This highlights the continuing sensitivity of the Anglo Leasing scandals the exposure of which by Githongo saw three ministers in President Mwai Kibaki's government forced from office in 2006 (AC Vol 47 No 3)...
First comes the discovery of financial shenanigans by some of President Mwai Kibaki's lieutenants...
Vol 49 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
When President Mwai Kibaki Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka flew off to Ethiopia the United States and Benin almost simultaneously they showed that Kenya’s coalition government is working at least for now...
Vol 49 No 11 |
- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
Power-sharing ambiguities The power-sharing deal seems deliberately ambiguous based on the theory that Mwai Kibaki (with his Party of National Unity PNU) would be President and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (with his Orange Democratic Movement ODM) would be in charge of government...
The Commission would find it hard to rule categorically on the fairness of the December elections because its views would affect the legitimacy of the current government headed by President Mwai Kibaki...
Such claims wound the managerial pride of President Mwai Kibaki's Party of National Unity which has made much of its achievement in reducing Kenya's dependency on foreign aid to an historic low and resents criticism of its grand coalition for allowing already overpaid politicians to raise their salaries once more...
The deal between President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga was better than a return to the political violence of January and February when few politicians tried to stop the slide and several seemed to be sponsoring it...
President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity had wanted a total of 44 ministers including the 17 loyalists Kibaki had already appointed...
The ODM proposed a 34-member cabinet in which Finance Defence Infrastructure and Service Delivery portfolios would be evenly divided; President Mwai Kibaki's team wanted a 44-member cabinet in which it would retain the Finance Internal Security and Defence Ministries and bargain over the rest...
Firstly in the character of the politicians: opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai lacks the compulsions and tactical acuity of Odinga; while Robert Mugabe although almost a decade older than Mwai Kibaki is ten times more ruthless than his Kenyan counterpart...