Kenya Imagine

• Let's call it the Orengo/Obonyo Argument

  Posted: May 9, 2008, 5:28 pm

  I go dumpster-diving so you don't have to. The second wave of ODM responses to IDP resettlement has ranged from James Orengo's relatively erudite call for permanent resettlement of Gikuyu IDPs outside the Rift Valley - segregation in other words - to naked incitement of ethnic hatred from Taabu at Kumekucha . In between, we have Job Obonyo at Jukwaa. Lest I convey the wrong impression, let's note that sensible noises have been heard in the RVP recently.
  
  Read more from Daniel Waweru here.

• Can the ECK be entrusted with future polls?

  Posted: May 1, 2008, 7:46 am

  With by-elections coming up in early June, controversy is brewing in Kenya over whether the Samuel Kivuitu led Electoral Commission of Kenya will be able to run the elections and furnish results acceptable to both sides. Especially important because parliament is split straight down the middle (evident at the Speaker's election), the by-elections are set for the 11th of June. In the contest, the representatives for Ainamoi and Embakasi constituencies will be chosen, to take on the roles of the late David Too and Mugabe Were. In Emuhaya constituency a replacement is sought for Kenneth Marende MP who was elected parliament's speaker while in Kilgoris and Wajir East, inconclusive contests at the General Election will finally be settled.
  
  Discuss here.

• On Post-Election Rebellion, Economic Growth and National Sovereignty

  Posted: May 1, 2008, 7:45 am

  The other day, two colleagues on a listserv I subscribe to submitted posts that had troubling assumptions on growth and sovereignty in Kenya. One assumed that the 6 per cent economic growth achieved in the first Kibaki term had so significantly leveraged Kenya that it was making donors jittery - Kenya was no longer begging. She also made the assumption that, because Kenya was funding most of its budget from local sources at 93 per cent, the country had gained a new level of autonomy from its donors.

  Read more from Godwin R. Murunga here.

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