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Posted Date::03.01.2008 @00:41 EAT
Now Kivuitu speaks out
ECK boss Kivuitu
Opposition leader Raila Odinga to proceed with Uhuru Park rally this afternoon to press for poll result to be overturned

By Polycarp Machira and Agencies

Kenya electoral commission chief Samuel Kivuitu is making world headlines after he announced in a media interview that he was subjected to intense pressure by senior aides of President Mwai Kibaki to announce results as they were given to him, despite his own reservations.

The turn of events has emerged as the Kenyan polls violence continues, with hundreds of people losing their lives and thousands left homeless and fleeing back to Central Province after being singled out as supporters of the president.

On Tuesday night, Mr Kivuitu made the dramatic plea that he was subjected to intense pressure from Kibaki aides about making that announcement.

Mr Kivuitu's admission further dented the credibility of the election results upon which the president was hastily sworn in, sparking the violence.

In what appeared to many as a dramatic climb_down from the verdict of a polls win by the president, when asked if indeed President Kibaki won the elections, he said: "I do not know whether Kibaki won the election."

He said he took the presidential election winner�s certificate to State House, Nairobi, after "some people threatened to collect it while I�m the one mandated by law to do so."

"I arrived at State House to take the certificate and I found the Chief Justice there, ready to swear_in Kibaki," Mr Kivuitu elaborated.

Evaluating the pressure he faced, he said that some PNU (Party of National Unity) and ODM_Kenya leaders put him under pressure by frequent telephone calls, demanding that the results be announced immediately.

President Kibaki ran for re_election on a PNU ticket, arising from the breakdown of the opposition alliance of 2002 put together by current opposition leader Raila Odinga. The latter faced rivalry from former Foreign minister Kalonzo Musyoka.

Mr Kivuitu's remarks came in the wake of parallel pressure from the European Union as well as the United States. British Premier Gordon Brown telephoned both Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga to express concern and urge them to work to rein in the violence.

The EU observer mission has confronted Mr Kibaki's camp with lists of doctored results in numerous constituencies in the central provinces, where the polling station tallies and ECK lists on presidential votes in various constituencies showed wide discrepancies.

Mr Maina Kiai of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights had similarly urged Mr Kivuitu not to announce the results until complaints which arose were addressed.

"I had thought of resigning, but thought against it because I don�t want people to say I�m a coward," he similarly stated.

The embattled ECK chairman made the remarks shortly after meeting with 22 ECK commissioners. He suggested that the issues be taken to court and ruled upon as a matter of urgency. "If this matter is finally taken to court, the ruling should be made urgently so that if it were decided that Raila is the President, so be it. If it is Kibaki, so be it," he specified.

Kivuitu said he announced the results because the commission had no legal mandate to investigate complaints raised by the opposition immediately.

He fell short of naming individuals from the two parties � PNU and ODM_Kenya � who coerced him to announce the disputed poll outcome.

The commission was consulting eminent lawyers over the next course of action so that its actions remain within the law, he stated.

The EU observer team has discredited the poll results and urged for an independent audit. On his part, Kivuitu said he backed independent investigation into what may have happened, noting that this would be the case only if the law provides for it.

"We are culprits as a commission. We have to leave it to an independent group to investigate what actually went wrong," the chairman said, stunning local and international journalists, who had gathered at his Nairobi residence.

It has also emerged that some countries concerned with the poll outcome, like South Africa, had sent in their electoral officials to the country.

Mr Kivuitu said the officials would be arriving on Wednesday to look into the matter.

The ECK chairman was in a meeting with 22 polls commissioners, described by commission deputy chairman Kihara Muttu as "a house_keeping meeting."

In a signed statement, the 22 commissioners condemned the violence, which up to yesterday had claimed the lives of about 300 people.
President Kibaki yesterday invited all members of the new opposition_dominated parliament to a meeting at the State House.

The meeting was attended by some 90 new MPs, according to later reports on international media. Similarly, ODM leader Raila Odinga has confirmed that he will go ahead with the mass rally at Uhuru Park, although the police had firmly placed a ban on the rally.

In a parallel move, the ODM urged the government to accept a recount on the presidential vote by an international team, especially the EU mission.

Easy calm was reported in Nairobi yesterday with a few shops opened, though under tight security, after both parties hit out at actions of violence as genocide.

Mr Kibaki blamed the ODM of orchestrating attacks on houses, shops and vehicles, while Mr Odinga said police were shooting to kill unarmed civilians instead of arresting as required by law.

But Michela Wrong, an author and journalist, told the media that the fighting wasn't simply an ethnic split, but was really about the divisions between rich and poor.

�She said: "That's the ugly surface of a much more profound split but there is a sense that this was an elitist government, it was a government that was really only interested in itself, in its own particular group. "They were doling out jobs to their own people; all the key ministries were in the hands of that group but at the same time were ignoring the needs of the poor."

Meanwhile, President Jakaya Kikwete is expected in Kampala for consultations with President Yoweri Museveni over the instability in Kenya caused by alleged flawed elections, according to Uganda�s Daily Monitor.

The president was scheduled to arrive in Kampala for a meeting with Mr Museveni, one of the region�s power brokers and the chairman of the East African Community, of which Kenya is a member. The other member states are Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga to proceed with Uhuru Park rally this afternoon to press for poll result to be overturned

By Polycarp Machira and Agencies

Kenya electoral commission chief Samuel Kivuitu is making world headlines after he announced in a media interview that he was subjected to intense pressure by senior aides of President Mwai Kibaki to announce results as they were given to him, despite his own reservations.

The turn of events has emerged as the Kenyan polls violence continues, with hundreds of people losing their lives and thousands left homeless and fleeing back to Central Province after being singled out as supporters of the president.

On Tuesday night, Mr Kivuitu made the dramatic plea that he was subjected to intense pressure from Kibaki aides about making that announcement.

Mr Kivuitu's admission further dented the credibility of the election results upon which the president was hastily sworn in, sparking the violence.

In what appeared to many as a dramatic climb_down from the verdict of a polls win by the president, when asked if indeed President Kibaki won the elections, he said: "I do not know whether Kibaki won the election."

He said he took the presidential election winner�s certificate to State House, Nairobi, after "some people threatened to collect it while I�m the one mandated by law to do so."

"I arrived at State House to take the certificate and I found the Chief Justice there, ready to swear_in Kibaki," Mr Kivuitu elaborated.

Evaluating the pressure he faced, he said that some PNU (Party of National Unity) and ODM_Kenya leaders put him under pressure by frequent telephone calls, demanding that the results be announced immediately.

President Kibaki ran for re_election on a PNU ticket, arising from the breakdown of the opposition alliance of 2002 put together by current opposition leader Raila Odinga. The latter faced rivalry from former Foreign minister Kalonzo Musyoka.

Mr Kivuitu's remarks came in the wake of parallel pressure from the European Union as well as the United States. British Premier Gordon Brown telephoned both Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga to express concern and urge them to work to rein in the violence.

The EU observer mission has confronted Mr Kibaki's camp with lists of doctored results in numerous constituencies in the central provinces, where the polling station tallies and ECK lists on presidential votes in various constituencies showed wide discrepancies.

Mr Maina Kiai of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights had similarly urged Mr Kivuitu not to announce the results until complaints which arose were addressed.

"I had thought of resigning, but thought against it because I don�t want people to say I�m a coward," he similarly stated.

The embattled ECK chairman made the remarks shortly after meeting with 22 ECK commissioners. He suggested that the issues be taken to court and ruled upon as a matter of urgency. "If this matter is finally taken to court, the ruling should be made urgently so that if it were decided that Raila is the President, so be it. If it is Kibaki, so be it," he specified.

Kivuitu said he announced the results because the commission had no legal mandate to investigate complaints raised by the opposition immediately.

He fell short of naming individuals from the two parties � PNU and ODM_Kenya � who coerced him to announce the disputed poll outcome.

The commission was consulting eminent lawyers over the next course of action so that its actions remain within the law, he stated.

The EU observer team has discredited the poll results and urged for an independent audit. On his part, Kivuitu said he backed independent investigation into what may have happened, noting that this would be the case only if the law provides for it.

"We are culprits as a commission. We have to leave it to an independent group to investigate what actually went wrong," the chairman said, stunning local and international journalists, who had gathered at his Nairobi residence.

It has also emerged that some countries concerned with the poll outcome, like South Africa, had sent in their electoral officials to the country.

Mr Kivuitu said the officials would be arriving on Wednesday to look into the matter.

The ECK chairman was in a meeting with 22 polls commissioners, described by commission deputy chairman Kihara Muttu as "a house_keeping meeting."

In a signed statement, the 22 commissioners condemned the violence, which up to yesterday had claimed the lives of about 300 people.
President Kibaki yesterday invited all members of the new opposition_dominated parliament to a meeting at the State House.

The meeting was attended by some 90 new MPs, according to later reports on international media. Similarly, ODM leader Raila Odinga has confirmed that he will go ahead with the mass rally at Uhuru Park, although the police had firmly placed a ban on the rally.

In a parallel move, the ODM urged the government to accept a recount on the presidential vote by an international team, especially the EU mission.

Easy calm was reported in Nairobi yesterday with a few shops opened, though under tight security, after both parties hit out at actions of violence as genocide.

Mr Kibaki blamed the ODM of orchestrating attacks on houses, shops and vehicles, while Mr Odinga said police were shooting to kill unarmed civilians instead of arresting as required by law.

But Michela Wrong, an author and journalist, told the media that the fighting wasn't simply an ethnic split, but was really about the divisions between rich and poor.

�She said: "That's the ugly surface of a much more profound split but there is a sense that this was an elitist government, it was a government that was really only interested in itself, in its own particular group. "They were doling out jobs to their own people; all the key ministries were in the hands of that group but at the same time were ignoring the needs of the poor."

Meanwhile, President Jakaya Kikwete is expected in Kampala for consultations with President Yoweri Museveni over the instability in Kenya caused by alleged flawed elections, according to Uganda�s Daily Monitor.

The president was scheduled to arrive in Kampala for a meeting with Mr Museveni, one of the region�s power brokers and the chairman of the East African Community, of which Kenya is a member. The other member states are Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Je unakumbuka yaliyotokea kwenye vita ya pili ya dunia pekua nami

World War II

British troops on landing craft

Churchill, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam Conference16 July
1945: Allied leaders gather at Potsdam
Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin discuss the fate of a defeated Germany.

German SS woman moving dead bodies under eye of British guards15 April
1945: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen
British troops enter the concentration camp after negotiating a truce with the German commandant.

Foreign Minister Anthony Eden17 December
1942: Britain condemns massacre of Jews
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden condemns the persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Cheering crowds in front of double-decker bus8 May
1945: Rejoicing at end of war in Europe
The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, officially announces the end of the war with Germany

World War II
01 Sep 1939: Germany invades Poland

03 Sep 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany

10 May 1940: Churchill takes helm as Germans advance

04 Jun 1940: Dunkirk rescue is over - Churchill defiant

14 Jun 1940: German troops enter Paris

10 Jul 1940: Luftwaffe launches Battle of Britain

07 Sep 1940: London blitzed by German bombers

15 Sep 1940: Victory for RAF in Battle of Britain

15 Nov 1940: Germans bomb Coventry to destruction

22 Jun 1941: Hitler invades the Soviet Union

14 Aug 1941: Secret meetings seal US-Britain alliance

07 Dec 1941: Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor

11 Dec 1941: Germany and Italy declare war on US

15 Feb 1942: Singapore forced to surrender

15 Apr 1942: Malta gets George Cross for bravery

07 Jun 1942: Japanese beaten in Battle of Midway

19 Aug 1942: Allies launch daring raid on Dieppe

04 Nov 1942: Rommel goes on the run at El Alamein

01 Dec 1942: Beveridge lays welfare foundations

02 Feb 1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad

16 May 1943: Germans crush Jewish uprising

17 May 1943: RAF raid smashes German dams

10 Jul 1943: Western Allies invade Sicily

25 Jul 1943: Italian dictator Mussolini quits

03 Sep 1943: Allied troops invade mainland Italy

08 Sep 1943: Italy's surrender announced

01 Dec 1943: Allies united after Tehran conference

27 Jan 1944: Leningrad siege ends after 900 days

18 May 1944: Monte Cassino falls to the Allies

05 Jun 1944: Celebrations as Rome is liberated

20 Jul 1944: Hitler survives assassination attempt

01 Aug 1944: Uprising to free Warsaw begins

25 Aug 1944: Paris is liberated as Germans surrender

17 Sep 1944: Airborne invasion of Holland begins

26 Sep 1944: Airborne troops retreat from Arnhem

03 Oct 1944: Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising

17 Dec 1944: Germany counter-attacks in Ardennes

27 Jan 1945: Auschwitz death camp liberated

07 Feb 1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany

14 Feb 1945: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden

23 Feb 1945: US flag raised over Iwo Jima

21 Apr 1945: Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin

27 Apr 1945: Russians and Americans link at Elbe

28 Apr 1945: Italian partisans kill Mussolini

01 May 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead

07 May 1945: Germany signs unconditional surrender

21 Jun 1945: US troops take Okinawa

26 Jul 1945: Churchill loses general election

06 Aug 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

09 Aug 1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki

15 Aug 1945: Allied nations celebrate VJ Day

02 Sep 1945: Japan signs unconditional surrender

24 Oct 1945: United Nations Organisation is born

20 Nov 1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins
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