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On the Murdered ODM MP - Embakasi

For Immediate Release
Jan 29, 2007
ODM POLITICAL BRINKMANSHIP DEMYSTIFIED

Kenya woke up to the sad news of the death of MP Elect for Embakasi, Melitus Mugambe Were. As all Kenyans of goodwill we send our condolences to his family and friends. It is always tragic to lose a beloved husband, father, son and a Kenyan who made his debut for Parliament in 2007 in such a heinous way calculated by people who you call friends and who will cry and wail most at your funeral. As a nation, and for his constituents, we shall never know the difference he would have made in Embakasi and in Kenya in general. May the almighty God gave his family endurance and may he rest in eternal peace. Our hearts pull for the family of the late Hon Were.

Now to the matter of his death; Who is the MP , Hon Were, was little known in Embakasi politics, if you compare him to the heavier weights of the likes of Mwenje and Sumra, a Kenyan of Asian origin, who Kenyans saw battle it out, verbally and most of the time physically for the Embakasi seat. His death was crafted to gain political mileage in a brinkmanship style not witnessed in Kenya in a long time. He was a small fish that was easily expendable for the ODM to up the ante of their Orange Revolution. His second wife is also a Kikuyu, his death was crafted to ignite fires among tribes, instill fear in MPs, make the government defensive and if possible push it out.

Who would be the first suspect to kill the late MP? The crafters knew this would be placed at the door step of his ardent rivals, would it be Sumra, maybe, but definitely Mwenje. Why Mwenje? Let us take you back to a month ago. When the ODM war against Kenyans began, with the political school of Ruto, they targeted to kill the Kikuyus and most important, drive them away from RV, Western and Coast, then demand a re-election and ensure no PNU or affiliated candidate would garner 25% in these 3 provinces, add Nyanza to it and the candidate would have lost the presidency despite popular vote. For one month, Ruto has supervised the killing of Kikuyus and wanton destruction that has rivaled the battles Kenyans fought for independence. No one in the ODM camp came out to condemn the killing. After the initial skirmishes across various towns in Kenya, it became obvious that the genocide against Kikuyus was only being perpetrated by Ruto through his Karamojong militia. The Luos continued to fight, but their destruction was mainly concentrated on rampage to destroy infrastructure, their wanton killing of Kikuyus had subsided. Which other major group did not sustain the genocide and retreated back to rebuild their lives in realization that politics and politicians come and go, but poverty will remain if people did not work hard – the Luhyas. Therefore MP Were and his numbered days enter into the equation.

Why will Mwenje be a suspect? From last week, the country has witnessed the Kikuyus waking up to defend themselves and some fierce battles have been fought over the weekend. The full scale war is still between the Kikuyus and the Kalenjins with the Luos continuing with their demonstrations. All along the Luhyas have been quite silent, Mudavadi as the VP in waiting has not marshaled a lot of venom, the Luhya leaders have not urged their people to rise and kill the Kikuyus, and they had to be made to join the fray. It was therefore calculated to eliminate Hon. Were, he was little known, and quite expendable in the ODM genocide campaign of a revolution to grab power by whatever means necessary.
The brutal murder of the Hon Were the MP for Embakasi by ODM militiamen is aimed at achieving the following objectives:

1. Blame Mwenje – read the Kikuyus that they are killing the Luos and an MP of the Luhyas. Sources have confirmed that the ODM think tank knew it would be easy to blame Mwenje, he has not been known to be soft in the belly and has been rumored to use gangs to terrorize his opponents in the past in the slum areas. However, his ability, if he did, was only on the use of crude method of slum fighting using pangas and machetes and rungus, and not the sophisticated execution of an MP in an elite neighborhood of Woodley. This would shield the ODM perpetrators from scrutiny by placing the death squarely on Kibaki’s door step. That the president has invited ODM MPs for a meeting in Statehouse today, lends a lot of credence to this.

2. Inflame the Luhya who were the majority voters who voted the MP in, force them to join the killing orgies against the Kikuyus. Embakasi constituency’s composition is mainly PNU and affiliated parties supporters. It has over 247,000 registered voters. The major slums that traverse the constituency are: Mukuru, Sinai, Lungalunga, other densely populated areas are Dandora, Kayole, Ruai, Komarock, Umoja, Donholm, Embakasi area itself. The majority tribe here is the Kikuyus followed by Luhyas, a sizeable mix of Kambas as they border Kangundo and of course Luos. However, the PNU+ affiliates lost because of fielding many candidates and they split the votes as was witnessed in Kasarani as well. Thus the votes that the late MP got were mainly from the Luyhas who make the second majority. To the Luhyas, this was their MP in the city beside Gumo, his death is crafted to look like a continuing Kikuyu revenge and succeed in setting the Luhyas against the Kikuyus. The riots that have been witnessed attest to this.

3. The ODM power barons with the use of the media come out strongly as has happened and call it political assassination; inflame passions, locally and internationally. The timing is very apt with Kofi Annan trying to mediate an amicable solution. The ODM has felt it can hold international sway even with Kofi Annan as convinced by Raila’s spokesman, Salim Lone (remember he owned Viva magazine in the 1980s and the ensuing fallout with the then government) who was a Director of Communication in Annan’s administration in the UN and they personally got to know each other well after the bombing of UN offices in Baghdad. However, Mr. Annan is whole lot smarter than that as was witnessed by the political, managerial and administrative ability he exuded to steer the UN to great heights in his ten year tenure. He has successfully tackled more wily politicians that would make ODM machinery look like farex – baby food.

4. The late MP was a cheap target to eliminate, remember he is married to a Kikuyu, true sons of the lake do not marry thieves as Raila would like to remind Kenyans over and over again and especially not after 2007 general elections. On 24th December 2007, during Raila’s exit speech, he spoke in dholuo and forced Mudavadi to speak in Maragoli language. Amongst his hate speech to his people was to ensure they elected 3 piece in Nairobi, he wanted to have all his MPs in the City to carry out his ethnic cleansing even in Nairobi, which is perceived to be a Kikuyu stronghold. MP Were was elected, fair enough he is ODM, but another stronger man had lost, a closer ally of RO a staunch supporter who would die for him and who would execute his commands without a second thought. The man has displayed a lot of muscle strength and little acumen in brain power, he was a boxer and that is Rueben Ndolo. He lost the Makandara seat to PNU former Mayor of Nairobi, Dick Wathika. The loss was so tragic that when the returning officer announced the results, Ndolo woke and congratulated Wathika with a hard fist (boxed him) that connected his cheek. Ndolo was arrested and later released. Thus, even if Were was ODM, a stronger candidate and supporter had lost and a constituency had to be curved out for him by blood, to ensure ODM’s stranglehold of city affairs. Therefore exit Were, enter Ndolo into Embakasi.

ODM is not interested in mediation, reconciliation, peace and those other niceties and adjectives that civilized societies use. They are good students of revolution that sacrifice masses for their naked unbridled ambition to power. RO’s stakes to presidency are so high that we ask; who is the next on line????? Kenyans will continue to watch.

Dr.Abdallah Fatehali
Executive Director,
Communications and Public Relations
People Foundation, Inc,
Social Transformation Advocacy Group
775 River Oaks Parkway
San Jose, CA 95136

As Sent In.

My Expression: Alot is happening and alot is being said about it. Kenyans, its up to us to buy what we want, what we always have to remember is that there are always two sides of a coin. The truth is out there and we might never know it but jumping into conclusions does not help us at this stage. Lets hope that the real truth will come out sometime soon. Njoro