Guest post
This is not the time to mourn. And it's not the time to celebrate the new year. That will come after the Hon. Raila Odinga is sworn in as the nation's democratically elected president. We've indeed heard wrenching stories about the brutality of the GSU and police officers who've turned their guns on the people. We've seen pictures of dead children and women. And we've heard accounts of morgues filling up with bodies of innocent Kenyans. All that is enough to make us buckle to tyranny and accept hopelessness as a better alternative, but I call on Kenyans to never give up. Victory is at hand, and it will be sweet. We have only this one chance to wrestle the nation from the jaws of a future too horrifying to contemplate here.
I thank the Kenyans of the diaspora for taking up the cause of keeping the flames alive and forcing the evil going on in Kenya on the consciousness of the world community. As we struggle here, I want our brothers and sisters in Kenya to know that we stand with you shoulder to shoulder. We will not give an inch and we will never accept anything less than an outcome that reflects the will of the people.
So let's all sign that petition Ms. Anna Sidigu has going around. It will find it's way to world bodies and western capitals with any capacity to bear down on the authorities in Nairobi.
For now, I continue to call on all Kenyans to do everything you can, wherever you are, to hasten the demise of this ill-fated government. We will all mourn when freedom is restored and our tears can make sense to our compatriots who've lost their lives.
Sam Okello
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Bado mapambano. Aluta Continua. We shall overcome!
ReplyDeleteI am not looking forward to 5 years of dictatorship. All the dictatorships we have been through since independence have been about political deaths, arrests, overt and covert oppression.
ReplyDeleteShame on Kibaki. I have called home a number of times since the announcment and could not say "Happy New Year." It would have been a cruel joke.
ReplyDeleteKibaki has spat on our country's progress. Now his sleepy head is being intoxicated by sycophants and he is too drunk with power to see what he has done to my country.
ReplyDeleteKibaki unfortunately is senile and in no position to quell the chaos in any way.
ReplyDeleteshame on you Sam Okello. I see you instigating violence from your safe haven in IN. why don't you go join your brothers in Kibera or stop starting a mess....
ReplyDeleteg girl, you sound like you're not in the real world.
ReplyDeleteKeep dreaming.
We'll attain our victory and it will be sweet for all Kenyans.
G-girl, you know Kivuitu and co. stole our rights, and you support their schemes. We are not letting up.
ReplyDeleteg gil, how come you're not condemning Kibaki. I'm just curious
ReplyDeleteSam, I couldn't call home to wish my folk happy new year. I will call when Kibaki steps down.
ReplyDeleteJohn 15:11-12RSV
ReplyDeleteJesus says, love one another as I have loved you.
Does Kibaki love Kenya? If so, he should pick up the cross and walk away from the people's house.
I just want everybody to understand the significance of this moment. Should we fail to dislodge this evil machine that's run our lives since the sixties, we will have lost Kenya forever. The president-elect, Raila Odinga, stands between the promise of prosperity and a return to doom. Let's choose prosperity.
ReplyDeleteThe UGANDA SOLDIERS are killing to kill people on the ground in Rift valley and Nyanza with Kibaki and michuki's permission/request.
ReplyDeleteg girl, is that what you want for the Kenyan republic?
ReplyDeleteThe people cannot die as they watch. Museveni cant deal with his own country and has convinced kibaki to destroy Kenya. Remember the involvement of museveni in DRC, Rwanda, Somali and Sudan chaos?............... think of it..........
ReplyDeleteIf Kibaki has truly allowed Museveni's troops to enter Kenya then it is a tragedy of epic proportions. Moi would most certainly never do something that treacherous.
ReplyDeleteKibaki is too out of touch with reality and totally lacking in compassion for the Kenyan people.
Breaking on Standard:
ReplyDeleteUgandan Forces at the Kenyan border
The military have been in Kenya since the 28th. They started arriving a day after polls showed Raila with a huge lead. My family saw military condoits around kisumu but thought they were just there to ensure free n fair elections! More troops were spotted amassing at the border after the results were announced and chaos broke.
ReplyDeleteWhich Standard? E.A. Standard? I could not find the story. Please copy and past it here or send us a link.
ReplyDeleteIt's E.A. Standard. Click headline news.
ReplyDeletehere is the link to that story of UGANDAN soldiers in Kenya
ReplyDeletehttp://eastandard.net/news/?id=1143979840&cid=4
copy to ypur browser
for PR pursoses, they say boarder.
ReplyDeleteThe day Kenyan people will wake up one morning and think they are Kenyans, will be the day they will start thinking what neo-colonialsm is doing in Kenya at the moment.
ReplyDeleteAs my friend from the Caribbean told me, black people suffers from the effects of slavery, colonialism and its the high time "21st century" that we address this issue and stop thinking Jaluo, Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kisii the list goes on to Ibo`s and Zulus etc.
Election only took a day, and the stupidness of uneducated in Kenya sorry to say and Intelectuals abroad have been compromised by two people, Kibaki and Raila "millionaires". They are now spilling poor people’s blood for their own selfishness, greed and power hunger. What do you think they want to accomplish? Protect their ill gotten wealth some of which have been stashed in foreign banks (safe deposits) while poor Kibera voters slaughter one another and others in Eldoret and Nyanza burn their loved neighbours houses, because they are from different tribes. And as we speak, Kibaki and Raila are tossing champagne and shouting loud "cheers". Probably with UK, US and Canadian Ambassadors. They all go to bed together. These guys are crooks, I quote John Kerry when Bush was declared the USA President the second time. After rigging Florida votes where his brother was Governor.
KENYANS, I PLEAD WITH YOU. LET US WORK, STUDY AND GO BACK TO KENYA AND DEVELOP OUR NATION. KIBAKI IS 76 YRS come on, RAILA 62 YEARS hihi getting there, PLEASE GIVE ME A BREAK. These people have never experienced poverty and the people dying are hardly 30 years old. ARE WE BUILDING OR DESTROYING OUR FUTURE?
These guys are senile, and the reason i`m saying that is because of the lifestyle they have. Ordinary Kenyans should come together as brothers and sisters and oust these guys out of office and out of our way and take charge of our country.
They have so much money; they can live wherever they want in this world without working until they die.
At the time of writing this email, there was no vehicle on Kericho-Kisumu Highway. No shop was opened in the outskirts of Kericho and Kikuyu homes at Fort Ternan, Kipkelion, Kuresoi and Mauche were burning!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Kyuks “Kikuyu`s” we hate them….in Kericho spent last night at police station and today the town is full of GSUs but tension is high. My reporter says that the air is thick in town such that one can almost touch it literary with hands. Many people have died but unreported and nobody seems concerned to stop the destruction!
I am told that people are wondering hopelessly and most basic economic activities are paralyzed. People travel no more for fear of attacks.
Kenya will never be the same again.
Security personnel appear divided, hence its inability to contain anarchy.
It appears to me that the Majimbo we called called for constitutionally but got resistance from Kibaki, has been ushered in by chaos that target one tribe. It's tribal hate Rwanda type. This is dangerous because it polarizes the country and cripples it.
WHERE WE ARE NOW IS A POINT IN TIME THAT MEN CAN DO NOTHING TO REVERSE HATE AND DESTRUCTION THAT THE COUNTRY HAS DESCENDED TO. GOD ALONE SHOULD INTERVENE.
IF ONLY THE ELECTIONS WERE NOT RIGGED, WE COULD BE LIVING AS ONE FAMILY! IF ONLY KIBAKI CAN GIVE BACK TO THE KENYAN PEOPLE WHAT HE ROBBED THEM, THE CALM WILL SETTLE. SO LETS PRAY KIBAKI TO RETURN TO THE KENYAN PEOPLE'S WHAT HE ROBBED THEM. NOW! AND KENYA WILL BE BACK TO ATLEAST NORMAL RUNNING. AS IN MANY PLACES IN KENYA I HAVE SEEN ON NEWS "NO RAILA, NO PEACE" ITS NOT RAILA FUELING THIS, ITS THE KENYAN PEOPLE ANGRY!!! THEY HAVE BEEN ROBBED AND THEY WANT IT BACK!
ReplyDeleteSam, I truly respected you whenn someone passed me your website and details a few months ago. You shock me my brother.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your peace overseas as we kill each other here in Eldoret, N when you come back, you will be asking us for votes. I have two Kikuyus, Kalenjin and luo families in my compound because of people like you who make senseless comments while basking in a moral highground while stooping so low!
From what I see, read and witness, neither the thieving Kibaki nor the anntagonnistic Raila can binngn peace to Kenya.
The best bet is for us to resolve this matter internally... and while you we are at it, may you burn in hell!
Ms. Briner/aka kurei,
ReplyDeleteThis is about our democratic rights!
I don't really care who is president, why they are president and how they became president. As a matter of fact, my life here in the States goes on....
ReplyDeleteAll I care about is the bloodshed..how can one Sam sit in the comfort of his home in IN and ask Kenyans to fight for their rights through bloodshed? That's the kind of attitude that is ruining the country....
and to clarify my point of view even further..use of violence against different ethnicities is not equivalent to the fight for justice. That is where the main problem lies. Of course people feel that there is some injustice done to them and the likes of Sam would like people to use violence to reverse the injustice. This approach to fight for justice makes no sense at all. it doesn't tackle the real problem here. Let's just say the violence intimidates Kibaki to step down. Will the injustice problem be solved? No it will not. Reason, there is now more animosity amongst the ethnicities and if anything the country is even more divided and full of hate. citizens will remember the injustices against their own and low and behold, one problem replaces another.
ReplyDeleteThat is my point. Letting the rule of law take precedence over stupid violence may be the way out of this. However barbaric Kenyans cannot see this..they want to take matters into their own hands and worsen the issues....that's really sad.....
g girl aka briner, you are hilarious!
ReplyDeleteViolence against violence has never been and will never be a solution. My brother you are missing a point here, I agree that the elections were a total sham but Kibaki is not going to leave office just like that. Atakalia hii kiti sawa sawa, by then innocent lives will have been lost for the sake of two greedy individuals who are not ready to compromise. This is not about the elections but for each and every live that is lost. You and I are comfortable here at the comfort zone contributing from the net. You know it you are not ready to go to demonstrate in the streets of Nairobi or Emali. Get serious brother!
ReplyDeleteTHEY ARE NOT IN CONFIRM PLEASE BUT FORCE IS THE WAY NO DIPLOMACY AT THIS TIME 50 ARE DEAD
ReplyDeleteWed, 2 Jan 2008 08:05:02 -0500
From: Maurice Nyaware
It’s right to keep each one of us in Diaspora who has access to our beloved web “”jaluo.com’’.As you know we are all astonished with the self declaration of Jaraboun’s win.What I can say is that some of the reliable source back from home says that, the peoples President is not locked in and his fellows like Ruto and Orengo Jimy is also not in,they are all expected to hold THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENDT INAGURATION at the venue that have not been mentioned at 2pm, so far it is that the deaths fom Dagoreti.Mathare, Kariobangi, Kayole and some other estates in Nairobi may be 50 in number’s there have been fights through out the night since Kibaki imposed him self yesterday .The forces are also devide and this is said to couse more havoc scince the majority of the foces are wakale and this are pro Aguambo. Otherwiase this is the time when force should be implemented to achieve the demand of the people as it is said when diplomacy fails Force should be implied, the reasone why am saying this is for the reason that the Court will not solve this situation and if some body is thinking of international community this still will fail couse Okuche as you know they are nincompups who do not look at this as a national concern but away of making more “”Mbesha”” .this is way I say lets find a way of making use of our forces THIS IS THE ONLY WAY OUT.
Listone O