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Kenya IDPs remain adamant

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

Internally Displaced Persons still reluctant to relocate

Internally Displaced Persons still reluctant to relocate

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 9 – Despite the deadline for the Internally Displaced Persons to vacate their camps ending on Friday, many of them were still reluctant to leave the sites.

They said they had not been given land to resettle, but the government maintained that to receive any monetary compensation they had to dismantle their tents.

“We will stay here, we are not going anywhere,” said one displaced person at the camp in Eldoret, while others said they were not assured of security should they go back to their farms.

At the peak of the violence, the camps were home to around 500,000 people but two weeks ago, President Mwai Kibaki ordered their immediate closure.

Those living in the camps a year-and-a-half after the signing of the peace accord are reluctant to leave despite the government’s directive. 

Each family has been offered Sh35,000 shillings to leave the camps and settle elsewhere.

According to a statement from the Internal Security Ministry on Friday, the government said the Ministry of Lands had purchased 8,323 acres of land to resettle the 6,802 people still living in camps following the post poll violence in 2007 and 2008.

In the statement, Permanent Secretary Francis Kimemia said each of the 3,500 families living in camps would get two acres of land while families to be resettled in low potential areas would get a maximum of four acres each.

Mr Kimemia said the IDPs moving out of the camps would receive their pieces of land from next Wednesday.

The Ministry of Finance had set aside Sh2 billion to purchase the land and cater for the resettlement process bringing the total to Sh1.4 billion.

He said the other Sh550 million would be used to purchase an extra 10,000 acres of land to resettle more IDPs.

About 600,000 people were displaced following the disputed poll that left about 1,500 others dead.

During Chief Mediator Kofi Annan’s three day visit in Kenya this week, different groups that held talks with him complained that the government had not fully resettled all the displaced persons.

Religious leaders also drew concerns over people who moved in with their relatives when the violence broke. They said the government was only concerned with those physically living in camps.

During the talks, there were also concerns over delicate peace in the country.

CAPITAL FM

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Black NFL players crush prospect of playing for a Rush Limbaugh-owned St. Louis Rams

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

BY Ohm Youngmisuk
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Updated Friday, October 9th 2009, 8:59 AM

If Rush Limbaugh buys the Rams, the NFL's black players say they won't meet him in St. Louis.

ERIC RISBERG/AP

If Rush Limbaugh buys the Rams, the NFL’s black players say they won’t meet him in St. Louis.

Mathias Kiwanuka loves his former defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Giants’ defensive end says he will never play for Spagnuolo’s Rams if Rush Limbaugh purchases the team.

Kiwanuka and the Jets’ Bart Scott made it clear Thursday that they would never play for the Rams or any team owned by the controversial conservative radio host.

“All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama’s America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting ‘right on,’” Kiwanuka told The Daily News. “I mean, I don’t want anything to do with a team that he has any part of. He can do whatever he wants, it is a free country. But if it goes through, I can tell you where I am not going to play.”

“I am not going to draw a conclusion from a person off of one comment, but when it is time after time after time and there’s a consistent pattern of disrespect and just a complete misunderstanding of an entire culture that I am a part of, I can’t respect him as a man.”

Limbaugh said on Tuesday that he is joining former Knicks president and Madison Square Garden CEO Dave Checketts in a group bidding to purchase the Rams. Checketts, who owns the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, is heading the group, reportedly one of many bidders. The potential sale is still in an early stage. If the Rams are sold, St. Louis will choose one bidding group, which will then be subject to a vote by the NFL’s 32 owners, with approval needed by 24 of them.

Limbaugh’s controversial comments are well-known. He resigned from ESPN in 2003 after he said the media were “very desirous that a black quarterback do well” in reference to Philadelphia’s Donovan McNabb being overrated. “If he’s rewarded to buy them, congratulations to him,” McNabb said during his weekly press conference. “But I won’t be in St. Louis anytime soon.”

Scott says players remember what Limbaugh said, and adds that the NFL would be wise not to allow the nationally syndicated host into the league. “It’s an oxymoron that he criticized Donovan McNabb,” Scott said. “A lot of us took it as more of a racial-type thing. I can only imagine how his players would feel. I know I wouldn’t want to play for him. He’s a jerk. He’s an —. What he said (about McNabb) was inappropriate and insensitive, totally off-base. He could offer me whatever he wanted, I wouldn’t play for him. … I wouldn’t play for Rush Limbaugh. My principles are greater and I can’t be bought.”

Limbaugh, who grew up in Missouri about 100 miles south of St. Louis, is an avid sports fan who once said that “the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.”

Kiwanuka cringes at the idea of Limbaugh becoming an NFL owner. “They are flat-out racist,” Kiwanuka said of many of Limbaugh’s statements. “He jumps on Obama and he jumps on other people for being racist. But a lot of the comments that he said, I feel like they have no place in journalism. It is just an opinion show that should be only be taken for shock value. I liken it to ‘South Park’ when I am listening to him.”

“I love Spags and would play for him in a heartbeat, but under that situation … obviously trades you have no control over, but if it was a free-agent thing, I wouldn’t care if I only had one offer on the table, I would rather stay a free agent.”

- With Rich Cimini

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Disciplining the Matatu Driver

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

Wambua Sammy

9 October 2009

Nairobi — Hurtling at 140kph on Thika Road, it was just a matter of time before we were transferred to a hearse from the Toyota Hiace. Passengers held their breath, but I was not about to be killed by a dread-locked, twig-chewing idiot. Not after traffic policemen had gestured at the lunatic resignedly, if not knowingly. Police business would be good on his return trip from Mwingi.

After some overtaking manoeuvres, the death trap veered off the road but, somehow, the lunatic brought it back to the tarmac as passengers sighed: “Ngai vava, Mwathani.” After a few kilometres of sobriety the devil resumed possession of the man’s faculties, but I wasn’t going to let him do more than 100 kph. By slightly tugging at his dreadlocks, there was no way he was going to speed.

Now, hell hath no fury like a “rastaman” slighted. On the first attempt, he slammed on the brakes, disembarked angrily and slid open the passenger door ready to flush me out. Little did I know that my fellow travellers had had enough of him. Punches, slaps, handbags, chips and mobile phones were rained on the brute and a citizens’ arrest made.

Between Sunday and Monday, about 20 people, among them two innocent girls on their way to Sunday school, perished in road accidents. It means that by now, your patience with Commish Matthew Iteere (pictured) should have run out. It’s one thing to breathe fire in front of cameras. Acting is another, and he is not doing it.

Good Kenyans, it is incumbent upon you to grab any speeding PSV driver by the head and twist it until he sees his back. It will transport the new man at Vigilance House and the Lingala music-crooning minister to the unfamiliar world of action. Hopefully.

————In the 16th century, Russia used to take the biscuit for being the most backward country in Europe. Tired of this dubious distinction, a chap by the name of Peter the Great resolved that things had to change, but first he had to establish the cause of the backwardness.

“Beards,” it occurred to him, whereupon his Imperial Majesty ordered an empire-wide removal of facial hair. I read that the chaps entrusted with the task did a thorough job of it, as was evident in the heaps of hair one saw all over the country.

But alas! with beards out of the way, the Russians still had a lot of catching up to do with Austrians, Britons, Prussians and the French. Peter had cleared the physical beard, but they forgot the huge, luxuriant tufts in the average Russian’s mind.

I don’t know, but perish the thought that Kofi Annan could be deluding himself that something called Agenda IV will wipe out our unsightly political beards. Reforming the police, land policies and laws, implementing the administrative border review, rewriting the Constitution and creating jobs for the youth are a step in the right direction, but certainly not the ultimate solution.

We need shock therapy in order to respect reform. And, by the look of things, 2012 and thereafter is the time for it. If you think I am a prophet of doom just analyse the behaviour and utterances of our politicians and the skewed nature of appointments to strategic public offices. No physical and mental beards have been cleared as to yield a different post-election scenario. Period.

It didn’t work. At first, I thought it had to do with my inability to understand Chinglish in which the instructions were inscribed. Later I summoned a techno savvy friend, actually a transmission engineer, who assured me that “those things rarely work.”

Now these guys have erected a huge edifice in the form of letter A on Mombasa Road. “China-Kenya,” it screams to everybody entering or leaving Nairobi. Okay, they are fixing the road, but why not “Kenya-China?” you may ask.

————Have you seen the funeral home advert complete with brightly polished coffins? At this rate we will have surgeons waving livers, intestines, wombs and lungs on television. Naturally, advertisement copy writers will have a field day with lines like: “Allow Dr Everything into your internals. Survival guaranteed.”

ALL AFRICA.COM

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Mother drowned daughter, 4, because she feared she would be taken from her in custody battle

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

A young mother who killed her four-year-old daughter because she feared she would be taken from her was today ordered to be detained indefinitely at a secure hospital.

Laura Fletcher drowned Chloe by holding her down in a bath of cold water, before attempting to hang herself.

Drowned: Chloe was held ina cold bath by her mother, Laura (Daily Mail-UK)

Drowned: Chloe Fletcher was held in a cold bath by her mother, Laura (Daily Mail-UK)

The 23-year-old, who was suffering a serious mental illness, then spent two days in the house with her dead child before reporting the crime to police from a public phone box half a mile from her home.

Fletcher, of Oakdale Avenue, Wallasey, Merseyside, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility last month.

At her sentencing today, the Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Henry Globe QC, was told she killed Chloe because she feared the little girl was going to be taken from her by relatives of the child’s father, Dean Marr.

Andrew Menary QC, prosecuting, said: ‘Police received a call from the defendant saying she had killed her daughter and attempted to hang herself, but the cord had snapped.

‘Soon after, the police met the defendant at her home when she immediately repeated, “I’ve killed her, I’ve killed her”.’

Police found Chloe had been dressed and laid out on the bed with a soft toy by her side, Mr Menary said.

Next to the child was a note apparently written by Fletcher which said: ‘I’m sorry Chloe you’ve died, but I just didn’t want to lose you to the Marrs because I was scared of them taking you as you were alive.

‘I love you that much I did that. I love you and will miss you loads. I tried but I couldn’t kill myself, it snapped.

‘I love you always no matter what you think of me, love Mummy.’

Mr Menary added when Fletcher was taken into police custody, she had written on her left arm with a pen: ‘I do not want any more kids’.

He said the killing took place in the early hours of Monday April 27 this year but it was not until early on Wednesday April 29 that Fletcher called the police.

The prosecutor said Fletcher had brought Chloe home from nursery school on the previous Friday and gave her a bath, leaving the water in the tub afterwards because she feared the water supply was due to be cut off.

He said: ‘Throughout Saturday and Sunday, both mother and daughter stayed at home until late on Sunday when the defendant became increasingly paranoid.

‘She feared that Julie Marr, Chloe’s paternal grandmother, was going to get access to Chloe and this was not something Laura Fletcher wanted.’

Mr Menary said Fletcher came to the conclusion that the only way Chloe could stay with her was if the child died.

He said: ‘And so she carried the child to the bathroom and put her head first under the water that had been left in the bath a few days earlier.

‘Chloe was half asleep but still struggled with her arms to lift her head above the water.”

Detained indefinitely: Laura Fletcher said she killed Chloe because she feared she would be taken by relatives of the childs father (PA)

Detained indefinitely: Laura Fletcher said she killed Chloe because she feared she would be taken by relatives of the child's father (PA)

Fletcher held her daughter with one hand on her back and one on the back of her head. She later said she had been surprised how long it had taken for her daughter to die.

‘No attempt was made to resuscitate this little girl or to summon help,’ Mr Menary told the court.

‘The defendant slept with her daughter’s body next to her for the remainder of that night.’

Mr Menary said Fletcher and Mr Marr had separated in 2006, when Chloe was aged one.

He added that the father and particularly his mother, Julie Marr, had continued taking an active interest in Chloe.

He said they told police Fletcher had been a good mother who kept Chloe clean and well cared for.

But, the prosecutor added, things changed ‘dramatically’ in about July 2007.

Mrs Marr had not heard from Fletcher for some weeks so visited her house and found the defendant and Chloe in a dirty and unkempt state.

Mrs Marr took her granddaughter home with her for several weeks until Chloe returned to live with her mother.

Shortly afterwards, Fletcher moved house and Chloe’s father’s family again lost contact.

Mr Menary said: ‘Social services said that Laura was fine but would not give Julie any information.

‘In March 2008, Dean Marr discovered the defendant’s new address and visited on Mother’s Day only to discover the defendant and Chloe were living in appalling conditions.

‘The house was dirty and despite the cold weather there was no heating on the premises.

‘Dean Marr found Chloe sitting naked in an empty bath. There was no food in the house and the place was in darkness because the electricity had been turned off.

‘Mr Marr called the police and social services were contacted the next day.

‘From that point neither Dean nor Julie saw Chloe. They made efforts through social services and even used a solicitor to no avail.

‘From the limited information we have, it appears social workers and other support staff did try and help Laura but she failed properly to engage with them, frequently missing appointments refusing access to people when they came to assess the situation.

‘No one, it seems, assessed Chloe as at risk from the defendant.’

In her victim impact statement, Mrs Marr said: ‘I cannot begin to understand why my gorgeous granddaughter Chloe was cruelly taken from me.’

The grandmother said ‘every day was a struggle’ and added: ‘Her gorgeous smiling face is always with me.

‘Chloe is the saddest victim, innocent and lovely. It is us who will serve a life sentence, unable to see her again.

‘We will never get over losing Chloe, my heart is broken forever.’

Source: Daily Mail (UK)

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KENYANS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES HELP FAZA VICTIMS

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

At least 430 houses were affected during
the inferno that swept through the Island

Coastweek — One month after a fire tragedy in Faza Island, in Lamu, on 5th September 2009 , that left 2,500 people homeless and 430 houses razed down, generous efforts are still being made to assist the affected people. 

Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) Secretary General Abbas Gullet has commended all well-wishers, both in Kenya and the Diaspora, for their continued support towards the reconstruction of homes in Faza Island. , to support the reconstruction of Faza Island..

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 , Jalal Balala, donated to KRCS Ksh. one million on behalf of Kenyans in the United Arab Emirates

“On behalf of KRCS, I sincerely thank Kenyans in UAE for their generous donation.

“Since the tragedy, the Society has been providing humanitarian aid to the residents including food, non-food items, health and sanitation.

“KRCS is working jointly with the Ministry of Health in providing healthcare to those affected by the fire tragedy.”

At least 430 houses were affected during the inferno that swept through the Island , leaving at least 214 homes totally destroyed. Immediately after the tragedy, KRCS distributed 600 blankets, 600 collapsible jerrycans 300 tarpaulins, 180 kitchen sets, 600 pieces of bar soaps, food and clothing, to the affected people.

Last month, the President H.E. Mwai Kibaki and the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Raila Odinga, presided over a fund raising that helped raise Kshs. 64 million for the reconstruction of the homes in the island.  

“Kenya Red Cross thanks all well-wishers who have assisted the affected families”.

Those who have made their donations through KRCS include:

National Museums of Kenya , United Nations Office in Charge of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) which donated Ksh3.7 million (US$50,000),

World Vision Kenya which donated relief materials worth Ksh1,169,000 ($US15,587),

Iranian Red Crescent (Ksh2 million), and Mrs. Naushad Merali (Ksh1 million).

Safaricom Limited has pledged Ksh 1.5 million to the Faza Island Disaster Appeal and most recently Kenyans in the United Arab Emirates

Some 250 tents have been dispatched to Faza to provide temporary shelter to the residents, while awaiting reconstruction of their houses.

Already, 60 tents have been pitched in two camps.

A team of architects has been dispatched to Faza Island and is expected to complete their work later this week.

A detailed plan from the architects would help in mapping and re-planning new settlements in the Island. 

The reconstruction of one house is estimated to cost Ksh. 500,000.

Some local resources such as lime and timber are earmarked for the reconstruction, which will also boost the local economy.

Another team was dispatched by KRCS to Faza, Pate and Kizingitini islands for hydrological investigation, which would provide a professional opinion on availability of ground water for exploration.

The residents currently rely on water-boating and rain water harvesting.

COASTWEEK.COM

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Safaricom staff in MPESA fraud probe

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 9 – An Employee of Safaricom is among three suspects arrested on Friday over allegations of fraudulent loss of funds through M-PESA transactions.

The employee was arrested from the company’s Buru Buru customer care branch in the presence of journalists while other suspects were picked up from various parts of the city.

The suspect told Capital News that he was arrested over a transaction it is alleged he played part in replacing a customer’s SIM Card.

“I had been questioned about it before,” the employee told Capital News as he was being whisked to a waiting car.

He was picked up at about 11 am from his desk by CID and plainclothes police officers who were also accompanied by some officials from Safaricom.

A senior police officer at the central police station told Capital News the suspects were being questioned and was likely to be arraigned in court once the investigations are completed.

Safaricom’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Joseph released a press statement assuring that his company was cooperating with investigators over the matter.

He said the arrest followed numerous complaints from their customers in relation to allegations of fraudulent loss of funds in the M-PESA system.

“We sought and have obtained the assistance of the Criminal Investigations Department to assist in carrying out detailed investigations in relation to the same,” he said in the statement.

“These investigations are continuing and as of this (Friday) morning there have been a number of members of the public and a Safaricom staff member who have been arrested by the police to assist them further with these investigations,” he added.

In an earlier interview with Capital News, Mr Joseph had said Safaricom was in the process of putting in place strategies of countering any cases of fraud in M-PESA.

He said: “Safaricom has taken the initiative to set up an anti-money laundering (AML) function in the absence of legislation, based on international best practice to ensure that there are AML controls in place to detect and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing using the M-PESA service.”

“The CBK is aware of the controls in place and supports this initiative,” he added.

CAPITAL FM

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Massage at the Heritage of Splendour Spa

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

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Annan is Kenya’s Big Brother

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

  

BY ANTHONY KAGIRI

To some Kofi Annan is the Messiah Kenya badly needs, to others he is simply the third principal recognised by the constitution through the National Accord giving him the obligation to ensure reforms.

To others he is a foreigner whose persistent lecture of our leadership and visits are unwarranted. According to this group his work (as ‘saviour’ of our burning state as it were) ended with the signing of the Peace Accord.

I agree with the third school of thought which sees his role as that of moral authority, functioning like a wise man, an advisor whose wisdom we can choose to embrace or not. And with our kind of leaders not much will be done (don’t mistake me for a pessimist; I am one of the most optimistic Kenyans).

In a TV interview, Annan dismissed his critics saying he was retired and did not need a job. Rightly put this man does not need any other job, not even a payslip. As a former United Nations Boss he has held one of the most powerful posts to be held by an African. He has earned all the money and fame and no job would come close to this, not even a Head of State, I guess.

Nevertheless what I can assure you is that Dr Annan will not be leaving Kenya alone anytime soon. He will keep coming to follow up the so called ‘Reform agenda’ until 2012. Incase you did not know he is coming back in December and again in March next year.

At age 71 the ‘Mediator’ is at what sociologists under the Maslow Heirachy of needs call ‘Self actualisation stage.’ Characteristics, of this stage include morality, creativity, problem solving, spontaneity among others. Kenya, (which was at the brink of a failed state last year and now has the opportunity to change) presents a perfect opportunity for the ‘big brother’ to fulfill these needs.

As the wise man recognized by the Kenya Constitution, he has the power to consistently summon President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga for meetings to brief him on the progress of the reforms. Looking at the brief the two gave him, it is like a teacher inspecting homework given to his students. For the failures or delays the two Principals (but rather power persons in the country) clearly gave their justifications. Here he plays the ‘morality’ fiddle. This man knows what Kenya needs and at within which time frame.

Kenya as the first African country to follow the power sharing route, following the example of Germany and Belgium (and now joined by Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Honduras) is an experiment the big brother would want succeed and used as a benchmark for failing states. Our beloved country I presume should be an example of political adversaries ganging up and drive meaningful changes that change the history.

This is where Dr Annan serves his ‘creativity’ need. His is the one who came up with the power sharing deal after all (remember both the Party of National Unity and the Orange Democratic Movement had dismissed this idea?). With such arrangements having failed in Somalia and Zimbabwe Dr Annan would want to see his baby sit down, crawl, walk and run all within five years.

I do not need to say anything to demonstrate that this guy came up with the solution to our crisis and he became the problem solver. Our caring brother jetted into the country and just like a good diplomat listened to both sides and ‘spontaneously’ came up with the solution. That completes his cycle of needs at his stage.

This guy is at the stage of ‘giving back to the society’ and like other retirees (especially former Heads of State) diplomacy provides the best opportunity.

I don’t intend to dismiss him; he is our peacemaker, probably a godfather who is constantly watching the leadership for us. With the many conflicts in the continent we definitely need him. As much as he fulfils his stagy needs, Africa gets peace.

Long live Big Brother.

(Anthony Kagiri is Capital FM’s political reporter)

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Kenya refugees get new homes

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

The final batch of Kenya internal refugees started the journey to their new homes Friday after the government acquired thousands of acres of land to resettle them.

A statement from the government announced that the Ministry of Lands had bought 8,323 acres of land to resettle the 6,802 people still living in tents after they were forced out of their homes at the height of the post election violence early last year.

The statement, signed by Internal Security Permanent Secretary Francis Kimemia, said that each of the 3,500 families would get two acres. But families to be resettled in low potential areas would get a maximum of four acres each, the statement announced.

The resettlement programme started as the two-week deadline set by President Kibaki for all the nineteen camps still hosting IDPs to be closed ends.

They have been living in camps since last year’s violence that killed 1,300 people and displaced 650,000 after a disputed election.

According to the statement, the IDPs moving out of the camps would start getting their pieces of land as early as next Wednesday.

“The over congested Mawingu camp will be the first to be resettled. Tomorrow (Friday), the leaders and other people from Mawingu camp will be shown the identified farms in readiness for the resettlement,” Mr Kimemia outlined.

The Ministry of Finance had availed a total of Sh2 billion to cater for the purchase of land and resettlement of the IDPs. The bulk of the funds – Sh1.4 billion – was used to purchase 35 parcels of land totalling 8,323 acres and valued at Sh850 million.

The government will use the balance of Sh550 million to purchase an extra 10,000 acres of land to resettle more people.

DAILY NATION

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Kenya Applauds Obama

Posted by jambonewspot on October 9, 2009

President Obama and President Kibaki

President Obama and President Kibaki

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 9 – President Mwai Kibaki has congratulated US President Barack Obama on being declared winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

In a statement released from State House Nairobi, President Kibaki said the award was a fitting tribute to the US President for his efforts in initiating dialogue aimed at bringing about sustainable peace in various parts of the world.

“On behalf of the government and the people of Kenya, I take this opportunity to congratulate you on being declared winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. The award is indeed another milestone in your illustrious public career and recognition of the contribution you are making to the well being of humanity,” said President Kibaki.

He said he was confident that President Obama would use his new status as a Nobel peace prize winner to open new frontiers in international diplomacy.

“I have no doubt that this award will give new impetus to your efforts to bring about lasting peace in areas where war has ravaged communities over long periods of time. I also encourage you to continue opening the avenues of dialogue in order to bring about a better understanding among the family of nations,” said President Kibaki.

The President said that the government and the people of Kenya wished President Obama well in his new role as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

CAPITAL FM

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