The Nation (Nairobi)
10 April 2008
Britain Wednesday suggested that some of President Kibaki's supporters surrender their plum Cabinet posts for sharing with their ODM rivals as some diplomats expressed optimism that the coalition government would be named soon.
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Wether a cabinet is formed or not we shall be hopping from one crises to another. If you go for another election which was the odm strategy any way the looser wont accept the results because a precedent as been set. The demands of odm was a re run because they knew they had already displaced most of pnu voters on the western side of the country and also managed to intimidate others into silence through distruction of their property and threats of death. Unless GOD comes himself without sending somebody else we are going to sink deeper into this crises.
As a Kenyan I have come to cherish the history of Australia and especially the latest apology for historial injustices committed against the Aborigines. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to indigenous Australians has drawn praise from a strange quarter - the Beverly Hills home of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas.
In a personally signed letter, the 91-year-old veteran of the silver screen lauded the Prime Minister's "courageous act" of sorry and told of his own political frustrations with the US Government.
"We are in a period of chaos in the world that our children and grandchildren will inherit," he wrote.
.. You are fully aware of the political crisis that we are currently going through with the most recent fear that Kenya could slide into civil war if the Peace Accord of power sharing and portfolio balance in government fails to work...the two principle leaders (President KIBAKI and Prime Minister RAILA) are yet to agree on cabinet list..
The Kenyan crisis goes beyond a flawed electoral process...its is about decades of political impunity by a certain ruling class... it is about a widening socio-economic gap between the few extremely corrupt rich and the majority poor slum dwellers... it borders on historical injustices committed by both the colonial masters (British gov't) and their loyal servants whom they left power to (immoral, selfish African leaders who grabbed all the fertile land and diverted public resources to their own bank accounts in Sweden, US, UK etc
I believe we us a nation can learn alot from the Australian experience... I hope the good leaders there can offer to advise our selfish politicians here so that we do not sink into the same pit...maybe through the embassy in Kenya?
I believe that all it may take to change things in Kenya is a official apology to the oppressed citizens...maybe some form of monetary compensation...We still hope that the situations will not degenerate into anarchy, Kenyans are peace loving citizens pressed between a rock and hard place... Leaders are using the masses to fight their own tribal battles for selfish benefits
How blind can people be not to see that the future lies in accepting each other and living together in peace? In modern political terms this means real sharing of power reflecting the mix of diversity in Kenya... "Running" a ministry is also a wrong terminology. I prefer "being accountable" to the Kenyan people in delivering real and tangible results. If their is no good performance ministers need to be sacked and replaced.
I am wonti a ministerial to eati andi to cover any corrupti misididi and to emploi all offo my tribe. Gifu mi ministiri foro pubriki toireti i make samu mani also.