from: odhiambo okecth
6th December 2012
Friends,
At long last, Hon Uhuru Kenyatta and Hon William Ruto are doing the right thing; not contesting for the Presidency and the Deputy Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Kenya.
This is what we have been talking about for some while now; that the Duo have no business contesting the Kenyan Presidency at a time they are faced with serious crimes against humanity on the account of the genocide we witnessed in Kenya in 2008 where 1,133 Kenyans were killed in cold blood following the botched elections of 2007.
Again, 600,000 Kenyans were displaced and property worth Millions of Shilling destroyed. They were then named by the Waki Commission as being amongst the 6 persons bearing the greatest responsibility on the killings, the displacements and the destroyed property.
Both Hon Kenyatta and Hon Ruto have their Fundamental Rights as Kenyans. But the only Right they have now is the Right to Clear their names of these crimes at the Hague. Not the right to contest for Leadership of Kenya.
Once they are cleared, they will have ALL the Rights to present themselves to us as Kenyans for any Leadership Role in our Sovereign State of the Republic of Kenya and we will be happy to consider their applications amongst others.
But for them to have initially insisted on contesting was a kin to committing mass suicide with Kenyans on accounts of Personal Tribulations.
This was careless and reckless. But now that they have seen the light, I want to be on record as the first person to congratulate them for doing the right thing. This Duo have some great potential that we can tap into as a Country. We only need to forget their past and forge forward as a Team determined to build Kenya.
Hon Ruto, despite his past, was a great Public Servant performer in the Ministries he was given to head. We all saw the zeal with which he addressed the issues at the Ministry of Agriculture and at the Ministry of Higher Education. I cannot say the same of Hon Kenyatta. He did not leave clear track records at the Ministries of Local Government and at Finance.
His tenure at both Ministries was marked with question marks.
But the bottom line is, we must all appreciate the wisdom with which this Duo has seen the light. If only they realized early enough that they stood no chance with Kenyans, they would have helped us in the healing process for this Country.
We are now so polarized and so tribal and we cannot pretend about this. We must as a Country face this reality to enable us surmount the same.
At The Clean Kenya Campaign, we want to Stay with these Issues as we face the General Elections of 4th March 2013, as we face our Silver Jubilee on 1st June 2013 and as we all work for the realization of Vision 2030.
We want to appeal to Kenyans to register as voters and on the 4th March 2013, to turn out in large numbers and vote for leaders of our choices. But we must not FORGET that we all have blood and that we all bleed. We must hence campaign peacefully, vote peacefully and celebrate the choice we shall have made as Kenyans PEACEFULLY.
There is absolutely NO reason for us to fight, kill, displace and destroy property.
This is not the Kenya new want. We want a Kenya where we all respect each other as we make our choices.
We must not keep quite and pretend that all is well the way we did in 2007. We must act now.
Now, look at this Petition and if you are agreeable to its content, sign and help disseminate the same far and wide;http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/removing-the-director-of-environment-at-ccn-from-office.html
Let us Move From Talking to Tasking as we Stay with the Issues garbage.
Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Komarock Nairobi