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Friday, 31 October 2008

'[This is the product of] a sick society and a ruling class that are sons of bitches, all of them, myself included.' (Aníbal Fernández)

A little after PNU, ever so gently, told Waki to eff off, ODM has just voted to reject the Waki report in toto. I'll admit I'm amazed by the party's brazenness. They could, like PNU, have lied about healing, amnesty and reconciliation. They didn't. They've chosen to rub our noses in their impunity.

So here we are. This vicious and incompetent gang of thieves that masquerades as our political class reveals itself, at long last, for what it is. Enough is enough. Let's have done with these sons of bitches.

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written by Wanyama , November 01, 2008

now is it not a little too easy to lay into the politicians? What about laying into Waki for producing a report so shoddy, the political class are invited to reject it, and justifiably so.

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written by Ngigi wa Kamau , November 03, 2008

The ODM rejection was curious given the fact that the now-less-than-honorable Justice Waki pussyfooted around the issue of ODM culpability.

However, their reasons for the rejection unmasked ODM's venality for all (including their American opposition-never-does-wrong supporters) to see.

Kudos, however, go to Raila Odinga for an outstanding political maneuver of being duplicitously & double-faced. He has managed to come out from the fiasco, not egg-faced but a gleaming paragon of virtue in the ODM abyss. Let it not be lost, however, that we are often judged by the company we keep.

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written by gathara , November 03, 2008

What does the politicians' rejection of the document mean? Someone enlighten me. I thought that the choice to implement or not was not theirs. It was already written into the fabric of the National Accord that is now part of our laws. And what of the (alleged) automaticity built in to the report i.e if prosecutions are not forthcoming then the ICC can take up the matter? We speak as if it is only the politicians who matter.

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written by Ciku , November 06, 2008

I don't know what the Waki commission accomplished!!! Apart from maybe aggravating the guilty parties! I tried reading it, realised it was not telling me anything I didn't really know, I binned it! smilies/cry.gif