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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 26, 2008 2:17:17 GMT 3
Adongo,
I cant agree more.
I find it ironic that ambitious people like Martha Karua are so short-sighted that they cant see the wisdom of a powerful premier in post-Kibaki kenya.
But as some one once said, you cant stop an idea whose time has come.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 26, 2008 1:22:56 GMT 3
What Annan and ODM seems to ignore if not oblivious of is that there is the Kalonzo factor in this mediation process.
Kibaki would have given in long time ago were it not for the mysterious MoU with Kalonzo traced to some secret meeting at Nakuru State Hse last year attended by Kibaki,Moi and MUTULA KILONZO.
Kenyans must know that there is a third principal in this mediation process,an adjunct one albeit in the name of Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka.
Kalonzo or ODM-K if you like is represented by MUTULA and just like Raila and Kibaki, he also get first hand briefing and debrief the ODM-K's representative.Remember he is officially the leader of the government delegation in the post-election crisis talks.
There are striking similarities between what is happening now in Serena and the energy-sapping, high-octane, see-saw political power games that Kalonzo engaged Raila & Co last year.
Kalonzo sees Annan team as bent on presiding over his political burial at a time when he is at the apogee of his career and whats more, his pending political demise is at behest of Raila, the man he has unfinished business with.
What he has done to Daniel Maanzo,Chepkonga and Aluga and Dr Julia Ojiambo is prooof positive of his capability. One reason why the likes of Martha Karua, Uhuru Kenyatta and George Saitoti should watch out.
All I am saying is that its high time ODM and Annan team guard itself against the akili-na damu machinations of this politically destructive man.
ODM must take advantage of the swirling anti-Kalonzo storm in Ukambani and Ford-K to rout out his influence in the body politics and more importantly attain the broad-based national political alliance to chart a new path for Kenya.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 24, 2008 21:41:03 GMT 3
I have checked and checked and checked. Esther who reminds me of the Speaker of US Congress, Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi deserves the seat and she will get it. Go Passaris! Go! Esther!Go!1 ;D JAHAATWACH What were you checking for? For any just impediment to Passaris nomination.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 24, 2008 16:10:33 GMT 3
I have checked and checked and checked. Esther who reminds me of the Speaker of US Congress, Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi deserves the seat and she will get it. Go Passaris! Go! Esther!Go!1 ;D
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 24, 2008 16:07:42 GMT 3
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 22, 2008 21:02:24 GMT 3
Here is some comic relief away from the political shinanigans in Nairobi. I laughed my heart out when I watched President Bush loosen up to do his thing in Libera. mpaka akatoa koti! ;D Then there is our Obama. must watch! ;D
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 24, 2008 21:12:53 GMT 3
Ask me what would drive the Karua Four to respond to media gossips and hearsay narratives at a time when Kenya is anxiously waiting to exhale and I will tell you that it is panic attack.
Remember they acted dump last Friday evening when the media were prodding them to talk? Now on Sunday, they emerge, suddenly, to split our ears with fitina.My small Luo mind tells me that this is not a pre-emptive strike on Annan &Co. I am also convinced that it is not a stakes raising-bargain- hardening adventure. It doesn't sound Alfred Mutuaish to me either.
I am sure it is a panic attack because they impulsively acted the way they acted,when they knew better and the discerning Kenyans who recalls Annan's last brief knows otherwise. In their sense of urgency, I read uncertainty,fear and desperation of a status quo that is in denial typical of powers that be at the end of time.
I am also convinced that ODM has done its part and it is time to step back and let time and its fury take care of those standing between Kenya and its destiny.It is tempting to try and help the conservatives overcome the residual fear that is holding them back- including the fear of unknown but that would be naivety.
It bothers me, however,that the Government's stubbornness in this mediation process has striking similarity with the energy-sapping,adrenaline-pumping and politically lethal machinations of one Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka in the 2007 run-up to party primaries.I am therefore persuaded that it is Kalonzo Musyoka and not Mwai Kibaki who ODM should pay closer attention to.
I hazard to guess that it is because of the mysterious MoU Kibaki had with Kalonzo that Annan mediation effort is in its dicey phase.
-Jahaatwach
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 23, 2008 17:03:18 GMT 3
If you ask me, Kibaki has only three options:
The plausible one is to swallow his ego just as Raila Odinga and ODM have done and let ODM run away with its Irreducible minimum demands whose highlights are separation of State and Government and 50-50 public appointments.He may wish to secure ODM's cast-iron gaurantee on the safety of the Kikuyu diaspora.
If he is too proud, fearful or obstinate as PM thinks, then he must act this evening with a surprise on Kenya and the world. He can exercise his so called powers by radically reconstituting the government to accommodate ODM.
With help of NSIS, he can plagiarize ODM's shadow government and make the appointments(from Cabinet to Foreign Missions and Parastals to Armed Forces) that ODM would have problem denouncing. A 50-50 basis. Then he can direct Wako to kick start the Bomas Katiba for legislation within six months.This would be his selfish way of declaring Koffi Annan redundant.But he wont.
The other option is to go by the script of Jukwaa's right-wing posters Kamale and Dubois . See above post.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 23, 2008 16:15:52 GMT 3
Rice calls for 'real not pretended' power-sharing in Kenya23 Feb 2008, 0711 hrs IST,AFP WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday called for a "real not pretended" power-sharing deal in Kenya, in apparent criticism of President Mwai Kibaki. "I think there is nothing that is unbridgeable between these two sides," she told a press conference, referring to Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, who are in talks over creating a new post of prime minister. "Everybody, I believe, thinks that there is a solution if there is enough political will to take it," said Rice, who was sent on Monday to Kenya by US President George W Bush to support mediation talks lead by former United Nations chief Kofi Annan. " But it's going to require real power-sharing, not pretend power-sharing," Rice said of the deal underway in Kenya. "It's going to require compromise on both sides." Kenya has been mired in one of its worst, post-1964-independence crises since Kibaki's contested December 27 re-election. More than 1,000 people have died in political and ethnic violence and 30,000 have been displaced. A relative calm has prevailed the past 10 days. Both sides have tentatively agreed to create the post of a prime minister, but are bogged down on the exact details. Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement insists on a powerful premier while the government has offered a non-executive office. Source: Times of Indiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2806751,prtpage-1.cms
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 23, 2008 0:59:22 GMT 3
Meanwhile some joker has gone to ourt seeking to share Langata seat with Raila ati because Raila would be sharing power with Kibaki. Mediation group’s legality challenged in court By SATURDAY NATION Correspondent Last updated: 1 hour ago A parliamentary loser has moved to court to challenge the constitutionality of the mediation team. Mr Antony Ndung’u Kirori wants the High Court to issue an order restraining all the negotiators from adopting any resolution by the Kofi Annan team which is likely to alter the governance structure of Kenya in violation of the Constitution. Also sought by Mr Kirori is an order directing that his case be heard and determined within a period not exceeding 21 days. In the suit filed under a certificate of urgency, Mr Kirori has listed negotiators Musalia Mudavadi, William Ruto, Sally Kosgei, Caroli Omondi, Martha Karua, Mutula Kilonzo, Moses Wetangula, Sam Ongeri, Gichira Kibaara and Raila Odinga as respondents. Also being sued are Police Commissioner Major Gen Mohammed Ali and Attorney-General Amos Wako. Mr Kirori said the negotiators are engaged in an unconstitutional “boardroom” exercise referred to as “mediation process” to discuss and determine what is, in effect, an electoral dispute between ODM and PNU. This, according to him can only be done by a court of law which is vested with powers under section 10 and 44 of the Constitution. ;D He says he vied for the Lang’ata constituency seat against Mr Odinga and lost it. He argues that he should also be permitted to share power with Mr Odinga as MP for Lang’ata.Reason? He believes that if Mr Odinga who lost the presidential race to President Kibaki is allowed to share power, then it would only be fair for him to also be accommodated as he represents those who voted for him in Lang’ata constituency. ;D Secondly, Mr Kirori says Mr Odinga and ODM Members of Parliament ought to have refused to turn up for the swearing in ceremony in Parliament if they did not believe or accept that President Kibaki, who convened the opening of Parliament, was not legally in office. He noted that all the MPs from all parties attended and participated in the election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. And since they agreed to participate in the affairs of the House, they accept that President Kibaki was legally elected, he said. He accused ODM of giving the impression that the country is ungovernable and on the brink of civil war. This, Mr Kirori said, was a calculated intention to invite foreign entities to oversee the current mediation process in an unconstitutional manner. politics.nationmedia.com/inner.asp?pcat=NEWS&cat=TOP&sid=1523
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 23, 2008 0:40:46 GMT 3
According to KTN Prime News After more than 8 hours of exhausting deliberations, it is now emerging that the Party of National Unity and the Orange Democratic Movement have in principle agreed to form a coalition government. The feuding sides have also agreed to share on a 50-50 basis the cabinet positions as well as public service appointments.
Sources say PNU and ODM have also made progress in putting in place tough terms that include going to a fresh general election in the event that the coalition collapses.
ODM is said to have proposed that the coalition terms be entrenched in the constitution, but the PNU side asked for time to consult.
These were some of the developments in a day that saw the talks suffer an initial scare after the government side delayed for hours before turning up at the venue this morning. www.ktnkenya.tv/mod.php?topic=19&style=news&ud=0
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 22, 2008 21:26:26 GMT 3
Could it be possible that this boardroom, this hata-mkia-ni-nyama negotiations could have been done with " yesterday" were it not for Ford-Kenya and Kalonzo Musyoka who have an MOU with KIbaki and therefore stand to lose much? Could it be possible that the obstructionists want to drive ODM to a point of desperation knowing too well that ODM's lever (peaceful mass action)is against its(ODM)pledge and commitment to Annan? Could it be possible that ODM and its support base are overrating the government side; that Kibaki,Kalonzo and their supporters are as confused, desperate and fearful? And while on that,here are some familiar lines from Kibaki's supporters in Jukwaa which may help us unravell the mindset of the government side: Re: Kofi Annan - statement - reads like ODM manife « Reply #37 on Feb 17, 2008, 9:14am »Kibaki is CONVINCED that he won the election, so you are not going to find him ceding power soon enough in the manner suggested. Raila appears to want to settle for CRUMBS but would still want to push his luck at being an executive prime minister.
But it those who understand the modus operandi of Raila that understand where the man is coming from. Raila will ultimately settle for leader of opposition, get a new constitution and claim legitimacy at the next election that he is not a perennial loser, but was 'rigged' out in 2007 come the next election. How he will manage his constituency of Luo supporters is the story of another thread- kamaletjukwaa.proboards58.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=1203096196&page=2Re: KOFI MUST MEET RAILA, KIBAKI -NOT THEIR HARDLINERS « Reply #34 on Feb 20, 2008, 6:27pm »ODM lacks the legitimacy and the moral right to demand a re-election or Kibaki's resignation and that is why they are seeking to be co-opted into government. Raila will not become executive prime minister and you'll be surprised when Kenya moves on. As someone else put it,
"In desperation, they are now ready to cooperate with Kibaki(there will be no powerful Prime Ministership for Raila), after the PNU made it clear to Condi Rice that they will not be pushed around to handover effective power to the ODM, no matter what. ODM has now decided to accept half a loaf instead of none. Is this the epitome of truly astute politicians?
A question to the ODMers, ever since the General Election, how many of Raila's and the Pentagon's unequivocal demands have been met by Kibaki? Answer: None. Raila has steadily caved in on each and every one of them and is about to come full circle to PRECISELY where he was in early 2003. What was the concerted effort since that time all about then, given the gridlock, the polarisation, the carnage and ultimately, the waste?"
-Dubois jukwaa.proboards58.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=1203393197&page=2
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 22, 2008 13:52:01 GMT 3
Kenya peace talks in disarrayLast Modified: 22 Feb 2008 Source: PA News A critical day for Kenya's peace talks has been thrown into disarray when the opposition leader unexpectedly left the country and his party said the government failed to show up on time for the latest negotiations.Raila Odinga left Kenya on a charter flight to Nigeria, according to an airport employee and two officials of Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement. Odinga was expected back on Saturday and was still available for consultations on the negotiations while out of the country, said opposition official Musalia Mudavadi.www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/kenya+peace+talks+in+disarray/1627062
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 22, 2008 13:12:42 GMT 3
AP's half-baked story leaves more questions than answers:Ati Raila left the country unexpectedly meaning what?;
The news merchant should know better than to wire such report at time when Kenya is vexed with anxiety.The innuendo here is that this was an emergency flight and clouded in secrecy.Surely Mudavadi would not refuse to state whether the trip was official or private or an emergency.Why then not include that in the story so as to avert speculation and rumours.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 22, 2008 13:07:20 GMT 3
Kenya Peace Talks Hit Snag1 hour ago NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A critical day for Kenya's peace talks was thrown into disarray Friday as the opposition leader unexpectedly left the country. Raila Odinga left Kenya on a chartered flight, according to an airport employee and two officials from Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement. Opposition official Musalia Mudavadi said Odinga was expected back Saturday and was still available for consultations on the negotiations while out of the country. ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hu1q9MI4JTHR_27gg8FtQ6zvvFSwD8UV8EK00
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 27, 2008 14:46:10 GMT 3
PM,I have decided to take the optimistic view. Kenya, I say, will prevail.
In as much as i agree with you that power is not given but taken(by force), i think ODM still has the upper-hand in the ongoing battle of nerves and wits. Let it avoid those battle cries and hold its horses for now.
I think its time to step back and let that greatest arbiter, time, and its fury, take care of human obstacles holding Kenya back from it's destiny. Mass protests called off in Kenya Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has called off Thursday's mass protests after meeting ex-UN head Kofi Annan. " We... are committed to the talks. We have postponed until further notice any actions planned for tomorrow," Mr Odinga told reporters in the capital, Nairobi, after meeting Mr Annan, Reuters news agency reports. " news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7266399.stm
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 26, 2008 23:20:49 GMT 3
PM,
I have decided to take the optimistic view. Kenya, I say, will prevail.
In as much as i agree with you that power is not given but taken(by force), i think ODM still has the upper-hand in the ongoing battle of nerves and wits. Let it avoid those battle cries and hold its horses for now.
I think its time to step back and let that greatest arbiter, time, and its fury, take care obstacles holding Kenya back from it's destiny.
Something to ponder
When the cowardly President Milton Obote impulsively stepped out of the Commonwealth Heads of State Conference hall in Malasyia to dispatch a telegram to his security officers, ordering the arrest of Idi Amin, little did he know that Amin Dada had an affair with Obote's secretary.She handed the telegram to Amin instead.The rest is history.
Moral of this? jijazie mwenyewe!
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 21, 2008 19:32:55 GMT 3
Could someone pass these three quick quips to H.E. Kofi Atta Annan?
ONE Your meeting with Moi the other day was instructive but why are you ignoring regional elders?There is something about sages of 42 Kenyans tribes that cut across canonical reverence and contemporary relevance. President Kibaki and Raila have seemingly overlooked if not ignored these functional courts.I mean the Njuri Njekes,Luhya Council of Elders,Luo Council of Elders and their equivalent in other 39 tribes. Your elusive key, the open sesame to Kenya's deep rooted crisis is surprisingly a phone call away.Just ask around.
TWO Your greatest achievement would be infusing in Kenya a national sense of renewal,hope and belonging.The Catholic way of doing it is through change of its name from Republic of Kenya to DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF KENYA.The difference, as that old commercial goes, is clear!
THREE As you broker the deal for Kenya in a boardroom, ask yourself this:what happens if one of the two principals passes on(GOD FORBID!).In other words, can these proposed changes being agreed at Serena and within the earshot of Pentagon Hse and State House, cater for the unexpected?
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 18, 2008 23:40:39 GMT 3
If I were to write a book, I would title it: The Majoritarian Minority
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 15, 2008 0:15:02 GMT 3
These are scary stories indeed coming at a time when UN special investigator on genocide is on a fact finding mission to Kenya, foreign embassies targeting hate activists and Kenya Human Rights Commission is demanding no amnesty for the perpatrators of recent killings.
I think the foreign media is formenting Kenyan crisis with this knit picking and inflamatory slants that feeds Dr Alfred Mutua's propaganda machine.They must be condemned.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 15, 2008 0:00:32 GMT 3
then there is thisOdinga backers want Kenya talks result - or else Thu 14 Feb 2008, 14:12 GMT By Michael Georgy NAIROBI (Reuters) - Some of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga's slum supporters have tough advice for him -- emerge as president in talks or don't show your face around here. The group of unemployed young men standing in Nairobi's Kibera slum beside homes torched in post-election ethnic violence also made predictable comments about President Mwai Kibaki's rival Kikuyu tribe. They dominate the economy. They stole our land. They have a superiority complex. They won't give us jobs.Frustrations are running deep at a sensitive time when former U.N. chief Kofi Annan mediates between Kibaki and Odinga, hoping for a political solution to a dispute over a December 27 election that triggered clashes killing 1,000 people. Some 300,000 were forced to flee their homes."If Odinga does not become our president, he will need about 30 policemen to protect him if he comes around here," said Julius Muga, 22, a father of two. "We will not just listen if he gets nothing and tells us to be calm." NO COMPROMISE Negotiators for Kibaki and Odinga have gone to a remote safari lodge this week to try to reach a deal many predict will be a power-sharing arrangement.But that has not cooled tempers in the slums, which bore the brunt of much of the violence. There are few job prospects for teenagers. Old men sit idle outside their crude dwellings. Kibaki will have to do a lot more than give some of Odinga's supporters ministerial posts to pacify people like Rose, a hefty middle-aged woman, who was peeling potatoes with a knife."If things don't really change we will just keep killing each other," she burst out. Odinga accuses Kibaki of rigging the vote, while Kibaki maintains he was fairly re-elected.Kibaki stepping down and handing over power to Odinga would be the ideal solution for many living amid piles of stinking garbage and raw sewage. But that is highly unlikely. Kenya's closest ever vote thrust the country into one of its darkest moments since independence in 1963, denting its image as one of Africa's most stable democracies and a peaceful trade and tourism centre.Some people interviewed in Kibera -- east Africa's biggest slum -- said they wanted a peaceful outcome to the negotiations. But there were signs -- even in the most unlikely of places -- that containing hostilities may not be possible for some time.At a school for disabled children, a lecture on dealing with AIDS and getting proper nutrition was preceded by the teacher urging pupils not to forget relatives lost in tribal bloodshed. Deaf children were told the same in sign language.For now, there is calm in Kibera, where hairdressing salons in corrugated iron huts and a few vegetable kiosks with more flies than customers are the only signs of economic activity. A dozen or so policemen were casually keeping watch. Three officers vowed to crack down on any new unrest, but quietly acknowledged they wanted Odinga as their president.Others were not so subtle. Slum dweller Julius and his friends referred to Kikuyus as "cockroaches", a term used by Hutu extremists to describe Tutsis to whip up hatred during Rwanda's 1994 genocide."We will not hesitate to kill every one of these Kikuyus if we don't get our rights," he said. We will get rid of them." africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN451112.html
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 14, 2008 20:20:09 GMT 3
Its like Martha Karua want to pre-empt Annan's statement Kesho.
No 'conclusive agreement' in Kenya talks: govt 6 hours ago AFP
NAIROBI (AFP) — Talks led by Kofi Annan to end the crisis over Kenya's disputed presidential election have yielded no "conclusive agreement," chief government negotiator Martha Karua said Thursday.
"We are still talking and we have not agreed conclusively," Karua, the minister for justice and constitutional affairs, told reporters.
"No conclusive agreement has been reached."
A spokesman for Annan earlier announced that an agreement had been signed Thursday during the talks aimed at pulling the country out of turmoil that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
The former UN secretary general has called a news conference for Friday to "outline what was agreed in 48 hours of discussion at a location outside the capital", said a UN statement.
Kenya descended into violence after President Mwai Kibaki, 76, was declared the winner of the December 27 vote that the opposition said was rigged. International observers also found flaws in the tallying of ballots.
Annan had been pushing for a power-sharing agreement to resolve the dispute over the result of the presidential election that unleashed nationwide violence.
But the Associated Press is contradicting the AFP.
UN: Kenya Political Rivals Sign Deal By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY – 2 hours ago AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Political rivals trying to lead Kenya out of weeks of violence that left more than 1,000 people dead signed an agreement Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said, but no details were released and the talks were to continue next week.
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan, who is mediating the discussions, will release the text of the agreement Friday afternoon, said the spokesman, Nasser Ega-Musa.
Annan and the negotiators have been holed up in an undisclosed location for two days to try to hammer out agreements following a dispute over who won Dec. 27 presidential election.
A news blackout on the peace talks appeared to be holding; both parties have declined to comment on the discussions.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga accuses President Mwai Kibaki of stealing the Dec. 27 vote, and domestic and international observers have said was deeply flawed.
Odinga and Kibaki have been under pressure to share power as a solution. The election unleashed weeks of violence, killing more than 1,000 people and forcing 600,000 to flee their homes.
The talks are being held at a safari lodge in the Tsavo West National Park in southern Kenya. Top negotiators said Tuesday that the opposition was proposing sharing power with the government for two years, then holding new elections.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 14, 2008 13:36:19 GMT 3
On Monday,February 12, 2008,Washington Gikunju of NMG reported that Nairobi Stock Exchange, under the stewardship of Jimnah Mbaru, is rolling out Sh100m rescue plan for Nyagah Stockbrokers.
According to Gikunju,Nyagah Stockbrokers — billed as Kenya’s biggest brokerage house by clientele base — has been in severe financial distress with the regulator(Capital Market Authority) weighing the possibility of suspending its operating licence.
Mr Mbaru justify the Sh100 million rescue package on ground that NSE wanted to “support investors who had bought shares through it.” But the Editor of Daily Nation is not buying Mbaru's explanation and angrily raises the red flag with this hair-splitting opinion piece What's with this broker?" As much as Nairobi Stock Exchange chairman Jimnah Mbaru would want us to believe that things are ship-shape at the bourse, ominous signs are appearing on the horizon.Months after stockbroker Francis Thuo went under, the NSE has been forced to deny ‘‘speculation’’ that Nyaga Stockbrokers are in trouble. Obviously, allaying fears among investors is what a responsible chairman of a critical institution is expected to do.
But looking at the earlier crisis and how it was resolved, the public is unlikely to exude confidence just because Mr Mbaru wants them to.Francis Thuo Stockbrokers went belly-up with an estimated Sh122 million in client money. Despite the NSE compensating the losers, the public is still unclear what exactly transpired to occasion the loss.
It is clear from NSE and Capital Markets Authority rules that brokers should not touch clients’ cash — they are just intermediaries between two parties.But where is the report of what really happened at Francis Thuo? Should we not excuse the public for being jittery in view of this communication vacuum?
Mr Mbaru says the NSE has injected Sh100 million to safeguard customers’ interest at Nyaga, but it may take more than money to restore this confidence.Rumours of violations, like stockbrokers selling investors’ shares without authorisation or issuing bouncing cheques abound. We would want to know from Mr Mbaru whether this is happening, and if true, the measures being taken to cushion the public.
Coming at a time when the economy is in turmoil, the Nyaga saga might irreparably erode market confidence. It is time the NSE reformed its operations to regain that confidence. " Source: Daily Nation,Nairobi, Feb 14,2008Referenceswww.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5819&Itemid=5812www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5808&Itemid=5854www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5832&Itemid=5854www.stockskenya.com/stkforumtopic.aspx?stk=0&top=83allafrica.com/stories/printable/200802111938.htmlwww.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=24&newsid=116763
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 13, 2008 23:12:17 GMT 3
PRESIDENT Bush or Jabungu as my mum calls him, is leaving for Africa this Friday for a whirlwind tour to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, meeting heads of state in each.
I have recieved an e-mail from BBC informing me that its presenter for BBC World News America, Matt Frei, will be interviewing Bush tomorrow Thursday at White House."This special edition of the weekday programme will air globally on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 February at various times. You can either watch it live via internet or TV or listen to it in any of the BBC World Service language services broadcasting to Africa including Arabic, English for Africa, French for Africa, Hausa, Kinyarwanda, Portuguese for Africa, Somali and Swahili."
I am further told that Bush and Frei will among other things focus on the issues surrounding the president's upcoming trip to Africa including AIDS policy and the malaria initiative.
It is instructive to note that President Bush discussed Kenya with Koffi Annan successor in UN,Mr Ban Ki-Moon who was in Nairobi the other day.
I think this interview is worth watching/ listening because obviously Kenya will feature in the discussion(see Mzee1's reasoning above).The closest the Airforce One will land is my former domicile,Tanzania where you bet the top question that newshounds would be asking the world's most powerful man.
By the way is it a coincidence that Annan's deadline for the talks coincides with Jabungu's arrival in Africa?
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Feb 13, 2008 0:31:57 GMT 3
JAHAAT: There is another forum that I enjoy parring with you but I wont be baited for a cat fight on this one.No way! Anyway thanks for stopping by.
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