The East African Standard (Nairobi)
27 February 2008
A member of the PNU negotiating team engaged the Panel of Eminent African Persons in heated exchanges and is understood to have let fly comments that stunned mediators before the talks were suspended indefinitely, The Standard can report.
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It is very disappointing to note the selfish motive the PNU negotiators have shown in this. What does power sharing mean without real power and responsibility given to the PM whoever he may be. As far as I concerned the Opposition has conceded a lot and should not be expected more than what it has already done. Greedy leaders must be eliminated by all means.
The PNU governemnt has no plan to negotiate or cede anything for the success of these negotiations. They hope to buy time tand entrench themselves more in power in spite of the calls from the rest of the world for power sharing and ODM mooving away from their position that Kibaki should resign.
When ODM calls for mass protests they plan oppose the move because of violence even though the majority of the people killed especially in Western Kenya was by bullet wounds or policemen.
The world should take notice because these groups of people would rather have bloodshed than share power even if, they stole the it, as evidenced in the elections than share with the winners and the rest of the country. After all PNU only won less than 25% of the 210 seats in parliament, is comprised of one tribe the Kikuyu's (about 20% of Kenya) but want to grab everything. Statistically, logically, numerically, morally and scientifically almost impossible in present day Kenya even if the PNU were to rule under the barrel of a gun.
It is absolutely sad to hear/see how small minded and pitiful these negotiators are. At least they are tied to the negotiation table for the time being which means that we have some sort of damage control. I sincerely hope that the international community comes down really hard on these people if they don’t solve this crisis very soon. These irresponsible persons are going to be held accountable for what they are doing. Make no mistake about that.
/ Z