Statement for Press Conference:

There will be no Kenya without true Justice. Justice Delayed is Justice Denied. Even in the midst of confusion, Kenyans are focused and composed. But the matter is fluid and dangerous. Kenyans are a peaceful people, and are eagerly waiting for Justice to take effect in Kenya. Kofi Annan and Ocampo must embark on processes of Kenyan situation to avoid threatening looming catastrophy just about to happen in Kenya.

Kenya’s Future:

Kenya’s Future is in the hands of its own Citizens, the People must decide. It does not take a century to make a decision to take charge of ones destiny. Signs of Time is the best teacher. The word of God keep reminding us that “my people perish for lack of knowledge”. If you are aware that something need change to improve a situation for better and you do nothing about it, you are equally to blame and you are regarded to be committing sin before God.

Kenya’s future is up to Kenyans jointly to decide. Our prosperity depends on how we organize ourselves individually and in a Popular Participation, we take charge of our Agriculture and Natural Resources through Local Village Community Mobilization in a Demand-Driven network, we are able to come out of Poverty to Prosperity and partner with America to expand America’s Prosperity. In a partnership development with the International Community, and in exchange trade, we are able to balance income capacity which is able to provide sustainability to each and every Kenyan poor or rich. This will provide meaningful survival to all. Each and everyone will be able to live according to their potential worth. This kind of arrangement will open doors for school leavers as well as those with skills and talents to aim to achieve goals as each and everyone struggle for better prospects in life.

America is one of the most powerful Nations in the world and each and every Country struggles to partner with America. Kenya with the rest of Africa must not be left behind when the rest of the world re-align in search for Peaceful settlement and in tying up mutual business relationship in partnership relations for prosperity with America. AGOA was such an arrangement meant to benefit the people of Kenya and Africa immensely if we had responsible committed leaders who care to provide services to its constituents without corruption and impunity. Kenya and Africa lack visionary leaders who are able to lead by example. In the absence of Democratic Governance and the Just Rule of Law in Kenya and the rest of Africa, it is not possible to realize any developmental goals set to remove poverty on the face of Africa. Since Independence, we have the same old mentality of poor governance. It is time we change our people and style in leadership. Because of engineered conflicts, Kenya has been badly outpaced with other countries like Korea. We in Kenya are now up in arms trying to get each others throats and to destroy each other, instead of looking for progress and prosperity. Majority of Kenyans are lagging behind, soiled in poverty, diseases and endless conflict. Our leaders have perfected in the arts of developing and creating more Gangsters and Mafia connected with Cohorts with Cartels, in order to deny its Citizen good life. The Government constantly have ugly confrontation with the Civil Society and the suppression of the Public to those who voice opinion or demand for good governance.

Irresponsible Leadership with Lack of Vision:

Kenya’s Coalition Government, as things unfolded, conspired to deny Kenyans the right to survive a honorable and respectful life. There are evidence to prove they have colluded in many instances to push Kenyans poor to the brink of the cliff. They have no known organized plan to immediately provide services under emergency situations, where basic needs can be supplied to the needy or the dying Citizens including outbreak of serious diseases like diarrhea, in situation of an outbreak due to contaminated water or food. Hospital conditions are in such pathetic sorry situation where diseases can spread very easily and is a security risk to workers as well. We have seen food is being hooded to the neighboring country when Kenyans are dying for lack of food or maize.

As a concerned citizen, I have tried to follow closely information generated, and realized these leaders are playing ping pong with people’s lives. They live and spend affluently public money and trade in public assets and resources privately and dubiously in a very fertile corrupt ground full of corruption and impunity. The severity of the impacts varies at food crisis, poor management of funding and resources to the Constituents’ and the electorates. The AGOA Forum is being treated as a private business Forum and the Registration was hurriedly closed to contain politically correct people. Both the Civil Society and the public are crying faul. Tax Payers money is excessively misused here by the preserve of the selected few. An opportunity of hosting such forum in a country is a chance to provide information to the Civil Society and the Public to generate food of thoughts on how they can perfect the use of AGOA in Partnership with America to improve their ability in Business and Agriculture produce.

With agricultural potential in AGOA, the country can bolster and improve unemployment to at least 80% of the total labor force. Such incentives are not unreasonable. Banking on Agricultural produce and diversification on its manufacture and packaging industrialization has great promise to the local community. Poverty will then be reduced to 100% in as short a period of just about one year. Over the years International Assistance Agencies donated billions of dollars for agricultural development in Kenya and other African Nations, these funds have not been felt fizzling down to the communities. The CDF, i.e. the Constituency Development Fund ever since it was begun by the Parliament remained to be enjoyed by the politicians themselves. It has never fizzled down and has not made any impact of any change to improve lives in the local village or the Constituents.

The Coalition Government have not addressed the on-going Global Economic Crisis or even prepare the community sufficiently, they have downplayed the impacts and still squander donor funding for other private and personal use. Development depends on good governance, considering Kenya have been given a raw deal in the last 45 years of self-rule, if the public do not get value for their votes, it is time Kenyans must make a major surgery to change their livelihood wholesome so that those who have cling to leadership and continually suppressed peoples development through dictatorship, corruption, impunity, assassination, suppression, manipulation, marginalization, segregation, atrocities and genocide, must be removed from leadership once and for all, so Kenya can have a fresh start. Having the same leaders recycling back into leadership is another way to encourage Dictatorship, corruption and impunity and is a form of stagnation that which will deny Kenyans from prosperity and setting marks for developing hope for better prospects.

Development requires fresh new ideas with focus and renewed energy. It requires an enabling environment where challenges and competition thrives in a level playing field, and must accommodate criticism. So, good leadership can provide opportunity to a changing pattern to achieve goals in a Popular Participatory Game Plan involving the Civil Society and Community’s changing-needs of Demand-Driven strategic Plan of Action.

The Millennium Development Goals:

The Millennium Development Goals came with big offices in the city of Nairobi but with no impact on the ground. The same reasons are that the Government system, with many other International NGOs alike are being controlled by the Government network. The money is thus diverted to do other things.

When 189 Heads of State including Kenya, as representatives of their Citizens, signed the Millennium Declaration at the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, there was an immediate sense of urgency to “free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty”, to which more than a billion of them are presently subjected. The World Leaders from both rich and poor countries committed themselves at the highest political level. There were 8 bound goal targets that when achieved, will end extreme poverty worldwide and by 2015. Goals 1-7 were to commit to raise the poor out of poverty and hunger and get every child into school, empower women, reduce child mortality, and improve maternal health, combat HIV/IDS, malaria, and other diseases, and ensure environmental sustainability. Goal 8 explicitly recognizes that eradicating poverty worldwide can be achieved only through a Global Partnership for Development which AGOA became part of America and African Trade Partnership.

This Global Deal makes it clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor Countries to ensure greater accountability to Citizens and efficient use of resources. The Goals cover the range of key development issues and are rooted in a Human Rights Framework. Freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility are at the heart of the Millennium Declaration, which the Coalition Government did none of those.

Up-till-Today the money received by the Finance Department on behalf of Kenya Coalition Government in financing Youth projects, women programs, agriculture and other health issues is in billions, the fund is yet to reach to the community grassroots for the same, yet we get information that the Coalition Government is heavily indebted and Public coffer is running bankrupt. If you ask these Government Officials to state how people’s real lives have been affected by the achievement of Millennium Development Goals, the answer is none……from 2002 and as we strive to reach 2015 goals, Kenyans are in a worse situation than they were 2002. We have spent nine 9 years, we are left with 7 seven years. If Kenyan leaders were not able to achieve anything for its Citizens for the past 9 years, how can they achieve anything with the remaining 7 years – when life is sliding away bits and pieces with a present scenario where many are in a sorry pathetic situation with no Government system working, no water, no food, no security and no preservation of the ecosystem. The Country is set to fall and diminish. If this Coalition Government cannot make it, it is true they have run out of ideas, they cannot offer anything new to improve situation or conditions in Kenya today, we have spoken enough giving reasons and proof that the Coalition Government is dysfunctional. We must be taken serious. Kofi Annan and Ocampo should act under Crime Against Humanity and save a situation. Kenyans with the present environmental situation are expected by this Coalition Government to extinct.

We want accountability, but the only way to get answers is through Hague……we have waited for too long and seen enough of a drama. We have lost many innocent lives and their blood and spirit are crying. We are in search of Justice. Not tomorrow, but today. If we begin today, we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free. These are acts of Crime Against Humanity.

Local Tribunal:

Cabinet decision portrays a failed leadership full of deceit. It is failed because it could not function. It is full of personal vested interests and no one is ready to compromise. This is because the Cabinet could not reach a consensus three times. The Parliament also had crushed Government’s bid to establish a special Tribunal to try Post-Election Architects and engineers on Feb 12th 2009. Members of the Parliament voted against the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2009, which allowed creation of the Tribunal which was mandatory to amend before the introduction of the Special Tribunal for Kenya Bill 2009, so that the Tribunal is not into conflict with the Supreme Law. Both President Kibaki and PM Raila failed to marshal support to help the Bill to sail through. From the onset, it is clear even within the leadership in the Coalition Government they do not have trust for each other, both in the house and the Parliament they preferred Hague. Five months down the line there are no agreement or consensus to have the Local Tribunal set up in Kenya, The Civil Society and the Faith Based together with the general public know and speaks out language that the best way possible, away from organized crimes and too many deaths, Hague is the best option. It has been demonstrated by Kenyans and hailed by Religious Organizations with professionals from various discipline. It is however obvious that the Coalition Government is a Failed State. No one trust the Government Agents. Kenyans believe the Cabinet was on a truce ploy to delay Justice and consequently deny and shelve the matter unresolved as is their usual Game Plan. The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation is yet another mockery. It has been completely denounced by all goodwill Kenyans openly, that this too is a curtain raiser but just another cover-up intended to deny Kenyans their Human Right obligation to have them face justice. The notion that Hague will create bad blood is hoodwinking……it is their way of doing things and they will stage-manage just that to fool the International Community. Kenyans have been patient enough and their patience is fading. Kenyans need help from the International Community intervention to form an Interim Government. The fact that both the Cabinet and the Parliament cannot agree for the benefit of Kenyans show clearly that this Coalition Government is hanging on a string and it is not a people’s choice. This means that both PNU and ODM are staying in office illigitimately. They are not legit and have no mandate of the people to occupy offices. This is because they have been completely rejected by people. People want Hague to move fast and take up the case as early as possible. Kenyans do not recognize the existing government the early it is dissolved it will save Kenyans from looming destruction.

Insecurity in Kenya:

Kenya’s security it completely compromised. On July 29th 2009, the Uganda Police harassed local fishermen from Migingo in Kenya from docking on its Kenyan beaches. The Ugandan Policemen armed with AK47 rifle cordoned off the Island which is a Kenyan property became aggressive and mishandle fishermen without any Government protection or assistance. The Kenyans fishermen’s fish and fishing equipments have many times been confiscated with no one to protect their interest in Kenya. Migingo issue incubates secret undertaking between Kibaki and Museveni. PM Raila knows whats going on, but decide too to wait for the Bomb to blast. Migingo security risk will affect those Kenyans living in the sorrounding area. Kenya’s security situation is worrisome. The Pirating too is becoming a security risk to Kenyans from Isiolo boarder. Too much corruption is the cause of undocumented Somali foreigners acquiring land and doing exorbitant business with the Government Agents in Kenya and settling in Nairobi illegally. The Artur Brothers are known foreign criminals who fly in and out of Kenya without security check. They invaded the Standard Newsroom and caused havoc with the help of President Kibaki family using State Government arms and vehicles. The Mungiki Gang are now occupying every Government Department. People are gunned down by the Kenyan police and people are living in extreme fear. No one can utter or say anything against the Government with its Agents. How much insecurity do you think Kenyans are exposed to and for how long will Kenyans continue to live like this? Today Kenyans cannot trust even their own brothers and sisters, people have been cornered and can accept any amount of bribery to fulfill a Hit-man mission.

Women in Kenya have suffered irreparable Sexual Violence and brutality to Domestic Violence as a result of failed irresponsible governance, as a result of job losses, joblessness, unavailability of food with other basic needs. Lack of essential needs contribute heavily to sexual crimes, harassments and invasion of privacy which many times are reasons that cause breakages of a family units. 99% of women bore the brunt of unspoken common place sexual violence which is always ignored yet culprits have lived with severe painful scars. These include sexual violence in conflict which has become a model where invading Gangs always rape Women in the presence of their children as a means to terrorize the Community. When a nuclear domestic family is morally and spiritually destroyed, it spreads like bush fire and affects the Global Village with risk of equally being affected. We cannot afford to live a careless irresponsible failed Domestic family because of a failed Coalition Governance. Something must be done and done quickly.

The International Community to Assist in Setting Up The Interim Government Urgently in Kenya:

It is clear that Kenyans have been pushed to the corner, and Kenyans need early intervention. Following the above statement of facts, Kenyans cannot wait any longer gambling to keep this Coalition Government afloat. They are hanging on a string and they might throw the peace loving Kenyans into a state of confusion which might cause havoc and create a State of Emergency. Kenyans do not trust them anymore and they have become a security risk to Kenyan and Kenyans. We are appealing to Kofi Annan, Ocampo, the United Nations, the International Community and Foreign Nations to include USA, British as well as other sympathizers to join hands and save Kenya before Kenya Fall Apart. When it fall apart, the pieces cannot be salvaged early enough to patch or create peace. It must be underscored that all these gangs with the wreckage peace in Kenya is an engineered planned strategy for the Mt. Kenya Mafia with Cohorts and Cartels. Starting from the Uganda Government invasion of Migingo, Somali Pirates, Mungiki, Police hooliganism etc., are all interconnected with the Mt. Kenya Mafia to instil fear on good people of Kenya. We cannot do this alone but follow international justice. Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.

Regards,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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From: Judy Miriga
Date: Aug 3, 2009 8:38 PM
Subject: In Search for Justice