You are contradicting yourself by writing that Ndolo filed and worn the petition, and therefore had the right to bear ODM flag while at the same time suggesting that a nomination should have been held. You are even erroneously accusing Raila and calling him 'soft dictator' when you know very well that he does not run the secretariat. The word dictator and soft are also contradictory.
You are refusing to acknowledge the problems we have with our parties; lack of vision, policies and management structures. The political parties in Kenya as they are constituted and ran today does not guarantee good national leadership. And, this partly explains why they get 'swallowed'.
In the case of Makadara, though it is now obvious who was the best candidate, they should have had it in their policy that a party contestant who files successful petition gets the ticket, period. With well laid down and written policy, i would have been easy to convince Sonko to wait for 2012. In cases of Matuga and Mugirango, petitions were filed by non-contestants leaving the race open for nomination. These nominations cost money but parties must be ready to pay the price for democracy.
It is building castles to imagine we can assemble strong political parties when members are not envisioned.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:24 AM, <mauricejoduor@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Chris,
All those malicious characters perceiving Amolo in a negative light are obviously people that have never dealt with him or met him in private.
Amolo is probably one of the shyiest people I've ever met. He's a very gentle character whose only concern is always "what's best for Kenyans in this situation?"
When I last met him, he was just full of What, Why and How questions to whatever I proposed to him. I honestly don't think there is any politician in his generation who cares about Kenya as much as he does.
Let us reason dispassionately on this.
Courage
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From: Chris Olola <c_olola@yahoo.com>Sender: mlalahoi@googlegroups.comDate: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:27:05 -0700 (PDT)ReplyTo: mlalahoi@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: RAILA'S HEAVY HANDEDNESSPeter,
With all due respect, I find your reasoning illogical! If you were the one, what would you do, given that Ndolo successfully filed the petition...throw him out? And in any case, it's the party (ODM, that issued the direct nomination, NOT Raila. I believe ODM has a mechanism to handle by-elections. I see no mischief on ODM to have given Ndolo a direct nomination -- he deserved it. And this didn't not mean and should not have been misconstrued to mean that an opponent like Sonko, Wathika et al were barred from contesting, they did contest, but via other party's tickets -- very legit. It's important to note that the Makadarans exercised their rights and chose their leader, Sonko, this time round -- very fare. At least Ndolo, Wathika et al were also given their right to contest.
The same thing in Starehe....could you have denied Dr Bishop Wanjiru her rightful opportunity to contest the petitioned seat with Kamanda et al, given that she was the one whose election was being petitioned by kamanda? If she would have been denied direct nomination, I would have termed that a malicious, misplaced and indeed retarded decision on the part of ODM (note, not Raila as the ODM leader!).
So, I find no logic in your opposition, bring more cogent reasoning and we'll go from there.
Chris
From: Peter Odenyo <omightyme@gmail.com>
To: mlalahoi <mlalahoi@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wed, September 22, 2010 7:40:51 AM
Subject: RAILA'S HEAVY HANDEDNESS
I feel ODM is losing ground faster than expected because of Raila's
soft dictatorial ways. When people of Makadara asked him that they
wanted ODM to hold nominations, he blatantly said: Ndolo deserved a
direct nomination because he is the one who filed a petition. I feel
this is arrogance, dictatorial and out f touch with the reality. Le
him lick his wounds.
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