Okay, so we knew that politics in Kenya was shady, but the latest events are just downright unprofessional. It's gotten so bad that former Secretary General, Kofi Annan, had to intervene to stop the Kenyan President and Prime Minister from fighting. The latest fight came about after President Kibaki revoked Prime Minister Odinga's suspension claiming that "Odinga had no right to suspend the ministers and he had not consulted with him before announcing the suspension." In addition, there has been some finger pointing about who can tell who what to do. Odinga has said in a statement "neither the president nor the prime minister is superior to the other."
WHATEVER. This is definately a situation where elephant's have been fighting and definately the grass suffers. Already there has been ethnic violence after the Prime Minister blamed the President of rigging the election. The violence that came as a result killed 1300 people in 2008.
The suspension of the ministers came about after money went missing from educational and agricultural funds. If you remember, just last year there were strikes in Kenya after the negotiations over salaries with the government failed. In any case, the US and Britain have suspended educational aid to Kenya after auditors accused the government program of (what else) fraud.
2 comments:
wow regarding the US and Britian suspending aid. Good use of word in the title.
I wish there will be a way that these corrupt governments all over the continent of Africa can be made accountable without making the children suffer. It is a great shame that these innocent children have to suffer the consequences of greedy, selfish, arrogant and shameless adults ruling their various contries.
Dola
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