The Re-Organization of the security forces…..
I don’t want to talk about Koffi Annan’s trip because nothing will come of it and what more evidence is there of this than the words of Kibaki and Raila right after their press conference.
From Kibaki: “As the duly elected president, etc, etc……(these guys are not going to negotiate with Raila).
From Raila: “Mr Odinga said the only three acceptable options would be Kibaki’s resignation, a vote re-run, or power-sharing leading to constitutional reform then a new election. “I never said I was considering taking up a position of prime minister under Kibaki,” Odinga told Reuters in an interview (It’s all or nothing for both of these men).
While this public charade continues, something more important is happening and it is the re-organization of Kenya’s security forces. I said before that they were going to start filling up these positions with Kikuyu’s and Wakamba’s in preparation for the retaliation and to make sure that things are in order for Kalonzo in 2012.
Once again, the evidence of this re-organization is clear for all to see. This time it’s the police force. Let’s begin:
).You can see the full list here (While you were sleeping).
Now, I know all the peaceniks are going to come out of their love nests and start screaming about how terribly, backward and tribal this all is (& yes it is, but in third world countries the security forces have to be on your side). Look at countries like the Phillipines and Thailand. These countries are far richer than Kenya and yet, the phillipines has had like 15 coups and the prime minster of Thailand was overthrown while he was out of the country.
And oh by the way, the article also mentioned that: “The changes also affected other departments of the police such as the GSU”.
Slowly, by slowly….
**Human Rights Watch (The ethnic clashes in the RV were planned; Keep talking Ruto, you just keep talking….mambo bado)
**Awful, awful Pictures of the violence here: JosephKaroki.wordpress.com (A lot of this was not spontaneous and because of that, there should be no forgiveness, especially for the “planners” who were behind this).
** Violence now breaking out in Nakuru (Kibaki should stop this as well, even it’s from Kikuyu’s. Stop it!).
hhhmmm…interesting
you promised not delete comments. where is my comment. your blog is an offshoot of mashada and rc bowen.
George:
My blog is not an offshoot of anything. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if the issues raised here are similar to issues raised on other Kenyan blogs (we are talking about the same country afterall!). Happy now?
kikuyustan…
What is the plan? Eliminate/subjugate all other tribes.
You & mzeiya changed the focus from the Kikuyus’ dominance of the economy to the Kenyan Indians. And I think you are better grounded in reality compared to most Mashada contributors.
What happened to appointments by merit – supposedly a tenet of kibz’ administration?
Ha ha ha ha. It is amusing that Kibaki messed himself when he created more districts in all other provinces except central. The reason being that while the Directory of personnel is in charge of hiring, the hiring is done at a district level. As such all those new districts will have thier natives in the police force and the Army.
As we have seen the head has little power these days. The police force seems to be split on the ground and they will do what they feel is right. Slowly the grip is falling apart just look at nakuru! The police there let it burn! And who was the top again…
Just as Kibaki is the president, he has little control except in Central and i guess this Blog.
I thought that I should share this article posted on the Human Rights Watch website. Honestly unless people like Ruto and Ole Ntimama are indicted, tribal violence will never end in Kenya. A decisive action needs to be taken. It’s not right for politicians to finance, recruit or instigate tribal violence simply to secure a fat pay check in parliament. Every affected or peace loving Kenya should call for an independent investigation on the ethnic cleasing. Please read the article below.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/20.....a17859.htm
Kenya: Opposition Officials Helped Plan Rift Valley Violence
Police Should Protect Displaced Persons Camps
(Eldoret, January 24, 2008) – Human Rights Watch investigations indicate that, after Kenya’s disputed elections, opposition party officials and local elders planned and organized ethnic-based violence in the Rift Valley, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, targeting mostly Kikuyu and Kisii people in and around the town of Eldoret, could continue unless the government and opposition act to stop the violence, Human Rights Watch said.
Opposition leaders are right to challenge Kenya’s rigged presidential poll, but they can’t use it as an excuse for targeting ethnic groups.
Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch called on the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leadership to take immediate steps to stop its supporters from committing further attacks. At the same time, Human Rights Watch said the Kenyan police should urgently deploy extra officers to the region to protect displaced people and resident Kikuyu communities.
“Opposition leaders are right to challenge Kenya’s rigged presidential poll, but they can’t use it as an excuse for targeting ethnic groups,” said Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “We have evidence that ODM politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence, and the authorities should investigate and make sure it stops now.”
Research by Human Rights Watch in and around the town of Eldoret, which has borne the brunt of the Rift Valley violence, indicates that attacks by several ethnic communities against others, especially local Kikuyu populations, were planned soon after the elections. In some cases, local elders and opposition politicians appear to have incited and organized the violence. Since December 27, 2007, clashes between members of the Kalenjin and Luya communities and their Kikuyu and Kisii neighbors in the Rift Valley have left more than 400 people dead and have displaced thousands more.
Human Rights Watch interviewed members of several pro-ODM Kalenjin communities who described the ways in which local leaders and ODM party agents actively fomented violence against Kikuyu communities. A Kalenjin preacher in a village in Eldoret North constituency told Human Rights Watch that on the morning of December 29, 2007, a local ODM party mobilizer “called a meeting and said that war had broken in Eldoret town, so the elders organized the youth into groups of not less than 15, and they went to loot [Kikuyu] homes and burn them down.”
The following day, the village held another meeting and the youth marched to the nearby town of Turbo. They were turned away by police. But they returned early the next morning, catching the police off guard, “and burnt almost half of the Kikuyu shops in town, including the petrol station,” according to the preacher. Human Rights Watch visited Turbo and found that most Kikuyu-owned buildings had been laid to ruin by the attackers. Displaced Kikuyu seeking shelter at the police station in Turbo confirmed to Human Rights Watch that their homes and businesses were destroyed by groups of Kalenjin youth.
Human Rights Watch spoke to numerous members of Kalenjin commmunities around Eldoret who provided similar accounts. In many communities, local leaders and ODM mobilizers arranged frequent meetings following the election to organize, direct and facilitate the violence unleashed by gangs of local youth. In one case, an ODM councillor candidate is said to have provided a lorry to ferry youth to burn the homes of Kikuyu families in a neighboring community.
Many Kalenjin community leaders told Human Rights Watch that if the area’s ODM leadership or the local Kalenjin radio station KASS FM told people unequivically to stop attacks on Kikuyu homes, then they believe the violence would stop. “If the leaders say stop, it will stop immediately,” said one Kalenjin elder.
Human Rights Watch also collected accounts from several Kalenjin men present at community meetings where local elders and ODM mobilizers urged Kalenjin residents to contribute money toward the purchase of automatic weapons. Some communities have reportedly managed to obtain such weapons already. The same sources confirmed that plans have already been made to attack camps of displaced Kikuyu and the two remaining neighborhoods in Eldoret town where many Kikuyu homes remain intact – Langas and Munyaka.
The Kenyan police are already investigating responsibility for the violence in the Rift Valley, but its forces are overstretched by the nationwide electoral crisis. In the light of apparent plans by some groups to attack camps for internally displaced persons, Human Rights Watch called on the Kenyan police to ensure that all locations of displaced people are adequately protected against attack. Fourteen displaced Kikuyu and Kisii people sheltering in a monastery in Kipkelion were killed last week in an attack by Kalenjin warriors. The sprawling tent camp in Eldoret is now home to more than 10,000 displaced persons, with only a light police presence to protect them. Any attack on the camp would likely prove disastrous. Other equally vulnerable camps have been set up in other areas.
“The murder of people sheltering at a monastery in Kipkelion illustrates the need for better police protection of displaced people,” said Gagnon. “Protecting the thousands of vulnerable people chased from their homes across the Rift Valley from further attack should be a priority for the Kenyan police.”
Background
Kenyans voted peacefully and in record numbers in parliamentary and presidential elections on December 27, 2007. In the parliamentary elections, 99 of the 210 seats were won by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Incumbent Vice-President Moody Awori and 14 of incumbent President Mwai Kibaki’s top ministers lost their seats.
According to independent observers, the presidential vote count appeared to be tampered with to such an extent as to make it impossible to determine who won the vote. Even the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya admitted that he did “not know whether Mr. Kibaki won the elections.” The European Union Electoral Mission expressed grave doubts about the legitimacy of the presidential results. The most significant fraud appears to have been committed by the government camp in the final stages of tallying the votes.
The sudden announcement that Kibaki had won the vote triggered protests throughout the country. The protests, along with widespread post-election violence and the brutal police suppression of opposition protests, has plunged the country into crisis. Talks between the opposition ODM and the Kibaki government are proceeding under the auspices of a panel of eminent African personalities led by Kofi Annan, former United Nations secretary- general.
Violence erupted in the wake of the disputed elections throughout the Rift Valley and the west of the country as angry citizens burned and looted factories, shops and homes, and chased those perceived to be supporters of Kibaki (mostly, but not exclusively, members of his Kikuyu tribe) away. Kikuyu homes in the Rift Valley have been selectively burned and Kikuyu residents killed. Thirty people were burned to death in a church near Eldoret where they had been seeking shelter.
The police confirmed the deaths of 526 people nationwide, including 81 shot by police officers, but independent estimates suggest that the total figure could be much higher. Thousands of Kikuyu and members of other tribes have been displaced and are in the process of leaving the region if they can.
Coldtusker:
When it comes to the security forces, the hiring is done based on tribal allegiance (and I’m sure you know that). Raila would have done the same thing had he won, although it would be more difficult for him because they are not that many Luo’s in the armed forces (but believe me, the Kikuyu’s would have been purged). The real problem for Kibaki now is not even the Luo, it’s the Kalenjins and their ethnic cleansing in the rift valley.
On Kenya’s India’s – I was comparing my irritation with them to the irritation other tribes are now carrying against the Kikuyu (i.e. an idea that the Kikuyu’s, like the Indian’s have unfairly benefitted from the economic opportunities in the country).
Peter:
What you said makes no sense. A junior officer at the district level can and will be over ruled by his superiors in Nairobi (those districts Kibaki created have nothing to do with re-organization of the security apparatus that is now under way).
Ever attended a police recruitment before? Well i have. it took place at the district levels. That takes care of the numbers. The loyaty is simple really. It is to tribe. That is why, the police never prevented the genocide in Rift Valley. They can’t because they will simply not obey their central province superiors. And this guy, Gatiba Karanja. the head of the CID, his ability, to collect intelligence is really suspect. He never foresaw the Rift Valley chaos.
Peter:
The failure to anticipate the ethnic cleansing (it’s not a genocide yet) in the rift valley falls on the shoulders of the NSIS chief, Michael Gichangi. That agency is responsible for investigating and preventing both internal and external threats to the country. It’s not the CID. I will be very surprised if Gichangi is not “re-assigned” to another position.
Now i miss moi
Kibaki and Raila will not compromise on the contetious issues of disputed elections. Each side has a claim to the presidency so who will bend over for Kenya?
Taking the egos from both sides, I would second what Museveni suggested. Get a neutral body preferably international forensic experts to investigate and conduct the tallying of the contentious votes. There has to be a winner and a loser if those votes are recounted. This will clear any doubts there may be. After all, Raila is not going to court and neither is Kibaki going to resign. What I dont want to see is people coming from Tumbuktu saying these two guys need to compromise. Give a solution otherwise you are part of the problem.
I now understand why Museveni was here, in his country no shadow flaters his way without military involvement,neither a thief. Thus why Mzee has been taught that he is the commander in chief and should use his seat appropriately. Another emerging issue is that Mungiki and the the Kisii Sugusugu group are in talk, maybe Nandi is not that a large tribe only the two groups, who knows.