Kenya Election 2007: Outcomes

ODM barred from addressing the AU meeting

Published on January 31, 2008, 12:00 am


By Kennedy Abwao and Brian Adero

African Union (AU) Commission chairman, Mr Alpha Konare, said the Opposition would not be allowed to address the Summit on the ongoing violence in Kenya.

ODM Secretary-General, Prof Anyang' Nyong'o, said on Monday that party leader, Mr Raila Odinga, would have liked to be given an opportunity to address the gathering of African leaders to solidify the AU mediation.

"We should be allowed to address the Summit if Kibaki is allowed to attend. But we are not going to hassle. If Raila attends, it should be in a dignified manner," Nyong'o told journalists in Addis Ababa.

Foreign Affairs minister, Mr Moses Wetangula, met with Konare on Monday to discuss the post-election violence in the country.

Asked to elaborate on the details of his meeting with Konare, Wetangula said: "The AU Commission President has re-affirmed that Kenya will send only one legitimate delegate. The Opposition will not be represented here. They attempted to attend, but were turned away."

Wetangula on Tuesday addressed a special seating of the AU Foreign Ministers committee at which he admitted "both sides" (PNU and ODM) had been involved in the ongoing political violence.

"It takes two to tango. The violence is by both sides," he said.

Sources at the meeting said his report was not immediately discussed because the update was slotted in before the ongoing discussions on the AU's financial accounts were complete.
 
Raila goes to court as Livondo files case

Published on February 1, 2008, 12:00 am


By Evelyn Kwamboka

ODM leader, Mr Raila Odinga, has moved to court to defend his election as Lang'ata Member of Parliament.

Raila filed a notice at the High Court registry through a Nairobi advocate, Mr James Orengo.

This follows an election petition filed against him by election loser, Mr Stanley Livondo of PNU.

Orengo, also the Ugenya MP, was appointed on January 30, after police officers failed to serve Raila with the suit papers at his Karen home.

In the notice, Raila stated that any process in the petition filed by Livondo may be served upon Orengo's law firm in Nairobi.

"I hereby appoint and authorise Messrs J A B Orengo and Advocates, Lonrho House, 6th Floor Standard Street to act for me in this petition," he stated in the notice.

Police officers are said to have visited Raila's home on Saturday night and on Sunday morning, looking for him or his wife Ida, without success.

Raila was later quoted in the media saying he suspected mischief from the Government in the petition.

"I would not be surprised because I don't think this Government is serious. I was surprised the other day (Thursday) when I was going to meet Mr Kofi Annan to find him (Livondo) in the VIP lift at Harambee House. To me, that is a joke," said Raila.
 
Police kill student over raid attempt

Published on February 1, 2008, 12:00 am


By Steve Mkawale

Police shot dead a student alleged to be part of a 50-man gang that attempted to raid a local police station.

The Form Two student at Athinai Secondary School in Mogotio died on the spot during the incident that occurred on Wednesday night.

The police said the student was part of the gang that was armed with bows and arrows and attempted to raid Mogotio Police Station at around mid-night.

"That student was part of the gang that shot police with arrows as they attempted to raid our station," said Mr James Mugera, the Koibatek police boss.

But local residents led by area councillor, Mr Charles Koskei, dismissed the police version and said the student was dragged out of a house before he was killed in cold blood.

"Two police officers knocked on the door where two students were having dinner at around 10.30pm and ordered them out," claimed Koskei.

The civic leader said one of the students who escaped unhurt told them how the officers forced them out of the house.

"The story of a raid at the police station is a fabrication by police to justify the killing of an innocent person," he said.

"There are blood stains showing where the student was shot dead. The officer who shot him was guarding a house of a businessman nearby," he added.

The OCPD said they were looking for other suspects who might have been injured in the attempted raid.

"We are looking for other suspects who were injured during the shoot out," said Mugera.

Residents accused police of trying to distort facts by claiming that the student was a member of the gang.

They demanded for thorough investigation to establish the circumstances under which the student was killed.

Police moved the body to the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital.
 
Civil society groups push for AU’s intervention

Published on February 1, 2008, 12:00 am


By Peter Opiyo

It took the intervention of the civil society and other groups to have the Kenyan post-poll crisis on the agenda of the African Union (AU) council of ministers and Heads of States meetings.

The groups had to use their connections lobbying with various embassies, including Senegal’s and Mali’s, to persuade the 53-nation Union to discuss the unprecedented crisis.

A human rights lawyer, Mr Haroun Ndubi, said their action was necessary after it emerged the Government delegation downplayed the issue and packaged it as a two-community feud.

Addressing a Civil Society Congress in Nairobi, Ndubi said: "We made it known that the Government delegation decided to downplay the crisis and packaged it as a problem between two communities."

AU summits have been regularly dominated by Darfur, Somalia and other chronic conflicts, with Kenya seen as a stable peacemaker rather than cause for concern.

ODM had cautioned that the credibility of AU would be thrown into jeopardy if it recognised the Kibaki Government.

Kibaki left for the Addis Ababa Summit on Thursday.

Though the Union can take socio-political actions against its members, it lacks mechanisms to force rogue regimes to obey its decisions.

The Congress heard that the solution to the crisis lies in a comprehensive constitutional dispensation and faulted the idea of a military rule.

Military coming in, the Congress heard, was scary as the force is not known to uphold democracy.

Some speakers proposed that MPs contribute 25 per cent of their salaries to reconstruction exercise, claiming they contributed to the mess during campaigns.

Ndubi called for electoral justice and commitment in solving the political impasse so as to reinstate the dignity of voting.

Though supporting the mediation headed by former UN Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, he said that the team was devoid of the face of the citizen.

"They have been talking about PNU and ODM, where is the citizen, who represents them?" he posed.
 
Lynch mob hacks Kenyan policeman to death

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Rioting mobs are roaming western Kenya

A 3,000-strong mob armed with bows and arrows, spears, clubs and machetes has murdered a police officer in the violence-hit Rift Valley region of western Kenya.

The lynching took place near Ainamoi, after the officer was accused of wounding a civilian when police fired on protesters yesterday. Peter Aliwa, a police commander, said it was the first reported killing of a policeman in the violence that has raged in Kenya since disputed elections a month ago. “The police officer injured three attackers before he was overpowered and lynched on the spot,” he said.

The police have shot scores of people in riots and protests accross Kenya since Raila Odinga, the opposition leader, accused President Kibaki of rigging his re-election on December 27. ... ... ... ... ... ...
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Rather than staying at home, he thought of the AU summit. This guy is not fit to rule that country anymore, they should be a transition government in order to bring peace, otherwise Tanzania should brace itself for the influx of refugees.
 
Nasikia kuna jamaa wamevamia kituo cha polisi na kuiba bunduki. Hii wiki inayofuata kutakua na kazi.
 
Ab-Titchaz said:
Nasikia kuna jamaa wamevamia kituo cha polisi na kuiba bunduki. Hii wiki inayofuata kutakua na kazi.
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Wamekwiba Mitutu ya polisi? DU!

Utamu wa vita ni pale mkutanapo mkiwa na silaha zenye uzito sawa.
Gobole kwa Gobole aua Pinde kwa Pinde.

Amani haiji ila kwa ncha yaupanga.

Inaelekea Vita iliyoko Kenya haiishi mpaka kundi moja lisalimu Amri unconditionaly.

Swali, ni kundi lipi liko tayari kusalim amri?
 
Kenya Opposition Wants AU Peacekeepers
Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:21:15 AM
Kenya's opposition leader called Sunday for the African Union to send peacekeepers to stem violence sparked by the country's disputed presidential election.

"The AU should bring in peacekeepers because the violence in Kenya is appalling," Raila Odinga told The Associated Press in his home village in western Kenya.

Clashes have left more than 800 people dead and forced 300,000 from their homes since the Dec. 27 election, which pitted President Mwai Kibaki against Odinga. The violence has often degenerated into ethnic clashes over decades-old grudges about land and resources.
 
SUNAMI KENYA
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The leader of Kenya's opposition called Sunday for the African Union to send peacekeepers to help stem violence sparked by the country's disputed presidential election.
"The AU should bring in peacekeepers because the violence in Kenya is appalling," Raila Odinga told The Associated Press with his wife at his side at his family home in Bondo, a village in western Kenya.
Western Kenya has been at the center of fighting that has killed more than 800 people and engulfed the country since the Dec. 27 election, which returned President Mwai Kibaki to power after a tally that foreign and local observers say was rigged. The violence has
often degenerated into ethnic clashes over decades-old grudges about land and resources, with much of the anger -- and attacks -- aimed at Kikuyu, who are resented for their long domination of politics and the economy.
On Sunday, gangs with machetes and arrows were facing off in the western town of Sotik, and smoke billowed into the sky from burning houses. A day earlier, young men from the rival Kalenjin, Kikuyu and Kisii tribes hunted each other through the streets of another western town, Eldoret, burning houses and blocking roads.
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan brokered a deal between Kibaki and Odinga on Friday laying out a plan to end the violence before moving onto the tougher political issues at the root of the fighting. Annan said it should take two weeks to decide the immediate crisis and up to a year for the deeper problems.
The agreement calls for illegal militias to be disbanded and for investigation of all crimes connected to the violence, including those allegedly committed by the police, who have killed scores of people.
Both men who signed Friday's deal were still talking tough. Kibaki accused his opponents of orchestrating the violence, and Odinga said Kibaki's "aggressive statements" were undermining efforts to quell the fighting.
With the two sides trading blame, as they have done repeatedly since the outset of the crisis, the fighting has continued unabated.
A Pentecostal church in Eldoret was burned this weekend, and only smoldering ruins were left by Saturday. The pastor's nephew, Peter Ndungu, said the church was burned because his aunt was from Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe.
Terrified Kenyans, meanwhile, were pouring into camps for the displaced. The violence since the Dec. 27 election has forced 300,000 from their homes.
"It's unpredictable," said 28-year-old Joseph Njoroge, a Kikuyu, as he strained to push a cart piled high with furniture along a road lined by burnt-out homes and businesses.


Men armed with bow and arrows came to his house, threatening to kill him in retaliation for the slaying of an opposition lawmaker Thursday. Police say that killing -- the second of an opposition lawmaker in a week -- was tied to a love triangle, but opposition supporters say it was political.
"There's no way you can stay and wait for those guys to come back," Njoroge said.
In the nearby town of Kericho, gangs of young men from the Kalenjin, Kikuyu and Kisii tribes hunted each other, setting homes ablaze and blockading roads with burning tires, said a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized
to speak to reporters

Police who did manage to get near Kericho found themselves outmanned and overwhelmed, even after being reinforced by paramilitary officers, the officer said, adding that one mob had stolen four guns with ammunition during running battles with police the day before.
Early Saturday in the same town, Kalenjin youths killed four Kikuyu civilians and a policeman, said the officer.
In the town of Keroka -- which lies along the line dividing Kalejin territory from Kisii lands -- police fired tear gas to disperse Kisii youths who blocked roads with burning debris and shouted that the Kalenjin must leave or risk death, said another officer, who refused to be named because he was not authorized to speak with media.
Associated Press writers Katharine Houreld in Eldoret and Matti Huuhtanen in Nairobi contributed to this report.
 
Je mnaona sasa kama tungelikubali ile federation tungelipaswa kupeleka vikosi vyetu vya askari huko Kenya ili kusaidia.
Sasa hivi hatuna haja hiyo na twatazama tu matokeo ya fujo zao.
 
Huu ni msala jamani.
Ukiona kuna amani sana nchini kwako ujue kuna watu wanaumia kimya kimya Don't take advantage of the silent ones cos wakikuchenjia inakuwa ndo kama kenya...
Mungu ibariki Afrika
 
kusaidia ndugu zetu ni suala la fahari kwa mwenye akili

mie nnaamini hata leo tukiombwa kufanya hivyo tuwe tayari

ss zanzibar tuliwasaidia ndugu zetu wa tanganyika walipovamiwa na iddi amini

muungwana ni vitendo si maneno na muungwana hawi mbinafsi

ss tunaona bado kuungana kwa afrika mashariki ni suala ambalo ni muhimu sana na tunaamini litasaidia sana kutatua matatizo yetu yawe wa kiuchumi au ya kijamii au ya kisiasa ila tuwe makini ktk kuunda umoja huo kuhakikisha unasimaama kwenye misingi ya haki na adala sio kama huu wetu wa zanzibar na ndugu zetu wa tanganyika
 
Mzalendohalisi said:
Eti Ramaphosa amejitoa kwa vile ni mshirika wa biashara wa Raila?
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Mzalendohalisi,
Jamaa hajajitoa bali PNU walimkataa maybe for that reason or just as a delaying tactic.Hata hivyo Kibaki and his cronies hawako-committed na hizi talks.Sijui kama uliona speech yake kule A.U. akiwaambia upunzani waende kotini for redress.Then if that is his line of thinking mbona basi uwalete hawa mbawana Kenya?Soma hii link kaka

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080204/ap_on_re_af/kenya_election_violence
 
hatuwezi kufananisha uokozi wa Zanzibar wakati wa Idi Amini na suala la Kenya sasa hivi ni vitu tafauti sana.
Kenya wanapigana wenyewe kwa wenyewe kwa sababu ya kuiibiana kura. Pia wamechángana na ukabila katika vita vyao.

Sisi watanzania tunaweza kusaidia katika usuluhishi tu kwa kumuunga mkono Koffi Annan katika juhudi zake. UN pia inasaidia kama itaweza kupeleka kikosi cha mtaifa ili kuleta amani. Odinga haamini tena vikosi vya askari wala jeshi la Kenya.

Tuombe usalama.Si vizuri wakati kama huu AU kuchagua upande wowote.
 
NAIROBI, Kenya - Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan said Monday the Kenyan government and governing party have rejected his choice to lead mediation efforts in talks to end a deadly postelection crisis.

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Cyril Ramaphosa, a South African businessman who had played a leading role in talks in his own country to end apartheid, withdrew "in the face of reservations by the government and Party of National Unity," and his withdrawal was accepted with regret, Annan said in a statement.

Ramaphosa said he could not function in the job "without the complete confidence of both parties."

"I thought I should withdraw and go back to South Africa so I don't become a stumbling block myself," he told reporters outside the Serena Hotel, the venue of the negotiations.

The announcement came hours after Kenya's opposing political forces resumed talks to end weeks of violence following the disputed Dec. 27 election that brought President Mwai Kibaki back to power for a second five-year term. Violence since has killed more than 800 and left 300,000 homeless.

There was no immediate comment from Kibaki's representatives or opposition leader Raila Odinga's team.

Violence, meanwhile, flared.

At least seven people were killed overnight in battles between Kisii and Kalenjin communities, in a region 155 miles west of the capital, said the district commissioner of Sotik town, Humphrey Nakitare.

On Monday, hundreds of youths - armed with bows and arrows and machetes - attacked one another in an area where 2,000 people have fled their homes during nine days of clashes, Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Hassan Noor said. Dozens of houses were burned overnight, witnesses said.

Earlier, Odinga had called for international peacekeepers to help quell the violence in Kenya, once considered one of the most stable countries on the continent.
 
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