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How Kenya’s election was rigged

joluo — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:52:26 +0000

By Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers

Thu Jan 31, 6:00 AM ET

NAIROBI, Kenya — The spark for Kenya’s firestorm of ethnic violence was lit inside a cavernous meeting hall in downtown Nairobi , where election officials over four days doctored vote counts, dismissed eye-popping irregularities and thwarted monitoring by independent observers to deliver a razor-thin victory to President Mwai Kibaki .

Observers who were allowed into the vote-tallying center on Dec. 29-30 , hours before the results were announced, said there was so much systematic fraud by Kenya’s government-appointed election commission that it’s impossible to know who really won.

The extent of the commission’s deceptions has faded into the background as more than 800 Kenyans have been killed in ethnic clashes and police crackdowns. The events also have deeply unsettled the Bush administration, which has relied on Kenya as an ally in the war on terror and a bulwark of stability in East Africa .

Official results gave Kibaki an edge of 231,728 votes, or 2 percent, out of about 10 million cast. Initial results of an exit poll by the U.S.-funded International Republican Institute found that rival Raila Odinga had won by an 8 percent margin.

Election officials allowed five accredited Kenyan observers into the tallying center in Nairobi only in the final phase of vote-counting, and three of them shared their accounts with McClatchy. All said that the gravest cheating occurred in that room, where commissioners— all appointed by Kibaki— compiled returns before announcing them to the public.

The observers spoke in interviews and quoted from a joint log of their experiences, titled “Countdown to Deception,” which Kenyan rights groups are circulating.

The long-serving chairman of Kenya’s election commission played an active role in the deception, the observers said. When a tallying officer presented results showing voter turnout at 115 percent in Maragua, a Kibaki stronghold in the central highlands, commission Chairman Samuel Kivuitu didn’t invalidate the result as required by law, but allowed a commissioner to reduce the figure to 85 percent and announced the results an hour later.

That was the pattern that observers reported: Results were announced even when documents were missing, incomplete, unsigned by officers or party representatives, incorrectly tabulated, photocopied or forged.

“Both sides stole votes,” said Julius Melli , a 31-year-old Kenyan radiographer who witnessed the tallying of Maragua and other locales. “But Kibaki stole more, and they stole it inside the tallying center.”

The Electoral Commission of Kenya , an independent body whose members are appointed by the president, had run national elections in 2002 and 2005 that were praised for their openness and accuracy.

But except for Kivuitu, who’d served as chairman since 1997, this was a largely different commission. As members faced term limits in the months before the vote, Kibaki— facing the stiffest presidential challenge ever in Kenya — packed the 22-person body with 17 new commissioners. All were considered Kibaki allies, and none had ever run an election.

“These people were criminals,” said Ben Sihanya, a Stanford -educated constitutional law professor who also observed the tallying. “They were committing crimes at the behest of Kibaki’s government.”

Election officials were unreachable for comment, but the commission has taken out a two-page, unsigned advertisement in Kenyan newspapers to deny wrongdoing.

Koki Muli , the co-chair of the Kenya Domestic Observers Forum , suspected problems soon after the polls closed on the evening of Dec. 27 . Her network of observers monitoring the vote-counting in polling stations immediately began sending preliminary results by phone and text messages. But for two days, in the Nairobi convention hall where the election commission had set up shop— surrounded by hundreds of journalists, observers and party agents— Kivuitu announced only some of the returns.

Observers grew suspicious when results from Kibaki’s central Kenya stronghold weren’t read. The delays were sparking protests. “It was necessary for us to observe the tallying,” Muli said.

For 48 hours, armed agents barred observers from entering the tallying center, a high-ceilinged room almost the size of a football field. Finally, faced with mounting reports of irregularities, Kivuitu allowed five observers and a handful of political party representatives into the room on the night of Dec. 29 . They were greeted with nervous stares.

“What I saw in that room alarmed me,” Muli said. “It was a very scared staff.”

Commissioners and staff members were seated around a dozen or so long tables, each strewn with folders containing the legal forms required to certify vote counts. In one corner of the room, a bank of computers churned out results and printouts.

The lanky, bespectacled Sihanya walked up to a table and introduced himself to commissioner Mildred Owour . “Can we sit at your table?” he asked.

“You are going to slow down the process,” she replied.

At about 10 p.m. , Sihanya, Melli and two other observers sat down with agents of the main political parties and several commissioners and election officials. Their task was to scrutinize irregularities reported by Odinga’s camp— and there were many.

In at least 44 out of 210 constituencies, officials in Nairobi had announced vote totals without any supporting documents from the polling centers. In most places the announced totals were off by hundreds or thousands from what journalists, party agents and foreign observers had witnessed at polling places.

The team prepared to work through the night. When commission staff members brought a stack of folders, observers asked to check whether vote totals had been added correctly.

The commission’s legal officer, Jemimah Kelli , rebuffed them.

“She said, ‘We can’t correct the tallying now. The commission will take care of it,’” Sihanya recalled.

At another table, Muli was scratching her head over results from Mathira, in central Kenya , where nearly everyone voted for Kibaki. Election officers had failed to sign the tallies from nearly three dozen polling places, and one form had two different totals. Muli took out her cell phone and began adding up the numbers.

She calculated 77,442 votes for Kibaki, some 2,600 fewer than what was recorded on the final tally sheet and announced to the public. Later she discovered inflated vote totals for Kibaki in several other areas— “3,000 here, 3,000 there, 1,500 here, 2,500 there,” she said. “It added up.”

At his table, Melli saw numerous constituencies that lacked tally sheets or official signatures, but whose results had been certified anyway. In one folder, he found two tallies for the same place— one a signed original, the other an unsigned photocopy that had been altered to give Kibaki about 3,000 more votes.

The photocopied version had been used.

“It looked very ridiculous,” Melli said. But Kenyan election laws didn’t authorize observers to do anything more than note inconsistencies.

The legal officer, Kelli, moaned that officials had gone without sleep for several days, and she harassed Melli for paying too much attention to detail.

“She told Melli, ‘You seem to be very keen. Are you being paid to do this?’” Sihanya said. (They in fact were not paid.)

When Sihanya questioned inconsistencies in one Kibaki stronghold, a Kibaki party representative, Martha Karua, accused him of being an opposition agent.

“The whole thing seemed extremely stage-managed,” Melli said. “It was not a sincere verification exercise.”

As the night wore on, officials became cagier. Melli asked an official for the file from Nithi, where turnout was a suspiciously high 80 percent and nearly all the votes had gone to Kibaki. The official blanched, pulled the file close to his chest and, for the rest of the night, carried it with him everywhere he went, Melli said.

The file for Kieni in central Kenya showed 87,500 parliamentary votes— nearly 3,000 more than the number of registered voters. The file for Imenti South district, where Kibaki had 96 percent support, showed 4,315 more presidential votes than parliamentary votes but contained no supporting documents. At 5 a.m. on Dec. 30 , the file for another central district, Molo, finally appeared showing 50,145 votes for Kibaki. The chairman later announced 75,261.

“They just gave Kibaki 25,000 votes from the air,” Muli said.

Finally, at around 9 a.m. , Karua, the Kibaki aide, said the verification had to be halted so that the commissioners could get “back to work.” An Odinga aide said he had concerns about other files, but Karua and three election officials at the table stood up to leave.

One of the commissioners, Luciano Riunga Raiji, told the observers, “You are done.” Shortly afterward, a message blared over the loudspeaker ordering all observers and party agents to leave the room. By then, Melli said, it was clear that the commissioners had no intention of investigating the irregularities.

“We were waiting for them to announce the final results,” he said. “But we knew Kibaki had stolen it.”

Muli, who’s helped train commissioners for 14 years, said: “We didn’t imagine that the electoral commissioners could in a massive way influence the conduct of the election. We were wrong.”

The next several hours were surreal, the observers said. As word swept through the convention hall that Kibaki would be declared the winner, Odinga called a news conference and accused the commission of rigging the vote in 48 constituencies.

A few hours later, the opposition trotted out an election staffer, Kipkemoi Kirui, who said that officials were manipulating results at the tallying center. “My conscience could not allow me to see what I was seeing and keep quiet,” Kirui told reporters. He’s now fled the country, according to media reports.

An hour after that, the lights went off in the convention hall, and paramilitary police cleared the building. In a sealed room, the election chairman announced Kibaki’s victory on state television. Within minutes, rioters were tearing through the streets of Nairobi .

Kenya’s nightmare had begun.

(Special correspondent Munene Kilongi contributed.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080131/wl_mcclatchy/2833410

IT IS NOW OR NEVER FOR EVERY KENYAN

joluo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:55:41 +0000

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:18:29 -0800 (PST)

There is no more government in Kenya. If Kenyans are clever enough, they should take up arms and defend themselves before it is too late. Everything has gone wrong and it cannot be salvaged. I swear to this. There is no way the turn of events will be solved with the approach Kofi Annan is giving it now. The army has miserably failed Kenyans. Whenever politicians are bickering, the people die mercilessly. For how long will the Kenya army stay in the barracks when innocent Kenyans are being butchered left right and center? Is there no leader among our supposedly peace-keeping army. Is there really a standing army in Kenya ???

– Sillah

Posted on behalf of Sillah by Jaluo Press.

RELEASE OKIYA OKOITI IMMEDIATELY

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:01:53 +0000

Subject: Release Okiya Okoiti Immediately.
By Odhiambo Omolo
1/24/08

RELEASE OKIYA OKOITI IMMEDIATELY.

Could the whole world ask the Kenya government to release Okiya Omtatah Okoiti immediately? This is total abuse of power. Okiya did not hurt anybody but he was just expressing his anger by chaining himself on fence at the Police Headquarters. It was alledged that he was trying to commit suicide. Saitoti and Major Ali should make sure that Okiya is safe whever they are keeping him.There are so many criminals in Kenya who should be charged in court of law and some of them are George Kinuthia Saitoti- Goldenberg, Kiraitu Murungi-Anglo Leasing, Mwai Kibaki- Ken Gen and many more. Okiya did not steal even a penny from the public.

Ends.

Kenyan Police Divided Over Crackdown

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:49:35 +0000

Kenyan Police Divided Over Crackdown
By KATHARINE HOURELD

Monday, January 21, 2008

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)

The police commander poured gasoline down the walls of three slum shacks and set them alight. At each home, his officers waited until his back was turned, then doused the flames. The small rebellion is symptomatic of rifts within Kenya’s police force over harsh tactics ordered to suppress opposition protests, some officers say a new fracture in ethnic and political conflicts tearing at the country since a disputed presidential election.
Several police officers sought out The Associated Press to express concern over the tough measures they have been ordered to use against opposition supporters protesting what they say was President Mwai Kibaki’s theft of the Dec. 27 ballot.
“People are separating into tribes,” said one Muslim policeman in Nairobi, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job. “What is outside is being reflected in the force.”

Human rights groups say more than 650 people have died in an election dispute that has sparked three overlapping conflicts between ruling party loyalists and the opposition, between ethnic groups with long-held land grievances or connections to rival politicians, and between police and the residents of Nairobi’s restive shantytowns.
Clashes have been particularly severe between Kibaki’s Kikuyu people, the largest ethnic group, and the Luo of opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga.
But rights groups say many deaths have been caused by police, who have fired tear gas and live rounds at protesters.
Several police officers said they had been given “shoot-to-kill” orders, and one described “a general rebellion which has been compounded by that kind of orders.”

Two officers involved in a raid on a Nairobi slum said they had refused to shoot to kill and fired their guns into the air instead.

Officers said some policemen had threatened colleagues with fisticuffs and even death in disputes over tactics. All the officers spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The divisions further weaken a force already undermined by low pay–a recruit’s monthly salary is $154 and a mid-ranking officer makes $240–and a reputation for corruption.

One officer said tensions are so high there could be a police strike.

Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe denied there are any splits within the force and charged that officers may have been bribed by the opposition to fabricate testimony.

“There are no divisions in the police force as of now,” he said.

Kiraithe also said no commander had issued shoot-to-kill orders, insisting that officers are being told to use restraint.

Kenya’s police initially denied killing any protesters, but last week acknowledged officers had been responsible for some deaths and put the number at 82. Rights activists said the number was much higher. At a rally Monday attended by thousands in his hometown of Kisumu, the opposition leader Odinga raged against police violence, pointing to seven
bodies that had been brought into the stadium.

“You can see how our bodies are lying there dead because they were killed by ruthless police,” Odinga said.

At least 53 people have been killed in Kisumu. Hospital records indicate 44 of them died from bullets. Guns have been used primarily, if not exclusively, by police in the upheaval since the election, while rioters have often used machetes and bows and arrows.

Kiraithe also denied police officers would deliberately destroy property.

“There are no circumstances whatsoever when a police officer can set fire to a building. It is false,” he said.

Two officers, however, said that is exactly what happened.

They said that last week, after a train was looted as it rolled through Nairobi’s Kibera slum on the last of three days of opposition protests, they were given orders to enter homes there, beat any men they found and destroy property in the homes.

“Spare a woman and a child, but everything else was to be vandalized. Any man found in his house was to be dealt with beaten up,” one of the officers said.

He and a second officer involved in the raid said their colleagues reluctantly searched houses but refused to beat people or destroy property, because many of the officers were Luo, the same ethnic group as the householders. They said the commander was from the Meru tribe, considered an ally of the Kikuyu.

On Friday, another police patrol in Kibera fired from a train, and six people died, including a 15-year-old girl.

Later Friday, the two officers said, they were told they would be returning to Kibera that night and a senior officer told them they were taking gasoline along. Houses would be burned to teach the slum dwellers a lesson, the two said.

In response, junior officers hid 15 cans of water in the three trucks that transported them, the two officers said. Some also tipped off relatives in the area about the raid, and the area was deserted when they arrived, the officers said.

The men said their senior officer set fire to shanties in three different locations and left a group to guard each. When he left, the officers doused the fires, the two said.

Two residents, Beatrice Michael and George Okumu, corroborated parts of the officers’ story. Michael said she passed three truckloads of police while taking her daughter to a hospital after she was hit by a stray bullet. Okumu said residents were tipped off their homes would be burned and left the area Friday night.

The two officers said objections to such harsh tactics had been intensified by the ethnic splits plaguing Kenya. Some Luo officers have been transferred from their usual patrol areas, they said. An officer at the Criminal Investigation Department, where the two senior officers are both Kikuyu, said he knew of at least 10 non-Kikuyu officers who had been asked to give up their sidearms. No reason was given, he said.

“If they see two or three people (police) who are not Kikuyu discussing politics, they become suspicious,” the officer said.

Kiraithe, the police spokesman, said he was unaware of any such incidents.

The Muslim officer in Nairobi said he had been ready to fight some colleagues when they suggested tear-gassing Nairobi’s main mosque during a small demonstration Friday.

There was outrage when police in the coastal city of Mombasa fired tear gas outside the main mosque at unarmed protesters who were preparing to march after Friday prayers.

The officer said he threw away his tear gas without using it. He added that although most of those disobeying orders were non-Kikuyus, there were also some Kikuyu officers unhappy with the situation. Many of his Muslim colleagues, he said, were concerned they could be transferred or fired because of the perception that Muslim communities support the opposition.

“There are people who say they are ready to join Raila’s force,” the Muslim officer said. “Senior officers are also divided … Some guys are saying, ‘Let me see anyone shooting a civilian, I will kill you.’”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/ap_on_re_af/kenya_police_rift

- Sent by Oremo

KIBAKI WAS FORCED!!!!

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:37:39 +0000

KIBAKI WAS FORCED AND RUSHED INTO A SWEARING CEREMONY BY THE MT.KENYA MAFIA IN A MEETING CHAIRED BY MICHUKI TOP SOURCES PRIVY TO NSIS TOP OFFICALS BASED AT THE HEADQUARTERS ARE CONFIRMING THAT WHILE PRESIDENT KIBAKI WANTED TO CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE TO ONCEDE DEFEAT WHILE 90% OF THE VOTRES HAD BEEN COUNTED, 48HRS BEFORE ELECTION AN EMERGENCY MEETING CHAIRED BY MICHUKI AND SECONDED BY NICHOLAS BIWOTT AND LUCY KIBAKI AT MICHUKI AND OWNED WINDSOR GOLF WHEREBY BIWOTT AND DANIEL ARAP THREATENED TO LEAVE KIBAKI ALONE TO FIGHT HIS OWNED PROBLEMS AND THEY WOULD FLEE THE COUNTRY TO MAURITANIA IF HE DOESNT FORCE HIS WAY INTO VICTORY.
MICHUKI IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SO ANNOYED HE LIT A CIGARRETE OF
EMBASSY KINGS INFRONT OF THE CLIQUE AND MADAME LUCY, SAYING KIBAKI
SHOULD LEAVE EVERYTHING TO HIM, HE’LL HANDLE.

A TELEPHONE CALL, NUMBER WITHHELD, WAS MADE TO KIVUITU BY
BIWOTT,TELLING HIM THAT,WAZEE WA NCHI WAME DECIDE THAT HE SHOULD
INAUGURATE KIBAKI OR ELSE LEAVE KENYA WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. HE WAS OFFERED KES 242 MILLION IN RETURN,WHICH HE ACCEPTED AND A POST OF KENYA’S AMBASSADOR TO BOTSWANA COME MARCH, WHICH HE ACCEPTED.

-Sent by Seydou

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READERS: This reports is unconfirmed. We guess we’ll know more in March should that post as ambassador to Botswana (or wherever) materialize. Anyone have access to Kivuitu’s bank statements?

- Jaluo Press

What could Kibaki have discussed with Museveni [ M7 ]

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:18:33 +0000

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:38:52 -0800 (PST)

Confirmed: President Mwai Kibaki visited Uganda
Last updated : 15 Jan 2008, Kampala

Radio Katwe has done its cross checking and can now confirm to its readers that President Mwai Kibaki the Kenyan head of state (a title in hot dispute) paid a surprise visit to Uganda last Thursday.

Rumours have been in Kampala that Kibaki visited his fellow dictator Yoweri Museveni but we could not confirm them at first. Now we have seen concrete evidence that Kibaki was in Uganda.

Many Ugandans are worried by why Kibaki chose to come to Uganda at a time when Kenya is in big problems. They are worried that Kibaki might have got to Uganda to consult a man who besides other titles like elections stealer, and serial breaker of Agreements between conflicting parties, is most well known as veteran of genocide against civilians.

Recently we saw pictures of youths in Kenya carrying machetes (pangas) and it brought back memories of the pangas used in the Rwandan Genocide. We earlier wrote about a truck full of new pangas that was taken from Uganda to Rwanda just before the terrible genocide there.

We have not got any news about what they discussed but when the most powerful and corrupt men get together to strike deals, the people of East Africa should get worried.

Foul play is being suspected between Museveni and Kibaki.

- Sent by Keith

POLENI WAKENYA KWA MATATIZO YALIYOWAKUMBA!

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:14:14 +0000

    Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:47:17 -0800 (PST)

Naitwa Tirus Okolah Omolo mwanfunzi wa Green Acres High school Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kwanza kabisa nina majonzi makubwa sana kuwapa wakenya poleni na na matatizo ya kisiasa,vilevile napenda kutuma salaam za rambirambi kwa wafiwa wote na jamaa/marafiki na ndugu zao.

Jamani mweshimiwa Mwai Kibaki Hauoni kuwa watu wanakuwa wakimbizi nchini mwao na nchi jirani za Uganda na Tanzania.Swali ni kwamba hutaongoza wakina nani huku wananchi walio wengi hawakupendi na hutatumia jeshi la polisi mpaka lini kiwauwa Raia wasio na hatia MFANO M ZURI ni ya kule Jijini Kisumu Kijana mdogo Ahmed Salimu alipopigwa Risasi 2 na polisi jamani hivi motto kama huyu wa miaka 15 ana uwezo wa kupiga kura??? Nakusii mweshimiwa mwai Kibaki iundwe kwa Serikali ya Mpito huku ukiwa nje ya kiti cha urais ili kunusuru hali ya kisiasa/kiuchumi na kijamii.

Jumuiya ya Umoja wa nchi huru za Kiafrika A.U, Umoja wa mataifa U.N,Jumuiya ya madola COMMONWEALTH na mataifa Makubwa,wakati uliopo sio wakati wa kubembelezana, kilichopo ni kutumia nguvu kama njia za KIDIPLOMASIA zimeshindikana kumwambia mweshimiwa mwai kibaki9 angatuke madarakani na kurudiwa kwa uchaguzi wa Urais au uhesabuji upya wa kura kwa kuanzia kwenye majimbo.Vinginevyo hakuna haja ya Kusema kuna demokrasia na hakuna haja ya kufanya uchaguzi kama wanaonekana kushindwa kwenye uchaguzi ndio wanapewa uongozi.

Mabadiliko yasipofanyika KENYA basi kesho na Kesho kutwa viongozi wengine wan chi za kiafrika au pengine watangangania madaraka.

Mwenyekiti wa Tume ya Uchaguzi Kenya hana huruma na sio mwajibikaji katika kazi yake, na kwanini ashinikizwe kutangaza.

directortirus@yahoo.com

RIT MAKENDE

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:04:33 +0000

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:52:29 +0300

JAKOM ONEGO MI RIT MAKENDE.

OKO NEGO KIKORE GI OGANDA SECHE DUTO.

JOGI ASECHICH GO.

NYO UNENO GIMANYOTIMORE ELAMO MAR KWEE MA OPUODHI GI SERIKAL.

KENDO LEWNI LORI MISIMA MAG LWENY UGANDA MANYOMAKI KADONJO THURKA MAG
ANG’O?

KIK WIWA WIL NI JANEK MA MUSEVENI NI EI BOMA.

GEORGE

Ugandan security forces were in Kenya after the rigged election

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:56:14 +0000

    Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:52:25 -0800 (PST)

Dear Sir / Madam

I am a resident of Uganda and a fan of Jaluo dot Com, I thought I should share this with you.

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008

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      Ugandan security forces were in Kenya after the rigged election
      Last updated : 15 Jan 2008, Kampala
      We are able to confirm to you after checking the facts on the ground in Kisumu that Museveni and President Kibaki were in cahoots in the chaos that engulfed our neighbours after the rigged Kenyan election. We cannot yet tell when or from which source in Kenya the initiative originated, but somehow Museveni summoned General David Tinyefuza his intelligence supremo and gave him the task of planning the mission.

Tinyefuza assembled some spies of the ESO and ISO and they moved in. Military Police were also involved and when they reached the border crossing at Busia, they removed their red toupees and donned the uniform of Kenya’s GSU security force.

The Kenya High Commission in Nakasero a suburb of Kampala, coordinated the part of giving diplomatic cover to the Ugandan hooligans. Tinyefuza set up a command and control centre at Tororo and there was also a post at Busia. The official cover was to monitor the security situation.

We shall be giving you more details when our sources who also went into Kenya under secret cover to investigate Museveni’s bloody hand in the Kenya election, have put together their reports.

It was a real risk. One of our informers almost got caught but God was on his side and our last contact with him says he is okay. Lets give him some time to write a report of what he saw there, then we shall put it on Radio Katwe.

There are senior politicians in Kenya who have vowed to punish Museveni for what he did. We hope they will see the difference between ordinary Ugandans and the evil mafia government of M7.
- Sent by Keith

READERS: See also “Kenya: Ugandan Army Uniforms Found” http://allafrica.com/stories/200801231076.html

SIMPLE TRUTH

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:46:54 +0000

    Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:18:51 +0000 (GMT)

To all wishful thinking Kibaki supporters:

1)WE MUST KNOW BY HOW MUCH AND WHY THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTES EXCEEDED THE PARLIAMENTARY VOTES IN EACH CONSTITUENCIY. AND TO WHICH CANDIDATE THEY WENT. AND THE NAMES OF EACH AND EVERYONE OF THE 207 RETURNING OFFICERS OF EACH OF THE CONSTITUENCIES (So we know how many kikuyus/merus/jaluos turned up only to vote for the president and NOT for any parliamentary candidate??!) AND TURNOUT IN %AGE FROM THE REGISTERED VOTERS.

2)A TIME CHART SHOWING THE EXACT TIME THE TOTALS OF PRESIDENTIAL VOTES OF EACH CONSTITUENCY WERE ENTERED IN THE TALLYING COMPUTER. THE EXACT ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE RECEIVED AND ADDED TO MAKE THE RUNNING TOTAL FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL FINAL COUNT.(inputing and reinputing and changes and cooking will show up big time – us acountants do it all the time!!)

3)THIS CAN BE DONE IN PUBLIC WITH EACH OF THE RETURNING OFFICERS PRESENT AND CALLED OUT ONE BY ONE !! TO ATTEST TO HIS/HER NUMBERS AND SIGNATURE IN PUBLIC !! Is this so difficult to do??!

Its very simple then, can be done over one day only, the aterere rigging will show up big time.

- Iqbal

KENYAN CRISIS MORE CONSTITUTIONAL THAN LEGAL

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:41:53 +0000

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:45:12 -0800 (PST)

KENYANS,

Justice and Constitutional affairs minister Martha Karua chooses to see the current national stalemate in a dualistic view. She does this by claiming that the incumbent won the elections and that ODM should seek redress from the courts due to a disputed election result. I fault her for interpreting a constitutional matter as purely legal. I wish to note that the dispute is political and constitutional than an electoral and legal issue. Kenyans are not only democratic but are able to understand the country’s electoral process. The hard-line stand by some around Kibaki is what is exacerbating further the crisis. Hon. Martha Karua ought to realize that Kenyans cannot be made blind when government deceivingly constitutionalizes electoral misconduct as a constitutional illegality while using selective constitutional interpretations to be in office. Kenyans should know that options for ODM are multiplistic and within the laid down constitutional framework. This include calling for a presidential re-run within 90 days or be allowed to share power equitably with the government for the sake of all Kenyans.

What Karua has succeeded in doing is to structure he fate of ODM on a purely legal form than a political cum constitutional item. What Kenyans yearn to have is a universally accepted ethical option for all. But are the likes of Karua committed to equally unite the PNU and ODM factions and the rest of Kenyans who are now desperate?

Certainly solving an electoral dispute in polar terms is risky and has dictatorial tendencies. The firm stand by PNU is since seen as a structure of the party’s own legal intellect and interpretation and not nationally accepted by the majority.

PNU ought to observe the current political uncertainty, not as confusion but democratic diversity that is constitutionally legitimate. Isn’t the political impasse contextual and relative to our current challenge? And relative to the post-election crisis facing us!

Thus any mediation and dialogue should have a variety of valid political and constitutional alternatives than to selfishly restrict ourselves to limited legal interpretations. For going to court would only take us back and forth and for a long time to come.

On the other hand, Hon. Karua should cease to be a legal activist and a sectarian politician and government servant and be able to distinguish between a constitutional fact and a political folly.

PNU should also know that the questions we all share are more important than the answers they selectively choose to give to Kenyans. We only become worse when we commit ourselves to both knowing and doing than to listen to what others have to say.

Lastly, is this institutionalized reverse psychology with a legal basis anchoring a political angle to favor the incumbent?

Regards,
Mundia Mundia Jnr.

Weche – Meeting Between Annan, Odinga, and Kibaki

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:35:56 +0000

Koffi Anan has been quick to calm the political tension in the country within his twenty four hours of arrival that has brought a ray of hope.

  Yesterday upon meeting with the pentagon he was able to convince them to call off their mass action planned for today and today he has finally been able to bring together Hon Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki hours after meeting Kibaki

  All eyes are set on the outcome of the meeting that is taking place at Harambee House right now as it will determine the destiny of the country.


  Pliz yawa jatelo you know some are logging as far as from britain kata ka imiyo gi a flash mar gi ma timre to ibro konyo kweyo kata ka ok kamano to kare tem aneuhuru confirm wach ni mondo u come up with something.

10 REASONS WHY I LOVE KENYA.

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:33:49 +0000

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:43:37 +0300

10 REASONS WHY I LOVE KENYA.

Najivunia kuwa mkenya – this is because Kenya is a very special and unique
country. Many things that happen in Kenya have never been witnessed
anywhere else in the world.

Sample this

* Kenya is probably the only country which insists on being called a
democracy while it definitely isn’t.

* Kenya is probably the only country in the world whose Electoral
Commission boss declares that he doesn’t know who won in the presidential
race – yet statehouse continues to be occupied.

* It must only be in Kenya where he that wins in two provinces defeats
he that wins in six provinces – isn’t this interesting?

* Kenya is surely a country with a transport network that is simply
unpredictable and just can’t be explained. Sample this – results from
Wajir, Funyula, Budalangi, Isiolo, and Lodwar take a just day to reach KICC
Nairobi, yet results from Kiambaa (just past Muthaiga-Kiambu) take more than
three consecutive days being transported to Nairobi.

* Am sure Kenya must be the only country in the world where 95,000
votes are realized in constituencies with only 70,000 registered voters -
truly Kenyan ama?

* Kenya must be the only country in which a presidential candidates
name goes missing in the Voters register in his own constituency on polling
day.

* It must only be in Kenya where the winning party has its deputy
captain (vice president) and 20 ministers swept away by the opposition’s
tsunami. The most “popular” party then gets only 35 MPs while the
“unpopular” one scoops 100 parliamentary seats.

* Kenya must be the only country whose citizens don’t learn from the
mistakes of others. The KANU-LDP MOU was dishonoure by Moi, the
NAK-LDP MOU was trashed by Kibaki now ODM-KENYA trusts PNU to honour
their recently signed MOU – how naive.

* Kenyans are a very interesting lot. The words GRAND COALITION or
PARTY CHAIRMAN means absolutely nothing to the Kenyan voters. Sample this -
all the party chairmen in PNUs Grand Coalition lost their seats to the
opposition.

FORD KENYA – Chairman Musikari Kombi – OUT

FORD PEOPLE- Chairman Simeon Nyachae – OUT

NARC KENYA- Chairman Raphael Tuju – OUT

TIP- Chairman Kalembe Ndile – OUT

NEW FORD KENYA- Chairman Mukhisa Kituyi – OUT

SAFINA- Chairman Paul Muite – OUT

AGANO- its Chairman – OUT

MAZINGIRA- Chairman Wangari Maathai – OUT

FORD ASILI- Its Chairman stood no chance

CHAMA CHA MASIKINI -Chairman Assitant Minister Koigi Wamwere – OUT

* Lastly, Kenya must be the only country which insists that it has
a free press, yet if media houses are not being raided then they are
being BANNED from live broadcasting.

You see why I love my unique country?

Yours proudly Kenyan – Mark Kirario

JUSTICE FIRST AND PEACE WILL PREVAIL IN KENYA

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:40:31 +0000

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:22:01 -0800 (PST)

Amazing grace:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7205762.stm

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jared wrote:

Dear friends,

Something to share with you.
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Kind regards,
The issue before us not easy as it looks. In guise all of us are looking at the situation with our coloured glasses. Coloured by our perception of the other people or by our perceived injustice carried against us depending on our social or ethnic backgrounds. We are all waiting for external events or the other person to act in a certain way in order to release us from our anguish and anger. We have become emotional prisoners of one another,regardless of our
education or religion we secretly want blood and destruction. I met someone who seemingly can’t eat since this crises started, why? Because of the way they feel about the situation and “that tribe ” that has caused it What we have refused to take is personal responsibility. We must appreciate the fact that true healing starts first with us. Our release from anger is not with the other person, or a summon on the pulpit, it is with us. We must take responsibility of
our emotions and feelings towards the “other people”.

This is the only way we can build a civilized society. Without saying it people are looking for revenge and justice. It is said when you take the route of revenge, you then must dig two graves because you also become a victim. We must first find personal freedom by disempowering the “other person” to be the
source of our self esteem or happiness. You disempowerthe other person by first forgiving them in order to realize true peace to enable you to rationally
evaluate the cause of the current events and factually deal with it.

Dr Munroe in his book the “Burden of Freedom” notes that many third world nations have never known what real freedom is. We want freedom both social and
economic but we don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. For years we hated the Asians for their prosperity; we even beat them and destroyed their
property when we got a chance to. But we remained poor. However over the last 10 years, we have taken responsibility, we have developed our business skill.
We have now competed with them in the spare parts business; we have invaded the city shops with our exhibitions stands and killed the ” Dukawala”. The
crusade continues, we soon shall follow them into the industrial area and start manufacturing. We don’t hate or beat them; we must compete with them in a free
enterprise and beat them at their own game. In short we have taken responsibility and claimed our freedom from hate and economic need.

Forgiving the other person almost sounds cowardly. But it is the first step towards greatness, it is the path that made Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela great, yet in this perceived weakness they brought lasting freedom to their masses. Your character must be bigger than the issue before hand.You deal with the issue but preserve the core at any cost, you take responsibility.

What is a world without your opponent? We are all codependent on one another. In our different forms we constitute the beauty of Kenya . Imagine a world without the flair of the Luo, the biashara mind of a Kikuyu and the humour of a Akamba. It is this distinct different cultures that visitors admire about Kenya and want to come back again and again.

Last Saturday my wife and I went to salvage our business that we have build painfully over five years. A gang of youths were at the gate and ordered us to turn back or burn our car. Some of them were people we had directly helped. They were taking possession of every business premise on that building as their own. They have been made to believe that by freely taking, they will find personal freedom. We turned back and left them to occupy the building and loot the premises. Was I full of hate for them for destroying our investment of five years? Maybe for a moment, it was painful but I took control. I must not become their emotional prisoner through hate. Instead of anger I actually pitied them because they were living in a form of ignorance. I have found personal freedom that they apparently haven’t. I shall start again, I shall build another business. After all this is the spirit of enterprise. I shall find economic freedom through daily effort and the search for a better way.

They will never on the other hand find this freedom unless they first seek to understand or someone explains to them.

We look foolish in the eyes of the world as we torch our country in the name of anger. We entertain the west in their cozy living rooms as we chase our brothers with pangas and destroy property. We bring colour to their evenings as they enjoy the boredom that comes with tranquil and peace. After all, this better than watching wrestling. This is “Real TV “as Africans torch their country and mutilate one another. It is true what they have always believed; the African might actually never find civility.

I have thus made a choice not to be angry with the “other tribe”. I will endeavour to forgive where I have been harmed, I will search where I am unjust to the other person so that I can correct. But we must all rise above the hate regardless of the facts and search for the greater common good. If you find truth in this email, please pass it on to one more person.

Jameni for the so called peace to be in Kenya, many issues have to be addressed,it is not only the contested presidential elections results, it is much deeper than that.

Amani Kenya Justice first. That is the onsong slogan in most parts of Kenya as I mail you this article if I may call it so.
- Author unknown, sent by Lucy

MAZRUI: SHOULD KENYA BE SUSPENDED FROM THE COMMONWEALTH?

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:29:32 +0000

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:44:28 -0800 (PST)

January 2008

POST-ELECTION KENYA: SHOULD IT BE SUSPENDED FROM THE COMMONWEALTH?

by Ali A. Mazrui
Chancellor, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya should be flattered, rather than insulted, by the amount of international attention it has received from the African Union, the European Union, the United States, other African Leaders and the indefatigable Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had received half the attention Kenya has got since the election, two million Congolese lives might have been saved. If the Congo has been the most internationally neglected African crisis of this 21st century, the Kenya crisis since the last week of December 2007 has been the most responded to internationally.

One of the major reasons is that until the last week of December 2007 Kenya had been one of the beacons of hope in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2002 a political party which had been in power since independence in 1963 was thrown out of office by the electorate. Mwai Kibaki peacefully became the new President of Kenya, in alliance with Raila Odinga.

Although interparty relations in Kenya deteriorated, the Kibaki regime created a more open society. The Press became much freer, both printed and electronic, in spite of periodic harassment by the police. Preventive detention of political opponents became more and more rare, though Muslims were targeted more often. The government encouraged an annual accountability of performance in human rights, including the equivalent of National Ombudsman in Kenya. The Kibaki regime attempted to deal with judicial corruption by sacking certain judges. President Kibaki vetoed parliamentary legislation which would have forced reporters and journalists to disclose their sources for stories about corruption. This particular veto by President Kibaki put Kenya ahead of the United States in the protection of the sources of journalists and reporters. In the United States in 2007 a high profile New York Times reporter went to prison for refusing to disclose her sources.

All the evidence before the December elections indicated that the legacy of Mwai Kibaki as President would be a celebration of a more open society in Kenya.

And then came the elections of December 2007. The parliamentary part of the elections would have vindicated a Kibaki legacy of “the open society.” One powerful Kenyan after another was voted out of his or her parliamentary seat. Half of the members of Kibaki’s cabinet were angrily thrown out of power by the electorate. The stage was set for a probable electoral defeat of the Kibaki regime.

Kenya seemed to be on the verge of a great democratic milestone – the defeat of an incumbent president and his gracious acceptance of the verdict of the electorate. The defeat of an incumbent president had previously happened in Zambia, Malawi, Senegal, Mauritius and elsewhere. A version of it had also happened in Ghana when Jerry Rawling’s party was electorally defeated.

But the tables were turned on the Kenya presidential elections in circumstances which cast doubt on the fairness of the outcome. None of the external observers were prepared to confirm President Mwai Kibaki as a fairly and democratically elected president. There were no open congratulations from even the White House and No 10 Downing Street. There was a serious risk that the Kibaki legacy would change from the architect of “the Open Society in Kenya” to the architect of “the Broken State”.

A major reason of the international concern was to avert the prospect of Kenya becoming another failed state in a region which already had too many failed states (Somalia, Rwanda, Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi, and the semi-flawed States of Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan). In the past Kenya was the asylum state for the refugees from Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia and elsewhere. The Kenya elections of December 2007 has reversed the flow of refugees. There are now thousands of Kenya refugees in Uganda, instead of the other way around.

While international statesmen have come to Nairobi to try to persuade the two sides to compromise, none of the international actors came with the threat of real sanctions if the two sides did not seek reconciliation. If there is to be an ultimatum to Kenyans to end the crisis or be ostracized, the ultimatum has to be specific and unequivocal.

The African Union talks loosely about “PEER REVIEW”. Should the African Union suspend Kenya’s membership if there is no effort to solve the stalemate? The African Union has tried to deny legitimacy to a government produced by a military coup. Is there such a thing as a civilian coup? If the Kenyan presidency was stolen, should Kenya lose its seat at the meetings of the African Union until the problem is resolved? The African Union has often been more an apologist for Robert Mugabe than a correction officer. But the Commonwealth has been reedier to reprimand and ostracize Zimbabwe.

Pakistan has been suspended from the Commonwealth more than once before!! Its Commonwealth Status was at stake when President Musharraf suspended the Pakistani Constitution even recently in 2007. Pakistan’s membership in the Commonwealth was at stake much earlier in the clash with East Pakistan (today’s Bangladesh).

              Are the Luo of Kenya in 2008 the equivalent of the Bengalis of East Pakistan in the early 1970s? The Luos are far less separatist in orientation in 2008 than the Bengalis were in the early 1970s. But the Luo are now leaning towards federalism (majimbo) in Kenya.

             If Kenya does not want to be suspended from either the African Union, the Commonwealth, or lose friendship with the wider Western World, we need to engage these alienated groups into a new global order of democratization. Our reputation internationally is tarnished. Our stability at home has been seriously compromised.

- Sent by John O.

Message of Solidarity to Kenyans – by Nyindodo

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:28 +0000

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:45:43 -0800 (PST)

CHANGE IS WITH THE PEOPLE AND IT IS UPON THE PEOPLE TO MAKE THE CHANGE

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King

We are in solidarity as Kenyans in Kenya and Kenyans in the Diaspora who have been deprived of their fundamental human rights by a clique of Mount Kenya
Mafia.

Kenyan, time is ripe for real change, time is ripe to demand our rights back and no amount of intimidation by Kibaki’s illegitimate government will deter our fight/spirit in the struggle for Justice.

We are tired of being oppressed.
We are tired of being slaves.
We are tired of paying taxes to Kibaki and his cronies.
We are tired of paying government loans that end up in Mount Kenya Mafia’s pockets.
We are tired of working hard only to be paid peanuts.
We are tired of status quo.

CHANGE for the better is our right and must be achieved through all means possible.
We the people of Kenya must fight for our rights for nobody other than us shall make it happen.

We Kenyan are the civilians.
We Kenyan are the police.
We Kenyans are the military.
We Kenyans are the civil servants.
We Kenyans are the oppressed.
We Kenyans are the hardworking low class
We Kenyans are the hardworking middle class.
We Kenyans are the hard working upper class.
We Kenyans are the slaves.
We Kenyans are the 42 tribes.

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE – Peace is a result of Justice and for peace to prevail justice must take precedence.

We Kenyans must work in solidarity to fight for our fundamental human right.
We Kenyans must send Kibaki and his cronies packing.
We Kenyans must be free from oppression.

Some important Quotes in pursuit for Justice are as follows;

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
- Germaine Greer
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
- Jean Jaqueas Rousseau
A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.
- Rosellen Brown
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
- Imamu Amiri Baraka
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no
democracy.
- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincolnk, edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?),p. 532.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain, which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, p 176, 1955
Too many people are only willing to defend rights that are personally important to them. It’s selfish ignorance, and it’s exactly why totalitarian governments are able to get away with trampling on people. Freedom does not mean freedom just for the things I think I should be able to do. Freedom is for all of us. If people will not speak up for other people’s rights, there will come a day when they will lose their own.
- Tony Lawrence (apl@world.std.com), 12/28/95
No constitution, no court, no law can save liberty when it dies in the hearts and minds of men.
- John Perkins
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
Jaramogi Olende Nyindodo
Advocate for Justice

Ugandan Military Uniforms Found

joluo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:06:48 +0000

To the readers of this website,please vigorously investigate the presence of Ugandan troops on Kenyan soil as reported in article from The Standard (below). Where were these military uniforms going? What is the Kenyan military doing allowing Uganda’s army in the country? Has Kenyan military conceded the Western, Rift Valley and Nyanza province to
the Ugandan government? Are these provinces NOT being protected by Kenya’s army now? What is the President of Uganda doing in these so-called mediation meetings if his troops are stationed on Kenyan soil?

One thing that all Kenyans should agree on is keeping the integrity of our country without the presence of foreign troops.

Are the lives of people in these three provinces NOT worth protecting by Kenyan government and the army? Writers and readers of this website should seriously look into the issue of Uganda army into this country and bring everything to light. The Standard article provides a good beginning to start to the investigation. I know Uganda’s Foreign
Minister and President have gone on record stating that “they don’t have troops in Kenya”. It is time for Kenya’s government to tell the public where these uniforms and other contents in the lorry were going. Teso OCPD, Mr. Joseph Kiget, whom I guess is a Kenyan law enforcement officer admitted to witnessing these things. Kenya’s people should NOT rely on the denial of the President of Uganda and his Foreign Minister on this
issue. We Kenyans needs to hear from our government.

http://www.eastandard.net/news/?id=1143980835&cid=4

Ugandan army uniforms found

Published on January 24, 2008, 12:00 am

By Robert Wanyonyi

Tension remained high at Malaba border after residents impounded a lorry full of Ugandan military uniforms.

The residents stopped the lorry, registration number KAV 018T, headed to the customs department and demanded to view its contents.

The besieged driver pleaded with the residents to let him pass as rowdy youths threatened to lynch him.

The angry mob was in the process of setting the lorry ablaze when riot police arrived.

Amid shouts of, “Open it, open it!” the residents almost overpowered the police, prompting Teso OCPD, Mr Joseph Kiget, to order the driver to open up the cargo.

Councillor Chrisantus Kipala, of Malaba Central Ward, and a few other people boarded the lorry to verify the items as residents cheered and broke into songs.

Pairs of Ugandan military uniforms and caps with State emblems were fished out of the boxes.

“Now you can relax because you have seen what the lorry is carrying. You can now let the driver proceed with his journey,” the OCPD told the crowd.

The residents told /The Standard/ they will keep vigil at the boarder and are demanding an explanation from the Government about the Ugandan military uniforms.

Kenyan customs officials at the border declined to talk to journalists regarding the matter.

Ugandan security officials who had crossed the border to receive the consignment disappeared on realising the arrival of the KTN camera crew.

Tension has been high in western Kenya following rumours that Ugandan soldiers are in the country.

The soldiers were said to have headed to Nyanza, Western and Rift Valley provinces, where violence broke out after President Kibaki was declared the winner in last year’s discredited General Election.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has gone on record, saying he did not help President Kibaki in his controversial re-election.

The Ugandan Electoral Commission also denied having played a part in the tallying of presidential results.

Museveni also attributed the post-election violence to the Electoral Commission of Kenya.

Museveni is in the country as part of a mediation team.

Dan

Boy’s death exposes Kenya’s tragedy

joluo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:23:22 +0000

Boy’s death exposes Kenya’s tragedy

By Karen Allen
BBC News, Kisumu, western Kenya

Thursday, 17 January 2008, 22:19 GMT

Salim Hamed was out playing football in a poor neighbourhood of Kisumu when three stray bullets, fired by police, struck him in the back.

He died, aged just 13 – another casualty of Kenya’s post-election violence.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught up as protesters were repelled by a volley of gunfire.

For more, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7195136.stm

- Sent by Annah

Kalonzo Miracle!!

joluo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:13:07 +0000

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:44:34 +0000 (GMT)

The Diplomatic passport that was withdrawn previously by the Devil Kiguoya, he has now managed to get it back again from the Devil ! (this time with the aid of one Lucy Kibaki !).

There is only one problem, this Dancer when performing at State House,being a loyal poor cousin (unlike Ngilu who refused to dance! ), has to take one slap in public from Lucy (like Musyimi did) in return.

Some miracle!

Iqbal

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READERS: This report is unconfirmed. It appears that Kalonzo Musyoka may have gotten back that special passport… Too bad there may be an impending travel ban…

http://www.uusc.org/info/Kenyastatement.html

Peace Vigil

joluo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:38:30 +0000

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:09:21 +0300

Wanakazi,

I want to make a special request. Can we have a peace vigil of the highest number of people we can manage? Can someone propose a location where we can have lit candles all night in a church or preferable an open space where we will have not less than 1000 people attending and praying for all those who have lost their loved ones in the violence? If you know anyone who has died in the violence pliz just you can write his/her name somewhere and lets have each and everyone of us carry a candle for a friend who might not have any.

Anyone for the idea to link up with me. No payment. We are going to have the peace vigil preferably on a weekend at night. What do you guys think?

Robert
kaziafrika@googlegroups.com