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Subject: Re: [wanabidii] Re: [Mabadiliko] Re: [PK] Raila rejects Uhuru's 'tea', Ruto fights back
Courage:
You will go mad following Judy's postings, it is always unintelligible to say the least, as far as I am concerned.
Usually every sentence, posting, thread and incidence has to have Raila's name and involvement! I ask myslef, this man must be omnipresent then. Jamani Kama ni ukabila gone bad then it is indeed bad!
Have a nice evening,
LR
Judy,My eyes got tired just by looking at the length of of your posting.Courage--On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:10 AM, 'Judy Miriga' via Mabadiliko Forum <mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Good People,
My point exactly for Kenya's security means Constitutional law MUST be followed to the latter and not to allow mischief that is about to throw Kenya into lawlessness to take effect. The Law has clearly stipulated how to resolve disputes that, going to court, is the only way out. Except mass action is open to outburst of unlawfulness, terrorism with insurgencies. Out of this formula, on top of the present fluid situation in Kenya, the poor will suffer more and even lose a great deal of properties, life and land, which many of us believe is what Raila came to Boston to negotiate funding for war in Kenya through causing chaos by using the private army of Al-shabaab and Mungiki in Kenya……..since all his moves directs to that angle.
So, there should be nothing like Saba-Saba to be allowed to take place in Kenya. Raila want to be President by hooks and crooks, and the truth is that, he does not care for peoples interest which he has never cared for before, why lie. From the scene of the heat of the moment coming from Raila with the opposition claiming that the press see Raila as bona-fide Kenya's President is in itself displaying mischief of the highest order of disrespectfulness of the Institution of Presidency, is Disloyal, Unfaithful, traitorous and treasonable. Jakoyo Midiwo (as was rightly put, the small baba with a node, was without out explanation as to why he was a small baba, or was it in the doing in absence of baba?) said the same at Jeff Koinange bench two days ago. Now with Raila coming from Boston pompous worked-up after Kibra MP Ken Okoth visit Raila in the USA, saw Raila militant back in full gear to claim his stolen Presidency and this spells trouble.
Let us be realistic and play politics responsibly with all and sundry. The removal of Section 2A and the Devolution was not Raila's creation, except he was part of the larger team that was led by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga but initiated by Orengo. Raila in Boston had nothing with drinking Tea with President Obama as Jakoyo put it on the bench. If at any one point there was a remote shaking of hands let alone drinking tea together, the story would have flooded USA media first before it reached Jeff Koinange's bench. These are some small lies that go wild to the local people to fool them, those who have no way of knowing the truth, but this too must stop.
I said it before and I am repeating it here that, if Raila does not get what he wants, then he gets stubborn and all should prepare for a show-down of all manner of rebellion, which if the government is not careful, they will be in for a surprise. Whichever corner a war is lit in a Country, putting it off, especially with Foreign Corporate irregular Interests in Kenya going for stolen public wealth, land and resources, Raila will go up and down like a bull on heat or a spoilt child to get what he wants and without due care for lives. First things must come first for the interest of the majority people and for the peace to take a center stage, the following must be met:
1) There is the law that must be followed and this must be made clear to avoid the street
2) Raila and group know too well he is the cause and reason for Somali influx in Kenya that brought illegal Somalis, Al-shabaab and Pirates into Eastleigh Nairobi spreading out into Nakuru, Kisumu, Migori etc., all because of corruption, impunity and graft and so, things must be done differently and Law and order must step in this instance.
3) Raila is himself a thief and cannot claim otherwise. The Government system should urgently pettition the court on Goldenberg, Triton Saga, Migingo, Luo Thrift, NHIF, Osienala, 2,500 individual lands in South Nyanza that have been stolen from them, Yala Swamp by Dominion Farm of Calvin Burgess to resolve the Local community demands, RIAT, Kazi kwa Vijana Fund, Land Grabbing in Mombasa, Ukunda, Kwale, Lamu, Malindi etc., and let Raila be taken to task in the Court of Law over his part of responsibilities where public utilities and facilities were mis-used with huge public wealth and resources stolen and squandered. Let him answer on security, why Kenya is flooded with the Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda, Mungiki and Boko Haram during their tenure before he can talk about Saba Saba mass action.
4) Raila should retire honorably and stop further embarrassments with more troubles because, he stands to lose more as Kenyans are awake and are aware about their rights and that they are not going to be sold as cattle's in the market place for his ego and selfish gains.
Kenyans are experiencing economic squeeze with joblessness because, large private army as terrorist groups (the Al-Shabaab, Mungiki and Boko Haram) are being financed from tax-payer money. This is why, some were openly asking for money in the name of religion rituals. This is why Raila went to Eastleigh.........This is why, Duale is supporting Raila under table, and this nonsense must stop. Kenyan people must always come first.
Read the Relevant Story on the significance of Land in African Economics, Politics and Culture.
Let the Government be alert and take the necessary action to step up security, expose criminal elements by pressurizing the court to do the needful, instil Law and order and peace for the sake of all by all means necessary without talking much. Action speaks louder than words.
Have a Nice Weekend, will you!!!
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Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
RELEVANT STORY
Significance of Land in African Economics, Politics and Culture
Last September, speaking as chairperson of the African Union, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn1 told the UN General Assembly that "the 21st century will be an African century."
He referred to Africa's immense natural resources, its fast-growing middle class, the commitment to peaceful democratic elections in many countries, and the increasing will of African governments to take responsibility for the peace and security of African people, under the umbrella of the African Union.
This phrase – "Africa's century" – is often used by commentators to highlight the extraordinary potential of the continent. Yet, the challenges facing the peoples of Africa are no less extraordinary. The continent's population is expected to double, from around 1 billion to over 2 billion by 2050, and the most fundamental task of finding appropriate ways to feed such a booming population is rendered even more critical, in this century, by the additional, and largely uncharted problems posed by climate change.
There is an urgent need for the scholarship that addresses these challenges to be open to new paradigms, connecting economic development, trade policy, ethics and environmental sustainability. It is difficult to be optimistic about the prospects for the necessary re-integration of scholarship, but the case has to be made.
As one explores the relations between agriculture, food and security – the triptych chosen by the African Union as its theme for 2014 – the question of access to land emerges as a pivotal issue, not least because of its essential relevance to the welfare, indeed often the survival, of the poorest in Africa's rural areas.
Here I would like to salute the United Nations' decision to declare 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Let us hope that this gesture can contribute to highlighting the vital role played by smallholder farming in sustaining the livelihoods of so many, in nurturing the social and cultural flourishing of rural communities, and in taking care of natural resources – care and renewal of the land.
This initiative will remain, however, as a gesture, and a cynical one at that, if it is contradicted by the policies and practices of international monetary bodies.
The need to relocate family farming to the centre of African national agendas, including trade policies, is all the more pressing in light of a major source of concern – namely the phenomenon of 'land grabbing,' whereby large swathes of the countryside that are considered "idle" are being sold or transferred through long-term leases to (usually foreign) investors.
The notion of 'the empty land,' 'the underused land,' bears for me so many resonances of colonisation, dispossession and imperialist notions of superiority – the long and ideologically laden assumptions of Modernization Theory.
According to Professor Ruth Hall, from the University of Cape Town, some 56 to 227 million hectares have changed hands globally over the last 5 to 10 years, with African land making up 60 to 70% of those large land deals.
There is no question that the demographic challenge, in particular the need to provide for growing demand in the continent's mushrooming cities, calls for pro-active policy responses. It can also be asserted with some substance that the industrial, or commercial, model of agriculture offers attractive productivity gains.
However, one might rightfully interrogate the rationale underpinning those massive transfers of land, organised in the name of the 'modernisation' of African agriculture and the need to achieve more 'efficient food production.' Are these objectives to be pursued at the expense of the food security of the local farming population?
If one is to develop a commercial sector that is sustainable, that moves on from sufficiency, and is responsive to cultural and intuitive wisdom, then more is needed in addition or, more accurately, as alternative to, the expansion of large plantations. Investing in the infrastructure, resources and services that might enable small farmers to access local markets and distribution channels is surely important. But so also is access to discourse on the journey from one form of connection between economy, society and culture to another.
These problems are complex and largely exceed the scope of my remarks. I shall limit myself to responding to the title – "Imagining Land" – and offer a modest reflection on some ideas about the meaning and value of land.
In his book The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else,2 one of few bestsellers from the field of Development Economics, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, addresses what he feels to be obstacles to development in potentially developing countries.
According to de Soto, the poor are not really poor: poverty does not so much arise from a lack of resources as from a lack of proof of ownership. In other words, what the poor lack above all is an officially registered right of ownership of their assets. If informal capital, e.g. unregistered farmlands, could be formalised – and hence sold, bequeathed, or used as collateral for the mobilisation of credit – the economies of poor countries could follow in the footsteps of the rich Western world.
Thus, the contribution that has given de Soto a place in the textbooks of development economics is that he has dared to put a value on the "dead capital" that resides within the limbo of the informal economy. As Staffan Granér put it: "His method is unconventional but sufficiently heroic and laborious to impress some econometricians who have themselves been restricted to the limited horizon of statistical indicators."
Ever since the publication of his famous book, in 2000, de Soto's analyses have mesmerised high ranking policy-makers. His ideas are retained as tools to be transmitted to young scholars and policy-makers alike as uncriticised, taken for granted versions of development theory.Yet, many scholars and practitioners in the field have convincingly pointed out the dangers of de Soto's policy prescriptions, and their consequences, notably for the poorest. In that regard, I very much look forward to Professor Howard Stein's keynote address.
I would like to highlight just one aspect, pertaining to de Soto's focus on land parcellisation (i.e. the notion that for each delineated property there is one corresponding owner. This approach is particularly problematic from the point of view of rural common property resources, which have fluid boundaries, likely to be continuously adapted to fit people's social needs, and are rarely exclusive to one person, but involve, instead, multiple layers of relative rights. Several users may thus have access to different resources on the land simultaneously according to different social and generational cycles.
Moreover, while it is true that people's customary rights can be vulnerable to abuse by both traditional and elected bodies, the formalisation process can end up excluding weaker rights, e.g. the rights of women or those of strangers, which are recognised under customary law.
None of this is really very new. James C. Scott's work includes reference to cadastral mapping in 18th century Prussia and the transition of what was once held in common into the maw of privatised property.
What interests me here is the intellectual blind spot in de Soto's conception: his formal property has the characteristic of individual private ownership, and its primary function is the generation of capital, through its use as potential collateral for loans from private institutions.Other functions, such as the significance of property for the social continuity of groups, for example, are ignored. In light of these functions, however, the optimal use of property might often be its non-marketability.
De Soto's theory is deeply embedded in Western economic and agricultural histories. Ultimately, it boils down to little more than the old modernisation theory, whereby the informal economy and customary law are ascribed to the traditional, pre-modern sphere.
Yet, as Karl Polanyi wrote in a memorable turn of phrase: "What we call land is an element of nature inextricably woven with man's institutions. To isolate it and form a market out of it was perhaps the weirdest of all undertakings of our ancestors."
As an alternative to what I suggest is the reductive, narrow imagination of de Soto's model – and I accept that mine is but one view, even a minority one – I would like to refer briefly, by way of illustration, to the work of anthropologist Parker Shipton in Kenya, which may help to illuminate some of the implications of making a market out of land – implications that are cultural, political-economic, and ethical.
In his book Mortgaging the Ancestors,3 Professor Shipton considers how the Luo people, who live mainly by farming, face decisions about land, property and finance, and more particularly, how they accommodate the peculiar economic arrangement that is the mortgage.Kenya offers an interesting example because its programme for adjudicating and registering land, launched under British colonial rule in the mid-1950s, has been continued under the national government from the time of independence in 1963 up to the contemporary period. Although it is not the first such programme in tropical Africa, it has been the first of nationwide scope.
The Luo people live on the eastern side of the great lake that some have called Nam Lolwe, others Nyanza, and still others Victoria – a diversity of names which in itself illustrates the diversity of ideas about legitimacy, kinship, ascendancy and power distribution embedded in land.
In Luo country, the dead have, for many decades, been buried outside the doorways of homes. Thus, according to Shipton: "People are likely to consider these spots on the landscape to anchor their membership in families and in larger groups that have been called lineages, clans, and tribes: living, branching groups with illustrious pasts and high hopes for their futures."4
Yet, when, as has often happened lately, land has been pledged as collateral on a mortgage loan, the lender feels entitled to take over the land – graves and all – from those who live, farm and pray there. As Shipton shows, not just individuals are involved. A mortgager threatened with eviction is likely to have women, children, and other dependents who may never have known about the contract. He (since it has usually been a he) may be a migrant in the city, the labour on the land being provided by these women and children. He is also likely to have kin and friends, who look upon those graves and the land around them as a sacred heritage belonging not just to the dead and the living, but also the unborn.
This account of how a particular people relates to land illustrates how land is so much more than a financial asset, or "dead capital" à la de Soto.
Land tenure has been the subject of too many disastrous experiments in engineering, both physical and social. It is my conviction that any genuinely inclusive agricultural development model should, to the greatest extent possible, take on board the wealth of practices and conceptions which structure people's relation to land.
One might ask why is there such policy hostility to leasing and co-operative models of land use and production? Why does land use in Africa have to be fitted within a model of private banking and loan dependency? This is somewhat similar to the Western blindness to the clan system as a tool of conflict resolution and prevention.
I know that many alternative models are being developed across Africa, which accommodate the complex nature of rights in some rural contexts. The concept of "adverse possession," for example, elaborated in South Africa, demonstrates how people's informal rights of occupation can be secured without conferring full ownership. I very much look forward to learning more about such important innovations during my visit to some African countries later this year.
By way of conclusion, I would like to emphasize, as Parker Shipton does in his introduction to Mortgaging the ancestors, that land is amenable to a multiplicity of imaginings. It is a topic that is no discipline's territory.
Since it is about our relation to the planet that is our home, and the potential for life it offers, the topic is biological and ecological. Since land, water and air are the elements our food comes from, where our fights are fought – and as often as not what these are fought over – the topic is both nutritional and strategic. It is also political, legal and economic. It is ethological and ethnological. It is historical and geographical.
Land can also be spiritual and religious, relating as it does – I quote Parker Shipton: "not just to the living but also to the dead and immortal – to the placement of bodies and the watchfulness of spirits or divinity, which as some see it are the guardians of our highest ideals and ultimate understandings, and as others see it the outward personifications of our basest and most hidden urges."
Land has an importance, may I suggest too, that is literary and poetic. It is where our images are sourced, located anew and buried for future recovery and reworking. Like ourselves.
And finally, let me restate simply how land matters because it is inextricably linked with people's ability to feed themselves and live in dignity and prosperity. The ability to flourish in the time and space of their migratory existence.
By Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland, at a Conference entitled "Imagining Land: the Significance of Land in African Economics, Politics and Culture."
[1] [Pronounce: Heyl-mariam Dessaleguen]
[2] De Soto; H. 2000.The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Basic Books.
[3] Shipton, P. 2009. Mortgaging the Ancestors. Ideologies of Attachment in Africa. Yale University Press.
[4] Ibidem, p.5.
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On Fri, 6/6/14, maina ndiritu <litshooz@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: RE: CNN, BBC, AL JAZEERA know that I am the President of Kenya – RAILA ODINGA
Thursday June, 2014 - Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga told a
mammoth crowd of his supporters in Eastleigh that many foreign media
houses view him as the legitimate President of Kenya.
Speaking after visiting Eastleigh Estate on Thursday, Raila said many
media stations around the world usually call him when there is a
problem facing Kenyans.
He cited the recent concentration of Somalis and Muslims at Kasarani,
saying BBC, Aljazeera and CNN called him asking him what is happening
in Kenya.
Raila also said during the Westgate Shopping Mall terror attack last
year, over 50 foreign media stations called him asking him the details
of the attackers.
He said it is only a group of few Kenyans who don't know that he is
the "legitimate President of Kenya" because he has won two consecutive
elections only to be rigged out by Kibaki's and Jubilee's
administration consecutively.
On the Miraa ban by the United Kingdom Government, Raila said he will
formally write to the UK Prime Minister David Cameron to lift the ban
on Miraa.
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On Thu, 6/5/14, Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [PK] Raila rejects Uhuru's 'tea', Ruto fights back
To: "Progressive Kenyans" <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>
Cc: "wanakenya@googlegroups.com" <wanakenya@googlegroups.com>, "Kiswahili" <Kiswahili@yahoogroups.com>, "VVM Vuguvugu Mashinani" <VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, June 5, 2014, 10:38 PM
refused dialogue with the opposition3. They are busy
This
statement is attributed to Ruto
"Leaders
should work in building a united nation and not a country
tainted by issues of tribal, religious or political
affiliations," he said.
Yet :
1. Their Jubiliar government is the most tribalistic government since
independence
2. They have
antagonizing the Moslem community=========================
Are these people
naturally dishonest or just playing Kenyans for suckers
?
Courage
================================
On Thu,
Jun 5, 2014 at 10:06 PM, 'Judy Miriga' via
Progressive Kenyans <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>
wrote:
Good People,
There is nothing Kenya wants more than peace. Security of
the people is
also fundamentally important. The Government must also be
ready to crack
their whip on rebellious group of people who plan to throw
Kenya into chaos
in the name of Saba Saba.
Kenya has always been home to South Sudanese ever since John
Garang time.
What Raila's foot soldiers and Agents are talking about
is nothing but
day-dreaming. These are only signs that there are plans to
force Uhuru out
of power by illegal means sometimes before or early in July
and that must
be watched carefully because, there is nothing worse and
destructive than
war.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Unapokea Email hizi kwa sababu umejiunga na Jukwaa la 'Mabadiliko'.
Raila rejects Uhuru's 'tea', Ruto fights back
Cord leader Raila Odinga has ruled out meeting President
Uhuru Kenyatta for a
friendly chat at State House.
By MAZERA NDURYA
More by this Author
Cord leader Raila Odinga has ruled out meeting President
Uhuru Kenyatta for a friendly chat at State House.
Thursday, Mr Odinga said he would mobilise Kenyans on Saba
Saba Day, the day historically associated with the
pro-democracy movement in Kenya when opposition leaders
would hold rallies on July 7 to put pressure on the Kanu
government to allow multi-party politics.
"Let me inform them that Saba Saba is coming. There is no
stopping it if the government will not have talked to us.
All Kenyans will meet and discuss the ills that are
bedevilling this country and I promise you that God will
hear us on that day," Mr Odinga told a rally in
Eastleigh.
But in Mathira, Nyeri County, Deputy President William Ruto
ruled out any engagement with the opposition.
"We will not waste our time in empty politicking but we
want to deliver on the promises we made to Kenyans," he
said during the burial of Mzee Nahashon Gachagua Reriani,
the father of Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua.
Mr Ruto said that although the Opposition had a role to
play, it should let the government run its affairs. Jubilee,
he said, had put in place adequate measures to deal with the
issues raised by Cord.
"We want to move together. Elections are over. Others won
and those who lost should wait for the next polls. Those
who were elected should perform their duties without
discrimination," he said and told Cord leaders that there
was nothing wrong in being in the Opposition.
"Leaders should work in building a united nation and not a
country tainted by issues of tribal, religious or political
affiliations," he said.
In Nairobi, Mr Odinga warned the Jubilee Government to brace
for Saba Saba if the President will not have called for the
national dialogue to seek solutions to problems facing the
country.
IMPORTANT FORUM
"My brother Uhuru agreed to a national dialogue during
Madaraka Day celebrations only to turn around after meeting
Jubilee officials and instead invited me and Kalonzo Musyoka
for a cup of tea at State House," Mr Odinga said.
"It is an insult to say that if Raila and Kalonzo want to
talk they should come to State House for a cup of tea. Do we
look like people who can be enticed with a cup of tea? The
era when leaders would be invited to State House for some
goodies are long gone."
Mr Odinga said it was wrong for the President to be
prevailed upon by Jubilee leaders to reject such an
important forum that had sought to find solutions to the
problems affecting the country.
"The President should see the way the wind is blowing,"
Mr Odinga said without elaborating.
Raila said issues such as the status of devolution and the
position of the IEBC have to be addressed alongside security
and corruption.
Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto, who also addressed the gathering
in Mathira, dismissed those calling for mass action and said
that such activities would interfere with peace in the
country.
The governor said county and national governments should
work together on matters of development and for the success
of devolution.
"Some of the people who contested national positions
should be given fall-back positions so that they also
contribute in the running of the nation. I honestly miss
contributions of leaders like Martha Karua," he said.
His Kakamega counterpart Wycliffe Oparanya urged the Jubilee
administration to consider holding talks with the opposition
and find ways of solving the problems facing the country.
"The government should accommodate the Opposition and
listen to their grievances and engage in national
dialogue," said Mr Oparanya of Cord.
Nyeri Senator Mutahi Kagwe maintained that parliamentary
committees would be the best place for the proposed dialogue
because the composition was from the Government and
Opposition.
"Every week, senators and MPs from the Government and
Opposition meet at the floor of the House. We are not going
to engage in any other meeting other than that provided for
by the structures," he said.
On Tuesday, MPs allied to the Jubilee Coalition ruled out
any national dialogue conference and asked their Cord
counterparts to go through established institutions like
Parliament to address challenges facing the nation.
Additional reporting by Dan Otieno and DPPS
=============================
MPs want South Sudan leaders out of Windsor
A group of MPs have demanded the expulsion of South Sudanese
leaders
from the Windsor Hotel in Nairobi.
By Nation Reporter
More by this Author
A group of MPs have demanded the expulsion of South Sudanese
leaders from the Windsor Hotel in Nairobi.
The Parliamentary Caucus on Human Rights members said the 11
leaders who were detained and released by President Salva
Kiir's government were engaging in selfish political
re-organisation and not helping in the peace efforts.
They want Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku, who is in
charge of the national security docket, to expel the leaders
and demand they seek asylum by following normal
procedures.
"The said leaders were to help in the peace process and
the negotiations taking place in Ethiopia, and not live in
opulence at the expense of the Kenyan taxpayer. They are
engaging in selfish political re-organising that does not
help South Sudan," the MPs said in a joint statement.
They included Kibra MP Ken Okoth, Wajir South MP Abdulahi
Diriye, Ndhiwa MP Agostinho Neto, Matungulu MP Stephen Mule
and Senator Daisy Kanaiza.
They also criticised the government for accommodating the
leaders. "Kenya should not let its territory be used by
rebels for political reorganisation in the name of the
"Third Force" that is housed in Windsor and also by
friends and relatives of Dr Riek Machar," the group
said.
"South Sudan still has a legitimate government headed by
His Excellency Salva Kiir, his problems notwithstanding.
Kenya should therefore be working with the elected leaders
of South Sudan," the MPs stated.
They said any talks held in Kenya should be attended by both
President Kiir and Dr Machar to avoid creating suspicions.
"It is bad that a rebel leader in the person of Dr Machar
should be given red carpet reception in Nairobi as that
might portray Kenya as a partial peace arbiter," they
stated.
The caucus also wants Igad to pass a resolution to transfer
the peace negotiations to Nairobi, arguing that Kenya
midwifed the initial process and the regional body is
chaired by President Kenyatta. This is part of amendments
the parliamentary caucus seeks to make on a motion already
before Parliament.
The MPs also want Parliament to form an ad hoc committee on
the South Sudan to team up with the South Sudan MPs.
"Should we do the above, Kenya will be fairly overseeing
the implementation of the Cessation of Hostilities
Agreement," the MPs said.
They said President Kenyatta had failed as chairman of Igad
by failing to ensure implementation of the Cessation of
Hostilities Agreement.
=========================
http://diasporamessenger.com/kibra-mp-in-boston-to-meet-raila/
KIBRA MP IN BOSTON TO MEET RAILA
Diaspora Messenger | May 13, 2014 |
Kibra MP Kennedy Okoth on Sunday posted his travel ticket on
Facebook, saying that he was heading to Boston to visit
'Baba' Raila Odinga.
In the posting, he said: "Naenda Boston kuona Baba.
Nimwambie nini? Nchi wachina wameuziwa?" (Going to Boston
to meet Baba. What should I tell him? The country has been
sold off to the Chinese."
Those who commented on the posting passed their regards to
Mr Odinga.
George Madanyi posted 'Tel him to come back home'
Ronnie Osumba posted 'Safe journeys bro. Salamia
baba'
The Kibra MP later posted photos of him with Raila and Ida
Odinga at the Logan International Airport in Boston.
Mr Odinga is in Boston for a programme organised for former
elected heads of State.
The two-months programme is coordinated by the African
Presidential Center with several African leaders in
attendance.
In March Kirinyaga MP Joseph Gitari asked majority leader
Aden Duale to explain what the former Prime Minister was
doing in the trip that is meant for 'former leaders who
are no longer active in politics.'
-nairobinews
Diaspora Messenger News Media
The Community Center for Kenyans in Diaspora
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