Is Kibaki Credible on Denials of Coup Plotting?

[Onyango Oloo]

A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo

Folks:

Did you know that a phalanx of cops from the Central Police Station in downtown Nairobi descended on peaceful human rights activists to confiscate some of the banners they were brandishing at


Freedom Corner to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10th?

Last night (Monday, December 11, 2006), watching the Kenyan president on the pro-government NTV, I was pleasantly amazed to see Hon. Mwai Kibaki fling aside those cookie cutter boring speeches drafted for him.

Instead, off the cuff, he tore into his perceived adversaries using his by now familiar Kibakisms.

As reported in various sections of the print media this Jamhuri Day, Kibaki was implying that he is too busy "building the nation" to have time bothering with trivial pursuits like plotting with the Mois and Biwotts of this world to topple election year rivals like Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto from political party offices.

Never mind the high profile rapprochement with the former president; never mind the overt display of political affinity evidenced by the flashy presence of the Michukis at Biwott fund-raisers; never mind the alacrity of state paid bureaucrats in the Registrar’s office to validate KANU coup makers allied to Nicholas Biwott…

Before I convey some background information illuminating the emerging Moi/Mwai scheming, let me share with my readers an interesting perspective explaining the bizarre incident last week when


Judges-elect Muchelule, Florence Muchemi, Abida Ali Aroni and Co. were left unsworn with Martha Karua professing profound ignorance about the whole hula baloo.

Well, according to a rather reliable source, what happened was as follows:

It would appear that former CKRC Chair Abida Ali Aroni had been lobbying hard to be catapulted to the Court of Appeal. Her argument is that given her past hefty pay package at the tail end of the Bomas process, she deserved nothing less.

Colleagues from the legal profession were less generous in their overall assessment of her rather exaggerated sense of self worth. Martha Karua it seems also did not think that highly of her sister lawyer.

Ms. Abida Ali Aroni, on the other hand, was quite determined to don the colonial relic of a rag, rug, oops "wig" on her noggin and would stop at nothing to realize her ambition.

So what did the good lady do?

She did a little reconnaissance and found out the exact beauty salon matronized by the influential "NARC-K Activist" aka Mrs. Kibaki # 2.

Next step was to make said Abida Ali Aroni a permanent fixture in said Nairobi salon.

It was just a matter of time before she was exchanging cell phone digits with the well-connected State House insider, who, we hear, is also one of the principals behind VTEL, the Dubai-based consortium granted the SNO landline provider license not too long ago:

www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=146661

Having sold her pitch, Abida left it to Mary Wambui to work her charms at State House where it mattered-so the story goes.

Hey presto!

Word came back that Abida would get her dear wish.

An infuriated Martha Karua on discovering this decided to pay back Abida in her own coin by going to the other Mrs. Kibaki to try and unravel the whole judge appointment thing.

So it came to pass that Lucy Kibaki scuttled the State House swearing ceremony- before hopping on a chopper to Nyeri.

Could the above scenario help to explain Martha Karua’s coy and ingenuous sounding denial that the Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister was either in parliament or her Cooperative House office the whole day and therefore was blissfully unaware on any swearing in plans?

What will be the next episode in this gripping State House soap opera?

Will Ms. Abida Aroni and Mary Wambui overcome all odds and turn the tables on Martha Karua and Lucy Kibaki?

Stay tuned.

There is more, hopefully, stashed away for our collective mirth and entertainment.

All that, by the way, was just a diversionary aside to what I wanted to say, which is this:

You need about 2kgs of SALT to swallow what President Kibaki and his NARC-K handlers are trying to shove down our throats in terms of a state version bleeding innocent in the KANU internal wrangles.

Here is an excerpt from the December 11th-17th edition of the Weekly Citizen:

…The waking nightmare within State House is the fear of what might happen if Raila Odinga, William Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi manage to strike a working political alliance. This, they aver, could deal a crushing blow for a Kibaki re-election next year with his chances being rated as remote to almost nil.

To add fireworks is the Uhuru Kenyatta factor in ODM-Kenya and the Kikuyu equation. According to our source, it is due to the Uhuru factor that Kibaki’s schemers have enlisted former president Moi and his protégé Nicholas Biwott to erode Uhuru’s political base in KANU and Kikuyu land.

For starters, in an effort to consolidate the Kikuyu vote behind Kibaki, Uhuru has to be vanquished politically so as to have the Nyeri-born Kibaki the only presidential candidate from the country’s most populous community. With the massive Kikuyu vote under lock and key, Kibaki strategists believe they have a head start of 2.9 million votes.

Currently Central Province has 1.9 million votes while it is calculated that the Kikuyu vote in Rift Valley and other areas of the country totals 1 million. The Kikuyu community also controls 40 per cent of Nairobi votes.

It is this fight for the all-important Kikuyu vote between Kibaki and Uhuru that a coup was initiated within KANU. During the State House meetings, our source told us, the issue of Uhuru’s presidential bid come 2007 has featured prominently.

Kibaki strategists have, according to our source, concurred that if Uhuru was to run next year, the Kikuyu vote will be divided hence the need to address the Kikuyu equation ahead of the polls.

To achieve this goal, Uhuru had to be removed as chairman of the opposition party KANU which has grassroots networks across the country. Moi, who has fallen out with the Kenyatta family was recruited to tame Uhuru.

It has emerged that, to win Moi to their side, State House operatives told the former president that they were willing to sort out his mysterious shares at Safaricom. It will interest Kenyans to know the controversial 5 per cent shares at Safaricom are owned by Moi, his son Gideon and Joshua Kulei.

A story is told of how, Vodafone, a British company, had to bribe Moi and business associates with 10 per cent shares to win the lucrative mobile business in Kenya. Kulei and Gideon during the Moi era are said to have told the Britons that the then President needed 10 per cent in the mobile business or else the tender award would be given to another firm.

The deal was sealed and the shares demanded awarded. Insiders say, when Kibaki came to power, five per cent was offloaded by the Moi associated firm to remain with another five per cent. When the deal came into the open, Moi is said to have panicked and had to run to Kibaki for help.

But the Kibaki side saw that as an opportunity to use to handle Uhuru. During Moi-Kibaki’s recent State House talks that were attended by Defence Minister Njenga Karume, it was agreed Moi should be allowed to offload the remaining five per cent shares but with one condition of helping to remove Uhuru as KANU chairman.

A shrewd Moi capitalized on the opportunity and immediately endorsed Biwott’s faction. Moi faxed a statement to newsrooms an evening before KANU’s planned National Delegates Conference (NDC) declaring publicly that he supported the Biwott group.

With the Biwott camp now running KANU, Moi, Gideon and Kulei had to fly to Britain to sort out the Vodafone shares. For the better part of last week, the trio was engaged in talks with Vodafone top officials in the UK. Our informer told us that apart from the shares, Moi had also been dispatched by Kibaki to convince Kulei to stop backing ODM- Kenya.

It is imperative to note, whenever the name of ODM-Kenya is mentioned, State House bleeds and the former president has fiercely opposed the KANU relationship with the movement.

According to our source, state house intelligence network has pin pointed Kulei as the principal financier of ODM-K activities. He is said to channel his funds through Eldoret North MP William Ruto. In fact is said the hefty donations Ruto and his Kalenjin allied MPs have been donating in harambees across Rift Valley all came from Kulei.

His association with the now influential KASS FM has also not gone down well with State House. At one time state machineries invaded the station owned by Kulei and disabled it. Intelligence reports say the FM station is playing a major role in influencing the 1.2 million Kalenjin vote in favour of Ruto and ODM-Kenya…Current reports indicate, Moi’s next mission on behalf of State House is to have Kulei cut links with ODM luminaries and if possible, have him lure Ruto out of the movement to puncture it.

The political machinations being used are these:

First, it is argued, Kulei and Ruto are in ODM due to the fact that they are facing criminal charges in court and want to be seen as anti-establishment. The possibility of the government dropping criminal cases against the duo has been discussed in the highest offices in the land.

At one given time, Ruto, Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua and Karume were holed up at Jacaranda Hotel, Westlands, deliberating on the move. At State House, Ruto is Kibaki’s big headache in Kalenjin politics and something has to be done, kitchen cabinet advisers are pointing out. The government seems to have slowly softened its hard stand on Kulei and has even returned his passport and one time Moi aide frequently goes out to meet his family which has settled in Britain…what perhaps is causing ripples at State House is the fact that Kulei is rooting for Musalia Mudavadi as ODM-K presidential candidate.

To Kulei, a Mudavadi presidential candidature would easily see Kibaki leave State House next year becoming the first post-independence Kenya president to serve only one term.

Here is Kulei’s political game plan in ODM-K:

If Mudavadi is the movement presidential torchbearer, the Luhya vote will fully back him with Ruto as a running mate. Here the Kalenjin vote will be behind Mudavadi. Lastly, is to have Raila back Mudavadi and Luos who to them the Lang’ata MP is their political messiah will cast votes for Mudavadi.

It is an equation that is sending cold chills down the spine of State House mandarins who are quietly pointed out that it has to be controlled at whatever cost by first consolidating the Kikuyu vote then move out to get other regions. The Luhya vote which is above 1.2 million plus the Kalenjin vote 1.2 million add on the Luo vote of 1 million would greatly complicate matters for Kibaki. To Kibaki allies, Kalenjin votes must be hived off ODM.

Recent reports have it that Kibaki’s men have opened business doors to Kalenjin movers and shakers who had been locked out immediately after the 2002 polls. Unconfirmed reports have it the Kibaki family has acquired a stake in Kenol/Kobil which is also associated with Biwott. The oil firm recently won a lucrative Shs. 3 billion tender to supply oil products to KENGEN. The MD of KENGEN Eddy Njoroge is a powerful member of Kibaki’s kitchen cabinet (and allegedly a blood relative of Lucy Kibaki). KENGEN is already facing public wrath as it is being blamed for the high power costs levied by KPLC…Then we have the Kalonzo factor. State House power barons hope that the fate of Mwingi North MP in ODM-K will be sealed after he is short-changed as expected. To them, if Kalonzo is not ODM-K’s presidential candidate he will be easy to handle.

We have information that the current political tension between Raila and Kalonzo was the creation of State Intelligence and a section of the print media which seems to have paid dividends….

SOURCE:

“Kikuyu equation ahead of 2007 polls” p.2, Weekly Citizen, Vol. 10, No. 2, December 11th-17th 2006.

Of course there is MORE salacious stuff, but the above excerpts will suffice for now.

A few comments from Onyango Oloo:

1.I cannot vouch for the veracity or otherwise of the Weekly Citizen account. Readers will have to double-check the story before they make up their own minds.

2.If there is any credence to the article, then it confirms what some of us have known for a long time, viz., that Kibaki and his arrogant handlers are guided first and foremost by elitist and quite ethnic telescopes which will leave them floundering in the political ditches if they hang on to the rather myopic so called "analyses".

3.There could be a pronounced disconnect between the President and the Kenyan voters. Too many assumptions are being made that the wananchi will basically; ala lemmings follow whatever “their” tribal chieftains tell them. My one year here on the Kenyan ground persuades me otherwise. This time around Kenyans are even more politically conscious and cautious and will vote according to the real and/or perceived track records of those hunting for their votes.

4.The tribal statistics being hurled around have a major flaw because of the tribal assumption that Kenyan nationalities and ethnic groups will vote as a bloc. Is it really a given that the state and municipality battered and harassed hawkers of Nairobi, majority drawn from the Agikuyu community will vote for Mwai Kibaki simply because he is a fellow Mundu wa Nyoomba? Will all 2.9 million Gikuyus, 1.2. million Kalenjins etc show up at the polling stations in the first place and rush to look for their ethnic kin people?

5.Is ODM-K that really divided and gullible to State House machinations?

6.An ODM-Kenya insider intimated to me eleven months ago what is now common knowledge: that Najib Balala, William Ruto, Musalia Mudavadi and other candidates are merely mobilizing to deliver "their" constituencies to the Raila Odinga presidential effort. They are thus unlikely to be fighting each other. In the particular case of William Ruto, it has been my understanding that his target is firmly set on the NEXT election- the 2012 one, not 2007.

In any case, all these scenarios subtract the biggest factor:

Those millions upon millions of Kenyan wananchi who are the ones who will determine who will be the next Kenyan president, MP, councillor etc.

Incidentally, is it actually TRUE that


KENGEN MD Eddy Njoroge is First Lady Lucy Kibaki’s BROTHER???

Ni hayo tu.

Wacha Niambae…

Onyango Oloo
Nairobi, Kenya

[adongo12345]

OO

A couple of things.

1. Yes it was refreshing to hear Kibaki speak from the heart ( what a sick, mean and lying heart it seems) but speak from his heart he did. Why do I say a sick and mean heart? Because I couldn't believe his put down of ordinary Kenyans (Wapumbavus) who waste their days in rallies. Kibaki wondered aloud how these people ever make a living. Insulting the public is always a dangerous thing for any politician. Kibaki tried this in the referendum and discovered to his horror that those "lazy" "unemployed" Kenyans actually vote.

www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=87488

2. Kibaki openly lying to Kenyans that he had nothing to do with party coups, just makes him look silly. What a clown. Ironically the same Kibaki at pains to promote his "achievements", told us that Kenyans have eyes and ears and can see for themselves what he has done for the country. Guess what Kenyans saw and heard about Kibaki meeting Moi at State House a day before the Biwott coup in Mombasa. This happened at the same time Moi was receiving a series of delegates at his Kabarak home and openly asking the delegates to throw out Uhuru and give the chair to Biwott. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, chances are it is a duck ama? When Kenyans see the president behaving like he is another Kanu delegate meeting Moi at the time Moi is carrying out his coup, it is not hard to figure out what they are meeting to plot.

3. I thought the non swearing in incident at State House was bizarre. Now I know. The thing to note is that the Kibaki State House is still run by the "informal government" - euphemism for the two wives alternating their gigs with Kibaki. Today Wambui scores and tomorrow Lucy is on target. Mercifully for the nation, the two are always fighting over who will have the last word on anything Mtukufu rais does. Can you imagine the disaster, for the country, if the two could work in collaboration? One thing we would miss the drama and the soap opera, but geez, I think they could easily take the nation to the cleaners.

4. I was wondering, since Kibaki is always ropokaring about opposition politicking 24/7 instead of doing development work; Do we know how many roads Kibaki built as an opposition leader? How many hospitals did Mzee build even in Othaya forget the whole country? I intend to ask him these questions and more in my year end gift of pieces of advice to the good old General.

Adongo

[Onyango Oloo]

Safaricom Saga: Kenyans Need Urgent Answers

Opinion Piece in the Daily Nation by AHMEDNASIR ABDULLAHI

Publication Date: 12/13/2006

THE REVELATION THAT A company known as Mobitelea owns five per cent shares in Safaricom has let out of the bag a bizarre secret. It is now official that in addition to the Government and Vodafone plc of Britain, a local company owned by well-connected individuals in the Kanu regime own shares in Safaricom.

The owners of Mobitelea are well-known to the Government despite the meek pretences to the contrary. The fundamental issue raised by this saga is the consideration Mobitelea provided to Vodafone that entitled it to shares worth Sh7 billion at the current price.

There is no evidence in the public domain that payments were made by Mobitelea for its shares in Safaricom, and a closer retracing of the events leading to the role Mobitelea played shows that Vodafone occupies the epicentre of this scandal, and has to answer most of the troubling questions.

THERE'S MORE TO THIS SAGA THAN meets the eye. A reconstruction of the events leading to the structure of shareholding easily explains the genesis. It is now obvious that Vodafone must have enlisted the services of Mobitelea owners to procure the deal on its behalf and persuade the Government to sell it shares in Safaricom.

Once that deal was done, instead of the Mobitelea owners parachuting out with a handsome consideration as is usually the case, they insisted on taking equity in the company.

There is an urgent need for an independent inquiry into the shareholding of Safaricom so that Kenyans know the intrigues and backroom deals that led to the current shareholding. The circumstances raise fundamental issues in more ways than one.

First, there is need to revisit the cash paid by Vodafone to the Government. It might be the case that the shares sold to Vodafone were deliberately undervalued as a precondition for the 10 per cent given by Vodafone to Mobitelea. If this is the case, all those who negotiated with Vodafone and the officials of Vodafone, have a case to answer.

Second, if Vodafone has paid the 10 per cent as consideration for the facilitative role Mobitelea played in the deal, a clear case of corruption can be made. It is well-known that multinationals, in their dealings with Third World governments, engage in corrupt activities.

Britain has a specific statute that addresses allegations of corruption made against companies domiciled in their country, and it is imperative for the British administration to practice what it habitually preaches to us and investigates the dealings of Vodafone in the Safaricom saga.

Third, if it can be conclusively shown that Vodafone procured its shares in Safaricom through fraud, then that unravels the whole transaction. It will mean that Vodafone has no legal right to keep its shares in the company, and the taxpayer is entitled to both the shares held by Mobitelea and Vodafone and even the dividend paid in the past.

The law frowns on contracts vitiated by underhand dealing of either party and treats the entire transaction as if it never occurred in the first place.

What is most fascinating is that the shares of Mobitelea seem to have assumed a pivotal political significance in the political rapprochement between the Kibaki administration and Kanu.

It has now come to light that high-level officials of the Kibaki administration are negotiating with Kanu on a political cohabitation in which Mobitelea's shares in Safaricom have assumed a most fascinating connotation.

The owners of Mobitelea are using the net worth of their five per cent shares as leverage to gain maximum favours from the Kibaki administration.

The negotiations are centred on the need to agree that in consideration of those shares changing hands, the Government will not investigate the genesis of the transaction and will, in addition, ensure that the status quo in Kanu after the Mombasa coup will be maintained in Government books.

In light of the various privatisation of parastatals, and to ensure that no such mysterious transactions occur again, the Kenya and British governments must investigate this strange charitable action on Vodafone's part.

If such an investigation is undertaken, it might unearth a most intriguing form of economic corruption between a multinational and a coterie of corrupt individuals in the Kanu regime.

[Onyango Oloo]

kenya.rcbowen.com/talk/viewtopic.php?id=1963

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pesatu.blogspot.com/2006/11/safaricom-mobitelea-ask-sarin-here-is.html

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blogs.ayoafrica.com/lifesizemag/2006/11/safaricommobitelea-saga.html

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www.kenya-services.biz/tost/node/17/5#comment-5

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gathara.blogspot.com/2006/11/safaricom-bitter-option.html

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www.mashada.com/forums/index/show_topic/26/54253/index.php

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www.mambogani.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6024

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ribacapital.blogspot.com/2006/11/safaricom-listing.html

[politicalmaniac]

Very interesting scoop.
the "kickibackisms" as you put it, are annoying. Why talk of "increase dairy output", or other mundane issues when the hot belly button issues are ignored?
Very annoying!

[adongo12345]

OO

I am interested in a few things Ahmednasir wrote in his very direct piece.


"Britain has a specific statute that addresses allegations of corruption made against companies domiciled in their country, and it is imperative for the British administration to practice what it habitually preaches to us and investigates the dealings of Vodafone in the Safaricom saga.

Third, if it can be conclusively shown that Vodafone procured its shares in Safaricom through fraud, then that unravels the whole transaction. It will mean that Vodafone has no legal right to keep its shares in the company, and the taxpayer is entitled to both the shares held by Mobitelea and Vodafone and even the dividend paid in the past."

Lets start with the UK statute which portends to reprimand companies domiciled in the U.K that engage in corruption (even abroad). My question is this: How can Kenyans approach the right office in Britain to initiate investigations into the activities of Vodafone with regard to the Safaricom deal? Should we approach some M.Ps over there? Should we write the right office and what is the right office?

The situation the way I look at it is that we need proof that Mobitelea paid for the shares they obtained and that they paid at the fair market price which is very unlikely. It is also likely that Vodafone was offered a lower price than would be the case so that they could cover the cost of offering Moi and Kulei 10% shares.

If nothing was paid by Mobitelea or if they corruptly worked with Vodafone to swindle the Kenyan taxpayer and put money in Moi's pocket that whole deal should be declared null and void and all shares reversed to Telkom.

The bottom line here is that we may get more action by putting weight on Vodafone and their British shareholders who can challenge the management to come clean than we will from Kibaki and dead like dodo Ringera and his KACC. Kibaki is openly conniving with with Moi and Kulei to hide the rot and get his cut. We are going to cut them off this time.

Adongo

[Onyango Oloo]

Here are 2 links to the relevant info:

www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/other_side_of_the_coin_PDF.pdf

www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Follow_the_Money_-_RGS-IBG__final_31-AUG-2006.pdf

[Onyango Oloo]

Government Out to Bring Back Single Party Rule



By Uhuru Kenyatta, published by The Standard, December 14, 2006

As the Leader of the Official Opposition, it is important to bring to Kenyans’ attention a sinister plot targeting Kanu and increasing disregard for the rule of law by the Government.

With a new Government in office after the 2002 General Election, Kenyans were convinced that they had in place leadership founded on the rule of law, a leadership that would respect the Constitution and the wishes of the people regardless of race, tribe, religion or political affiliation. Kenyans believed that they had a Government that would be free of corruption and respect democracy.

After a few months, the Kibaki Government illegally took over Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) from Kanu without due regard of the law, specifically the conditions set out in Section 75 of the Constitution. The Government further detained all Kanu files and other materials, crippling its ability to execute its mandate as an effective Official Opposition.

Despite several court orders preventing the Government from interfering with KICC and Kanu, it continued and still continues to interfere in and detain the party’s files. It is now clear that this was the first step in a wide plot to cripple the Opposition and derail democratic advancements.

The President has on several occasions violated the Constitution and appointed members of Kanu to the Cabinet. Section 16 of the Constitution states: "There shall be such offices of the Minister of the Government of Kenya as may be established by Parliament or, subject to any provisions made by Parliament, by the President. The President shall, subject to the provisions of any written law, appoint ministers from among the members of the National Assembly."

The written law referred to above is the National Assembly and Presidential Elections Act that provides: "No person who is elected or nominated as a member of the National Assembly with the support of or as a supporter of a political party (other than the party whose candidate has been elected President at an election) shall be appointed a Minister of Government … without the concurrence of the party which supported him for election or nominated him as a member of the National Assembly".

The appointment of Kanu MPs to the Government has been done without the concurrence of the party and in contravention of the law. This was the second step in the plot to destroy the Official Opposition.

It is public knowledge that Kanu held grassroots and national elections on January 31 and February 1, last year, where I was elected national chairman. But on November 28, the Narc administration registered a splinter group as the bona fide Kanu leaders in disregard of multi-party democracy, the law and party constitution. According to the Kanu constitution, only the national chairman or the National Executive Council can summon a National Delegate Conference, the party’s top decision-making organ.

More importantly, it is the only organ that can change officials. There is no doubt that the Registrar is well versed in law and is aware of last year’s elections which were covered live on national TV. She has a copy of the party constitution which stipulates how officials are changed. The decision to declare the splinter group the bona fide Kanu leadership is misplaced, lacking in legality and a further step in destroying multi-party democracy.

This notwithstanding, the Registrar’s actions were carried out with so much haste that it left one wondering what the motive was. She had the option — under the Societies Act — to find that there was a dispute and give the party a chance to resolve it instead of registering new officials. We had lodged an objection to change of officials a day before the registration.

It is clear that this is the Government’s final stroke in its master plan to finish the Official Opposition. It is the height of absurdity for a Government to purport to anoint the Leader of the Official Opposition Party and flies in the face of the principles of multi-party democracy. When we opted to exercise the democratic right to demonstrate and demand a reversal of the illegal action, the police set upon us. They beat innocent citizens and the media were not spared the barbarism.

Is this indeed an "opening of the democratic space" that the Government always harps on? It is important to remind Kenyans of their fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution. Section 79 ensures the freedom of expression and Section 80 of assembly and association.

It is now evident that political party coups are State manoeuvres directed, financed and orchestrated in cahoots with former Kanu leaders so that the party can be auctioned to the Government in return for pardon of past economic crimes.

The Narc Government came to power on a platform of zero-tolerance to corruption. But it has not only embraced the vice, but has also developed it to competitive standards. The Government has imposed a selective purge of public officials alleged to have committed economic crimes. This makes us believe that it has closed the chapter on the fight against corruption.

The Government is not only out to break the law, but also to take us back to a one-party State. The political destiny of our nation rests with Kenyans.


The writer is the Leader of the Official Opposition and Gatundu South MP

[roughrider]

mmmh, like you said, i will stay tuned.

What amazes me is how people can take healthy, breathing, reasonable kenyans for a ride.

Sample this fellow who prints membership cards with his photo (hero worship) and decrees that 2m fees be paid by candidates (dictatorship and exclusion) and this man is now an only candidate in an election!

And the fellow expects to be el presidente