I am just asking a question. Ongeri, Balala and Mwakwerere should now go back to the shamba walime. Wait! I just caught you there pro Uhuruto. If RAO’s court case can grant a credible re-tallying and he loses, he should also go back to the shamba. Draw.
Kenyans are waiting to see whether Uhuru Gonna Respect the )MOU) btw Ruto (Kales & Ole Gogoyos ?)ELDORET North MP William Ruto appears to be the big winner in the political alliance he has forged with Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta.
Ruto’s United Republican Party and Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance are due to sign their agreement on Tuesday morning.
A copy seen by the Star shows that Uhuru and Ruto have agreed that they will share all public appointments on a 50-50-75-25 basis. Out of the 22 cabinet positions under the constitution, each party will have 11 positions.
However Ruto will be able to use his posts to exclusively satisfy his URP members whereas Uhuru will have to use some of his 11 positions to reward TNA allies such as Water minister Charity Ngilu, Mvita MP Najib Balala and Eugene Wamalwa, should the Justice minister change his mind about quitting Uhuru’s alliance.
Ruto could therefore potentially dominate Cabinet. Moreover, if all goes according to plan, Ruto can end up controlling Parliament.
The two leaders have zoned the country and the two parties will be given exclusive rights to field candidates in their strongholds.
Uhuru and his TNA party will have central Kenya, Kisii and Nairobi exclusively. URP will field all the candidates in Rift Valley, North Eastern Kenya, Kuria, Teso and other pastoral areas.
Luo Nyanza, Western, Coast and Eastern provinces have been described as battlegrounds in the agreement meaning both parties can field candidates.
URP believes it can get 102 MPs (60 from Rift Valley, 10 from North Eastern and other pastoral area, 10 from Eastern, 10 for Western, 10 from Coast, and 2 from Kisii).
On the other hand TNA is projected to have 70 MPs (30 from Central, 5 from Rift Valley, 5 from Western, 5 from Eastern, 5 from Kisii, and 15 from Nairobi).
Parliament will approve all government budgets and key appointments for Cabinet, ambassadors, commissions and the senior civil service.
For sacrificing his presidential ambitions, Ruto will be Uhuru’s running mate as deputy president, a position that now has security of tenure under the constitution. Therefore Uhuru will not be able to fire Ruto if they fall out.
Ruto has also negotiated for URP to take the positions of Leader of Majority in Parliament, Speaker of the Senate and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. Uhuru and TNA will nominate the Speaker of Parliament, Deputy Speaker of the Senate and Leader of Majority in the Senate.
Uhuru has been allocated the Ministries of Office of the President, Internal Security, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Agriculture, the Office of the Attorney General and Livestock and Health among others.
The Office of the President controls billions of shillings, the national security agencies and the Cabinet office. The merged Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock will be a powerful docket as it control more than 50 parastatals and a huge budgetary allocation.
Ruto will take the Ministry of Finance and Planning; Home Affairs, Immigration and Registration of Persons; Roads, Housing and Public Works; Energy and Mineral Resources; Water, Lands and Natural Resources; and a new ministry called Devolution which will bring together the current Ministries of Local government and Arid Lands.
The Ruto ministries will be very powerful. The Finance ministry controls all spending while the expanded Ministry of Home Affairs, under the Office of the Deputy President, will control prisons, work permits, passports and identity cards.
Yesterday Ruto continued his charm offensive in Eldoret when he met nearly 5,000 leaders and appealed to them to support the TNA-URP alliance.
“You will vote for URP candidates for the county, women representatives, Members of Parliament, senators, and governors in URP exclusive areas but vote for TNA and Uhuru for the presidency,” Ruto said yesterday when he met Kalenjin leaders from North and South Rift at Eldoret Sports Club.
He explained that he agreed to run for Deputy President when he realized that no single party was capable of winning elections.
“TNA has over four million votes and we can marshal three million as a party. We have spread our wings across the country and reached out to our friends giving us an edge over any other coalition, he added.
Ruto was accompanied to Eldoret by Information minister Samuel Pogisio (West Pokot), William Cheptumo (Baringo North), Lucas Chepkitony (Keiyo North), Boaz Kaino (Marakwet West), Isaac Ruto (Chepalungu), Peris Simam (Eldoret South) ,David Koech (Mosop), Elijah Lagat (Emgwen), Joyce Laboso (Sotik), Jackson Kiptanui (Keiyo South) and John Lesonet (Eldama Ravine).
“The Central Kenya style of voting has drastically changed in pattern and style. They are now embracing other communities. In the by-elections in Kamukunji and Kajiado North constituencies where they supported candidates from other communities,” he said.
Read & see How Mass Media Hated Raila & Luos>Looking at our newspapers on the eve of an election it openly shows which side of the coin they support.
The biggest culprit is the NATION newspaper which puts the picture of Uhuru and Jubilee in Uhuru park and none of Raila and CORD.
This is unaccepted in this day and age in our country Kenya, we know NATION newspaper belongs to certain individuals from one region but they are journalists and they should show maturity on their news coverage.
You can see for yourself on tomorrow,s front page http://www.nation.co.ke/
It is always necessary for politicians to sorround themselves with losersand rejects by voters>The government cannot be run by Skype,” Odinga quipped.
But after scraping a tiny majority in general elections , it looks as though Kenya’s next president and vice-president will be clocking up the air miles, commuting between sub-Saharan Africa and northern Europe.
Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto , face charges of crimes against humanity stemming from the violence which marred the 2007 election .
Kenyatta, from the Kikuyu tribe, is alleged to have met with members of the conservative Kikuyu quasi-cult Mungiki gang to plan attacks against members of Odinga’s Luo tribe in the aftermath of the disputed poll.
Key witnesses in the case have mysteriously disappeared, and are presumed dead . Others, according to ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, have been bribed to retract their critical testimony.
Charges against Ruto relate to the massacre of Kikuyu villagers who were burned alive in a church in which they sought sanctuary.
Poll protest
Kenyatta secured more than six million votes in this week’s election.
“All these votes for him are protest votes against Western powers taking him to the ICC,” a Kenyatta supporter named Karanja told Al Jazeera.
The coalition’s leaders will not be inaugurated until the end of March – at the very earliest. And politicians from the rival CORD alliance have said they will challenge the results through the courts, meaning further delays before Kenya’s next leader is legally reinforced.
The crucial question remains whether or not a confirmed President Kenyatta and Vice-President Ruto will continue to co-operate with ICC officials, or whether they will use their status to fight the charges anew.
“There are courts in Kenya,” a Kenyatta supporter named Ann Karoki told Al Jazeera, amid the noise and jubilation of the TNA victory rally at Nairobi’s Catholic University.
“We can handle it here. We have the courts – and we want the ICC prosecutors to come here again. Our president should not have to leave the country to stand trial. We urge the ICC to let the Kenyans deal with their own things. That is what the Kenyans ask.”
The location of the trial is a key factor in the ongoing pursuit of justice for relatives of the 1,400 killed in 2007-08 and for those 600,000 people who were displaced from their homes – many of whom remain in IDP camps five years later.
“I don’t see them co-operating with the ICC,” lawyer and activist Anne Njogu told Al Jazeera. “I think they’ll try to bring the trial back to Kenya or Tanzania, because they think the court in The Hague can’t be manipulated, and they stand a better chance of manipulating the court if it is in Kenya.
“Justice flows like a river. The fact that you want your trial in a particular place means you want to manipulate the process.”
In the dock?
TNA voters expect the charges now to be dropped.
“Uhuru and Ruto were not even contesting the 2007 race,” Benson, an artist from Nairobi, told Al Jazeera.
“We don’t understand why they should stand trial, when the principals of the election [Odinga and President Mwai Mibaki] are the ones who should face trial.”
Other supporters at the TNA victory rally concurred.
“The ICC will have to drop the cases,” said Wambui Wiamgi. “The evidence must be false. The charges are against humanity, but it is humanity that has elected them – how can they be guilty?”
US officials have said that, while Kenyans must be free to vote for whomever they wish, there would be “consequences” if Kenyatta were declared president.
Furthermore, given statements this week from Kenyatta’s Jubilee Alliance that railed against British officials – accusing UK High Commissioner Christian Turner of “shadowy, suspicious” moves behind the scenes – diplomatic relations between Kenya and the West are likely to be fraught.
British officials have been at pains to point out that they do not wish sanctions to be imposed on a Kenya under Kenyatta’s leadership. But co-operation with the international court is key to keeping the gates of investment and tourism open.
Sanctions against Kenya – a key Western ally in East Africa – remain unlikely. But top diplomats from the EU, US and UK have inferred they would have “no non-essential conduct” with a government run by people indicted for crimes against humanity.
Innocent until proven guilty
“There is the presumption of innocence, and the ICC is competent to determine whether they are guilty or not,” said Justus Nyang’aya of Amnesty International Kenya.
At time of publication, TNA officials had not responded to requests for comment on whether or not their leaders would attend hearings.
“They have said they will [co-operate], and we believe they will. That is a good thing, that is a requirement… but we cannot pre-empt what they are going to do,” Nyang’aya told Al Jazeera.
“The court will have to give them the opportunity to prove themselves, and we urge the ICC to give them a fair hearing.”
For now, with both winning and losing candidates urging peace and respect for the rule of law in the wake of the contentious election results, both Kenyans and international observers will have to wait and see how Kenyatta’s Kenya finds its way in the global community.
But amid the broad smiles, the flag-waving, the singing and the dancing at the TNA victory party, many here remain defiant.
“The Kenyans have spoken to show they believe in Ruto and Uhuru,” said Benson, the artist. “We don’t expect them to be tried or found guilty, and we have proved the prosecutors wrong.”
“Kenya is a democratic country,” said Wambui Wiamgi. “We are free to choose our own leaders; we do not want interference from the West.”
Follow James Brownsell on Twitter: @JamesBrownsell
Why are they crying and they (meru) voted Uhuru ?
Will Uhuru Kenyatta solve the Land Problem in Kenya?
Let Kenyans suffer untill when they will wake-up and smell the Khat!Miraa(mairungi)
Cord ia the only Peoples Party and could solve land problem in Kenya (
Uhuruto are Land grabbers .there for Wakenya should forget the Land issue.
You will reallu suffer Family will eat family members. Mogues will over-flow with dead families killed by their families and clans for electing Uhuru Kenyatta and you know kenyatta family owns all Kenya Land ! No body will Pity landless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x0oWx2WaETI
gWhy are they crying and they (meru) voted Uhuru ?
Will Uhuru Kenyatta solve the Land Problem in Kenya?
Let Kenyans suffer untill when they will wake-up and smell the Khat!Miraa(mairungi)
Cord ia the only Peoples Party and could solve land problem in Kenya (
Uhuruto are Land grabbers .there for Wakenya should forget the Land issue.
You will reallu suffer Family will eat family members. Mogues will over-flow with dead families killed by their families and clans for electing Uhuru Kenyatta and you know kenyatta family owns all Kenya Land ! No body will Pity landless
SHOCKER: UHURU/ RUTO warned NEVER to set foot in BOTSWANA if they don’t cooperate with ICC
The Kenyan DAILY POST News 01:56
Wednesday, the 13th of March 2013 – Phandu Skelemani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Botswana has warned Kenya’s President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta that he should not ever set foot in Botswana if he refuses to cooperate with the ICC.
“If he refuses to go (to The Hague), then we have a problem. That means that they do not know the rule of law. You can’t establish a court and refuse to go when it calls you. If he refuses, he won’t set foot here,” he said.
Skelemani however added that he expected Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto to cooperate with the ICC because the pair have, from the start, handled themselves differently as compared to Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir who has also been indicted by the ICC;
“The Kenyans have never refused to go to the ICC whereas Bashir has. We expect Kenyatta to go when his case resumes,” said Skelemani.
Uhuru last Saturday became the first person ever to be elected to lead a country while facing trial at the ICC.
Ongeri, Balala and Mwakwerere Yuko Tayari Kula hata Ma-vi ya Uhuruto ili tupate Posho! Ma-vi ya President hayanuki haswa.
Kenyans are waiting to see whether Uhuru Gonna Respect the )MOU) btw Ruto (Kales & Ole Gogoyos ?)ELDORET North MP William Ruto appears to be the big winner in the political alliance he has forged with Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta.
Ruto’s United Republican Party and Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance are due to sign their agreement on Tuesday morning.
A copy seen by the Star shows that Uhuru and Ruto have agreed that they will share all public appointments on a 50-50-75-25 basis. Out of the 22 cabinet positions under the constitution, each party will have 11 positions.
However Ruto will be able to use his posts to exclusively satisfy his URP members whereas Uhuru will have to use some of his 11 positions to reward TNA allies such as Water minister Charity Ngilu, Mvita MP Najib Balala and Eugene Wamalwa, should the Justice minister change his mind about quitting Uhuru’s alliance.
Ruto could therefore potentially dominate Cabinet. Moreover, if all goes according to plan, Ruto can end up controlling Parliament.
The two leaders have zoned the country and the two parties will be given exclusive rights to field candidates in their strongholds.
Uhuru and his TNA party will have central Kenya, Kisii and Nairobi exclusively. URP will field all the candidates in Rift Valley, North Eastern Kenya, Kuria, Teso and other pastoral areas.
Luo Nyanza, Western, Coast and Eastern provinces have been described as battlegrounds in the agreement meaning both parties can field candidates.
URP believes it can get 102 MPs (60 from Rift Valley, 10 from North Eastern and other pastoral area, 10 from Eastern, 10 for Western, 10 from Coast, and 2 from Kisii).
On the other hand TNA is projected to have 70 MPs (30 from Central, 5 from Rift Valley, 5 from Western, 5 from Eastern, 5 from Kisii, and 15 from Nairobi).
Parliament will approve all government budgets and key appointments for Cabinet, ambassadors, commissions and the senior civil service.
For sacrificing his presidential ambitions, Ruto will be Uhuru’s running mate as deputy president, a position that now has security of tenure under the constitution. Therefore Uhuru will not be able to fire Ruto if they fall out.
Ruto has also negotiated for URP to take the positions of Leader of Majority in Parliament, Speaker of the Senate and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. Uhuru and TNA will nominate the Speaker of Parliament, Deputy Speaker of the Senate and Leader of Majority in the Senate.
Uhuru has been allocated the Ministries of Office of the President, Internal Security, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Agriculture, the Office of the Attorney General and Livestock and Health among others.
The Office of the President controls billions of shillings, the national security agencies and the Cabinet office. The merged Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock will be a powerful docket as it control more than 50 parastatals and a huge budgetary allocation.
Ruto will take the Ministry of Finance and Planning; Home Affairs, Immigration and Registration of Persons; Roads, Housing and Public Works; Energy and Mineral Resources; Water, Lands and Natural Resources; and a new ministry called Devolution which will bring together the current Ministries of Local government and Arid Lands.
The Ruto ministries will be very powerful. The Finance ministry controls all spending while the expanded Ministry of Home Affairs, under the Office of the Deputy President, will control prisons, work permits, passports and identity cards.
Yesterday Ruto continued his charm offensive in Eldoret when he met nearly 5,000 leaders and appealed to them to support the TNA-URP alliance.
“You will vote for URP candidates for the county, women representatives, Members of Parliament, senators, and governors in URP exclusive areas but vote for TNA and Uhuru for the presidency,” Ruto said yesterday when he met Kalenjin leaders from North and South Rift at Eldoret Sports Club.
He explained that he agreed to run for Deputy President when he realized that no single party was capable of winning elections.
“TNA has over four million votes and we can marshal three million as a party. We have spread our wings across the country and reached out to our friends giving us an edge over any other coalition, he added.
Ruto was accompanied to Eldoret by Information minister Samuel Pogisio (West Pokot), William Cheptumo (Baringo North), Lucas Chepkitony (Keiyo North), Boaz Kaino (Marakwet West), Isaac Ruto (Chepalungu), Peris Simam (Eldoret South) ,David Koech (Mosop), Elijah Lagat (Emgwen), Joyce Laboso (Sotik), Jackson Kiptanui (Keiyo South) and John Lesonet (Eldama Ravine).
“The Central Kenya style of voting has drastically changed in pattern and style. They are now embracing other communities. In the by-elections in Kamukunji and Kajiado North constituencies where they supported candidates from other communities,” he said.
Read & see How Mass Media Hated Raila & Luos>Looking at our newspapers on the eve of an election it openly shows which side of the coin they support.
The biggest culprit is the NATION newspaper which puts the picture of Uhuru and Jubilee in Uhuru park and none of Raila and CORD.
This is unaccepted in this day and age in our country Kenya, we know NATION newspaper belongs to certain individuals from one region but they are journalists and they should show maturity on their news coverage.
You can see for yourself on tomorrow,s front page
http://www.nation.co.ke/
It is always necessary for politicians to sorround themselves with losersand rejects by voters>The government cannot be run by Skype,” Odinga quipped.
But after scraping a tiny majority in general elections , it looks as though Kenya’s next president and vice-president will be clocking up the air miles, commuting between sub-Saharan Africa and northern Europe.
Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto , face charges of crimes against humanity stemming from the violence which marred the 2007 election .
Kenyatta, from the Kikuyu tribe, is alleged to have met with members of the conservative Kikuyu quasi-cult Mungiki gang to plan attacks against members of Odinga’s Luo tribe in the aftermath of the disputed poll.
Key witnesses in the case have mysteriously disappeared, and are presumed dead . Others, according to ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, have been bribed to retract their critical testimony.
Charges against Ruto relate to the massacre of Kikuyu villagers who were burned alive in a church in which they sought sanctuary.
Poll protest
Kenyatta secured more than six million votes in this week’s election.
“All these votes for him are protest votes against Western powers taking him to the ICC,” a Kenyatta supporter named Karanja told Al Jazeera.
The coalition’s leaders will not be inaugurated until the end of March – at the very earliest. And politicians from the rival CORD alliance have said they will challenge the results through the courts, meaning further delays before Kenya’s next leader is legally reinforced.
The crucial question remains whether or not a confirmed President Kenyatta and Vice-President Ruto will continue to co-operate with ICC officials, or whether they will use their status to fight the charges anew.
“There are courts in Kenya,” a Kenyatta supporter named Ann Karoki told Al Jazeera, amid the noise and jubilation of the TNA victory rally at Nairobi’s Catholic University.
“We can handle it here. We have the courts – and we want the ICC prosecutors to come here again. Our president should not have to leave the country to stand trial. We urge the ICC to let the Kenyans deal with their own things. That is what the Kenyans ask.”
The location of the trial is a key factor in the ongoing pursuit of justice for relatives of the 1,400 killed in 2007-08 and for those 600,000 people who were displaced from their homes – many of whom remain in IDP camps five years later.
“I don’t see them co-operating with the ICC,” lawyer and activist Anne Njogu told Al Jazeera. “I think they’ll try to bring the trial back to Kenya or Tanzania, because they think the court in The Hague can’t be manipulated, and they stand a better chance of manipulating the court if it is in Kenya.
“Justice flows like a river. The fact that you want your trial in a particular place means you want to manipulate the process.”
In the dock?
TNA voters expect the charges now to be dropped.
“Uhuru and Ruto were not even contesting the 2007 race,” Benson, an artist from Nairobi, told Al Jazeera.
“We don’t understand why they should stand trial, when the principals of the election [Odinga and President Mwai Mibaki] are the ones who should face trial.”
Other supporters at the TNA victory rally concurred.
“The ICC will have to drop the cases,” said Wambui Wiamgi. “The evidence must be false. The charges are against humanity, but it is humanity that has elected them – how can they be guilty?”
US officials have said that, while Kenyans must be free to vote for whomever they wish, there would be “consequences” if Kenyatta were declared president.
Furthermore, given statements this week from Kenyatta’s Jubilee Alliance that railed against British officials – accusing UK High Commissioner Christian Turner of “shadowy, suspicious” moves behind the scenes – diplomatic relations between Kenya and the West are likely to be fraught.
British officials have been at pains to point out that they do not wish sanctions to be imposed on a Kenya under Kenyatta’s leadership. But co-operation with the international court is key to keeping the gates of investment and tourism open.
Sanctions against Kenya – a key Western ally in East Africa – remain unlikely. But top diplomats from the EU, US and UK have inferred they would have “no non-essential conduct” with a government run by people indicted for crimes against humanity.
Innocent until proven guilty
“There is the presumption of innocence, and the ICC is competent to determine whether they are guilty or not,” said Justus Nyang’aya of Amnesty International Kenya.
At time of publication, TNA officials had not responded to requests for comment on whether or not their leaders would attend hearings.
“They have said they will [co-operate], and we believe they will. That is a good thing, that is a requirement… but we cannot pre-empt what they are going to do,” Nyang’aya told Al Jazeera.
“The court will have to give them the opportunity to prove themselves, and we urge the ICC to give them a fair hearing.”
For now, with both winning and losing candidates urging peace and respect for the rule of law in the wake of the contentious election results, both Kenyans and international observers will have to wait and see how Kenyatta’s Kenya finds its way in the global community.
But amid the broad smiles, the flag-waving, the singing and the dancing at the TNA victory party, many here remain defiant.
“The Kenyans have spoken to show they believe in Ruto and Uhuru,” said Benson, the artist. “We don’t expect them to be tried or found guilty, and we have proved the prosecutors wrong.”
“Kenya is a democratic country,” said Wambui Wiamgi. “We are free to choose our own leaders; we do not want interference from the West.”
Follow James Brownsell on Twitter: @JamesBrownsell
Why are they crying and they (meru) voted Uhuru ?
Will Uhuru Kenyatta solve the Land Problem in Kenya?
Let Kenyans suffer untill when they will wake-up and smell the Khat!Miraa(mairungi)
Cord ia the only Peoples Party and could solve land problem in Kenya (
Uhuruto are Land grabbers .there for Wakenya should forget the Land issue.
You will reallu suffer Family will eat family members. Mogues will over-flow with dead families killed by their families and clans for electing Uhuru Kenyatta and you know kenyatta family owns all Kenya Land ! No body will Pity landless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x0oWx2WaETI
gWhy are they crying and they (meru) voted Uhuru ?
Will Uhuru Kenyatta solve the Land Problem in Kenya?
Let Kenyans suffer untill when they will wake-up and smell the Khat!Miraa(mairungi)
Cord ia the only Peoples Party and could solve land problem in Kenya (
Uhuruto are Land grabbers .there for Wakenya should forget the Land issue.
You will reallu suffer Family will eat family members. Mogues will over-flow with dead families killed by their families and clans for electing Uhuru Kenyatta and you know kenyatta family owns all Kenya Land ! No body will Pity landless
SHOCKER: UHURU/ RUTO warned NEVER to set foot in BOTSWANA if they don’t cooperate with ICC
The Kenyan DAILY POST News 01:56
Wednesday, the 13th of March 2013 – Phandu Skelemani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Botswana has warned Kenya’s President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta that he should not ever set foot in Botswana if he refuses to cooperate with the ICC.
“If he refuses to go (to The Hague), then we have a problem. That means that they do not know the rule of law. You can’t establish a court and refuse to go when it calls you. If he refuses, he won’t set foot here,” he said.
Skelemani however added that he expected Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto to cooperate with the ICC because the pair have, from the start, handled themselves differently as compared to Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir who has also been indicted by the ICC;
“The Kenyans have never refused to go to the ICC whereas Bashir has. We expect Kenyatta to go when his case resumes,” said Skelemani.
Uhuru last Saturday became the first person ever to be elected to lead a country while facing trial at the ICC.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
(muzungu ni kama mungu)