tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post2215351905922455622..comments2023-10-30T15:29:59.720+03:00Comments on Bankelele: Elections derail Kenya’s Visionbankelelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01180926084939364063noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-58272980718196929102008-01-25T18:02:00.000+03:002008-01-25T18:02:00.000+03:00I am a Kikuyu. (Insert stream of profanities here)...I am a Kikuyu. (Insert stream of profanities here). i'd like to think it doesn't matter but it does. Before the election many were worried about the action Odinga would take against the tribe. The last few weeks have only ingrained that fear further. Expect more tribal voting next time. Now here i go with the pro Kibaki conspiracy theory. 1st of all let me make it clear that I do have a problem with Raila Odinga as a person. Why? Because from what I have read, the man willingly and knowingly participated in the planning (don't know about the execution) of a coup against a government that was popularly elected and at the time popular and yet shows no remorse for it. (Correct me if I am wrong.) While MP for kibera for 15 years, he has done nothing on either a national or constitutional level that is worth noting and yet claims to be a revolutionary force for the country. Revolutionaries are not powerbrokers, they are principled. The man joined the Moi government for God's sake. And as for what is happening now, I have to ask, where is the proof. The Juja case, which was a much touted example for the ODM patrol has been debunked. They have no proof that there was any rigging. He refuses to respect the rule of law. A law that he swore to uphold as a member of parliament. By signing nomination forms he promised to uphold the electoral laws of the country. He hasn't and my sticking point is the fact that all he has backing him is a stream of irregularities that have not been investigated. Where is due process? Innocent till proven guilty? The ECK should atleast be given that privilidge. With the rubble that the ODM has raised right now, a petition would most certainly be fast tracked. So why not go to court? An unfavourable ruling would give them grounds to go to the international criminal court if the still felt they had enough evidence. Indicators point to legitimate Kibaki win. Al Jazeera polls had shown a narrow win for the president. How can we allow him to usurp a legal system that he has never even tried to reform? He obviously trusted it enough to in the last six months try to gain control of ODM-K and petition for the withdrawal of the safaricom IPO. What has changed now. He is being dishonest on this . There is no other explanation. The fact that the international community has chosen to indulge his whims in full ignorance of the fact that there has been no decisive breakdown of state machinery and institutions doesn't make it right. And the United States under a Bush administration should be the last to talk. Not with the way he got into the white house. They should be the first in line proposing a judicial resolution to the problem. This boils down to accusation with no evidence holding the country at ransom and don't tell me that the mass looting in the country is proof that there was rigging. Despite what Kenyan academics parrot around everywhere I do believe that it is ethnic tensions boiling over. Partly precipitated by comments made during campaigns but still, ethnic violence. You may not want to believe that we are that primitive but i guess we are. As for how fast the started, I'll say one thing. people are idiots. Before you go calling me elitist understand what I said. A person can at times be rational and reasonable but a group of people is a essentially a bunch of idiots who don't take time to think things through. Alfred Mutua for once put it right when he said "You do not share power with losers."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-60968640722241738722008-01-07T15:30:00.000+03:002008-01-07T15:30:00.000+03:00Troubbling, yet not surprising, are the internatio...Troubbling, yet not surprising, are the international news agencies reports from Kenya. All the agitated young men armed with pangas, looting; and the uniformed armed response; after that the aid convoys. Surely there must be much more going on, but we get to see the "action" not to hear anything that would help us understand or support.<BR/>I want to thank you for your blogg and thinking. There is much hope in Kenya if even Jiringo can act to stop a mobb. There must be many more local leaders who have taken their responsibility. I also want to believe that ordinary people want to leave peacefully and few would make tribe an issue, though some would now utilize the opportunity to fight other battles.<BR/>From last elections I have a very vivid visual memory. Hon. Mudavadi took money from his pocket and gave it to the "youth group" supporting him - after a few seconds the group started chanting the name of his worst competitor. It is not easy to be a politician and remember that your actions can have uncontrollable consequences.<BR/>Wishing you wellLiisa Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01730988337540744419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-72205530679974074342008-01-06T09:53:00.000+03:002008-01-06T09:53:00.000+03:00I love you Kenya why are we breaking up?I have liv...I love you Kenya why are we breaking up?<BR/><BR/>I have lived in naivasha, nakuru also schooled in different parts of the country and never gave a damn about realistic lines at all, never gave a damn bout the kikuyu, or luo or embu in short had no ill feelings to any tribe I mean am young and the group I know we do crack some jokes here and there along tribal lines but now nobody is, we cut it off due to what’s going on.<BR/><BR/>what happened people, what is going on in Kenya, i sit here and ponder does me killing a kikuyu or I hear an embu help me, no no people no. and what’s with the burning of the church, i know we are of a third world country but a church you got to be kidding me, you playing right!<BR/><BR/>my fellow Kenyan man we got to grow up i do know that racial lines, tensions will always be there that’s human but sometimes its human to think too. I have no clue how we are going to pull out of this but man if we do let the Lord ride us on this one.<BR/><BR/>its a shame what we have come to burning little kids you mean little children u got to be kidding me I mean little children, they have no clue what’s going on. seriously what about the women who gave birth to us, the womb, you just stole that too.<BR/><BR/>its a shame man its really a shame, do people sometimes print out this pictures, the gruesome pictures at the morgue, on the streets, alleys and worse of all carcasses of people so that these heinous crimes can be seen by all? and lets be honest here for a little bit each tribe has lost somebody right its just barbaric how these has happened.<BR/><BR/>now lets talk about our two year old kids, our politicians who of course cannot think straight and know that lives are at stake here,. Mr. Kibaki you very well know you are not suppose to be there, you like a kid holding on to a candy stick. Sir please think of what’s going on and I mean right now. Your own people are dying and you think while you sit there at what you call state house give a sheepish address and go back helps. As these man gone out of that place anyway to the streets and seen what’s going on. Kenya is burning brother, Kenya is burning and who will pour in the water.<BR/><BR/>Sir please please think I know you are a father think and think. If you keep sitting k have no clue then, you know Raila is not stupid to say I am going to court hello they aint go do nothing! and so will a recount help. Can you guy seek help from outside do something. Man kibaki was doing good till now. Is it really that hard to leave that famous sit for the sake of a brother living is it?<BR/><BR/>My second born child raila you probably know that they might listen to you and I mean the protesters they are out there dying for you, why cant you walk out there and ask them to stop and I mean plead with them, its time to stop all this raila it is. One thing I do understand is I know the courts will fail you I totally agree but is there something else you can do. Peacefully!<BR/><BR/>I love Kenya I do I really do love Kenya, we were doing so so good till now. Why Kenyans why, why did we have to bring mama African pride down why.<BR/><BR/>Get up be proud and ask ourselves what are we really doing. Yeah I know something was wrong with the vote but we can stand up peacefully and cry ourselves out.<BR/><BR/>By the way I am a kalenjin and proud of who I am, proud of those I have met, those I have befriended and those that loved and been loved by me. I love each one of you as a Kenya except for the barbaric creatures that slaughter little children that to me is extremely sickening and unforgivable. I put this on out high ranking officials remember that the honorable, misters and mistresses. Think and sleep thinking this is all on you.<BR/><BR/>Love Kenya.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-8541153827893611382008-01-05T10:40:00.000+03:002008-01-05T10:40:00.000+03:00Joy ...kuwaitThanks for keeping us Updated.I hardl...Joy ...kuwait<BR/><BR/>Thanks for keeping us Updated.I hardly understood before whats going on,but now am on my knees for Kenya.Its so bad to be killing poeple we have shared our lives together, in times of happiness and adversity. I pray that this madness stop .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-91540215049960410442008-01-05T04:02:00.000+03:002008-01-05T04:02:00.000+03:00Anonymous 1/04/2008 5:06 AM said:"This reads like ...Anonymous 1/04/2008 5:06 AM said:<BR/><BR/>"This reads like the middle of the road, milk toast editorials that have been running in Kenyan papers. Everybody loses and everybody wins, and please "let us not point accusing fingers because people are dying".<BR/>If Kibaki had let the people have their way at polls we would not be where are. FULL STOP!!<BR/>Of the many solutions floating around these new age "kumbya - neighbor talk to neighbor" ones, are the lamest.<BR/>Now that the fire is at Kibaki's door, all of a sudden we are ALL Kenyans, before then unless you were GEMA you were a "pumbavu", waKenya wengine are fed up. There will be no peace until justice is meted out."<BR/><BR/>Your prescription is one of continuing and deepening clashes. Think carefully about all the inter-ethnic clashes that have caused interminable wars and genocide. This is not a joke. This is a slippery slope.<BR/><BR/>Firstly, the politicians are at fault not the neighbors, even if they have been influenced by rhetoric. Killing people who have not wronged you will only deepen the conflict, creat true hatred that cannot be stopped for generations. If you don't think that both sides feel somewhat right -- ODM because they know the story of Kikuyus historical prejudices against Luo president -- PNU because they heard the anti-Kikuyu rhetoric stoked by ODM and because people were being killed in Molo before the elections.<BR/><BR/>www.christiantoday.com/article/kenya.clashes.kill.16.ahead.of.elections/15262.htm<BR/><BR/>If both sides continue to escalate, there is only one place this will go, with million of martyrs on both sides.<BR/><BR/>I personally hopes Kibaki steps aside for the good of the country. He will never do this if he cannot do so with dignity.<BR/> <BR/>And not because he won or lost. I believe that the Luo's are more historically aggrieved in this issue. For the good of the country, in the long-term, this would be best. But should he be pushed...<BR/><BR/>Think of South Africa's truth and reconciliation process. Think of the recriminations that could have happened without th process. This is one issue I have clear respect for Mandela's government and others for fostering. It may not be perfect, but it is better than the alternative.<BR/><BR/>The most question is not what has been done, though it should not be ignored, but what should be done at this point.<BR/><BR/>I pray.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-32035331736889610282008-01-05T02:34:00.000+03:002008-01-05T02:34:00.000+03:00i think this is a corrcetion.. bringingt hings dow...i think this is a corrcetion.. bringingt hings down to earth but im still bullish on kenya. buy real property. banking will be a problem all those loans that need to be paid.<BR/><BR/>on the other hand any so solution to the problem requires urgent attention to youth unemployment and urgent reconstruction of kisumu eldy and affected towns.<BR/><BR/>1000's will be laid off esp in the hospitality industry....power truly corrupts..<BR/><BR/>never again should we give so much power to so few.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-62335627093597881022008-01-04T23:24:00.000+03:002008-01-04T23:24:00.000+03:00Thank you for what you are writing! I am a mother ...Thank you for what you are writing! I am a mother in the U.S., but my adopted son is Kenyan/American (Kikuyu) and we are praying along with his birthfamily here for the safety of his birthfamily who remain in Nairobi.<BR/>Hopefully a peaceful solution will happen soon. This moment is not the Kenya we have been so proud of, and that I want for my son to come to when he is a man. I want more for him & for all of Kenya.<BR/>Thank you again for keeping those of us informed! You are doing God's work here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-56594693940691541872008-01-04T19:09:00.000+03:002008-01-04T19:09:00.000+03:00If you listened to Raila, you'd think Kibaki only ...If you listened to Raila, you'd think Kibaki only got one vote from an old woman in central. However, on close examination one can see that Kibaki got 15% of the vote in Nyanza, 30% in western, over 30% in Coast and Eastern and his required 25% in the RV. <BR/><BR/>Raila's supporters started celebrating before all the votes were counted and when all the polls had said that this would be a close election. Whose fault is that?<BR/><BR/>And now look what they are doing to the country? engaging in acts of pure thuggery and violence. Kibaki must fight them till the end and bring them all down. They have said they are willing to die for Odinga - the government should oblige them and grant them this wish.<BR/><BR/>Odinga is a dangerous politician whose entire campaign was laced with subliminal messages to "finish" off Kikuyu. His supporters are now carrying out his message with violent practical effect.<BR/><BR/>Kenyanentrepreneur.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-58525587860507612002008-01-04T17:33:00.000+03:002008-01-04T17:33:00.000+03:00By the way all this talk is that black petty bourg...By the way all this talk is that black petty bourgeois talking. Listen to real Kenyans and it's quite simple, Kibaki rigged the elections. No deep philosophy there, just basic primal power grab, a primal response has followed. Talk to Kibaki, he has lost his soul and direction. Make him step aside because he will surely lose it for all Kenyans too and mostly for all his supporters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-41627474483522643802008-01-04T17:21:00.000+03:002008-01-04T17:21:00.000+03:00I am happy and proud of Kenyans and their sense of...I am happy and proud of Kenyans and their sense of civic duty. Must Raila negotiate with a criminal? Would you negotiate with a robber who came to your home about the return of your property? Everyone has said the election was stolen, the ECK chairman and commissioners, the EU observers, the local observers. What more evidence of election theft/crime do you want? I support Kenyans who take their civic duty seriously and resist resist resist Kibaki and his evil croniesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-89823481205831694662008-01-04T16:44:00.000+03:002008-01-04T16:44:00.000+03:00there were irregularities in the election process,...there were irregularities in the election process, no doubt.. <BR/>people can and probably should protest.. even violently..<BR/>but i still cannot explain why in many parts of the country everyone turned against kikuyus..<BR/>i might be wrong but in such synchronized acts, there's usually some leader(s).. <BR/>-to reconcile people, explanations (thus investigations) on the violence (and obviously the electoral process) have to be done.. because violence might be over but the bitterness has to be treated too, for longterm sakes..<BR/>-finally, i think that we should think of a different governing system eg. every province votes and the 8 leaders brought forward form a governing committee whose chairmanship revolves each year and after every one has had chairmanship , election are held once again.<BR/>why? because in my opinion the 1 man president thing is really not working in africa where countries are made up of different communities/tribes with the differences that come along.That way every(one/ community) will feel represented.Mark you there's even a problem in belgium which hasn't had a govt for some months now, and which is made up of french and dutch communities - its not exactly the same case but.. <BR/>and lastly (really), its time to reduce illiteracy levels in kenya,<BR/>Amani!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-26625846451683782812008-01-04T16:33:00.000+03:002008-01-04T16:33:00.000+03:00poor kenyans if you had oil like iraq you would ha...poor kenyans if you had oil like iraq you would have been saved by the worlds police.the americans could go to iraq and pick saddam from an underground hiding and execute him in the name of rights of the iraqis and world security.in kenya america is biased cant see who is on the wrong and added insult to the rights of the people by accepting corruption to rule.isnt it easy for americans to simply land an army in kenya and tell the riggers i am here and justice should take its course to give back the right where it belongs.America has played the game of divide and rule as long as kenya is going to increase its coffers by buying more weapons to keep the fight.ok world police wake up to the rights of people and keep up your image.kibaki has been playing to americas tune of arresting alleged alqaidah youths thinking america will shower it with financial aid.come to the reascue of the innnocent if you really care for kenya as much as you care for iraq.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-15838657781048016812008-01-04T12:25:00.000+03:002008-01-04T12:25:00.000+03:00Banks;fine blog.objective analysis. in the end, k...Banks;fine blog.objective analysis.<BR/> <BR/> in the end, kenya's image is the main loser,followed closely by the citizens.just how many % points of gdp growth are we likely to lose?<BR/><BR/> as for the odm-pnu stalemate,it'll likely last till february.<BR/> <BR/>just what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-76795084215810402912008-01-04T10:19:00.000+03:002008-01-04T10:19:00.000+03:00Is it just me or does this seem to be a horrible d...Is it just me or does this seem to be a horrible dream I can’t get out off. The images of dead kids in the city mortuary or bodies in burned churches are images I associate with those “other” places in Africa. Groups of Machete wielding men look eerily familiar to the Interahamwe (hutu militia of the Rwandese genocide). I can’t seem to reconcile the fact that this is Kenya, not southern Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda or the DRC . I have tried to read up on how ethnic tensions and hatred resulted in what happened in the Balkans, Rwanda and Iraq to understand how we have gone from the country I saw in a few month ago to where we are now, I find no reprise, this is actually my Kenya.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-3593101372418151352008-01-04T10:10:00.000+03:002008-01-04T10:10:00.000+03:00smex,I am soo feeling you, I would add that the ne...smex,<BR/><BR/>I am soo feeling you, I would add that the new elections should be carried out after an independent commission such as the 9/11 commission has been set up. The commission would look into not just at the election issues but the insanity that happened afterwards. There should be recommendations on how to stop all manner of electoral rigging (vote buying, ballot box stuffing, breaks in procedure etc). I would also like to see some kind of campaign ethics rules and regulations that address amongst other things hate speech and tribal hate speech precisely. We have shown that we are willing to have democracy but not its responsibilities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-44031886789117397432008-01-04T09:54:00.000+03:002008-01-04T09:54:00.000+03:00This is all well and good, the whole kumbaya rheto...This is all well and good, the whole kumbaya rhetoric,right as it is, is obviously not a solution. What we need is a solution to this murderous situation Kenya finds itself.<BR/><BR/>The courts aren't an option, a re-tallying of pres. votes tops the list of bad jokes. My suggestion is that this entire pres. election should be redone. This isn't a really popular option on paper but please understand nothing short of this will console or placate the aggrieved parties. As long as Kenyans feel short-changed by a process they trusted to be free and fair, nothing less will suffice.<BR/><BR/>Onto Kibaki's "press conference", I think he should just have kept his silence. He offered NO solutions, answered NO questions, and the killer is he said he was PLANNING to visit the struck areas. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? This geriatric should have been there 4 days ago. His insensitivity or senility is annoyingly clear. How the hell has this guy been holed up at State House while the country has been literally ablaze?<BR/><BR/>Lastly this whole issue of changing this supposed rally's dates needs to stop. Raila knows there's no way any sensible government will let all these hooligans assemble at Uhuru Park. The more he stokes the issue of marching there, the more civil unrest we'll witness (this may actually be his intention). Raila needs to quit this rubbish, this dude is holding an entire country at ransom. By the way from a reliable source, Fidel and Winnie (Raila's kids) left the country earlier this week...go figure.<BR/><BR/>Really this whole thing needs to be redone, after these ECK clowns acquire the ICT apparatus they so suspiciously shot down earlier in the year. Oh heavens, this is all seriously a stage for all these vaudeville-esque characters. Kalonzo also said he's willing to negotiate... WHAT?? With who? About what? Who the fuck even thinks you can correct anything?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-55678351137279269222008-01-04T08:55:00.000+03:002008-01-04T08:55:00.000+03:00A travesty of justice indeed but hope it doesn't e...A travesty of justice indeed but hope it doesn't escalate to anarchy. <BR/>A harbinger of slow economic activity that will erase all the gains made over the last 5 years.<BR/><BR/>Instead of repeating the same platitudes and offering band aid solutions, here's what we can do:<BR/><BR/>-Donate to the kenya red cross.<BR/><BR/>-Petition safaricom and celtel to make airtime available so people can open up lines of communication. All online merchants of airtime appear to have closed shop as well.<BR/><BR/>-Pray!Fedhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06779695799769858397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-62367669483380851602008-01-04T07:59:00.000+03:002008-01-04T07:59:00.000+03:00You know what's scary? Both of these cretins are a...You know what's scary? Both of these cretins are acting as if they are in control. They have unleashed forces they cannot control, mob madness and tribal hatred. No one, not Kibaki or Raila or any of their luminaries can control these dynamics once unleashed. For crying out loud, we are surrounded by Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda immediate neighbours with violent histories and in the wider region have the examples of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivore, Liberia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe etc etc. When will this lunacy end?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-27199720281402606902008-01-04T05:47:00.000+03:002008-01-04T05:47:00.000+03:00Thanks for your commentary Bankelele. We are destr...Thanks for your commentary Bankelele. We are destroying our fragile economy and no Kenya will emerge the victor at the end of the day.<BR/><BR/>I am personally exhausted. At this point, I have resigned myself to another 5 years of Kibaki. I just hope the opposition will spend those 5 years massacring him and his party in parliament and reforming the ECK in time for the next election.<BR/><BR/>We need to return to work. The longer the conflict, the harder it will be to recover as a nation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-60296968040370464302008-01-04T05:41:00.000+03:002008-01-04T05:41:00.000+03:00Anonymous write1 ODM2.ODM ...7. ODMWhat the writer...Anonymous write<BR/>1 ODM<BR/>2.ODM ...7. ODM<BR/>What the writer fails to mention are the facts.<BR/>A. Kibaki was declared the winner by Kivuitu against protest of inconsistent results.<BR/>B Intenational observers invalidated those results.<BR/>3.Kivuitu admitted he does not know if Kibaki won.<BR/>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/03/wkenya303.xml<BR/><BR/>1. This issue is bigger than PNU/ODM, Kenyans need to think where do we go from here, We have to address the root of the problem. Same thing happened before, 2002 was an anomally ( thanks to Odinga), and it is bound to happen again and again, next year, in 2012/2017? <BR/>The problem with Kenya is that there is no LAW, so everyone has to take the law into their own hands.<BR/>The only way out, is for a change in the constitution so that it protects every Kenyan, and we have a process to argue our case with our mouths instead of with Pangas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-64985893879058659932008-01-04T05:06:00.000+03:002008-01-04T05:06:00.000+03:00This reads like the middle of the road, milk toast...This reads like the middle of the road, milk toast editorials that have been running in Kenyan papers. Everybody loses and everybody wins, and please "let us not point accusing fingers because people are dying".<BR/>If Kibaki had let the people have their way at polls we would not be where are. FULL STOP!!<BR/>Of the many solutions floating around these new age "kumbya - neighbor talk to neighbor" ones, are the lamest.<BR/>Now that the fire is at Kibaki's door, all of a sudden we are ALL Kenyans, before then unless you were GEMA you were a "pumbavu", waKenya wengine are fed up. There will be no peace until justice is meted out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-77888807329355211472008-01-04T04:58:00.000+03:002008-01-04T04:58:00.000+03:00Banks, There was a lot of expectation built-in aft...Banks, There was a lot of expectation built-in after the elections. <BR/><BR/>It would be important if everyone could understand that economic recovery will be pegged on political stability.<BR/><BR/>I feel your disappointment. The events of the last few days are very unfortunate.<BR/><BR/>I can't tell you how frustrating it is for some of us who us who have always wanted to come back home and build our country.The Black Mambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13093261923557991519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-6356673590222072532008-01-04T04:41:00.000+03:002008-01-04T04:41:00.000+03:00Bankele, excellent post.I would add - the UK - to ...Bankele, excellent post.<BR/><BR/>I would add - the UK - to your don't look for solutions here list and add an additional Raila Odinga entry to the losers list for stoking ethic friction in the pre-election run-up. (There is an excellent pre-election piece on this in Africa Confidential but you may need a subscription to see. www.africa-confidential.com )<BR/><BR/>Anonymous, I like you very detailed and comprehensive post also. I disagree, however, that the US -- unlike the UK -- had or has a clear view on which party it would want to win.<BR/><BR/>The UK seeems to be playing the role that France has played in Cote d'Ivoire, very colonial and heavy handed in its treatment of the current government. The US, on the other hand, has noted the issues but not created undue friction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-9938019381815824952008-01-04T03:11:00.000+03:002008-01-04T03:11:00.000+03:00PeaceIts very unfortunity that we find our country...Peace<BR/>Its very unfortunity that we find our country in such terrible mayhem. How godless have we as a country turned. We have dipped ourselve in the most akward of a position. We have now stripped ourselve all the dignity that we had as a country. My dear friend we are all to blame for this and unless we turned our eyes to heaven there is no help in sight. We need divine intervention and I beseech you all to look beyond what is happening in the ground and ask ourselve the real questions in life. Are we doing what our God expects for us, leaders will come and go, Presidents will live and go but one day we all will stand before God. We will be responsible for all our deeds. Dear friend am writing this so that you and I as an individual can stand and ponder at what our individual responsibility is. Lets do what we can to restore sanity in our country, seek to establish love with your neighbour even though he may be of the "wrong" tribe. We are all made in God's image and in Him there is no Kikuyu or Luo. Please stop and pray for our country.Imanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15540343080853185991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9317825.post-66583392152522600952008-01-04T02:39:00.000+03:002008-01-04T02:39:00.000+03:00the article on young kenyans report was ver inform...the article on young kenyans report was ver informative. 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