The 1st 2013 Kenyan Presidential Debate

[Mekatilili]

Six candidates have confirmed they will take part in the country’s first televised discussion

NTV managing editor Linus Kaikai and Julie Gichuru of the Royal Media Services will moderate the debate in the first hour while KTN’s Joe Ageyo and Royal Media’s Uduak Amimo will guide it in the second round.

Google will stream the debate online, while international media outlets CNN and Reuters will also cover the event, officials said on Wednesday.

All is set for the country’s first presidential debate that will be aired live on eight TV and 34 radio stations on Monday next week.

Google will stream the debate online, while international media outlets CNN and Reuters will also cover the event, officials said on Wednesday.

Six presidential aspirants Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, Musalia Mudavadi, Martha Karua, Peter Kenneth and James ole Kiyiapi have confirmed they will attend the debate to be held at the auditorium of the Brookhouse International School in Nairobi.

According to the “Presidential Debate 2013” director of operations Francis Munywoki, the event will start at 7.30pm and will last for two hours during which the candidates will answer questions from moderators.
NTV managing editor Linus Kaikai and Julie Gichuru of the Royal Media Services will moderate the debate in the first hour while KTN’s Joe Ageyo and Royal Media’s Uduak Amimo will guide it in the second round.

After the debate, there will be an analysis by experts who will also delve into the ideas espoused by the candidates and put issues in the perspective.

Mr Munywoki said that during the first round of the debate, issues of governance, social services – health and education, security and resource management would be discussed. In the second round, the deliberations will revolve around the economy, land, devolution and foreign policy.

“At 7.30pm on Monday, each of the candidate will walk into the auditorium one by one. They will then shake hands before the National Anthem is played and then be allowed 30 seconds to introduce themselves,” Mr Munywoki said.

Each candidate has been allocated two minutes to answer a question, including clarifications from the moderator.

The organisers of the event have spent Sh100 million to run the presidential debate.

Mr Munywoki said more than 5,000 questions had been directed to the six candidates through SMS, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter.

Other questions were delivered to the secretariat’s premises at the I&M Building in Nairobi.

Team sets tough rules for presidential debate - CAMPAIGN NEWS - elections.nation.co.ke

THE RIGHT STEP!!

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Feb 11, 2013

THE DEBATE IS NOW ON!


Here is the link for those who missed it!

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[Tumaini Jipya]

Outstanding!!
I'm eagerly looking forward to watching the debate!
These are some of the things that need to be embraced,Presidential Aspirants must be put to some form of test before being even allowed to start Campaining,that way we know clearly where everyone stands on key issues and their deliberation strategies!!


I hope we too in Tanzania shall copy this and do the needful come 2015

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Thank you America for introducing the world to televised presidential debates!:usa2:

 

[BiMkubwa]

cannot wait to watch the debate. in a milluon years will Tanzania especially ccm accept that their presidential candidate to participate in one unless the candidate is magufuli or membe. if it were kikwete; you know the answer to that.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

cannot wait to watch the debate. in a milluon years will Tanzania especially ccm accept that their presidential candidate to participate in one unless the candidate is magufuli or membe. if it were kikwete; you know the answer to that.

Mkapa, Mrema, and Cheyo participated in one in 1995.

 

[bagamoyo]

Je, Mdahalo huu utakuwa kwa manufaa ya wananchi wa kawaida wa Kenya waelewe wagombea urais wanataka kuifanyia Kenya nini ili wafanye uamuzi wa busara yupi wampe kura au mdahalo (debate)ni maalum kuwaridhisha wafadhili wa nchi za Magharibi (Google, CNN, Reuters etc)?

Je wagombea wataweza kujieleza vizuri kwa Kiswahili ili wananchi walio wengi waelewe mipango, sera na ahadi za wagombea urais au wagombea watafanya mdahalo kwa lugha ya Kiingereza kwa ajili ya elite class ya Kenya ambao ni wachache?

Nashauri NTV managing editor Linus Kaikai na Julie Gichuru wa the Royal Media Services wafanye safari ya haraka kuja Tanzania tuwapatie uzoefu tulionao wa midahalo (debate) toka mwaka 1995 ili umma wa Kenya unufaike na zoezi hilo muhimu.

 

[Dhuks]

Je, Mdahalo huu utakuwa kwa manufaa ya wananchi wa kawaida wa Kenya waelewe wagombea urais wanataka kuifanyia Kenya nini ili wafanye uamuzi wa busara yupi wampe kura au mdahalo (debate)ni maalum kuwaridhisha wafadhili wa nchi za Magharibi (Google, CNN, Reuters etc)?

Je wagombea wataweza kujieleza vizuri kwa Kiswahili ili wananchi walio wengi waelewe mipango, sera na ahadi za wagombea urais au wagombea watafanya mdahalo kwa lugha ya Kiingereza kwa ajili ya elite class ya Kenya ambao ni wachache?

Nashauri NTV managing editor Linus Kaikai na Julie Gichuru wa the Royal Media Services wafanye safari ya haraka kuja Tanzania tuwapatie uzoefu tulionao wa midahalo (debate) toka mwaka 1995 ili umma wa Kenya unufaike na zoezi hilo muhimu.

Kenya kiswahili chetu kina kiingereza pia, kiingereza chetu(ama ni kizungu?)kina kiswahili pia kwa hivyo kila atakayezichanganya hizi lugha mbili tutamwelewa:A S 11:

 

[Money Stunna]

can't wait

 

[Ndinani]

Mkapa, Mrema, and Cheyo participated in one in 1995.

"Bwana maendeleo" alikacha MDAHALO mwaka 2005 kwasababu ya UTUPU wake !! This time around hawa Magamba hawana pa kutokea; mtu wao lazima atokee kwenya MDAHALO!

 

[mfianchi]

Je, Mdahalo huu utakuwa kwa manufaa ya wananchi wa kawaida wa Kenya waelewe wagombea urais wanataka kuifanyia Kenya nini ili wafanye uamuzi wa busara yupi wampe kura au mdahalo (debate)ni maalum kuwaridhisha wafadhili wa nchi za Magharibi (Google, CNN, Reuters etc)?

Je wagombea wataweza kujieleza vizuri kwa Kiswahili ili wananchi walio wengi waelewe mipango, sera na ahadi za wagombea urais au wagombea watafanya mdahalo kwa lugha ya Kiingereza kwa ajili ya elite class ya Kenya ambao ni wachache?

Nashauri NTV managing editor Linus Kaikai na Julie Gichuru wa the Royal Media Services wafanye safari ya haraka kuja Tanzania tuwapatie uzoefu tulionao wa midahalo (debate) toka mwaka 1995 ili umma wa Kenya unufaike na zoezi hilo muhimu.

Makamba alizuia mijadala ya wabunge,aliwazuia wabunge wa chama chake cha Magamba wakati Tido Mhando alipokuwa TBC,viongozi wa kitanzania ni al majununi makubwa yanapokuja mambo muhimu ya kisiasa.Huyo dada kwenye red namkubali sana,pia kuna mwingine kutoka RMS anaitwa Hassan ni kijana mahiri sana katika kuongoza mijadala

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

How the presidential debate will be conducted

Brookhouse International School's auditorium in Karen, Nairobi, where the debate will
be held. [PHOTO: MBUGUA KIBERA/STANDARD]

By Abdikadir Sugow

Nairobi,KENYA: History will be made on Monday when six of the eight presidential candidates spar in Kenya's first-ever election debate.

Up to 44 million people are expected to follow the much-anticipated debate live on TV, radio and online, making it the biggest media event in Kenya's history.

The debate, an initiative of the Kenyan media, will be beamed live from the Brookhouse International School's auditorium in Karen, Nairobi from 7pm. The second debate will be on February 25 at the same venue.

The Sh100 million event will showcase the presidential candidates' policies on the issues that affect them, hopefully enabling voters to make better choices.
And the presidential candidates are not taking the debate lightly.

With all confirming attendance for the showdown, CORD candidate Raila Odinga has booked his rehearsal today in the same venue with Mudavadi, Kenneth and Karua expected to rehearse their lines tomorrow.

The organisers said Google would stream the debate online, while international media outlets CNN and Reuters will also cover the event.Local media will stream the debate live on eight television and 34 radio stations.

The candidates include Raila Odinga, CORD presidential flag-bearer, Martha Karua (Narc-Kenya), Peter Kenneth (Eagle Coalition), Musalia Mudavadi (Amani coalition), Uhuru Kenyatta (Jubilee) and Prof James ole Kiyiapi (Restore and Rebuild Kenya).

Time-barred

Safina's Paul Muite and Mohammed Abduba Dida of Alliance of Real Change party were time-barred because they were not in the picture when the organising committee began preparing the exercise.

Contacted, Muite said: "Since the organisers have excluded me from participating in the debate, it is inappropriate for me to make any comments. I don't want anyone to think it is a case of sour grapes".

Dida said it was unfair to exclude him, saying organisers should have waited for all candidates to be cleared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

"They should not be undemocratic to decide for Kenyans who will be in the debate. They should have waited for the legal process where IEBC officially clears candidates," he said.

The ‘Presidential Debate 2013' director of operations Francis Munywoki said the event would last two hours, with the candidates fielding questions from two moderators - NTV's Linus Kaikai and Julie Gichuru of Citizen TV.

Munywoki said during the first round of the debate, issues of governance, social services (health and education), security and resource management would be discussed. After the discussion, there will be an expert analysis on the thematic issues discussed.

Various experts will delve into the viability of the ideas projected by the candidates and put issues in perspective.

During the second debate, deliberations will revolve around the economy, land, devolution and foreign policy. KTN's Joe Ageyo and Citizen TV's Uduak Amimo will moderate this round.

"At 7pm on Monday, each of the candidates will walk into the auditorium one by one. They will shake hands before the National Anthem is played and they will then be allowed thirty seconds to introduce themselves," said Munywoki.

Each candidate has been allocated two minutes to answer a question, including clarifications from the moderator.

"The moderator can probe a candidate's response further for 30 seconds, and an additional 30 seconds to one minute will be allowed for rebuttal," he added.

In designing the time slots, Munywoki, who is also the Director of Value & Innovation at the Standard Group, said the panel studied patterns in other countries that have conducted similar debates.

The presidential debates of the US were of keen interest to the team led by Royal Media Services Chief Executive Officer Wachira Waruru.

Others in the steering committee are Linus Gitahi (Nation Media Group), Sam Shollei (Standard Group), Paul Wanyagah (Media Max), Patrick Quarcko (Radio Africa), Julius Lamaon (Kass TV) and Waithaka Waihenya (KBC).

Questions

The team has compiled more than 5,000 questions directed to the six candidates through SMS, email, Facebook, Twitter and others delivered to Standard Group offices in Nairobi.

The secretariat has a research wing made up of veteran journalists and subject experts who have tightened the questions that the candidates will answer.

"This will be an opportunity for the candidates to engage the audience and show what really differentiates them from their competitors," Munywoki explains.

He adds: "This way, we want to use of the media to help the electorate make more informed decisions during the elections and at the same time, create peace."

A guest list of 200 has been drawn up representing all sectors. According to the rules, there will be no clapping, cheering or jeering during the debates.

Political materials including banners, signs, literature, party-branded clothing among others will also not be allowed into the auditorium.

Time limits on responses will also be strictly observed.

There will be visible timing mechanism and moderator intervention when a candidate exceeds his or her time.

Standard Digital News - Kenya : How the presidential debate will be conducted

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

 

[mfianchi]

Kuongea sio kutenda na mara nyingi wale wenye maneno matamu kama kasuku si watendaji,wanabaki kujisifia tu,je kama kumukomboa mkenya wamefanya nini,wamepambana kivipi

 

[bagamoyo]

Published on 10 Feb 2013http://www.ntv.co.ke
The first ever presidential live debate in Kenya will be held on Monday. Pitting six candidates against each other, this will be the beginning of a series of debates organised jointly by all media houses in Kenya. Six presidential candidates have confirmed participation. A second debate will be held less than 10 days before the election.A third one will be organised if none of the eight presidential candidates wins the election in the first round. NTV's Ken Mijungu was at Brookehouse School, the venue of the debate to witness the final touches.

Presidential debate: Six presidential candidates confirm participation


source: ntvkenya youtube

 

[Sangarara]

Thank you America for introducing the world to televised presidential debates!:usa2:

Dude. Are you an american?

 

[Bangoo]

Ni mdahalo wa wagombea urais nchini kenya ni leo. Utaonyeshwa live na kituo cha tv cha chanel ten leo saa 1 kamili usiku.
Ifike mahali hata hapa kwetu kuwe na mdahalo wa wagombea uraisi, kwa nini hapa kwetu inashindikana kuweka mdahalo?

 

[Tuko]

CCM waliogopa...

 

[Bangoo]

CCM waliogopa...

Tunapaswa kuiga ili na sisi tuwe na mdahalo wa wagombea

 

[bht]

nina shauku sana na huu mdahalo...

 

[Mutakyamirwa]

nina shauku sana na huu mdahalo...

Mdaharo ni njia sahihi ya kupima uwezo wa rais. Tusipo iga utratibu huu tutapeleka kichaa ikulu nda si mlefu.