Kenya Election 2007: Outcomes

[MzalendoHalisi]

Kalamu,

Report ya EAC ipo wazi, site ya EAC. Ni PDF. Report yao ni 9 pages na wameongea safi! Sema mapendekezo hayajapata nafasi kufanyiwa kazi!


http://www.eac.int/EAC_OBSERVER_MISSION_REPORT_KENYA_GENERAL_ELECTIONS.pdf

 

[Rwabugiri]

Fighting spreads in western Kenya

Some Nakuru residents have sought refuge in Nairobi, where
they are reliant on food handouts from the World Food Programme.

Slowly but surely Kenya is no more ... ..................Zimbabwe or Somalian style.

Ohhhhhh My God,
Jamani huyu mtoto hadi machozi yamenitoka! Hivi Kibaki na hao majambazi wenzio kweli kikundi cha watu 50 mnakubali maelfu ya watu waangamie kwa ajili ya urafi wa madaraka na matumbo yenu??

Eee Mungu uliye umba mbingu nanchi mbona usiwashushie ghadhabu yako hawa manyangau wakaacha wakenya wishi kwa amani??

 

[Kichuguu]

Kikuyu gangs burn 20 Luos in a house

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

Published: January 28, 2008

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethnically driven violence intensified in Kenya on Sunday, and police officials said at least 19 people, including 11 children, were burned to death in a house by a mob.



The New York Times
The country seems to be becoming increasingly unhinged, with even the Kenyan military, deployed for the first time, unable to stop the wave of revenge killings.

More than 100 people have been killed in the past four days, many of them shot with arrows, burned or hacked with machetes.

It is some of the worst fighting since a disputed election in December ignited long-simmering tensions that have so far claimed at least 750 lives. The fighting appeared to be spreading Sunday across the Rift Valley region, a particularly picturesque part of Kenya known more for its game parks and fancy lodges.

The Kenyan government is now threatening to arrest top opposition leaders on suspicion of orchestrating the bloodshed, but opposition leaders are in turn accusing the government of backing criminal gangs. According to police officials in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha, fighting erupted Sunday between gangs of Kikuyus and Luos, two of Kenya’s biggest ethnic groups, who have clashed across the country since the election. Witnesses said that mobs threw flaming tires and mountains of rocks into the streets to block police officers from entering certain neighborhoods. The mobs then went house to house, looking for certain people.

Grace Kakai, a police commander in Naivasha, said a large crowd of Kikuyus chased a group of Luos through a slum, trapped them in a house, blocked the doors and set the house afire. The police found 19 bodies huddled in one room, and Ms. Kakai said some of the children’s bodies were so badly burned they could not be identified.

“All I can say is that they were school age,” she said.
The incident was similar to one on Jan. 1, when up to 50 women and children seeking shelter in a church in another Rift Valley town were burned to death by a mob. The victims in that case were mostly Kikuyus, and Kikuyus across the country seem to have been attacked more than any other group.

In the past few days, many Kikuyus have organized into militias, saying that they are now ready for revenge.

“The situation is very bad,” Ms. Kakai said. “People are fighting each other and trying to drive them out of the area. We have to evacuate people.”

Thousands of families are streaming out of Naivasha, Nakuru, Molo, Eldoret and other towns across the Rift Valley. The region is home to supporters of both Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s president and Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader, and the site of historic land disputes between members of rival ethnic groups.

Mr. Kibaki is a Kikuyu and Mr. Odinga is a Luo, and the disputed election, in which Mr. Kibaki was declared the winner by a narrow margin despite widespread evidence of vote rigging, set off the ethnically driven violence.

The Kenya of today is almost unrecognizable to the Kenya that until recently was celebrated as one of the most stable and promising countries on the African continent. On Sunday night, local television stations showed menacing young men brandishing machetes and iron bars at road blocks along one of the country’s busiest highways. The men hurled rocks at buses, with one large bus run off the road, as police officers stood by.

The Kenyan army was assigned early this month to help evacuate people from conflict zones, but on Friday, for the first time, soldiers were ordered to intervene between warring groups. That did not seem to make much of a difference, and witnesses said the soldiers had been as ineffective as the police.

A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed in several Rift Valley towns, including Naivasha and Nakuru, but witnesses said the violence continued to rage in the countryside with bands of armed men burning down huts and attacking ethnic rivals with impunity.

Many Kenyans have said the most distressing aspect is that the opposing politicians, instead of cooperating to stop the bloodshed, continue to bicker over who started it.

That is exactly what happened on Sunday after news of the Naivasha killings spread. Salim Lone, Mr. Odinga’s spokesman, sent out a cellphone message calling the killings “ghastly” and saying that they were the work of criminal gangs backed by police officers and “part of a well orchestrated plan of terror.”

“The government is doing this to try to influence mediation efforts,” the message said, referring to the continuing but so far fruitless negotiations led by Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations. “After stealing the elections from Kenyans, Kibaki now wishes to deny them justice and peace.”

Alfred Mutua, a government spokesman, called the accusations “ridiculous.”

“What is really happening is a continuation of the ethnic cleansing that Raila’s people are doing to kill the president’s people,” he said.

Mr. Mutua said the violence would stop “when we indict the leaders responsible for this.”

“We are working on indictments,” he said Sunday night. “That will happen very soon.”

Western diplomats have said that there is a debate raging within Mr. Kibaki’s inner circle about the wisdom of arresting top opposition figures, with some advisers pushing for it, while others fear the violence would only get worse if the leaders were jailed because their supporters would go on an even more intense rampage.

Kenyan newspapers reflected the gloom on Sunday.

“For the umpteenth time, we again ask President Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement leader Mr. Raila Odinga to work for peace, truth and justice,” said an editorial in The Sunday Standard. “Kenya has bled enough

 

[Mnhenwa Ndege]

..unaongea as if it's a marriage we are talking about!and we are getting late having a family!

..mzalendo,i'm afraid we don't need to!really!



..issues za kenya,are warning shots,hasa kwa hiki kizazi cha voda fasta,kwamba mambo magumu na makubwa hayahitaji haraka!

..it's a good lesson!and i hope it's lesson learnt!

MAWAZO YAKO NI YAKIBINAFSI (IN OTHER WORDS YOU ARE EGOCENTRIC)WEWE NI MOJA YA WALE AMBAO UNAONA EAF ITAWAPOKONYA KAZI WATANZANIA AMA WAGANDA, YOUR EGO OVERSHADOWS THE FACT THAT THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES COME EAF, HAUONI KWAMBA WATU WAVIVU NA WASIO NA QUALIFICATIONS ZA KUCOMPETE WANALETA VISABABU VISABABU TU ILI MAMBO YAENDE HIVI HIVI TU SIKU ZOTE MAANA WAO WAMERIDHIKA.

SAYING THAT THE CURRENT CRISIS IN KENYA ARE WARNING SHOTS IS AN INSULT TO KENYANS, KENYANS ARE RESISTING WIZI WA KURA THAT IS ALL THEY ARE LEFT WITH, UNATAKA WAKUBALI MATOKEO KAMA BONGO THEN MAMBO YAENDE SHWARI. SIKUBALI NA MAUWAJI LAKINI THAT IS THE ONLY EXTREME TOOL THEY ARE LEFT WITH TO APPPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. HATUWEZI KUENDELEA BILA YA MUUNGANO, SEE USA, SEE EU. HAUHITAJI KUWA PROFESOR KUJUA KUWA KUNA POPULATION YA OVER 100 MILLION IN EAF AND THAT IS OPPORTUNITY, HAUHITAJI KUWA PROFESOR KUJUA KUWA KUNA VAST LAND IN EAF AND THAT IS OPPORTUNITY.

KUNA MFANO NTAKUPA AMBAO VIONGOZI WETU HUTUMIA, EG KENYA ILIPOINGIA KATIKA CRISIS YA UCHAGUZI WATU WALISUGGEST UCHAGUZI URUDIWE NA WATU WA NJE WATUMIKE KUUSIMAMIA, LAKINI VIONGOZI WALIKATAA WAKASEMA KUWA KWANI KENYA HAWAWEZI KUJISIMAMIA WENYEWE MPAKA MTU WA NJE AJE (SASA HIZI NI KAULI ZA KUTAFUTA VIJISABABU TU) WHAT AM TRYING TO SAY IS THAT EAF HAS COME UNDER ATTACK BY OUR LEADERS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY FEEL THREATED BY THE IDEA. THIS MEANS COMPETITION TO THEM AND ALSO THE OTHER HALF OF THE POPULATION (KENYA) IS ENLIGHTENED ABOUT KNOWING THEIR RIGHT AND THE WILL PASS IT ON TO THEIR BROTHER AND SISTERS IN EAF IF THERE WILL BE FREE MOVEMENT. COME EAF UNADHANI KUTAKUWA NA UPUUZI WA VYAMA KUTAWALA MILELE?

OPEN YOUR EYES MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WENGINE WANAKUBALIANA NA EAF LAKINI WANASEMA LET IT COME AFTER MANY YEARS HAINA HARAKA. THESE PEOPLE WANT THE COMPETITION TO COME AFTER 50 YEARS WANAJUWA WATAKUWA WAMEKUFA AMA WAMEKUWA WAZEE. LET THE EAF BE A REALITY AND WE STOP HAVING PERSEMISTIC IDEAS.

NAKUBALIANA NA WALE WANAOSEMA KUWA EAF WILL REDUCE TRABALISM, THATS THE TRUTH. PEOPLE WILL MOVE FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER IN FORM OF TRANSFERS AT WORK OR IN SEARCH OF JOBS.

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

MALIPO YA KUPINGA WIZI WA KURA. WA BWANA MWAI KIBAKI...

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[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

NAWAOMBA WAKUU MUMUOMBEE HUYU KAKA AFUNGUE MACHO AONE WAKENYA WANAKUFA KAMA NZI...

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

MAENEO AU MIJI ILIOATHIRIKA PAKUBWA NA VITA​

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[Dua]

There have been further ethnic clashes in the town of
Naivasha in western Kenya - a popular tourist venue,
famous for its spectacular lake.

Mobs of Kikuyu men squared up against residents from the
rival Luo ethnic group.

Whenever they spotted a Luo person, like this woman trying
to flee with her meagre possessions, they intervened.

Women were jostled and jeered by the mob, some of whom
were armed with machetes. The crowd only moved back when
police fired warning shots.

Frightened Luo residents took refuge at the local police
station, seeking protection and news of loved ones not
accounted for.

Just a handful of police were on hand to escort those trying
to leave.

The Luos clambered onto a bus under the gaze of the Kikuyus
further down the street.

Police hastily removed barricades which dotted the route out
of the town.

The bus carrying the frightened Luo residents to safety was
supplied by the prisons department.

Police provided the bus with an armed guard as it made its
way out of the town.

A man takes a last look at his home through the barred
window of the prison bus.​

Naivasha teacher: 'People are killing each other'

Resident of Naivasha started fleeing the town on Sunday : Naivasha's roads are filled with makeshift roadblocks

Antony, 35, is a secondary school teacher in the Kenyan Rift Valley town of Naivasha. He describes what he witnessed and heard during the weekend's violence. I can see smoke rising above the town and that means that houses are burning.

Earlier, I went round some of Sunday's scenes of violence. Police were trying to disperse all the people that were gathering by firing gunshots but no-one was taking any notice of the police. People are not scared by the gunshots.
We are just awaiting what will erupt next. Everything here has been broken up by all the tribal clashes. We had been living together all this time before, we had peace, we worked together.

Hide-and-seek

Now it is kind of as if people are trying to chase away one another. My feelings are that if God doesn't intervene we will continue to have problems. Yesterday the clashes took up the better part of the day. The situation was like this: people would attack a certain area and then when the police came running to the rescue, then another group would go to a different area - on and on and on, over and over - it was like a cat and mouse game whereby when the police took a group to safety, then another group would move on somewhere else and start attacking until the police managed to get to the new location of violence.

It was hide-and-seek.

Killing

Those attacking were mostly from the Kikuyu community because they were very angry about what happened in Eldoret - they thought it was time that the Luo and Kalenjin in Naivasha tasted what their relatives had had too. People running up and down, police shooting and throwing canisters, burning of houses, people being killed, people killing one another.

I saw all this.

People were running after other people's lives.
The plot where my mother lives was burnt down yesterday.

Not her house.

Terrible sight

But a house burnt down where mostly Luos were camping.
They had wanted to leave the house and run away but before they left they wanted to burn their belongings so looters could not have the opportunity to take their things but before they got out of the house, they met a crowd waiting for them. So they decided to lock the door inside and they then got burnt alive.
It was a very, very, terrible sight. I witnessed it.

I am Kikuyu but am not getting involved. I am a school teacher and my responsibility is to keep the calm - my students at our boarding school are all combined from different ethnic groups and so I must ensure security. Between my students, there is no animosity. I thank God for this. Before dark came yesterday, the military had grouped with police. They all ganged up and were patrolling around the town.

Commotion

But still, the violence did not end then.
It was drizzling around 1900 local time (1600 GMT) so people went into their houses to get out of the rain. Likewise the police and military went back to barracks. But after the rain I could hear gunshots and during the night, I heard a lot of whistling and people calling one another and then gunshots and ululations and people shouting for help. This was in the early hours of the morning - around 0330 local time.

In the commotion, I was told that police arrested many men who they believed to be involved. And most of them are still in police custody.

Matatizo ya Kenya yatatatuliwa na wakenya wenyewe wakae chini na kujiuliza kulikoni? Wasingojee UN wala mjomba kutoka popote ni jukumu lao kumaliza huu ujinga ambao hauna mkia. KENYANS WAKEUP!

 

[Rufiji]

Kwa nini kwenye karne ya 21 hawa watu bado wana embrace ukabila? Kweli Nyerere alikuwa visionary aliyaona haya mwaka 1961...May the Lord rest his soul in eternal peace.

 

[Nesindiso Sir]

Kenyan opposition MP 'shot dead'

The national death toll since the elections is now about 800
A Kenyan opposition MP has been shot dead in Nairobi, police say, adding they could not rule out a connection to disputed presidential elections.
Mugabe Were, a member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of the defeated candidate, Raila Odinga, was attacked outside his home, police said.

He is the first leading politician to have died amid violence that has gripped Kenya since December's poll.

It comes as nearly 100 people died in fresh bloodshed in the Rift Valley.

Two gunmen shot Mr Were as he drove up to the gate of his house in the capital just after midnight, Kenya police spokesman Eric Kiraithe was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.

"We are treating it as a murder but we are not ruling out anything, including political motives. We are urging everyone to remain calm," he said.

Mr Were, who represented Nairobi's Embakasai district, won a seat in the 27 December legislative election, which was held at the same time as the presidential vote.

ODM spokesman Tony Gachoka said: "The current situation makes one suspicious. All fingers will point at the government, and the government will have to show it is not involved."

Riots are continuing in the towns of Naivasha and Nakuru in the Rift Valley, where dozens of people have been killed in five days of ethnic violence.

Violence has also erupted in Eldoret and further west in Kisumu, both scenes of earlier bloodshed.

Members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe have been fighting with Luos and Kalenjins who backed his rival, Mr Odinga, in the election a month ago.

Mr Odinga accuses Mr Kibaki of stealing the vote and has refused to recognise the result.

Analysts warn a cycle of violence is emerging amid the political impasse, where the pattern of attacks is followed by reprisals.

The former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has been trying to mediate a solution between the two sides.

He has set Tuesday as a target for Kenya's government and opposition to name negotiators to try to halt the bloodletting.

On Monday, European Union foreign ministers urged Kenya's politicians to work to find a solution or risk a cut in EU aid.

"What is alarming about the last few days is that there are evidently hidden hands organising it now. Militias are appearing... the targeting is very specific," said the UK's visiting minister for Africa, Mark Malloch-Brown.

While President Kibaki says he is open to talks, he has refused to countenance Mr Odinga's demand for fresh elections.

SOURCE: BBC

 

[Mnhenwa Ndege]

kibaki never pictured this.

 

[Mtu wa Pwani]

Hili Jamaa Zangu Wamelikoroga Sasa Iliobaki Walinywe Tu

No Way Kibaki Na Odinga Lazima Wawe Wa Mwanzo Kubeba Kikombe Hiki Na Kubugia

 

[Bongolander]

KEnyan Tanzania kama upo nasikia kuwa kuna mbunge ameuawa huko, unaweza kutujulisha zaidi. Was he shot or was he sliced with a machette?
Na vipi Mkapa rais wa zamani wa Tanzania ambaye ana kisa kinachofanana kabisa na cha Kibaki alipokuwa Rais, anakubalika kuwepo kwenye timu ya Annan?

 

[Kitila Mkumbo]

Hawa wakenya sikuwahi kufikiri wapo chini kiasi hiki. Yaani pamoja na kujifanya wajanja wanaabudi makabila yao kwa kiwango hiki? Ndio nasema hawa ndugu zetu tungewaokoa sana kwa kuwa na EAF, vinginevyo hawa watachinjana tu hata baada ya hilo zogo kwisha. They are still in a very long way to civility. Poleni sana, sasa naona hamna cha Kibaki wala Raila, nyie wote mnaumwa tu na tiba yetu itabidi itoke kwingineko. Jamani hawa tuwakaribishe tu kwetu through EAF kama tunataka wastaraabike, vinginevyo wataendelea kutuabisha tu kwa mataifa ya nje. Yaani sasa huku sisi wote tunaonekana hamnazo, yaani tunapenda makabila yetu kuliko kitu chochote. Stupid Kenyans, who told you killing each other will give you democracy? Can't you identify your common enemy and therefore your common strategy?

 

[Morani75]

Bongolander, ni kwamba jamaa wamempiga risasi akiwa anarudi nyumbani kwake jana usiku.... Hii ni masaa kadhaa baada ya wale jamaa wa4 aliowashinda kufungua kesi mahakani kupinga matokeo. Habari zaidi soma BBC at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7214558.stm

 

[Ben Saanane]

Hawa wakenya sikuwahi kufikiri wapo chini kiasi hiki. Yaani pamoja na kujifanya wajanja wanaabudi makabila yao kwa kiwango hiki? Ndio nasema hawa ndugu zetu tungewaokoa sana kwa kuwa na EAF, vinginevyo hawa watachinjana tu hata baada ya hilo zogo kwisha. They are still in a very long way to civility. Poleni sana, sasa naona hamna cha Kibaki wala Raila, nyie wote mnaumwa tu na tiba yetu itabidi itoke kwingineko. Jamani hawa tuwakaribishe tu kwetu through EAF kama tunataka wastaraabike, vinginevyo wataendelea kutuabisha tu kwa mataifa ya nje. Yaani sasa huku sisi wote tunaonekana hamnazo, yaani tunapenda makabila yetu kuliko kitu chochote. Stupid Kenyans, who told you killing each other will give you democracy? Can't you identify your common enemy and therefore your common strategy?

Mkuu wangu,

Hapo umefika mbali kidogo,sidhani kama ni Wakenya wote wenye hizo spirit,hata hivyo,lawama zitaenda kwa serikali zilizopita kuona element za ukabila na wenyewe wakaridhika nazo.Yaani kama ilivyo hapa Tanzania jinsi serikali zilivyopita zinapaswa kubeba lawama za kutotoa elimu ya uraia kwa watu wake.

 

[Kitila Mkumbo]

Ben, hii kitu inaudhi sana maana tunazidi kurudi nyuma hatua maelfu, sasa hii haimsaidii mtu yeyote.

 

[Mwendapole Old]

Hawa wakenya sikuwahi kufikiri wapo chini kiasi hiki. Yaani pamoja na kujifanya wajanja wanaabudi makabila yao kwa kiwango hiki? Ndio nasema hawa ndugu zetu tungewaokoa sana kwa kuwa na EAF, vinginevyo hawa watachinjana tu hata baada ya hilo zogo kwisha. They are still in a very long way to civility. Poleni sana, sasa naona hamna cha Kibaki wala Raila, nyie wote mnaumwa tu na tiba yetu itabidi itoke kwingineko. Jamani hawa tuwakaribishe tu kwetu through EAF kama tunataka wastaraabike, vinginevyo wataendelea kutuabisha tu kwa mataifa ya nje. Yaani sasa huku sisi wote tunaonekana hamnazo, yaani tunapenda makabila yetu kuliko kitu chochote. Stupid Kenyans, who told you killing each other will give you democracy? Can't you identify your common enemy and therefore your common strategy?

Thats a million dollar question bro. Think of Kibaki and Raila in their new suits shaking hands after eating a four course lunch and a glass of wine thereby...and the poor Luos and Kikuyus and tainting the town red with their blood...what a waste!

 

[Bongolander]

We should not forget that democracy is not cheap, some have to give all, and all have to give some. Kenyans are no fools, i wold not say we who are standing at the vintage point, can see better than them. The blood spilled in Kenya will not go in vain, sooner or later we will see it.
In a country which people are fed up with rigging of elections, wehere politcians are fed up of playing fool it is normal for things like this to happen. I believe as a result of this pillars of democracy in kenya will be strengthened, and politicians will be much more respectful of peoples voices.

 

[Mnhenwa Ndege]

Thats a million dollar question bro. Think of Kibaki and Raila in their new suits shaking hands after eating a four course lunch and a glass of wine thereby...and the poor Luos and Kikuyus and tainting the town red with their blood...what a waste!

SO WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING MY DEAR BROTHER?

RAILA TO QUIT AND LEAVE kIBAKI IN POWER FOR THE SEAK OF PEACE, OR RAILA SHOULD JOIN HIS LUO (BROTHERS)FORCES ON THE STREETS IN COMBAT, OR RAILA SHOULD AVOID INDOOR PEACE TALKS FOR FEAR THAT PEOPLE WILL THINK THAT THE MAIN AGENDA OF THE MEETING WAS LUNCH RATHER THAN PEACE.

TELL ME WHAT SHOULD RAILA DO?

DONT MIX RAILA WITH kIBAKA THEY ARE TWO DEFFERENT PEOPLE, ONE IS A THIEF AND THE OTHER IS A VICTIM.