THE PETITION OF PEOPLE OF KENYA TO PRESIDENT EMILIO MWAI KIBAKI
SUBJECT: DISPLEASURE AT YOUR MISMANAGEMENT OF STATE AFFAIRS
We, the People of Kenya assembled and represented here, register our utmost displeasure at the lax and confused manner Your Excellency is managing State affairs. The disunity within your cabinet puts to question the legitimacy of your Grand Coalition Government, especially when ministers brazenly disregard the rule of law, to pursue self-serving causes that injure the common good.
The level of corruption in the Grand Coalition Government has reached appalling proportions because you treat the corrupt with kid gloves, even protecting them to abet the vice. Corruption is decimating the Republic and you must crush it. We want to see the war on corruption become a high-handed war on the corrupt. Hence, we welcome the recent suspension of senior civil servants and two ministers, Prof. Sam Ongeri, Minister for Education and Mr. William Ruto, Minister for Agriculture. We now call upon Your Excellency, to use state machinery to ensure the two suspended ministers do not continue to occupy their ministerial offices.
Further, we demand that you immediately suspend the following individuals and order independent forensic audits in the scams in their ministries:
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.
Mr. Kiraitu Murungi, Minister of Energy, for his complicity in the Triton Oil saga where billions of shillings were stolen from the Kenyans.
Prof. George Saitoti, for the compromised security situation in the Republic;
Mr. Otieno Kajwang, for the reported scandals in the Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons where job permits and citizenship are being issued against the law.
Last but not least, we also demand that you prevail upon Ambassador Kiplagat to resign as the Chair of the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission, given his compromised past which disqualifies him from being a Commissioner, but over qualifies him for the witness or the defence box.
Until the above demands are met we will mobilise peaceful marches and rallies across the Republic to demand competent management of our beloved country.
Thank you.
CC:
National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende
Chief Justice Evans Gicheru
Signed on February 17, 2010 for Kenyans by the following Petitioners:
Bunge la Mwananchi
La Vie Foundation
NVk – Mageusi
Kenya Community Abroad
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
Kenyans for Justice and Development (KEJUDE)
THE ISSUE IS CORRUPTION NOT POWER!
WE WANT A POST ODM/PNU KENYA!
CORRUPTION WINS IN THE RAILA-KIBAKI POWER PLAY!
GOVERN FOR THE COMMON GOOD NOT SECTARIAN INTERESTS!
FIGHT CORRUPTION; STOP THE CHARADE!
GIVE US AN ALTERNATIVE TO PNU & ODM!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
ENOUGH WITH CORRUPTION, ENOUGH WITH LIES, ENOUGH WITH POLITICKING
ADDRESS THE SCANDALS IN GOVERNMENT AS NATIONALISTS
IMPUNITY OR KENYA?
NO SACRED COWS!
FIGHT CORRUPTION! STOP SIDESHOWS!
POWER GAMES PROTECT THE CORRUPT!
DON’T POLITICIZE PUBLIC INTEREST!
THOROUGH, TRANSPARENT AND INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS!
FAIR TRIAL NOT POWER STRUGGLE!
RUTO TOKA!
KIRAITU TOKA!
SHABAAN TOKA!
SAITOTI TOKA!
KAJWANG TOKA!
ONGERI TOKA!
KIPLAGT TOKA!
KIBAKI END CORRUPTION OR KENYA ENDS YOU!
CLEAN GOVERNMENT FOR POVERTY ERADICATION!
ODM NA PNU NI MAKUNDI HARAMU!