The Kenya Ni Kwetu lobby invites you to a love protest scheduled for Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 10.00am at Uhuru Park’s Freedom Corner in Nairobi.
The event, to be addressed by civil society leaders, aims at protesting the culture of impunity by our MPs. The protest shall climax at Parliament Buildings, where Kenya Ni Kwetu members and supporters shall lodge their protest in art forms to Parliament before ending the peaceful procession at 12:00pm.
This is a call to action to Kenyans to reflect on their personal responsibility in building a better country, where only responsible leaders who remain faithful to the Constitution are elected to office.
Kenya Ni Kwetu shall produce and distribute the litany of scandals that litters Kenya’s past 49 years and motivate the citizens to ensure the same is not repeated, and work towards a peaceful ballot revolution.
Kenya Ni Kwetu works to enable a patriotic citizens’ movement to take bold and effective actions in building a new Kenya. Our vision is to foster unity among youth and inspire them to pursue social and political change through peaceful elections.
Kenya ni Kwetu Committee
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The Speech of a true Statesman>PM urges full implementation of constitution
Written By:PMPS, Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2012
The PM asked Kenyans to defend the constitution and ensure its full implementation
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said that constitutionalism is a culture that Kenyans must inculcate in the nation at all costs noting the absence of constitutionalism combined with an appetite for impunity has been responsible for Kenya’s tribulations.
He expressed dismay that a culture of creating good laws then undermining them at every turn has endured in the country saying it has bred nothing but misery for the majority and a life of luxury for the tiny elite.
The PM made it clear that without constitutionalism the struggle for the new constitution will have been in vain and its promulgation an exercise in futility that only gave Kenyans a false sense of glory and achievement.
Odinga was addressing a special Prime Minister’s Roundtable on the implementation of the constitution at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre Wednesday.
The PM asked Kenyans not to retreat into a new self-imposed amnesia and rise to defend the constitution and ensure its full implementation, adding institutional failure; a failed electoral system, a failed judiciary, a failed police force and a failure of the state in 2007-2008 awoke citizens from self imposed slumber to confront the country’s imminent collapse.
Noting that the next elections are only months away, Odinga said the best path to avoid the failure of the last polls is faithful implementation of the constitution and a readiness to abide by the laws that are implemented.
In this regard Odinga advised politicians to be open with each other on matters of national importance and avoid fear of the unknown saying this fear was unnecessarily holding back full implementation of the constitution.
The PM called for a critical review of all the laws passed so far to determine whether they complied with the letter and spirit of the constitution adding laws that are not compliant with the Constitution are as good as no laws at all.
“We have to do this because it is becoming increasingly clear that passing laws alone is not enough. We have to probe whether constitutionalism and respect for the rule of law is getting entrenched or subverted and short changed as we implement the constitution,” he emphasized.
Odinga reminded the caucus attended by ministers, members of parliament and commissioners that they had sworn to protect, defend and uphold the constitution noting they cannot fight or sabotage that which they created.
He cautioned that there is a risk of the country’s painful history repeating itself saying the round table was convened to make it clear to all government officers and Kenyans in general that the country can never again afford to be casual in the treatment of the constitution that has come after years of struggle, sacrifice and pain.
He said, “We are here to examine whether there is risk of our painful history repeating itself in our life time and devise the means to stop that possibility.”
Odinga observed that one of the momentous changes that will occur after the next elections is the establishment of the devolved system of government, adding devolution done well ensures equity and spreads opportunities and service.
In this connection, the PM said it was important to award government tenders on merit noting that any decision to the contrary has often resulted in court injunctions that unnecessarily hold back the project implementation process.
On the bill of rights, the PM pointed out that it upholds the dignity of every Kenyan through guarantees of social and economic rights as epitomized by the free primary education started in 2003 progressing in social safety nets in the form of cash transfers.
He reminded public servants the need to develop policies not because they grant their desires but because the constitution decrees it.
This is a waste of time and resources. Sack those MPs via the ballot box — kwani elections ziko mbali? If I were in Nairobi I would not waste my time going for such a protest. Kwani watu hamna na kazi ya kufanya? Or do they have another agenda that they are not saying? When a door is provided (the ballot box), why do you want to go out through the window (payukaring at the park)? It is only during Moi’s era that the Freedom Corner had a true meaning, because he had locked all the doors.
Herr Munene Sometimes you Over-react angirily !Perhaps by demonstration this in the near future might course the Arab-Revolution in Kenya!
These demos are signes that where there is Smoke there is fire!
All Govts world over fear Demos!
Demos bears Revolution! Demo sends a clear message to any govt that something drastic must be adressed!
Let Kenyans Make Demos a Culture and traditions in sleepy Kenya!
Demo is Peoples Power ! Demo sends a chilling atmosphere to Dictators and its feared!
Remember Limuru Demo being adressed by Maina Njenga Mungiki!
How Many GSU/Policemen/and other security organs were sent there by Kibaki dictatorship to succumb and suffocate Mungikis (Kenya youth Alliance)!
Munene we do not need people like you in Kenya, that is a very disheartening mentality!
xx>>On reading this, the gleeful countenances of some MPs will resemble those of students who are told the end-year exams have been put off indefinitely!
>>The AG is now playing the high priest of democracy. Even though there’s no provision for appeals against the court of appeal rulings due on constituency boundaries delimitation, the people who wish to use their democratic rights to lodge seriously genuine and frivolously fake appeals should be given leave to do so to exercise the God given right, he opines.
>>Why all these beating around the bush, ladies and gentlemen ? Let’s agree that a section of the people who really matter in this government would like to do away with elections if there is a loop-hole! And the AG is a versatile tool in their hands.
>>The Late Michuki, the liver juggler of the rattle snake fame, soon after NARC came to power, famously said, (paraphrased), they had agitated for a new constitution because Moi was a bad leader and president. Now that a new gem of a leader was elected president, a new constitution was not a priority!
>>Michuki was recalled by the creator, but the spirit if his ilk still lives on in and propels the reformers-of-yesteryears-now-turned-apologists-for-impunity, the likes of Githu Muigai . Actually our president is the Pope of this unholy congregation, judging from his surreptitious and explicit reactionary continual escapades.
>>I am convinced the ‘Roman Curia’ in this government has already sat through lengthy brain storming sessions to craft a way how to prolong their unduly acquired and unwelcome stay. In view of the ‘intruding intransigent ICC’, an artificial creation of a state of insecurity might have been found to be too risky. So hence other apparently innocent looking plans.
The December, 2012 date is what majority of the citizens want as the elections would be the least intrusive in the lives of people during that time. If there are any sound reasons for conducting it in March, 2013, still they would understand. But pushing it further, perhaps to August, or possibly to December, 2013 will be an affront.to the intelligence of Kenyans.
The words of the PM speak volumes. Be vigilant of vested interests..Naming the vested interests will however be superfluous!
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THE BUTCHER OF OTHAYA>Sorry that I have to pursue you here with this because I was time barred in the relevant thread about opinion polls. There is this statement you made that I really wanted to respond to. You said: ……..”when in reality the election was a lot closer than that.” Did God himself conduct the polls for you to know with such certainty that that was the reality? As far as we are concerned, the very actual reality was an even bigger victory margin for ODM. Am sorry to state this fact to you but unfortunately, that is just how democracy works. There are simply no shortcuts in some things as I hope you will eventually come to appreciate.
You can’t have an incumbent who shows such outright contempt to the electorate and then somehow, expect to be in a dead-heat with the leading opposition figure who had never ruled before and betrayed the
trust of that same electorate. In fact, that opposition figure had consistently achieved a lot more in terms of positive reforms (you can deny that too) to give the electorate even more confidence in his seriousness to govern than the incumbent whom they realised had just conned them, his advanced age notwithstanding. Now, there is a watershed moment as we age that we should simply not indulge in certain bestial acts. That is why it is called the “golden age.”
Just take a cursory look at Kibaki’s history during his first term and ask yourself if such was the kind of stuff to guarantee any serious performance in an election. “Mavi ya kuku, mta do, Artur brothers, anglo-leasing and assorted corruption, tribalism, wanton slaying of Mungiki, meddling with ECK, publicly singing Kanu yajenga nchi during the campaigns, firing those who helped him to power, being partyless, and the list goes on ad infinitum. We don’t mind even if you decide to concoct your own polls to suit your preferred candidate but like Jirongo quipped last time, among the things that can’t be hidden is the truth.
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