Kofi Annan, chief mediator of the Kenyan crisis, has said. on Wednesday, that his statement on the formation of a "grand coalition" are his opinion and do not represent a formal agreement between the government and the opposition. Updated!
Annan was reacting to the report below: Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday suggested that Kenyan political leaders should work together to create a "grand coalition" government to end the current political crisis that has paralysed the country. According to news reports, Annan has said that both parties have agreed to the creation of an independent committee to investigate irregularities in last year's elections. Both parties have also agreed not to pursue a recount of votes from the disputed elections. Annan is hopeful that a political solution will be reached by the end of this week. The negotiation team comprising members from both political parties are meeting for the next few days in a private location with no media access until a compromise is reached. In other news, member of parliament and Justice Minister Martha Karua has condemned Annan for saying that ODM and the government have agreed to a two-year transitional government, followed by an election. In a statement to both Annan and the media Karua said, As chair of the panel, you are expected to be impartial and to take every care not to misrepresent or compromise the position of either party. To this end, we feel that these inaccuracies have greatly undermined our position and embarrassed us as members of the dialogue team. We demand that the issue be revisited as the first item when we next meet. While there has been no final agreement on the political solution, reports on both sides indicate that some sort of power sharing is being discussed. According to a Reuters report, an unnamed senior government official has said that a coalition government is only probable "in the form of cabinet posts to be decided by the president himself." The United Nation reports that there are now 600,000 displaced Kenyans. 3oo,000 of these are in camps while the rest are living with families and friends having fled their own homes. According to John Holmes, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, there are 300 camps for displaced people in Kenya. | 
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First of, the word Ndorobo is an ugly swear-word, much like saying nigger, it would be nice to get a new love-handle.
Secondly, you would do well to ignore those who are asking you to apologise for being middle class, or being Kikuyu. We must form an alliance against such people, an alliance which must be defined in emphatically anti-tribal lines.
Those people who rejected the ODM's message of hate and division, those who refused to inherit its grievance culture, those who refused to see the last five years as hell, but instead as filled with opportunity are one people, beyond all tribes and races.
I would be very grateful if you left the ethno-nationalism and the urging toward vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe to the ODM, their Messiah and all that follow in his train. In fact we must now work to win over and persuade to peace and prosperity all those from these ranks, rather than work to isolate them. Let us work to open their eyes to all the opportunity around them, to the fact that it is private enterprise and hard work that bring prosperity, and not Messiahs or government.
One Kenya, must be our eternal refrain.