Kenya Election 2007: Outcomes

[Mtanzania]

Kibaki sworn in, ODM to name parallel govt

Story by NATION Reporter
Publication Date: 12/30/2007
President Kibaki has been sworn in for a second term after garnering 4.58m votes against his closest rival Raila Odinga’s 4.35m.
Shortly after the ceremony at State House, Nairobi, Mr Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) called a Press conference where they declared their candidate the President-elect and announced intention to form a parallel government.

At the same time, the Government has suspended all live broadcasts citing the need for “public safety and tranquillity”.

A statement from the Ministry of Information and Communications also directed media houses and journalists to stop any broadcast of “inciting or alarming” material.

The statement was signed by the permanent secretary in the ministry, Dr Bitange Ndemo, citing instructions from the Minister for Internal Security, Mr John Michuki.

ODM officials said Mr Odinga will tomorrow at 2pm address the nation from Nairobi’s Uhuru Park.

The events follow the declaration shortly after 4pm by the Electoral Commission that President Kibaki had won a second term.

The official results were announced through the national broadcaster, KBC-TV, after an earlier attempt at Kenyatta International Conference Centre degenerated into chaos.

“I declare Mwai Kibaki the president of the republic of Kenya,” the commission chairman Samuel Kivuitu declared after reading the final tally of the election results.

He said any irregularities alleged by the Orange Democratic Movement were now in the domain of the law courts.

“The Electoral Commission has no jurisdiction over the issues raised. These are matters for the judiciary. We hope the courts would move expeditiously,” he said.

Mr Kivuitu said he understood any bitterness the losers of the election may have.

All local journalists were ejected from the precincts of the KICC as the results were announced.

Soon after he was sworn in for a second term, President Kibaki pledged to ensure equal treatment and justice for all Kenyans and declared that he will soon appoint a “clean hands Cabinet” that reflects the face of the country.

He promised to serve all Kenyans equally regardless of who they voted for in the election.

“I ask all Kenyans to set aside all the divisive views and opinions we held during the elections and embrace one another as brothers and sisters,” he said.

President Kibaki said his key opponents, ODM’s Raila Odinga and ODM-Kenya’s Kalonzo Musyoka, were strong campaigners and were able to get support from across the country.

He asked political and religious leaders to come out and preach peace in the country.

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

CONCLUSION BY THE INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS OF KENYAN ELECTION 2007

"We believe that, at this time, the ECK (Electoral Commission of Kenya), despite the best efforts of its chairman, has not succeeded in establishing the credibility of the tallying process to the satisfaction of all parties and candidates," Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the chief EU observer, said in a statement.

The European Union's team of election observers said the country's electoral commission had failed to ensure the credibility of the presidential vote.
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"This is a very sad day for Kenya and for democracy," says Njeri Kabeberi, a political analyst and head of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy in Nairobi. "We have created a recipe for something where we don't know what will happen. Kibaki's people will be celebrating, Odinga's people will be plotting, but the people of Kenya will have been watching TV to see what due process looks like and they will be losing faith in the process."

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"I don't think that [Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement Party] will go to court, because the courts don't inspire much confidence," says Abdullah Ahmed Nasir, former chair of the Law Society of Kenya. "I think they will shift their focus to making this country ungovernable. They have 100 seats in parliament, against the president's 35 seats. This government will be a minority government, and they will not have an easy time ruling."

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[Mwafrika]

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MKIMTAZAMA HUYU JAMAA ALIYEIBA KURA AKIAPISHWA ANA RAHA KWELI?

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RAIS WETU RAILA TUTAKAYEMWAPISHA KESHO UWANJA WA UHURU, NAIROBI

MACHOZI YAKE HAYA ANAYOLIA KWA KUWA AMEIBIWA NI YETU WOTE.

KESHO TUNAKUTANA NAO KWENYE UHURU PARK. 1000,000 MEN WILL MARCH TO UHURU PARK TO INSTAL OUR PRESIDENT RAILA ODINGA. TUTAKUMBANA NA MAGUMU LAKINI MTUOMBEE.

Tuko nanyi pamoja

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

 

[Kithuku]

Haya mavisu, mapanga, nondo na magogo, mbona natishika jamani. Kama jamaa wamekusudia kuandamana kama nilivyosoma hapa hapo kesho, ningewashauri wasibebe hizo silaha, kwani wakifanya hivyo majeshi watawafungulia moto kwa madai kwamba wanapambana na "militia". Waende tu unarmed, wingi wao na sauti watakazopaaza nina uhakika zitatosha. Vote with your feet, that's the last option you have. Na tena mfanye mapema kabla hawajapanga mikakati ya kuwavuruga, maana mkichelewa wasaliti watatoka humohumo miongoni mwenu.

 

[Mwafrika]

Kibaki sworn in, ODM to name parallel govt

Story by NATION Reporter
Publication Date: 12/30/2007
President Kibaki has been sworn in for a second term after garnering 4.58m votes against his closest rival Raila Odinga’s 4.35m.
Shortly after the ceremony at State House, Nairobi, Mr Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) called a Press conference where they declared their candidate the President-elect and announced intention to form a parallel government.

At the same time, the Government has suspended all live broadcasts citing the need for “public safety and tranquillity”.

A statement from the Ministry of Information and Communications also directed media houses and journalists to stop any broadcast of “inciting or alarming” material.

The statement was signed by the permanent secretary in the ministry, Dr Bitange Ndemo, citing instructions from the Minister for Internal Security, Mr John Michuki.

ODM officials said Mr Odinga will tomorrow at 2pm address the nation from Nairobi’s Uhuru Park.

The events follow the declaration shortly after 4pm by the Electoral Commission that President Kibaki had won a second term.

The official results were announced through the national broadcaster, KBC-TV, after an earlier attempt at Kenyatta International Conference Centre degenerated into chaos.

“I declare Mwai Kibaki the president of the republic of Kenya,” the commission chairman Samuel Kivuitu declared after reading the final tally of the election results.

He said any irregularities alleged by the Orange Democratic Movement were now in the domain of the law courts.

“The Electoral Commission has no jurisdiction over the issues raised. These are matters for the judiciary. We hope the courts would move expeditiously,” he said.

Mr Kivuitu said he understood any bitterness the losers of the election may have.

All local journalists were ejected from the precincts of the KICC as the results were announced.

Soon after he was sworn in for a second term, President Kibaki pledged to ensure equal treatment and justice for all Kenyans and declared that he will soon appoint a “clean hands Cabinet” that reflects the face of the country.

He promised to serve all Kenyans equally regardless of who they voted for in the election.

“I ask all Kenyans to set aside all the divisive views and opinions we held during the elections and embrace one another as brothers and sisters,” he said.

President Kibaki said his key opponents, ODM’s Raila Odinga and ODM-Kenya’s Kalonzo Musyoka, were strong campaigners and were able to get support from across the country.

He asked political and religious leaders to come out and preach peace in the country.

Yaani hiyo ya kutaka religious leader wapreach peace ndio imechekesha kabisaaaaa! kuna watu wanamdhihaki mungu na kumfanya kama mtoto mdogo. Wewe kibaki ushindwe na uregeeee kabisa

 

[Kichuguu]

Tatizo jingine kwenye nchi zetu ni hii haraka ya kumwapisha mtu baada ya Uchaguzi bila hata kuweka nafasi kufanya transision kati ya utawala uliopita na utawala mpya. Matokeo yanatangazwa leo na papo hapo mtu anaapishwa; wangeacha muda kidogo wa wiki kama mbili au tatu hivi kusudi kutafuta majibu yote kuhusu irregularities za uchaguzi.

Marekani kuna muda wa karibu miezi miwili ya transition kabla ya utawala mpya kuapishwa. Muda huo unatosha kupingana kuhusu kura na kufikia mwafaka kabla ya serikali mpya kuingia madarakani.

 

[Masatu]

I have every reasons now, as it was b4 to reject the so called East African Federation, Cant get a picture comes 2010 Kenya Kibaki, Uganda Museven, Tanzania Mbowe (God forbid).....

 

[Mnhenwa Ndege]

Ukraine way is the way forward Raila asikubali kushindwa maana atawaangusha wakenya.

 

[Kitila Mkumbo]

I have every reasons now, as it was b4 to reject the so called East African Federation, Cant get a picture comes 2010 Kenya Kibaki, Uganda Museven, Tanzania Mbowe (God forbid).....

wewe usituchefue kabisa wengine tayari tuliyo nayo yanatutosha. East African Federation agenda is bigger than you seem to know.

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
NEW YORK TIMES
Published: December 30, 2007


NAIROBI, Kenya - It took all of about 15 minutes for the slums to explode on Sunday after Kenya's president was declared the winner of a deeply flawed election.

In Nairobi, President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in shortly after election results were announced.
Thousands of young men came streaming out of Kibera, a shantytown of one million people, waving sticks, smashing shacks, burning tires and hurling stones. Soldiers poured into the streets to meet them. In other areas across the country, gangs went house to house, dragging people of certain tribes out of their homes and clubbing them to death.

"It's war," said Hudson Chate, a mechanic in Nairobi. "Tribal war."

The dubious conclusion of the most fiercely-fought elections in Kenya's history has pitched the country into chaos. Western observers said that Kenya's election commission ignored clear evidence of vote rigging to keep the government in power.

Now, one of the most developed, stable nations in Africa, which has a powerhouse economy and some of the most spectacular game parks in the world, is the scene of tribal bloodletting. With the president, Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu, and the lead opposition figure Raila Odinga, a Luo, the election seems to have tapped into an atavistic vein of tribal tension that always lay beneath the surface in Kenya but up until now had not provoked widespread mayhem.

In Mathare, a slum in Nairobi, Luo gangs torched more than 100 Kikuyu homes. In Kibera, Kikuyu families loaded up their things in taxis and fled. Almost all the businesses in the country are shut. The only figures in downtown Nairobi, which is usually choked with traffic, are helmeted soldiers hunched behind plastic shields. Oily black clouds of smoke rose from the slums on Sunday evening and smudged out the sun.

As the riots spread, the government issued an order outlawing live media broadcasts.

"It's a sad day for Kenya," said Michael E. Ranneberger, the American ambassador to Kenya. "My biggest worry now is violence, which, let's be honest, will be along tribal lines."

Mr. Odinga's supporters are unleashing their frustrations about the election, which was held on Thursday and initially praised as fair, against people they suspect supported the president, namely Kikuyus. The Odinga camp urged election officials to re-tally votes after exposing serious discrepancies between the votes initially announced on the day after the election versus the numbers that were then later entered into a national tally. Everyone predicted this election would be close and the final results had Mr. Kibaki winning by a sliver, 46 to 44 percent. But that gap may have included thousands of invalid votes. The European Union said its observers in one constituency last week witnessed election officials announce that President Kibaki had won 50,145 votes, but on Sunday the election commission boosted those same results to 75,261 votes.

"The election commission has not succeeded in establishing the credibility of the tallying process," said Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the chief European observer.

One Western ambassador said that Western diplomats tried for hours on Sunday to persuade the election commission to do a re-tally of the vote figures using original results but that the commission refused.

"This was rigged," the ambassador said.
The election commission acknowledged that there were irregularities but said that it was not their job to address them.

The opposition, said the chairman, Samuel Kivuitu, "can go to the courts."

The opposition has not indicated whether it would contest the results in Kenya's courts, which are notoriously slow and corrupt. But it said it would have a swearing-in ceremony for Mr. Odinga on Monday and declare him the "people's president."

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/world/africa/30cnd-kenya.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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[Kitila Mkumbo]

Tatizo jingine kwenye nchi zetu ni hii haraka ya kumwapisha mtu baada ya Uchaguzi bila hata kuweka nafasi kufanya transision kati ya utawala uliopita na utawala mpya. Matokeo yanatangazwa leo na papo hapo mtu anaapishwa; wangeacha muda kidogo wa wiki kama mbili au tatu hivi kusudi kutafuta majibu yote kuhusu irregularities za uchaguzi.

Marekani kuna muda wa karibu miezi miwili ya transition kabla ya utawala mpya kuapishwa. Muda huo unatosha kupingana kuhusu kura na kufikia mwafaka kabla ya serikali mpya kuingia madarakani.

Unajua huyu alikuwa anamaliza urais wake leo, so ilikuwa lazima tu wamtangaze na kumwapisha harakaharaka kama walivyofanya. The best example AFrica ni Uganda, kule ukishachaguliwa huapishwi kuwa Rais hadi miezi miwili ipite ili kutoa nafasi kama kuna yeyote anayetaka kuwa-appeal. Kwa hiyo mifano ipo AFrica wala hatuna haja ya kwenda US. In fact, Ugandan constitution could be the best in our continent sema ndiyo hivyo tena M7 huwa anaumua kuiweka pembeni mambo yakimzidi. This reminds us the problem of the constitution is only a half story told, it's very much about the people who we give authority to guard the systems we put in place. Maana ukweli ni kwamba hakuna hata sehemu palipoandikwa watumishi waibe kura kumuongezea incumbent pale anapozidiwa. Maana inner circles zinasema kuwa huyu mzee alikuwa yupo tayari ku-concede defeat lakini majamaa yaliyomzunguka wakasema hapa mzee lazima uendelee; kwa hiyo Kibaki alikosa ujasiri ule aliounyesha Kaunda alipowakatalia katakata wenzeke katika serikali na UNIP kubadili matokeo. So it is probably the people rather than the structures. Hapa ndipo watu wengine wanashawishika kukubaliana na Watson kwamba sisi waafrika pengine hamnazo na tunavuna matunda ya akili zetu na pengine tunajibebesha mzigo bure tunapojilaumu.

 

[Azimio Jipya]

AS I TOLD YOU ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOSE HERE...IT IS CRIES, TEARS, WAR, FIRE, SMOKE, BULLETS AND PAIN FROM ELDORET RIFT VALLEY TO MOMBASA IN COAST PROVINCE, FROM KAKAMEGA IN WESTERN KENYA TO NAROK IN SOUTHERN KENYA, FROM LODWAR IN NORTH KENYA TO NAIROBI IN CENTRAL KENYA........THIS IS WHAT KIBAKI WANTED.

Hi Kenya _ Tanzania. Remember I told you not get away we need you!!! YES WE CAN C THE HELL HAS JUST BROKEN LOSE!ITS OUR HOPE OUR GOOD LORD ' GIVE HIS GRACE THE WAY HE KNOWS...MAANA KWAKWELI KINACHOFUATA...LETS WAIT AND SEE!!! WE ARE TOGETHER MY BROTHER

 

[Mtanzania]

Kenyan-Tanzanian,

Nimesikia BBC kwamba Raila na viongozi wengine wa ODM wamekamatwa. Hiyo habari haijathibitishwa lakini inasemekana
ndiyo habari inayoenea sasa.

Je hata wewe umesikia hivyo? Vipi maandalizi ya huo mkutano wa kesho?

 

[MkamaP]

Mr Kitila
unajua mie hua nawaangalia tu nyie CuF na chadema mnapolia katiba na tume irekebishwe tatizo sio hayo maandishi sijui katiba tatizo ni Akili za watu.
Ni kwamba hawataki na nilazima waendelee hata damu zimwagike wao kwao si kitu ila madaraka.
mimi nimemsikiliza huyo mwenyekiti wa tume ya uchaguzi ya kenya ktk BBC nafikiri ametekwa yani ametangaza kama kitu kimemniga na hisi hadi sasa yupo chini ya ulinzi mkali na fikiri ndicho kisa cha kufukuza waandishi wa habari kalazimishwa lazima aseme leo.

Mie pia Dr Wartson bado ananikuna kulikoni sisi wa Afrika yani hata wizi wenyewe aliutumia mobutu enzi zile bado haujabadirika staili hivi kweli ebeni muibe lakini tuonyesheni basi hata ktk wizi tunatumia ka bongo lakini wapi bwana duu

 

[TanzActive]

Mimi nionavyo:
1.Raila asijitangaze Rais atkuwa naye anaivunja katiba ambayo kwa kweli ameonekana kuitetea sana,na kwa kufanya hivyo atawekwa ndani na kushitakiwa kwa ugaidi.
2.Wala asihangaike kwenda Mahakamani maana huko wako manyang'au wengine ambao hawatampa haki na isitoshe eti lazi paper zipelekwe kwa Kibaki in person ,haki hii hatoipata hivyo plain ya kuadai haki mahakamani aifute.
3.Solution safi kwake ni kushawishi vyama vingine vidogo wampigie kibaki vote of no confidence after two weeks au wafanye Kena ungovernable through the Bunge

4.Solution Nyingine ni kutumia maandamano lakini hii sidhani kama itafaa,kwa maana jinsi watu walivyo na ghadhabu lazima waibuke na silaha hapo Askari watapata sababu ya kuua ovyo ndipo tatizo litakuwa kubwa ziadi na tutashuhudia watu wakichinjana ovyo

"Mungu Wangu ,uliyeumba Mbingu na nchi ,ukaumba Mwanadamu asiye na waa,epusha kenya isingie katika machafuko Makubwa"

 

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

Kenyan-Tanzanian,

Nimesikia BBC kwamba Raila na viongozi wengine wa ODM wamekamatwa. Hiyo habari haijathibitishwa lakini inasemekana
ndiyo habari inayoenea sasa.

Je hata wewe umesikia hivyo? Vipi maandalizi ya huo mkutano wa kesho?

NDIO NENO LILILO MTAANI NA KWA MOBAILI PHONE ZA KILA MTU SASA ILA WENYEWE WAKUU WAPYA HAO WANASEMA HIVI:

Ya all need to stop making news rather read it or shut up.



"There are many unfolded rumors circulating in the country that leaders of the Orange Democratic Party have been arrested.

The Police have not arrested any of them and have no reason to arrest or detain any ODM leader.

Please treat these rumors as a campaign by evil people who want to incite violence."

Office of Public Communications - Office of Government Spokesperson

Dr. Alfred N. Mutua
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY &
GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON.

 

[Bowbow]

Asante kwa kuendelea kutupa news. By the way security ikoje Nairobi na nchi nzima kwa ujumla.

Najua hakuna radio wala TV but atleast rumours za mitaani? Je kuna vifo vilivyorepotiwa hadi sasa?

 

[Kitila Mkumbo]

Kama ilivyotarajiwa western media sasa zimeshaanza ku-cover news za Kenya baada ya violence kuanza. Taarifa za usiku za TV karibu zote hapa UK zime-report hiyo violence na jinsi Kibaki alivyoapishwa harakaharaka. Lakini huko nyuma walikuwa kimya tu.

 

[Kitila Mkumbo]

Kwa kweli haya yaliyotokea yameiharibu Africa. Sasa kila kiongozi aliopo madarakani watakuwa na kila sababu ya kuiba uchaguzi. Tena sasa hivi M7 na mwenzake Mugabe watakuwa wanacheka sana, wanajua sasa wameongeza member katika club yao ya kuchezea sanduku la kura chini ya kiranja wao CCM.