[wanabidii] Re:WHAT UHURU KENYATTA'S VICTORY MEANS TO AFRICA

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <mulindwa@look.ca> wrote:

Ssalongo Ssenoga

I am very worried about United Kingdom for only God knows what agenda they
hold on Kenya about now. In the meantime can some body send a moving truck
to Raila Odinga and help him pack  his entire belongings and walk out of
politics quietly? And just asking here.

Geez !!!!!

EM
On the 49th

           Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
           Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"

-----Original Message-----
From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
[mailto:ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ssalongo Ssennoga
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:42 AM
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [UAH] WHAT UHURU KENYATTA'S VICTORY MEANS TO AFRICA

... A card that Gaddafi played to the bitter end and one that Mugabe, with
almost similar circumstances continues to play with disastrous consequences.

UK, could play a winning hand by throwing in his lot with the rest of
greater Africa. He can either take lead and support the mass stirrings for
African Assertion, or be sucked into the tide of the collapse of the
colonial state and political infrastructure, where he will be first on the
pyre of African Traitors.

On 3/10/13, Ssalongo Ssennoga <firstcall.ug@gmail.com> wrote:
> EM, You are for real. Let me make a few predictions. Unless he tows
> the correct political line, parcelled as Kenya is between the
> European, Asian and African political royalty, UK will undoubtedly die
> in Office just like his father.
>
> He has very many interests to protect including his own financial
> empire, the western settler and security interests as well as the
> Eastern desire to increase their share of the pie. There is also the
> African political elite whose families have the most to lose in case
> of a meltdown. UK, penultimately has to go to bed with one or two
> groups to set off the others on a collision course against him.  His
> real chance lies in recognising the opportunity of playing the African
> card and hand that...
>
> On 3/10/13, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <mulindwa@look.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Kenya's Election: What Uhuru Kenyatta's Victory Means for Africa
>>
>>
>> By  <http://world.time.com/author/alexjperry/> Alex PerryMarch 09,
>> 2013
>> <http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyatta
>> s-victo
>> ry-means-for-africa/#comments> 0
>>
>> Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta touch his
>> picture on an election poster as they celebrate upon learning of his
>> victory in Kenya's national elections on March 9, 2013 in Kiambu,
>> north of Nairobi.
>>
>> Uhuru Kenyatta, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for
>> crimes against humanity, won election Saturday as
>> <http://topics.time.com/kenya/> Kenya's new President. The
>> Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission announced that
>> Kenya's richest man, the current Deputy Prime Minister and former
>> Finance Minister, and the son of Kenya's first President Jomo
>> Kenyatta, won 50.07% of the vote — just marginally more than was
>> needed to avoid a second round run-off. Kenyatta's running mate Will
>> Ruto, a second of the four Kenyans indicted by the ICC, is slated to
>> become Deputy President.
>> Turnout was a high 86%. With the margin of victory so thin, and the
>> count plagued by days of delays and hundreds of thousands of spoiled
>> ballots, Kenyatta's main rival, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has
>> already said he will fight it in court.
>>
>> If the result withstands Odinga's challenge, a win for Kenyatta would
>> represent the most stunning articulation to date of a renewed mood of
>> self-assertion in  <http://topics.time.com/africa/> Africa. Half a
>> century ago, Africa echoed with the sound of anti-colonial
>> liberation. Today, 10 years of dramatic and sustained economic growth
>> and a growing political maturity coinciding with the economic
>> meltdown in the West and political dysfunction in Washington and
>> Europe, has granted Africa's leaders the authority and means to once
>> again challenge Western intervention on the continent, whether it
>> comes in the form of foreign diplomatic pressure, foreign aid,
>> foreign rights monitors or even foreign correspondents. In his
>> victory speech, Kenyatta said: "Today, we celebrate the triumph of
>> democracy; the triumph of peace; the triumph of nationhood. Despite
>> the misgivings of many in the world, we demonstrated a level of
>> political maturity that surpassed expectations. That is the real
>> victory today. A victory for our nation. A victory that demonstrates
>> to all that Kenya has finally come of age. That this, indeed, is
>> Kenya's moment." He also pledged to work together with his political
>> opponents with "friendship and cooperation." "Kenya needs us to work
>> together," he said. "Kenya needs us to move on." In a pointed warning
>> to the international community, he added:
>> "We
>> expect the international community [to] respect the sovereignty and
>> democratic will of the people of Kenya. The Africa star is shining
>> brightly and the destiny of Africa is now in our hands."
>>
>> (PHOTOS:
>> <http://world.time.com/2013/03/04/kenyas-election-nationwide-polls-se

>> e-high- turnout-limited-violence/> Scenes from Kenya's 2013

>> election.)
>>
>> The ICC, based in The Hague, is a particular focus of African anger.
>> The court accuses Kenyatta of being one of four Kenyans who
>> orchestrated the bloody tribal violence which followed the last
>> election in 2007-8. After troops loyal to the incumbent Mwai Kibaki —
>> from Kenyatta's Kikuyu tribe — stormed the counting center and forced
>> officials to declare their candidate the winner, the country erupted
>> in weeks of killing in which around 1,200 died and tens of thousands
>> were displaced. The ICC intervened to try to bring those most
>> responsible for the violence to account after concluding Kenya was
>> unable to do so for itself
>>
>> But the ICC's focus on Africa — nearly all of its investigations
>> concern Africans — has earned it accusations of bias. And the manner
>> in which the
>> 2007-8 tribal violence was beamed around the world by the Western
>> media, deterring tourists and overshadowing the story of an
>> increasingly less impoverished, and more healthy, sophisticated and
>> self-reliant Kenya, also drew widespread resentment. At this
>> election, with a new 2010 constitution, and a new electoral body with
>> a new — though not glitch-free — electronic voting system, Kenyans'
>> determination to hold a peaceful election has been palpable. The
>> popular mood has also been notably anti-Western. Foreign diplomats
>> have been warned of blood-curdling revenge should they interfere in
>> the poll. Foreign journalists have been publicly ridiculed and
>> denounced as prejudiced if they predicted chaos and disaster. And a
>> central message of most candidates' campaigns was strident, patriotic
>> self-determination.
>> Kenyatta and Ruto — who deny the charges brought by the ICC — managed
>> to convert a Kenyan public that initially largely supported the ICC's
>> attempts to call them to account into one that viewed the ICC as a
>> representative of unwarranted Western interference in African
>> affairs. In the last days of the campaign, Kenyatta's Jubilee
>> Alliance reflected and heightened the anti-West mood, saying it was
>> "deeply concerned about the shadowy, suspicious and rather animated
>> involvement of the British High Commissioner in Kenya's election."
>> Such assertions of sovereignty are only likely to intensify under a
>> Kenyatta presidency. Ruto's trial is due to begin on May 28,
>> Kenyatta's on July 9. Both men have said they will attend — a point
>> Kenyatta repeated Saturday when he said his government would
>> "continue to cooperate with international institutions." Kenyatta
>> has, however, said that his official duties would prevent their pair
>> from being at The Hague continually — a pointed diluting of the
>> court's importance, and one that will likely drag out trials already
>> expected to last several years.
>>
>> From the West's perspective, a Kenyatta victory presents a conundrum.
>> Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, warned
>> before the election that "choices have consequences," widely seen as
>> a recommendation that voters should back Odinga. London has already
>> warned that it would keep official contact with a President Kenyatta
>> to a minimum, as it does with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. But
>> the reality is that, in a world where Kenya finds itself as much
>> sought after as suitor, Western powers no longer get to call the
>> shots in Africa. In many ways, and particularly in its home-grown
>> innovations in mobile technology such as mobile banking and solar
>> power, Kenya personifies the new, emerging Africa of young and
>> dynamic entrepreneurs. Its position as East Africa's business hub has
>> only been enhanced by its recent discovery of large reserves of
>> <http://topics.time.com/oil/> oil and gas. Kenya is also a lynchpin
>> of the U.S. and European security structure in Africa, ranged as it
>> is against Islamist groups and pirates, particularly in neighboring
>> Somalia.
>> Westerners
>> rely on Kenya in other ways too: the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is the
>> base of choice for much of the international community in East
>> Africa, from large embassies to aid group headquarters to donor
>> conferences to security contractors. And should the West give Kenya
>> the cold shoulder, it may find it is not missed as it once might have
>> been: Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern and Latin American diplomats
>> and businessmen are also part of the fabric in today's Kenya.
>>
>> In Washington last month, Carson's predecessor at the State
>> Department Jendayi Frazer warned Western leaders to be "pragmatic" in
>> their approach to Kenya, adding she was "troubled" by Carson's "very
>> reckless and irresponsible" statement, which she called "essentially
>> meddling in Kenya's election." The ICC case against Kenyatta "is a
>> weak one and is based on hearsay," she said in a public discussion at
>> the Brookings Institution, and — in words that might have come from
>> Kenyatta himself — she added the ICC itself was "a very manipulated
>> institution, particularly by the West."
>>
>>  <http://world.time.com/author/alexjperry/> Description:
>> http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/2cb0c233123f8b78a171e3d7eafe2bb0?s=74&d=
>> 404&r=G
>>
>>
>> Alex Perry <http://world.time.com/author/alexjperry/>  @PerryAlexJ
>> <http://www.twitter.com/PerryAlexJ>
>>
>>
>> Alex Perry is TIME's Africa bureau chief, based in Cape Town and
>> covering
>> 48
>> countries across the continent. He has worked for TIME for 10 years,
>> in Africa and Asia and the Middle East.
>>
>>
>>            Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni
>> and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
>>            Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri
>> Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> UAH is devoted to matters of interest to Ugandans and Africans in
>> general.
>> Individuals are responsible for whatever they post on this forum.To
>> unsubscribe from this group, send email to:
>> ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey Semuwemba at:
>> abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *Village Boy*
> **
> *Everything and nothing for Peace*
>


--
*Village Boy*
**
*Everything and nothing for Peace*

--
UAH is devoted to matters of interest to Ugandans and Africans in general.
Individuals are responsible for whatever they post on this forum.To
unsubscribe from this group, send email to:
ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey Semuwemba at:
abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.

-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2240 / Virus Database: 2641/5659 - Release Date: 03/09/13

--
UAH is devoted to matters of interest to Ugandans and Africans in general. Individuals are responsible for whatever they post on this forum.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to:  ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey Semuwemba at: abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.

--
Jobs in Africa - www.wejobs.blogspot.com
International Jobs - www.jobsunited.blogspot.com
 
Kujiondoa Tuma Email kwenda
wanabidii+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com Utapata Email ya kudhibitisha ukishatuma
 
Disclaimer:
Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules and Guidelines.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wanabidii" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wanabidii+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.