I Weep Not For The Ocampo Six But The Spell Of Negative Ethnicity They Have Cast On The Nation
Listen With Ocampo’s issuance of summons to The Hague Six, their followers are shocked and panic stricken. The bravado of Uhuru and Ruto has flopped and will not protect those who perpetrated crimes against humanity during the post election violence. In the eerie silence following the summons, the Ocampo Six seem deflated and off balance, [...]
Kenya Raila-Ruto war in ODM explodes as dictatorship grows
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wrangles in ODM have now spilled outside the party with plans by about 40 MPs to lodge a dispute against the leadership with the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal. Leading the charge are two MPs, Adan Duale (Dujis) who is also the party’s vice chairman and Isaac Ruto (Chepalungu) whose membership the party [...]
Kenya PM Raila under siege
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The political party that propelled him to within a heartbeat of the presidency is falling apart and his political allies-turned-rivals are helping to accelerate the fall. A tumultuous week culminated in a meeting on Saturday hosted by party deputy leader William Ruto in Mombasa which organisers said was meant to lay strategies [...]
ICC Ocampo defends Kenya President and PM over election violence
Listen Nairobi (Alshaid) –The Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Mr Louis Moreno Ocampo has defended Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga over the post-election violence investigations. In a veiled defence of the two principals, Ocampo said his investigations “were not about elections or parties” “We shall forward for prosecution [...]
What lies ahead for the new Somalia government?
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) -After weeks of political horse trading the Somali parliament managed to approve the new cabinet of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Saturday but the move marks the beginning of the government’s real challenges, say analysts. Out of the 343 lawmakers present at the meeting 251 voted in favor while 92 opposed it [...]
Kenya PM Raila tells ally Ruto to quit ODM Party
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Ruto’s threat to quit ODM is as a result of what are perceived to be irreconcilable differences with the PM Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dared Eldoret North MP William Ruto to leave the Orange Democratic Movement party. The PM who spoke at an ODM Governing Council meeting at the Bomas of [...]
Is There An Alternative To Tribal Leadership?
Listen John Michuki’s coronation of Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya’ Kikuyu King, Jesus, only voice and bridge of reaching the community testifies to the metamorphosing of ethnic counties into ethnic kingdoms complete with ethnic kings. Soon we expect to see ethnic dictatorships that ethnic oligarchs, now losing or scrambling for state power, will use to enforce [...]
Kenya Higher Education Minister Ruto Fits the Job
Listen I have been keenly monitoring the performance of the vibrant and flamboyant politician Samoei William Ruto and have come to terms he is fit for the Higher Education portfolio and some other tasks the presidency not exceptional. In the last rankings of ministries, Agriculture was the best performing ministries which he was heading by [...]
Kenya’s Referendum: Organized Political violence in Maasailand
Listen Kenyans witnessed yesterday the rebirth of the ugly and outdated organized political violence at Suswa area in Narok North district. It reminds us of the dark past of Kenya’s political history. It is shameful that the violence was organized by the YES camp with the blessings of the Maasai leaders who include Cabinet Ministers. [...]
Kenya’s 2012 Elections: No front runner for the Presidency
Listen As we approach the general elections, the main political parties in Kenya are still in disarray. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of Raila Odinga, the Party of National Unity (PNU) of President Mwai Kibaki and the ODM-Kenya of Vice –President Mwai Kibaki, are so far the top contenders. ODM is however losing ground in [...]