27 April 2008
editorial
Nairobi — President Mwai Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka have spent three days in the volatile Rift Valley preaching peace. But clearly relations between Mr Musyoka and Mr Odinga are quite bad.
The source of their conflict is who among them follows the President in the pecking order.
The peace accord says the vice-president is the second in command, but the same law recognises the Orange Democratic Party and the Party of National Unity as equal partners in this government, and it therefore makes sense that the ODM leader is a substantially senior person in this country.
The demonstrations of hostility between leaders at meetings who are supposed to preach peace by projecting unity and amity amongst the leadership, is a prime example of irresponsibility and leaders nursing their exalted positions to the exclusion of everything else.
The whole peacemaking effort can't be jeopardised simply because it has not be resolved who between Mr Odinga and Mr Musyoka is the bigger kahuna.
Since the whole issue will be resolved in the constitutional review, the two gentlemen have, in the meantime no choice but to grow up and learn to share.
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