My post of yesterday received this strongly worded response. I publish it in full below...
I think you are not being fair to majority of Kenyans. There are no emotions involved with this document. We are disgusted with the authors and their evil machinations. Let nobody cheat you –tumeisoma na tukaichambua.Orange is just repeating what people are saying in churches,bars,offices,etc.For you to give them a lead is like saying Wakenya ni wapumbavu(Emmanuel’s teacher used this word on him the other day-I guess he doesn’t know the meaning).
Ponder this.
1.Should we pass a document just because it cost us billions?(Goldenberg has been forgotten).
Which Christians and Hindus asked for their courts? Even the Indian constitution does not have Hindu courts!
2.Why must a president garner 25% from 35 districts to be declared president? Only one community can qualify-you know which one(which wanjiku gave this view?).
3.Parliament will have to enact 66 clauses in this document (they rarely pass 4 laws in a year!).
Don’t help Kibaki to rig the referendum.
All opinion polls in the past have given Orange the lead.Now the message being spread is that hii ni vita ya Kibaki vs Raila.How do you vote for a referendum when a sitting president has an interest in the vote?
Kikuyus could be many,but majority of them are wallowing in poverty-thus the high crime rate.(2 families in Kawangware/Satellite had their members assassinated by hitmen in the last two weeks).
The emotions you allude to are linked to the frustration/hopelessness that majority of us are going through,not the referendum.
Imagine people are selling voting cards for 100/=!
A banana MP whose vehicle was set ablaze by rowdy youths asking for money in Kakamega said:”hio Prado walichoma sio neno-I have three others more expensive kuliko hio.”That is Hon. Bonny Khalwale for you- and this arrogance is what our current parliament will need to enact 66 laws in two years!
All the above are signs of a revolution.
We need one among us to strike the match.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Predictions on Monday's New Kenyan Constitution Referendum
Despite Referendum Violence That Has Claimed 10 Lives So Far, it's all systems go for the Monday vote
It seems that the referendum will go ahead despite some spirited and very genuine efforts to stop it. Three judges On Tuesday gave the poll a go-ahead and thus delivered the country fully into the hands of fate.
You will have noticed that we did not have any articles analyzing the constitution here as earlier promised and for a good reason. When any discussion over the referendum even with close friends gets so emotionally charged than even your friendship seems threatened by it, then you realize that the vote on Monday has nothing to do with the issues at hand. (You can now begin to understand all the referendum violence that has left at least 10 people dead so far).
Rather this whole circus is a bid by some politicians (orange camp) to prove to the government that they still hold sway with the electorate and it is also an attempt by the government (banana camp) to prove that they still have enough backing to rule. The new constitution is totally irrelevant in the whole issue, so why discuss a non-issue.
Analysis on the ground show that the banana side will come off with a surprisingly large win in a low turn out affair. The reaction of the orange group is predictable.
President Kibaki’s close aides were probably very wrong in being so arrogant and sidelining key figures who contributing to the Narc win. They should have at least re-negotiated the memorandum of understanding. But that’s all water under the bridge now.
My advice to all Kenyans is to pray very hard for the day the results of the referendum will be announced.
It seems that the referendum will go ahead despite some spirited and very genuine efforts to stop it. Three judges On Tuesday gave the poll a go-ahead and thus delivered the country fully into the hands of fate.
You will have noticed that we did not have any articles analyzing the constitution here as earlier promised and for a good reason. When any discussion over the referendum even with close friends gets so emotionally charged than even your friendship seems threatened by it, then you realize that the vote on Monday has nothing to do with the issues at hand. (You can now begin to understand all the referendum violence that has left at least 10 people dead so far).
Rather this whole circus is a bid by some politicians (orange camp) to prove to the government that they still hold sway with the electorate and it is also an attempt by the government (banana camp) to prove that they still have enough backing to rule. The new constitution is totally irrelevant in the whole issue, so why discuss a non-issue.
Analysis on the ground show that the banana side will come off with a surprisingly large win in a low turn out affair. The reaction of the orange group is predictable.
President Kibaki’s close aides were probably very wrong in being so arrogant and sidelining key figures who contributing to the Narc win. They should have at least re-negotiated the memorandum of understanding. But that’s all water under the bridge now.
My advice to all Kenyans is to pray very hard for the day the results of the referendum will be announced.
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