This recording made on 20 May 2004 has been played to the Chairman of Kenya's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Uhuru Kenyatta who is also leader of the main opposition party the Kenya African National Union...
Opposition kingpins Raila Odinga William Ruto Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka - nominally united under the banner of the Orange Democratic Movement - are demanding the immediate recall of parliament and a vote of no confidence in the government...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
KANU's Uhuru Kenyatta is determined to run again...
That left party Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta a Kikuyu like Kibaki powerless to mend bridges...
Kenya loyalists concede that Kibaki needs allies; they would prefer the formerly ruling Kenya African National Union led by Uhuru Kenyatta (a Kikuyu) to the Liberal Democratic Party under the detested Odinga (a Luo)...
He and his rebel LDP faction teamed up with KANU's Chairperson and Secretary General Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto to form the Orange movement which campaigned across the country with colourful road shows that drew huge crowds...
William Ruto: The KANU Secretary General's campaigning overshadows his Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta...
Uhuru Kenyatta: The dismal 'No' performance in his Central Province would have marked him out as a loser but his loyalty to Orange earned him new respect in KANU and beyond...
The soul of the Orange group is the rump of Moi's Kenya African National Union party including its articulate secretary William Ruto Moi's son Gideon Uhuru Kenyatta (KANU's presidential candidate in 2002) Moi's lawyer Mutula Kilonzo and Musalia Mudavadi (KANU's Vice-President in 2002)...
His successor as KANU leader Uhuru Kenyatta will work hard among the Kikuyu of Central and Nairobi provinces where more than a million new electors have been registered this year...
At a big rally in Machakos on 7 September the No lobby Odinga Balala Anyang' Nyong'o Musyoka and Uhuru Kenyatta promised a political 'tsunami' which would sweep across the country and engulf those 'on the other side' who had refused to negotiate the new constitution...
NAK teamed up with Ford-Kenya and Ford-People; the official opposition leader Uhuru Kenyatta of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) voted with the LDP; Kenyatta's KANU rival Nicholas Kipyator Biwott backed Kibaki...
Uhuru Kenyatta has been unable to bring Biwott whom he defeated in this year's leadership elections on side...
Two factions are struggling for control of the party one led by its Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta the other by its Secretary General William Ruto who has tried to rally the influential Kalenjin bloc to his side...
Yesterday's men Since January when he triumphed over bitter opposition from Biwott Uhuru Kenyatta has consolidated his grip on KANU showing that he is his own man not just Moi's puppet...