Ayub Savula
26 February 2008
Nairobi — ODM last night called for mass action on this Thursday following the stalling of the Kofi Annan mediation talks.
Secretary General, Prof Anyang' Nyong'o, last night sent a letter dated February 25 to Police Commissioner, Maj Gen Ali Hussein, informing him that the party would hold nationwide peace meetings on February 28.
In the letter to the police commissioner, Nyong'o said all the ODM regional coordinators had delivered letters to respective Officer Commanding Police Stations (OCS) across the country.
At the same time, Nyong'o informed the Nairobi City Council that they had booked the Uhuru Park grounds.
Meanwhile, Annan's team said in a statement he had concluded the team was not capable of resolving the outstanding issues. He said they had made "almost no progress on governance".
In the statement sent to newsrooms last night, Annan said: "After four hours of intense negotiations this morning, the negotiating team made almost no progress toward reaching an agreement on governance, despite the fact that they were given entire weekend to consult on their positions.
"I had to conclude that they were not capable of resolving the outstanding issues, I therefore suspended the afternoon session in order to confer directly with the leaders."
Annan first met ODM leader, Mr Raila Odinga, at the Serena Hotel and then President Kibaki at State House.
"With these leaders I shared issues in contention and urged them to resolve their differences so that we could complete our work on Agenda Item 3. How to Resolve the Political crisis, confident that they understood the crisis the Nation is in and the impatient desire the people of Kenya to see a final resolution to the conflict.
"I believe that the Panel of Eminent African Personalities working with the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation have done its work. I am now asking the Party leaders, Hon Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki to do theirs."
Be the first to Write a Comment!
Copyright © 2008 The East African Standard. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
