Raila should be main suspect in Waki list, say Rift Valley MPs

The East African Standard
Monday, 3rd November 2008
By Peter Mutai

Four Rift Valley MPs are not mincing their words over Waki’s secret envelope. The legislators yesterday said should the Waki list be forwarded to the Hague Prime Minister Raila Odinga should be the main suspect.

They said Raila, who is the ODM leader, called for mass action to protest the disputed presidential results, which degenerated into violence.

Led by Konoin MP Dr Julius Kones, the MPs wondered why the Waki Report did not talk about people who led calls for mass action.

"Raila chaired the meetings calling for mass action countrywide and we wonder why he is not mentioned in the Waki Report," Kones said.

Speaking in Ainamoi constituency during a funds drive, Kones said theywould not allow their leaders to be implicated in the "fabricated" report.

Kones said of 525 pages of the report, 25 focused on Rift Valley and yet the removal of the Kenya-Uganda Railway in Kibera was not mentioned.

Meanwhile, Finance Assistant Minister Oburu Odinga wants President Kibaki to compel Justice Philip Waki to hand over names in the controversial sealed envelope.

Oburu said the names of suspected perpetrators of post-election violence presented to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan should be given to Kibaki.

The Bondo MP disagreed with colleagues from Central Province who demanded the Government gets back the names from Annan.

WHY GO ABROAD

"We don’t need to go abroad for the names. Waki has a copy," he said.

Oburu was addressing mourners during the burial of Kariobangi ward councillor Japheth Orony Bonyo at Wagusu village in Bondo District, at the weekend.Nairobi Metropolitan Assistant minister Elizabeth Ongoro attended the burial. Oburu and Ongoro urged the ODM MPs to speak with one voice.

"The purpose of Waki commission was to identify the cause of the violence with the view of helping the country to heal," said Ongoro.

Ongoro said it was wrong for some leaders to demand that suspected leaders who funded the violence should be tried at The Hague.

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