Why did Ruto walk into PNU trap?

It is Sunday, let the pictures do the talking

In this scheme, everybody is dispensible

kaburwo


To do justice to your piece, let me ignore the ostriches with their heads deeply buried in the sand.


I suppose that WKR walked into this trap to save only himself from his many tribulations. The fraud landcase, other are yet to starts and of course the Hague. PORK/PNU had the painkillers not the ultimate medication.


Knowing that he had an irresistible political solution for PNU, WKR jumped at the grand trap opportunity offering ;

1. The PM’s head on a silver platter.

2. A section of MP’s to tilt parliamentary strength and weaken ODM,

3. Rift Valley’s massive voting block ahead of 2012


Unfortunately WKR failed in all of the above. The desired effect was not achieved.

He has ended up separating and isolating himself instead from the ODM front. PNU on the other hand is beginning to shun him.

Fact is that WKR will not be on the ballot paper. Rift Valley is looking for his successor (The successor who is yet to emerge and some leaders will remind rift valley how WKR almost sold them off).

The PNU wing has woken up to a realization that Jomo Jnr will also not be on the ballot paper.

Another sad fact is that both WKR and Jomo Jnr had dealt each other unsalvageable damage that sunk their fate to the bottoms of the sea. Each used their then existing networks in Government to provide destructive material to the WAKI Commission against each other.


They have themselves to blame.


WKR is being described by those in the know as finished with a lot of baggage. Jomo Jnr is in no different position either.


Evidence collected against both are highly incriminating.
WKR had hoped that since the PNU wing appeared to control state resources and machinery, he would benefit from the deferral or referral process and eventually be sanitized via a local tribunal.

The above appeared to be an appealing offer to Jomo Jrn and Muthaura who quickly welcomed WKR on board. That is how WKR starting sleeping with his enemies.


The downside of this matter is that the wheels of justice continued to turn undeterred. Ocampo stuck to his calendar and schedule. He initiated investigations when he said he would. He named the suspects on schedule. He however summoned the suspects sooner that they had expected, to appear before Pre-trial Chamber II on 7th and 8th April 2011.

Reality is setting in that nothing is going to change the course of Justice. Witnesses will testify including the man below. Soon it will be everyone for himself.

kaburwo,

This is even more deadly. The chickens are coming home to roost. These people played Ruto like a joke. Now I see why Ocampo is so confident.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/politics/InsidePage.php?id=2000032003&cid=289&story=Uhuru+and+Ruto+fallout+imminent+as+ICC+beckons



Updated 18 hr(s) 38 min(s) ago

By Juma Kwayera

Having, so far, spoken in one voice since the disclosure last December of identities of the six people the International Criminal Court (ICC) accuses of stoking and financing post-election violence, a major falling out looms between two of the politicians implicated in the mayhem.


This follows revelations that the evidence deposited at the ICC by Party of National Unity (PNU) on its new ally Eldoret North MP William Ruto is damning.

The Higher Education Minister will also have to contend with Information in possession of ICC provided by a minister. The evidence described by those who have seen it as ‘highly incriminating’ is said to have been filed before Ocampo made public the names of the six suspects last December.


Ruto will also have to contend with information in possession of ICC courtesy of a PNU minister from Rift Valley.

The minister could not be reached for comment, nor did he respond to questions sent on his cell-phone. However, a friend of his accused senior officials in the ministry of turning over the former higher education minister to ICC.

It was immediately clear how the MPs got access to the evidence with ICC. However, lawyers versed with international law say the six suspects have a right to know the evidence the court will use if the charges against them will be confirmed.

The minister is said to have admitted in private to friends to providing ICC with records of Ruto’s text messages and telephone conversations on orders of the spy agency, the National Security Intelligence Service.

Consequently, a major rift between PNU and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) renegades is in the offing as they prepare to travel to The Hague on April 7 and 8 for confirmation of their charges.

Regional Development Minister Fred Gumo and Nominated MP Musa Sirma alluded to the fact that Ruto and Uhuru are headed for a clash during a tour of St Patrick’s Iten High School with Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Gumo told Ruto he had gone to bed with the enemy, and he knows it. The minister spoke at a time there was talk the bulk of the evidence Moreno-Ocampo has, was collected before the National Accord that was signed on February 28, 2008.

However, it is ODM Jakoyo Midiwo who provided The Standard on Sunday with details of how PNU ministers fixed Ruto.

"I know very well Ruto was turned in by PNU ministers. It irritates me that, although he knows how he was fixed, he still wants to blame ODM for his political troubles," says Midiwo. He says majority of PNU ministers now dining with Ruto were the architects of his date with ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.

The plot to fix Ruto was first alluded to by former Minister for Justice Martha Karua in February 2009, when she refuted claims by the Eldoret North MP that she had been invited to partnership talks ahead of next year’s presidential poll.

Karua, under whose docket the evidence was collected, described her Cabinet colleague as a post-election violence suspect with "a lot of baggage."


She said, "Why would a Minister of Justice use night meetings to sort out issues with suspects, when she has the whole justice system at her disposal… Why would I bother to get on board with somebody like him? He is a major political baggage?"

The evidence, described by those who have seen it as ‘highly incriminating’ was filed before Ocampo made public the names of the six suspects last December.

Imenti Central MP, Gitobu Imanyara, told The Standard on Sunday the hardening feelings against Ruto was the culmination of a two-year strategy to ‘grab’ him from the PM, and in the process weaken ODM.

Imanyara, who is versed with international court procedures, says he is aware the evidence filed by PNU is sure to be a source of discomfort between Uhuru and Ruto when it is made public.

Sources in PNU and ODM privy to the evidence mailed to ICC say April 7, when the court is to confirm or reject the charges, will be a defining moment in inter- and intra-party politics, with Uhuru and Ruto as chief protagonists.

The imminent rift is underlain by strategic distancing by President Kibaki from the Ruto faction in ODM, which has seen the President twice decline to meet Ruto and Dujis MP Adan Duale (at Office of the President) on no-appointment grounds.

The frosty phase in relationships between the two is a dramatic shift from the cosy interaction the two enjoyed barely two months ago, when the President attended rallies in Rift Valley to cement their newfound solidarity against ICC and the Prime Minister.

A senior official close to the President who declined to be named said the April 7-8 ICC date will see a retraction of confrontational language that have dominated political discourse between the two parties since the six names were published.

"Ruto is in PNU at the mercy of First Lady Lucy Kibaki, not the old man himself. However, certain developments indicate that falling out between Uhuru and Ruto is also imminent as The Hague process takes off," said the source.

The evidence, part of documents deposited at the International Criminal Court and seen by top lawyers and politicians in PNU and ODM, promise a bruising contest between Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru and Ruto. The point of departure in the newfound alliance between Uhuru and Ruto are the serious allegations the former is said to have levelled against the Eldoret MP, which implicates him in the Kiambaa church murders, among other crimes against humanity.

Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development Njeru Githae concedes PNU filed counter-evidence of crimes against humanity against ODM leaders, "but the ICC chief prosecutor only accepted what ODM supplied against PNU."

Githae, who avoided commenting on what Uhuru has up his sleeves against Ruto, says, "Uhuru is preparing his defence and has not implicated anybody. I have seen videos of his defence that show him distributing food victims of post-election near Limuru. One clip shows him prevailing on crowd not to attack rivals."

The minister says PNU’s report, although rejected by ICC, implicates the ODM top decision-making organ, the Pentagon, before Ruto parted ways with the Prime Minister.

Its funy how things reveal themselves out just in the course of time. Now it begin to make sense that the same Juma Kwayera who has written this article recorded statement with the kenya police claiming that his life was in danger.http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000031485&cid=159&

These people must have been terrified that this article which Juma must have had in the works for some time if allowed to come out, would enlighten the public as to how they ended in the circumstances they now find themselves. It would call into question why they have been blaming the Prime Minister for their tribulations when they know he had nothing to do with it. Karma is really something.













receiving threatening calls and being being trailed by unknown people

Johns
That all you need to know that what he wrote about had considerable dose of truth in it. But threatening calls are themselves an indication of licentious impunity(excuse the redundancy), and should be foregrounded and dealt with. I applaud the Nation (in spite of lukewarm reportage in the past) for publishing the NSIS story and the standard for Kwayera's piece.

What the misplaced din by the duo of Uhuru and Ruto have done is to turn our moral fabric on its head. here is a case where individuals accused of very heinous crimes use the accusation, buttressed with ethnicity, to build political capital. I really pray that their exploits at funeral rallies do not constitute the nascent stage where the number of folks one is accused of murdering becomes the yardstick for heroism and leadership acumen.

I pray that the media take on the task of reporting facts as they should be reported. Only then can the fight to restore sanity and save this country be said to have a credible boost.

kaburo & all,

my senior in jukwaa, kamalet referred to ruto as a dead man's walking in the thread below.

jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=2212


i know for sure that the moment the hague trials begin,thats will be the silver bullet, the elusive open sesame to the kenya we want( did i hear someone yawn?)

you see, the witnesses(forget about ocampo's dossier or waki's envelop),the witnesses, will be testifying against lords of impunity and war belonging to their own tribe and community.

it wont be a luo witness,being used by raila to fix ruto.no this will be a kikuyu witnesses spilling the beans against a fellow kikuyu.muthahura and his tapes saying it as it were.it wont be tribe.not at all and sorry for those playing the ethnic cards.

when the witnesses begin giving the harrowing accounts for the massacres,kenyans,as we saw in south africa during the tutu led commission hearing,comes to terms with what the divisive leaders have been shielding/distracting us from:the depth and magnitude of the evil of impunity,hatred and callousness.

when ali takes the witness stand or muthaura,when ruto and uhuru are confronted with the evidence;that's the moment that this country will descend into the healing path.

back to the topic of your thread,ruto disappoints me because he can be smarter than what he is treating us to. we have done a dialectic on ruto in more than a dozen threads.we have examined his past and present: his folly,foxiness and his frailties.we even contested his media image and tendencies in odm.

it is a fact that at one point jukwaa progressives gave him the benefit of doubt as its done to those who abandon retrogression and embrace the ideology of change.but we merely second guessed and that's now is history.

exercising my small mind, i have proffered in jukwaa that ruto and his lapdogs are headed for doom in their politics of isolation. they should have first and foremost fostered a practical, genuine, sustainable reconciliation between the kikuyus and kalenjins and other tribes in rift valley as a starting point to their battle against raila and odm.but they just wont!

it is a fact that there has never been a structured dialogue and genuine reconciliation as a result of the post election violence.nothing affirms this disturbing reality than the fact that there are non-kalenjins who were evicted and displaced,lost properties and relatives,still living in idp camps.none one,at least to the est of our knowledge,has been compensated.

so kaburwo, you are right to say that ruto's goose is cooked or as kamale warned us here, ruto is a dead man walking.

This was very brva reporting from a paper that is anti Raila. Even they have started to understand that they cannot keep up the lies for ever
www.standardmedia.co.ke/politics/InsidePage.php?id=2000032003&cid=289&story=Uhuru+and+Ruto+fallout+imminent+as+ICC+beckons

There doesn't seem a lot of reason to think that the story is true, actually. There've been external investigators in the Rift Valley for a very long time, and there were recordings of various people saying things which will get them into trouble even before the elections, and not all of them from government. In particular, it's no secret that Kenyan politicians have been under external surveillance for some time now: those who think that their mobile phone communications are secure have got it badly wrong. This was always one reason to be reasonably confident that there was sufficient evidence to put important people in jail. It's possible but not terribly likely that Poghisio is responsible for the phone evidence falling into the hands of the Waki commission and eventually the ICC. A far likelier route, and one for which there is better evidence, is that the evidence came from external surveillance.

He saw all the evidence Ocampo collected for the two cases. As a result of what he saw, he agreed fully with Ocampo that such and such crimes were indeed committed in Kenya by the the so named among others. His disagreement with Ocampo is not on the quality of evidence available for the case, but the jurisdiction of the said cases.

nalinali

You are spot on. Nothing more to add here.

Mwalimu can dig up the ruling and analysis right here at Jukwaa from previous threads. Ni utukutu tuu!



www.standardmedia.co.ke/downloads/judge_hans_peter_opinion.pdf


www.standardmedia.co.ke/downloads/judge_hans_peter_opinion_ruto.pdf

The current noize pollution by the two susupects is indeed a sad affair because it is the kind of hyperbole that heightened ethnic tensions before the last electiosn. The two are not going around saying what they will do for the country if elected but why they hate the PM.
Now as I have said before, unless the two of them (I guess Kalooser is gone) settles on Uhuru, which seems to be the case, expect a major fallout. There is no way GEMA, especially, the Kikuyu are voting for Ruto.
They will do a Kabogo on him. You can take that to the bank. For now it is easy because there is no agreed upon flag bearer for this horror show.