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Why would the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, associate the Kenyans in the Diaspora who have lived peacefully outside their homeland for many years, with the problems and the chaos which have been witnessed in Kenya since 1992? http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000055751&cid=4. It is really difficult to understand why anyone, regardless of position or status, would be do anything to antagonize the lives of Kenyans living abroad and jeopardize the future of the Kenyan Nation. How on earth would any individual Kenyan in the Diaspora fail to understand the effects of such a statement and the dangers of associating the Kenyans in the Diaspora with the 2008 post election violence or any other problems facing Kenya today?.
Every Kenyan in the Diaspora knows very clearly the problems facing the Somali people in the Diaspora. They cannot send any money to their sick and hungry relatives in Somalia. They cannot invest in their home country Somalia, because the US does not allow them to send money freely to their country. The US authorities believe that when the Somalis send money to Somalia, they are sending it to the different clans and the war lords who are fighting there.
Here comes the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, His Excellency Elkanah Odembo, saying that he and his team will soon board buses and travel all over USA and Canada to collect signatures from Kenyans, for the purposes of trying to keep peace here in USA and in Kenya. Thanks to our foresighted patriotic Kenyan brothers who wrote a letter to His Excellency, the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, expressing their concerns on the dangers posed by those allegations. What will prevent the US authorities from exercising the same measures to the Kenyans in the Diaspora, as it has already been done to the Somalis?. Kenyans in the Diaspora may soon start encountering difficulties and major problems when sending money to Kenya as a result of this statement.
The Kenyans in the Diaspora are known to be a hard working community doing two to three jobs. They are known to be a peaceful community living in harmony here in America and in other Nations in the World, all along. Why lie about them? The Ambassador is fully aware of the ICC involvement with the handling of the cases related to the 2008 post election violence. Why doesn’t he forward the names of those he knows were involved with the troubles here and in Kenya, to both the US authorities, the Kenyan authorities and to the ICC, instead of creating trouble for so many innocent Kenyans living abroad?
I am sure the US Government, through the US Ambassador to Kenya is aware of the Ambassadors statement. This is a very serious matter and Kenyans should not make any jokes about it. This is an issue that should be handled with the seriousness it deserves. The alleged involvement of the Kenyans in the Diaspora in the chaos and/or problems in Kenya, is a lie. Kenyans in the Diaspora are not required to sign any peace agreement as planned by His Excellency Ambassador Elkanah Odembo, because they have never been engaged in any fight or chaos whatsoever, here or in Kenya. There is therefore no need of buses going round USA and Canada to collect signatures in the name of keeping peace. The US security forces are capable of maintaining peace in America. The statement associating Kenyans in the Diaspora with the problems and chaos in Kenya, and an earlier statement in which the Ambassador recommended for a special program for all Kenyans leaving Kenya for the US and to other Nations before they are approved and allowed to fly out of the country, http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/archives/politics/InsidePage.php?id=2000038770&cid=4 leaves a lot to be desired, and all these, points to a possibility of a hidden agenda.
Nevertheless, we will not sit back and watch the lives of our people antagonized and jeopardized. We will continue to voice the concerns of our people no matter what threats comes our way. We will be called names, we will be insulted and we will be threatened, but I promise all Kenyans that we will never compromise our conscience. I stand by all what I wrote in my previous articles because it is the truth and the pure truth. No threats will scare me from voicing the concerns of the masses, and I will continue to condemn whatever is wrong and whatever would hurt our people.
By Isaac Newton Kinity
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