kogi wrote:
I am really angry at entreprenuers who come up in the name of ceos and they never pay their members of staff come end months and they go missing.shame on them there is a particular one called Optimum Securities where the employees go hungry and without transport just because a certain son of a gun just decided not to pay and when he does he pays in bits.SHAME SHAME SHAME ON THEM………………..