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Press Release
The roadmap to snap general elections in Kenya
Kenya Scandinivia Democratic Movement (Kesdemo)
December 18, 2005
For the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), there are two possibilities in the post referendum situation. Either, ODM will complete the mission of overthrowing President Mwai Kibai by pushing for snap elections or the Movement’s leaders will freeze to await for 2007 elections as they keep the Kibaki dictatorship on toes with populist politics. KESDEMO has and will continue to encourage ODM to go for mass mobilizations for snap elections on grounds that the Movement should not negotiate, compromise or fear a weak enemy that has already been floored at the referendum. For ODM to force snap elections, the road map to that destination will have to include Unity within ODM, a draft document of the main Aims and Objectives that will drive the Movement, a clear schedule of political rallies, preparation of the Kenyan masses for attacks against political rallies by the Kibaki dictatorship and a clear campaign plan that will lead to a power take over.
ODM must unite (Unity is strength!)
The Government has lost the referendum, a disastrous loss that is equal to a vote of no confidence in the government by the people of Kenya. At the political level, why should ODM negotiate, listen to or even compromise with losers? It has never happened anywhere in the world and it should not happen in Kenya. When imperialist America defeated (through its terror wars) Manuel Noriega of Panama, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Slobodan Milocevic of former Yugoslavia and others, they did not negotiate anything but moved to capture these dictators before caging them.
If ODM fails to operate as a united front, the Movement will fail because its members will be bought, manipulated, humiliated, threatened and recruited into government like other traitors eg Musikari Kombo, Chairman of Ford-Kenya, Charity Ngilu etc.
Kibaki is not Saddam Hussein but he has been defeated and millions of Kenyans who participated in this massive defeat will not understand why ODM cannot complete the mission of removing Kibaki from power through snap elections. If ODM wants to clear the “Kibaki menace”, the Movement’s leaders should stop opposing demands for snap elections. If the Movement intends to use the card of “a vote of no confidence in Parliament” to defeat the government, it will lose because opportunists, apologists, traitors and reactionaries in the Movement will be bought (money will change hands).
Another issue is that any strategy for snap elections should include a clear document outlining the Aims and Objectives of ODM which should include demands for snap elections, delivery of the Bomas draft of the Constitution (Wanjiku's choice), the overthrow of the Kibaki dictatorship and the arrest of criminals who have perpetrated political, economic and human rights crimes against Kenyans from Kenyatta, Moi to Kibaki dictatorship. This should include the bringing to justice of Tax evaders and other looters.
Call for mass rallies and expected attacks from government
ODM should announce dates (itinerary) for mass rallies across Kenya immediately to put government on alert. The Movement should not wait for Christmas to pass before calling rallies because Christmas is for the rich. Millions of Kenyans have nothing to eat each day that passes and as such Christmas has become meaningless to the poor, sick and oppressed masses in Kenya.
As we have said again and again, we repeat that Kibaki’s government will respond to any mass mobilization initiative by announcing that ODM rallies are illegal and treasonable. The government will warn people not to attend the rallies and urge Kenyans to ignore them. In fact, the government will do everything to try and make sure that ODM rallies fail to take place.
They will send riot police and other security forces to surround rally venues but ODM should counter these moves by mobilizing and advising supporters to break police lines in well coordinated operations. Since there is no army that can defeat a determined people yearning to free themselves from the yokes of dictatorship and Neo-colonialism, ODM should not be afraid or waver on the question of mass rallies across the country to topple an anti-people and stiff-necked regime that has failed Kenyans and killed the aspirations of millions of people.
ODM should fight orders banning political rallies on grounds that banning rallies, abrogating freedom of Assembly and limiting freedom of speech in today's Kenya is tantamount to returning our country to the dark days of authoritarian one party dictatorship that Kenyans had already struggled against and defeated under former Dictator Daniel arap Moi.
KESDEMO’s view is that Government will use the mass media, traitors in the churches and other propaganda outlets to continue demonizing ODM leaders with disinformation campaigns that are already underway in the country. The Government will intensify the strategy of pitting tribe against tribe to try to distract people's attention from the real issue of snap elections.
ODM should counter this government propaganda using any media or information outlet that can reach people all over Kenya. KESDEMO would like to remind ODM that the Movement won the referendum without the support of both the bourgeoisie mass media and the Church which played Abunuasi politics to the advantage of the government.
Possibly, government will attack rallies with police and other instruments of violence but ODM should mobilize supporters especially the millions of youth to resist these attacks accordingly. KESDEMO believes that the main aim of appointing octogenarian and semi-illiterate and major economic criminal Njenga Karume to head the Ministry of defense was to prepare a loyalist to defend a fragile regime that was defeated at the November 21st referendum.
KESDEMO reminds ODM leaders that John Njoroge Michuki, one of the most brutal Kibaki loyalist and former British colonial home-guard who gave orders to his police chiefs to commit cold blooded murder of 8 Kenyans at Kisumu and Likoni in Mombasa during the Orange rallies, has been re-appointed as Minister for Internal security. In this capacity, Michuki commands the National police force, Para-military, CIDs, Administration police (AP), chiefs and sub-chiefs. These are the major arms of the State that will be used to unleash violence against pro snap election campaigners and ODM supporters.
The purpose of these Mount Kenya Mafia appointments is to make sure that anybody (including ODM leaders) who challenges or threatens the Kibaki dictatorship with snap elections will be dealt with ruthlessly to scare and intimidate others with similar ideas. ODM should remind the old fashioned octogenarians in government that their dirty machinations will be resisted by Kenyans at whatever cost. The octogenarians are living in the past and will not be able to catch up with modern political tempo in Kenya even if they use all instruments of violence at their disposal.
Debts of corrupt and irresponsible MPs should not stop snap elections
Opportunists, Church leaders, boot lickers and foreigners who have been telling Kibaki and Kenyans to "forget the past" and to "concentrate on developing the economy" should be warned to stop cheating Kenyans with Neo-colonial politics. There is no economy in Kenya to develop because the Kenyan economy is firmly on the hands of imperialist economic agents controlling banks, insurance companies, transport, communication, horticultural industry, foreign exchange business, distribution networks, import-export industry, tourism, Nairobi Stock Exchange, natural resources, ranches, national parks and other commanding heights of the Kenyan economy including all major wealth producing institutions. It is for this reason that our country has remained underdeveloped since the days of fake flag independence.
Campaigns for snap elections should not be stopped because a cabal of MPs have huge debts they will not be able to pay if they don't return to Parliament. The issue of MPs debts should not be used as an excuse for not calling snap elections. The 9th Parliament has been the most corrupt, dishonest, weak, irresponsible and composed of so many political and economic criminals who should be in Kamiti Maximum security prison if Kenya was a functioning democracy.
The Kibaki Government is and will continue to demonize ODM leaders saying that they want to take power through the back door. ODM leaders should dismiss the government and demand that the government must go. Kenyans should stop begging the government to go. They should make the country ungovernable through mass action. ODM is on the ground and since they have defeated the tribal government's agenda on the referendum, KESDEMO believes that ODM has the capacity to take over power today from losers in Kibaki's tribal government.
KESDEMo's stated perspective is that Government may start arresting or threatening ODM leaders saying they are committing treason and other fabricated crimes. ODM leaders should not be afraid because even former dictator Moi arrested, tortured, maimed, crippled, killed, imprisoned and exiled thousands of Kenyans but he failed to stop the struggle for multiparty democracy in Kenya. Kibaki and his gang of tribal chauvinists will not be able to defeat an idea whose time has come. That idea is snap elections. The hour has come. It is now or never.
Martin Ngatia ngatia_martin@hotmail.com
Okoth Osewe: osewe@hotmail.com
KESDEMO Central Committee +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KENYA SCANDINAVIA DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (KESDEMO)
Kenya People's Democratic Movement (KEPEDEMO-Mapinduzi) Kenya Socialist Democratic Alliance (KSDA), Kenya Social Forum in Norway (KSF - Norway), Muungano Ya Akina Mama Scandinavia, Organization of Kenyans in Denmark (OKD) and Association of Kenyan Students in Finland (AKSIF). ALLIES supporting statement: Kenya Socialist Community in London and Kenya Democracy Project (KDP) – Scandinavia. Statement also available at: www.kenyasocialist.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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The roadmap to snap general elections in Kenya
Kenya Scandinivia Democratic Movement (Kesdemo)
December 18, 2005
For the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), there are two possibilities in the post referendum situation. Either, ODM will complete the mission of overthrowing President Mwai Kibai by pushing for snap elections or the Movement’s leaders will freeze to await for 2007 elections as they keep the Kibaki dictatorship on toes with populist politics. KESDEMO has and will continue to encourage ODM to go for mass mobilizations for snap elections on grounds that the Movement should not negotiate, compromise or fear a weak enemy that has already been floored at the referendum. For ODM to force snap elections, the road map to that destination will have to include Unity within ODM, a draft document of the main Aims and Objectives that will drive the Movement, a clear schedule of political rallies, preparation of the Kenyan masses for attacks against political rallies by the Kibaki dictatorship and a clear campaign plan that will lead to a power take over.
ODM must unite (Unity is strength!)
The Government has lost the referendum, a disastrous loss that is equal to a vote of no confidence in the government by the people of Kenya. At the political level, why should ODM negotiate, listen to or even compromise with losers? It has never happened anywhere in the world and it should not happen in Kenya. When imperialist America defeated (through its terror wars) Manuel Noriega of Panama, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Slobodan Milocevic of former Yugoslavia and others, they did not negotiate anything but moved to capture these dictators before caging them.
If ODM fails to operate as a united front, the Movement will fail because its members will be bought, manipulated, humiliated, threatened and recruited into government like other traitors eg Musikari Kombo, Chairman of Ford-Kenya, Charity Ngilu etc.
Kibaki is not Saddam Hussein but he has been defeated and millions of Kenyans who participated in this massive defeat will not understand why ODM cannot complete the mission of removing Kibaki from power through snap elections. If ODM wants to clear the “Kibaki menace”, the Movement’s leaders should stop opposing demands for snap elections. If the Movement intends to use the card of “a vote of no confidence in Parliament” to defeat the government, it will lose because opportunists, apologists, traitors and reactionaries in the Movement will be bought (money will change hands).
Another issue is that any strategy for snap elections should include a clear document outlining the Aims and Objectives of ODM which should include demands for snap elections, delivery of the Bomas draft of the Constitution (Wanjiku's choice), the overthrow of the Kibaki dictatorship and the arrest of criminals who have perpetrated political, economic and human rights crimes against Kenyans from Kenyatta, Moi to Kibaki dictatorship. This should include the bringing to justice of Tax evaders and other looters.
Call for mass rallies and expected attacks from government
ODM should announce dates (itinerary) for mass rallies across Kenya immediately to put government on alert. The Movement should not wait for Christmas to pass before calling rallies because Christmas is for the rich. Millions of Kenyans have nothing to eat each day that passes and as such Christmas has become meaningless to the poor, sick and oppressed masses in Kenya.
As we have said again and again, we repeat that Kibaki’s government will respond to any mass mobilization initiative by announcing that ODM rallies are illegal and treasonable. The government will warn people not to attend the rallies and urge Kenyans to ignore them. In fact, the government will do everything to try and make sure that ODM rallies fail to take place.
They will send riot police and other security forces to surround rally venues but ODM should counter these moves by mobilizing and advising supporters to break police lines in well coordinated operations. Since there is no army that can defeat a determined people yearning to free themselves from the yokes of dictatorship and Neo-colonialism, ODM should not be afraid or waver on the question of mass rallies across the country to topple an anti-people and stiff-necked regime that has failed Kenyans and killed the aspirations of millions of people.
ODM should fight orders banning political rallies on grounds that banning rallies, abrogating freedom of Assembly and limiting freedom of speech in today's Kenya is tantamount to returning our country to the dark days of authoritarian one party dictatorship that Kenyans had already struggled against and defeated under former Dictator Daniel arap Moi.
KESDEMO’s view is that Government will use the mass media, traitors in the churches and other propaganda outlets to continue demonizing ODM leaders with disinformation campaigns that are already underway in the country. The Government will intensify the strategy of pitting tribe against tribe to try to distract people's attention from the real issue of snap elections.
ODM should counter this government propaganda using any media or information outlet that can reach people all over Kenya. KESDEMO would like to remind ODM that the Movement won the referendum without the support of both the bourgeoisie mass media and the Church which played Abunuasi politics to the advantage of the government.
Possibly, government will attack rallies with police and other instruments of violence but ODM should mobilize supporters especially the millions of youth to resist these attacks accordingly. KESDEMO believes that the main aim of appointing octogenarian and semi-illiterate and major economic criminal Njenga Karume to head the Ministry of defense was to prepare a loyalist to defend a fragile regime that was defeated at the November 21st referendum.
KESDEMO reminds ODM leaders that John Njoroge Michuki, one of the most brutal Kibaki loyalist and former British colonial home-guard who gave orders to his police chiefs to commit cold blooded murder of 8 Kenyans at Kisumu and Likoni in Mombasa during the Orange rallies, has been re-appointed as Minister for Internal security. In this capacity, Michuki commands the National police force, Para-military, CIDs, Administration police (AP), chiefs and sub-chiefs. These are the major arms of the State that will be used to unleash violence against pro snap election campaigners and ODM supporters.
The purpose of these Mount Kenya Mafia appointments is to make sure that anybody (including ODM leaders) who challenges or threatens the Kibaki dictatorship with snap elections will be dealt with ruthlessly to scare and intimidate others with similar ideas. ODM should remind the old fashioned octogenarians in government that their dirty machinations will be resisted by Kenyans at whatever cost. The octogenarians are living in the past and will not be able to catch up with modern political tempo in Kenya even if they use all instruments of violence at their disposal.
Debts of corrupt and irresponsible MPs should not stop snap elections
Opportunists, Church leaders, boot lickers and foreigners who have been telling Kibaki and Kenyans to "forget the past" and to "concentrate on developing the economy" should be warned to stop cheating Kenyans with Neo-colonial politics. There is no economy in Kenya to develop because the Kenyan economy is firmly on the hands of imperialist economic agents controlling banks, insurance companies, transport, communication, horticultural industry, foreign exchange business, distribution networks, import-export industry, tourism, Nairobi Stock Exchange, natural resources, ranches, national parks and other commanding heights of the Kenyan economy including all major wealth producing institutions. It is for this reason that our country has remained underdeveloped since the days of fake flag independence.
Campaigns for snap elections should not be stopped because a cabal of MPs have huge debts they will not be able to pay if they don't return to Parliament. The issue of MPs debts should not be used as an excuse for not calling snap elections. The 9th Parliament has been the most corrupt, dishonest, weak, irresponsible and composed of so many political and economic criminals who should be in Kamiti Maximum security prison if Kenya was a functioning democracy.
The Kibaki Government is and will continue to demonize ODM leaders saying that they want to take power through the back door. ODM leaders should dismiss the government and demand that the government must go. Kenyans should stop begging the government to go. They should make the country ungovernable through mass action. ODM is on the ground and since they have defeated the tribal government's agenda on the referendum, KESDEMO believes that ODM has the capacity to take over power today from losers in Kibaki's tribal government.
KESDEMo's stated perspective is that Government may start arresting or threatening ODM leaders saying they are committing treason and other fabricated crimes. ODM leaders should not be afraid because even former dictator Moi arrested, tortured, maimed, crippled, killed, imprisoned and exiled thousands of Kenyans but he failed to stop the struggle for multiparty democracy in Kenya. Kibaki and his gang of tribal chauvinists will not be able to defeat an idea whose time has come. That idea is snap elections. The hour has come. It is now or never.
Martin Ngatia ngatia_martin@hotmail.com
Okoth Osewe: osewe@hotmail.com
KESDEMO Central Committee +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KENYA SCANDINAVIA DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (KESDEMO)
Kenya People's Democratic Movement (KEPEDEMO-Mapinduzi) Kenya Socialist Democratic Alliance (KSDA), Kenya Social Forum in Norway (KSF - Norway), Muungano Ya Akina Mama Scandinavia, Organization of Kenyans in Denmark (OKD) and Association of Kenyan Students in Finland (AKSIF). ALLIES supporting statement: Kenya Socialist Community in London and Kenya Democracy Project (KDP) – Scandinavia. Statement also available at: www.kenyasocialist.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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