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The Banana Republic Is Upside Down, politics
By Adongo Ogony
PART I
Things are getting a little too hot across the land over the much-despised Wako Constitution and I think we need to calm down and get a few things straight.
Number one. Our country will be well and alive on November 22, the day after the referendum vote, unless of course Kibaki refuses to accept defeat like they did after the Bomas delegates finished their work on March 15, 2004.
There is no need for alarm about tearing the country apart and all that nonsense. Kibaki will suffer the most humiliating defeat in his lifetime on November 21, 2005 just like Moi did on Dec 27, 2002. His only responsibility will be to accept that defeat gracefully and move on. It is not the end of the world. Kibaki is a rich man and has been in politics for close to half a century. I think it is time for Mzee to chill and enjoy himself in Muthaiga.
Two things, which are just plain nasty, happened in the last couple of days. The most ominous one is the attempt by Kibaki and his “Yes” team to manipulate the PCs and DCs and turn them into an election and possibly a rigging machine. The Office of the President has no business summoning all the DCs and PCs to Nairobi to meet the president over matters related to the constitution. It is not Kibaki’s job to make assurances to anybody on what will happen to them after the referendum. That will be determined by whatever constitution we have at that time.
The idea that Kibaki will create jobs for so and so after his preferred constitution is passed makes some of us even more scared about this new constitution they want. I know the Wako Draft gives immense and excessive powers to the president, but I didn’t know it actually allows Kibaki to just create positions and give jobs to so and so. Besides the PCs and DCs are not supposed to meddle in politics. Why is the Yes team dragging these people around to promise them jobs and threatening others with sacking like Mwariria did the other day? Leave the PCs and DCs alone and let them vote like any other Kenyan. In fact if the PCs and DCs were to vote solely on which constitution assures them of their jobs they would rather support the old constitution rather than gamble with an MOU with Kibaki. We all know where that usually ends up. In the dustbin at State House
The other nasty stuff is the ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuiti trying to issue a timetable for the constitutional campaigns. That is not his job. He is right to demand that we have in place basic guidelines like we have in General Elections where individuals can be disqualified for election offenses, but he has no business telling people when to campaign. Parliament never bothered to establish the rules for guiding a referendum. They were too busy celebrating the victory for those who wanted to kill the Bomas Draft. Now as Kenyans we have to police the entire system and I trust Kenyans will do that. We should remember what Kamotho told Moi and Uhuru before the 2002 General Elections when he quipped, “Even rigging has limits”. The kind of defeat Kibaki and his crew is facing is the type you just don’t rig your way out off. It is called a thorough whipping and that they must take. They have been begging for it since we put them in office.
I think we should categorically dismiss the growing calls to postpone the referendum ati because there is tribal tension in the country. Where is the tribal tension? I wouldn’t condone incidents like the Garissa Fiasco when apparently the entire town just refused to put up with the Yes folks. But the whole incident has nothing to do with tribalism. In fact some of the victims of the revolt by the populace were local MP’s. The people of Garissa should have given the Yes team a chance to address whatever concerns they had. It is the job of the law enforcement officers to ensure law and order. At any rate the No team has been holding massive rallies with hundreds of thousands of supporters and so far not a single incident of violence. Postponing the referendum would just postpone the problems we have to deal with over this constitution. It is time for Wanjiku to speak at the ballot box and Kivuiti should stop threatening Kenyans with his alleged powers to cancel the referendum.
What I find intriguing is that the Yes team is whining all the time about “provocations” and “abuse” from the No team and yet the entire team turned the sparsely attended rally in Kajiado as a Raila bashing contest. Tell the people what is good with the Wako constitution and stop the ridiculous paranoia and obsession with one person. The problems facing the Yes crew are way bigger than Raila Odinga. I’ll come to that shortly.
One thing I know is that the Yes team are going to go bananas when they realize the magnitude of defeat they are facing. Some of them are still in denial but reality is staring them in the face. In fact I have a sneaky feeling that Kiraitu and his team in the Kibaki camp are probably holding private prayers hoping that the LDP/Kanu team could revive that constitutional case to block the referendum. Why do I say this, after all Kiraitu and crew have argued vigorously to have the case thrown out and let Kenyans go to the referendum? Well that was three weeks ago and this is now. In politics three weeks can be a very long time.
One more thing before I forget. Yes a good number of the CKRC Commissioners are in the pockets of Kiraitu Murungi and company. Yes Abdi Ali-Aroni, the CKRC Chairperson is a complete national disgrace for being a traitor to Wanjiku whose views she collected and now hides in a locker somewhere while peddling a constitution that has nothing to do with the views Kenyans gave the CKRC Commissioners. But lets not forget that there are a few very principled CKRC Commissioners who have stood firm and remained loyal to Wanjiku and not the moneybags. In fact Mutakha Kangu one of the commissioners driven out of Kenyatta Sports Ground in Kisumu has been one of the most outstanding commissioners who has stood very firm in support of Wanjiku. I am sure he understands why people are pissed off with them but we can do better.
I know I personally warned Abdi-Ali Aroni in my last article (Kenya Times Sept, 8, 2005) that her team will face the wrath of Kenyans if they are perceived to be biased. Now she knows what we were talking about. Still I want to urge my fellow Kenyans to give the CKRC a chance. We should challenge them and ask them questions about what happened to the views, opinions and all the ideas we gave them, but please don’t chase them out of town. You are scaring the crap out of these folks who are used to driving their SUVs, giving lectures and seminars in hotels and resorts with flip charts and power points. Lets ask them who told them Kenyans want a presidential monarchy and some crazy thing called religious courts.
Talking about lectures and seminars. I find it amusing that some Yes campaigners are whining endlessly that the NO rallies are not educational and are mere meeting points for rhetoric. Get a grip people. Political rallies are not your little seminars in resorts at the coast where you spend half the time sleep going through heaps of paper. Political rallies involve theatre and drama. Anybody who thinks the NO campaigners are gong to organize rallies to bore people to death with the pros and cons of this and that article in the Draft is in the wrong business.
The truth is that the Yes campaign has started disastrously and the No team is beginning to look like a locomotive train gathering steam even before they reach the downhill stretch. Kenya politicians like to use the word “unstoppable” and this time they may have a point.
First the Yes campaign. If ever a referendum could be won on the basis of press conferences the Yes campaign would be coasting to a sure victory. Between Tuju, Kiraitu. Moody Awori, Michuku, Kivutha Kibwana. Mirugi Kariuki na mwengineo, the Yes campaigners have held more than twenty press conferences in the last week alone. Most of these press conferences are held in the relative safety of Parliament Building or in the hotels where obliging journalists gobble the junk from the Waheshimiwa throwing insults and threats and sometimes looking absolutely ridiculous carrying bunches of bananas.
By the way who bribed Kivuiti the ECK Commissioner to give this horrible symbol to Kibaki and his team. Raila the master of wining slogans didn’t take time coining the lasting image for the Yes team when replying to a journalist soon after the symbols were unveiled. Raila chuckled that Kenyans now have the opportunity to decide if they want to live in Banana Republic or not. It stuck and just like “Kibaki Tosha” the rest is history.
Anyhow, between the press conferences, the Yes team is frequently locked up in strategy meetings with Muthaura the Secretary to the Cabinet taking notes. I think the biggest strategy meeting Kiraitu and his crew is going to hold will be on November 22 after a bruising defeat is handed to them by Kenyans who can’t wait to let Kibaki know they are sick of the nonsense from his government.
What really is the problem with the Yes team? Lets begin with the obvious. They are selling rotten bananas to Kenyans and nobody is buying, but there is more to it than that.
This Yes team is structured around the president. Mzee Kibaki is their be all and end all. He is the horse they must ride to victory. The assumption they made which is turning into a nightmare is that Kenyans are still in awe of Mtukufu Rais. This is not surprising. Kibaki and the chauvinists who surround him have been mesmerized with the presidency from the very day Kibaki was sworn into office. They still live in the myopic world where the President’s word is law. May be that is why their constitution proposes a hopeless presidential monarchy in the land. These guys never understood the transformation of the Kenyan political landscape in the 2002 General elections. Kenyans freed themselves and changed the country forever when they threw out the Moi regime at the ballot box. Apparently nobody told Kibaki and the likes of Kiraitu what that means. Welcome to the brave new Kenya boys, sharpen your pencils and sit straight. Time to take some notes from the wananchi.
Yes there is huge advantage and awesome powers of presidential incumbency in Kenya. Kibaki carries with him the prestige of his office, but anybody who thinks that is going to translate into votes come November 21 is sleeping in the wrong bed.
In fact since the campaign started it is impossible to distinguish which functions the president attends in his official capacity as the president of the Republic of Kenya and which ones he attends in his personal capacity as the DP leader and a champion for the Yes Vote in the referendum. Lets look at the two “major” rallies the president has attended to “launch” the Yes campaign.
The first rally which was supposed to be the official launching of the Yes campaign was in Mwingi in Ukambani. This one started with controversy with the allegation that Francis Muthaura the head of the “Kibaki think tank”, had sent a warning letter to Kalonzo Musyoka to decamp from the No team or be fired. This was reminiscent of the days when Moi used to pass through Ukumbani ordering the same Kalonzo to quit the then Rainbow Coalition and rejoin Kanu immediately. Funny how the more things change the more they remain the same. Well Kalonzo would call the media immediately after such threats from Moi and basically tell him to get lost. Which he did, but that is for later.
Now the Mwingi rally had all the trappings of an official presidential visit. The PCs, the DCs down to the chiefs were all there to receive their boss. Politicians from across the divide were there and to his credit Kibaki did not dwell much on the Yes campaign. He made his pitch and promised all and sundry that the Provincial Administration will not be abolished by the new constitution. This of course was a blunder since the Draft is clear on the fate of the Provincial Administration, but what the heck the Kibaki team needs the PCs DCs DOs and the Chiefs and if that means a new MOU with the same about assurances for their jobs, who cares what the Draft Constitution actually says. The trouble is Kibaki had premised his campaign on challenging Kenyans to read the constitution and not to listen to “lies” from politicians. Now it appeared the Mzee himself either hadn’t read the constitution or he is reading a wrong one. The Mwingi rally turned out to be low key and the fury of Yes campaign shaking every corner of the land looked more than like a little whimper. I think that explains why the Yes team is still talking of “launching” their campaign. How many times do you launch the same d**n campaign?
Then came the Mbooni rally. This was Kibaki’s second Yes campaign rally in Ukambani in less than a week. The president still used the trappings of his office in this rally, which was clearly a Yes campaign event and not a presidential tour. The tragedy of this rally is that the cabinet ministers including Martha Karua and Mwangi Kiunjuri and local Mps who rose to campaign for the Yes vote were booed and heckled right in front of the president. A stunned Joseph Munyao the MP for the area could not even bring himself to utter the word constitution and talked about a few irrelevancies before inviting the president to address the crowd. Kibaki took the hint from Munyao, one of his close confidants and simply told the wananchi to read the constitution and vote whichever way they wanted.
This rally is important for two reasons. One is the obvious hostility Kenyans have for this Yes Vote. Kenyans know what is in the constitution Kibaki wants them to endorse and they don’t like it. Secondly Kenyans are letting the leaders know that the politics of intimidation is over. Like I said before nobody is scared of the president and the poor MPs and cabinet ministers who thought they could hide behind Kibaki to rob Wanjiku are learning that the hard way.
Ironically this looks like what happened with Moi when he tried to impose Uhuru Kenyatta as the Kanu presidential candidate. That time, the fall out with the wananchi started in Kakamega, when ordinary folks booed leaders who accompanied Moi in a tour of the area as Moi headed to Kisumu.
Moi was shocked with the booing but bravely proceeded to Kisumu where Raila pleaded with the wananchi with a lot of difficulty not to embarrass the president. Moi was spared in Kisumu but the writing was clearly on the wall. Nobody was terrified of His Majesty anymore. They were ready to treat them with respect and accord them some civility but they were not putting up with the arrogance of power that made these people feel like they owned the people of Kenya.
The other piece the Kibaki monarchists did not factor into their strategy is that Kibaki has not been that much of a success in the campaign trail. He was thrashed by Moi both in 1992 and 1997 presidential elections. In 2002, the nasty accident he suffered spared him the rigours of chucking it out block-by-block, village-by-village and battling with Moi and Uhuru head to head. That task fell on Raila and people like Moody Awori and Kalonzo Musyoka. Kibaki came back to enjoy the historic victory and stunned Kenyans when he quickly turned his back on the people who worked so hard to get him elected and instead surrounded himself with ethnic chauvinists most of whom had no constituency outside there own villages. When Kibaki killed the Narc Summit he was under the illusion that he was now bigger than life itself and that is the mentality that is supposed to drive the Yes campaign. Unfortunately for them i
By Adongo Ogony
PART I
Things are getting a little too hot across the land over the much-despised Wako Constitution and I think we need to calm down and get a few things straight.
Number one. Our country will be well and alive on November 22, the day after the referendum vote, unless of course Kibaki refuses to accept defeat like they did after the Bomas delegates finished their work on March 15, 2004.
There is no need for alarm about tearing the country apart and all that nonsense. Kibaki will suffer the most humiliating defeat in his lifetime on November 21, 2005 just like Moi did on Dec 27, 2002. His only responsibility will be to accept that defeat gracefully and move on. It is not the end of the world. Kibaki is a rich man and has been in politics for close to half a century. I think it is time for Mzee to chill and enjoy himself in Muthaiga.
Two things, which are just plain nasty, happened in the last couple of days. The most ominous one is the attempt by Kibaki and his “Yes” team to manipulate the PCs and DCs and turn them into an election and possibly a rigging machine. The Office of the President has no business summoning all the DCs and PCs to Nairobi to meet the president over matters related to the constitution. It is not Kibaki’s job to make assurances to anybody on what will happen to them after the referendum. That will be determined by whatever constitution we have at that time.
The idea that Kibaki will create jobs for so and so after his preferred constitution is passed makes some of us even more scared about this new constitution they want. I know the Wako Draft gives immense and excessive powers to the president, but I didn’t know it actually allows Kibaki to just create positions and give jobs to so and so. Besides the PCs and DCs are not supposed to meddle in politics. Why is the Yes team dragging these people around to promise them jobs and threatening others with sacking like Mwariria did the other day? Leave the PCs and DCs alone and let them vote like any other Kenyan. In fact if the PCs and DCs were to vote solely on which constitution assures them of their jobs they would rather support the old constitution rather than gamble with an MOU with Kibaki. We all know where that usually ends up. In the dustbin at State House
The other nasty stuff is the ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuiti trying to issue a timetable for the constitutional campaigns. That is not his job. He is right to demand that we have in place basic guidelines like we have in General Elections where individuals can be disqualified for election offenses, but he has no business telling people when to campaign. Parliament never bothered to establish the rules for guiding a referendum. They were too busy celebrating the victory for those who wanted to kill the Bomas Draft. Now as Kenyans we have to police the entire system and I trust Kenyans will do that. We should remember what Kamotho told Moi and Uhuru before the 2002 General Elections when he quipped, “Even rigging has limits”. The kind of defeat Kibaki and his crew is facing is the type you just don’t rig your way out off. It is called a thorough whipping and that they must take. They have been begging for it since we put them in office.
I think we should categorically dismiss the growing calls to postpone the referendum ati because there is tribal tension in the country. Where is the tribal tension? I wouldn’t condone incidents like the Garissa Fiasco when apparently the entire town just refused to put up with the Yes folks. But the whole incident has nothing to do with tribalism. In fact some of the victims of the revolt by the populace were local MP’s. The people of Garissa should have given the Yes team a chance to address whatever concerns they had. It is the job of the law enforcement officers to ensure law and order. At any rate the No team has been holding massive rallies with hundreds of thousands of supporters and so far not a single incident of violence. Postponing the referendum would just postpone the problems we have to deal with over this constitution. It is time for Wanjiku to speak at the ballot box and Kivuiti should stop threatening Kenyans with his alleged powers to cancel the referendum.
What I find intriguing is that the Yes team is whining all the time about “provocations” and “abuse” from the No team and yet the entire team turned the sparsely attended rally in Kajiado as a Raila bashing contest. Tell the people what is good with the Wako constitution and stop the ridiculous paranoia and obsession with one person. The problems facing the Yes crew are way bigger than Raila Odinga. I’ll come to that shortly.
One thing I know is that the Yes team are going to go bananas when they realize the magnitude of defeat they are facing. Some of them are still in denial but reality is staring them in the face. In fact I have a sneaky feeling that Kiraitu and his team in the Kibaki camp are probably holding private prayers hoping that the LDP/Kanu team could revive that constitutional case to block the referendum. Why do I say this, after all Kiraitu and crew have argued vigorously to have the case thrown out and let Kenyans go to the referendum? Well that was three weeks ago and this is now. In politics three weeks can be a very long time.
One more thing before I forget. Yes a good number of the CKRC Commissioners are in the pockets of Kiraitu Murungi and company. Yes Abdi Ali-Aroni, the CKRC Chairperson is a complete national disgrace for being a traitor to Wanjiku whose views she collected and now hides in a locker somewhere while peddling a constitution that has nothing to do with the views Kenyans gave the CKRC Commissioners. But lets not forget that there are a few very principled CKRC Commissioners who have stood firm and remained loyal to Wanjiku and not the moneybags. In fact Mutakha Kangu one of the commissioners driven out of Kenyatta Sports Ground in Kisumu has been one of the most outstanding commissioners who has stood very firm in support of Wanjiku. I am sure he understands why people are pissed off with them but we can do better.
I know I personally warned Abdi-Ali Aroni in my last article (Kenya Times Sept, 8, 2005) that her team will face the wrath of Kenyans if they are perceived to be biased. Now she knows what we were talking about. Still I want to urge my fellow Kenyans to give the CKRC a chance. We should challenge them and ask them questions about what happened to the views, opinions and all the ideas we gave them, but please don’t chase them out of town. You are scaring the crap out of these folks who are used to driving their SUVs, giving lectures and seminars in hotels and resorts with flip charts and power points. Lets ask them who told them Kenyans want a presidential monarchy and some crazy thing called religious courts.
Talking about lectures and seminars. I find it amusing that some Yes campaigners are whining endlessly that the NO rallies are not educational and are mere meeting points for rhetoric. Get a grip people. Political rallies are not your little seminars in resorts at the coast where you spend half the time sleep going through heaps of paper. Political rallies involve theatre and drama. Anybody who thinks the NO campaigners are gong to organize rallies to bore people to death with the pros and cons of this and that article in the Draft is in the wrong business.
The truth is that the Yes campaign has started disastrously and the No team is beginning to look like a locomotive train gathering steam even before they reach the downhill stretch. Kenya politicians like to use the word “unstoppable” and this time they may have a point.
First the Yes campaign. If ever a referendum could be won on the basis of press conferences the Yes campaign would be coasting to a sure victory. Between Tuju, Kiraitu. Moody Awori, Michuku, Kivutha Kibwana. Mirugi Kariuki na mwengineo, the Yes campaigners have held more than twenty press conferences in the last week alone. Most of these press conferences are held in the relative safety of Parliament Building or in the hotels where obliging journalists gobble the junk from the Waheshimiwa throwing insults and threats and sometimes looking absolutely ridiculous carrying bunches of bananas.
By the way who bribed Kivuiti the ECK Commissioner to give this horrible symbol to Kibaki and his team. Raila the master of wining slogans didn’t take time coining the lasting image for the Yes team when replying to a journalist soon after the symbols were unveiled. Raila chuckled that Kenyans now have the opportunity to decide if they want to live in Banana Republic or not. It stuck and just like “Kibaki Tosha” the rest is history.
Anyhow, between the press conferences, the Yes team is frequently locked up in strategy meetings with Muthaura the Secretary to the Cabinet taking notes. I think the biggest strategy meeting Kiraitu and his crew is going to hold will be on November 22 after a bruising defeat is handed to them by Kenyans who can’t wait to let Kibaki know they are sick of the nonsense from his government.
What really is the problem with the Yes team? Lets begin with the obvious. They are selling rotten bananas to Kenyans and nobody is buying, but there is more to it than that.
This Yes team is structured around the president. Mzee Kibaki is their be all and end all. He is the horse they must ride to victory. The assumption they made which is turning into a nightmare is that Kenyans are still in awe of Mtukufu Rais. This is not surprising. Kibaki and the chauvinists who surround him have been mesmerized with the presidency from the very day Kibaki was sworn into office. They still live in the myopic world where the President’s word is law. May be that is why their constitution proposes a hopeless presidential monarchy in the land. These guys never understood the transformation of the Kenyan political landscape in the 2002 General elections. Kenyans freed themselves and changed the country forever when they threw out the Moi regime at the ballot box. Apparently nobody told Kibaki and the likes of Kiraitu what that means. Welcome to the brave new Kenya boys, sharpen your pencils and sit straight. Time to take some notes from the wananchi.
Yes there is huge advantage and awesome powers of presidential incumbency in Kenya. Kibaki carries with him the prestige of his office, but anybody who thinks that is going to translate into votes come November 21 is sleeping in the wrong bed.
In fact since the campaign started it is impossible to distinguish which functions the president attends in his official capacity as the president of the Republic of Kenya and which ones he attends in his personal capacity as the DP leader and a champion for the Yes Vote in the referendum. Lets look at the two “major” rallies the president has attended to “launch” the Yes campaign.
The first rally which was supposed to be the official launching of the Yes campaign was in Mwingi in Ukambani. This one started with controversy with the allegation that Francis Muthaura the head of the “Kibaki think tank”, had sent a warning letter to Kalonzo Musyoka to decamp from the No team or be fired. This was reminiscent of the days when Moi used to pass through Ukumbani ordering the same Kalonzo to quit the then Rainbow Coalition and rejoin Kanu immediately. Funny how the more things change the more they remain the same. Well Kalonzo would call the media immediately after such threats from Moi and basically tell him to get lost. Which he did, but that is for later.
Now the Mwingi rally had all the trappings of an official presidential visit. The PCs, the DCs down to the chiefs were all there to receive their boss. Politicians from across the divide were there and to his credit Kibaki did not dwell much on the Yes campaign. He made his pitch and promised all and sundry that the Provincial Administration will not be abolished by the new constitution. This of course was a blunder since the Draft is clear on the fate of the Provincial Administration, but what the heck the Kibaki team needs the PCs DCs DOs and the Chiefs and if that means a new MOU with the same about assurances for their jobs, who cares what the Draft Constitution actually says. The trouble is Kibaki had premised his campaign on challenging Kenyans to read the constitution and not to listen to “lies” from politicians. Now it appeared the Mzee himself either hadn’t read the constitution or he is reading a wrong one. The Mwingi rally turned out to be low key and the fury of Yes campaign shaking every corner of the land looked more than like a little whimper. I think that explains why the Yes team is still talking of “launching” their campaign. How many times do you launch the same d**n campaign?
Then came the Mbooni rally. This was Kibaki’s second Yes campaign rally in Ukambani in less than a week. The president still used the trappings of his office in this rally, which was clearly a Yes campaign event and not a presidential tour. The tragedy of this rally is that the cabinet ministers including Martha Karua and Mwangi Kiunjuri and local Mps who rose to campaign for the Yes vote were booed and heckled right in front of the president. A stunned Joseph Munyao the MP for the area could not even bring himself to utter the word constitution and talked about a few irrelevancies before inviting the president to address the crowd. Kibaki took the hint from Munyao, one of his close confidants and simply told the wananchi to read the constitution and vote whichever way they wanted.
This rally is important for two reasons. One is the obvious hostility Kenyans have for this Yes Vote. Kenyans know what is in the constitution Kibaki wants them to endorse and they don’t like it. Secondly Kenyans are letting the leaders know that the politics of intimidation is over. Like I said before nobody is scared of the president and the poor MPs and cabinet ministers who thought they could hide behind Kibaki to rob Wanjiku are learning that the hard way.
Ironically this looks like what happened with Moi when he tried to impose Uhuru Kenyatta as the Kanu presidential candidate. That time, the fall out with the wananchi started in Kakamega, when ordinary folks booed leaders who accompanied Moi in a tour of the area as Moi headed to Kisumu.
Moi was shocked with the booing but bravely proceeded to Kisumu where Raila pleaded with the wananchi with a lot of difficulty not to embarrass the president. Moi was spared in Kisumu but the writing was clearly on the wall. Nobody was terrified of His Majesty anymore. They were ready to treat them with respect and accord them some civility but they were not putting up with the arrogance of power that made these people feel like they owned the people of Kenya.
The other piece the Kibaki monarchists did not factor into their strategy is that Kibaki has not been that much of a success in the campaign trail. He was thrashed by Moi both in 1992 and 1997 presidential elections. In 2002, the nasty accident he suffered spared him the rigours of chucking it out block-by-block, village-by-village and battling with Moi and Uhuru head to head. That task fell on Raila and people like Moody Awori and Kalonzo Musyoka. Kibaki came back to enjoy the historic victory and stunned Kenyans when he quickly turned his back on the people who worked so hard to get him elected and instead surrounded himself with ethnic chauvinists most of whom had no constituency outside there own villages. When Kibaki killed the Narc Summit he was under the illusion that he was now bigger than life itself and that is the mentality that is supposed to drive the Yes campaign. Unfortunately for them i