Announcing
yesterday, Odinga who managed a historic High Court victory which reverses this
year’s election results that gave his opponent Uhuru Kenyatta a win, stuck to
his word as he announced he will not betray the Kenyan people.
“There
must be reforms at the IEBC to enable this nation to move forward,” said
Odinga.
Having
successfully proven before a Court of law that the August elections were rigged
it simply does not make any sense to then agree to take part in the rerun when
absolutely nothing has been done to make sure the same election shenanigans
will not be repeated.
Zimbabwe’s
2008 elections were a historic event in that they settled the question of the
depths of depravity and barbarism Zanu PF would sink to win elections. The
essence of the Global Political Agreement was that the country’s political
system must be completely reformed if the country was ever to stop Zanu PF
barbarism and have free, fair and credible elections.
The
fact that Tsvangirai and his MDC friend failed to get even one democratic
reform implemented is the greatest testimonial to their breath-taking
incompetence! Frankly when one is dealing with such nincompoops as Tsvangirai
it was no surprise that MDC agreed to contest the July 2013 elections although
not even one reform was in place and in total disregard of the SADC leaders’
warning not to contest.
“If you go into elections next month, you are
going to lose; the elections are done,” SADC leaders warned.
It
was only after Zanu PF had blatantly rigged the July 2013 elections that the
MDC buffoons finally got the message on the need for reforms. “No reform, no
elections!” they resolved at the party congress. Sadly, the moments of sanity
did not last, at the first full moon the werewolves in Harvest House were
howling in unison “We will contest next elections, with or without the
reforms!”
To
the world at large, MDC leaders claim that they have “Winning In Rigged
Elections (WIRE)” strategies. Only a fool would believe such foolishness.
By
implementing the democratic reforms during Kenya’s GNU Raila Odinga gave that
country a chance to end the entrenched de facto one-party, KANU, dictatorship
that has existed since the country’s independence in 1963. The very fact that
Uhuru Kenyatta was about to corrupt some of the officials to tamper with the
process underlines how difficult it is to uproot corruption and a dictatorship.
If
the people of Kenya allow the Thursday vote to go ahead and thus let Uhuru
Kenyatta get away with tampering with the electoral process then everyone
should know Kenya has closed the door to democratic change. The people will
live to regret this. Odinga has done his best to help Kenya end the de facto
one-party dictatorship. Odinga was a blessing to the people of Kenya, it is a
great pity the people failed to recognise this.
By
the same token, Morgan Tsvangirai has been Zimbabwe’s curse; the idiot failed
to get even one reform implemented during the GNU and now he is the one giving
blatant denial of the people’s freedoms and basic human rights including the
right to free, fair and credible elections a veneer of credibility by claiming
MDC can win rigged elections! Tragically, for Zimbabwe, there are hundreds of
thousands of Zimbabweans who continues to follow the idiot blindly like sheep
to the slaughter!
Kenya
had the opportunity for democratic change and if the nation fail to take it, it
will be the people themselves’ fault not Raila Odinga. In Zimbabwe, we never
even had a look in because the MDC idiots failed to implement even one
democratic reform in five years of the GNU. Even today, with the benefit of
hindsight, Tsvangirai & co. continue to undermine all efforts to effect
meaningful democratic change in the country.
How
ironic that millions of Zimbabweans risked life and limb to elect Morgan
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends on the promise they would bring democratic
change. MDC have not only failed to bring about even one democratic change in
their 17 years on the political stage, 5 years of which they were in the GNU;
worse still, they are now the ones fighting against those demanding reforms. We
do not need reforms implemented, MDC are now arguing, because the party has
devised strategies to win rigged elections!
Whilst
Odinga is arguing end the dictatorship and move Kenya forward; Tsvangirai is
arguing to retain the dictatorship and drag Zimbabwe backward. What a
nightmare!
“Mapenzi
eMDC anongo pepereka nenyika!” (MDC fools are like the wind, they do not know
where they are coming from or where they are going!)
“Mapenzi
inyama yegakava!” (Fools are stubbornly foolish, it is second nature!) as the
Shona would say!
Kenya’s top court to hear petition to postpone elections.
ReplyDeleteUhuru Kenyatta wants the rerun to go ahead. He called the judges who annulled the August vote, “crooks”.
To ask the elections to go ahead with no reforms to stop the irregularities of the August vote is barmy. One hopes that the judges will refuse to be intimidated by all this abusive language coming from Uhuru Kenyatta.
The Supreme Court annulled the original election in August by a 4-2 majority, saying there had been "irregularities and illegalities"
ReplyDeleteA bid to delay the election fell apart after only two out of seven Supreme Court judges showed up for a hearing.
One judge, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, failed to appear after her bodyguard was shot and wounded by unknown gunmen on Tuesday.
Well that says all that needs to be said! There can be no doubt that there is no free and independent judiciary in Kenya and with the death of the judiciary is the death of all hope of free, fair and credible elections and democracy in the country. The light of hope of a democratic Kenya Raila Odinga had lit by implementing the democratic reforms in 2007 to 2012 has just been snuffed out!
It could take another decade or even a generation for another opportunity for Kenya to try again to implement democratic reforms and finally end the de facto one-party dictatorship that has been a fixture in Kenya since the country gain her independence in 1963! My heart bleeds for Kenya and all its people who have suffered so much under the dictatorship and now must suffer for many more years to come!