William Hague Should Read “Britain’s Gulag”, by Caroline Elkins!

· Here and there:

· 1) Staff at the Attorney General have written to Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Prof. Githu Muigai and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission over alleged tribalism (Standard, 3rd February, 2012). The letter said, inter alia: “All departments are either headed by or deputised by people from one community (read Kikuyu/GEMA). As Kenya gears towards national cohesion and integration, a lot needs to be done in some government offices and departments.”

· The letter then gives names of Solicitor General Wanjuki Muchemi, Senior Deputy Solicitor General Muthoni Kimani, et cetera, adding “these are the people who meet to agree on the utilization of all resources allocated to the Attorney General’s office. Is it by design that all come from one community?” Well, it is now rumoured that the dyed-in-the-wool tribalist and master of pathological hatred against the Kikuyu/GEMA, Hassan Omar Hassan, is behind this incitement.

· Lesson: the PM is still subtly trying to practice negative ethnicity, turning other communities against the Kikuyu/GEMA, through the back door using the likes of Omar Hassan. Why do they just target “selected areas and departments” where the over 25% of the population “is to be found at the top”? By the sheer number of the Mt. Kenya communities, they will be found everywhere and anywhere, even in the Republic of Iceland!

· But closer home, why can’t the PM order an audit of all mortuaries to see if these communities are also in the majority and/or are also major contributors in that department as well? Thereafter, may be the national cohesion and integration nonsense Raila and his attack-dogs talk about might begin to make some sense!

· 2) High Court judge Mr. Justice Isaac Lenaola has banned all debate on whether Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto are eligible to contest the presidency. Lenaola ruled (2nd February, 2012) that pending the hearing and determination of a petition filed by civil society groups challenging the eligibility of the two after they were indicted by the ICC, the matter was now in court and therefore not for public debate.

· He added: “The question of whether Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Ruto are qualified to run for the presidency in the coming elections is now before court and all persons and authorities enjoined are not to discuss the matter in public, failure to which the court may take such action as it deems appropriate.” The ruling, by Justice Lenaola, has predictably elicited mixed reactions. Calmly, kindly, please treat this as food for thought.

· 3) British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said his country “will continue to support the trial of four Kenyan suspects at the International Criminal Court (ICC).” Hague said it was up to Kenyans to decide whether Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto should contest the presidency in the forthcoming General Election.

· Hague said: “That is a local matter and as a visiting politician, I need not be dragged into details of Kenyan politics. But it is up to the country (Kenya) to decide the kind of image it was sending to its foreign friends and partners.”

· The British should be the last people to tell Kenyans about good or bad leaders: the British still believe the MAU MAU was a terrorist group; they are still bitter that the MAU MAU set off the domino effect that led to the collapse of the British Empire and on that account only, they have never forgiven the Kikuyu/GEMA communities that formed the MAU MAU;

· Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher referred to the great Nelson Mandela as a terrorist even when he was President; and the US treated Nelson Mandela as a terrorist requiring special visas, to visit Washington, until the other day (yes, meaning a few years ago when Mandela was close to 90-years-old!), et cetera.

· And has Hague read the book, “Britain’s Gulag”, by Caroline Elkins? We honestly believe he should (read the same) before opening his mouth next time to talk nonsense!

· These racist neo-colonialists have no modicum of shame, good manners and/or any sense of proportion! Hague should have been telling us more sensible things like when they (former colonialists) are likely to pay reparations not only to the MAU MAU veterans but to all their former colonies arising from rape, et cetera, and slave trade!

· But for Hague to give hints and clues that the British, and by extension the Americans, EU, et cetera, are supporting a particular candidate is an insult to the collective intelligence of the people of Kenya. Well, anyway, has Hague registered as a Kenyan voter, and even if the answer was yes, how far can his vote take Raila or are they planning to use tanks to install him as the 4th President of the Republic of Kenya?

· Kindly, please see also our posting entitled “ODM-KPU Party, Civil Society Would like Kenyatta and Ruto Arrested!” dated 31st January, 2012.

· 4) Do you remember/recall Kenyatta’s lawyer at the ICC Steven Kay and the numerous media clips he played to demonstrate that the language Raila used at the time of the post-election violence was highly inciting; by running such clips, Counsel Kay wanted to show the world that the ODM leadership had planned to seize power at all costs using the scheme by Dick Morris, the architect of the 2004 Ukraine Orange revolution. Kay said the vote-rigging claim and mass actions calls had been rehearsed in the event ODM lost.

· Kay charged: “Their cries were not to be made by a plea to the judicial process for an orderly and proper challenge in the courts to the validity of the electoral results. Their cries were to their supporters as a call to arms to attack their political opponents and to create such civil disturbance and violence so as to make Kenya ungovernable and cause the elected government to surrender and enable them to take power.”

· 5) Let us listen to Otuma Ongalo, Senior Editor, Production and Quality, at The Standard. In his regular column, Ongalo said, inter alia (4th February, 2012): “I recently doubted the efficiency of ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s evidence to commit to full trial the suspects accused of bearing the greatest responsibility in post-election violence. Some of my readers were not amused when I observed that Ocampo had done a shoddy job based on hearsay…

· Many believed that condemning Ocampo’s evidence is exonerating the accused. They never considered it (possible) that the suspects were likely to be let off the hook due to lousy prosecution and accusations without tangible incriminating evidence…

· Regardless of Ocampo’s score following the Pre-Trial Chamber decision, he has the cardinal duty to prove beyond reasonable doubt some of his stranger than fiction allegations against Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Francis Muthaura and Joshua Sang…

· The prosecutor should convince judges that Uhuru, for instance, sneaked some Sh.28 million to an inmate at Naivasha Prison for Mungiki to cause havoc during the post-election mayhem. He must convince judges how a convict at Bungoma Prison supplied Ruto with arms despite his confinement. That is not enough. He must shed some light on how former Civil Service boss Francis Muthaura distributed ammunitions to a ragtag army at State House, Nakuru.” Well done, Ongalo!

· 6) The great people of Kenya must refuse the choice of leader(s) that the Western racist neo-colonialists, the likes of William Hague, want to impose on them; the people of Kenya must decide on their own free will; the people of Kenya must be respected, unconditionally; their dignity as human beings must be respected, without any conditions; Kenyans are neither sub-humans nor amnesiac idiots; their human, constitutional and sovereign rights must be respected, at all times;

· Kenyans must reject leaders like the Rt. Hon. PM who, like a crybaby, is lining up outsiders to support him/is at the beck and call of his contemptuous and arrogant foreign masters (like Hague) on whom he is relying entirely to deliver the presidency, via the ICC process; Kenyans are not slaves and will never be colonised again!; Let the people decide; Let the people decide; and please, please: Let the people decide! Alluta Continua.

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