One Down, Two To Go.

[adongo12345]

www.timesnews.co.ke/20mar07/nwsstory/topstry.html

Finally Kibaki has seen the inevitable. They should have seen this coming instead of jerking around for months in a battle they couldn't win.

Looks like we are going to get OUR minimum reforms. Next is to throw out Kibaki from power and get a new constitution done, but that is for later.

Now the big part begins. The Kibaki people are going to try to give us the bare minimum. Basically some electoral reforms. We need to come up with serious strategies and concrete proposals and get the public involved not just limiting it to deals signed behind doors.

We also have to ensure we use this opportunity to enact the review completion process into law and ensure that the process will not depend on the goodwill or lack there of from the next regime. But this is a good thing for the country and bad news for Kibaki and his hard-core chauvinists who think they own the country

I think I will be dusting up my constitutional file and start kicking some dust. We are going to get this thing done.

Adongo

[kamalet]

Adongo,

I was really surprised to see Muite at the GNU meeting chaired by Kibaki, then Awori is instructed to work with the Muite committee to agree on the reforms.

Before you say Halelujah, just remember the recent expose on his debts......could the man have been brought to his knees???

[adongo12345]

Kamale

Muite is always a Kibaki supporter. The idea that Muite had joined hands with Raila and ODM to mess Kibaki up was the creation of the supremely incompetent Kibaki support club. Muite knew the minimum reform agenda was an idea whose time had come and he jumped on the boat. Good for him. Muite was also fortunate enough to be the one chairing the Constitutional & Justice Affairs Committee.

I think where Muite may be really annoyed the Kibakites is in supporting some of the proposals like the 51% vote requirement for the winning presidential candidate. That thing really makes the Kibaki folks mad because they think, wrongly I believe that it allows the ODM crew the luxury of second opportunity. Personally I think the 51% vote cuts both ways and is good for the country.

The real battle for me is now to shape the debate in the direction of passing laws/reforms that will benefit Kenyans not just the politicians.

This has been a huge victory for the Kenyan people. The ODM has also gotten a real boost. They can now proudly tell Kenyans they have delivered with the help of the masses on the constitutional platform. They (ODM) now need to come up with smart reform proposals some of which is already in the public domain. The ODM also needs to convince Kenyans that getting minimum reforms was like pulling teeth from Kibaki and now we have to fight for the big one which obviously we cannot trust Kibaki to deliver on.

I am working on my very reconciliatory piece on where to go from here. I intend to share it with comrades right here on Jukwaa. Stay tuned.

Adongo