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Kenyan bid for unity
by Bill Bowder
CHRISTIAN, Muslim, and Hindu leaders who met in an interreligious forum in Nairobi have said in a statement: “We recommend that the 2007 general election be annulled, and new elections held within the shortest time possible.” Despite “immense implications”, they saw this as “the best option” The Kenyan National Council of Churches has said in a statement that its member Churches have been partisan, and failed to forestall the current crisis. “We did not speak in one voice,” they confessed. “We call on church leaders to recapture their strategic position as the moral authority of the nation.” A nationwide mass protest yesterday, which would have demanded the return of parliament, was called off at short notice, after the leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Raila Odinga, heeded a call from the former United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan. There was speculation that Raila Odinga would become the Kenyan prime minister in a power-sharing deal to pave the way for a fresh election. The ODM insisted that the office should have real power. |
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