Just how clear can Ruto or Ngilu be on the issue of amnesty or realese of the arrested youths. Is Kibaki and PNU really listening or if they are listening will they act before it is too late.
Last week at Laboso’s funeral, Ruto did not mince his words. In his own words Ruto said ” it was unacceptable that the leaders of the Grand Coalition were being driven around in GK-plated vehicles as the youths who forced on the country the National Peace Accord languished in the cells”. He further went on to state “We must accommodate those boys because we are the reason they are in custody”. As if that is not enough Ngilu in the same funeral confirmed Ruto’s sentiments by saying and I quote “If the youths will remain in jail then those generals (leaders) who called for mass action must also face the law”
Just who are the generals these two are referring to. I will be damned if I believe for a second that they are talking about PNU officials like Martha. In these statements both Ngilu and Ruto were referring to ODM generals. They were simply telling Kibaki, Karua and Co that the mass action for which the youths were arrested were ordered by the ODM generals and those generals were very much ready to be arrested for those crimes if the crimes were actually committed. Ngilu and Ruto are stating as clearly as can be said that the governmnet should release the youths and arrest all the ODM ministers including Raila Odinga, William Ruto, Musalya Mudavadi and the rest of them. In other words they are daring the Kibaki government to arrest them and stop scape goating through the arrest of the youths. These leaders are comming out to show their disgust with the coalition and are already willing to sacrifice themselves for the shake of their supporters. For them the coalition is a shell without a yolk. It is a joke. There is no honor in it, there is no integrity in it, there is no trueth in it, there is no genuineness and they are now willing to break it apart because the youths issue has become the final straw. They are as clear as clear can be. “No release of the youths no coalition”.
Unforturenately these youths they are talking about nolonger exist. According to the police, they have dissappered in the thin air and I believe majority of Kenyans and ODM MPS know where they are. To be precise, these guys are dead and cannot be accounted for by the government. ODM and PNU MPs already know this. The youths will never be released because their bodies were dumped somewhere in the forests of Mt. Kenya and other isolated parks. To make it worse, they were killed by the state machinery. So what exactly will ODM do if no youths surface? What will they do if indeed a genocide was committed?
The only choice is for PNU to come clean. But is PNU going to come clean on this so that they can be forgiven. No oh! No. According to Martha Karua’s statement “”The leaders who are pushing for it (amnesty) fear that if the suspects are brought before court, they will be mentioned”. What is this lady talking about. The police have said the youths are neither here nor their and Ruto and Ngilu have already dared her to arrest them. In a criminal case such as this, the person who is wrongfully arrested should be released when the real person who committed the offence has confessed. Ngilu and Ruto have confessed on behalf of their party. What else is Martha looking for? It is simply trime Martha does his/her job. Rlease the youths or dare arrest the ODM pentagon. PNU is once again behaving like a hen with its head in the sand. They still think that the power is with Kibaki, Martha Karua and the GEMA or MEGA elites. The power is with the people. The people want their brothers home and they want those who ordered for the demonstrations like Odinga, Ruto, Ngilu, Balala, Muslya to bring their boys home or get out of the way. But if their brothers are indeed dead, they want Kibaki, Martha Karua, Michuki, Saitoti and others to look them in the eye and ask for forgiveness. Not withstanding, they also know who brought up this mess. It is those who stole the election. They are the Karuas, the Kibakis, the Kavuitus and the Kalonzos and they are the ones who should have in jail or dead. Not the youths.
Dr. Barack Abonyo
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:11:35 +0000
From: barack abonyo
Subject: “REALEASE THE YOUTHS AND ARREST US” RUTO AND NGILU DECLARED
Leaders who are incapable of standing up for their supporters are not worth much to the citizens they claim to lead.
This “Grand Coalition Government ” is not worth the paper it was written on because it is serving the interests of non other than foreign governments and businesses that conspired to put it together using Kofi ANNan.
1- It looks like threats were used to force ODM and PNU leaders to work together. Due to the rampt corruption that plagued these elites prior to 12/27/07 elections, the voting citizens must unearth dirty secrets these foreign governments had on these Kenyan elites which forced them to succumb to a union not satisfactory to the rest of Kenyans. This union tastes like a lemon.
2- If this “coalition” was genuine, the arrests of the demonstrating Kenyans would have been agreed upon by both ODM and PNU Members. This would have made it possible for both parties to know who was arrested and for what crime. In executing mass arrests of Kenyans, PNU acted like the government in authority, sending the message that ODM is merely a subsidiary under PNU power structure. This is how this “Grand Colalitiion Government” appears to operate. ODM has no power at all because PNU is the police, juge, jury and executioner.
3- The crackdown that went on around Mt Elgon in which young men, were systematically tortured or disappeared should not have taken place without agreement from both ODM and PNU parties. In every dispute, there must be rules of disengagement spelling out how members and their supporters treat each other. These rules must be arrved at beofre any agreement is signed! WHAT WERE THE RULES OF DISENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN ODM AND PNU?
4- It must be comfortable for anybody in ODM that families whose loved onces are missing have no clue where these people are while these elites are running around in cars paid for by “god knows who”.
Whichever way Kenyans choose to look at this episode , there are severe renditions being carried out by PNU in an attempt to defang and neuter ODM as party. If ODM leaders, for whatever reason, do not stick together as a team (and there are signs they may not), they will be hanged separately at the hands PNU. Accidental or unresolved deaths are going be PNU standard operating procedures in the coming months until ODM is neutrlized. The “Grand Coalitin Government” has merely bought them the critical time they needed to do just that.