The Officer Commanding Station,
Central Police Station,
P. O. Box 45796,
NAIROBI.

Dear Sir:

LETTER OF NOTIFICATION FOR A PEACEFUL PUBLIC PROCESSION TO PETITION THE PRESIDENT

This is to notify you that we, civil society organisations, including the membership of the National Civil Society Congress, Bunge La Mwananchi, the National Community Based Organisations Council, Amnesty Youth, La Vie Foundation, Integrity Quest and Environmental Rehabilitation of Kenya (IQER), Centre for Law and Research International (CLARION) , Name and Shame Corruption Networks (NASCON) Campaign, Social Reform Centre (SOREC), Social and Public Accountability Network (SPAN), Kibera Human Rights Network, Ujamaa Center, New Vision Kenya, Elimu Yetu Coalition, Daraja, and Kenyans for Justice and Development (KEJUDE), will congregate at Uhuru Park’s Freedom Corner for a peaceful procession on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, between 10.00 am and 12.00 pm.

Being non-violent change agents, we will march peacefully from Uhuru Park ’s Freedom Corner, along Kenyatta Avenue , to Moi Avenue , to Harambee Avenue , and terminate at the President’s Harambee House office.

The purpose of the peaceful march is to publicise our general displeasure at President Mwai Kibaki’s lax management of State affairs, especially his habit of treating with kid gloves those implicated in graft, and to petition him to change for the better. We want to see the war on corruption become a high-handed war on the corrupt. We specifically demand that, to facilitate independent investigations into the maga FPE funds, Maize, IDPs funds, and Triton Oil scams that have violated the integrity of the Republic, His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki orders independent forensic audits immediately and suspends the following individuals:
(i) Prof. Sam Ongeri, Minister for Education, for the money stolen in the Ministry of Education, and for publicly admitting that he was not impartial in the discharge of his duties.
(ii) Mr. William Ruto, Minister for Agriculture, for not just failing to stop the theft of strategic maize reserves as we expected him to do as our watchman, but for encouraging the said vice by writing letters recommending individuals to be given a share of the loot, that resulted in the starvation and deaths of many Kenyans.
(iii) Ms. Naomi Shaban, Minister for Special Programmes, for the loss of money meant for the resettlement of IDPs and for the theft of strategic maize reserves that resulted in the starvation and deaths of many Kenyans.
(iv) Mr. Kiraitu Murungi, Minister of Energy, for his complicity in the Triton Oil saga where billions of shillings were stolen from the Kenyans.

Last but not least, we also want the President to either ask Ambassador Kiplagat to resign. If he doesn’t resign, the President should establish a tribunal as required by law to dismiss Ambassador Kiplagat as the Chair of the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission, given his compromised past which disqualifies him from being a Commissioner but qualifies him for the witness or the defence box.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Yours faithfully,

OKIYA OMTATAH OKOITI
Petition Co-ordinator
0722-684777
omtatah@yahoo.com

CC:

(i) Internal Security Minister Prof. George Saitoti
(ii) Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere
(iii) Nairobi PPO
(iv) OCPD Central Police Station
(v) Attorney General Amos Wako
(vi) Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
(vii) Ombudsman’s Office
(viii) Media
(ix) Kinoti & Kibe Co. Advocates