Kenya 2007 election update from Kenya Imagine: “I have a racking headache this morning. Yesterday was a tough, nay, gruelling day. Yeah, and so much so. It was Election Day; the most competitive, much anticipated issue-based election since independence. I was among the last people at the polling station having stood in the hot sun for almost half a day.”
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It saddens my heart to know that the self proclaimed Statesman Kibaki would compromise democracy at such a critical moment of Kenya’s history. If indeed he won legally then he had nothing to lose. Why did he accept the confusion that involved the vote count from Central province and the presidential count as a whole. He also didn’t have to rash to be sworn in as many Kenyans would have loved to celebrate this occassion as we did in 2002. I wonder too why he would declare today a public holiday and then deploy the paramilitary police in the streets of Kenya, is it not to close all government offices so that no official complains can be lodged by the opposition? Why, if he is only there to serve the public interest, would he want to exert his power on an unwilling people? How can he not say anything about the obvious problems that involved the final days of the poll count? How can he speak of a peaceful election in Kenya during his swearing in speech when all around the country there was tension? Has he determined to ignore the reality so as to push his own agenda, whatever that may be? I think it is time that all Kenyans stood up against such clear injustice, Kikuyus and Luos included.
Once we thought Moi would behave this way, but he did not, he handed power over gracefully and dignified despite all the critics,now Kibaki has betrayed his past and all Kenyans.
i feel sad about what is going on in Kenya it has been my home since i was a kid i will pray and hope you all will for peace in our country
M kenyan. I voted. I work very hard daily, i have a family to look after and m also investing long term in our country.
But now that Kibaki will stay on forcefully despite having lost elections what happens when he finally leaves? I mean may be 2012, if he will behave different and go, then whoever comes in may just missrule the country like he did, get voted out and refuse. And the trend goes on and on… And will never be the beacon of hope and democratic mirror we’ve always been inn this waring region.
Kibaki encouraged/allowed grand corruption, soaring tribalism and selective development to be at its peak and that is why majority of kenyans, not just luos, voted him out.
And what happens after kibaki restores order and starts his forced term? Tension!! And silent hate!! M sorry for being honest but that is what is very much possible unless we all change. I was once told in a kaimbu town pub “songa serikali inataka kukojoa!”. Meaning “get the hell out of here the government wants to pee!” I was scared like never before. I hope it wont be worse cuz we all know kikuyus are very arrogant and always clam to be rich. Its alights lets wait and see, watch silently and helplessly and wait for the day they will perhaps get out of power which they are using to discriminate everybody else.
So sad….
I watched a mob lynch a man outside my apartment in dagoretti yesterday. I turned blue…
Reason for the senseless unnecessary killing? I was seated in my bedroom working, m a coder working from home now on my laptop, then i heard shouts of “ua hiyo jaluo”. (Kill that Jaluo). I couldnt dare get out so i watched from my window upstairs as they beat him senseless. Some people came out and just watched, i guess helplessly (this is a mainly kikuyu neighborhood). Later some people picked him up after about 15 minutes, i do really hope he survived tho i highly doubt.
Please please kenyans lets try be peaceful, its sickening, even though we all know kibaki rigged elections. And please kikuyus and jaluos stop fighting. Alot of these stories u wont see on media cuz KTN and NTV are showing mainly cartoons or CNN, God knows why, but live coverage is burned by government for now.
Kibaki if i were you….! I wd let go (cuz u lost anyway) and save this country.
War in Mathare north. This is a slum area in nairobi along thika rd.
I dont know what to do, i work at a hotel in town. Was goin home at 430pm then the mat ust made a quick U-turn at the Monetary Studies gate cuz there was fire burning on the next bus stage n women dem runnin n wailing, right infront of the place i live.
There is so much tension and sometimes it boils up in smoke and machetes and guns are drawn. Heared gun shots last night, n m so sure dem no police cuz cops don get dis far into da ghetto. Majority of people living here are poor Jaluos and Kyuks, and some few luhyas like me n others. Since Sato i hoped they wdnt fight but the high tension was eminent.
Where do i go now? Somebody tell me ps. I dont know… For now m a refugee in city centre at a cyber cafe, outside police in combat standing still no smile. At da ‘heaven’ ghetto Gat knows whata follow next…
So sic!
it’s very clear that this is not just a Luo- Kikuyu matter! This is the rest of Kenyans against the ‘The Mounbt Kenya’ clique.
We are determined to gain justice whatever the cost!
what ……why do u fight when u can live peaceful just like back in the day i was born there n i saw it with my eyes why cant they just leave a normal life with everything normal …and everything i don’t know how to say this but hey why do we fight ..lets just be together and live in that city under the sun …
how they say it in slang ….stay safi ama wata piga menye
if only they(politicians )had kenyans in mind,then we wudnt bew where we are now.n the poor kenyans killing each other left right n centre have they thought of those politicians n why their families are not in the streets fighting for the so kold unfairness?they have their children n wives in some five star hotel somewhere in the first world while u slaughter each other like chickens.kenyans pliz pliz i beseach u,for the love of ur country n the future of ur children.let kibaki n raila go to the streets alone not u.
its so shameful that kibaki can talk o0f “free and fairelections”yet he knows very well that he was rigged in and this has led to loss of so many lives.if he loves his pple who voted for hom let him step down to avert more blodshed.