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Kenya: a political gathering ends in blood

By on June 15, 2010
After the visit of the U.S Vice-president, Joe Biden, and after his speech, on Wednesday June 9th in Nairobi, criticising the management of the public finances and the endemic corruption which continues in the country because of a total impunity; a bloody clash, where five persons were killed and about 75 persons were wounded, took place in Nairobi on Sunday the 13th in two explosions arisen during an opponents’ political gathering. Of course, there is no link at all between the two events.

The demonstrators were gathered in the center of the Kenyan capital, to protest against the project of the future Constitution, which must be subjected to referendum on August 4th of this year.
The Constitution project would reduce the plethoric size of the cabinet, would establish a new parliamentary system and would give more responsibility to regional executives. The partisans of the new measure assert that it would help to reduce the corruption, and the power abuses. But certain number of Ministers, as well as certain ecclesiastical leaders is against, especially against the project authorising the abortion.
The constitution project has for origin the agreement of sharing the power between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, concluded on 2008, further to the politico-ethnic violence which had followed the controversial re-election of President Mwai Kibaki at the end of 2007.

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