The 1st 2013 Kenyan Presidential Debate

Nyani Ngabu said:

I watched it live and Mkapa was there. Don't try to distort or rewrite history.

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Correct, Mkapa was there ..

Mokoyo said:

I like Keneth confidence ila sidhani kama ana jipya, akiwa KFF alivurunda je kwenye nchi ataweza??

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PK anayo sifa ya kusimamia CDF funds vizuri.

Mekatilili said:

Cheap? A factual statement is only cheap to one blinded by emotions and detached from our reality? Is that not a historical statement? Certainly even in your quest as an apologist you are privy to our history!

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The eyes waited for decades for the beatings to take effect! You are not doing anything new, i have queued and voted for him but that was when i was looking at things from face value and depending on emotional dudes to guide my reasoning. Blow his trumphet and do your part i have no business picking fights over any politician so leave it at that and dont engage in a cock fight.

simplemind said:

PK anayo sifa ya kusimamia CDF funds vizuri.

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kwahiyo ubunge unamfaa zaidi?

Dhuks said:

The eyes waited for decades for the beatings to take effect! You are not doing anything new, i have queued and voted for him but that was when i was looking at things from face value and depending on emotional dudes to guide my reasoning. Blow his trumphet and do your part i have no business picking fights over any politician so leave it at that and dont engage in a cock fight.

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Dont cry for me Argentina, yours is a routine; like clockwork. Pull out the "I queued for him" card in an attempt to mask the prejudice that ails you. Any level headed individual would take to google to ascertain the surgery and would come out informed of the fact that he has had successive surgeries due to the injuries he sustained in the KANU gulags. Your brand of politics is out in the open and while I take pleasure in pointing out the malice in your thinly veiled attacks, I am overwhelmed with pity; the prejudice that blinds you is endemic.

Lovely debate and I cannot wait for the second one during which Uhuru Kenyatta the proud owner of over 500,000 acres of land-illegally acquired by his father, will tell Kenyans up in arms over an quarter of an acre of land that he has the moral authority to resolve their problems. The chutzpah!

Uhuru ni Jembe na Ruto ni sululu, Balala ni koleo.

Uhuru yuko fiti, sema icc inamchanganya hasa hawa mabeberu wakianza kutia pressure zao. Raila, anaulizwa polisi wameuwa yeye akiwa kama PM, badala ya kujibu swali anaanza historia, hata yule mdada kamhurumia hakumbana zaidi.

Wote wameshindwa kueleza kwa kina kuhusu na namna, eti wanakimbilia kui-implement katiba hili silo jibu.
Hata hivyo, Uhuru was indeed trying to keep the ball rolling.

Implementation of the new constitution is by no means the sole antidote but it is clearly the main path Kenyans chose to deal with the aforementioned ills.

To the contrary, any candidate that does not reiterate his/her intention to implement the constitution to the latter in response to the respective challenge would be off the mark.

Mokoyo said:

Keneth was more strong

Muite was undetermined

Uhuru was under pressure

Odinga was more confident [

Dida was there for entertainment

Mudavadi was more silent

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On Odinga i dont think so.You possibly dont really know the man.He was not as confident.

Nairobi, Kenya
February 12, 2013

Why school was chosen for debate

Brookhouse International School - the venue of yesterday's presidential debate - is not just another learning institution.

Established in 1981, Brookhouse is designed to cater for the children of the who's who in society from diplomats, CEOs of blue chip companies, businesspeople and top government officials ,with parents paying Sh1.1 million per term for each child.
Enjoy a barbecue

Students can enjoy a barbecue by the swimming pool, sip hot chocolate, munch cookies and they listen to music after evening preps.


Most classes have no more than 20 students.


Laundry is done by staff and boarding rooms have TV sets and radios but teachers decide what the students watch or listen to.


International trips are planned every year and excursions to places like the Maasai Mara are standard fare.

"Not many years ago, international schools in the country catered predominantly for expatriates," said Mr John O'Connor, the director of Brookhouse in an earlier interview with the Daily Nation.


"But things have changed and more Kenyans are sending their children to such schools," he said.

The school offers the broad British National Curriculum.


At the age of 16+ the students write the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), followed by either British system A-Levels or the International Baccalaureate (IB) at 18+.


Brookhouse media liaison officer Joyce Gacheru said the school was honoured to host the presidential debates, the first of which was aired last evening.


The school with a rural campus environment has 70 teachers and students from 40 countries.

The debate - the first of its kind in Kenya - was conducted inside a state-of-the art auditorium in the school's castle-style building. The auditorium is known as Burudani Theatre and usually hosts theatre performances by the students.


The school is near the Galleria shopping mall, a short distance from the Bomas of Kenya, which will be the tallying centre for the election results on March 4.


Brookhouse is a member of the Round Square group of schools worldwide and is committed to the principles of democracy and civic education, which partly explains why it accepted to host the unique debate.

Source: Why school was chosen for debate - CAMPAIGN NEWS - elections.nation.co.ke

Paulo Muite wa Safina katika mdahalo wa jana aliwafunika wote wagombea uraisi wa Kenya na maoni yake kuhusu ICC could end up being his enduring lifetime legacy..............In a summary, Muite questioned the abuse of prosecutorial process at Hague of failing to charge the two presidential candidates Kibaki and Amollo ...........Amollo na Mudavadi weere sent to the cleaners they were not there.........

Uhuru held his own mightily when he made it clear the constitution of Kenya protects his rights to run for public office, secondly it is the people of Kenya who holds the nation's sovereignty and not ICC at Hague........tacitly, he raised the burning issue of neo-colonialism being deployed to deny Kenyans their constitutional right to elect their leaders.............If Kenyan people elects him while knowing the crimes he faces at ICC so be it.........third the issue of ICC has been abused to take away his constitutional right to run for the highest office in the land.......................other presidential candidates including Kenneth even Amollo distanced themselves from tarnishing their own images and support a highly politicized ICC process and debar Uhuru from exercising his constitutional onus........

Paulo Muite wa Safina katika mdahalo wa jana aliwafunika wote wagombea uraisi wa Kenya na maoni yake kuhusu ICC could end up being his enduring lifetime legacy..............In a summary, Muite questioned the abuse of prosecutorial process at Hague of failing to charge the two presidential candidates Kibaki and Amollo ...........Amollo na Mudavadi were sent to the cleaners............ they were not there in the debate................at times they were eclipsed by other candidates even that teacher did better than the duo.........

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Safina's Paul Muite said if he wins the presidency he will haul President Kibaki and Mr Odinga to The Hague to answer to the post-election violence, because they are the ones who bear the greatest responsibility for the violence that rocked the country.

"It is impossible, you cannot persuade my mind or that of rational people that the two people did not know about it," said Mr Muite.

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In my own measured intonation, Paulo Muite's legacy will be this statement.........it was bold and defiant to the incumbents and the tool of neo-colonization now renamed as ICC....................Africa ought to continue to fight for a control of her own destiny.....................Western powers' interest in Africa remain colonial and subjugation of natural resources and nothing else..........

To me Mwalimu posed a big challenge and seen as a threat to the rest of candidates!"

Prime Minister Raila Odinga said it is Parliament at the behest of Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto who decided to send the cases to the ICC only to turn around and accuse him of taking them there.

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One has put the mention of "Uhuru Kenyatta" in Raila's mouth.................and it is totally unacceptable! Only Rutto was mentioned to exonerate Raila over his inability to command ODM troops and vote decisively for a local tribunal.............Even words of................"We are not vague when we say we want the Hague way..............." came from Ruto and not uhuru

"For me I will go with the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. I want to defeat my brother (Mr Kenyatta) fairly," said Mr Kenneth.

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Kenneth displayed an act of statemanship there....................that political rivalry should not be exploited to debar anyone from running for public office..................I hope voters will remember him in this display of leaderhip stance.....

The debate was moderated by Mr Linus Kaikai of NTV.

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What about Julie Gichuru of Citizen TV? Was she a bystander.....she had a lot of moderating there, too!

Mr Odinga termed Mr Muite's statement as "very irresponsible".

"I don't fear. I have nothing to hide. I will be very willing to go to The Hague," said Mr Odinga.

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Raila was very defensive there and I keep wondering whether it was uhuru or Amollo who was taken to task.............or both. When the emphasis is on uhuru while Raila was implicated in a very serious way based on ICC own charter./I keep seeing a couple of anti-uhuru bashing..............

Ms Karua said that after the Cabinet approved the Bill on a local tribunal, President Kibaki and Mr Odinga failed to marshal support for it in Parliament.

"They left me with the baby. The two principals failed to come and persuade members to vote for a local tribunal. In their full view there was rebellion even from Cabinet ministers. They did not stand in Parliament and persuade their troops," said Ms Karua.

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Karua failed to parlay this opportunity to showcase her leadership mantle....................grumbling and complaining of being powerless in persuasion is really not promoting one to be a Madam president. What kjarua iowas telling us she has no iota of persuasive power besides depending on others to do her duty..........au kwa kiswahili ni kuwa akiwezeshwa ndipo ataweza...........................I was disgusted to say the least