Raila (Odinga , Kenya PM)snubs US team over 2007 election

The Standard ^ | Dec. 20, 2008 | Oscar Obonyo

[FocusNexus]

Top Government officials have declined to meet representatives of a US poll body caught in controversy over the 2007 General Election.

The Standard On Sunday has exclusively learnt that key officials of the International Republican Institute (IRI) are in the country and have been pleading with Government authorities to "put in a good word" for them. The group is chaired by Arizona Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in the November election against Barack Obama, and it is fighting to salvage its credibility.

The IRI team pitched tent at Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office at Treasury House last Wednesday and Thursday, where they pleaded with the PM, last year's presidential candidate, to save the organisation's image.

"Our concern, which I am confident you appreciate, is that any skepticism of IRI's integrity as an institute will directly affect our ability to work not only in Kenya but around the world," says Elizabeth Dugan, IRI's Vice President for Programmes, in a letter addressed to the PM.

Coincidentally, the letter to the PM is dated December 16, 2008, the very day Parliament sounded the death knell on the local polls body - Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK). Legislators unanimously voted to amend a clause in the Constitution stripping ECK commissioners of security of tenure in office. The electoral body was found guilty of bungling last year's presidential polls and the changes executed by Parliament are part of the wider ongoing institutional reforms.

New evidence now indicates that a host of other institutions - local and international - risk going down with ECK over the highly discredited poll. IRI is presently on the spot. "The Nation" a New York newspaper and "New York Times" magazine first published IRI’s predicament early this year and have consistently audited the institution.

[FocusNexus]

in other news:

Raila (Odinga) to lead team for Obama fete (inauguration) in US

More info about IRI

IRI, Advancing Democracy Worldwide

"Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best -- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.” These words by President Ronald Reagan in a 1982 speech before the British Parliament were the inspiration that led to the establishment of the International Republican Institute (IRI).

In his historic speech, President Reagan set America on a course of assisting those who wanted freedom and democracy around the world. Quoting the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he stated "we must be staunch in our conviction that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings."

[Seruzawa]

Odinga has time left over from slaughtering Christians for this?

[ETL]

Odinga has time left over from slaughtering Christians for this?

"When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire. Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days."
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/odinga-and-obam.html
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Up to 1,000 killed in Kenyan crisis: Odinga
AOL India Editorial
Last Updated: January 07, 2008

Odinga, who turned 63 on Monday, faces a dilemma of responding to international pressure to avoid provoking more violence while also maintaining momentum to oust Kibaki.

http://www.aol.in/news/story/2008010710489019000001/
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Must see video of Obama campaiging in Kenya for Odinga!
Barack Obama & Raila Odinga REDUX:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAHU22xnyA
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Raila Odinga's official website:
"Your Agent For Change", "Register For Change", "Vote For Change"
http://www.raila07.com/
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[ETL]

The YouTube video has been removed yet again. Here is another link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eVVVKFHu0

[ETL]

Here's another one that will surely disappear. It looks like the same one I first tried to link you to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63bBCC2-yM&feature=related

[TexasCajun]

Don't forget, DICK MORRIS was involved with Raila Odinga's campagn. At Obamah's request I beleive.

Sean Hannity never asks his buddy about his involvement with Obamah & his cousin!

Dick soon got kicked out of the country!

[TexasCajun]

Dick Morris:

Raila gets Clinton advisor for campaigns

[ckilmer]

Here is Gov (commerce secretary elect)Bill Richardson saying in Spanish that Obama is an "immigrant." (So he understands understands "immigrant" issues.)The context suggests that by "immigrant" bill richardson means "illegal immigrant"



Here in plain English is the Kenyan Ambassador saying that Obama is born in Kenya.

Obama Grandmother audio: Barack Born in Kenya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFc4wCpvSo

Obama Grandmother audio: Barack Born in Kenya