Kenya Socialist Web Site

November 12 2005

 

CONDEMN LIKONI KILLINGS

Once again, four Kenyans have been shot dead by police at Caltex grounds in Likoni, Mombasa during a No vote referendum campaign. According to reports reaching us, the murders took place after a licensed rally by the Orange No campaigners was cancelled by Gatiba Karanja, the Provincial Police Commissioner, who is a hand-picked  "gestapo commander", assigned to protect the interests of wealth grabbers in Coast province and who takes direct orders from his boss, President Mwai Kibaki.

Although the Orange rally was licensed two weeks ago, police stormed the stage and grabbed the microphone from Mr. Najib Balala, Minister of Heritage and one of the leading Orange campaigners, in order to stop the rally. Naturally, the huge crowd that had gathered at Caltex grounds to listen to Orange leaders reacted by trying to stop police from disrupting the rally. At this point, police began throwing teargas canisters and shooting at random. In the end, four Kenyans lost their lives while many others were admitted to hospital with bullet wounds.

 

According to reports, the rally was stopped because President Kibaki “was in town” and that under the circumstances, all business had to come to a stand still regardless of the legality or nature of business. This Neo-colonial hangover of treating the President as a revered King was routinely practiced by former President Daniel arap Moi who was also well known for forcing heads of schools to mobilize school children to line by the roadside to cheer the President’s motorcade or to attend political rallies. By killing Kenyans because Kibaki “was in town” the message the government is sending is that the Kibaki Presidency is organized along the same lines as the Moi Presidency.

We the Kenya Scandinavia Democratic Movement (KESDEMO) send our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families that have lost their loved ones as the struggle to liberate our motherland from a Neo-colonial Constitution continues. The emerging
Kibaki dictatorship appears designed to kill multiparty democracy in Kenya and return our country to the dark days of State murder, illegal ban on political rallies and endless harassment of those who do not agree with the government.

KESDEMO strongly condemns the latest murders openly perpetrated by State police and supervised by the Provincial  Police Commissioner. Our message to oppressed Kenyans is that they should prepare for more State terrorism because the government is losing the battle with regard to the hated Wako-Kibaki-Mount Kenya Mafia conspiratorial Constitution.

KESDEMO's view is that the latest murders in Likoni and the recent murders in Kisumu's Moi stadium are of the same character both in the way in which the operations were carried out and the political intentions. In both cases, the State used the
same brutal Para-military General Service Unit (GSU) trained to kill, torture, maim, rape and murder their victims while police with express orders to “shoot to kill” also participated.

KESDEMO would like to remind Kenyans who do not know our true history that the Minister in charge of the State security Mr. John Njoroge Michuki who is repeatedly ordering and defending brutal police killings in our country today is a former British colonial District Officer (DO) who was stationed in Fort Hall (today Muranga district) and who participated in the assassination, killing, rape and torture of  Mau Mau freedom fighters (Kenya Land and Freedom Army) who were under the leadership of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi. Michuki is popular for arresting and sending Mau Mau freedom fighters to concentration camps across Kenya, the same fighters who brought freedom that current home guards are enjoying today.

Michuki, the son of a former colonial Chief, is well known for his cruelty, savagery and brutal torture of Kikuyu freedom fighters. He is famous for burning of Kikuyu villages in the whole of Central province and in arresting both Kikuyu men and women who were suspected to have been members or sympathizers of the Mau Mau Movement (Kenya Land and Freedom Army).

 

The main reason why Michuki was transferred by Kibaki to the Internal security  portfolio was due to his history of brutality and murder of Kenyans, a trait that guaranteed a tendency of ruthlessness and spilling of blood in the name of defending the dictatorship of the Kibaki-Kikuyu elite.

Michuki is today Kibaki's right hand man who is also deeply involved in the running of the government. The problem now is that Kikuyu elite has noticed that they are on the verge of losing power through the referendum and, from their perspective, the solution rests on doing anything to ensure that the Kibaki dictatorship survives even if it means employing instruments of violence against the people and buying off support using tax payer's money. It is in this light that the on-going police killings and the attempt to revert the country to a situation where political rallies are banned needs to be seen.

Michuki has been quoted in Kenyan mass media saying that the main problem was to remove former President of Kenya Mr. Daniel arap Moi from power, not the present Constitution that Kenyans are yearning and aspiring for.

KESDEMO belives that Kenya is a rich country where all ethnic groups can live together in peace as they have done in the past. The issue in Kenya is that there is a crisis of leadership, un-equitable sharing of natural resources (National cake) and, most importantly, lack of a revolutionary political ideology that can liberate the country from the rotten capitalist system of government currently being presided over by Kibaki.

KESDEMO appeals to Kenyans not to allow themselves to be taken backwards by a clique of Kikuyu elites in collaboration with other tribal chieftains who have failed their own people but whose only aim and agenda is to loot the Kenyan economy and to maintain the status quo. We say: Vote no so that Kenyans can re-write a new, true, genuine and democratic Constitution for posterity.

Martin Ngatia
Okoth Osewe
KESDEMO Central committee

 

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