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KIBAKI CANNOT WIN THE ELECTIONS HE LOST

The events in Kenya, after the just concluded elections, are disturbing in every sense of the word and they are all over the USA press. They are particularly scary, because Kibaki wants to have his kind of democracy where the looser is declared a winner and the people of Kenya have rejected it violently. Kibaki cannot win the elections he lost massively, in all the provinces, including Central and Eastern provinces, starting from the time of the nominations or primaries.

Consider this. During the nominations, a majority of Kibaki allied parliamentary candidates lost massively, in all the provinces, particularly in Central province. During the actual elections, not only did his few candidates left from the nominations loose, but almost the entire cabinet was wiped out. More than twenty ministers lost their seats hands down. Even the few ministers who won the re-election, there are disputes and we cannot rule out rigging. The complete destruction of the cabinet alone is enough to make Kibaki go home, because it proves that Kibaki, his team and policies are not popular with the people of Kenya, including central and eastern Kenyans. The central and eastern Kenya people showed this disapproval mostly in their electoral changes. This disapproval is enough to make a decent man quit and let others carry on. Kibaki lost the elections countrywide in whichever way you look at it and therefore he should step down without delay. His sticking in office is causing Kenyans anguish and bloodshed.

Furthermore, during the campaigns Raila consistently lead in all the opinion polls, even when Kibaki's friends tried to cook the polls in his favor. Raila always led with a wide margin. This was correctly reflected in the initial counting of the electoral votes where Raila was leading by almost one million votes, until the ECK started cooking the figures. The ECK cannot be allowed to meddle with the will of the people to maintain their friend, Kibaki, in power. The will of the people is that Kibaki should go home to rest. It is a countrywide will and it should be respected. The central and eastern Kenyans expressed it in their own way by voting out Kibaki's lieutenants, but the western Kenyans did not only reject him and his team, but also massively voted for Raila. The central and eastern Kenyans have a right to express themselves in a particular way, but it all comes down to the same thing, Kibaki was rejected by them and countrywide.

The solution to the quagmire is, firstly, the entire ECK should resign, except maybe the four members who have sided with Kenyans by expressing massive and blatant illegality in the tallying of the votes. The ECK credibility is gone and nobody trusts them. I am sure, even their friend, Kibaki, if he is true to himself, does not trust them. The ECK failed in its constitutional responsibility of determining the will of Kenyans by efficiently screening their votes during tallying; instead they created their own votes and hence set in motion countrywide violent events that they cannot now control. They cannot continue earning hefty salaries from the taxpayers' money.

Secondly, an independent body should be constituted immediately to tally the presidential votes correctly as they were cast at the polling stations, in all the 210 constituencies, and hence determine the winner of the presidential vote and declare him accordingly.

Thirdly, if it turns out that Kivuitu erred, he should be arrested, charged, and prosecuted for endangering the lives of Kenyans by declaring presidential elections results that he knew were false. He should go to prison for a long time. And lastly, Raila should cool the tempers of all Kenyans by asking them to be peaceful and wait for the outcome of the independent team. Long live democracy. Long live Kenya.

By Christopher Gekonge, Philadelphia, P.A. 12

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