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Post by phil on Sept 5, 2011 16:25:10 GMT 3
When KKK ganged up in parliament to uphold pre-election coalitions after amending legislation to regulate political parties it was a move that was largely and wrongly interpreted as a triumph by the so-called G-7 alliance over ODM. It was as if this law was being created exclusively for use by G-7. ODM, NARC-K and many other parties had opposed pre-election coalitions in the The Political Parties Bill 2011 which states that "two or more political parties may form a coalition before an election and shall deposit the coalition agreement with the Registrar three months before that election" However, just as it quickly supported the proposal for a presidential system in the new constitution after several years of proposing a parliamentary system, ODM seems to be quick at adapting to the new law. Alliance building is something Raila Odinga has excelled on in the past unlike extremely selfish and egocentric politicians of the G-7 like Kalonzo, Kenyatta and Saitoti. Moi's Kanu warms up to Raila
Monday, 05 September 2011 00:03 BY MATHEWS NDANYI
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Kanu leaders are considering backing Prime Minister Raila Odinga for President in the 2012 general election. A section of Kanu leaders in Rift valley have planned to meet the PM in two weeks time to discuss a working relationship ahead of the polls. And retired President Moi at the weekend hinted at a possible roundtable meeting with Raila.
The former Head of State, attending the wedding of Raila's son in Nairobi, said though he had sometimes differed with the PM on principle, the two still do meet to deliberate various issues. Moi spoke as his son Gideon, who is the Kanu vice chairman, rubbished the G7 alliance which brings together Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Eldoret North MP William Ruto and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. Also in the alliance are Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa and Trade Minister Chirau Ali Makwere.
Gideon said the G7 is a short-term alliance and that some of leaders in the group would drop out because of self interest. “Today its G7 tomorrow it will be G6 and by next year it will be G1â€, Gideon said. In Eldoret, some of the Kanu leaders allied to Moi said they had already agreed to work with ODM during next year’s election.
The Kanu officials include those from the Uasin Gishu, Marakwet/Keiyo, Nandi and Trans Nzoia, Turkana, Pokot and Baringo counties. Eldoret East Kanu branch chairman Philip Chesire who led the group said, “We do not want to be left stranded because politicians and parties are busy discussing alliances ahead of the 2012 polls. We are part of the politics of this region and that is why we have to come up with our plan for the election.â€
But Kanu secretary general Nick Salat said the party was yet to make any formal decision on the 2012 polls. “People are free to meet and discuss issues but Kanu structures are yet to meet and discuss the matter,†said Salat. He said Kanu may still field its own candidate in the polls. Salat accused Uhuru of holding Kanu at ransom for the benefit of the G7 group or the PNU alliance. “Let him know that no matter what he does Kanu will never die and we will meet at the ballot box next year,†said Salat. Uhuru is the party chairman.
But even as Salat said Kanu was yet to decide, Chesire argued the group had been prompted to work with ODM owing to the situation on the ground and based on the pressure from party members to organise for 2012. Chesire said the new relationship with ODM does not mean the Kanu members will decamp to the party led by the PM. “We have already booked an appointment to meet with the PM in two weeks to discuss how we will work together,†said Chesire.
He added that alliances were the best way for parties to work together during the 2012 polls and in future. The Kanu leaders have already presented to the PM’s office a list of party officials and members who will be meeting with the PM to deliberate on how the working relationship will be strengthened. Gideon has maintained a low profile on Kanu issues following wrangles between him and the group led by Uhuru. He has sharply differed with Uhuru and the two are likely to go separate ways in 2012. Kanu still has a considerable network in Rift Valley.
Keiyo South branch chairman Paul Kibet said they had already decided not to back Uhuru or any alliance he will be involved in. But allies of Ruto dismissed Kanu as an irrelevant outfit in the Rift valley where UDM is gaining ground in readiness for the 2012 polls. Keiyo South MP Jackson Kiptanui said: “UDM will be the party of the time and signs are already there for all to seeâ€. He said UDM is ready for competition with Kanu and other outfits that will come up in the next election. Sources indicate Raila’s group may talk to the National Vision Party (NVP) to back the ODM alliance in 2012. The NVP is led by former powerful minister Nicholas Biwott who is a close ally of the Moi family. |
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Post by bkichwa on Sept 5, 2011 18:33:08 GMT 3
So now Moi and Biwott set to join the self-proclaimed "reform-oriented" Team Raila?
Ladies and Gents, now this union - a reincarnation of the good ol' Kanu-NDP dream team - will represent change Kenyans can truly believe in. ;D
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Post by tnk on Sept 5, 2011 19:06:43 GMT 3
phil this is interesting. lets see how it develops is uhuru still the chairman of KANU or not? then there is jamleck who i think is secretary general or some official so one part of KANU is G7 and one part of it is anti-G7 which brings me to this stupidity www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000042162&cid=4&shikuku once said, parliamentarians are foolish and terribly short sighted in that they create a "political whip/law" with which to whip some opponent not knowing that a few years later they will in turn be whipped by their very own creation. i give these guys a year or so and this whip they have created will surely mercilessly be used to cane them and they will be blaming someone for allowing such a useless law. |
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Post by politicalmaniac on Sept 5, 2011 19:39:59 GMT 3
tnk
Good question, is muthamaki still in charge of KANU?
I thought Judas KM the mafiyan snollygoster and lickspittle was angling for kipkorios's support. After all he has been nyonyaring kipkorios's teat for decades.
So the withering ODM who Panuarers have declared to be on life support is still breathing and having a pulse?
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 5, 2011 19:48:33 GMT 3
Phil,
I surely understand why such a story could make you trek to the moon on an empty stomach. What is KANU? Who are its members? Moi, Gideon and Biwott? Now I get why the lady Prof had to become a minister.
Like we say, we have given them all to you for free, with their cows and herds-boys. You can keep them at Opoda untill the votes are counted. No qualms, no hard feelings. Good luck.
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Post by matekmati on Sept 5, 2011 20:54:51 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu,
"....with their cows and herdsboys ..."
This here reminds me of "cooks and watchment" talk not long ago, that resulted in most of nairobi constituencies going west. Alittle coutesy is in order . You too can be stereotyped but Kenya is greater than that. If you have accumulated enough , then live and let live as you enjoy the fruits of your"hard labour"
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Post by politicalmaniac on Sept 5, 2011 21:07:29 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu, "....with their cows and herdsboys ..." This here reminds me of "cooks and watchment" talk not long ago, that resulted in most of nairobi constituencies going west. Alittle coutesy is in order . You too can be stereotyped but Kenya is greater than that. If you have accumulated enough , then live and let live as you enjoy the fruits of your"hard labour" kie kie ;D ;D Its not clear whats biting their behinds, as this purported alliance is not even being celebrated or talked up that much in ODM circles. This is jus the press payayukaring and already panuarers are giving ODM the votes of the 'herdsboys;. I guess the panuarerers are not gonna give the votes of the money thieves (Min Of Educ 4.2B) to ODM lest they have no one to fund their campaigns? |
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Post by kiongo on Sept 6, 2011 14:50:16 GMT 3
i beg your pardon is it this way or the other way round?
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Post by phil on Sept 10, 2011 13:25:47 GMT 3
Moi & Raila possible new political alliance would be most welcome in the South Rift region
Leo Odera Omolo Reports in Kericho Town
The political topic which dominated the lips of many people in the South Rift region is the newspaper disclosure that the retired President Daniel Arap Moi is warming up to the Prime Minister Rala Odinga an overture which many believes could yield into KANU/ODM alliance ahead of the 2012 general elections.
This latest topic dominated the air in public joints cafes and restraints in Kericho Town where local politician were quick in welcoming the move saying it would be fruitful if Moi could prevail upon the current crops of KANU leaders in the region to wok with Odinga’s ODM.
Moi is still a force to reckon with in the South Rift region where he has the largest following among members of the populous Kipsigis sub-tribe of the larger Kalenjin ethnic group. Of late, however, the community which supported the ODM on man -to-man basis in 2007general election has been tossed around by selfish interests serving youthful politicians advocating for political alliances one after the other with no end result on sight.
A meeting which took place between the Prime Minister and Moi last weekend coincided with public vow by four MPs from the region who reaffirmed their intention to stay in the ODM despite pressure coming from their colleagues in the North Rift led by the sacked former Higher Education Minister William Ruto who have been criss-crossing the region urging the area MPs to ditch ODM and join the UDM.
It come simultaneously with an assurance given by four MPs from the Kipsigis community who have vowed to remain in ODM until the current tenth parliament is dissolve citing the interest of their community which compels them to support the government of the day so as to benefit their electorate.
The Kipsigis MPs were led by the Road Minister Franklin Bettwhos the MP for Buret within the Kericho County, an Assistant Minister for Home Affairs Mrs Beatrice Kones who is the MP for Bomet, within the Bomet County, Magerer Lang’atwho is an ASssistant Minster for Energy and the MP for Kipkellion also within Kericho County and Dr.Joyce Laboso, the MP for Sotik in Bomet County.
The legislators were speaking at Tenwek Day Primary School during a fund drive in aid of the school.
The four MPs makes a half of the total legislators representing the Kipsigis community in the current parliament. The region currently has eight parliamentary electoral constituencies, which include Kipkellion, Ainamoi,Belgut,Konoin,Buret,Bomet,Chepalungu and Sotik.
The other group of MPs include Charles Keter who it is being alleged has since become William Ruto’s spanner boy and abdicated from his responsibility of serving the electorate adequately ever since he was sacked as an energy Assistant Minister two years ago, Benjamin Lang’at Ainamoi} ,Dr.Julius Kones {Konoin} and Isaac Ruto {Chepalungu}. In the next elections, the region will have ten MPs following the sub-division of Belgut into two with the creation of the Sigowet constituency.Also sub-divided into two constituencies namely Kipkellion East and Kipkellion West.
The culture and nature of the Kipsigis people could be sad to be conservative. They don’t rush into issues in a hasty manner before thoroughly examining all the implications involve. The campaign recently launched by William Ruto urging the Kipsigis and the entire Kalennin community t ditch Raila Odinga’s ODM for unpredictable amorphous alliances with the people the community seemed not to trust appeared to have hit the rock.
The anti-ODM campaign in the region seemed to have boomeranged on the face of its advocates. The people re being told to ditch the ODM and join UDM, but the latter seemed to have got no structure on the ground, and is shrouded with legal tussles in court between its real national chairman the Lt.Gen {rtd} John Arap Koech, who the former Deputy CGS and is himself a Kipsigis tribesman. As far as the court cases involving the UDM are concern, there is no party called UDM under William Ruto’s leadership, and what the Eldoret North MP has been telling he Kipsigis to join remain a fiction if not a phantom.
The General is said to have a soft heart for both Raila Odinga and Daniel Arap Moi therefore if he eventually emerged the winner of the court case, then UDM will definitely expected form a genuine alliance with both KANU and ODM and not PNU oasis. So far the General is also being urged by his supporter to contest the presidency on UDM ticket an option which he said ws receiving his attention.
Ruto appeared to have shot himself in the leg by incessantly criticizing Raila Odinga and blaming hi for his own woes, the criticism which the locals leaders in Kericho say lacked constructive agenda, but based on jealousy and personal conflicts of interest. Ruto, they said has failed to pi Raila down on any mistake the latter has committed against the community. “What we are seeing is selfish interests by someone who want to go to the top while ridding at the back of his erstwhile colleague and political associate” said Councilor Nicholas Tum of Kericho Municipality.
A Kericho politician who is a staunch supporter of Raila Odinga,Tum is the opinion that I he latter form an alliance with Moi and his KANU supporters in the South Rift the latter two will swept the board clean. Our region extends into the neighboring Trans-Mara region, and we shall make sure that the ODM win all the votes in this region.
Tum said the ODM leadership in the region was happy with the unequivocal support the MPs led by Bett were giving the party, and effectively articulating its policy.
“What the Ruto group is involved in is verbal twisting and purely the case of miscalculation and underestimation of the intelligence of the electorate in this region, but they will live to regret comes the year 2012.,” said Tum.
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Post by einstein on Sept 10, 2011 23:15:04 GMT 3
Moi & Raila possible new political alliance would be most welcome in the South Rift region
Leo Odera Omolo Reports in Kericho Town
The political topic which dominated the lips of many people in the South Rift region is the newspaper disclosure that the retired President Daniel Arap Moi is warming up to the Prime Minister Rala Odinga an overture which many believes could yield into KANU/ODM alliance ahead of the 2012 general elections.
This latest topic dominated the air in public joints cafes and restraints in Kericho Town where local politician were quick in welcoming the move saying it would be fruitful if Moi could prevail upon the current crops of KANU leaders in the region to wok with Odinga’s ODM.
Moi is still a force to reckon with in the South Rift region where he has the largest following among members of the populous Kipsigis sub-tribe of the larger Kalenjin ethnic group. Of late, however, the community which supported the ODM on man -to-man basis in 2007general election has been tossed around by selfish interests serving youthful politicians advocating for political alliances one after the other with no end result on sight.
A meeting which took place between the Prime Minister and Moi last weekend coincided with public vow by four MPs from the region who reaffirmed their intention to stay in the ODM despite pressure coming from their colleagues in the North Rift led by the sacked former Higher Education Minister William Ruto who have been criss-crossing the region urging the area MPs to ditch ODM and join the UDM.
It come simultaneously with an assurance given by four MPs from the Kipsigis community who have vowed to remain in ODM until the current tenth parliament is dissolve citing the interest of their community which compels them to support the government of the day so as to benefit their electorate.
The Kipsigis MPs were led by the Road Minister Franklin Bettwhos the MP for Buret within the Kericho County, an Assistant Minister for Home Affairs Mrs Beatrice Kones who is the MP for Bomet, within the Bomet County, Magerer Lang’atwho is an ASssistant Minster for Energy and the MP for Kipkellion also within Kericho County and Dr.Joyce Laboso, the MP for Sotik in Bomet County.
The legislators were speaking at Tenwek Day Primary School during a fund drive in aid of the school.
The four MPs makes a half of the total legislators representing the Kipsigis community in the current parliament. The region currently has eight parliamentary electoral constituencies, which include Kipkellion, Ainamoi,Belgut,Konoin,Buret,Bomet,Chepalungu and Sotik.
The other group of MPs include Charles Keter who it is being alleged has since become William Ruto’s spanner boy and abdicated from his responsibility of serving the electorate adequately ever since he was sacked as an energy Assistant Minister two years ago, Benjamin Lang’at Ainamoi} ,Dr.Julius Kones {Konoin} and Isaac Ruto {Chepalungu}. In the next elections, the region will have ten MPs following the sub-division of Belgut into two with the creation of the Sigowet constituency.Also sub-divided into two constituencies namely Kipkellion East and Kipkellion West.
The culture and nature of the Kipsigis people could be sad to be conservative. They don’t rush into issues in a hasty manner before thoroughly examining all the implications involve. The campaign recently launched by William Ruto urging the Kipsigis and the entire Kalennin community t ditch Raila Odinga’s ODM for unpredictable amorphous alliances with the people the community seemed not to trust appeared to have hit the rock.
The anti-ODM campaign in the region seemed to have boomeranged on the face of its advocates. The people re being told to ditch the ODM and join UDM, but the latter seemed to have got no structure on the ground, and is shrouded with legal tussles in court between its real national chairman the Lt.Gen {rtd} John Arap Koech, who the former Deputy CGS and is himself a Kipsigis tribesman. As far as the court cases involving the UDM are concern, there is no party called UDM under William Ruto’s leadership, and what the Eldoret North MP has been telling he Kipsigis to join remain a fiction if not a phantom.
The General is said to have a soft heart for both Raila Odinga and Daniel Arap Moi therefore if he eventually emerged the winner of the court case, then UDM will definitely expected form a genuine alliance with both KANU and ODM and not PNU oasis. So far the General is also being urged by his supporter to contest the presidency on UDM ticket an option which he said ws receiving his attention.
Ruto appeared to have shot himself in the leg by incessantly criticizing Raila Odinga and blaming hi for his own woes, the criticism which the locals leaders in Kericho say lacked constructive agenda, but based on jealousy and personal conflicts of interest. Ruto, they said has failed to pi Raila down on any mistake the latter has committed against the community. “What we are seeing is selfish interests by someone who want to go to the top while ridding at the back of his erstwhile colleague and political associate” said Councilor Nicholas Tum of Kericho Municipality.
A Kericho politician who is a staunch supporter of Raila Odinga,Tum is the opinion that I he latter form an alliance with Moi and his KANU supporters in the South Rift the latter two will swept the board clean. Our region extends into the neighboring Trans-Mara region, and we shall make sure that the ODM win all the votes in this region.
Tum said the ODM leadership in the region was happy with the unequivocal support the MPs led by Bett were giving the party, and effectively articulating its policy.
“What the Ruto group is involved in is verbal twisting and purely the case of miscalculation and underestimation of the intelligence of the electorate in this region, but they will live to regret comes the year 2012.,” said Tum.
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Post by euonyi on Sept 11, 2011 18:19:25 GMT 3
Is this the same Leo Odero of Jaluo.com?? I do not know if it is but: What a pity I only noticed after reading the whole thing entirely. I guess I may not have paid too much attention to it. I noticed it too late... |
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