Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said waiting any longer to carry out reforms that would guarantee equal wealth, check negative ethnicity, guarantee fairness in land ownership and utilization, would create a bad environment.
He says in the first of a series of special reports on this week’s Geneva conference to review progress in Kenya: “This is 2009 and some people are already campaigning such that by 2011, the environment will not be good for reforms. You have about 15 months for Parliament to push through reforms before the campaigns.” — [ READ MORE ]
Meanwhile Coalition “Bonding” Talks Collapsed This Weekend:
Sharp political differences, suspicion and grandstanding and vested interests Saturday led to the collapse of a meeting of political bigwigs called to discuss the management of the Grand Coalition Government.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga (Left), President Mwai Kibaki(Center) and V.P. Kalonzo Musyoka Meet
At Kilaguni Lodge
The coalition management team chaired by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga was unable to agree on the agenda of a meeting whose purpose was to agree on a timeline for reforms to be carried out in the second year of the political marriage.
So sharp were the differences that the President and the Prime Minister addressed separate and divergent news conferences in Kilaguni and Nairobi at the end of what was supposed to have been a bonding retreat to promote cohesion in government and Kenya.
“We did not storm out of the meeting; it simply did not take off,” Mr Odinga told reporters in Nairobi. “Unfortunately we were unable to agree on anything and, therefore, the meeting collapsed.” He said ODM party members would be consulted to determine a course of action.
The meeting rekindled the bitter rivalry between ODM and PNU reminiscent of the time prior to the signing of the National Accord in February 2008 that ended two months of post-election violence. — [ READ MORE ]
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