And as you watch this song, kindly pray that God may bring up more artists like Eric Wainaina. And if you know the address of Eric, tell him he is more than an Idol. Being such talented he should not any more song in his mother tongue. He should sing in Swahili. His message is powerful.
God bless you Eric! And you sons and daughters kindly enjoy Eric's music in this link!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vvbUFrU7dM&feature=related
Hope many of us will sing this song and many more in generations to come. Kenya, my pride my strength, my joy! Let us all join Eric and this lady to sing for Kenya!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8381194755047333507
Here are other songs for Kenya from pupolar artistes like Rose Wahome, Roughtone and all the blessed voices
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8381194755047333507,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8381194755047333507
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8381194755047333507
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Kenya: Likely Aid Cut Repurcussions
Of course in the long run it is the common citizen who will be affected. Let us be now prepared to start burrying a majority of our relatives suffering from AIDS. Let us now see our children go back to the streets of Nairobi. And for 100% of us who cannot afford to pay for plane tickets, we shall never ever travel home again because the roads are impassable!! Oh God, why did you create selfish people! Why dont you strike them dead, so as those who are made to suffer because of their selfshness may have new hope! Anyhow we do not pray for revenge but pray that you may change their brutal hearts!!
Kenya: Aid Cut by Donors Likely to Result in Budget Shortfalls, Financial Instability
The East African (Nairobi)
ANALYSIS 22 January 2008 Posted to the web 22 January 2008
Jaindi Kisero
A stand-off with Kenya's main bilateral donors is a prospect President Mwai Kibaki appears not to have anticipated. Yet as the country's economy continued to be engulfed in uncertainty in the wake of the violence that broke out over presidential elections - which most independent observers have described as flawed - all indications were that the country was bracing for a new period of strained relations with its main bilateral donors. In an unprecedented move, a session of the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday said they would freeze budgetary aid to Kenya until the crisis over President Kibaki's disputed re-election is resolved.
But what is really at stake for Kenya? On paper, and compared with its neighbours - Tanzania and Uganda - Kenya receives very little budgetary support from its European creditors.
Indeed, President Kibaki's administration has in the past two years adopted a fiscal strategy that does not programme non-project aid commitments - instead funding the bulk of its operations from taxes, domestic borrowing and privatisation proceeds. However, to argue that the threat by the European Parliament to freeze aid to Kenya is of little consequence because most of what the country gets comes in the form of project aid, is to miss the point. The truth of the matter is that an aid freeze by European countries is likely to impact badly on the execution of this financial year's budget and thus force the government to seek domestic borrowing beyond what was planned when Finance Minister Amos Kimunya presented his budget before the National Assembly in June last year.
With more than 40 per cent of the country's Ksh150 billion ($2.3 billion) development budget funded by donor flows, the freeze is likely to destabilise the government's finances badly - with serious macroeconomic consequences. As it is, the aid freeze will put at risk large capital expenditure outlays on the roads, education and health sectors, which are heavily financed by the country's European bilateral donors, especially grants. Although most of what European creditors give Kenya is designated as project aid, the truth of the matter is that the government accesses most of this money in the form of reimbursables - cash refunded to the government by donors to replace what the government has already spent.
Thus, if the aid freeze is effected, one of the biggest sufferers will be the Ministry of Education -one of the largest projects, the Kenya Education Support Programme, is heavily funded by donors, with part of the money going directly to suppliers - what is referred to in jargon as appropriations-in-aid - and the remainder coming in as reimbursed revenues.
This year, about Ksh4 billion ($62.5 million) is expected to go directly to the government in the form of revenues. Several key projects in the roads sector are also bound to suffer if aid is frozen - most of them in the so-called Northern Corridor that links Kenya to Uganda, Rwanda and other countries of the Great Lakes region. This year's budget assumed that the government would absorb Ksh14 billion (218.75 million) as appropriations-in-aid from the European Union for the roads sector alone. In the health sector, the Ksh5.8 billion ($90.63 million) Global Health Fund is at risk because the contributors to the fund are members of the European Union.
Indeed, the European Union is Kenya's second largest creditor after the World Bank, notwithstanding the fact that the country's significant bilateral donors - the United Kingdom, Germany and France - are members of the Union. The EU is the pacesetter of the aid game. Literally all multilateral aid agencies in Kenya co-operate closely with it, copy its policies and adopt its priorities.
Today, a good proportion of donor-funded projects are subject to co-financing with members of the European Union. Relevant Links East Africa Aid and Assistance Capital Flows Europe and Africa Kenya Sustainable Development Thirteen EU member states are represented in Nairobi, where it is also the lead donor in the transport sector, with the United Kingdom playing lead donor for legal-sector reforms. Then there is the fact that most of the European countries at the forefront in criticising Kenya, such as Britain, France, Italy and Germany, are deeply influential players within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where they control voting and veto rights. In last week's statement by the European Parliament, the EU said it was reviewing its relations with Kenya, and studying which actions to take if current African mediation efforts fail.
Kenya: Aid Cut by Donors Likely to Result in Budget Shortfalls, Financial Instability
The East African (Nairobi)
ANALYSIS 22 January 2008 Posted to the web 22 January 2008
Jaindi Kisero
A stand-off with Kenya's main bilateral donors is a prospect President Mwai Kibaki appears not to have anticipated. Yet as the country's economy continued to be engulfed in uncertainty in the wake of the violence that broke out over presidential elections - which most independent observers have described as flawed - all indications were that the country was bracing for a new period of strained relations with its main bilateral donors. In an unprecedented move, a session of the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday said they would freeze budgetary aid to Kenya until the crisis over President Kibaki's disputed re-election is resolved.
But what is really at stake for Kenya? On paper, and compared with its neighbours - Tanzania and Uganda - Kenya receives very little budgetary support from its European creditors.
Indeed, President Kibaki's administration has in the past two years adopted a fiscal strategy that does not programme non-project aid commitments - instead funding the bulk of its operations from taxes, domestic borrowing and privatisation proceeds. However, to argue that the threat by the European Parliament to freeze aid to Kenya is of little consequence because most of what the country gets comes in the form of project aid, is to miss the point. The truth of the matter is that an aid freeze by European countries is likely to impact badly on the execution of this financial year's budget and thus force the government to seek domestic borrowing beyond what was planned when Finance Minister Amos Kimunya presented his budget before the National Assembly in June last year.
With more than 40 per cent of the country's Ksh150 billion ($2.3 billion) development budget funded by donor flows, the freeze is likely to destabilise the government's finances badly - with serious macroeconomic consequences. As it is, the aid freeze will put at risk large capital expenditure outlays on the roads, education and health sectors, which are heavily financed by the country's European bilateral donors, especially grants. Although most of what European creditors give Kenya is designated as project aid, the truth of the matter is that the government accesses most of this money in the form of reimbursables - cash refunded to the government by donors to replace what the government has already spent.
Thus, if the aid freeze is effected, one of the biggest sufferers will be the Ministry of Education -one of the largest projects, the Kenya Education Support Programme, is heavily funded by donors, with part of the money going directly to suppliers - what is referred to in jargon as appropriations-in-aid - and the remainder coming in as reimbursed revenues.
This year, about Ksh4 billion ($62.5 million) is expected to go directly to the government in the form of revenues. Several key projects in the roads sector are also bound to suffer if aid is frozen - most of them in the so-called Northern Corridor that links Kenya to Uganda, Rwanda and other countries of the Great Lakes region. This year's budget assumed that the government would absorb Ksh14 billion (218.75 million) as appropriations-in-aid from the European Union for the roads sector alone. In the health sector, the Ksh5.8 billion ($90.63 million) Global Health Fund is at risk because the contributors to the fund are members of the European Union.
Indeed, the European Union is Kenya's second largest creditor after the World Bank, notwithstanding the fact that the country's significant bilateral donors - the United Kingdom, Germany and France - are members of the Union. The EU is the pacesetter of the aid game. Literally all multilateral aid agencies in Kenya co-operate closely with it, copy its policies and adopt its priorities.
Today, a good proportion of donor-funded projects are subject to co-financing with members of the European Union. Relevant Links East Africa Aid and Assistance Capital Flows Europe and Africa Kenya Sustainable Development Thirteen EU member states are represented in Nairobi, where it is also the lead donor in the transport sector, with the United Kingdom playing lead donor for legal-sector reforms. Then there is the fact that most of the European countries at the forefront in criticising Kenya, such as Britain, France, Italy and Germany, are deeply influential players within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where they control voting and veto rights. In last week's statement by the European Parliament, the EU said it was reviewing its relations with Kenya, and studying which actions to take if current African mediation efforts fail.
Kenya: Rival Groups' Terms for Talks
The Nation (Nairobi)
22 January 2008Posted to the web 22 January 2008
Nation TeamNairobi
The Government and ODM have given hints on what they would put on the table when talks aimed at ending the current political stalemate start in Nairobi. The Government will first ask ODM to name its negotiating team to promote national reconciliation and also push to have any disputes arbitrated in court, according to a statement from the Vice President's Press Service.
ODM leaders, on the other hand, said they would seek President Kibaki's resignation and a rerun of the presidential vote. Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka who heads the government mediation team said: "Let us not disown our courts. It is crucial that we uphold the independence of the Judiciary and follow due process; it is our responsibility as a regional bloc to respect the rule of law." But speaking in Kisumu, ODM secretary-general Anyang' Nyong'o said the party "will push for a new UN- sanctioned electoral body, serialised and independently printed Form 16A, and independently recruited electoral officers." Form 16A is the document on which returning officers record presidential votes garnered at constituency level for tallying by ECK.
Prof Nyong'o said they would also seek an acceptable time frame of preparation, campaigns and fresh elections.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is expected to arrive in Nairobi this morning as part of efforts to encourage dialogue between the Government and the Opposition. President Museveni is the chairman of the East African Community. Kenyans have rested their hopes on the arrival of former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan to resolve the crisis sparked by the outcome of the December 27 General Election. Mr Annan is expected to arrive in the country tonight.
According to a statement from the ministry of Foreign affairs, Mr Annan, will arrive in the country a few minutes past 8pm aboard a KLM flight. Also expected in the country is former South African First Lady Graca Machel, whose plane is expected to land a few minutes to 3pm.
Another member of the peace panel, former Tanzanian President Mr Benjamin Mkapa is already in the country.
Mr Musyoka who leads a 10-member team named by President Kibaki expressed optimism that President Kibaki and Mr Odinga will meet soon to reduce political temperatures. He said his team expected to meet the one named by ODM in talks under the auspices of eminent persons of the AU. Mr Odinga and ODM Pentagon members William Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi said they will be calling for President Kibaki's resignation to allow a fresh presidential vote.
Mr Ruto said the party will be seeking to know why President Kibaki has not "handed power to the rightful winner of the seat despite the fact that majority of the voters voted against him".
Mr Odinga asked supporters to remain firm but peaceful as they seek justice through the international mediators. Meanwhile, 14 more people were reported to have died in the post-election violence on Sunday night and yesterday. Five of them died in when raiders struck at Endebess, in Kwanza constituency, six in Molo and Kuresoi, two at Huruma in Nairobi and one in Kipkelion.
Relevant LinksEast Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Kenya
22 January 2008Posted to the web 22 January 2008
Nation TeamNairobi
The Government and ODM have given hints on what they would put on the table when talks aimed at ending the current political stalemate start in Nairobi. The Government will first ask ODM to name its negotiating team to promote national reconciliation and also push to have any disputes arbitrated in court, according to a statement from the Vice President's Press Service.
ODM leaders, on the other hand, said they would seek President Kibaki's resignation and a rerun of the presidential vote. Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka who heads the government mediation team said: "Let us not disown our courts. It is crucial that we uphold the independence of the Judiciary and follow due process; it is our responsibility as a regional bloc to respect the rule of law." But speaking in Kisumu, ODM secretary-general Anyang' Nyong'o said the party "will push for a new UN- sanctioned electoral body, serialised and independently printed Form 16A, and independently recruited electoral officers." Form 16A is the document on which returning officers record presidential votes garnered at constituency level for tallying by ECK.
Prof Nyong'o said they would also seek an acceptable time frame of preparation, campaigns and fresh elections.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is expected to arrive in Nairobi this morning as part of efforts to encourage dialogue between the Government and the Opposition. President Museveni is the chairman of the East African Community. Kenyans have rested their hopes on the arrival of former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan to resolve the crisis sparked by the outcome of the December 27 General Election. Mr Annan is expected to arrive in the country tonight.
According to a statement from the ministry of Foreign affairs, Mr Annan, will arrive in the country a few minutes past 8pm aboard a KLM flight. Also expected in the country is former South African First Lady Graca Machel, whose plane is expected to land a few minutes to 3pm.
Another member of the peace panel, former Tanzanian President Mr Benjamin Mkapa is already in the country.
Mr Musyoka who leads a 10-member team named by President Kibaki expressed optimism that President Kibaki and Mr Odinga will meet soon to reduce political temperatures. He said his team expected to meet the one named by ODM in talks under the auspices of eminent persons of the AU. Mr Odinga and ODM Pentagon members William Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi said they will be calling for President Kibaki's resignation to allow a fresh presidential vote.
Mr Ruto said the party will be seeking to know why President Kibaki has not "handed power to the rightful winner of the seat despite the fact that majority of the voters voted against him".
Mr Odinga asked supporters to remain firm but peaceful as they seek justice through the international mediators. Meanwhile, 14 more people were reported to have died in the post-election violence on Sunday night and yesterday. Five of them died in when raiders struck at Endebess, in Kwanza constituency, six in Molo and Kuresoi, two at Huruma in Nairobi and one in Kipkelion.
Relevant LinksEast Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Kenya
Monday, January 14, 2008
Kenyan Refugees Survive Poisining in Uganda
From New Vision Uganda 13th January 2008
By Raymond Baguma and Nathan Etengu THE Government and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) plan to relocate hundreds of Kenyan refugees to a new inland transit centre at Mulanda in Tororo district. The relocation also follows reports of attempted poisoning of the refugees camped at the Malaba border post. Tororo resident district commissioner Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka disclosed last week that wrong elements sneaked into the refugee camp and into the kitchen and put poison in the food that was being prepared for the refugees. “We were lucky that we detected the poisoning before the food was served. Otherwise, it would have been a big embarrassment to the Ugandan community,” Hashaka said. He said his office continues to receive threats from people in Kenya, who claim that they plan to cross to Uganda to massacre the refugees, who aremostly Kikuyu. Hashaka said two Kenyans from the Kalenjin tribe had been arrested in connection with the poison incident. Samples of the food will be tested for poison before any charges are preferred against the suspects. Kenyans have been fleeing to Uganda in the past weeks following the post-election violence, which has left about 700 dead and thousands displaced. The disaster preparedness minister, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, in a statement issued on Friday, said refugees have been reported in the districts of Busia, Tororo, Manafwa, Kapchorwa, Bukwo, Bududa and Nakapiripirit. Kabwegyere said by Wednesday last week, 6,130 Kenyan refugees had been registered in Uganda. “The Government, together with UNHCR, plans to relocate the refugees from the various reception centres to a transit centre at the former Mulanda Technical Institute in Tororo. The district leadership has been asked to avail this land for temporary accommodation of the refugees,” he said. The assistant commissioner for refugees in the Office of the Prime Minister, David Kazungu, said the relocation would ensure the safety of refugees living near the border. Kazungu said the areas hosting the refugees had limited space, and there was need to take them to Mulanda, which has better sanitary facilities and water. He also said the Government forecasts that the Kenyan unrest would be short-lived and it did not warrant taking the refugees to settlement camps. “But if it continues, we may relocate them again.” On Thursday, Busia Woman MP Rose Munyira toured Busia Integrated Primary School, which is hosting the refugees and found that the pit latrines had filled up. “There are concerns that the refugees are redundant, the schools have no bathing shelters and the local health centres have no drugs,” the MP said. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said over the weekend that the unrest in western Kenya could force more refugees into Uganda following the failure of the African Union mediation efforts. OCHA said the refugees should be relocated as soon as possible because the schools, where most of them are living, would soon re-open for the first term early next month.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/606506
By Raymond Baguma and Nathan Etengu THE Government and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) plan to relocate hundreds of Kenyan refugees to a new inland transit centre at Mulanda in Tororo district. The relocation also follows reports of attempted poisoning of the refugees camped at the Malaba border post. Tororo resident district commissioner Samuel Mpimbaza Hashaka disclosed last week that wrong elements sneaked into the refugee camp and into the kitchen and put poison in the food that was being prepared for the refugees. “We were lucky that we detected the poisoning before the food was served. Otherwise, it would have been a big embarrassment to the Ugandan community,” Hashaka said. He said his office continues to receive threats from people in Kenya, who claim that they plan to cross to Uganda to massacre the refugees, who aremostly Kikuyu. Hashaka said two Kenyans from the Kalenjin tribe had been arrested in connection with the poison incident. Samples of the food will be tested for poison before any charges are preferred against the suspects. Kenyans have been fleeing to Uganda in the past weeks following the post-election violence, which has left about 700 dead and thousands displaced. The disaster preparedness minister, Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere, in a statement issued on Friday, said refugees have been reported in the districts of Busia, Tororo, Manafwa, Kapchorwa, Bukwo, Bududa and Nakapiripirit. Kabwegyere said by Wednesday last week, 6,130 Kenyan refugees had been registered in Uganda. “The Government, together with UNHCR, plans to relocate the refugees from the various reception centres to a transit centre at the former Mulanda Technical Institute in Tororo. The district leadership has been asked to avail this land for temporary accommodation of the refugees,” he said. The assistant commissioner for refugees in the Office of the Prime Minister, David Kazungu, said the relocation would ensure the safety of refugees living near the border. Kazungu said the areas hosting the refugees had limited space, and there was need to take them to Mulanda, which has better sanitary facilities and water. He also said the Government forecasts that the Kenyan unrest would be short-lived and it did not warrant taking the refugees to settlement camps. “But if it continues, we may relocate them again.” On Thursday, Busia Woman MP Rose Munyira toured Busia Integrated Primary School, which is hosting the refugees and found that the pit latrines had filled up. “There are concerns that the refugees are redundant, the schools have no bathing shelters and the local health centres have no drugs,” the MP said. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said over the weekend that the unrest in western Kenya could force more refugees into Uganda following the failure of the African Union mediation efforts. OCHA said the refugees should be relocated as soon as possible because the schools, where most of them are living, would soon re-open for the first term early next month.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/606506
Sunday, January 13, 2008
USA Concern Over Kenya
Frazer’s full statement on situation Publication Date: 1/13/2008
The United States strongly supports a political resolution to the post-electoral crisis in Kenya. That is why Secretary of State Rice sent me to Kenya. We favoured no side during the electoral contest. We supported efforts to carry out transparent and fair elections. The generally peaceful and orderly voting process, and the record voter turnout, was a triumph for the Kenyan people, but the serious flaws in the vote tallying process damaged the credibility of the process.
At that point Kenyan institutions failed the Kenyan people. During intensive rounds of meetings with President Kibaki, Raila Odinga, their respective teams, and a wide range of other actors over the past week I have emphasised the urgency of achieving a political settlement, and I have sought to encourage and facilitate dialogue. We strongly support the efforts of President Kufuor, Chairman of the African Union, to bring the two sides together to facilitate a political settlement. The post-electoral crisis can only be resolved through a Kenyan solution. President Kufuor, the United States, and other friends of Kenya can, however, help the two sides overcome deep-seated mistrust and enter into a serious dialogue.
We welcome, in that regard, the willingness of both sides to engage with the African Eminent Persons who will soon visit Kenya, led by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan. We are also prepared to witness the results of any settlement in order to reassure both sides that any agreement will actually be implemented. Although we welcome the fact that both sides have indicated their commitment to dialogue and to ending violence, we are deeply disappointed that they have not been able to reach agreement on the modalities for direct discussions.
In our view, it is imperative for President Kibaki and Raila Odinga to sit together directly and without preconditions to discuss how to end the post-electoral crisis in a way that reflects the will of the Kenyan people.
Both should acknowledge serious irregularities in the vote tallying which made it impossible to determine with certainty the final result, and both must take forthright steps to end violence and ensure respect for the rule of law consistent with respect for human rights. This particularly includes restoration of media freedom and freedom of peaceful assembly. We believe the Kenyan people have made clear that the way forward must embrace equitable power-sharing, an end to violence, reconciliation, and agreement on a specific agenda for constitutional and electoral reform. In the meantime, the United States cannot conduct business as usual in Kenya.
The Kenyan people recognise that the post-electoral crisis has revealed longstanding problems that must not be ignored. As a close friend and partner of Kenya, the United States will remain intensively engaged to help encourage resolution of the post-electoral crisis. We are convinced that Kenyans will achieve this, and that the country will emerge out of this crisis a stronger and more just democratic society.
The United States strongly supports a political resolution to the post-electoral crisis in Kenya. That is why Secretary of State Rice sent me to Kenya. We favoured no side during the electoral contest. We supported efforts to carry out transparent and fair elections. The generally peaceful and orderly voting process, and the record voter turnout, was a triumph for the Kenyan people, but the serious flaws in the vote tallying process damaged the credibility of the process.
At that point Kenyan institutions failed the Kenyan people. During intensive rounds of meetings with President Kibaki, Raila Odinga, their respective teams, and a wide range of other actors over the past week I have emphasised the urgency of achieving a political settlement, and I have sought to encourage and facilitate dialogue. We strongly support the efforts of President Kufuor, Chairman of the African Union, to bring the two sides together to facilitate a political settlement. The post-electoral crisis can only be resolved through a Kenyan solution. President Kufuor, the United States, and other friends of Kenya can, however, help the two sides overcome deep-seated mistrust and enter into a serious dialogue.
We welcome, in that regard, the willingness of both sides to engage with the African Eminent Persons who will soon visit Kenya, led by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan. We are also prepared to witness the results of any settlement in order to reassure both sides that any agreement will actually be implemented. Although we welcome the fact that both sides have indicated their commitment to dialogue and to ending violence, we are deeply disappointed that they have not been able to reach agreement on the modalities for direct discussions.
In our view, it is imperative for President Kibaki and Raila Odinga to sit together directly and without preconditions to discuss how to end the post-electoral crisis in a way that reflects the will of the Kenyan people.
Both should acknowledge serious irregularities in the vote tallying which made it impossible to determine with certainty the final result, and both must take forthright steps to end violence and ensure respect for the rule of law consistent with respect for human rights. This particularly includes restoration of media freedom and freedom of peaceful assembly. We believe the Kenyan people have made clear that the way forward must embrace equitable power-sharing, an end to violence, reconciliation, and agreement on a specific agenda for constitutional and electoral reform. In the meantime, the United States cannot conduct business as usual in Kenya.
The Kenyan people recognise that the post-electoral crisis has revealed longstanding problems that must not be ignored. As a close friend and partner of Kenya, the United States will remain intensively engaged to help encourage resolution of the post-electoral crisis. We are convinced that Kenyans will achieve this, and that the country will emerge out of this crisis a stronger and more just democratic society.
Friday, January 11, 2008
The Protests Rallies in Kenya
According the the BBC news today 11th January, the protests will resume. The local government Minister Mr. Kenyatta says that negotiations cannot be done in the streets. So far the negotiations with the government stalled because of lack of good will. The only hope we have is that the government wont use brutal police force to stop the protesters. In any case this government is illegal.
And to Raila, we urge that you lead non violent protests. The tribal aninousity that is preached by the Western media about Kenya, needs to be dealt with. Let us educate the masses that this protests are about democracy and not about a tribe! I am a democrat at heart and hates the fact that this right has been unfairly taken away from me.
Kenya faces three days of rallies **Kenya's opposition calls three days of nationwide rallies next week to protest at what they say were rigged elections.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7182642.stm >
And to Raila, we urge that you lead non violent protests. The tribal aninousity that is preached by the Western media about Kenya, needs to be dealt with. Let us educate the masses that this protests are about democracy and not about a tribe! I am a democrat at heart and hates the fact that this right has been unfairly taken away from me.
Kenya faces three days of rallies **Kenya's opposition calls three days of nationwide rallies next week to protest at what they say were rigged elections.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7182642.stm >
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Democracy Raped and Mutilated in Kenya
11th Jan. Ho,
I am disappointed, emotionally wounded and crushed to see that most of our leaders even in the church have taken partisan positions defending the dictator in the present scenario. Things are bad in Kenya because of our own actions. Our democracy has been robbed, raped and mutilated! Kindly visit this blog www.geraldbaraza.blogspot.com. This represents the feelings of many people in Kenya whose hope has been crushed down by “president” Kibaki and his entire cohort! John
I am disappointed, emotionally wounded and crushed to see that most of our leaders even in the church have taken partisan positions defending the dictator in the present scenario. Things are bad in Kenya because of our own actions. Our democracy has been robbed, raped and mutilated! Kindly visit this blog www.geraldbaraza.blogspot.com. This represents the feelings of many people in Kenya whose hope has been crushed down by “president” Kibaki and his entire cohort! John
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