Kenya Election 2007: Outcomes

[Gembe]

Small bands of Odinga supporters were stopped from making their way to a rally in Uhuru Park -- a traditional site for political demonstrations in the center of the city. The rally was called by Odinga, who accused Kibaki of "doctoring" the vote after narrowly losing out to his rival.

Odinga told CNN on Monday that Kenyans were "in a state of mourning" following the result. "They are mourning the loss of democracy," he said.

Read more..http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/31/kenya.elex/index.html

 

[Katibu Tarafa]

ninachoshudia kwenye skynwes ni vurugu na wizi kwenye maduka hapo nairobi

 

[Gembe]

At least 124 people reported dead after violence following Kenya's election

The election was marred by allegations of vote-rigging by both of the main parties

Incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was controversially returned to power

Police officers claim they have been ordered to shoot to kill to stop disorder

 

[Koba]

....nini tofauti kati ya mkoloni mweupe na mweusi? mweupe anakuambia huna haki(fullstop) na ukitaka pigana ni juu yako lakini atleast unajua unapigania haki yako na mkoloni mweusi anakuambia haki ni yako ndugu mwananchi lakini ikija kwenye kufanya ya haki anakuua au kukutupa jela na kuishi maisha ya dhiki milele kama mafisadi wanavyotufanya

 

[Koba]

Kibaki na wenzake wanajua wazi hapo wamechemsha na wameiba kura ila wanatafuta pa kutokea tuu sasa,natabiri kutakuwa na some deals watafanya na Odinga kushare key cabinet positions ili kunusuru nchi na kuficha aibu

 

[Mwafrika]

Raila ameahirisha rally mpaka thursday.

Bado kuna uwezekano Kenya haitaingia kwenye all out war. Kuna watu wanafurahia sasa hivi huko Central na Eastern bila kujua kuwa wamezungukwa na makabila mengine ambayo hayakumpigia kura Kibaki.

Jeshi na polisi havina uwezo wa kunyamazisha na kuua watu milioni 30 ambao hawakumpigia kura kibaki. Hata hivyo bado kuna nafasi ya kuwa na amani. Kibaki atarudia kufanya alichofanya rais wa kwanza wa kenya (Kenyata) kutawala hadi kufia madarakani kwa uzee.

Mungu awalinde raia wanyonge wa kenya.

 

[Mtanzania]

Raila calls for a million man protest (Nationmedia)

Story by KENNETH OGOSIA
Publication Date: 12/31/2007
Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga has called for a million-man march on Thursday to protest what they called a “civilian coup”.


Leading the party’s 100 MPs-elect, Mr Odinga said the Electoral Commission had presided over a civilian coup by declaring President Mwai Kibaki the Head of State.

They have decided to put off a public rally earlier planned for today at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, and instead vowed to use peaceful means to force President Kibaki out of office. Today’s rally was styled as a platform for Mr Odinga to address the nation as the President-elect.

The party said they had already issued the requisite three-day notice to the police about the Thursday march, expected to take place in all major towns in the country. Party supporters will wear black bands, cloths and carry twigs only.

“We are law abiding citizens of Kenya who do not want to give anybody an opportunity to claim the laws were ignored. They are now informed that Kenyans will demand back power the ECK had given Mr Kibaki in a civilian coup,” Mr Odinga said.

Addressing journalists at Orange House after an ODM National Executive Committee and Parliamentary Group meeting, Mr Odinga accused the police provoking and killing people in total disregard to the mandate they had given him to be President.

He appealed for peace and calm saying hooliganism and criminal acts would not provide the way forward to the impasse created by ECK chairman Mr Samuel Kivuitu and asked the international community to intervene and save Kenya from losing its glory as Africa’s democratic state.

“We deliberated over weighty issues regarding the elections and rigging that took place. We are pained and saddened that within 48 hours democracy we fought so hard to bring is strangled and killed by a small clique of people,” he said.

He said the country was in a state of mourning and the funeral atmosphere will engulf the peaceful demonstration on Thursday. He said the ECK chairman had acted irresponsibly as though he doesn’t live in the country to provide its citizens with their legally elected “ President”.

Mr Odinga accused Internal security minister Mr John Michuki of using maximum force in the belief that if it sustained for two or three days then Kenyans will give up.

“We will not recognise Kibaki as the President of Kenya and will fight him out of office through peaceful and legal means,” he said.

He however ruled out going to court about an obvious fact and wondered whether the premise of the law had changed for him to prove that he was the winner against the loser.

“If he is not guilty why does he seclude himself in State House at dusk to be sworn in without the media, diplomats, observers and other Heads of States,” he added.

 

[Idimi]

Inatia uchungu sana kuona demokrasia inachezewa Afrika, bado tuna safari ndefu sana ya kufikia kile kilichofikiwa na nchi za Kimagharibi.
Ndugu na jirani zetu Wakenya inabidi wawe watulivu sana katika kipindi hiki, kwani hatima ya nchi yo ipo mikononi mwao wenyewe.
Mungu Ibariki Afrika.

 

[Mshamba wa Kijijini]

hakuna shida kufa kwasabbu ya kudai haki mbona sisi kwetu tarime tunauana kwa kugombea ardhi tu sembuse kuibiwa haki ya msingi ?
mimi nawaamini wakenya kuwa sio watu wa kuogopa kitu na mtakuja kunishuhudia haya kibaki atakufa siku sio nyingi kama kila kitu kitaendelea hivi, zile tetesi mlizosikia kuwa mkuu wa majeshi na IGP wamejiuzulu ni kweli lakini wameshsuriwa they should make that while they are in , just wait and see.

 

[Agao Kichore]

Killing in Kenya is unjust and unfair. How come after Kibaki being in politics for more than 30yrs today he put Kenya into this kind of riot. Ok, Kikuyu are not redy to see Luo coming in power. They have become selfish and mis use their numbers. Luo the way I know them, they are people who can join and mix with other ethics group. Today Kalenjin are dying to support Luo. How changes is this. We have seen Luo vote for Kibaki in 2002. We have seen Raila trying settle issues in KANU years ago. If Raila knows that being luo is not only way to go further in politics no way he could use his presidential post to allow ethnicity to prevail. It would be Kenya with Kikuyu in a place to accept a good leader from any ethnic society.

 

[Mnhenwa Ndege]

Mwai Kibaki's Terrible Miscalculations
Mutahi Ngunyi said it first and I joined in and repeated it several times; there was no way that Mwai "stole the 2007 presidential elections" Kibaki was going to hand over power peacefully if he lost an election.

Most Kenyans believed that was just porojo. After all the grandfather-image Mwai Kibaki was a harmless old man who hated political confrontation. As you read this many Kenyans are still looking for the evil culprit within the Kibaki administration who has caused the mess that the country is in at the moment. They have refused to believe that there is no man in the Kibaki regime who is more evil than Mwai Kibaki himself.

Yet the signs have been there for a long time. The harmless grand father seated inside State House was asked by a BBC journalist 3 days ago whether he would hand over power peacefully if he lost the elections. His reply was in Swahili and so rude that many Kenyans reading this will still not believe that it is Mwai Kibaki. He said: Wacha Kuniuliza swali ya Upumbavu. (Stop asking me a stupid question.)

Tracing back Mr Kibaki's actions leading up to the events of yesterday it is clear to see his thinking. He made a big issue out of appointing as many new Electoral Commissioners as possible. Just hours to the general elections he appointed new judges.

The plan was simple. To rig the elections after which he expected ODM to seek redress in the courts where he would be ready for them and besides petitions can be made to last 5 years or more by which time he would have completed his fraudulent second term.

Kibaki also assumed that Kenyans would meekly accept the event of yesterday. But above all else the vote thief was most confident with support from the Americans, nothing will shake his government. You see he has pleased Uncle Sam a lot with his stand on terrorism and terrorism suspects. And everybody knows that the Americans will give you anything as long as you support their war on terrorism to the hilt.

Big time miscalculations. Kenya has changed and the State House should have seen that clearly from the way Kenyans countrywide voted. The thinking within State House is that ODM is a Luo political party with pockets of support from Kalenjins.

Secondly ODM have said that they are NOT going to court. Nobody knows what they will do instead. But already we hear that a parallel government ahs been formed. And to make matters worse the swearing in of that government is taking place at Uhuru Park at 2 pm. GSU have sealed off Uhuru Park and declared the meeting illegal so we wait to see what happens.

Now the entire country has degenerated into violence and many innocent hard working Kikuyus have lost property and some their lives. FOR WHAT???!!!! So that somebody can stay in State House for another 5 years fraudulently?

I have been able to establish that many people who voted for Kibaki are now deeply regretting their action. Apparently they thought they knew the person they were voting for but have found out when it is too late that they made a big mistake that has cost some of them their lives.
posted by chris at 1:05 AM 10 comments

 

[Mtanzania]

'No food, no clothes and no way home'

A British teacher has told how she and her family including her newborn baby were forced from their home in Kisumu, scene of some of the worst violence to follow Kenya's disputed presidential election.
In an interview with BBC News 24, Alison Rogers, 42, also said the school she ran with her husband had been burned down and there seemed to be no way out of town.


Alison Rogers said looting had left the town without food

We had our whole business burned down.

We have nothing left there and this morning we had a lot of people at the gate trying to break the gate down to the house.

We phoned the police. The police brought tear gas down and helped us to get to a hotel where I am with my family at the moment.

It's very, very terrifying and made all the more so because we have a three-week-old baby with us.

We have no papers, no documents. In the panic of leaving the house this morning we did not even manage to grab clothes for her so it was a horrible situation arriving in a hotel with no clothes, even for the baby.

At the moment, the British Embassy [in Nairobi] are just giving advice to stay put.

They said there was no fuel anywhere around so they can't get vehicles in or out.

'No flights'

We do feel a bit safer in this hotel at the moment so that's a bit easier.

We were looking after another two [local] families with young children in our house this morning, who are in a terrifying position.

Their houses have been burnt. They had run to us and now we have run on to this hotel. They can't afford this hotel.

It's critical for many, many people in this country at the moment.

Temporarily we can't safely get to the airport and we don't know how many flights there are a day out of Kisumu.

We are told there's one tonight but it's fully booked.

Even trying to get to the airport is a very frightening proposition. People can stone the cars or burn the cars or even kill people en route.

We expected a little bit of trouble around the election but nobody expected it on this scale


We are in a better position than a lot of people in that we have got the possibility, when things calm down a little bit, we will be able to leave the country.

They've looted all the shops. There is no food anywhere in Kisumu. Getting hold of any food is almost impossible.

All the lorries have been stopped. There is nothing on the roads so food can't come into the area.

It's completely surprised lots and lots of people. We expected a little bit of trouble around the election - I think a lot of people stayed in around the election day - but nobody expected it on this scale.

So many people are so frustrated they feel the elections have not been fair, have not been carried out right.

They are very frustrated with the democracy that's been on display here.

People are not feeling that their voice has been heard properly. They are not feeling the results have been fair at all.

Over the next couple of days things are going to become very desperate unless the government can take control very quickly

 

[Pundit]

Don't tell me Raila is going to do a Marc Ravalomanana!

 

[Shemzigwa]

angalieni hapo kibaki kababaika wakati anaapishwa Hadi kasema atatenda kazi yake ya uhalifu,urais http://www.bbc.co.uk/swahili/ click amka na bbc kama dakika ya tatu wakati anaapishwa

 

[Mtu wa Pwani]

mpiganaji wetu kenyan tanzanian tunakuona upo hapa.

kwanza nnakupa pole na pongezi kwa juhudi zako na machovu ulionayo ila amini mwisho haki itasimama.

maana siku zote ushindi hauji kilaini laini hivi hivi.

naam ndugu yetu vipi uko salama?

na tuhabarishe nn kinaendelea katika medani hivi sasa?

 

[WembeMkali]

Very sad situation.Why African leaders don learn from previous mistakes?..why are they keeping ignoring the peoples rights? why should we have to die so we can get our rights?..and for how long?

-Wembe

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

CHINI VIKOSI VYA GSU/FFU VYAIVIRINGA UHURU PARK RAILA ASIJE HAPA

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VIDEO YA KUONYESHA UNYAMA DHIDI YA WAFUASI WA UPINZANI
MUHIMU: BONYEZA KWENYE HIO PICHA YA ASKARI NA BUNDUKI YAKE

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,525958,00.html

 

[Mtanzania]

Election officials call for probe
By LUCAS BARASA


Four electoral commissioners have called for an independent inquiry into whether any of their colleagues tampered with presidential election results before they were announced in Nairobi.


They agreed with election observers that there were significant irregularities in some of the results, and described the complaints raised by the Orange Democratic Movement as "weighty."


The four commissioners - Mr Jack Tumwa, Mr D.A. Ndamburi, Mr Samuel arap Ngeny and Mr Jeremiah Matagaro - addressed the Press as violent protests spread across the country over presidential election results as announced by the Electoral Commission of Kenya.


They said information received from returning officers after results had been announced at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre cast doubt on the figures presented to the public.


The commissioners cited the case of Molo constituency where the presidential figures announced in Nairobi differed from those read at the constituency, some say by up to 20,000 votes.


Asked whether some of their colleagues may have tampered with the results in Nairobi, Mr Tumwa suggested that an independent inquiry could establish the truth. "It is only this way that the truth can come out," he said.


On violence, they said: "These events appear to have been set off by the statement issued yesterday by the ECK, releasing the presidential results and we cannot remain silent under the circumstances. Like all Kenyans, we are deeply affected."


The group called for the formation of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to come up with a conclusive independent finding and report for action.


The four named Molo as one of the constituencies where the presidential tally could have been cooked.


"It is noted that some of the information received from some of our returning officers now cast doubts on the veracity of the figures," the commissioners said.


The group said statements made by observers and some political parties in relation to the figures "are of great concern and interest to us."


They said the complaints made following the audit of presidential figures "are weighty and in our view merit careful consideration."


The commissioners called on observers, especially Kenya Domestic Observers Forum (KEDOF) to complete their findings so that it can assist in the investigations.


The commissioners said their hands were tied as they cannot nulify the results unless the affected parties go to court and petition as provided by law.


Mr Tumwa said: "The ECK has no powers to nulify results, it is only through courts and that is why we would be useful."


However, he asked observers who might have been disallowed to witness the counting and talling of votes to step forward and provide such information to the commission.

The commissioners, spoke in their private capacities, said it is important for all leaders to speak openly for the good of the country.


"ECK will not leave any bin unturned, and we urge parties concerned to go to court and seek redress in cases they suspected any irregularities," Mr Tumwa said.


He went on: "ECK stands accused, and we are taking that responsibility very squarely. Perhaps we need an independent investigator to look into the complaints."


Mr Tumwa said the post-counting audit teams appointed by both ODM and PNU teams had identified some annomalies, "and we advised them to pursue the legal route."


Saying that the country was more important than individuals, Mr Tumwa said: "Kenya has slipped, but we cannot allow it to fall ... It is important that the truth comes out."

Mr Tumwa said: “ECK stands accused and we are not running away from responsibility.... if it was because of the deficiency, ECK takes the blame, we cannot pass the buck.”


“We take all the blame squarely that is why we are saying perhaps we need an independent person to look at our activities that is if our colleagues are going to agree so that we can come up and tell Kenyans what happened and what should not happen in future,” he added.


He said they had no option but announce the results they received as the law stipulates.


They said they had come forth so that they can save Kenya from bleeding.


And Mr Ngény added: “We are the tail end... we take responsibility because we employ these people (election officials).”


Appeal to the two individuals not to look at themselves but the poor fellow in the street.


Mr Tumwa said it was important to establish what happened at what stage and appealed to accredited observers who were denied entry in any polling station to come forth and help in the inquiry.


“Don’t just sit there as a repsonsible Kenyan, am saying it is a normally you should be able to tell us you were refused entry in such and a such a place by such and such a person that is evidence we are looking forward to.”


“We want these thing to be done today not tomorrow... the appeal we are sending to political leaders especially from the two divides is that they should not look at their position but the dying poor fellow in the street.”


Asked whether the ECK was credible, Mr Tumwa said: “You are to judge us... it is you to say whether there is any credibility for the ECK.”

 

[Mtanzania]

Kibaki calls for peace, ODM says he quit
By BERNARD NAMUNANE and PPS
Last updated: 2 hours ago


President Kibaki has called for peace even as the Orange Democratic Movement demanded his resignation as a condition for talks over the disputed election results.


To sit at a negotiation table with President Kibaki while he is still in office, said party Presidential candidate Raila Odinga, would amount to endorsing a government that is “illegitimately” in power.


While reiterating that he was the “rightful” elected President, Mr Odinga appealed to all ODM supporters in the country to remain calm and stop engaging in violent activities.


“We can only engage in talks with President Kibaki if he resigns from office. For us to start negotiations with him while he is still holding office would be equal to accepting that he is legitimately in office when we know he is not. His is an illegitimate government,” he said.


Speaking at the Inter Continental Hotel after leading the Pentagon members in a meeting with the Canadian High Commissioner Ross Hynes, he said they would not let the Government off the hook until Kenyans get their democratic right.


In a New Year message, President Kibaki called on all Kenyans to embrace a renewed spirit of national unity, respect for the democratic choice and maintain peace, law and order following the just concluded “free and fair” General election.


The President urged people to live together peacefully in the true democratic spirit of tolerance and mutual respect, saying that is the only way of ensuring that they forge ahead and open a new chapter of development and improvement of their social and economic status.


“With the elections behind us, it is now time for healing and reconciliation among all Kenyans. I ask all of us, and particularly all leaders to embrace a renewed spirit of national unity, respect for the democratic choice and maintain peace, law and order,” President Kibaki said.


On his part, the Head of State reassured wananchi that as President of Kenya, he would serve everyone equally, irrespective of the person they may have voted for.


He said his Government would also deal decisively with those who breach the peace by intensifying security across the country.

 

[Mwafrika]

CHINI VIKOSI VYA GSU/FFU VYAIVIRINGA UHURU PARK RAILA ASIJE HAPA

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VIDEO YA KUONYESHA UNYAMA DHIDI YA WAFUASI WA UPINZANI
MUHIMU: BONYEZA KWENYE HIO PICHA YA ASKARI NA BUNDUKI YAKE

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,525958,00.html

The kenya we know will never be the same whatever comes out of this. The kenyan media tried to show police and army brutality against tanzanian from pemba in the 2000 election.

I hope that tanzaniam media will return the favor at this time when the military rule in kenya has sealed off the local media.