December 10th 2005

KENYA: LET MASS RALLIES FOR SNAP ELECTIONS BEGIN

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, 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
Kenya that practicing opportunists have refused to "fly the flag" because
of obvious and looming political consequences connected to the defeat of
the government at the Referendum - loss of Parliamentary seats.

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 Kenya for snap elections which will
eventually lead to Kibaki's eventual overthrow. Most likely, Kibaki will
respond initially by attacking public rallies using the security apparatus
but this strategy will not work because police will not be able to stop
over 30 million Kenyans determined to show an emerging dictator the door.
You can beat an army but you cannot beat a people.

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 look 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 a 24 year
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, politically, President Mwai Kibaki
has outlived his usefulness in Kenya's democratic struggle and since he
will not quit voluntarily, he should be forced out of office "by any means
necessary". For the youth and International readers who are not so
conversant with Kenyan history, Kibaki has loyally served two Dictators, -
Mzee Jomo Kenyatta  and Daniel arap Moi, the latter of whom Kibaki served
under as Vice President for 10 years. All the atrocities and human rights
violations committed against Kenyans when Kibaki was serving as Vice
President is beyond the scope of this statement.

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 tried to alter. 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 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 Kenya
through the back door at that time. Mr. Otieno Ambala, a suspect who was
arrested in the Ongili murder case died after being poisoned at Kodiaga
prison in Kisumu, a week after Ongili's assassination. Ambala's death was
once again linked to Kibaki who was in charge of prisons and who allegedly
eliminated Ambala to destroy evidence when Ambala began "to talk" in
prison. The point is that President Kibaki is tainted.

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
Kenyan State. To date, culprits in the Wagalla massacre have never been
brought to face justice although Kibaki is well aware that this is a
pending case.

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 Kenya today for crimes against humanity. Is it extreme to
campaign for Kibaki's departure?

The 1998 bomb blast victims have not been given any attention by Kibaki's
regime. This is 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,
a President whose time is over.

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 Kenya more
than US$ 300 billion stashed in foreign bank accounts by KANU looters while
Kenyans are starving to death because the government has no money. Instead,
Kibaki has been appealing to "foreign donors" to come and feed the starving
in Kenya.

When Kenyans are dying of Aids, malaria, TB, Kwashiako 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 Kenya immediately because
any delays will lead to an attempt by the disintegrating Kibaki
dictatorship to try and regroup. ODM has the mass Movement on its side, the
same mass Movement which contributed heavily to the defeat of Kibaki-Wako
mongrel Constitution on November 21st. The postponement of ODM rally that
was scheduled for  Mombasa on 10th December because of "security reasons"
is a bad omen because such postponements could lead the gang of robbers
around Kibaki to believe that they can ban political rallies in Kenya.

KESDEMO disagrees with ODM's strategy of postponing the Mombasa rally
together with calls by the Movement's leaders for "negotiations" with
Kibaki on the composition of a new Cabinet. In politics, you don't
negotiate with a loser who has been sharpening swords to cut off your own
throat! By calling for talks with Kibaki, ODM is exposing its own
leadership weaknesses because it should be taking initiatives linked to
mass mobilizations to force Kibaki to call snap elections because this is
the democratic road to Kibaki's overthrow.

Failure by ODM to take action on mass rallies (Ukrain, Rumania, Philipines
or Yugoslavia style) will allow Kibaki's regime to consolidate his weak
forces and crumbling support to continue clinging on to power. ODM should
appeal to the Armed forces and police to remain in their barracks and let
Kenyan people free themselves from Kibaki and a thieving Mafia cartel. They
should appeal to the army not to repeat the mistakes of 1982 where the army
was used by dictator moi to crush the freedom fighters.

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 Kenya is no exception.

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 Kenya
for more than 40 years, millions of Kenyans are still starving and KESDEMO
believes that Kenya will not be liberated from the Kibaki's or from
imperialist domination through prayers.

The defeat of Kibaki at the referendum proves the resilience of Kenyans
when it comes to resisting dictatorship, fascism and tribal hegemony in
Kenya. In the same tradition, Kenyans are now ready to participate in the
final removal of Dictator Kibaki and his sycophants from power. After the
defeat of the government at the referendum, Kenyans are looking towards ODM
for the next move. It is here that we say: "Let the mass rallies for snap
general elections begin now rather than later".

Martin Ngatia: [log in to unmask]
Okoth Osewe: [log in to unmask]

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Kenya People's Democratic Movement (KEPEDEMO-Mapinduzi) Kenya Socialist
Democratic Alliance (KSDA), Kenya Social Forum in Norway (KSF - Norway),
Muungano Ya Akina Mama Scandinavia, Organization of Kenyans in Denmark
(OKD), Association of Kenyan Students in Finland (AKSIF) and Kenya
Socialist Community in London. Website: www.kenyasocialist.org
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