Kenyan Election and fair reporting

America and the west do not care about the interest of Africa and for that matter Kenya, what they care about is their own interest. Whether the Kenyans Election were fair or not fair Is not what they care about. It is what they can get from the incoming president. The question I keep asking is; did Raila promise the west something? One minute the elections were fair as “long as the opposition was winning and the next when the government side starting winning, wow, the elections was flawed!!! Does this have something to do with the fact that Kenyan government had been getting comfortable with China? We need fair reporting for both side and not only the opposition.
Recently, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the creation of a new, unified military command for Africa. This command is not to safeguard the interest of Africa, but the self-interest for the United States in Africa. Currently sub-Saharan Africa supplies the U.S. with nearly 20 percent of its petroleum needs and, according to National Intelligence Council estimates, within a decade, the West African sub-region will be providing more than one-quarter of North American oil imports by 2015, thus surpassing the total volume of oil imports from the Middle East. Chinese are also interested in this pie. It is about the west interest and not Africa.
We as African and the progressive world need to be very careful when we read news or watch news. The situation in Kenya is very grave and the press needs to report balanced news. What we are seeing now in Kenya is the western press reporting biased against the Kenyan government and the favorably to side that they will benefit more. There is a seating government in Kenya and there are governing bodies that need to be respected and obeyed just like the western government. There are set process to challenge what happened and the opposition need to follow that.
When there was a flawed election in u.s.a, American did not run burning the personal property, they followed the law of land. Gore went to court and he put the interest of United States first. Raila needs to do the same. This is hooliganism; the same hooliganism has been running the street for the last four years. Anytime something does not go their way, they will storm the government offices. The Kibaki government has been very patient and I commend them for that. There is history of the so called “ODM ‘and people need to research before they comment.

You cannot blame the government for the place like Kibera. Kibera has always been there even before the independent. This African ‘Ghetto” was created by colonial government. Kibera is completely not the subject with what is happening. What do you want the Kenyan government to do? Demolish people’s house? There is poverty everywhere in the world; there are places I would not go in Oakland California. Democracy and capitalism is the price. I have been to Kibera and I have been to East Oakland and I feel safer in Kibera. Here, it is a question of encouraging the rule of law. Without the rule of law there cannot be democracy, or economy economical growth. We need to cultivate this in Africa. We have to do it ourselves since the west will not do it for us.


James Gatihi