LET MASS RALLIES FOR SNAP ELECTIONS BEGIN IN
Just like a dog which returns to its vomit, the
emergent Dictator Mwai Emilio Kibaki
of Kenya has re-appointed thieves, traitors, opportunists, murderers and tribal
chieftains in a “New look Cabinet” that has met with strong and immediate
condemnation country wide. After losing the November 21st Referendum,
dissolving the Cabinet and keeping the country waiting for two weeks apparently
to “consult” with former Dictator Daniel arap Moi, Imperialist representatives in Kenya, corrupt Mount
Kenya Mafia cartel and other political rags, KESDEMO
believes that Kenya does not have a President at Nairobi State House but a
mental patient who should be examined urgently by independent Doctors.
Corrupt
former Cabinet Ministers like Mirugi Kariuki, John Michuki, Prof
George Saitoti, Kiraitu Murungi, Njenga Karume, Daudi Mwiraria,
Amos Kimunya, Moody Awori
together with known economic criminals, perpetual political gangsters and
pathological tax evaders who have been directly responsible for misleading the
President and plunging the country into crisis have all been sworn in as “new”
Cabinet Ministers.
In fact,
the looming collapse of the Kibaki dictatorship has
seen a total of 23 Cabinet Ministers and Assistant Ministers reject their
positions including traitors and political prostitutes who supported Kibaki in the Referendum like Charity Ngilu,
(former Minister of Health) and Musikari Kombo (Chairman of Ford Kenya). This is the first time in
the history of
Before the
Referendum, KESDEMO’s perspective was clear - that
the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) would win the
Referendum, that ODM Cabinet Ministers would be
sacked by Kibaki for their rebellion, that ODM would begin to convert itself into an opposition force
and that on the basis of mass support, ODM would call
for snap elections.
All the
above perspectives have been confirmed and what remains now is the opening of
public campaigns across
If Dictator
Kibaki’s ascendancy to the Presidency was purely
accidental, the tragic road accident that confined the President on a wheel
chair at the time he took power in 2002 might have seriously affected the
President’s mental health, vision and judgment thereby allowing Mount Kenya
Mafia to take control of the running of the government with Kibaki
acting as a sheer puppet whose every public address is choreographed.
Kibaki is
a graduate of economics from Makerere University and
when we talked to him face to face for more than four hours during a visit to
Stockholm where his main agenda was to drum up support from Kenya opposition in
Scandinavia, he did not sound like someone who could suddenly and out of the
blue create 27 districts without an economic base to support such a huge
project. More so, Kibaki did not reason like a leader
who could get so confused in times of crisis to the extent of consulting a
defeated former dictator who should have been brought to face justice for
political, economic and human rights crimes against the Kenyan people during 24
years of ruthless and bloody dictatorship.
Kibaki’s
questionable mental health status could explain why the President inexplicably
refused to honour a Memorandum of Understanding he
signed with the Liberal Democratic Party, why the President reneged on the
enacting of a new Constitution which led to the referendum he lost, why he has
been unable to sack corrupt Cabinet Ministers in the face of immense public
outcry, why his wife Lucy has attempted several times to take control of State
house without action, why the President uses expletives like pumbavu and Mavi ya kuku in his public speeches thinking this is correct,
his disastrous performance and road side declarations during referendum
campaigns and, worst of all, why the President has re-appointed a gang of known
vampires back into the Cabinet after keeping the country waiting for two weeks.
Is it an exaggeration to call for the examination of the President’s mental
health status?
His
possible mental retardation aside and advanced age notwithstanding,
politically, President Mwai Kibaki
has outlived his usefulness in
Since he
joined government, Kibaki has witnessed (without a
single intervention) all major political assassinations of Kenyan patriots like Pio
Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya, Kung'u Karumba (who was made to
disappear by Kenyatta), JM Kariuki, Owiti Ongili and several Kenyan revolutionaries whose lives were
taken away by the Moi dictatorship during the
struggle for political pluralism Kibaki is enjoying
today.
Under Kibaki’s short misrule, Professor Odhiambo
Mbai was assassinated by government agents to silence
the most powerful voice that was supporting devolution of powers in the Bomas draft of a new Constitution that Kibaki’s
men later changed. To underline Kibaki’s lethargy in
dealing with political assassinations, the Presidents has
refused to release a report about the assassination (by the Moi
dictatorship) of Dr. Robert Ouko, former Minister of
Foreign affairs and International Co-operation. After wasting millions of
public funds in the “Sungu Ouko
Commission of inquiry”, Kibaki has sat on the report
using flimsy reasons because he is protecting Moi and
other murderers in the former regime like Nicholas Biwott.
Kibaki
was one of the suspects in the plotting of former MP Owiti
Ongili’s murder allegedly to prevent Moi from appointing the late Ongili
as Vice president when Moi was cleaning members of
Kikuyu ethnic group from the government at the instigation of the Kalenjin Mafia that ruled
Further, Kibaki is directly responsible for the thousands of Kenyans
who lost their lives in prisons when Kibaki was in charge
as Vice President and Minister of home Affairs.
Needless to say, Kenyans and the world will never forget the Wagalla Massacre in 1984 when Kibaki
was Vice President and in which more than 400 Kenyans lost their lives at the
hands of the
After he
came to power, KESDEMO would like to remind Kenyans
that Kibaki has done nothing to bring to book culprits
of the bloody ethnic cleansing rituals
that were conducted by former President Daniel arap Moi and in which thousands of Kenyans were murdered, maimed
or crippled and millions worth of property destroyed. During these massacres,
half a million Kenyans became internal refugees. Instead of Kibaki
addressing these atrocities, he is consulting with Moi,
the same blood thirsty despot who should be facing a tribunal in
Both the 1998
terrorist bomb blast victims and the Kikambala bomb
blast victims have not been given any attention by Kibaki’s
regime despite their neglect by Imperialism that attracted the blasts in the
first place. This is also despite frustrations by American imperialism that has
refused to listen to key complaints of victims and relatives of survivors. We
have a President whose “I don’t care attitude” is causing more harm than good
to Kenyan citizens who have been subjected to untold human suffering for many
years.
Although Kibaki was elected on a platform of fighting corruption,
the President has failed to send to jail even a single thief - from Goldenberg
to Anglo-leasing. The President has even failed to bring back to
When
Kenyans are dying of Aids, malaria, TB, Kwashiakor
and other treatable diseases, and in a country that has never been to war with
any country, clean drinking water, electricity, good roads, health care,
education, decent houses for workers and other vital social services remains a
distant dream to millions of Kenyans. The Kenyan government feeds people with
rubbish and manure that tourism is bringing billions of Kenyan shillings each
year while at the same time leaving imperialist economic agents to repatriate
billions of profits abroad without interruption.
KESDEMO
believes that justice delayed is justice denied. Today thousands of Kenyans are
languishing in Kenyan prisons for minor offences, delayed cases and miscarriage
of justice. Kamakil, the recently retired Police
commissioner, was quoted in the media saying that 20% of Kenyans (majority of
them poor) are in jail by mistake. It is known that rich sons and grandsons of
land grabbers like Lord Delemare, Somaia,
Pattni etc can easily buy
their freedom after committing crimes. Although Pattni
was the chief architect of the Goldenberg scandal, he is currently out of
prison after Kibaki’s government wasted millions of
tax payer’s money in a bogus Commission that has not yet delivered its final
verdict.
For the
umpteenth time, we repeat that Kibaki and his
comprador bourgeoisie will never relinquish power voluntarily and must
therefore be forced out of power. ODM must begin to
call mass rallies across
KESDEMO
disagrees with ODM’s strategy of postponing the
Failure by ODM to take action on mass rallies (
KESDEMO
believes that Kibaki (General Kiguoya)
should not be allowed to finish his term. He must be overthrown democratically
and since he has refused to accept a vote of no confidence (referendum) in his
government, there is no alternative but to force him out of office. After
losing the referendum, Kibaki's stay in power cannot
be accepted or tolerated in any functioning democracy and
Kenyans
should also not listen to Church groups that have been supporting Kibaki or sitting on the fence. It must be remembered that
many Church groups abandoned Kenyans at their hour of need by calling for
"prayers and reconciliation" instead of calling for the defeat of the
Kibaki-Wako draft and exit of the Kibaki
dictatorship. After millions of prayers across
The defeat
of Kibaki at the referendum proves the resilience of
Kenyans when it comes to resisting dictatorship, fascism and tribal hegemony in
Martin Ngatia email:ngatia_martin@hotmail.com
Okoth Osewe osewe@hotmail.com
KESDEMO
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Published by Kenya Socialist
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