Save Kenya Now:

TO

KENYANS.

SIGNS OF WAR AND CHAOS IN KENYA ARE HERE:

The Kenya Standard Newspaper of the 25th. Of July 2010 quoted retired President Moi saying that the Government is creating unnecessary tension in Rift Valley by deploying Security officers to the region in anticipation of clashes after the August 4th. referendum. He said the region is not volatile to warrant sending security personnel ahead of next months vote. “ The Government has been misadvised to deploy security personnel in Rift Valley Province to maintain peace yet the residents are peaceful and do not intend to cause chaos. I have been going round urging people to live in harmony even after the referendum and I am going to intensify the campaign”. the retired President said. What is perplexing to every sane Kenyan, is that in President Daniel Toroitich Arap Mois reign of 24 years, he totally failed not only to stop the senseless and heinous killings of defenseless, helpless and innocent women and children, for 14 years consecutively, but he also failed to urge Kenyans to live in Harmony. What makes him think he is capable of bringing peace and harmony to Kenyans now he is out of power and too old? What does he have now that he missed in the 14 years of senseless killing of women and children during his reign?

For a period of 14 years, from 1991 to 1998, innocent Kenyans continued to be killed year after year in Eldoret, Kitale, Njoro and molo. The best action the retired President Moi is known to have taken, was to urge both the elders from both sides of the attackers and the victims, to meet and talk peace. This was President Mois message every time innocent women and children were attacked and killed in the period of 14 years of total darkness and uncertainty to some communities in Kenya, who were targeted for attack, killing and eviction from the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is unimaginable for the retired President Moi to think he would succeed to do what he failed to do in the 14 years of continuous killings of innocent Kenyans during his reign. President Moi was unable to stop the killings when he had powers to do so. It is a mockery that the retired President would come out open to tell Kenyans that as powerless and as old as he is today, he is capable of maintaining peace and harmony in Kenya, unlike before when he was in power and younger.

On 18th. Of October 2009, retired President Moi was quoted by the Kenya Media saying that the debate on the Draft constitution would bring catastrophe in Kenya. On the 9th. Of December 2009, the Kenya media released information that a discovery had been made in Narok, Kenya by the Kenya Police, of dangerous weapons which included 100,000 bullet, Army Uniforms, Plane Batteries, Army food Rations and other weapons. On 2nd. Of February 2010, the Kenya Media reported that 31,121 bullets, 20,000 liters of petrol, trucks, government Land Rovers, Land Rover Spare parts and others dangerous weapons were also discovered in Narok, Kenya. A few weeks ago, bombs and bomb detonators were discovered in two different places at different intervals of time. Already leaflets have been circulated in various parts of Rift Valley, warning communities to leave Rift Valley or risk being attacked and killed. What is the cover-up when retired President Moi says Rift Valley is calm and does not need security beef up? Retired President Mois utterances before the 1991 killings, on the 18th. Of October 2009 and on the 25th. Of July 2010, leaves a lot to be desired.

On the 22nd of July 2010, the Kenya Standard newspapers reported that 10,000 elite Security officers were deployed in hotspots in Rift Valley. The aim is to prevent the recurrence of bloodletting in the Provinces’ traditional cosmopolitan trouble spots. The sources revealed the security Machinery was under orders to do everything possible to ensure there would be no recurrence of cases of violence as happened after the release of disputed Presidential results in 2007. The status analysis has identified these hotspots areas as Kitale, Eldoret, Kapsabet, Nandi Hills and Burnt Forest. The paper further said that in some of these areas, the security personnel have reported early warning signs of rising tension through threatening leaflets targeting certain communities. A subheading in the Daily Nation of the 25th. Of July 2010, read; “ FEAR, TENTION IN KENYA VIOLENCE HOTSPOTS”. The Daily Nation newspaper of Kenya, provided information that the Kenya Government is rolling out a massive Security Operation to ensure peace before and after the referendum on August 4. 15,000 officers will be deployed where some residents have started moving back to camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The daily Nation wrote that tension is rising in the volatile Province, following the now familiar pattern of intimidation and the distribution of leaflets threatening eviction of certain communities. According to the Paper, the Security forces have identified the areas most likely to experience violence, the so called hotspots and directed their resources there. The paper further reported that the Kenya Government will gazette more than 39,000 officers from Prisons, Kenya Wildlife Services and Forest Services and send them by the end of the week. The officers to be deployed are from the General Service Unit, Regular and Administration Police.

Kenyans in Diaspora, those in Kenya and the entire International community should applaud and support the Kenya Government in its efforts to prevent the recurrence of the senseless and heinous killings of the helpless and defenseless women and children. For the first time in 2 decades the Kenya Government has shown commitments to prevent the Killings of women and children who have suffered most from the Politically instigated attacks and killings in 14 years.

Today evidence indicate there are very many dangerous sophisticated weapons hidden in various parts of Kenya, especially in the Rift Valley. The security forces deployed in those hotspots should seek orderly instructions from those in leadership positions. It will be completely out of order to order the security forces in those areas to fire in the air when attacked with deadly weapons. We should remember such instructions cost the administration policemen who were killed a short while before the last general elections on their way to Kisumu to deliver Ballot Boxes. The Security forces should be allowed to shoot at those who come out to kill innocent Kenyans, and not to short in the air when their lives are threatened and in circumstances when they encounter a militia that has previously succeeded in numerous attacks and killings of thousands of people. The Kenya Government should understand it will be harder to deal with the militia that has terrorized Kenyans for many years, now that there is already an influx of dangerous weapons in their possession.

Nevertheless, those in Diaspora are ready to do anything to help prevent the inhumane actions of those who intend to cause war, chaos or killing of innocent women and children in Kenya. They are ready to leave their jobs to go back home to stop the killing of children and their mothers as has happened before. By copy of this letter I urge Ugandans, Ethiopians, Rwandese, Burundians, Tanzanians to build similar concerns because instability in Kenya would affect the entire East and Central African Region.

Isaac Newton Kinity

Former Secretary General

Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman

Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.

7/25/2010