Kenya: Raila Odinga Calls for Thursday Mass Protest

31 December 2007
allAfrica.com
blog By Daudi Were

Nairobi — Kenyan blogger Daudi Were was at the opposition news conference in Nairobi on Monday.

ODM Press Conference – Kenya Election 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 7:38 PM

The ODM Pentagon members are alive and well, looking determined and serious. Following a meeting with the diplomatic corps at InterContinental Hotel, the Pentagon held a press conference at the hotel poolside. I arrived as Raila was talking; he appealed for calm and restraint on the streets and repeated his call for a mass protest on the Thursday the 3rd of January at Uhuru Park. The international press were there in full force. I expect news from the press conference will make many of the major news channels. (Thanks M4 for the tip!)

Tuju, Kibaki's Foreign Minister who was amongst the senior cabinet members to lose their seat at the polls, gave a statement saying ODM should accept the result. (I think Tuju may also have been in the meeting with the diplomatic corps in his capacity as Foreign Minister although some of the local press at InterContinental whispered that he is not in Kibaki's new cabinet due to be named any time soon.)

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