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BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012

I wish I were President Mwai Kibaki I would not sack Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo for declaring that Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto could not stand for president after being indicted by the ICC. This would be the worst of Kibaki bad ending.

I am not surprised that Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka wants President Kibaki to remove Kilonzo. I am not because Kalonzo is Kanu and still behaves Kanu and Moi. These were the days Moi would just sack you because you disagreed with him and his party Kanu.

I am also watching very keenly to see whether ODM will punish Mudavadi because he has refused to give in for Raila. If it does then Raila like Kibaki would be no different with Moi and Kanu.

One fact for sure cannot be denied, that while Uhuru camp believes that Kalonzo thinks he will be able to get the joint G7 nomination if they are out of the race, even if Uhuru and Ruto camps want Kalonzo to distance himself from Mutula, Mutula was not speaking on his own. He was speaking for Kalonzo.
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Even if it were true that Kalonzo is targeting the opportunity that should Ruto and Uhuru be barred from contesting he would be the only cock in the G7 and for that reason he will be the next Kenyan President as Kangundo MPJohnston Muthama is alleged to say, for Uhuru and Ruto it was lesser evil for Kalonzo to remain in G7 than Raila to become the President.

G7 is believed to have the power to take anybody to State House because in Kenya as a political scientist warns, democracy is still facing a bleak future due to weak party politics, which has seen voters elect leaders on personal merit, as opposed to relying on party manifestos to inform their decisions.

That is also why it is lesser evil for Uhuru to prefer Ruto than Raila even though it is clear that alliance between Ruto and Uhuru cannot last since Uhuru is using him to abuse democracy in order to get to the top.

Since YK92 was accused of ethnic violence against the Kikuyu and other “opposition” groups in the Rift Valley ahead of the 1992 General Election, no Kikuyu will feel comfortable with Uhuru making an alliance with Ruto.

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As Dr Adams Oloo argues politicians prefer alliances given that since the advent of multiparty politics in 1992, parties in Kenya have been associated with individuals as opposed to strong party democracy. It explains why political parties have been killed by politicians who think that they own the parties.

It explains further why the President and Vice President have changed parties at least 3 times in the past 20 years. The Prime Minister himself is a record holder in how to shift party loyalties. That’s why Kenyans are now voting for candidates on the basis of their individual development records because political parties are a disgrace to democracy.

This confirms an article entitled, Tribalism fanned chaos, Kriegler team told, which appeared in a Kenyan Newspaper, Saturday Nation, we read: Tribalism and poor electoral laws are to blame for the chaos that rocked the country after last years General Election.

The top three political contenders Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka (currently president, Prime minister and vice president) were also accused of presenting their leadership agenda as if they were those of their tribes.

Even though most of the voters in 1963 and in the past have generally been illiterate and unaware of government operations, and for that matter could just vote because they were promised food, this time though is tribal.

Today our parliamentarians don’t vote on issues because they are good or bad/ right or wrong rather what dictates their voting is based on petty party wrangles e.g. ODM vs. UDM, PNU vs. ODM, Ford Kenya vs. New Ford Kenya etc, all this happens as citizens needs take back stage and are even forgotten.

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COMMENTARY

BRAVO: HONOURABLE MUTULA KILONZO

BY CHRISPIN ONYANGO

NAIROBI-VIA EMAIL

In the bible, Jesus had few friends because, one of the reasons being that, he could go against the tide by telling the truth to whomever he came across. Even the Jews did not welcome him and in fact plotted for his killing.

In this reflection using this analogy, I would like to compare Hon. Kilonzo with Jesus since he has a character that truth must be said no matter whom you are and that our country Kenya is far much beyond our personal interests. He did this as he bravely demonstrated to his colleagues from the Wiper Party that truth must be said so that justice may prevail.

Mutula Kilonzo has been at the forefront advocating for the resignation of Uhuru Kenyatta as Deputy Prime Minister. I believe that this is not a political fight between Kilonzo and his colleagues in the Wiper Party but its all about integrity for the better future of our country.

The claim by kalonzo that the resignation of Muthaura and Uhuru would be betrayal to the interests of many Kenyans is an opinion that is an ope lie. I think Kenyans are sober and they would not welcome such a claim. In fact the reality is that most Kenyans were advocating for the resignation of the two since they have a grave case to answer at the ICC.

The demand by the Assistant Minister and Nithi MP Kareke Mbiuki and Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo for the sacking of Mutula Kilonzo as the Secretary General of Wiper Party is very fallacious and a disgrace. In my view, Mutula does not want to remain in a cocoon but to be for the good of the people.

VP Kalonzo Musyoka is a known joker and he will not go far especially now that he is in collaboration with the ICC suspects. Concerning Uhuru, h e seems to be taking Kenyans for granted. At the very beginning after the ICC verdict against them, he publicly said that he won’t relinguish any post.

Later he resigned as Minister for Finance refusing to leave the office of DPM by saying that it will be against the Grand Coalition Accord for him to do so. Now he has changed by saying that only Parliament can push him out of the office. What next….. He will at last leave the office.

Therefore at the opening of the Parliament, Mutula Kilonzo should take that bill to the Parliament incase Uhuru is not ready to leave the office. I therefore urge Mutula Kilinzo to continue with that determination until all will be right.

The “prayer’ session that Uhuru and Ruto hosted on Saturday in Ruiru was purely political and not divine intervention as some claimed it to be. Even those pastors who laid their hands on them were simply after kitu kidogo but not genuine prayer. I would again advice our pastors to stop joking with prayer as a means for money.