Evidence That President Kibaki And Hon Raila Are Only After Selfish Gain While The Rest Of Kenya Goes To The Dogs

Kenya's political scene is unique in many ways. Apart from the previously unprecedented way of forging coalitions being practiced in these shores, that involves forming a coalition over one year before the elections (that is what Narc-Kenya and ODM are), Kenyans also have a unique and reckless way of making laws. (By the way are you surprised that Kumekucha's prediction that both ODM and Narc-Kenya will self-destruct for this reason long before December is rapidly being proved correct?)
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Laws in Kenya are basically made for the sake of individual gain and advantage. This dangerous trend was started by the Kenyatta administration, which used Tom Mboya as Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister then to make numerous amendments to the constitution to benefit the Kenyatta administration and inevitably cause the chaos we find ourselves in today. However anybody who judges Mboya only on these amendments (which he was under pressure from Kenyatta to fulfill so as to prove his loyalty) is doing a great dis-service to the memory of one of the greatest sons to have come out of a Kenyan woman's womb. Interestingly a reader of this blog recently quoted Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and lied in writing that he is one of my heroes. That guy must have been out of his mind. Jaramogi was little more than a tribal chief in my book and I don't think it is possible to be a Mboya buff and also an admirer of the late Jaramogi at the same time.

But I digress.

The reason why it has been so difficult for politicians to agree on a new constitution is simply because they all have selfish interests and objectives that they want to see fulfilled in that constitutional amendment or new constitution. Nobody is asking themselves the right questions, which should chiefly be;

i) Will it benefit the people of Kenya today?
ii) Will it benefit future generations of Kenyans?

Take the controversial opposition proposal that seeks to introduce an amendment requiring a president to garner 50 per cent of the votes cast plus one to be declared duly elected as President of Kenya. This is apart from the already existing requirement that they garner 25 per cent of the votes cast from at least 5 provinces out of the total of 8.

A casual glance will convince anybody that it is a good law, with good intentions, which will dilute the power of tribal politics because a president will now require support from a cross section of more tribes to win? But somebody can also argue that it could in fact heighten tribal tensions because the run off will create two distinct tribal groupings that will be bitterly opposed to each other and chances are that the wounds will be difficult to heal long after the elections. For example it I widely expected that if this new proposal becomes law, we will end up having the Kikuyu (with the Merus and Embus) throwing in their lot with President Kibaki and the rest of Kenya supporting whoever will be the runner up, against him. So what will happen to the Kibaki supporters after the elections if their candidate loses? How will they feel as Kenyans knowing that the whole country ganged up against them?

Contrary to what some people think, I never spare anybody in this blog. And it is for this reason that we have to closely examine where this 50 per cent proposal is coming from. Already the opposition have said that it is a non-negotiable demand. Meaning that when they seat down to discuss, this is one amendment that will not be discussed or negotiated over, it will simply be passed.

My investigations have proved that this proposal is coming from Raila Odinga who feels that this constitutional amendment is his best chance to win the presidency. It is already clear that he will not get the ODM-Kenya nomination as easily as he had earlier anticipated. My information is that all other presidential candidates had said "yes" to Raila save for the son of Musyoka who strongly opposed. However things were taken out of his hands when a swift coup instigated by powerful forces caused the London bonding session to abort at the eleventh hour and Raila came back home to meet colleagues who had change their minds over a resolution he thought was more or less in the bag.

Raila Odinga has done a lot in helping Kenyans win more freedom and political expression. But in this case what he is doing is totally selfish. We need to stop this habit by Kenyan politicians of wanting to pass laws for selfish interests.

President Kibaki and company are not guiltless in this regard. If anything, it is now clear that the reason why we do not have a new constitution is just one simple petty thing. So petty that history will judge you very harshly for it, Mr President.

The reason we do not have a new constitution is simply because Mr Emilio Mwai Kibaki wanted to rule Kenya for 5 more short years. Yep! That's it! Just because one fence-seating blundering proud Kenyan from Nyeri wanted a second term. For what?

Kenyans should get very angry at this. I mean innocent Kenyans died, the country spent hundreds of millions that went down the drain and so many bad things have happened and are yet to happen, simply because somebody wanted to be a two-term president. Luckily there is a God in heaven and because of this selfish motive on the part of a person who took an oath on December 30th 2002 to protect the interests of ALL Kenyans and not just that of himself, his son Jimmy and the others, that oath will haunt him and he will live to deeply regret it. If it is true that the almighty has decided that Kibaki will lose the forthcoming elections, then I can assure you that this reason will be one of the ones that will be right at the top of the Almighty's list.

Now President Kibaki is involved in yet another situation where he will be forced to put his own interests first—that of negotiating over the minimal reforms required before the elections.

Mr President you are wrong. Hon Raila Odinga, you are so selfishly wrong. The rest of you 210 members of the disgraced 9th parliament, you are all so wrong. That is why I say to Kenyans once again…

Let us vote in a totally fresh 210 new faces to parliament.

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The Two Anti-Kikuyu Constitutional Amendments

Moi and his cronies introduced the constitutional amendment requiring a president to garner at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in 5 provinces out of the total of 8 as an extra safety valve and precaution against losing the presidential elections. This amendment was clearly targeted at the feared Kikuyu vote in the opposition. The arithmetic clearly showed that a Kikuyu candidate who could get the support of the entire community was capable of getting enough votes to win the presidency. This is further evidence that Moi must have rigged both the 1992 and 1997 elections in his favor. The truth is that Matiba won in 1992 and Kibaki won in 1997.

Now Raila and company want to introduce yet another anti-Kikuyu law. This time the 50 per cent plus one amendment. It is clear that under the current law all the president needs is for the Kikuyu to vote as a bloc with minimal support from a few communities, and he will romp back to State House without breaking into a sweat. There is also enough Kikuyu influence in Central province, Nairobi, Rift Valley, Eastern province to give him his 25 per cent (is this the same calculation Moi did to arrive at 5 provinces instead of 4?). The President would therefore need only one more province. He can use the provincial administration to guarantee 25 per cent in North Eastern or he can distribute title deeds in Coast province to get his 5th province there.

Whatever your views are on the Kikuyu the fact still remains that they are Kenyans and the motive behind the proposed new law is WRONG. Kenyans need to sit down and openly discuss this issue and find a long-term solution, otherwise it will forver come back to haunt us.

The way to do it is NOT to play dangerous cards under the table while you smile warmly to each other above the table. That is called hypocrisy. Kenyans, it seems, love playing the hypocrite.

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