January 12, 2008

The peace mission of the President of Ghana (who is also the chairman of the African Union) has collapsed. Former UN Chief Kofi Annan has now been appointed to try to bring the two parties together. In my opinion, the only way open to bring peace would have been to have another election, preferably under the supervision of the United Nations or the US embassy in Nairobi. From the article below you can see that even the Chairman of the electoral commission, Samuel Kivuitu, has himself denounced the election result—a clear sign that there was rigging. A second commission member has also stated that there was fraud during the vote counting and has flown to South Africa because he felt his life was at risk for admitting what occurred. The ODM has called for mass demonstrations all over the country starting next Wednesday, on the hope that public pressure will eventually lead Kibaki to accept the fact that he did not win the election. We hope this is so because To ask people in Kenya to hold on to this regime knowing that they did not win election is to continue calling for bloodshed and ethnic conflict. Therefore, another Presidential election in the shortest time frame possible is the only solution.

January 16, 2008

Greetings. I am happy to report that yesterday was a good day for Kenya’s dieing democracy. During the election for the speaker of the National Assembly, the government side lost to the opposition who won the position of the speaker despite all by the government party to lure the MP to its side. It was nice to hear MP’s tell the president right in his face that he stole the votes and that he is not qualified to lead this country. Starting today, the opposition has called for demonstrations across the country with hope of forcing the Kibaki admistration to step down and let the democratically elected Raila take his rightful position as President of the Republic of Kenya. We wait for the arrival of Kofi Annan to try to bring peace and we hope that the government side will be willing to listen. We also remain optimistic that one day peace will return to our country and that the many families including children and women currently in police station across the country will be able to return to their homes and that whatever that has taken place in Kenya will be a lesson to other African nations.