Waache uwongo. Kenya tunahitaji Foreign Aid. The government claims that it has been financing more than 95% of its budget through taxes! This at the moment is a CLAIM and needs verification!!
I stand to be corrected; it is incorrect to say that Zimbabwe is surviving without aid. The crisis in Zimbabwe is beyond your mere description. Economic sanctions distort macro-economic variables of the country- things like foreign exchange, interest rates, employment, inflation etc. Get time and investigate a common Zimbabwean and you will hear surprises. In short, Zimbabwe is at the brink of collapse and the sooner we have that dictator out of power, the better. Perhaps that is exactly, what we need to do in Kenya , get this illegitimate and unpopular president and move on with life.
It is also a little early to purport that Pakistan will soon face sanction, given its strategic position to the US . More so, its open door policy to UK to investigate the death of Bhutto tells a lot about its relationship with the West. Pakistan provides a nice battle ground for US to flush out the so called terrorists and I doubt if the US foreign policy is that negative to it. (I stand to be corrected and call you to convince me otherwise)
It’s very dangerous to purport that Kenya can work without aid. Consider understanding how much a typical African government needs to cope with its capital investments. We are disillusioned by the politics of aid to think we can’t do without it. Our politicians tell us we are domestically raising resources to build the economy but they make endless trips to donor countries. All these are politics. Aid is paramount. As an economist by the name Frank Junior urges, if only aid was only put to its correct usage and well managed! (Recall the question of ineffective aid fungibility)
Regarding the relationship between international economic sanctions and their effect on a common Kenyan, I call upon the person who raised the question to fall closely how common Wananchi of Zimbabwe are suffering. Also, fancy figuring out this, we need aid to build that road stretching from Bungoma to Webuye so that a farmer can transport his farm produce for sale. Those sanctions will turn round the macro-economic enviroment and theirr effects will be felt at the very household level. Did you see mamas from Zimbabwe carrying money in sacks just to afford a kilo of meat?
Regarding issues of hatred and so, the primary question that you may consider asking is’ ‘why the hatred?’ I call you to engage with all sources, written literature and others, to provide the answer to this question. Calling upon people to stretch hands of love to one another is not the solution. Perhaps we need to learn from the post-genocide healing model of Rwanda . The ground can only be broken if we dig out to find what are the causes of these bigotries. Recently, I asked a group of friends not only to pray, but also requested them to seek justice and truth along side their prayers, otherwise they are deemed blanket.
Look at this link for the Zimbabwe situation
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=7303&WT.srch=1
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Fikira and Maoni on the Kenyan Crisis 6
Obvious, if I met you dead, nitaomboleza na sitakojolea mwili wako nikishout Good Riddance!!
You know what,
Now try to imagine you and me, the friends we are bellowing for each other's blood out of the blues? People who were going to the same Small Christian Community and praying the sorrowful, joyous and glorious mysteries together! And this was the mysteries of our lives together!
I have never ever imagined that it could havebeen so easy to develop such hatred. What can we do now that this situation has deteroriated so much. Did you ever imagine ever that one time a 27th of December had the capacity of turning you into a fugitive from your own country? Kenya is now declared an emergencyzone with UN launching a $34 m appeal for it. Maybe more appeals will be lauched later! By the way if things become so worse, the layman and the economist will all become refugees! I do understand your concern at the moment about international aid. However the situation at the moment is above economics and international aid. By the wayKenya survived without aid for a long long time from1982. On the contrary I do not think that we can survive without peace for such a long time! Zimbabwe is surviving without aid though with difficulties etc. Another country about to face the sanction will bePakistan!
Let us look at what ails us at the moment starting from your love for me and my care and concern for you over the years. Could we say all these was just fake! If I see people stoning you now, would I finish you off with a panga because to me you represent a symbol that I hate? And it becomes so easy to kill you the way I would kill a chicken or a rat! In Uganda for example, Kenyan refugees are trying to poison each other and this has become big in the international scene. If I see your corpse would I mourn over it feeling the loss of a long time brother, friend and companion or would I piss on it while yelling GOOD RIDDANCE! On the other hand given another situation and I see a mob attacking a vulnerable member of yourfamily e.g. your siz or mum or wife etc and I am ableto do something, would I just keep quiet?
What I feel we need to do is for us to kneel down andpray for our country! We are a prayerful people and let us not feel ashamed to do so. LET US PRAY! And educate those we are close to that human life matters. In that life lies a daughter, a son, a mother and a father to a particular family! Lies a friend to other people and a citizen of Kenya! I know that it is difficult for all of us not to take sides at the moment. For a moment let us PRAY! Themost important side is the side of prayer and let uskeep away from blame (though it is hard). And maybe then what to do will become clear!
This is just what I feel, someone else feels different, kindly share!!
You know what,
Now try to imagine you and me, the friends we are bellowing for each other's blood out of the blues? People who were going to the same Small Christian Community and praying the sorrowful, joyous and glorious mysteries together! And this was the mysteries of our lives together!
I have never ever imagined that it could havebeen so easy to develop such hatred. What can we do now that this situation has deteroriated so much. Did you ever imagine ever that one time a 27th of December had the capacity of turning you into a fugitive from your own country? Kenya is now declared an emergencyzone with UN launching a $34 m appeal for it. Maybe more appeals will be lauched later! By the way if things become so worse, the layman and the economist will all become refugees! I do understand your concern at the moment about international aid. However the situation at the moment is above economics and international aid. By the wayKenya survived without aid for a long long time from1982. On the contrary I do not think that we can survive without peace for such a long time! Zimbabwe is surviving without aid though with difficulties etc. Another country about to face the sanction will bePakistan!
Let us look at what ails us at the moment starting from your love for me and my care and concern for you over the years. Could we say all these was just fake! If I see people stoning you now, would I finish you off with a panga because to me you represent a symbol that I hate? And it becomes so easy to kill you the way I would kill a chicken or a rat! In Uganda for example, Kenyan refugees are trying to poison each other and this has become big in the international scene. If I see your corpse would I mourn over it feeling the loss of a long time brother, friend and companion or would I piss on it while yelling GOOD RIDDANCE! On the other hand given another situation and I see a mob attacking a vulnerable member of yourfamily e.g. your siz or mum or wife etc and I am ableto do something, would I just keep quiet?
What I feel we need to do is for us to kneel down andpray for our country! We are a prayerful people and let us not feel ashamed to do so. LET US PRAY! And educate those we are close to that human life matters. In that life lies a daughter, a son, a mother and a father to a particular family! Lies a friend to other people and a citizen of Kenya! I know that it is difficult for all of us not to take sides at the moment. For a moment let us PRAY! Themost important side is the side of prayer and let uskeep away from blame (though it is hard). And maybe then what to do will become clear!
This is just what I feel, someone else feels different, kindly share!!
Fikira and Maoni on the Kenyan Crisis 5
Mambo mingi na several concerns juu ya inchi yetu Kenya!
Shall we solve anything by looking aside when people are turning against each other? Shall we continue encouraging the killing of innocent people to avenge for past injustice? In any case shall we consider that to be a learned solution? I think it is possible to do this when those dying are not in any way related to us! We have become FUCKING BEASTS bearing labels such as ODM or PNU!!!
By the way the people facing this brutal justice are the poor, those who suffer everyday and had great social capital amongst themselves that helped them survive the day. Now we encourage them to kill one another and to destroy this social capital but me and you will meet and share a bloody beer! Do we solve aproblem by creating many other problems? Or could welook for a better way of redistributive justice. Some of us are in Europe at the moment and can see that even the"ideal justice" as preached is far fetched.
I do believe that to solve the resource distribution problem which has been so much a preserve of particular sections of our society and not others will not be done through a "Genocidic revolution and hate campaigns." At the moment the two people at the helm of this genocide are President Kibaki and Raila. If the president is not the legitimate president of the country then he has done Kenya a great disservice. Raila by trying to flex his muscles will not die himself but his followers.
In economics I know that it is not the arm of self interest per se that dominates the economic decisions we make. We are all boundedly rational. There are many other factors that apply to distributive justice and Africa is not exempt. Capital accumulation cannot occur in the absense of peace. Capital cannot be made in the absence of people whom we are now finishing in Kenya!!! Before just coming upwith sweeping statements on resource allocation lets make sweeping statements on how democracy will eventually win in our country. This would be the only basis to which economic injustices can be corrected.There are blogs that basically show that we havedegenerated such as www.thinkersroom.com/blog ,ushahidi.com, kikuyu.com, kenyamoto.com, www.geraldbaraza.blogspot.com. Here in these blogs you can see pictures of death and destruction in some while there are pictures of hope and love in others. You need to be a machine hearted humanbeing not to be touched.
Does the figure 600 DEAD PEOPLE look cosy or scary. Maybe it will become more scary when it reaches 60,000 DEAD PEOPLE but by that time even your mother or grandmother will have been raped and murdered! That ishow bad this situation IS!!!
I stand to be corrected; someone hit back!!
Shall we solve anything by looking aside when people are turning against each other? Shall we continue encouraging the killing of innocent people to avenge for past injustice? In any case shall we consider that to be a learned solution? I think it is possible to do this when those dying are not in any way related to us! We have become FUCKING BEASTS bearing labels such as ODM or PNU!!!
By the way the people facing this brutal justice are the poor, those who suffer everyday and had great social capital amongst themselves that helped them survive the day. Now we encourage them to kill one another and to destroy this social capital but me and you will meet and share a bloody beer! Do we solve aproblem by creating many other problems? Or could welook for a better way of redistributive justice. Some of us are in Europe at the moment and can see that even the"ideal justice" as preached is far fetched.
I do believe that to solve the resource distribution problem which has been so much a preserve of particular sections of our society and not others will not be done through a "Genocidic revolution and hate campaigns." At the moment the two people at the helm of this genocide are President Kibaki and Raila. If the president is not the legitimate president of the country then he has done Kenya a great disservice. Raila by trying to flex his muscles will not die himself but his followers.
In economics I know that it is not the arm of self interest per se that dominates the economic decisions we make. We are all boundedly rational. There are many other factors that apply to distributive justice and Africa is not exempt. Capital accumulation cannot occur in the absense of peace. Capital cannot be made in the absence of people whom we are now finishing in Kenya!!! Before just coming upwith sweeping statements on resource allocation lets make sweeping statements on how democracy will eventually win in our country. This would be the only basis to which economic injustices can be corrected.There are blogs that basically show that we havedegenerated such as www.thinkersroom.com/blog ,ushahidi.com, kikuyu.com, kenyamoto.com, www.geraldbaraza.blogspot.com. Here in these blogs you can see pictures of death and destruction in some while there are pictures of hope and love in others. You need to be a machine hearted humanbeing not to be touched.
Does the figure 600 DEAD PEOPLE look cosy or scary. Maybe it will become more scary when it reaches 60,000 DEAD PEOPLE but by that time even your mother or grandmother will have been raped and murdered! That ishow bad this situation IS!!!
I stand to be corrected; someone hit back!!
Fikira and Maoni on the Kenyan Crisis 4
I also take up the discussion. I am deeply disturbed by the way our neighbours in Rift valley are killing our people. I hope you remember I am a settler in Molo Rift Vally who thought I can stay anywhere in Kenya. I thought I was part of the Kenyan who spoke until I lost relatives and friends who I dont have time to mourn their death!
I wish Kibaki knows how his supporters are suffering and does something quickly! I am worried that the good smiles we used to enjoy from everyone here at the university are fading away every day.
All of us have good arguments but lets try not to fuel the violence. We are learned friends and innocent Kenyans listen to us. At the moment they are dying and hungry coz of many past mistakes. Not just elections.Today in Seniour a joke was made that there is no food for Maseno university students and the fear of how that institution might suffer for a longer time, not forgeting Moi university. As the university we pray that the students dont bring the heatred in the halls of residence and University way!
I teach economics at Nairobi University. All my students are highly spirited Kenyans. The big question that lingers on my mind is "will we have an economy to manage if things go on the way they are?" We need a better game theory to model Kenyan politics and the current constitution can't offer that! The presidency is everything which makes cheating to be an easy option for anyone with a support of half the country poplation to take. Lets rethink the executive and win-win policy in our politics as a better game theory.
We are investors of skills and capital, there is no confidence for investors in many parts of this country. No food in Nakumatt coz farmers are busy fighting. where is our social capital, the village groups to assist in such crises.
A lot have been said until we dont know who is telling the truth! We are basically a lying nation. Lets start with you and me by telling the truth this week and I am sure we shall stop pointing figures to everyone and start to talk to one another.
Jesus told us he brought war lets know the war he was talking about then Peace and joy will be our destiny. Josemaria used to say that you are not a billion dollar to be liked by everyone so Kibaki and Raila should know that they will be liked by some and hated by others but no one should die coz of their shelfish interest. My stand is this if Kibaki and Raila rigged even if its one vote they should both step down for the sake of this lovely land. They should love Kenya so much that they decided to step down and we might put that in the Kenyan Bible for them to be remebered!
I wish Kibaki knows how his supporters are suffering and does something quickly! I am worried that the good smiles we used to enjoy from everyone here at the university are fading away every day.
All of us have good arguments but lets try not to fuel the violence. We are learned friends and innocent Kenyans listen to us. At the moment they are dying and hungry coz of many past mistakes. Not just elections.Today in Seniour a joke was made that there is no food for Maseno university students and the fear of how that institution might suffer for a longer time, not forgeting Moi university. As the university we pray that the students dont bring the heatred in the halls of residence and University way!
I teach economics at Nairobi University. All my students are highly spirited Kenyans. The big question that lingers on my mind is "will we have an economy to manage if things go on the way they are?" We need a better game theory to model Kenyan politics and the current constitution can't offer that! The presidency is everything which makes cheating to be an easy option for anyone with a support of half the country poplation to take. Lets rethink the executive and win-win policy in our politics as a better game theory.
We are investors of skills and capital, there is no confidence for investors in many parts of this country. No food in Nakumatt coz farmers are busy fighting. where is our social capital, the village groups to assist in such crises.
A lot have been said until we dont know who is telling the truth! We are basically a lying nation. Lets start with you and me by telling the truth this week and I am sure we shall stop pointing figures to everyone and start to talk to one another.
Jesus told us he brought war lets know the war he was talking about then Peace and joy will be our destiny. Josemaria used to say that you are not a billion dollar to be liked by everyone so Kibaki and Raila should know that they will be liked by some and hated by others but no one should die coz of their shelfish interest. My stand is this if Kibaki and Raila rigged even if its one vote they should both step down for the sake of this lovely land. They should love Kenya so much that they decided to step down and we might put that in the Kenyan Bible for them to be remebered!
Fikira and Maoni on the Kenyan Crisis 3
Kuna shida mingi sana in Kenya at the moment! Sadly to say being a Quk as put in ya downa message, I have a sort of dejavu type of feeling. Sisikii poa when I listen to some ODM or PNU jamaas speaking and anybody taking one side or another. Visit Mashada and u'll know how badly devided we are! When I hear some people making light of the situation at Eldoret Church, I get really mad! When I see people looting or razing property cos it beongs to Kikuyus or any other community I feel awful. I remember as I was growing up, I had so much that was fed to me about Luos by my peros! And I cannot say for sure that I do not carry what was instilled into me. I remember siku moja when we went to visit my home in Limuru with a long time close jamaa of mine. My ma lit up when he thought the jamaa was a Quk but only to be shocked when she realised the kaboy was "a Muruhya" but baadaye akapoa when she found that the kamjamaa was likeable. REMEMBER! And I think it is the same storo, we need to really work on this tribal issues!
Jamaaz reading thiz blog, I beg you to preach love! Let us not preach death! I admit that the past has many anomalies that need to be solved but we cannot solve them when we are all dead. Democratic problems, Legal, regulatory, distributive issues, and governance will all be solved by a nation of human beings and not corpses! I know, it is hard for me to convince you jamaaz but I am happy that you read my stuff mpaka mwisho.
Jamaaz reading thiz blog, I beg you to preach love! Let us not preach death! I admit that the past has many anomalies that need to be solved but we cannot solve them when we are all dead. Democratic problems, Legal, regulatory, distributive issues, and governance will all be solved by a nation of human beings and not corpses! I know, it is hard for me to convince you jamaaz but I am happy that you read my stuff mpaka mwisho.
Fikira and Maoni on the Kenyan Crisis 2
I said to myself "that things have really changed and history changes everyday."
Back to the election story, I am not sure about what I have felt all along. But the killing of women and children in the most horiffic manner has shocked me so much. In an instance people have become beasts. I read of a story in BBC of a woman who managed to escape with her child through the window of the church. She was snatched the child who was thrown back to the inferno. It basically confirms that the leaders have been preaching hatred. And just confirms to me how tribalism can easily be exploited in a real bad sense. A really highly learned friend of mine wrote to me saying that "he is ready to fight." In fighting and because he cannot reach President Kibaki, he will have to finish as many Kibaki's supporters as possible. By doing so it is hoped that he can reach Kibaki.
As far as the voting process was concerned, I am so confused in that I do not know who to trust anymore. If in deed this was a rigged election then there is still a big problem. And if an impasse created by the ODM agents through out the country as far as the forms 16 and 16A are concerned; this should not be left left to only circulate in the emails. I think that it ought to be exposed. You journalists have a great role in bringing the truth out. However if indeed PresidentKibaki rigged back himself to power because he has the machinery and resources to do so, it is unfortunate. This could be the begining of a life presidency. Another joke is thatRaila's government was going to be bankcrupt in a few days from lavish misappropriation! However, if democracy would have brought him, then I respect that. Vox populi vox dei!
Hey dear Kenyan son and dayghter, this is just an honest question; are you still that lovely, pure and energetic youngster of those days! Or has life changed you completely! Never mind for I know that change is the only constant inour lives! This change however has to be a daily transformation, I invite you to rise above the moment's occassion. Let us see where we have gone wrong both now and in the past and let us encourage and honest discussion of the same from fellow Kenyans. You are a very popular figure in Kenya among the youth, you can reach a million at once. Some of the areas we should look at include:
a) The rigging and irregularities that characterised these elections. What could we learn from them and howcan this be stopped in the future?
b)The murder and plunder that characterised the post election period, does it signal a bigger problem forKenya that need to be addressed? Are we sitting on atime bomb?
c)Tribalism. This shows that we have big problems of tribalism in Kenya that are so indellibly infused into all of us! All in Kenya have a tribal stereotype about the next person.Umeshawahi kusikia watu wakiitana We Mjaluo, or HuyuKikuyu, Mkamba or Wacha Umasai etc. By the way even wethe youth have these tribal vermines eating us. And our leaders know how to exploit this to their advantage and to the detriment of all the masses. For example boys growing up in my community are discouraged from marrying a Quk because she will kill you for your money or from marrying a Luo cos she will impoverish you by apportioning your money to luxuries. You are discouraged from marrying a Kao cos they are so hungry for sex and might give you strange looking children. Some of the children could belong to your life sworn enemies. And I tell you that this is a real phobia that is in us as we grow up!! To say the truth, tribalism and tribal stereotyiping is a real problem and we cant deny that it exists.
c) The destruction of the economic gains that we havemade out of our over 40 years of independence. Economic gains involve trading with each other,capital accumulation, etc. These relationships have just come to a standstill etc. How do we educate people that development is as a result of accumulation of gains from trade? We need to think about the next generations and hence have to preserve what we create now? At the moment I am in Europe funded fully for my education by a European institution, this is part ofan inheritance they got from previous generations. The infrastructure here is just good; again the previous generations worked. Etc. A friend of mine disagreesand says that whatever I am recieving is a subtle wayof reparation for what was stolen from us. Whatever;but there was work involved in it!
d) The return of optimism, hope and image that isassociated with Kenya. This has also been tampered a heavy blow as a friend of mine wrote to me, "I will keep looting if I can do it. Working hard is the maxim of the elite, religious, the middle class and the ruling class." It is ideas like these that kill the gains we have made for a long time. And we need to look at Kenya in the 50 years to come and ask ourselves, what did we do to promote life. There was hope for HIV people, the school going children, and many other areas! We can loose all these if we kill democracy, if we plunder and if we let the poison of hatred sprout and thrive in us!
Back to the election story, I am not sure about what I have felt all along. But the killing of women and children in the most horiffic manner has shocked me so much. In an instance people have become beasts. I read of a story in BBC of a woman who managed to escape with her child through the window of the church. She was snatched the child who was thrown back to the inferno. It basically confirms that the leaders have been preaching hatred. And just confirms to me how tribalism can easily be exploited in a real bad sense. A really highly learned friend of mine wrote to me saying that "he is ready to fight." In fighting and because he cannot reach President Kibaki, he will have to finish as many Kibaki's supporters as possible. By doing so it is hoped that he can reach Kibaki.
As far as the voting process was concerned, I am so confused in that I do not know who to trust anymore. If in deed this was a rigged election then there is still a big problem. And if an impasse created by the ODM agents through out the country as far as the forms 16 and 16A are concerned; this should not be left left to only circulate in the emails. I think that it ought to be exposed. You journalists have a great role in bringing the truth out. However if indeed PresidentKibaki rigged back himself to power because he has the machinery and resources to do so, it is unfortunate. This could be the begining of a life presidency. Another joke is thatRaila's government was going to be bankcrupt in a few days from lavish misappropriation! However, if democracy would have brought him, then I respect that. Vox populi vox dei!
Hey dear Kenyan son and dayghter, this is just an honest question; are you still that lovely, pure and energetic youngster of those days! Or has life changed you completely! Never mind for I know that change is the only constant inour lives! This change however has to be a daily transformation, I invite you to rise above the moment's occassion. Let us see where we have gone wrong both now and in the past and let us encourage and honest discussion of the same from fellow Kenyans. You are a very popular figure in Kenya among the youth, you can reach a million at once. Some of the areas we should look at include:
a) The rigging and irregularities that characterised these elections. What could we learn from them and howcan this be stopped in the future?
b)The murder and plunder that characterised the post election period, does it signal a bigger problem forKenya that need to be addressed? Are we sitting on atime bomb?
c)Tribalism. This shows that we have big problems of tribalism in Kenya that are so indellibly infused into all of us! All in Kenya have a tribal stereotype about the next person.Umeshawahi kusikia watu wakiitana We Mjaluo, or HuyuKikuyu, Mkamba or Wacha Umasai etc. By the way even wethe youth have these tribal vermines eating us. And our leaders know how to exploit this to their advantage and to the detriment of all the masses. For example boys growing up in my community are discouraged from marrying a Quk because she will kill you for your money or from marrying a Luo cos she will impoverish you by apportioning your money to luxuries. You are discouraged from marrying a Kao cos they are so hungry for sex and might give you strange looking children. Some of the children could belong to your life sworn enemies. And I tell you that this is a real phobia that is in us as we grow up!! To say the truth, tribalism and tribal stereotyiping is a real problem and we cant deny that it exists.
c) The destruction of the economic gains that we havemade out of our over 40 years of independence. Economic gains involve trading with each other,capital accumulation, etc. These relationships have just come to a standstill etc. How do we educate people that development is as a result of accumulation of gains from trade? We need to think about the next generations and hence have to preserve what we create now? At the moment I am in Europe funded fully for my education by a European institution, this is part ofan inheritance they got from previous generations. The infrastructure here is just good; again the previous generations worked. Etc. A friend of mine disagreesand says that whatever I am recieving is a subtle wayof reparation for what was stolen from us. Whatever;but there was work involved in it!
d) The return of optimism, hope and image that isassociated with Kenya. This has also been tampered a heavy blow as a friend of mine wrote to me, "I will keep looting if I can do it. Working hard is the maxim of the elite, religious, the middle class and the ruling class." It is ideas like these that kill the gains we have made for a long time. And we need to look at Kenya in the 50 years to come and ask ourselves, what did we do to promote life. There was hope for HIV people, the school going children, and many other areas! We can loose all these if we kill democracy, if we plunder and if we let the poison of hatred sprout and thrive in us!
Fikira and Maoni on the Kenyan Crisis 1
THE RIGGING STORY
The international media especially in the EU has taken an offensive position against our nation I am saddened that we have all fallen for the allure of ODMs "truths". The devil is hard at work and will do whatevernecessary to turn the lord's people around. If u have read the details of**** Morris' Orange Revolution, this was an important step, conquer the media. Then, ODM borrowed one more from Hitler's own handbook, "lie, lie and top up your lies with more lies and it will become true!" In Meru where they claim results were cooked, the public, along with ODM agents were at the announcements of the votes tallied. For example in Nithi, the results that emerged were as stated by ECK. ODM agents signed the form 16 and verified form 16As from all polling stations. The total turn out was somethinglike 95000 out of 126,000 which is a normal 75%. Reports from Nithi indicate that people were not allowed to enter bars, matatus, and shops or even go home if they had no ink on their finger after voting! Meru came out in droves to vote! The reason: Raila was booed heckled and thrown out of Meru during campaigns. He then asked them why they did not vote Orange during referendum and then told them that they will cry in December. Meru is greatly angered by these statements and saidthat their weapon is their vote. Raila wanted to deny them that right. On the night that Kibaki was down 1 million votes, he had only tallied185000/1.7m votes from Central and 85000 from Eastern. The delayed votes from Kibaki strong holds was part of a planned strategy. Many stations reported refusal by ODM agents to sign forms and multiple contest over results in parts of Central, Kisii, Eastern and Kikuyu Rift Valley. Meanwhile, ODM flooded the ECK with their results from Rift and LuoNyanza to create an artificial lead. The results from Luo Nyanza and RiftValley as PNU agents, (at an important meeting with the ECK along with all other party agents, at 4 am) found out had areas with 95% or even over 100% turnout and some polling stations where everyone voted! Figures from the Daily Nation:
-Sigor 115%
-Eldoret North 116%
-Mosop 97%
-Emgwen 103%
-Baringo N 92%
-Narok South 120%
-Bondo 102%
-Kisumu Rural 120%
-Karachuonyo 94%
-Rangwe 92%
-Ndhiwa 93%
-Nyatike 95%
-Mbita 95%
Highest in both central and Eastern is Othaya: 90%. Dear Kenyans,Evaluate the rigging claims for yourselves! Meaning that even the dead, the unborn and the terminally ill in hospitals voted in Luo Nyanza and Rift Valley!Trust PNU to be fast asleep as this happened at the polling stations! At that meeting, ODM realized that from this audit, upon revisiting all the210 constituencies with all the relevant documentation that Kibaki hadwon. Despite all their rigging and tribal inferences, ODM were out! Ruto rushed to deliver word to Raila who went to a press conference late morning. He came out before results were released and said that he does not want to pull off an Abiola (Research on Abiola) and does not want to resort to turning Kenya into an Ivory Coast! He implied he would not accept defeat of any sort. He also told his supporters to be calm until the announcement. This was to give them a signal to cause chaos upon announcement. Later, Raila walked into KICC guerilla style. He walked thru the plenary hall where everyone else was seated and stormed into the ECKs private chambers. With his entourage, they blockaded the ECK from leaving the room to announce results! This took place for hours all the time he was coercing the ECK to do what he wanted. When it wouldn't work he went outside to address a press conference rejecting anything that the ECK would announce!Upon his re-entry into the plenary hall ECK arrived and Kivuitu began his announcement of the results from Molo. Kibaki led in that constituency. Raila himself literally converged on Kivuitu as Ruto began to involve himself in physical confrontation. GSU had to step in and escort the ECK out as Ngilu tried to grab onto Kivuitu and stop him from leaving. Why was everyone including the media get thrown out? Some press members comprised a large group of hecklers that were a big part of the planned ODM chaos.They had to be removed! ECK went to the VIP room and with official observers and KBC announced the result. Another question, why did the ECK take so long to announce even when they knew the winner? First, delayed results, second, ODM interference.
The third thing is here. While the agents were at the ECK for the meeting last night, the results were apparent and Kibaki had won. His agents reported back to him. Kibaki asked ECK to stall the announcement so as to allow for the army to assemble at the barracks and go into red alert as well as to position the police countrywide! This also allowed time for the CJ to be taken to statehouse early. A vacuum at such a time could result in military rule if there is civil strife! Kibaki was thus quickly sworn in. Raila also wanted to call on a million plus supporters to stream into Uhuru Park wherehe would be pronounced president and sworn in separately. The govt took action. It blocked all live broadcasts to avert this coup attempt.The lack of media has enabled the govt to keep out inflammatory messages that will cause worse strife.
Kikuyu in Eldoret have been killed like nonsense. In Kisii migori, after the results came out, ten people killed in less than 15 mins. In Rift, Kalenjins are killing each other. In one estate they burnt house after house while throwing people out into the street and killing them. A friend's house was in that estate. Her whole family, Kalenjins, regretted voting for Raila and giving him the mandate to cause chaos. She said that it might be her last day as all her neighbors were out on the street dead! Kikuyu homes and businesses have been burnt to a crust in all slums. The Luo have destroyed their own homes in Kisumu and nowKibera is all on fire! All this for the selfish ambitions of Raila! He called them out as he followed **** Morris strategy to the letter!
Kenyans chose Kibaki. He is a national figure! He had over 25% in 7 provinces and even 17% in Nyanza and Raila had that in only 6 provinces and in central and eastern he had just 2% and 5% respectively. Most impressively Kibaki got a large tally of votes in Western, North Eastern and Coast! We need to unite at this time to refuse militant rulers in our country who refuse to follow the rule of law and will take power by force.He blatantly dismissed the laws of Kenya in Sunday morning's press conference by saying he does not care for the courts and will not set foot there to settle his grievances! He has chosen to use force and the blood of Kenyans to seize power! We refuse! We pray against it! He cannot deny us 10 million Kenyans who turned up, stood for seven and a half hours and even lost our IDs to exercise our constituitional right! We are here and we are together as peace loving KENYANS. Join us insolidarity. We love Kenya too much to see such abuse of our laws and unity!
As for the EU, I take a stand to publicly denounce them. Their comments are based on their own selfish vested interests in this country. The fact ofthe matter which u all know is that the EU has been a loser throughout the five years Kibaki has ruled! They have lost billions of Euros in trade to the Far East and they are not happy about that at all.
Fact: Kenya engages with China for a large majority of its trade which was previously monopolized by the EU.
Fact: Kenya has given over 90% of all its contracts to China for infrastructure!
Fact: Kenya is no longer dependent on the donor funding to draw up its budget!
Kenya relies on local revenues for 95% of its budget with the other meagre 5% shared out between donor funds from China, EU and US. In comparison Tanzania and Uganda draw up 78% and 88% respectively of their budgets from donor funding. The donor community is full of sharks that use donor money to siphon trillions out of their own economies!
Fact: Kenya has been the torch bearer for the rights of African and Pacific nations to have fair and unbridled trade with the EU. They are making ALOT of progress. EU has gained nothing from Kibaki's administration and wants him to go! They want us eating out of their hands like we did in Moi's time. This is neo-colonialism! Divide and conquer. It has happened in too many African countries for us to be blind here in Kenya! We refuse EU control of our Nation! They want to turn us against ourselves so as to take strategic positions in the process. They are looking for ethnic cleansing and genocide to overrule Kenya. Never! Kenyans, open your eyes, the war is not within but with those around us!
THE PROPHECY WE ALL IGNORED - IS IT RIGHT AFTER ALL? A globally reputed prophet had on the morning of September 30th 2007, foretold on his website that President Mwai Kibaki would bere-elected (among other 30 highlights on Kenya) Many who saw the posting brushed him aside, he had also foretold of chaos after the election...now we just cannot ignore him any more. In the prophesy posted on the link http://www.thomasmanton.com./prophecies/index.php?ctr_id=110&cnt_id=2 ,
the prophet remains optimistic that Kenyans will recover from the current crisis and that the nation will have more airlines, a booming tourism industry and great development projects. He says that the military and the police will play a key role in containing the current crisis and will succeed in restoring order. Here are some of the highlights:
1. The Upcoming Presidential Elections: "President Mwai Kibaki will bere-elected as Kenya's President on December 27, 2007. My Hand is uponhimto produce continued development and reformation in Kenya over the next five years, says the Lord!
2. Parliament: Changes are coming in your Parliament.
3. Crime and Law Enforcement: I will arrange a great increase in law enforcement in your nation beginning in this next season. Crime will bedealt with severely; and it will decrease greatly and even be eradicated in certain sectors in the coming season!
4. Conflicts, Violence and Unrest: I saw three Visions of clashes:
a)The first conflict I saw was involving the Mungiki. I saw men in military uniforms going in against these criminals to foil them. This happenned swiftly.
b) I saw tribal-clashes. (Kuresoi?).
3) Then I saw a horrible scene of social unrest ~ resulting in violence and rioting in the streets. (The post election menace?) I then saw your military and police going out forcefully to stop those causing these violent eruptions.........
10) ODM: In the first week of March 2007, God said that the ODM'opposition-party,' would be put into derision, and that they would be'split-up.' Some weeks later, reports hit the national headlines thatKenyatta was leaving; Raila would have his own ODM; and Kilonzo would head his own ODM-Kenya.
11) Embarrassment in Raila Camp: "Some things will come out from behind the scenes in October and November, 2007 that will 'discredit' Mr. Raila in the eyes of many. He will not rise again fully in his 'popularity' after this, says the Lord!" (I guess MOU with Islamists; **** Morris saga; Nazlin's confessions; majimbo; safaricom deal to Americans etc)
12) Election Polls: The tide of the election-polls will turn; and thetwofront-running candidates will come to an 'even-point!' Then, theElectionwill go the way God has ordained!
13) Ousting from the President's Cabinet: On May 29, 2007, God said that'acouple' of leaders from within the President's Cabinet would be ousted because of their defection within the ranks (I guess Ngilu, Koech????).
THOSE who voted for Kibaki are NOT KENYANS? The impression created by the term "Kenyans have spoken" is that only those who supported a certain candidate are Kenyans. My understanding is that those who voted for Hon. Odinga - the MP-elect for Langata, are Kenyans.I am further of the understanding that those who voted for PresidentKibaki and MP-elect for Othaya are Kenyans. I am even further convinced beyond doubt that another 20+ million people inKenya who did not vote for either of the two are Kenyans too. Even if Hon. Odinga got one vote, while President Kibaki got 17 Millionvotes that one vote for Odinga is from a Kenyan. If President Kibaki got one vote and Mr. Odinga got 10 million, that one vote for Kibaki is from a Kenyan. It is this kind of selective application of terms and situations that is in part fueling the animosity we are seeing. We are hearing of rigging elections by President Kibaki, but we are not being told why Mr. Odinga's brother - Mr. Oburu Odinga, was elected in a constituency that returned a 102% voter turnout. A 102% voter turnout is rigging, my friends. Rigging is rigging. Mr. Odinga is a Kenyan and his supporters are Kenyans. President Kibaki is a Kenyan, and his supporters are Kenyans.
The most pressing thing right now is for leaders in both sides of the divide to realize that life is so sacred, that there is no ambitionwhatsoever that is worth killing people over. How would Hon. Odinga andPresident Kibaki feel if those were their children, sisters, brothers, mothers or fathers that were burned while taking refuge in a church from FELLOW KENYANS? The time is NOW for Hon. Odinga to go on national TV and radio and categorically tell his KENYAN supporters to cease the wanton taking of lives and destruction of property. The buck stops with him. It is his supporters (and those loaned to him by Ruto) that are rioting and committing genocide.
The latest genocide Case 1, Patrick is a Kikuyu businessman from Eldoret, where at least 50 people were burned to death as they were seeking refuge in a church. He, his wife, his six children and a few other members of his immediate family fled Eldoretearlier today. Here's what he had to say about the situation in Eldoret and in Kenya as a whole...
What was the situation when you left?
"The situation in Eldoret is pathetic. It is systematic annihilation of a tribe, in my opinion. It actually took God to make it to the airport. Alongthe way, we were attacked by the Kalenjin warriors but through God's grace and because we had requested a police escort, we barely made it through. But in the convoy that we were in, we almost lost one car. But through God's grace, we made it to the airport. It's been hell. I can say that."
When did you know you had to leave?
"Actually, we knew that we would have wanted to have stayed because we were born and bred in Eldoret. My parents moved into Eldoret way back in1940. So we don't know anywhere else as home, apart from that place. But when we realized that this had moved from the ODM, PNU conflict to something much deeper, and that the presidential elections had been used as an excuse for something else to be implemented, [for] the Kalenjins to get rid of the Kikuyus, that's when we realized that we had to move out. That was the day before yesterday."
How did you leave?
"We had to request our friends in Nairobi to come to our aid by chartering aplane because we could not access money and we didn't have the kind ofmoney that is needed to charter a plane. Our friends here in Nairobi came together and raised the money.nIt's whoever gets out, gets out."
Who have you left behind?
"Our family is quite large. What I managed to do is to get my immediate family, my wife and my children but I have left my cousins, I have left my brothers. I am trying to communicate with my brothers to see if they can join us. But the situation is so bad that we can not say that we have to move as the whole clan. We are several hundred. We have lost several members in the conflict.We have another small batch of relatives at the airport. They might make it today or tomorrow. We don't know. We are still working on getting the oneswho are in town because you can not get to the airport without escort.It'san enormous challenge that we don't' know how far we can go because the resources needed to charter this plane are enormous. It costs between170,000 to 320,000 Kenya shillings to charter a 19-seater.I told you that my family is expansive. I lost two of my relatives in an area, very young boys. But what was even more disheartening, was my grandmother. She has a farm in Burnt Forest. When the clashes began,they left their homes and they went to a school, the whole village. The school was surrounded by the warriors. Any second, they could have attacked the school and finished them. We cried to the police and the police did send some policemen. The warriors still insisted that they wanted to kill these people. The police brokered a deal. [The people had to walk 20 KM to the nearest town, without getting anything from their homes.] Thosevillagers are trapped in a small town. We can't get them food and we can't get them to Eldoret town. They can't come out." We really fear that there might be a massacre in Eldoret in the next few days."
Patrick's wife Ruth chimes in...
"There is great fear in Eldoret town because people are being pushed into one central place, at the police station and at the church. What we have seen is that they are coming now and burning the churches at the outskirts. So far, we know that three churches have been burned and they have blocked all the exits out of town such that you can not get out of Eldoret town. So there is that great fear: why are we being pushed to the center of town? What is the intention? What we have seen in the outskirts, the violence is so much. There is no precedent for it. In 1992, in 1997, it was not this fierce [during past land clashes]. So there is that great fear among the Kikuyu community inEldoret. Why are we being put in one central place and we can not get out? So we really fear that there might be a massacre in Eldoret in the next few days. You are holding quite a picture on the cover of that paper...?"
[As weweretalking, Patrick was holding a copy of today's paper in his hand. On the cover was a photo of a woman wailing outside the burnt shell of the church in Eldoret where a group of sheltering Kikuyus were killed.]
"This is a very sad moment. When I made it to Nairobi and I was able to get this paper. One of my families lives next to this church that was burned. Over 70 children and women were killed in this church [Media and official reports of the numbers vary widely]. It's barely a kilometer from where some of my relatives live. It means that some of my relatives, I don't know, maybe some were caught up in there. But so far we believe they are not caught up there. This is a very good example of what we are talking about. We know that historically, people have warred. They have always tribe versus tribe, for many reasons, some petty, some reasonable. But we know that the house of God is a place that, across the world, people respect. According to the African culture, children and women are not killed. We also know that the Kalenjin warriors, according to their culture, because we have lived with them, they don't kill women or children. So when it comes to a point whereby they go to a house of God where children and women are taking refuge and they kill them there, this is taking the conflict to another level that we believe is not the presidential race. "
How surprised are you by what's happened?
"I am shocked. I know the Kalenjin, they are warlike. We know, we live with them, that they have those regiments, they have warriors. But we know that they are also very peace-loving people, we know that we have inter-married with them. This is why it is very shocking that it has gone to this level. When there was this conflict that the presidential race was unfair, rigging had taken place, and we definitely expected some outcry. We definitely expected some people marching. It's not the first time. In Kenya's we've had land clashes, 1992, 1997. It's not like it's something that is new to us. But the level that this has been taking...Believe me, the death count that you are reading in the newspaper, actually it is over ten times this. The attacks have been undertaken all around Eldoret. All around. All the farms, all the villages. If one time, it would be possible to have a death count, we are not talking of hundreds, we are talking of thousands."
What long-term effect do you think this conflict might have in Eldoret and in the country as a whole?
"We know what has happened in other countries. We know what has happened in Bosnia, what has happened in Rwanda. Let's not lie to ourselves that may be there will not be retaliation. In Rwanda, when the Hutus killed the Tutsis, it was fun until the tables turned and the Tutsis started killing the Hutus. We all know how many millions have died there. The reality is that, definitely, even if it is not me, there are people who are pained. You never know, it might take ten years, and an opportunity will occur for them to revenge. You never know, anything will trigger it. Right now, the Kikuyus might be killed and everybody is excited and it's fine and it cools down. And even Kibaki can say he has given up the seat and it is fine, it cools down. But an opportunity one time will present itself and this will not be forgotten.
Case 2 Caesar Wamalika, chaplain at the University of Eastern Africa inBaraton, in Rift Valley, spoke to the BBC to give a personal account of how acrowd of more than 1,000 people threatened to storm his campus unless some ethnic groups left. Caesar Wamalika says he and his colleagues are threatened daily. It all began soon after the election results were announced. A number of groups from the local community broke into war songs and raided the shopping centre next to the university. They looted all the shops that belong to Kikuyus and Kisiis. Then they broke into the rented off-campus houses of some students and then acrowd of about 1,000 people surged to the university gate and shouted that they wanted to storm the university.
They demanded that all Kikuyus, Kambas, Meru, and Kisii people leave theuniversity within two hours. That was the only way to save the university from being stormed.They said they would stay at the gate until their demands were met.Three armed policemen arrived and spent time negotiating with the crowd. Finally the police advised us to evacuate the named ethnic groups. All of them are armed with machetes, bows and arrows. Some are drunk and others baying for blood. We put those specified faculty staff and students, numbering about 250,into three university vehicles and they were taken to Kapsabet Police station under police escort. They have been there for four days. Several attempts have been made to take them home. The police tried and take them to Eldoret international airport but there were too many road blocks set up by different gangs and so they had to return to the police station. There is no way anyone can get out. The situation at the police station is not good. There is no food or clean water, but their worst fear is the possibility of the station being stormed, as such threats have been made. The police are few and overstretched. No one is safe. There are about 300 faculty members from the Luo and Luhyia community, international workers and students who are still holed up within the campus with me. We have been having daily threats from the crowds of people outside the campus. On one occassion, we had to give a bull for them to slaughter to guarantee us peace. It is a nightmare to meet them. All of them are armed with machetes, bows and arrows. Some are drunk and others baying for blood. I have never seen anything like this. One needs to be diplomatic when speaking to them. Violence swept the country after the elections. We have managed tosucceed in pleading with the militia to allow us transport to send food to those at the police station. It took three hours to go through road blocks to reachKapsabet, which is only 15 km away.There has been a change of heart from some commanders and militia leaders who know the university's administration. They said that on humanitarian grounds, the faculty with children and pregnant mothers should be allowedto return to the campus.They also told us students of the other communities should also be allowed back. It sounded like good news. We shook hands. We asked them to transport food to Kapsabet. They agreed and used their own vehicles. Locked in But the food never arrived. We then found out that the militia who were escorting the food had been beaten and their vehicles smashed by another group.That is the problem we are facing - having to negotiate with different militia groups who all have their own separate terms that we have to try and fulfil. The roadblocks are manned by between 100 and 500 people - in some major road blocks you will have a thousand. This morning, as a political rally was announced, the crowd came again to the university gate, this time demanding that we join them in a mass demonstration. We feared being put on the front line and probably be first to face the armed police. Our University public relations officer managed to negotiate with them to leave - but they have chained the main gate, locked it and gone awaywiththe key. No vehicle can get in or out of the campus now. We pray that they don't come again to force us out.There is a shortage of essential items. Nowhere to buy food, we don'thave telephone calling cards and there is no fuel. The market is deserted and shops are closed. While the situation is calming down, there is still fearof what the next day might bring. We are still making efforts to escort our faculty safely away from the police station.
What needs to happen to build peace?
We are peace-loving country and God-fearing. It is said that over 80 percent of Kenyans are Christians. Even one of the things that came up in the campaign period was the issue of whether the leaders wereChristians. Raila said he is a staunch Anglican Christian. President Kibaki said he is a staunch Catholic Christian. But I am asking, where are these pastors? Where are these pastors in Eldoret, Kalenjin pastors? Where is this Christianity? I am shocked that pastors that had been preaching for us to be God-fearing, they are not coming out to condemn this. They are quiet as the work is being done. And when maybe everybody is down, they will come to bury us and say a very good prayer. Because in my opinion, there is an opportunity for the church to rise above politics and take its position. How come this Christianity is not playing arole here? Why can't I hear a Kalenjin bishop or a Kalenjin Father or aKalenjin Pastor or a Kalenjin Imam, for that matter, coming out and saying"No, our religion forbids killing women and children??" If it's men, it is another issue. You can claim they are combatants. And in any war,combatants die. But I don't believe Christianity or Islam would agree for children and women to be killed in the house of God. So peace-building, the church has to begin. Right now we don't trust the political leadership. I want to confess and say, I have not seen Kibaki coming out to speak strongly about it. I want to tell you, I think Raila has said he is not concerned unless Kibaki resigns. The person who is the leader in our area, he is just quiet. So before the politicians can even sit, I would like to see the church coming out and putting their feet down. That is the first thing.The second thing, as we are speaking, you might get a report that the war has cooled down. But we have thousands of people camped at the police station and church compounds and they are starving to death. So as much as they were not pierced by the arrows at their farms, they are dying slowly. If nothing is done for that, you will be lying to people, saying that there is peace. When there are two warring parties, it always takes a third party to come in and give reason. What we are observing is the international community being silent. We know that the international community knows what is happening. They are taking it lightly. We know the same mistake was done inRwanda, whereby the Rwandese started killing each other, they cried out to the international community. The international community ignored them until up to a million Rwandans were dead. The same story is being repeated in Eldoret, Burnt Forest, Londiani and Kuresoi. This is genocide being done. This is majimbo per excellence.
The international media especially in the EU has taken an offensive position against our nation I am saddened that we have all fallen for the allure of ODMs "truths". The devil is hard at work and will do whatevernecessary to turn the lord's people around. If u have read the details of**** Morris' Orange Revolution, this was an important step, conquer the media. Then, ODM borrowed one more from Hitler's own handbook, "lie, lie and top up your lies with more lies and it will become true!" In Meru where they claim results were cooked, the public, along with ODM agents were at the announcements of the votes tallied. For example in Nithi, the results that emerged were as stated by ECK. ODM agents signed the form 16 and verified form 16As from all polling stations. The total turn out was somethinglike 95000 out of 126,000 which is a normal 75%. Reports from Nithi indicate that people were not allowed to enter bars, matatus, and shops or even go home if they had no ink on their finger after voting! Meru came out in droves to vote! The reason: Raila was booed heckled and thrown out of Meru during campaigns. He then asked them why they did not vote Orange during referendum and then told them that they will cry in December. Meru is greatly angered by these statements and saidthat their weapon is their vote. Raila wanted to deny them that right. On the night that Kibaki was down 1 million votes, he had only tallied185000/1.7m votes from Central and 85000 from Eastern. The delayed votes from Kibaki strong holds was part of a planned strategy. Many stations reported refusal by ODM agents to sign forms and multiple contest over results in parts of Central, Kisii, Eastern and Kikuyu Rift Valley. Meanwhile, ODM flooded the ECK with their results from Rift and LuoNyanza to create an artificial lead. The results from Luo Nyanza and RiftValley as PNU agents, (at an important meeting with the ECK along with all other party agents, at 4 am) found out had areas with 95% or even over 100% turnout and some polling stations where everyone voted! Figures from the Daily Nation:
-Sigor 115%
-Eldoret North 116%
-Mosop 97%
-Emgwen 103%
-Baringo N 92%
-Narok South 120%
-Bondo 102%
-Kisumu Rural 120%
-Karachuonyo 94%
-Rangwe 92%
-Ndhiwa 93%
-Nyatike 95%
-Mbita 95%
Highest in both central and Eastern is Othaya: 90%. Dear Kenyans,Evaluate the rigging claims for yourselves! Meaning that even the dead, the unborn and the terminally ill in hospitals voted in Luo Nyanza and Rift Valley!Trust PNU to be fast asleep as this happened at the polling stations! At that meeting, ODM realized that from this audit, upon revisiting all the210 constituencies with all the relevant documentation that Kibaki hadwon. Despite all their rigging and tribal inferences, ODM were out! Ruto rushed to deliver word to Raila who went to a press conference late morning. He came out before results were released and said that he does not want to pull off an Abiola (Research on Abiola) and does not want to resort to turning Kenya into an Ivory Coast! He implied he would not accept defeat of any sort. He also told his supporters to be calm until the announcement. This was to give them a signal to cause chaos upon announcement. Later, Raila walked into KICC guerilla style. He walked thru the plenary hall where everyone else was seated and stormed into the ECKs private chambers. With his entourage, they blockaded the ECK from leaving the room to announce results! This took place for hours all the time he was coercing the ECK to do what he wanted. When it wouldn't work he went outside to address a press conference rejecting anything that the ECK would announce!Upon his re-entry into the plenary hall ECK arrived and Kivuitu began his announcement of the results from Molo. Kibaki led in that constituency. Raila himself literally converged on Kivuitu as Ruto began to involve himself in physical confrontation. GSU had to step in and escort the ECK out as Ngilu tried to grab onto Kivuitu and stop him from leaving. Why was everyone including the media get thrown out? Some press members comprised a large group of hecklers that were a big part of the planned ODM chaos.They had to be removed! ECK went to the VIP room and with official observers and KBC announced the result. Another question, why did the ECK take so long to announce even when they knew the winner? First, delayed results, second, ODM interference.
The third thing is here. While the agents were at the ECK for the meeting last night, the results were apparent and Kibaki had won. His agents reported back to him. Kibaki asked ECK to stall the announcement so as to allow for the army to assemble at the barracks and go into red alert as well as to position the police countrywide! This also allowed time for the CJ to be taken to statehouse early. A vacuum at such a time could result in military rule if there is civil strife! Kibaki was thus quickly sworn in. Raila also wanted to call on a million plus supporters to stream into Uhuru Park wherehe would be pronounced president and sworn in separately. The govt took action. It blocked all live broadcasts to avert this coup attempt.The lack of media has enabled the govt to keep out inflammatory messages that will cause worse strife.
Kikuyu in Eldoret have been killed like nonsense. In Kisii migori, after the results came out, ten people killed in less than 15 mins. In Rift, Kalenjins are killing each other. In one estate they burnt house after house while throwing people out into the street and killing them. A friend's house was in that estate. Her whole family, Kalenjins, regretted voting for Raila and giving him the mandate to cause chaos. She said that it might be her last day as all her neighbors were out on the street dead! Kikuyu homes and businesses have been burnt to a crust in all slums. The Luo have destroyed their own homes in Kisumu and nowKibera is all on fire! All this for the selfish ambitions of Raila! He called them out as he followed **** Morris strategy to the letter!
Kenyans chose Kibaki. He is a national figure! He had over 25% in 7 provinces and even 17% in Nyanza and Raila had that in only 6 provinces and in central and eastern he had just 2% and 5% respectively. Most impressively Kibaki got a large tally of votes in Western, North Eastern and Coast! We need to unite at this time to refuse militant rulers in our country who refuse to follow the rule of law and will take power by force.He blatantly dismissed the laws of Kenya in Sunday morning's press conference by saying he does not care for the courts and will not set foot there to settle his grievances! He has chosen to use force and the blood of Kenyans to seize power! We refuse! We pray against it! He cannot deny us 10 million Kenyans who turned up, stood for seven and a half hours and even lost our IDs to exercise our constituitional right! We are here and we are together as peace loving KENYANS. Join us insolidarity. We love Kenya too much to see such abuse of our laws and unity!
As for the EU, I take a stand to publicly denounce them. Their comments are based on their own selfish vested interests in this country. The fact ofthe matter which u all know is that the EU has been a loser throughout the five years Kibaki has ruled! They have lost billions of Euros in trade to the Far East and they are not happy about that at all.
Fact: Kenya engages with China for a large majority of its trade which was previously monopolized by the EU.
Fact: Kenya has given over 90% of all its contracts to China for infrastructure!
Fact: Kenya is no longer dependent on the donor funding to draw up its budget!
Kenya relies on local revenues for 95% of its budget with the other meagre 5% shared out between donor funds from China, EU and US. In comparison Tanzania and Uganda draw up 78% and 88% respectively of their budgets from donor funding. The donor community is full of sharks that use donor money to siphon trillions out of their own economies!
Fact: Kenya has been the torch bearer for the rights of African and Pacific nations to have fair and unbridled trade with the EU. They are making ALOT of progress. EU has gained nothing from Kibaki's administration and wants him to go! They want us eating out of their hands like we did in Moi's time. This is neo-colonialism! Divide and conquer. It has happened in too many African countries for us to be blind here in Kenya! We refuse EU control of our Nation! They want to turn us against ourselves so as to take strategic positions in the process. They are looking for ethnic cleansing and genocide to overrule Kenya. Never! Kenyans, open your eyes, the war is not within but with those around us!
THE PROPHECY WE ALL IGNORED - IS IT RIGHT AFTER ALL? A globally reputed prophet had on the morning of September 30th 2007, foretold on his website that President Mwai Kibaki would bere-elected (among other 30 highlights on Kenya) Many who saw the posting brushed him aside, he had also foretold of chaos after the election...now we just cannot ignore him any more. In the prophesy posted on the link http://www.thomasmanton.com./prophecies/index.php?ctr_id=110&cnt_id=2 ,
the prophet remains optimistic that Kenyans will recover from the current crisis and that the nation will have more airlines, a booming tourism industry and great development projects. He says that the military and the police will play a key role in containing the current crisis and will succeed in restoring order. Here are some of the highlights:
1. The Upcoming Presidential Elections: "President Mwai Kibaki will bere-elected as Kenya's President on December 27, 2007. My Hand is uponhimto produce continued development and reformation in Kenya over the next five years, says the Lord!
2. Parliament: Changes are coming in your Parliament.
3. Crime and Law Enforcement: I will arrange a great increase in law enforcement in your nation beginning in this next season. Crime will bedealt with severely; and it will decrease greatly and even be eradicated in certain sectors in the coming season!
4. Conflicts, Violence and Unrest: I saw three Visions of clashes:
a)The first conflict I saw was involving the Mungiki. I saw men in military uniforms going in against these criminals to foil them. This happenned swiftly.
b) I saw tribal-clashes. (Kuresoi?).
3) Then I saw a horrible scene of social unrest ~ resulting in violence and rioting in the streets. (The post election menace?) I then saw your military and police going out forcefully to stop those causing these violent eruptions.........
10) ODM: In the first week of March 2007, God said that the ODM'opposition-party,' would be put into derision, and that they would be'split-up.' Some weeks later, reports hit the national headlines thatKenyatta was leaving; Raila would have his own ODM; and Kilonzo would head his own ODM-Kenya.
11) Embarrassment in Raila Camp: "Some things will come out from behind the scenes in October and November, 2007 that will 'discredit' Mr. Raila in the eyes of many. He will not rise again fully in his 'popularity' after this, says the Lord!" (I guess MOU with Islamists; **** Morris saga; Nazlin's confessions; majimbo; safaricom deal to Americans etc)
12) Election Polls: The tide of the election-polls will turn; and thetwofront-running candidates will come to an 'even-point!' Then, theElectionwill go the way God has ordained!
13) Ousting from the President's Cabinet: On May 29, 2007, God said that'acouple' of leaders from within the President's Cabinet would be ousted because of their defection within the ranks (I guess Ngilu, Koech????).
THOSE who voted for Kibaki are NOT KENYANS? The impression created by the term "Kenyans have spoken" is that only those who supported a certain candidate are Kenyans. My understanding is that those who voted for Hon. Odinga - the MP-elect for Langata, are Kenyans.I am further of the understanding that those who voted for PresidentKibaki and MP-elect for Othaya are Kenyans. I am even further convinced beyond doubt that another 20+ million people inKenya who did not vote for either of the two are Kenyans too. Even if Hon. Odinga got one vote, while President Kibaki got 17 Millionvotes that one vote for Odinga is from a Kenyan. If President Kibaki got one vote and Mr. Odinga got 10 million, that one vote for Kibaki is from a Kenyan. It is this kind of selective application of terms and situations that is in part fueling the animosity we are seeing. We are hearing of rigging elections by President Kibaki, but we are not being told why Mr. Odinga's brother - Mr. Oburu Odinga, was elected in a constituency that returned a 102% voter turnout. A 102% voter turnout is rigging, my friends. Rigging is rigging. Mr. Odinga is a Kenyan and his supporters are Kenyans. President Kibaki is a Kenyan, and his supporters are Kenyans.
The most pressing thing right now is for leaders in both sides of the divide to realize that life is so sacred, that there is no ambitionwhatsoever that is worth killing people over. How would Hon. Odinga andPresident Kibaki feel if those were their children, sisters, brothers, mothers or fathers that were burned while taking refuge in a church from FELLOW KENYANS? The time is NOW for Hon. Odinga to go on national TV and radio and categorically tell his KENYAN supporters to cease the wanton taking of lives and destruction of property. The buck stops with him. It is his supporters (and those loaned to him by Ruto) that are rioting and committing genocide.
The latest genocide Case 1, Patrick is a Kikuyu businessman from Eldoret, where at least 50 people were burned to death as they were seeking refuge in a church. He, his wife, his six children and a few other members of his immediate family fled Eldoretearlier today. Here's what he had to say about the situation in Eldoret and in Kenya as a whole...
What was the situation when you left?
"The situation in Eldoret is pathetic. It is systematic annihilation of a tribe, in my opinion. It actually took God to make it to the airport. Alongthe way, we were attacked by the Kalenjin warriors but through God's grace and because we had requested a police escort, we barely made it through. But in the convoy that we were in, we almost lost one car. But through God's grace, we made it to the airport. It's been hell. I can say that."
When did you know you had to leave?
"Actually, we knew that we would have wanted to have stayed because we were born and bred in Eldoret. My parents moved into Eldoret way back in1940. So we don't know anywhere else as home, apart from that place. But when we realized that this had moved from the ODM, PNU conflict to something much deeper, and that the presidential elections had been used as an excuse for something else to be implemented, [for] the Kalenjins to get rid of the Kikuyus, that's when we realized that we had to move out. That was the day before yesterday."
How did you leave?
"We had to request our friends in Nairobi to come to our aid by chartering aplane because we could not access money and we didn't have the kind ofmoney that is needed to charter a plane. Our friends here in Nairobi came together and raised the money.nIt's whoever gets out, gets out."
Who have you left behind?
"Our family is quite large. What I managed to do is to get my immediate family, my wife and my children but I have left my cousins, I have left my brothers. I am trying to communicate with my brothers to see if they can join us. But the situation is so bad that we can not say that we have to move as the whole clan. We are several hundred. We have lost several members in the conflict.We have another small batch of relatives at the airport. They might make it today or tomorrow. We don't know. We are still working on getting the oneswho are in town because you can not get to the airport without escort.It'san enormous challenge that we don't' know how far we can go because the resources needed to charter this plane are enormous. It costs between170,000 to 320,000 Kenya shillings to charter a 19-seater.I told you that my family is expansive. I lost two of my relatives in an area, very young boys. But what was even more disheartening, was my grandmother. She has a farm in Burnt Forest. When the clashes began,they left their homes and they went to a school, the whole village. The school was surrounded by the warriors. Any second, they could have attacked the school and finished them. We cried to the police and the police did send some policemen. The warriors still insisted that they wanted to kill these people. The police brokered a deal. [The people had to walk 20 KM to the nearest town, without getting anything from their homes.] Thosevillagers are trapped in a small town. We can't get them food and we can't get them to Eldoret town. They can't come out." We really fear that there might be a massacre in Eldoret in the next few days."
Patrick's wife Ruth chimes in...
"There is great fear in Eldoret town because people are being pushed into one central place, at the police station and at the church. What we have seen is that they are coming now and burning the churches at the outskirts. So far, we know that three churches have been burned and they have blocked all the exits out of town such that you can not get out of Eldoret town. So there is that great fear: why are we being pushed to the center of town? What is the intention? What we have seen in the outskirts, the violence is so much. There is no precedent for it. In 1992, in 1997, it was not this fierce [during past land clashes]. So there is that great fear among the Kikuyu community inEldoret. Why are we being put in one central place and we can not get out? So we really fear that there might be a massacre in Eldoret in the next few days. You are holding quite a picture on the cover of that paper...?"
[As weweretalking, Patrick was holding a copy of today's paper in his hand. On the cover was a photo of a woman wailing outside the burnt shell of the church in Eldoret where a group of sheltering Kikuyus were killed.]
"This is a very sad moment. When I made it to Nairobi and I was able to get this paper. One of my families lives next to this church that was burned. Over 70 children and women were killed in this church [Media and official reports of the numbers vary widely]. It's barely a kilometer from where some of my relatives live. It means that some of my relatives, I don't know, maybe some were caught up in there. But so far we believe they are not caught up there. This is a very good example of what we are talking about. We know that historically, people have warred. They have always tribe versus tribe, for many reasons, some petty, some reasonable. But we know that the house of God is a place that, across the world, people respect. According to the African culture, children and women are not killed. We also know that the Kalenjin warriors, according to their culture, because we have lived with them, they don't kill women or children. So when it comes to a point whereby they go to a house of God where children and women are taking refuge and they kill them there, this is taking the conflict to another level that we believe is not the presidential race. "
How surprised are you by what's happened?
"I am shocked. I know the Kalenjin, they are warlike. We know, we live with them, that they have those regiments, they have warriors. But we know that they are also very peace-loving people, we know that we have inter-married with them. This is why it is very shocking that it has gone to this level. When there was this conflict that the presidential race was unfair, rigging had taken place, and we definitely expected some outcry. We definitely expected some people marching. It's not the first time. In Kenya's we've had land clashes, 1992, 1997. It's not like it's something that is new to us. But the level that this has been taking...Believe me, the death count that you are reading in the newspaper, actually it is over ten times this. The attacks have been undertaken all around Eldoret. All around. All the farms, all the villages. If one time, it would be possible to have a death count, we are not talking of hundreds, we are talking of thousands."
What long-term effect do you think this conflict might have in Eldoret and in the country as a whole?
"We know what has happened in other countries. We know what has happened in Bosnia, what has happened in Rwanda. Let's not lie to ourselves that may be there will not be retaliation. In Rwanda, when the Hutus killed the Tutsis, it was fun until the tables turned and the Tutsis started killing the Hutus. We all know how many millions have died there. The reality is that, definitely, even if it is not me, there are people who are pained. You never know, it might take ten years, and an opportunity will occur for them to revenge. You never know, anything will trigger it. Right now, the Kikuyus might be killed and everybody is excited and it's fine and it cools down. And even Kibaki can say he has given up the seat and it is fine, it cools down. But an opportunity one time will present itself and this will not be forgotten.
Case 2 Caesar Wamalika, chaplain at the University of Eastern Africa inBaraton, in Rift Valley, spoke to the BBC to give a personal account of how acrowd of more than 1,000 people threatened to storm his campus unless some ethnic groups left. Caesar Wamalika says he and his colleagues are threatened daily. It all began soon after the election results were announced. A number of groups from the local community broke into war songs and raided the shopping centre next to the university. They looted all the shops that belong to Kikuyus and Kisiis. Then they broke into the rented off-campus houses of some students and then acrowd of about 1,000 people surged to the university gate and shouted that they wanted to storm the university.
They demanded that all Kikuyus, Kambas, Meru, and Kisii people leave theuniversity within two hours. That was the only way to save the university from being stormed.They said they would stay at the gate until their demands were met.Three armed policemen arrived and spent time negotiating with the crowd. Finally the police advised us to evacuate the named ethnic groups. All of them are armed with machetes, bows and arrows. Some are drunk and others baying for blood. We put those specified faculty staff and students, numbering about 250,into three university vehicles and they were taken to Kapsabet Police station under police escort. They have been there for four days. Several attempts have been made to take them home. The police tried and take them to Eldoret international airport but there were too many road blocks set up by different gangs and so they had to return to the police station. There is no way anyone can get out. The situation at the police station is not good. There is no food or clean water, but their worst fear is the possibility of the station being stormed, as such threats have been made. The police are few and overstretched. No one is safe. There are about 300 faculty members from the Luo and Luhyia community, international workers and students who are still holed up within the campus with me. We have been having daily threats from the crowds of people outside the campus. On one occassion, we had to give a bull for them to slaughter to guarantee us peace. It is a nightmare to meet them. All of them are armed with machetes, bows and arrows. Some are drunk and others baying for blood. I have never seen anything like this. One needs to be diplomatic when speaking to them. Violence swept the country after the elections. We have managed tosucceed in pleading with the militia to allow us transport to send food to those at the police station. It took three hours to go through road blocks to reachKapsabet, which is only 15 km away.There has been a change of heart from some commanders and militia leaders who know the university's administration. They said that on humanitarian grounds, the faculty with children and pregnant mothers should be allowedto return to the campus.They also told us students of the other communities should also be allowed back. It sounded like good news. We shook hands. We asked them to transport food to Kapsabet. They agreed and used their own vehicles. Locked in But the food never arrived. We then found out that the militia who were escorting the food had been beaten and their vehicles smashed by another group.That is the problem we are facing - having to negotiate with different militia groups who all have their own separate terms that we have to try and fulfil. The roadblocks are manned by between 100 and 500 people - in some major road blocks you will have a thousand. This morning, as a political rally was announced, the crowd came again to the university gate, this time demanding that we join them in a mass demonstration. We feared being put on the front line and probably be first to face the armed police. Our University public relations officer managed to negotiate with them to leave - but they have chained the main gate, locked it and gone awaywiththe key. No vehicle can get in or out of the campus now. We pray that they don't come again to force us out.There is a shortage of essential items. Nowhere to buy food, we don'thave telephone calling cards and there is no fuel. The market is deserted and shops are closed. While the situation is calming down, there is still fearof what the next day might bring. We are still making efforts to escort our faculty safely away from the police station.
What needs to happen to build peace?
We are peace-loving country and God-fearing. It is said that over 80 percent of Kenyans are Christians. Even one of the things that came up in the campaign period was the issue of whether the leaders wereChristians. Raila said he is a staunch Anglican Christian. President Kibaki said he is a staunch Catholic Christian. But I am asking, where are these pastors? Where are these pastors in Eldoret, Kalenjin pastors? Where is this Christianity? I am shocked that pastors that had been preaching for us to be God-fearing, they are not coming out to condemn this. They are quiet as the work is being done. And when maybe everybody is down, they will come to bury us and say a very good prayer. Because in my opinion, there is an opportunity for the church to rise above politics and take its position. How come this Christianity is not playing arole here? Why can't I hear a Kalenjin bishop or a Kalenjin Father or aKalenjin Pastor or a Kalenjin Imam, for that matter, coming out and saying"No, our religion forbids killing women and children??" If it's men, it is another issue. You can claim they are combatants. And in any war,combatants die. But I don't believe Christianity or Islam would agree for children and women to be killed in the house of God. So peace-building, the church has to begin. Right now we don't trust the political leadership. I want to confess and say, I have not seen Kibaki coming out to speak strongly about it. I want to tell you, I think Raila has said he is not concerned unless Kibaki resigns. The person who is the leader in our area, he is just quiet. So before the politicians can even sit, I would like to see the church coming out and putting their feet down. That is the first thing.The second thing, as we are speaking, you might get a report that the war has cooled down. But we have thousands of people camped at the police station and church compounds and they are starving to death. So as much as they were not pierced by the arrows at their farms, they are dying slowly. If nothing is done for that, you will be lying to people, saying that there is peace. When there are two warring parties, it always takes a third party to come in and give reason. What we are observing is the international community being silent. We know that the international community knows what is happening. They are taking it lightly. We know the same mistake was done inRwanda, whereby the Rwandese started killing each other, they cried out to the international community. The international community ignored them until up to a million Rwandans were dead. The same story is being repeated in Eldoret, Burnt Forest, Londiani and Kuresoi. This is genocide being done. This is majimbo per excellence.
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