Kenyans and friends of Kenya have been invited to a “Kenya-Swedish National Prayer” session at St Klara Church in Stockholm tomorrow Sunday January 6th from 10.00. According to information released by Pastor Beatrice Kamau, those who will be at the Prayer meeting will also light candles for Peace and the dead in Kenya. Pastor Beatrice said that all are welcome at St Klara.
In the meantime, another Prayer meeting has been called by Pastor Samson at Outreach Ministries in Bagarmossen. A message sent to KSB indicate that the Prayer meeting will begin at 14.30 and all have been welcomed.
A candle light that was organized by a group of Kenyans at Sergels Torg appear to have been shunned by Kenyans. Mr. Dan Aroka, a Kenyan, told KSB that when he went to the place, there was nobody, save for “a few candles with some writings about Kenya”. It looks like the people who organized the event fled the place for unknown reasons immediately after lighting the candles.
Critics of the Sergels Torg candle session have wondered why people who have already congratulated Mr. Mwai Kibaki (the fake President of Kenya), were rushing to light candles at Sergels Torg after people died as a result of his stealing of the vote. A part from Dictator Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, all governments of the world have refused to recognize Kibaki.
The United States government congratulated Kibaki soon after the announcement of the results but retracted its statement when things started getting hot in Kenya. Today, the American Ambassador to Kenya was quoted as saying that the elections was rout with irregularities during the counting process.
Some Kenyans were of the view that if Kenyans have to light candles, the action should take place in a Church or outside the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm because the Church is a symbol of Prayers while the Embassy is a symbol of the Kenyan territory where people were killed.
“Lighting candles at Sergels Torg is the same as lighting candles in the Sahara desert when people have been killed in Kenya”, said another Kenyan. Sergels Torg is located at Stockholm’s Business District, miles away from the Kenyan Embassy.
Another Kenyan said that those who have been circulating SMS about the Sergels Torg candle lighting are the same crooks who have been sending “hate SMS messages” to other Kenyans after the secret installation of Mr. Kibaki as President. A tiny group of traditional and hard-core Kikuyu chauvinists calling themselves “The Children of Mumbi” celebrated in Stockholm soon after Kibaki stole the vote.
Steve Kadir, a Kenyan in Stockholm, embarked on an intensive SMS campaign targeting ODM members, telling them to wait for 2012 because Kibaki had occupied State House.
Some Kenyans who were victims of the SMS told KSB that Steve’s move was not only provocative and inflammatory but also irritating at a time when majority of Kenyans were in a state of shock as a result of cold blooded murder of innocent Kenyans and the stealing of the vote in Kenya by Kibaki and his PNU cronies. Those who have been killed are mainly the Luo and Kikuyu.
A part from a few ethnic chauvinists from ALL ethnic groups in Stockholm who are promoting an “ethnic view” of the crisis, there is no serious rift between the communities despite the situation in Kenya.
For example, I have called majority of my Kikuyu friends (whose kith and kin are being massacred and displaced because of the stupidity of Kikuyu ruling class) and I can report that we continue to have healthy debates about the situation in Kenya and, so far, non of them have had any dangerous ethnic dimension to the problem. We largely spoke as Kenyans and recognized the intricate nature of the crisis facing our country.
Okoth Osewe
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