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December 07, 2008
Raila Odinga To Lead Delegation To D.C. To Celebrate Inauguration
Raila Odinga is a violent, dangerous man . This is Barack Hussein Obama's cousin who pledged to impose Sharia to get the Muslim vote and whose son is named Fidel Castro Odinga. He named his first-born son after Fidel Castro.
He’s the one that Barack Obama was in constant contact during the New Hampshire primary campaign.
This is a photo that was taken of Odinga's supporters.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is to lead a government delegation to host two celebrations on January 20 in honour of US President-elect Barack Obama in Washington DC before his inauguration.
The black-tie dinner and ball are scheduled to take place on the night of the inauguration at posh Marriott Gateway Hotel.
It is said to be a pan-African gala in honour of the first US president of African descent.
Kenya’s ambassador in Washington Peter Ogego said he hopes the new president and the First Lady will include the event in their round of inaugural balls.
Invitations are also being sent to incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN ambassador Susan Rice, Mr Ogego added.
Mr Odinga is expected to attend both of the Kenya-sponsored inauguration celebrations.
The National Democratic Institute, a non-governmental democracy-promotion group, has invited him to take part in the Martin Luther King Jnr Day celebrations in Washington on January 18.
On the inauguration day, the Kenya mission will hold a reception at Washington Plaza Hotel near the route of the parade leading to President Obama’s swearing in on the steps of the US Capitol.
The inaugural ball is being hosted by the African Ambassadors Group in Washington, along with the US Corporate Council on Africa and the World Bank-IMF African Society.
Tickets are priced at almost ($200) Sh16,000 per person for an event that Mr Ogego estimates will cost $200,000 (Sh15.8 million)
The envoy said also that the afternoon reception will be open to all and free of charge. However, the embassy will spend about $40,000 (Sh3.1million) on organising it.
“Everyone at the embassy in Washington is excited at the prospect of a US president with ties to Kenya,” Mr Ogego said, adding that Mr Obama’s election offers to Kenya lessons and potential benefits.
“The US has demonstrated we can all move beyond artificial barriers — be it race, class or ethnicity,” he said.
Tangible gains for Kenya can already be felt, the envoy added and cited the uptick in US tourism to Kenya along with the international media attention that the country is receiving.
Additional benefits will come in time, Mr Ogego said, and pointed out, for example, that Bill Richardson, Mr Obama’s designee as secretary of commerce, has visited Kenya on three occasions and regards himself as a good friend of the country.
President-elect Obama’s convincing victory in the November poll over Republican John McCain triggered celebrations all over Kenya.
In his father’s birth place of Kogelo, several bulls were slaughtered.
Reports said at the time that Mr Odinga joined the the celebrations as he, through an aide, provided more bulls.
After the US elections, Kogelo was on the spotlight as people from as far as Tanzania and Uganda drove to the village, with some bearing gifts for President Obama’s extended family.
More about Raila Odinga......................
Kenyan election violence culprits may be punished
Wed 3 Dec 2008, 15:13 GMT
NAIROBI (Reuters)
The masterminds of Kenya's post-election violence may be barred from politics or face lengthy jail sentences under a draft law to set up a special tribunal in the east Africa nation.
President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election nearly a year ago brought two months of violence that killed 1,300 people, made 300,000 homeless, and shook the region's biggest economy.
Under pressure from Western donors and the Kenyan public, the coalition government formed in April to halt the violence is heeding the recommendation of an independent inquiry by judge Philip Waki to form a local tribunal to punish culprits.
A secret list containing names of 10 senior politicians and businessman suspected by the Waki team of masterminding the violence will be sent to the International Criminal Court in the Hague if Kenya fails to create such a court by early 2009.
"The special tribunal will look into the prosecution of persons bearing the greatest responsibility for genocide, gross violations of human rights and crimes against humanity," said a draft bill to create the court.
The bill was published in local media on Wednesday but has still to be debated in Kenya's parliament.
"Persons convicted of crimes by the Tribunal shall in addition to the prison terms be barred from holding any public or elective office in Kenya," the draft law said.
Kenya has since independence held numerous inquiries into accusations of land-grabbing, political violence and corruption, but few have resulted in concrete changes or brought perpetrators to account.
Public anger over impunity for the post-election chaos and killings is unprecedented, local analysts say, and finding the culprits could be a watershed moment for the nation of 36 million people that became independent from Britain in 1963.
Many Kenyans say the roots of violence -- ethnic divisions, land issues, and the gap between rich and poor -- have not been addressed. Some argue that the buck should stop with President Mwai Kibaki, and former opposition leader Raila Odinga who became prime minister in the power-sharing deal.
The Waki probe accused senior politicians and businessmen of funding and plotting attacks.
The draft bill published on Wednesday said Kibaki and Odinga should choose a foreigner to lead prosecutions.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Oh brother, just what we need, another terrorist in this country. To quote Gov. Sarah Palin, Obama's going to be "palling around with terrorists," out in the open, in Washington, DC, for the whole country, no, the whole world to see.
So many times Sean Hannty said repeatedly on his show that there was a connection to all these low-lifes - including Odinga.
I guess we better not upset or offend Mr Odinga while he is here. His supporters might go on a rampage of burning homes and businesses, raping women, murdering everyone in their path and burning alive Christian women & children.
But then, as a multicultural and diverse Nation, we should be more tolerant of these kinds of activities.
Odinga and Obama will jointly lead several standing room only seminars on important subjects:
“Vote Fraud: It Can Work for You Too!”
“Document Forgery Made Easy”
“Looking Presidential While Wielding a Machete”
“The Nairobi Trio is Now a Duo”
“Taking Advantage of Liberal Guilt - 101”
“Laundering Foreign Money In Three Easy Steps”
“Race Baiting for Beginners”
“Burka-Clad Girls Gone Wild”
“How to Create Your Own Presidential Seal”
“Ins and Outs of Voting Present”
“Hundreds of New Ways to Use the Word - Distractions”
“Media Manipulation Made Easy”
And many, many more.
Posted by Wild Thing at December 7, 2008 06:50 AM
Comments
Under the Obama presidency I am afraid we are going to get heavily involved in trying to save Africa. We will probably spend great sums of money and maybe blood in countries that are basket cases and have been for centuries.
Africa has great natural resources that are of infinite economic value. If African leaders had any tendency toward democracy their nations could be very wealthy and stable. Instead all African leaders tend to be dictators and war lords and keep their followers in abject poverty while the leaders themselves live in royal splendor.
Posted by: TomR at December 7, 2008 11:21 AM
Good point, Tom, sorta like Los Angeles and Chicago, third world countries and gang war lords.
Just what we need, more of obama's relatives coming here for free government housing and food.
Posted by: Mark at December 7, 2008 12:48 PM
And that is sad. We have too many people here needing help and aid. There are children all over America who go to bed hungry or are in need of basic necessities. We need to take care of our own for awhile. Raila Odinga DOES NOT need to be here. He is a terrorist. I feel we deserve much better than what we got. America can be a wonderful place to live, but not if we let the dums take her down the path to HELL.
Posted by: Lynn at December 7, 2008 02:22 PM
Tom, so true!!
"If African leaders had any tendency toward democracy their nations could be very wealthy and stable."
And instead they beg for handouts from our country. Bush has given millions to Africa. Or I should say we all have in our taxes.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 7, 2008 04:14 PM
Mark, yes a lot like those two cities.
Just in Los Angels couties:
Recent estimates indicate approximately 1,350 street gangs, with as many as 175,000 members in the FBI Los Angeles’ seven-county area of responsibility ( San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange).
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 7, 2008 04:23 PM
Lynn, I agree, he is a terrorist and to help him in any way and we know Obama will he always has, that whole thing is wrong from the start.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 7, 2008 04:29 PM
I've been reading some of your comments and it refreshing to see that there is another side of conversations going on about this, because I sure don't hear it in the workplace.
Posted by: RUSerious at December 10, 2008 11:43 AM
