After the choreographed “Tyranny of numbers” fell flat on its face, the Mafia cartel resorted to “Tyranny of Rigging” which is now falling apart. When rigging failed at the electronic frontier, the riggers resorted to rigging through the “manual option which also appears to have failed.
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Way to go CORD and we are behind you 100%. Election thugery is barbaric and a national disgrace. The choreographed and pre-planned maneuvers being made by the merchants of impunity is sinister and meant to conceal something to force it look real. There is correlation between the rule of law and democratic culture. The merchants of impunity in Kenya do not believe neither. Kenya is becoming a dysfunctional democracy with most people suffering from what I term hallucinatory optimism. We have been damned to believe what we see and told with no element of doubt. We were duped to believe 2013 elections were free and fair and most of us still believe so. Democratic malpractice happening in Kenya must be stopped now or we wait to face the consequences later. Based on world political history, I bet you it will be costly and not pretty.
Election rigging should stop. Else this country is going to precipice. Dejection and helplessness knowing that due to the tyranny of numbers you can never win. I think this presidential seat should be made rotational among the 42 communities in kenya just like they do in Nigeria between the northerners and the southerners. That way every kenyan will have hope.
I WAS in the giant crowd in Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi in the run-up to the 2007 election when the presidential candidate Raila Odinga told his supporters they were tiny but fiery safari ants, who were going to drive the snake that had invaded the bird’s nest out of the tree.
This analogy comes from African folklore. Mr. Odinga suggested that his supporters, by their sheer numbers, were capable of achieving what the other animals of the forest were afraid of doing. The reformers who supported his democratic movement, which stood in opposition to the presidency of Mwai Kibaki, embraced the label of safari ants.
Fast forward five years and a bit. On the morning of March 9, I was on Waiyaki Way, a major Nairobi thoroughfare, when I came upon a throng of supporters of Uhuru Kenyatta, who was declared the winner — by the narrowest of margins — of the presidential election held five days earlier. The demonstrators brought the traffic on that busy highway to a stop. At dawn, the same mob had awakened me, as hordes of young people paraded through residential suburbs in an anticipatory celebration for Mr. Kenyatta, a son of Kenya’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta. Seated in a minibus immobilized by traffic, I got a close look at them. These were no urbanites. If you have lived in Nairobi for as long as I have, you are able to tell country folk who are new to town just by their looks. Someone had bused them in.
What shocked me, though, was not that they were snatching cellphones out of open car windows. It was the expletives they were shouting through those windows. A nation of Kikuyu — Kenya’s dominant ethnic group, of which the Kenyattas are members — had triumphed once again over the Luo, the minority to which Mr. Odinga belongs. The tribal invective was ugly. But the shocking bit was watching kids of around age 6 wallow in the rhetorical filth, egged on by people I assumed to be their parents. We were drawing from the basest of our primitive reserves in the name of celebrating a victory that had yet to be confirmed. (Mr. Odinga has refused to concede defeat, and is challenging the results in court.)
This depressing scenario doesn’t bode well for Kenyan democracy, a half-century after Kenya attained independence from Britain.
Back in 1963, the masses were made to believe that if the British colonialists were expelled, the land they had occupied would revert to the people of Kenya.
This never happened. Instead, the colonial old guard and their Kenyan collaborators came together and moved into the colonial farmhouses with their families. The Mau Mau freedom fighters, who had been instrumental in driving out the British, were warned by none other than President Kenyatta to end their insurgency. There was no land reform, no redistribution of wealth, no rethinking of the terms of colonial society.
The dispossessed Kikuyu were at the core of the land problems that persist to this day. Land motivated the “tribal clashes” that sporadically broke out during the presidencies of Mr. Kenyatta’s successor, Daniel arap Moi, who served from 1978 to 2002, and of the current president, Mr. Kibaki, who has served since 2002.
The fawning, shuka-clad Kenyan of Isak Dinesen’s “Out of Africa” has become wise to the world, and weary of its ways. She has discarded her wrapping skins and cloaks for tailored suits and attained a university degree that, unfortunately, cannot guarantee her a job. She is the emblem of Kenyan disillusionment. If Kenya’s forever squabbling political leaders haven’t learned anything from the French Revolution, or, more recently, the Arab Spring, then pretty soon she and other angry young women and men will become their nightmare.
Over the years, that malaise has festered into a ripe boil that requires nothing short of surgery. We came close to lancing it in 2002, when we threw out Mr. Moi and cronies from his Kalenjin ethnic community, who almost brought the economy to its knees. I was in Uhuru Park when Kenyans pelted the unpopular president’s motorcade with earthen clods. The demand for what Kenyans called “the second liberation” was universal. When Mr. Moi was defeated, it was the first time Kenyans had voted overwhelmingly against something, and at the time, there was unlimited optimism.
But Mr. Kibaki’s troubled term did not deliver this liberation. Instead what we witnessed was a sustained attempt by the political elite to slam the lid on the boiling pot of societal unrest. The dream soured when he surrounded himself with a kitchen cabinet made up of his Kikuyu tribesmen.
The fatal postelection violence of 2007-8 was the second chance we had to lance the boil. This time, sharpened machetes were unsheathed and terror such as had never been seen before visited the land. Any Kenyan of conscience agreed that the violence served nothing but to destroy.
This year, for the third time, we had an opportunity to bring about political change in a decent, legally acceptable manner, following the successful promulgation of a new Constitution that devolved power from Nairobi to local governments. But the razor-thin election results mean the future is cloudy.
As we await a Supreme Court ruling on Mr. Odinga’s petition disputing the vote tally, I have heard calls from Kenyans — mostly Kenyatta supporters — to accept the results of the election and move on. But welcome as peace is, especially for an economy not stable enough to withstand turbulence, I think it is the easy way out. We would be sweeping the dirt under the carpet and simply ignoring the problem. We must wait to see what the court decides. Without faith in democratic institutions, the tender boil will only fester. And then it will burst.
Stanley Gazemba is the author of the novel “The Stone Hills of Maragoli.”
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The Kenyan people have the right to be freed from the grip of a dictator who would rather kill his own people than relinquish power.
UHURU Kenyatta must go so that Kenya’s future can begin, because true stability in Kenya depends upon establishing a government that is responsible to its people, one that protects all communities within its borders, while making peace with countries beyond them. These are the things I think about when I think about Kenyas security.
William Ruto soon Womaima Uhuru Kenyatta ngulu mugulet !http://www.voanews.com/content/congelese-warlord-bocso-ntaganda-in-custody-at-the-hague/1626594.html
vIt is not UHURU KENYATTA who won but former President MOI – Ngugi wa Thiongo on Kenya elections
The Kenyan DAILY POST Politics 07:53
Friday March 22, 2013 – Renowned Kenyan author Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo has told NewYork Times that the just concluded elections were not won by President -elect -Uhuru Kenyatta but by former President Daniel Moi.
Ngugi, who is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, said the “real winner of Kenya’s election was a man who wasn’t on the ballot: Daniel arap Moi, the man he described as a brutal leader who terrorized the country for 24 years and destroyed all credible institutions, including political parties.
Ngugi who is the author of Weep No Child (1964),The River Between ( 1965) A Grain of Wheat (1967), Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), Devil on The Cross, Petals of Blood ,Wizard of the Crow among many other great literally works, shared his skepticism about whether President –elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy President, William Ruto will “revive the economy, reduce poverty and corruption, resettle displaced persons and prioritise the interests of ordinary Kenyans”.
He concluded by saying that electing Kenyatta is the same as electing former President Daniel Arap Moi!
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Uhuru Kenyatta Ni kama Dramma NI Kama Video (Uhuru Mzonko Sonko) Thieving Parti Mambo Bonndi!http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6UvZZNHR-Gk
THIEF UHURU KENYATTA MUST BE STOPPED FROM HIJAKING POWER USING UN-ORTHODOX METHODSUHURU ORDERS HIS MINISTERS TO RESIGN
..Saturday, March 23, 2013 – 00:00 — BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
PRESIDENT-elect Uhuru Kenyatta has asked all ministers and assistant ministers elected to Parliament or county assemblies under the Jubilee coalition to resign .
Last week President Kibaki ordered all ministers who had been elected to as governors, senators or national assembly members to resign to quit the Cabinet.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the instruction was unconstitutional and told ODM ministers not to resign and remain in office, even if they had been elected to Parliament or had become governors.
Raila argues that Kibaki is now a caretaker president and cannot appoint or dismiss ministers or public officers.
Uhuru’s move, according to inside sources, is primarily aimed at embarrassing Raila by making it appear that he is not adhering to the new constitution.
Section 152 (3) of the constitution bars any Member of Parliament from serving as a cabinet minister.
There have been 94 ministers in the last government and after the resignations, 20 ministers and 31 assistant ministers will remain.
Ministers and assistant ministers elected under Jubilee coalition have indicated that they will officially resign their Cabinet positions between Monday and Wednesday.
The main parties in Jubilee coalition are Uhuru’s TNA and URP headed by deputy president elect William Ruto.
Most Jubilee coalition ministers have already instructed their personal assistants to prepare their letters of resignation to be officially handed to President Kibaki from Monday.
“I have my letter ready. It is only that I have not been in office to sign it and forward it to his Excellency,” said Special Programmes minister Esther Murugi who was re-elected as Nyeri Town MP on a TNA ticket.
She confirmed that ministers have until Wednesday to tender their resignation to Kibaki who is the appointing authority.
“We have received such communication from our party leadership,” said the Justice assistant minister Cheptumo who is now Baringo North MP-elect.
On Thursday, President Kibaki ordered the first sitting of the National Assembly and Senate be held on Thursday March 28, where speakers for both houses will be elected and all members sworn in. The National Assembly will sit at the Parliament Buildings while Senate will sit at KICC.
Nairobi Metropolitan minister Jamleck Kamau, now Kigumo MP-elect, is expected to resign on Monday.
Gender minister Naomi Shaban, now Taita Taveta MP-elect, is expected to relinquish her cabinet position on Tuesday, along with Internal Security minister Katoo ole Metito.
Livestock Development minister Mohammed Kuti, now Isiolo senator elect, will resign on Monday, while Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi, now Meru senator elect, and Defense minister Yusuf Haji are expected to resign on Wednesday.
“Some of the ministers have asked to be given up to the last day which is Wednesday so that they can clear a few things at their offices, and this has been agreed,” said a source at the Office of the President.
Meru governor elect Peter Munya, Runyenjes MP elect Cecily Mbarire, Kajiado North MP elect Moses Ole Sakuda are expected to resign any day from Monday. They are all assistant ministers.
Labour minister John Munyes, now Turkana senator-elect, and Public Health minister Beth Mugo, nominated to the Senate, will also resign.
Cabinet ministers allied to Cord are not intending to resign until a new president is sworn in.
Cord ministers asked to resign include Kakamega governor-elect Wycliffe Oparanya (Planning), Bungoma senator-elect Moses Wetangula (Trade), Homabay senator-elect Otieno Kajwang (Immigration), Rongo MP-elect Dalmas Otieno (Public Service), Siaya senator-elect James Orengo (Lands), Kilifi governor-elect Amason Kingi (Fisheries), Kisumu senator-elect Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o (Medical Services), Kisii senator elect Chris Obure (Public Works), Funyula MP-elect Paul Otuoma (Local government), and Budalangi MP-elect Ababu Namwamba who is the Sports minister.
There are conflicting reports whether Education minister Mutula Kilonzo, the new Makueni senator, will resign or not.
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Cord Ministers Must Stand Firm with their President (elect) Raila Odinga > Hakuna Kutetemeka Matako !
Uhuru Kenyatta Asi-Mubabaishe !Uhuru Kenyatta is a Chicken!
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