A group of Members under the banner of KKK Alliance has not once but on numerous occasions made inflammatory statements about ODM and its leaders led by the Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga and Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Musalia Mudavadi.
ODM is not in the business of reacting to non issues especially those raised by a people who think about themselves and not about the people and the country at large. But we make clarifications to critical issues that are blown out of proportion perhaps to suit some people’s interests.
It is sad that some Hon. Members with very poor memory of their own deeds can come here and make populous statements with the aim of playing to the galleries. When the Chepalungu MP. Hon. Isaac Ruto moved a motion in Parliament late last year urging the State to withdraw from the Rome Statute that creates the ICC, he simply was making a proposal to the government. Members with egocentric ideologies supported it forgetting who took Kenya to The Hague.
The shuttle diplomacy by the Vice President Hon. Kalonzo is his own arrangement, even his Party Secretary General and Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs Hon. Mutula Kilonzo can attest to this. For Members of Parliament on a cheap payroll to come out and claim that Parliament passed a motion calling for the deferral of the ICC Case against the Ocampo Six is a fallacy, archaic and quite barbaric. The Motion by Hon. Isaac Ruto was just a wish to the government and not a government resolution.
One cannot accuse the Prime Minister for calling for the matter to be handled at The Hague. It is the same Members of Parliament who have today ganged up to fill their stomachs at the expense of innocent victims of Post Election Violence, who shot down a motion to have the cases handled locally hence taking Kenya to The Hague. The Prime Minister, the President, the then Justice Minister Hon. Martha Karua and Imenti Central MP Hon. Gitobu Imanyara vigorously lobbied for the local tribunal, but the same MPs shouted "Let’s not be Vague, we want The Hague", surely even a fool will remember the words of his mouth, a year later.
It is laughable for Hon. Johnston Muthama to call for the prosecution of the President; his boss at The Hague. How can a whole government Chief Whip call for the arrest of the President and the Prime Minister? Is he confirming to the Nation that the President and Vice President refused to acknowledge and recognize Mr. Raila’s victory in 2007, ganged up and hurriedly forced a government, therefore sparking off the Post Election Violence? Mr. Muthama should tell Kenyans what he knows that everyone else’s outside there doesn’t know. As an insider, he really has a lot to tell the Nation.
We are fully behind the Prime Minister, he is not the ODM Prime Minister but the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya and so he should be respected as such. When an Honourable Member claims before the Media and the public that Mr. Odinga should take stock of his numbers in the House and tell Kenyans if he still is the Prime Minister, it portrays not only ignorance but cheap politics that have been passed by time. As far as we are concerned, ODM still holds on its numerical strength in Parliament and in Civic Councils. No Member of Parliament has officially written to the Speaker, resigning from Parliament and quit ODM as his/her party. If these people are men enough and a people of integrity and standard self-esteem, they should quit, go back to seek fresh mandate from the electorate and come back to Parliament on a different party. ODM has 105 elected and nominated MPs and that is a fact. Nothing has changed.
The Prime Minister’s mission to Ivory Coast was not a local arrangement, it was a decision made by the highest level of the African Union. Why then start making a fuss out of this? It is not as local and discreet as the Shuttle Diplomacy that the Hon. Members are trying to defend. Lets call a spade a spade, not a big spoon.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Our Hon. Members who have made it a habit to always mislead the public should know that, recently and even as late as yesterday, some of them denounced the KKK Alliance. Today as they issued the statement, they confirmed to the Nation that they were members of the KKK Alliance and it is on camera. ODM stands for National Unity and not tribal groupings.
Thank you.
Hon. Hassan Ali Joho
National Organizing Secretary-ODM
Ms. Janet Ong’era
Executive Director – ODM
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