What of the loot?

Kenyan politics has always had a 9.8 rating for entertainment and thrills. The twists the turns, break-ups and make-ups, lies and promises, it is one long soap opera and it's only likely to get better.

Fret not Moi, rest easy. Your soul and Raila's are united forever, or as William Ruto put it, the Ndung'u report cannot be implemented because his name and that of Raila are also mentioned in the report.

Read more from Stephen Wainaina.

Moi's Strange Plan for Kenya

On Madaraka Day in 2002, former President Moi posited that Kenya's problems could not be solved this century. He predicted that Africa would continue to wallow in poverty, corruption, tribalism and disease forever.

Solomon Gakungu advices against listening to the former president. Read more here.

Joining forces against Raila

After waiting a long time, we have seen a circus of tribal chiefs supporting President Kibaki's re-election as they launched PANU, a coalition whose aim is to maintain the status quo at all costs.
By their speeches it was quite apparent that they live in morbid fear of one Raila Odinga. Ministers Chirau Mwakwere and Simeon Nyachae captured the frustration and fears of the ruling class against the indomitable ODM flag bearer.

On June 7th last year I had predicted in a local daily that a Moi/ Kibaki/ Kenyatta axis would inevitably emerge if ODM flag bearer Raila Odinga clinches the ODM ticket. In light of this, the dramatic endorsement of Mwai Kibaki by Moi and then Uhuru Kenyatta did not come as a major surprise. I have deliberately mentioned the two since they are the main pillars of this reactionary group.

Read more as Solomon Gakungu opines on the race to Kenya's presidency this December.

Cartoon of the Week

The big story this week, is the release -albeit reluctant- of the Kroll Associates report and the controversy surrounding the decision of Presidents Kibaki and Moi to come together at the general election.

Patrick Gathara's cartoon here on the Kroll Report.

Justice without vengeance

In the aftermath of the Kroll Report, and of President Moi's announcement that he would back President Kibaki's re-election, many have tried to draw an equivalence between the stand of Raila Odinga, and that of President Kibaki. It is important however, that we note and take into account the difference between political rhetoric and action. Kenya does have a terrible past, but it is important that the leadership is able to seperate its passions against those crimes from the steps it will take to remedy them.

Job Obonyo reacts to the Kroll Report.

Leaked Kroll Report on Moi Treasure

The article published here in today's Guardian under the title The Looting Of Kenya , gives details of a report that was sent to the Government of Kenya by the consultancy firm Kroll Associates who the reader will remember from the government's post-election efforts to retrieve for Kenya treasure stolen and stashed overseas. It is now clear that the report, submitted to the government in 2004 has been kept under wraps against the spirit of the passionate declarations of 2002.

Read Don Wainaina's analysis here on this report.

Moi throws his lot in with Kibaki

In an announcement yesterday that has been coming for months, former President Moi declared that he would be supporting the re-election bid of President Kibaki at the general elections later this year.

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Good Apples, Rotten Oranges

One immediate consequence of the victory of the NARC coalition was a somewhat infantile perception, even among Kenya's literati that the electoral victory was a moral one. We were taught that the KANU monster had been slain and that Kenyans had been freed from oppression. Those were heady highly unbwogable times. Only the very bravest masochist would now contemplate Martha Karua doing a jig on a Kisumu stage daring the world to bwogo her. Yes, such things are only possible in the deadly kiangazi of December and the New Year, more severe than ever when the nation is infected with campaign fever. So it was that the pronunciations went forth on the wires, the old man had to be defeated (he was not standing of course, but why bother with details).

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Vitalis Oyudo on the, " Infallible DP versus the poor mortals, does ODM-K stand a chance in the propaganda battle?" Read more as Oyudo discusses Kenyans, accountability and public office and the different standards we hold them by.