The Suspicious British Donation to the ICC!

· Here and there:

· 1) Minister William Ntimama described Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government Minister Musalia Mudavadi, as “that young man from Vihiga”, adding that Mudavadi “is a hypocrite!” Marete (Ntimama’s Meru name), should be more accommodative unless the hypocrisy he talks about has nothing to do with Mudavadi’s quest to be ODM-KPU’s presidential candidate; Marete should avoid being overly sycophantic, otherwise he cannot keep up the pace with the likes of Midiwo, Mbadi, et cetera.

· Speaking in Machakos (4th February, 2012), Marete also said: “The late President Kenyatta ruled for 15 years, his predecessor Daniel Moi ruled for 24 years; it is just honourable for the next president to come from another region (read Raila from Nyanza).” Fair enough.

· But what does the Constitution say; does it stop Ruto, a Kenyan from the Kalenjin community, from standing for president; is Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kenyan from Central Kenya, prevented by the Constitution from offering himself for the highest office in the land; and who else is prevented from elective positions, and could Marete quote the relevant sections in our Constitution to set the record straight?

· Our Founding Father and First President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was the President of the Republic of Kenya, not a Kikuyu, GEMA or Mt. Kenya President; he fought for over 40 years for the freedom, independence, liberation and dignity of all the people of Kenya; Moi became, constitutionally, the 2nd President of Kenya, not of the Kalenjins!; while President Kibaki has won, in competitive presidential polls becoming the 3rd President of Kenya.

· If Marete’s candidate is serious, he should campaign like all other candidates, on issues, and avoid trying to use short-cuts or the assistance of the likes of William Hague!

· 2) Talking of Mudavadi, Sunday Nation columnist Kwendo Opanga says, inter alia (Sunday Nation, 5th February, 2012): “Can Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Midavadi stop Mr. Raila Odinga’s nomination by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) to run for presidency? I say categorically yes! It is why Government Chief Whip, Jakoyo Midiwo, is proposing PM and DPM agree on who between them should be ODM’s presidential flag-bearer. Expect a delay in ODM national polls, but a win for the DPM would change the politics of the land dramatically and emphatically.”

· 3) The PM has hinted that the forthcoming General Election could be held in 2012 (Sunday Nation and Standard on Sunday, of 5th February, 2012): “It is a few months to the elections. I know when the elections will be held but I will say that at a later date.” Raila was speaking at the Machakos Golf Club, in Machakos Town (4th February, 2012).

· But which Constitutional provision allows the PM to talk that way, as if he could single-handedly determine the date of the elections; is he planning, in any way, to use the date of the General Election as his secret weapon against other presidential candidates; and is the President going to allow Raila to do so?

· 4) We mentioned the dyed-in-the-wool tribalist and master of pathological hatred against the Kikuyu/GEMA, Hassan Omar Hassan (4th February, 2012), fleetingly with regard to the talk of tribalism at the AG’s office. Today, he penned an article (Standard on Sunday, 5th February, 2012), in which he pretends to be advising his political mentor and godfather, Raila.

· Omar said, inter alia: “It is important to note that at one of the most defining moments of Raila’s political career, Ruto stood by him. I have great respect for Raila. The conventional narrative though is that Ruto has taken a bullet on Raila’s behalf. Matters of guilt and innocence are the province of the ICC judges. If for nothing else, Raila must as a matter of cold reciprocity stand by Ruto at his most defining hour. The presumption of innocence applies to all. After all, captains rush to the referees when their team members are penalised.”

· We have reliably learnt that there is a strategy now in place of trying to appeal to Ruto (plus the other rebels, individually or otherwise) and/or confuse the Kalenjins “at the grassroots”; and that the said strategy “has become urgent due to the good reception Mudavadi has been receiving in the Rift Valley.” Omar Hassan is working hand-in-hand with, among others, Salim Rasputin Lone.

· 5) Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s lawyer at the trial of the Kapenguria Six, Dennis Lowell Pritt QC, said, as captured by Caroline Elkins’s Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya: “I would submit that it is the most childishly weak case made against any man in any important trial in the history of the British Empire!” And how will history judge the ICC circus, the theatre of idiocy that Kenyans have been exposed to?

· 6) What would William Hague say in response to Dennis Lowell Pritt’s statement? While still on this Hague fellow, several leaders told him off (4th-5th February, 2012):

· Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto, and their allies, accused UK Foreign Secretary William Hague of meddling in local politics. They took issue with Hague’s caution that Kenya must mind the country’s international image in deciding Uhuru and Ruto’s eligibility for the presidency in the forthcoming General Election;

· Led by Kenyatta, the leaders said that Hague’s statement confirmed suspicions the International Criminal Court (ICC) cases against the two (Kenyatta and Ruto) were part of a foreign scheme to influence the outcome of elections for the country’s 4th President; they said Kenya was an independent State and that no foreign country has any moral authority to dictate to Kenyans the leaders they should elect; they told Kenyans to be cautious of foreign emissaries (like Hague) who want to dictate the country’s political arena and impose the next president.

· Kenyatta added: “We know they are spending a lot of money through NGOs and civil organisations to confuse Kenyans so that at the end they can impose a leader of their choice. But we are saying that the people of Kenya will and must decide their own leaders, without any interference.”

· 7) And why did the British give money for the Kenyan case? According to Chief Taku, an international criminal law expert, based in Washington DC (Sunday Nation, 25th December, 2011): “As debate rages on the possible role played by partisan political manipulation in the operations of the (ICC) court, on 26th November, 2011, the British government donated 200, 000 pounds (KShs.25 million) to the court working on the Kenyan case.

· There are those who would legitimately view such a conditional grant as yet another attempt by the West to influence the court’s actions in a particular fashion…The court should have, perhaps, asked itself whether it is wise to accept a donation from Kenya’s former colonial master, which retains a strong interest in the country!”

· 8) The great people of Kenya must refuse the choice of leader(s) that the Western racist neo-colonialists (like 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 at the beck and call of his contemptuous and arrogant foreign masters (the likes of Hague) on whom he is relying to deliver the presidency, via The Hague process; Kenyans are not slaves and will never be colonised again!; Let the people decide; Let the people decide; and kindly, please: Let the people decide! Alluta Continua.

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