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An Open Letter to SAMUEL KIVUITU, Chairman of Electoral Commission of Kenya Dear Mr. Kivuitu,

Haki iwe ngao na mlinzi....kila siku tuwe na shukrani ("Justice be our shield and defender....every day filled with thanksgiving" (Lines from Kenya's national anthem)

I soothe myself back to patchy sleep with my mantra in these terrible days, as our country burns and disintegrates around us:

Rarely do we allow ourselves pauses, to absorb the enormity of our country shattered, in 7 days. We cry, I think, in private. At least I do. In public, we mourn through irony, persistent humor, and action. Through the exercise of patience, stamina, fortitude, generosity, that humble me to witness. Through the fierce relentless focus of our best energies towards challenges of stomach-churning magnitude. We tell the stories that aren't making it into the press: the retired general in Rift Valley sheltering 200 displaced families on his farm, the Muslim Medical Professionals offering free treatment to anyone injured in political protest. We challenge, over and over again, with increasing weariness, the international media coverage that presents this as "tribal warfare", "ethnic conflict", for an audience that visualises Africa through Hollywood: Hotel Rwanda, The Last King of Scotland, Blood Diamond. 
Kivuitu's term had expired. ODM campaigned for renewal of his term when a new chairman ought to have been appointed.

the bible says that those who live by the sword will die the sword. ODM have succeded in ethnically cleansing the kikuyus in rift valley but let them know the same sword will come back to haunt them. Infact most of them are young people with may years to live.

1/10/08, 3:32 AM 
Dudes...get over it! Kazi iendelee u lazy sods.

1/10/08, 3:35 AM 
Anon @3.35

Great! You are advocating that because people are lazy, they dont deserve their democratic rights! Justice will prevail, "thieves" at SH will get their due compensation, let them enjoy the temporary shelter of SH, but they can't hide for long behind the state machinery.

Get your freaking ass working towards the reality of getting our democracy back!

1/10/08, 3:45 AM 
1/10/08, 4:10 AM Maua said...

Kenyans, Kenyans, Kenyans, hey, wherever you are. This is not the time to cry for spilt milk, haisoreki. Let us stop calling each other names, stop destroying the little we have. That neighbour you are turning against now, you never know where you'll find him tomorrow.

Let us unite and pray for our nation. The will of Kenyans may be denied right now, but the will of God will always prevail. Pray and ask God almighty to intervene and rule the country for us at this time.

1/10/08, 4:26 AM 
Anon @4.10

You surely sound like a PNU confidant who surely knows how to spin the story just like you advocate that the Morriss fella did! Further from the truth which you have established with your so called evidence, then why the hell did Kibaki get sworned in at night, and why did the national anthem of Kenya was not played! Why did Kivuiti makes statements that cloud the doubts of the elections taken place. C'mon, the devil is at SH, and he has been found GUILTY as charged!

We will see what unfolds infront of us in the near future, let the pandora box open, then we will see who is the so called "SAINT".

KIBAKI killed democracy, looted his way to SH, and now you are claiming that he is "legal", get your brain checked!

1/10/08, 4:27 AM 
Crap! I think copy-paste nonsense

1/10/08, 4:31 AM Mudamuli Ntikita Ntikita said...

@previous anon. I agree with you. Never again should Kenya allow ethnic cleansing to overule her.

1/10/08, 4:33 AM 
The Anon ''saddened by ODM truths'' is a real PNU person, it sounds like Amos Kimunya or Dr Mutua who wrote that article.
You people think we are fools or what do you take Kenyans for??
Who staged a coup, Kibaki or Raila??
Who is walking around with loads of policemen, who has ensured children cannot walk on streets lest they be shot dead??
Who has shot dead little kids??
I was on the ground in RV when the results came out- actaully marroned enroute from Western for over 1 week.
Some of the people started celebrating and laughing at their friends- obviuosly what started as a joke turned into full fledged fighting with houses burnt and properties destroyed.
Others maybe do not know any other way to protest hence the burning.
Some People on this blog have been blaming Ruto and Raila for the hell that broke loose. Please put the blame squarly where it belongs on Kivuitu, Kibaki and Kalonzo and Kilonzo ( for pushing Kivuitu to announce fraudulent results).
Why can't you people see clearly that the devil is Kibaki and Kivuitu??
If he is so confident why can't Kibaki accept a re-run, its a small matter!
Kibaki will pay for the blood of innocent Kenyans- Kikuyus, Kisii's , Luos, Luyhas and Kalenjins killed bcoz of his greed for power.
Kivuitu, if you make so many people cry with your name you place a curse on yourself and your family- what have you done to our nation??
Kalonzo- the bible says judge and you shall not be judged, by taking up a post in a fraudulent govt you have legitimised the fraud Kibaki commited.This is not about raila, but you forgot that. In 2012 these people will be going upstairs and Uhuru K tally will increase by 1M votes in seconds. Will you cry and will you want the rest of Kenya to cry with you over democracy??

Meanwhile as usual Kenyans will burry their heads in the hands- oh we are peaceful people- Can we wake up and address the reason why the so called cleansing happened??
Why? Why?
Otherwise if you want Kazi kuendelea, we'll dig a deeper hole than where we are now!
I wish we had 100 Wangari Maathais for 1/4 of Martha Karua and 100 Maina Kias for 1/4 of the Kimunyas.
Let's not pretend to pray and go about daily lives- oh how I wish people could force Kivuitu to resign??

1/10/08, 5:20 AM 
Whatever figures the ECK and the local media give us now are useless. I put it to you Kenyans that the entire local media is currently part of the grand conspiracy(as of Dec 31st or the day they met Michuki and Co. to negotiate the live broadcast ban) .

If the tabulations in the press now wer published two weeks ago we would not be in this situation. Now we are seeing numbers cooked to add up to Kibaki's apparent lead of 200,000 votes and to propagate the theory that all sides (read all Kenyans) are thieves.

Note that the intervening time before this publication was used to reverse-engineer the figures. (Any other explanations??).

I suggest that since there is so much noise and distortion of facts over the last 2 weeks, the most reliable numbers are the ones we saw live on all stations before 29th 2.30PM. Also we seem to have credible witnesses for the part of the grand robbery committed in Molo and Nithi ie. the EU observers. We could limit arguments to such clear facts.

As for Mr. Kivuitu, that guy sold our country to Michuki Saitoti Mwai and Co. What is even more sad, he only got peanuts for his bold crime (if at all he got anything). see our friends from South Eastern are used and dumped with such ease. You will be amazed how soon Kalonzo will start crying foul. He is only being used for the moment - Mark my words

1/10/08, 5:21 AM 

1/10/08, 5:24 AM 
We may never get hold of you Mr. Kivuitu but I wish you burn in this hell too the same way you’ve put our brothers and sisters in deep sorrow death and trouble. May you rest in hell with kubavu Gefaki because both of you are living deads.

1/10/08, 5:52 AM john oilepo said...

anon at 3.32am,

How dare you invoke the Lord's name on behalf of election thieves? It is like a thief praying who has refused to return stolen goods praying that those who killed his relatives should rot in hell...

But then again am sure you don't see the irony. To some people stealing is a virtue, it is a measure of praiseworthy shrewdness.

john oilepo

1/10/08, 6:00 AM 
The guy who has been posting wrong Presidential Election results for O.D.M. zones here is an idiot to say the least. I looked up the figures in the E.C.K. website and this is what Raila's results in these constituencies were;

Bondo - 53,202 (62,349 registered voters) - 85% AND NOT 102%

Rangwe - 64,458 (73,611 registered voters) - 86% AND NOT 92%

Kisumu Rural - 44,129 (52,938 reg. voters) - 83% AND NOT 120%

Baringo North - 30,961 (37,953 reg.
voters) - 81% AND NOT 92%

Emgwen - 51,738 (80,987 registered
voters) - 63% AND NOT 103%

Mosop - 47,865 (60,548 registered voters) - 79% AND NOT 97%

Eldoret North - 79,953 (143,729 reg.voters) - 56% AND NOT 116%

Sigor - 36,937 (46,566 registered voters) - 79% AND NOT 115%

Now where is the rigging here? Look before you leap! Kibaki rigged and no amount of spin will wipe away that fact!


1/10/08, 6:37 AM 
KIVUITU was doing a big favour to his master and a small miracle to his tribesman Kalonzo.

Kivuitu is not innocent but he was used to return Kenya back to the dark days.

The culprit remains Kibaki.

1/10/08, 2:05 PM 

A forum for rule of law in Kenya. Be part of it. ALL KENYANS. Protect your country from political cleptocrats. Fight to save this country from oppression. Enough is enough.

Dont support your tribesman. Be wise and support the future of your grandchildren. Think about the future of Kenya and not of your tribe.

1/10/08, 2:18 PM 
@ Omany 6:37am

Now you quote ECK numbers and figures when it suits you?

Well those same figures by ECK put Kibaki ahead of Your god Raila so eat humble pie and go rebuild Kisumu and see if you can do business like the Kikuyus and Asians you chased away with your stupid wrath!

1/10/08, 5:55 PM 
fellow kenyans please lets stop fighting each other.how many politicians did you see visiting the most affected when things were hot two weeks ago?they dont care they only pretend when things calm down.lets live in unity like before coz all our politicians care about is their pockets watch out for them when they want a pay rise youll know they dont love us none of them.we need to pray and pray to God.

1/10/08, 9:25 PM 
Charles ....Kisumu will rise again. shock on you kwani you think there is no business, Mungiki or no Mungiki...There will always be a remnant in Kisumu. For 44 successive years since Kenyatta's regime to Kibaki. we have lived!!!! Do you remember the song 'I will survive...Kisumu will come out strong...You can kill the body but the soul you cannot.Watch this space.....I wonder if Kibaki gives you shopping vouchers for Nakumatt every month...Get some tips from Mutahi Ngunyi


1/11/08, 2:55 AM 
nowonder this Kivuitu man had the ordersity to appear drunk on TV announcing results the first night.

SHAME SHAME SHAME on you Kibuitu and may the blood of all our brothers and sisters lie squarely on ur bald head.

1/11/08, 7:48 AM 
Trading alone doesnt make a nation. Research, Science and production.

Check Academy of Sciences in Kenya. Who is there? Distinguished AIDS researchers killed by Kikuyu thugs. From where are they?

You can not stroll in Kiambu at 7 pm. Is that civilization?

Charles, Kisumu would be happy not to have thieves trading in our clean city. Go to Nyeri and witness what dirt means, go to Karatina and learn what chaos mean. Mungiki is not civilization.

Civilization started in Western Kenya and without Western Kenya, there will be NO civilization in Kenya.

1/12/08, 11:58 AM uhuru2012 said...

"It's like cutting a Mugumo tree with a razor blade" that's what President Kibaki said during the fight for multi-party, when Matiba and the rest decided to fight for social justice and remove Kenya from a one party state under Moi and KANU regime. The so-called Saba Saba days...it's so ironic now, if we didn't have section 2(a) in the constitution amendment, we might not have removed Moi from power and Kibaki would not have enjoyed his tea with Lucy at Ikulu ya Nairobi for "2" consecutive terms. Knock on wood! Ever heard of spoils of war? that's Kibaki's forte since he entered politics...he knows when to rip from other peoples sweat and outcry. I love this guy!

1/13/08, 12:23 AM