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Raila Odinga is a genuine leader
wilyum
#1 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:02:28 PM
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"In the close to four years since 2008 I have watched Raila work very hard to put the mistakes he might have made in 2007 behind him, especially that of being associated with a team that seemed to isolate one community from the others, and to incite those others against it for political gain.

I have understood how humbling it has been for him to accept what is essentially a powerless office, in a hostile government, and to understudy a president who was a bitter rival. I have seen a man who has realised that Kenyans are looking for a positive narrative; that any presidential candidate who hopes to win must speak to Kenyans as Kenyans; not in units of their religions, demographics, genders or tribes. I have seen a man who has accepted that Kenyans want someone who will sincerely seek to unite rather than divide Kenya, and who is striving to be this candidate. "


this i beg to differ when i look at the guys around him!
harrydre
#2 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:55:42 PM
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the article goes on like this too..

But I am worried I could be wrong.

The reports that Raila Odinga could be seeking ways to reconcile with William Ruto concern me because I belong to the group that agrees with Moreno Ocampo, that William Ruto bears substantial responsibility for what happened in Rift Valley in 2007. I also find Ruto extremely unapologetic about all the chaos, and his comments on this terrible time border on the absurd; from it looking like a movie, to gas cylinder bursts. This is what made me wonder how Uhuru Kenyatta ever agreed to work with him in any political alliance.

"However of greater concern to me is the suggestion that Raila has offered to use his international networks to save William Ruto from the ICC process; the same way as he helped Henry Kosgey! The idea that someone can remove someone else from the ICC process suggests that it is possible for such a person to put someone else into such a process.

This is a dangerous implication when viewed in the context of suggestions from Uhuru Kenyatta’s allies that their leader is in the ICC because Raila put him there! If this were true I would feel very silly after all the work I have done in support of the ICC to-date.

It would also mean that what I have seen happening to Raila Odinga in the last four years was not genuine."
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madammary
#3 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:33:21 PM
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#4 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:49:24 PM
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wilyum wrote:

this i beg to differ when i look at the guys around him!


Those around him say what Raila means. Raila says what he wants you to hear.

His character is in the character of those who are close to him like his cousin Jakoyo. If you doubt go back to the days before FORD-K split, the days before the walkout from KANU, the early troubled days of NARC, the time they were together with Kalonzo before he left ODM-K to defect to ODM and the recent war with Mudavadi.

In all these cases, Raila is always confidently talking of how united the party is while he employs a few sycophants to fire at his rivals and threaten walkouts or massive defection.

To know what Raila means, listen to the likes of Midiwo. Raila's many words are just political entertainment.
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#5 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:05:31 PM
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To think that Raila is innocent when it comes to 2007 violence is like insulting the victims of the violence.

For argument's sake, let us assume that Uhuruto are guilty of the crimes they stand accused of.

I have always wondered why Raila could not stop the violence as his party supporters who were 'very angry with stolen elections' went around raping(yes, they were so angry they raped!),killing, committing arson and ther despicable acts.

All along he was quiet, happy that he was making Kenya ungovernable until he saw some poor guys from his community who had been forcibly circumcised in Nairobi. I could not believe it when I saw him weep at KNH yet he seemed to enjoy the chaos and deaths of members of other communities!

This makes me agree with UK that Odinga was politically responsible for the violence.

Additionally,he sat at the helm of the party with a foundation of hatred. Hatred of one community. As much as some would want us to belive that stolen elections led to the violence, the harsh reality is that there was open talk of hatred against Kibaki's tribe-not just in RV as Odinga people like Wambugu would want us to believe but even in Nairobi.

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