Post by nalinali on Apr 1, 2011 20:53:50 GMT 3
Wonders never cease to amaze!!! This is brazen. This is reckless. Poor Naivasha PEV victims, who will speak on your behalf.
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Uhuru, Ruto in Kiambu 'prayer' tour
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and Eldoret North MP William Ruto confer during a tour of the larger Kiambu County April 1, 2011. The two embarked on the last leg of their "prayer" tours countrywide as they prepare to head to The Hague next week over summonses by the ICC. TOM MARUKO
www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1137208/-/item/1/-/jxdxpc/-/index.html
By JOHN NGIRACHU and ERIC WAINAINA
Posted Friday, April 1 2011 at 18:14
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto Friday begun their last leg of prayer tours before they fly to The Hague next week to obey summons by the International Criminal Court.
The two were accompanied on a tour of Kiambu County by about 25 MPs, with their tour culminating in a well-attended prayer meeting-cum rally at Githunguri Stadium.
There were indications as they went from Ruaka through Banana, Kiambu, Ndumberi and Ikinu that the two could form a political alliance for the 2012 General Election.
Most MPs who spoke suggested that if the cases against the two by the ICC do not go through, they could form an alliance with Uhuru Kenyatta running for president with Ruto as his running mate.
But there were speeches that were laced with the kind of talk the National Cohesion and Integration Commission could categorise as hate speech.
This was wholly directed at Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whose well documented political battles with Mr Ruto, the ODM deputy party leader, have been complicated by the fresh onslaught by Mr Kenyatta.
PNU Chief Whip Johnstone Muthama was among MPs who suggested the PM should have been included in the list of suspects by ICC prosecutor Louis Moreno Ocampo for calling for mass action after the bungled 2007 General Election.
“Who said his votes had been stolen and asked his people to fight? Who asked people to uproot the railway in Kibera, to remove people from their houses and occupy them?” he asked.
Public Works assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri employed a range of proverbs and analogies to portray Mr Odinga as the prime target of the group allied to the Ruto-Uhuru alliance.
But there were signs Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto will use their new-found political alliance will help foster peace between the Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities, which were at the centre of the fighting in Rift Valley Province.
“No more blood will be shed in Kenya due to politics,” said Mr Ruto at the beginning of the tour at Ruaka Shopping Centre.
Mr Kenyatta echoed those sentiments and repeated his claim that all he helped do during the violence in early 2008 was to offer help for Kikuyus displaced from their homes in the Rift Valley.
He said he would offer the same kind of help if similar displacements were to recur.
“Even if I am sued tens of times, let him try again and we’ll do the same thing,” he said
Mr Kenyatta has repeatedly denied the accusation by Mr Ocampo that he helped organize reprisals against the Kalenjin at Naivasha and Nakuru by members of the outlawed Mungiki sect.
He suggested that had the fighting been organized or planned, the violence would have been worse.
He also urged the Kikuyu community to unite and speak with one voice as their leaders seek political alliances.
“We don’t have a problem with everybody from Nyanza. We only have a problem with one man (kimundu) who does not want peace until he assumes the presidency,” he said in apparent reference to Mr Odinga’s ambition to become president in 2012.
He accused non-governmental organisations of using funds from foreign countries to sponsor recent surveys that found 80 per cent of Kenyans support the trial of the alleged PEV perpetrators at The Hague.
Mr Kiunjuri said MPs allied to Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta would push to have Attorney General Amos Wako file a case against Mr Odinga for his alleged role in the post-election chaos.
MPs present; Zakayo Cheruiyot, Johnstone Muthama, Charles Keter, Peter Mwathi, Jamleck Kamau, Bifwoli Wakoli, Abdul Bahari, Njoroge Baiya, Joseph Gitari, Joseph Kiuna, Naomi Shaaban, Linah Kilimo, Adan Duale, John Mututho, Chachu Ganya, Clement Wambugu, Chirau Mwakwere, Mwangi Kiunjuri, Jeremiah Koini, Mahamud Mohammed Ali.
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Uhuru, Ruto in Kiambu 'prayer' tour
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and Eldoret North MP William Ruto confer during a tour of the larger Kiambu County April 1, 2011. The two embarked on the last leg of their "prayer" tours countrywide as they prepare to head to The Hague next week over summonses by the ICC. TOM MARUKO
www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1137208/-/item/1/-/jxdxpc/-/index.html
By JOHN NGIRACHU and ERIC WAINAINA
Posted Friday, April 1 2011 at 18:14
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto Friday begun their last leg of prayer tours before they fly to The Hague next week to obey summons by the International Criminal Court.
The two were accompanied on a tour of Kiambu County by about 25 MPs, with their tour culminating in a well-attended prayer meeting-cum rally at Githunguri Stadium.
There were indications as they went from Ruaka through Banana, Kiambu, Ndumberi and Ikinu that the two could form a political alliance for the 2012 General Election.
Most MPs who spoke suggested that if the cases against the two by the ICC do not go through, they could form an alliance with Uhuru Kenyatta running for president with Ruto as his running mate.
But there were speeches that were laced with the kind of talk the National Cohesion and Integration Commission could categorise as hate speech.
This was wholly directed at Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whose well documented political battles with Mr Ruto, the ODM deputy party leader, have been complicated by the fresh onslaught by Mr Kenyatta.
PNU Chief Whip Johnstone Muthama was among MPs who suggested the PM should have been included in the list of suspects by ICC prosecutor Louis Moreno Ocampo for calling for mass action after the bungled 2007 General Election.
“Who said his votes had been stolen and asked his people to fight? Who asked people to uproot the railway in Kibera, to remove people from their houses and occupy them?” he asked.
Public Works assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri employed a range of proverbs and analogies to portray Mr Odinga as the prime target of the group allied to the Ruto-Uhuru alliance.
But there were signs Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto will use their new-found political alliance will help foster peace between the Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities, which were at the centre of the fighting in Rift Valley Province.
“No more blood will be shed in Kenya due to politics,” said Mr Ruto at the beginning of the tour at Ruaka Shopping Centre.
Mr Kenyatta echoed those sentiments and repeated his claim that all he helped do during the violence in early 2008 was to offer help for Kikuyus displaced from their homes in the Rift Valley.
He said he would offer the same kind of help if similar displacements were to recur.
“Even if I am sued tens of times, let him try again and we’ll do the same thing,” he said
Mr Kenyatta has repeatedly denied the accusation by Mr Ocampo that he helped organize reprisals against the Kalenjin at Naivasha and Nakuru by members of the outlawed Mungiki sect.
He suggested that had the fighting been organized or planned, the violence would have been worse.
He also urged the Kikuyu community to unite and speak with one voice as their leaders seek political alliances.
“We don’t have a problem with everybody from Nyanza. We only have a problem with one man (kimundu) who does not want peace until he assumes the presidency,” he said in apparent reference to Mr Odinga’s ambition to become president in 2012.
He accused non-governmental organisations of using funds from foreign countries to sponsor recent surveys that found 80 per cent of Kenyans support the trial of the alleged PEV perpetrators at The Hague.
Mr Kiunjuri said MPs allied to Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta would push to have Attorney General Amos Wako file a case against Mr Odinga for his alleged role in the post-election chaos.
MPs present; Zakayo Cheruiyot, Johnstone Muthama, Charles Keter, Peter Mwathi, Jamleck Kamau, Bifwoli Wakoli, Abdul Bahari, Njoroge Baiya, Joseph Gitari, Joseph Kiuna, Naomi Shaaban, Linah Kilimo, Adan Duale, John Mututho, Chachu Ganya, Clement Wambugu, Chirau Mwakwere, Mwangi Kiunjuri, Jeremiah Koini, Mahamud Mohammed Ali.
