Kenya Talks

21 September 2012

Dear Colleague

Receive this communication from the Raila Odinga Presidential Secretariat for your kind consideration and use.

Kind regards.

Barrack

TNA’s sinister violent schemes

1. This Secretariat would like to call the attention of peace loving Kenyans to sinister motives by the National Alliance (TNA) party to foment and execute political violence and blame it on our Presidential Candidate’s followers.

2. We especially want to caution Kenyans not to be drawn into TNA instigated violence during a football match between AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia FC in Nairobi, tomorrow Saturday 22 September.

3. In the recent past, the leadership of TNA has bent backwards over to sponsor and plant into the Kenyan national psyche the engineered perception of ODM as a “violent fraternity.” The architects of this ploy are a very senior members of the TNA party, a Member of Parliament representing a Nairobi Constituency and a New Ford Kenya member of UDF.

4. Part of this scheme has manifested in the hiring of performers, who pretended to be harassing one Miguna Miguna on the occasion of “publicizing” his book in various towns in Kenya. A few moments after the so-called “goons” had affected to bully Miguna, they would be seen on TV cameras buoyantly swaggering away with Miguna, celebrating their performance, in the full glare of the Kenya Police.

5. It is instructive that the script was planned to give Miguna a heroic welcome in TNA strongholds, “to show how democratic” and “peace loving” TNA supporters are.

6. In the just concluded by-elections, there were TNA sponsored violent dramas in ODM strongholds. TNA has since been eloquently broadcasting falsehoods about these sponsored dramas of violence, especially in TNA owned media.

7. A ploy in the offing is to disrupt a football match between AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia Football Clubs this weekend. The stage has is fully set for TNA funded violence. This sinister plan seeks not only to cast a section of the ODM supporters as violent, but also to drive a wedge between two language communities from the Lake Basin.

8. We wish to caution peace loving Kenyans and especially those who will turn out to watch the match between AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia in Nairobi tomorrow not to fall for TNA’s violent tricks. We appeal to them to support their teams and to enjoy the match to hilt, knowing very well that someone wants to use this match to achieve wicked political goals.

9. At the same time, we wish to appeal to TNA’s leadership to drop their desperate and dangerous line of violent political mobilization. We wish to remind them that the country has not yet recovered from the aftermath of political violence of 2007 – 2008. We urge TNA leaders to change to a peace agenda.

Barack M.

This is the height of desperation trying to link Uhuru to violence and raise the ICC flag. Trying to knock Uhuru out of the race won't cut it for ODM. Agostinho Neto's brother led the violence in Ndhiwa. Mulukaissued a communique stating that Miguna got what he deserved because he provoked Destroyer, so how does this become a TNA thing?

rveline wrote:We wish to remind them that the country has not yet recovered from the aftermath of political violence of 2007 – 2008. We urge TNA leaders to change to a peace agenda.

Barack M.

Barrack's the new guy hey. Phil's piece dated the 20th is the only official statement, there's something very sinister about Barack's piece. Where did it come from is the mystery or maybe not. I bet MM would know. Maybe he had a point to some things.

Raila is starting slowly the campaign of 41 vs 1. The problem now is that majority of the 42 are sympathetic or together with the '1'. I hope Uhuruto strategists are studying the unfolding drama from jaCon. Anti-Kikuyu will not fly in 2013 but Uhuru needs to step up to the podium and utilize his new found bully pulpit to issue a well orchestrated rebuttal.