hi all,

The latest nominations by the President has generated so much friction. to me the die was cast when the list of nominees was submitted to Ken Makende….makende in his solomonic wisdom that never was made an even bigger mistake by submitting the list to the House committees for deliberations and report, thus delivering a clear victory to the president…how?

To start with, if the speaker of national assembly allowed the nominees list to be debated directly in the house by the mpigs, we all know which direction it would have taken, the house voting…as at the moment, the ODMs numerical strength in the house has been dangerously diminished while that of the PNU has been greatly upgraded…any voting and odm would have been crashed and makende understood this far too well…next, the speaker would not have made any ruling in favour of odm as he faced the censure motion from the pnu side which would definitely have injured him politically…talk of catch 22…

Now that the process of nomination is under scrutiny by the Finance, Trade and Planning Committee and Justice and Legal Affairs Committee I expect the following scenarion to unfold in both the committees: the nomination of three people namely Prof Githu Muigai to replace Amos smiley wako as the attoney general, Kioko 10k as the new Director of Public Prosecutions and William Kirwa as Controller of Budget is not disputed and was done in accordance to the constitution and required no consultation. The only issue will be the personal integrity scrutiny and it is widely held that these nominees are competent and suited for the job…the two house committees will most likely recommend the trio…

This will leave the position of Chief Justice where Alnashir Visram was nominated to replace justice Gicheru…now this is where the real contention is…remembering that the composition of the two committees was almost 50:50 when originally constituted, the composition has now changed and tilted in favour of pnu…so what happens? The committees will disagree on the nomination process that was undertaken, voting by show of hands will ensue, pnu sympathisers will carry the day, but the report to be submitted to makende will be in favour of both pnus and odms stands (remember the chairmen of both the committees are odm damu and their stand was already known long before they were tasked)…then, the house will debate and adopt it as it is giving it the legitimacy for discussion by mpigs and the NA in general…thereafter it will be an issue of who wants the new CJ and who does not….your guess is just as good as mine…so why will the president not have won?

That is me and I stand corrected.

What do you think?

That is precisely where our Kenyan problem comes from, we want to see it as either a win for Kibz or Raila..........WE SHOULD STRICE FOR A WIN FOR KENYA!!!!!

A standing ovation for you right there!

@Segemia, would you have "preferred" ODM to stick with Ruto regardless, just to maintain the numbers in parliament?

There's absolutely no way we can talk of "a win for Kenya" with MK, RAO, UK, Ruto and the likes around....We all know what their intentions are.

"The height of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result" Albert Einstein