Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Pundit on December 13, 2021, 12:57:35 PM
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Reading Kiraitu interview - it's was obvious like Tigrays - that Kalenjin elite led by Moi had committed 24yrs of trangression but going for Moi would have sparked a civil war. Kalenjin then literally dominated and run the security forces. Touching Moi was a no go zone. Kalenjin nation was on the edge - many blaming Moi for handing power to Narc instead of military - like some hardliners like Biwott wanted.
Now Ethiopia are in throes of civil war that will lead to destruction of the promising country future - and send them back again to stone age.
All Abiy needed to do was to let Tigray issue slide.....and in a decade or so...they would be weaken.
At the time Joseph Boinnet was the head of intelligence and he was getting all this information, but Kibaki did not want us to fight Moi. The house Moi used to occupy at Kabarnet Gardens was meant for the Vice-President and there was pressure for us to evict him so that Kijana Wamalwa, the new VP, could occupy it.
We went to consult Kibaki about the eviction with Amos Kimunya, who was the minister for Lands at the time, but Kibaki told Kimunya to process a title deed for the property in Moi’s name and hand it over to the retired president, which he did.
Then we got intelligence that there would be a fresh wave of tribal clashes in the Rift Valley were we to implement the report. These were not the kind of things we wanted because of the new mood of stabilising the country, so it was decided that we should shelve the report.
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/kiraitu-murungi-how-mwai-kibaki-stopped-us-from-arresting-moi-3649836
If Baby Abbiy had this kind of intellect...
I think coming from where we were, what we needed as a country was drafting strategies on how to move forward. As I said, in a democratic setting, you cannot have a radical break with the past. It is not possible because the people who helped you come to power have roots in the past system.
You cannot make radical reforms in a democratic system. It has to move slowly. It is not like when you shoot your way to power because that way you can even afford a revolution. As long as you are elected, you have so many equations to balance in your quest for votes. You also have a lot of people with different agenda and you have to compromise. Democracy is about listening and compromise.