
Kenya: KQ Saga continues with “KALPA not withdrawing the strike notice but rather deferrring it to later date” (17.10.2016)







“Who will be the opposition coalition, Cord, presidential candidate to take on Jubilee’s Uhuru Kenyatta in next year’s polls? Well, that remains the big question with various cord leaders and the constituent political parties seemingly at loggerheads on how to go about the process, let alone which candidate among the three co-principals, Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula is best suited to deliver victory next year. Game plan 2017 takes a look at the seemingly divergent views of the coalition’s top leaders on how to go about the presidential nomination exercise” (Kenya Citizen TV, 2016).

“Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery on Tuesday defended the National Police Service against claims of extra-judicial killings highlighted by a section of the media.Nkaissery said there is no policy on extra-judicial killings in the police department, “and no death squads exist in the service.” (Capital FM Kenya, 2016).
“Ford Kenya leader and cord co-principal Moses Wetangula has asked CORD chief Raila Odinga to shelve his presidential bid, and back either of his co-principals if the coalition. However Odinga’s allies in ODM insist it was neither debatable nor in doubt that the former prime minister is CORD’s preferred candidate” (Kenya CitizenTV, 2016).
“ODM leader Raila Odinga and a new team of strategists have crafted a multi-pronged tactic to discredit President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first four years in power” (The Star Kenya, 2016)