Kenya: Kenyatta Launches New Party to Run for President

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has launched his new party simultaneously across Kenya and the diaspora, vowing to incorporate the youth in its leadership.

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Kenya Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta .



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  • emily_krieger
    May 22 2012, 00:51
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    "it was time for the "Young Turks" to take over the country's leadership." Moraan youths would be ready for their rites of passage into adulthood when 15 to 17 years old. The grandfathers referring to themselves as "Young Turks" here are over 50 years old - in a country where the average lifespan for males is under 45 years.

    Do we have here a case of stunted minds or some over-the-hill psychotic geezers trying to re-live their youth - and being unwilling to be at peace with their impending demise?

  • check-point
    May 23 2012, 13:16
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    From Fredi Magala (modified): "Through all that noisy launch of TNA political party, Uhuru was, and still is, a member of the KANU political party. Being a de facto member of more than one political party is unlawful in Kenya. {Call it impunity and a lack of integrity.} 1) Most presidential candidates in Kenya couldn't fund a tenth of the spectacle. Yet Kenyans must know that more money does not make the better leader.{Bill Gates for world president?}

    2)The razzle dazzle affair cost millions of shillings - brazenly mindless of the day-to-day struggles of millions of starving humans in bleak northern Kenya and Nairobi's vast slums - in a country where unemployment stands at over 65%.

    3) Uhuru's conscience? The wealth flashed by Uhuru was inherited from Jomo Kenyatta who died in 1978. In less than 15 years as a supreme leader of Kenya, Jomo rose from an obscure poor man and ex-convict, to perhaps the most powerful and richest landowner in Kenya - with huge accounts and vast investments in Kenya and elsewhere. How? It's no secret to Africa's corrupt leaders: Autocracy, corruption, land-grabbing, tribalism, nepotism, commandeering, impunity, mismanagement, bad governance, ..name it.

    By enjoying the show he can put on with the "dirty" wealth, Uhuru is also white-washing the methods by which the wealth was acquired. Uhuru is determined to make Kenyans re-visit and re-live the pre-1978 excesses. Be warned."

  • emily_krieger
    May 22 2012, 01:39
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    "the budget .. it will be in the range of 150 to 200 million shillings"

    In a land where over 65% of the population is unemployed and starving.

    Some Kenyans are aware that the wealth that Uhuru extravagantly squanders now (to show jealous impoverished Kenyans that he is rich), is Kenya's wealth inherited by Uhuru from his father who plundered Kenya during his autocratic regime.

    Will there be a day of reckoning?