http://www.sundaysalon.com/kenyas-post-election-crisis-finding-meaning.htm A Prose Reading Series and Magazine Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.sundaysalon.com/kenyas-post-election-crisis-finding-meaning.htm/comment-page-1#comment-439 James Wabwire Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:40:12 +0000 http://www.sundaysalon.com/kenyas-post-election-crisis-finding-meaning.htm#comment-439 First I would like to thank President Kibaki and Hon Raila Odinga for doing us proud. We have for a moment reclaimed the real people that Kenyans are. I knew from the very beginning that Hon. Raila Odinga is trusted. He is a man that once he gives you his word, you can bet your life on it. Hon. Kibaki on the other hand is a man that is fully of silent intrigue. Indecisive, often incapable of insight that his actions have been an embarrassment not only to himself but to the entire Kenyan population. What I am trying to say here is that he did not need the international community to coarce him into signing the deal. The deal that he made with Raila Odinga in 2002 was the deal that now he has been made to sign. If he had honored the MOU in 2002 and behaved like the gentleman that we always expected of him, we would not have suffered the embarrasement of having foreign government issue threats to us. If he had honored the MOU we would still be proud Kenyans. Secondly, President Kibaki has never known how to choose people of integrity to work with him. Let us sample his kind; Michuki, Murungaru, Kiraitu, Martha Karua, etc. Even if he was to be a tribalist, he should have picked people like Paul Mwite, Kembi Geture, Prof. Wangare Mathai, but know he chose people who knew nothing except attract trouble. Raila Odinga on his part, knows who to place where and how. He chose men of impeccable record; Musalia Mudavadi, Balala, Joe Nyaga, Ruto etc. When you look at Raila lineup even though he is the one controlling them you can not acuse him of tribalism. He therefore easily won the international support. Kibaki needs to learn the art of balancing. Kenyans are not necessarily tribal, but President Kibaki is through and through tribalistic. People like Kalonzo Musyoka are a sorry excuse for democracy. He learnt his ropes from Moi and Kibaki and has lost miserably. No one will ever trust Kalonzo-because consistency is the name of the game in endearing yourself to the voters. Kalonzo does not have that. In the days to the election, he claimed the government was planning to rig the elections, he acused the government of using public funds to win the election, then 2 days after the rigged elections were announced he took over power and entered into a pact with the same people he accused. Kalonzo will live to regret that move. Now, we are headed to a true democratic process in Kenya. We are truely greatful to Raila Odinga for being steadfast in his fight for justice. We will give him all the support he needs and now is the time to dismantle Mungiki, create equity in Kenya and get rid of tribal chauvinists like Karua, Kibaki, Michuki, and the likes. God bless Kenya, God Bless Agwambo. First I would like to thank President Kibaki and Hon Raila Odinga for doing us proud. We have for a moment reclaimed the real people that Kenyans are. I knew from the very beginning that Hon. Raila Odinga is trusted. He is a man that once he gives you his word, you can bet your life on it.
Hon. Kibaki on the other hand is a man that is fully of silent intrigue. Indecisive, often incapable of insight that his actions have been an embarrassment not only to himself but to the entire Kenyan population. What I am trying to say here is that he did not need the international community to coarce him into signing the deal. The deal that he made with Raila Odinga in 2002 was the deal that now he has been made to sign.
If he had honored the MOU in 2002 and behaved like the gentleman that we always expected of him, we would not have suffered the embarrasement of having foreign government issue threats to us. If he had honored the MOU we would still be proud Kenyans.
Secondly, President Kibaki has never known how to choose people of integrity to work with him. Let us sample his kind; Michuki, Murungaru, Kiraitu, Martha Karua, etc. Even if he was to be a tribalist, he should have picked people like Paul Mwite, Kembi Geture, Prof. Wangare Mathai, but know he chose people who knew nothing except attract trouble.
Raila Odinga on his part, knows who to place where and how. He chose men of impeccable record; Musalia Mudavadi, Balala, Joe Nyaga, Ruto etc. When you look at Raila lineup even though he is the one controlling them you can not acuse him of tribalism. He therefore easily won the international support.
Kibaki needs to learn the art of balancing. Kenyans are not necessarily tribal, but President Kibaki is through and through tribalistic.
People like Kalonzo Musyoka are a sorry excuse for democracy. He learnt his ropes from Moi and Kibaki and has lost miserably. No one will ever trust Kalonzo-because consistency is the name of the game in endearing yourself to the voters. Kalonzo does not have that. In the days to the election, he claimed the government was planning to rig the elections, he acused the government of using public funds to win the election, then 2 days after the rigged elections were announced he took over power and entered into a pact with the same people he accused. Kalonzo will live to regret that move.
Now, we are headed to a true democratic process in Kenya. We are truely greatful to Raila Odinga for being steadfast in his fight for justice. We will give him all the support he needs and now is the time to dismantle Mungiki, create equity in Kenya and get rid of tribal chauvinists like Karua, Kibaki, Michuki, and the likes.
God bless Kenya, God Bless Agwambo.

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