Opinion
Four questions for the Cabinet team
Posted Saturday, October 25 2008 at 16:46
In Summary
- Waki is a competent Judge. But has it occurred to you that he could be wrong?
That is, he cannot hand over the Waki List to The Hague if he ceases to be the chief mediator.
Otherwise he would be handing it over as who? In my view, therefore, you as Cabinet must terminate our relationship with Mr Annan.
Now that the country has stabilised, we do not need a prefect financed by the West and whose mandate is vague. You must therefore close his secretariat in Nairobi and disengage from his initiative.
This way, we can deal with the Waki recommendations internally.
Similarly, this will divert our energies to constitutional review as a way of dealing with impunity once and for all. What do you think?
Mutahi Ngunyi is a political scientist with The Consulting House, a policy and security think-tank for the Great Lakes region and West Africa.
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Submitted by bmmachPosted November 12, 2008 12:28 AM
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Submitted by DoesNotHold
Convenient,isn't it,how you're now taking the sovereignty high road and telling Kofi Annan to 'go back to Kumasi' after we literally forced him to stay in the country earlier this year until a peace agreement was reached.Your article has incensed me beyond anything else I've read this year.Not only do you disappoint in your lack of sensible thought,but you offer a 'solution' that could potentially hurt millions of Kenyans.Perhaps the 'hasn't he outlived his usefulness' question is one that we ought to be asking about you.
Posted October 27, 2008 04:08 PM -
Submitted by DoesNotHold
Mutahi,I generally have a fair amount of respect for your opinions,regardless of whether or not I agree with them.This article,however,crosses all lines...in whose pocket are you that you would propose such obscenely dangerous ideas?Hand over the report to the cabinet?Are you serious?The very same cabinet that consists of people whose names are said to be on this list?
Posted October 27, 2008 01:14 PM -
Submitted by ngurekairu
Mutahi, your article today is quite naive. Waki has hinted that some members of the 'cabinet' could have been involved thus the 'cabinet' can’t be objective in anything to do with the report. The only reason that someone can burn women and children marooned in a church is the comfort that they will never face the law. Just because we have goofed in the past on similar reports does not mean that we have to continue goofing. We can’t afford to loose 1,000 lives and billions every 5 years while escorting these 'gangsters' back to 'cabinet'.
Posted October 26, 2008 03:58 PM -
Submitted by SJ502
Who called for, ‘uncritical implementation of the Waki?’ There are recommendations for a tribunal or the Hague... and in there are due processes of law. What are you talking about casting doubts on Waki and Koffi’s competency? You talk of your involvement in failed peace missions all over Africa...well? What have you offered in your article to heal this nation: nothing.
Posted October 26, 2008 02:58 PM
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this article is evidence of the lack of foresight and maybe hindsight that has forever afflicted the kenyan populace; we're hardly 7 months since the said cabinet ministers were setting their supporters against each other yet here comes Ngunyi asking that we trust them to act on it. I cannot begin to describe the disgust!!