In a desperate bid to endear himself to voters, president Kibaki has resorted to the same tactics used by his predecessor ahead of elections to woo Kenyans on his side.
During the referendum vote two years ago, the government used similar tactics of pledging to build bridges even where rivers did not exist but they failed miserably and do not seem to have learnt much from the lesson.
Politics in Kenya is deeply based on ethnicity and even if Kibaki delivers heaven to majority of Kenyans, he is still bound to lose the election mainly because of the widespread tribalism which is deeply entrenched in his administration.
The likes of Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka are tribal chiefs who enjoy fanatical support from their communities which has encouraged them to seek support from other tribes to enable them rule the country one day.
If Kibaki was serious about being re-elected, he should have first addressed the tribal imbalance in the civil service and parastatal organizations where his Kikuyu tribesmen are the majority at the expense of 41 other communities in Kenya.
It is also ironical that the minister who oversaw the creation of the new districts, John Michuki is on record as having gone to court in 2002 in a bid to stop the then president, Daniel Moi from creating new districts.
The imbalances in the provincial administration are so glaring that even the blind can see the favoritism that the Kibaki administration is practicing, for instance, 5 of the 8 provincial commissioners come from the mount Kenya region along with the most powerful cabinet ministers not to mention the head of the public service and secretary to the cabinet.
With the new districts, where most of them have been created in zones perceived to be supporting the government, Kibaki will get considerable amount of political mileage but not enough to enable him woo majority of Kenyans on his side.
The inauguration of the districts now awaits parliamentary approval and this will come to pass considering that most politicians are for the new districts which is a populist move by any standards but Kenyans are not as gullible as president Kibaki would like to believe.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Musalia Mudavadi Reluctantly Campaigns For State House As His Indecisiveness Is Exposed Yet Again
Kenyan Politics: Focus on a 2007 Presidential Candidate
Mudavadi will go down in history as Kenya's shortest serving vice president having held the office for about two months prior to the 2002 general elections.
After leaving Kanu for the opposition in 2002, Mudavadi rushed back to president Moi and was rewarded with the vice presidency position amid signals that Moi's Kanu regime was going to lose as majority of his foot soldiers had already deserted him.
As usual, Mudavadi did not see the signs and mainly due to his indecisiveness, Moi easily convinced him to return to Kanu at a time when the party's future looked bleak and its presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta was headed for defeat.
It was a grave mistake which saw Musalia pay so dearly for it as he also lost his Sabatia parliamentary seat to political greenhorn, pastor Moses Akaranga.
Mudavadi is still paying for this mistake to this day, as he has no political platform to speak from and his detractors say if he was unable to secure a parliamentary seat in 2002, how can he manage the presidency this time round?
The 46 year old presidential aspirant also has skeletons in his closet which have also affected him so much that he can't speak too loudly where men are discussing family life and values.
In a dramatic event during his heady days as finance minister, Musalia's wife gave birth to a 'colored' boy, which raised more than concern at the Mudavadi home with his mother instructing him to do away with the wife as her infidelity was unacceptable considering his high profile public position.
The indecisive former minister kept the woman who went ahead and sired more children for him. The Standard Newspaper had the story but Musalia used lots of money and his influence including threats not to have the story published.
However, the alternative media notoriously referred to as the gutter press had a field day with the story to the chagrin of the then minister who chose not to comment about the issue.
Even as he goes around conducting his lukewarm campaign for the ODM presidential nominations, Mudavadi knows well in his mind that he cant make it save for Raila to come out and say 'Mudavadi tosha' which is a very, very, very long shot.
The main reason why Musalia is bothering to go round asking for votes is the simple fact that members of his Luhyia community also expect one of their own to occupy the highest office in the land.
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Mudavadi will go down in history as Kenya's shortest serving vice president having held the office for about two months prior to the 2002 general elections.
After leaving Kanu for the opposition in 2002, Mudavadi rushed back to president Moi and was rewarded with the vice presidency position amid signals that Moi's Kanu regime was going to lose as majority of his foot soldiers had already deserted him.
As usual, Mudavadi did not see the signs and mainly due to his indecisiveness, Moi easily convinced him to return to Kanu at a time when the party's future looked bleak and its presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta was headed for defeat.
It was a grave mistake which saw Musalia pay so dearly for it as he also lost his Sabatia parliamentary seat to political greenhorn, pastor Moses Akaranga.
Mudavadi is still paying for this mistake to this day, as he has no political platform to speak from and his detractors say if he was unable to secure a parliamentary seat in 2002, how can he manage the presidency this time round?
The 46 year old presidential aspirant also has skeletons in his closet which have also affected him so much that he can't speak too loudly where men are discussing family life and values.
In a dramatic event during his heady days as finance minister, Musalia's wife gave birth to a 'colored' boy, which raised more than concern at the Mudavadi home with his mother instructing him to do away with the wife as her infidelity was unacceptable considering his high profile public position.
The indecisive former minister kept the woman who went ahead and sired more children for him. The Standard Newspaper had the story but Musalia used lots of money and his influence including threats not to have the story published.
However, the alternative media notoriously referred to as the gutter press had a field day with the story to the chagrin of the then minister who chose not to comment about the issue.
Even as he goes around conducting his lukewarm campaign for the ODM presidential nominations, Mudavadi knows well in his mind that he cant make it save for Raila to come out and say 'Mudavadi tosha' which is a very, very, very long shot.
The main reason why Musalia is bothering to go round asking for votes is the simple fact that members of his Luhyia community also expect one of their own to occupy the highest office in the land.
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