BY RAILA ODINGA
SPEECH BY THE RT. HON. RAILA ODINGA, PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA.
Your Excellency the President,
Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government Your Excellencies the ambassadors; Members of the diplomatic Corp; Citizens and friends of Kenya:
Today, we mark the end of one journey, as we embark on the beginning of another.
On the [...]

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By PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI
As a country, we have come of age. We deserve to enjoy the national euphoria occasioned by the historic August 4 Referendum.
When the results were announced by the Interim Independent Electoral Commission, the victory became common property of all Kenyans. The “Yes” and “No” divide ceased. This Friday each Kenyan can stand [...]

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By RAILA ODINGA
The old order has died and a new one born in our country. Our imprisonment in the colonial constitutional dispensation is over. The Imperial Presidency that the post-colonial regimes have created is now buried in history. A grand new republic — Kenya’s Second Republic – is born.
The constitution of our new Republic frees [...]

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By Emeka-Mayaka Gekara, Walter Menya and Joy Wanja
The de-facto leader of the ‘No’ camp and Higher Education minister William Ruto has led a team of politicians in conceding defeat in Kenya’s constitution referendum held on Wednesday.
Mr Ruto congratulated Kenyans for conducting themselves peacefully during the referendum.
The minister said: “Kenyans have spoken and we respect the [...]

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By Linus Nyambu:
Kenya American Institute
We understand why Mr. Ruto and some church leaders want to block the Kenyan constitutional referendum.
Ruto is using President George W. Bush play book to scare Kenyans from voting for the constitution come August 4th, 2010.
President G.W. Bush used the church by branding the Democrats as supporters of abortion and murderers [...]

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Police in northeastern Kenya have arrested several men they believe have ties to al-Shabab, the radical al-Qaida-linked Somali group that has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks in Kampala, Uganda.  Kenya’s police and military have been on heightened alert since Sunday’s deadly bombings.
Reports from Kenya’s Northeastern Province say two of the suspects in custody are [...]

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BY PMPS
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said the coalition government is getting ready to legislate new laws required to anchor the new Constitution should it pass the August 4 referendum.
He expressed optimism that the proposed Constitution would sail through the plebiscite and the government was laying ground for a set of laws that would be [...]

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Some observers are seeing the Somali-Militias El-Shabab to be a reformed Greater Somali Movement that wage war against Kenya Government between 1963–1967 “The Shifta War “ideology was a secessionist to established an Islam Nation in horn of Africa, it is obvious that the El-Shabab supporters who lives and own properties in Kenya, are the main [...]

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Kenya PM says tyrants against Constitution
BY PMPS
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said that the people who visited mayhem on Kenyans in the era of single party dictatorship are the same ones leading the opposition to the proposed Constitution.
He said those leading the opposition to the new constitution had been in power for years but failed [...]

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Kenya civil servants told to say Yes
BY PMPS
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 9 - Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Friday asked civil servants to support the proposed Constitution without fear or apologies and be part of the re-making of the history of Kenya.
Mr Odinga exuded confidence that the Yes team would win the August 4 referendum and [...]

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