Barack Obama – The First Black President of the United States of America

44th President takes the oath of office

In politics people differ, people disagree, people campaign against one another and people support different people at different times.

A new chapter has began and all should join in and make history. This is the history worth being part of from the start.

Now the time has come to face the reality and those who have so far supported others – not Obama, should come together this day and join in the making of history that seemingly will become eye opener and unite the world one way or another.

API will now congratulate President Obama for having taken over the only powerful nation on earth. He will work hard because he knows that the world has wholeheartedly joined him on this important day, the day that will never be forgotten because Martin Luther King Jr’s dream has been realised at long last.

Michelle Obama – The First Black First Lady of the United States of America

Michelle Obama will most definitely make a wonderful First Lady being a black woman who knows black women have now got hope in their lives seeing her become the First Black First Lady in America.

All Americans should now join hands and forget partisanship during this celebration to cheer a black first US president.

API will now follow the example already set by those who supported Hillary Clinton for president, people who have decided to join Obama and work with and for him just like their former leader during the campaign, Hillary who has also joined the Obama administration.

API has had a story – a Michelle Obama tape that was to be aired by Fox News Network. Time has come to move on and all good hearted people should join hands and give full support to the couple and allow them to have their time at the top without unnecessary revelations that only serve to distract and derail concentration of the mind that is required in the job at the White House.

This is why API will now drop the release of the Michelle Obama tape and the Imam’s document on Obama and join all peace loving people in cheering and supporting the new president. People are allowed to change their mind and give support to leaders who really seem to take leadership seriously like Obama.

API has� decided to drop the prestige behind the desire to release the tape and the document. API understands that so many people who have been waiting and pushing for the release of the aforesaid will most probably turn their anger against API, but we tell them, that politics is always a dirty game and knowledge has it that political rivals in most cases end up joining hands to work together for the benefit of those who look up to them.

We sincerely apologise to those who have waited for our action contrary to what we have now decided to do.

API will now follow the new politics that will be brought about by Obama and be part of the history that has now seen the lack people achieve a goal that was always seen to be impossible.

This man has now opened the doors for those people who want to see all the people given equal opportunity.

From Washington grounds in the US, API congratulates President Obama and the First lady Michelle Obama and wishes them well now and int eh future both in politics and in private with their two beautiful daughters.

<By Chief Editor Korir, �Washington, US

African Press International – API

Nairobi (Kenya) – Some people, especially in Sub-Sahara Africa, harbour expectations once US President-elect Barak Obama is ensconced in the White House tomorrow. That�s natural.

Africans, always seeking clutches when legs are just fine, are intoxicated with a part of their DNA�s mutation into leadership of a superpower. Additionally, Africans� political culture of �We got to eat while our tribesman, cousins, et cetera, is on the seat� flourishes.

Others, not so African, are salivating. For example, Enough Project, a Washington DC-based think tank on African issues, real and manufactured, last week published a wish list disguised as recommendations to the Obama Administration�s approach to Africa. Well, a Nile River of disappointments will flow.

Hours after Mr Obama supporters nearly drowned in euphoria in November, his aides began tempering hopes Mr Obama would solve the nation�s problems quickly and easily. That goes for Africa.

President George W. Bush has defined Mr Obama�s immediate job: Repair! The New York Times quoted Mr Leon E. Panetta, Mr Obama�s nominee as CIA director, describing the new president�s job as putting �arms around chaos.�

The �chaos� includes a deficit well above US$1 trillion this year, a scandalous health care system, a wobbly social security system, an economy a cliff hanger toward the 1930s�plus accompanying miseries by nearly all creatures�wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Moreover, Mr Bush hasn�t wasted a minute of his last office hours. Read adding more �chaos.� The president�s aides, the Times said, �have been scrambling to change rules and regulations�few for the good.� A New York congressional representative described the changes as �last, right-wing gasps.� Outgoing presidents make last minute changes �but in Mr Bush�s case, it is more like a wrecking ball,� said the Times. It will take long to figure out the damage, let alone fix.

Abroad, Mr Obama has to deal with an everlasting albatross around every US president�s neck, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Then, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a weasel-out who wants an atomic bomb, flexes even his hair. In a congratulatory message, Mr. Ahmadinejad lectured Mr Obama on governance. Increasingly assertive Russian bear, Mr Vladimir Putin, growls over everything anybody does in Washington, D.C., except, probably, flushing the toilet. North Korea�s leader, Kim Jong-Il, suffers temporary insanity on hearing �the United States�� Syria needs courting to cooperate in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Allah willing, ad infinitum. After repair comes maintenance, then innovations. Only during the innovation can Mr Obama substantially pay attention to sentiments, including �The land and continent of my ancestors.�

In all fairness, Mr Obama in his campaign declaration of intentions presented commendable plans for Africa. They include, you guessed it, ending genocide in Darfur, human rights, rule of law, et al. Which western leader doesn�t do that?

Then there�s doubling to $50 billion foreign assistance, fully funding debt cancellation for heavily indebted nations and at least $50 billion by 2013 for the global fight against HIV/Aids, with Africa getting a share. Well, the more than a trillion-dollar deficit is bound to constrain favours, especially to marginal friends of the US

Then there�s strengthening the African Growth and Opportunity Act to increase access for African products in the US Sell that to cotton growers in Georgia and Iowa corn farmers. Begin wondering!

Nearly everything for the US in Africa is working, largely in favour of the former. Consequently, US electorate�s urgency for President Obama to act on issues African and fulfilment of promises to the continent is just about zero.

A long wait for �Obama Calvary to Africa� is in order.

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source:The Nation (Kenya), by Chege Mbitiru – January 19, 2009.

Nairobi (Kenya) – On Tuesday, Barack Obama will make history when he is sworn as America�s first African-American (or Kenya-African-American as many Kenyans would have it) president. If America were Uganda, we would say he is �falling into things.� There is almost already enough written about Obama. If America were Africa, it would be necessary to also focus on his wife Michelle.

This is because, a woman who gets to be First Lady in Africa, also becomes a special gift to her family in ways that no American would ever dream of.

As an America president, it is only Obama�s side that will eat. Even then, mostly his political allies, college friends, and so on. And parliament (the Senate) must approve their appointments first. In Africa, the presidency is by far a more equal-opportunity and gender-sensitive institution, because the wife�s side too gets to eat. Many times, in some countries that shall remain unnamed, even more than the president�s side of the family.

Michelle�s elder brother, for example, would have been appointed finance minister or, at the minimum, ambassador to London. Her younger brother would have become army commander. Her sister or cousin would be appointed governor of the Central Bank. Two days after the inauguration, a construction company owned by her uncle would be at her mother�s house refurbishing and building a high wall around it, after �winning� the tender for the job without competition. And, yes, he would inflate the cost of the job 500 per cent � and be paid before even before starting the job.

One of the things that must be truly puzzling old-style African political practitioners, is that ever since Obama�s election, a lot of the news about his daughters Malia and Sasha has been about what pet dog they will get.

Look around Africa. The first order of business would have been to set up separate companies for the girls. Malia�s company would be allocated the national food reserve, and a contract to supply milk and flour to schools. And Sasha would have been handed the national fuel reserves.

In most African countries, it would emerge than Obama had a 16-year-old son out of wedlock. The young man would now be brought into the limelight, and sent to train as an army cadet. Upon graduation, he would be shipped to Sandhurst to raise his game for a later appoint as deputy head of military intelligence to prep him further for his appointment to replace his uncle as army commander in the years ahead.

Meanwhile on the president�s side, his folks would be better fed.

Modern democracy is young in Africa so the controls on a president and ministers are limited, if they exist at all. An African country that has had parliament for some years, didn�t have a public accounts committee (PAC). After a lot of international pressure, it recently brought in experts to help set up the committee and its rules. It accepted the best practice of having an opposition MP head the PAC.

However, it insisted and got one thing � the opposition member chairing the committee is appointed by the government!

In addition, because of poverty, the function of politics is not to create opportunities. It�s to distribute hard goods � the money in the Treasury, government contracts � to relatives, supporters, kin (and fellow church members) of the president and First Lady.

*Charles Onyango-Obbo is Nation Media Group�s managing editor for Convergence

source.The East African (Kenya), by Charles Onyango-Abbo*- January 19, 2009.

�Banjul (Gambia) Amnesty international today called for the immediate and unconditional release of nine men sentenced on 7 January 2009 to eight year�s imprisonment for �indecent conduct and unnatural acts and conspiracy (association de malfaiteurs)�. Amnesty International considers them prisoners of conscience, sentenced solely on the basis of alleged sexual conduct.

The nine men were arrested in Dakar on 19 December 2008 after being the subject of anonymous accusations concerning sexual behaviour. Police officers raided the house of Diadji Diouf, Secretary General of AIDES Senegal, an organization providing HIV prevention services to men who have sex with men. The court considered this organization a cover for �recruiting� or gathering together individuals for sexual activity under the guise of carrying out awareness raising programs on HIV/AIDS prevention.

The judge handed down the heavy sentences – harsher than those requested by the prosecutor — only a few minutes after the end of the debates, suggesting that the evidence brought by the defence was not adequately examined. The lawyers lodged an appeal on 9 January 2009.

According to the Senegalese criminal law, �whoever will have committed an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex will be punished by imprisonment of between one and five years and by a fine of 100,000 to 1,500,000 francs. If the act was committed with a person below the age of 21, the maximum penalty will always be applied�. In August 2008, two men were sentenced to two year�s imprisonment by a court in Dakar on such charges. These charges criminalize people on the basis of presumed engagement in consensual, private, sexual conduct, in violation of Senegal�s obligations under international human rights law. The charge of conspiracy (association de malfaiteurs) is regularly being added to other criminal charges in order to increase the sentence.

These arrests and sentences are occurring against a background of increased hostility towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Senegal, taking the form of arbitrary arrests, harassment and discrimination.

In December 2008, a few days before the arrest of the nine men, attacks were launched in the media against the LGBT community on the occasion of the 15th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA).

In February 2008, nine men and one woman were arrested, and others were at risk of arrest, following the condemnation in the press of a �gay wedding� at which some of them were photographed. The newspaper article appealed to �Senegalese values� as being opposed to homosexuality. Commentaries, subsequently posted on local websites, called for the men to be killed. As a consequence, several individuals felt compelled to flee the country.

Amnesty International urges the Senegalese authorities to repeal the law criminalizing consensual sexual conduct between people of the same sex. Senegalese authorities should also end the incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence against individuals on the basis of their real or perceived engagement in consensual same-sex sexual acts or practices and/or their gender identity, in accordance with international standards prohibiting discrimination and the advocacy of hatred.

At the December 2008 ICASA conference held in Dakar, the HIV/AIDS epidemic amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa was discussed as an important issue that needed addressing. The sessions focusing on MSM at the Dakar conference had been hailed as a landmark, as it was the first time the issue had been discussed at an ICASA conference � the continent�s largest gathering of HIV/AIDS activists and researchers. As such, the inclusive discussions on same-sex sexual conduct at the ICASA conference appeared to mark a positive shift in attitudes.

A conference session on this theme highlighted the difficulty of researching and addressing the epidemic in Africa. One researcher from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, said that a significant hurdle in reaching out to MSM in Africa, and in particular in West Africa, is the criminalization of homosexuality; few MSM come forward for fear of stigma, discrimination, and legal repercussions. This repressive policy may also dissuade heterosexual men and women from seeking sexual health information and services for fear of similar stigmatisation. The recent arrests and severe punishment of MSM activists by the Senegalese authorities can only increase this climate of fear.

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source.The Gambia Journal (Gambia)- January 19, 2009.

�Johannesburg (South Africa) – African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s graft case and rumoured tensions within the ruling party involving President Kgalema Motlanthe are on the agenda of its national working committee meeting on Monday.

ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus said the party’s top leadership would discuss Zuma’s legal options after a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling in favour of the National Director of Public Prosecutions last Monday.

“We are actually very open to say that it is on the agenda,” said Niehaus, but he emphasised that the ANC was searching for a “legal solution” to the pending charges.

The SCA last week overturned a Pietermaritzburg High Court ruling that in effect halted Zuma’s prosecution on charges of corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering. The charges against Zuma create a difficult situation for the ANC which has insisted he remains its presidential candidate ahead of general elections this year.

But his legal woes are not the only topic on the agenda. Niehaus said the NWC would also discuss weekend newspaper reports of tensions between Motlanthe and some ANC leaders.

The Sunday Times reported that some senior ANC members were unhappy with several decisions Motlanthe had taken since succeeding Thabo Mbeki, who was ousted after the Pietermaritzburg High Court implied that he was involved in a political plot against Zuma.

The City Press reported that South African Communist Party (SACP) secretary general Blade Nzimande was eyeing the position of deputy president of the country after general elections. Up to now, many believed Motlanthe had been earmarked for that job.

“These are really just rumours, but we want to deal with it comprehensively, in the sense of putting an end to it. We believe we need to talk with the authority of the NWC,” said Niehaus.

Zuma, whose lawyers have met with the National Prosecution Authority since the SCA ruling, had several legal options available, including an appeal to the Constitutional Court and an application for a permanent stay of prosecution.

source.Sapa (South Africa) – January 19, 2009.

�Johannesburg (South Africa) � Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his main rival, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, were geared up for an explosive encounter Monday in make-or-break talks to resolve the country’s deepening political stalemate.

The Harare meeting will also be attended by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, and SA’s President Kgalema Motlanthe and Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional mediator Thabo Mbeki. It will help determine whether Mugabe attempts to go it alone or whether the fragile power-sharing accord hammered out with the two opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations last year will be revived.

Also present will be the leader of the other MDC faction, Arthur Mutambara. Motlanthe has arranged the meeting at Tsvangirai’s request.

Battle lines were drawn Sunday after Tsvangirai’s MDC resolved it would not join Mugabe’s government unless its outstanding demands were met. The party said it would not support a constitutional amendment bill, which comes to parliament Tuesday, to legalise the unity agreement if Mugabe did not meet its demands.

“The MDC national executive reiterated that there had to be finality on the protracted dialogue, either in success or in failure, because Zimbabweans cannot continue to be arrested by an inconclusive process. A ll outstanding issues should be resolved first before an inclusive government is formed,” Tsvangirai’s party said.

Outstanding issues include an equitable allocation of ministerial portfolios, appointment of governors, ambassadors and permanent secretaries, and the composition and functions of a national security council. Other sticking points are the unilateral executive appointments after July 21 last year and the immediate release of MDC and civic activists being held on “trumped-up charges”. Dozens of MDC and civic activists are appearing before the courts after a wave of abductions by state security agents and detentions on charges of plotting to oust Mugabe by military means. The activists have told harrowing tales of harassment, beatings and torture.

The MDC’s decision puts Tsvangirai on a collision course with Mugabe, who also declared the meeting “make or break”. Mugabe told the state-owned Sunday Mail at the weekend that the meeting with regional leaders would determine if he would work with his rival or not. “This is the occasion when it’s either they accept or it’s a break,” he said.

“After all, this is an interim agreement. If they have any issues they deem outstanding, they can raise them after they come into the inclusive government. Whatever concessions there (are) to be made have been made.”

Mugabe argued that Zanu (PF) had so far complied with all SADC resolutions on the formation of the inclusive government. He said MDC demands on outstanding issues would be addressed when it joined the government. “We have signed an agreement, which we have already gazetted as required by SADC. We have done all that SADC expected us to do and now all that remains is fulfilling the agreement by forming an inclusive government,” he said.

However, the MDC says Mugabe and his party violated the unity accord at will. It cited abduction and torture of its activists and the reappointments of Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono and attorney-general Johannes Tomana as examples of violations of the agreement, which says all key appointments must be made by agreement between leaders.

Mugabe’s former spokesman, Jonathan Moyo, reportedly lobbying to rejoin the government, told state media yesterday Tsvangirai’s claim on appointments was wrong because he could not be consulted before he joined the government. He said the MDC was creating “false controversies” to blur issues and hinder progress in implementing the agreement to form a unity government.

“If Tsvangirai wants to be consulted and to be part of the national decision-making process, then he should take the oath of office without which he will remain just a common citizen like anyone else,” Moyo said. “Unless he wants to eat his cake and have it at the same time, the message is clear: no oath of office, no consultation. It is plainly ridiculous for Tsvangirai to try and create a false controversy that he has not been consulted … as if there has been any constitutional or legal basis for consulting him that has been violated.”

source.Business Day (South Africa) – January 19, 2009.

Africa: Palestine is not a Muslim issue (opinion)

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Nairobi (Kenya) – By the end of last week, the death toll from Israel�s offensive in Gaza had surpassed 1,000.

The majority of deaths were of civilians � with over a third estimated to be of children. Israel also stands accused of using white phosphorus in its offensive � a chemical only allowed for illumination purposes, and never where civilians may be affected.

The scenes from Gaza are horrendous. I cannot think of another situation of armed conflict in the world where civilians have literally nowhere else to go � there are no refugee outflows because they are trapped, utterly unable to escape.

The United Nations has called for an end to Gaza�s bombardment. But the Security Council has been unable to move decisively to end the bombardment because of American support for Israel�s stated objectives of ending Hamas�s capacity to fire rockets into Israel and destroying the network of tunnels along the border with Egypt that purportedly allow Hamas access to arms.

The fact that the tunnels have also been a humanitarian lifeline to Palestinians, enabling the entry of food and medical supplies is, seemingly, irrelevant.

Africans across the continent have also called for an end to the Israeli offensive. But, sadly and tellingly, the majority of that support has come from Africa�s Muslim population alone. That is certainly the case here in Nairobi, where the demonstration was predictably forcibly broken up as the marchers neared the Israeli Embassy.

But, as a result, Kenya has added its voice to the calls for an end to the Israeli offensive. These calls, however, seem futile in the face of official Israeli determination to achieve outcomes that are appear shortsighted to even the most casual of observers.

Palestine is not a Muslim issue. It is heartening, for example, that Nigeria�s interfaith body issued, for the first time ever, a joint statement on the current war on Gaza and that Venezuela has withdrawn diplomatic recognition from the Israeli delegation in Caracas.

And it is heartening that opposition to the offensive also exists within Israel itself � ranging from the ultraorthodox Jewish religious community to human rights, peace and women�s communities.

Palestine is an issue of international justice. This is lost in the excited discussions of the intricacies of military strategy, weaponry, perceived military gains and losses � much in the manner that video games are discussed.

This perpetual focus on symptoms rather than causes has been typical of the debate around Palestine, predating even the consequences of Palestinians having chosen to elect into power �freely and fairly � the government of Hamas.

The Israeli state was based on a fundamental dispossession of thousands and thousands of Palestinians. Until that is recognised, the region will know no peace. A settlement must be reached that respects not only the rights of Israeli citizens to security but also the rights of those dispossessed and their descendants. The talks currently underway in Egypt must thus be about far much more than monitoring borders and rocket fire.

They must strive to lay a foundation for the return of both governments to the table to work on a two-state solution that is just to those dispossessed and their descendants. And that recognises the right of return (with adequate compensation and full equality rights) of Palestinians into what is now termed Israel.

Enough is enough. The world must insist that the conflict be brought to an end. And that end will certainly not be achieved by closing tunnels and ending rocket fire.

*L. Muthoni Wanyeki is executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission

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source.The East African (Kenya), by L. Muthoni Wanyeki – January 19, 2009.

Top managers at Chemelil sugar company fired on corruption and embezzelment claims

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<Investigative Report by Leo Odera Omolo

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Chemelil Sugar Company Limited last week sent a number of its top Managers packing while others were served with suspension following allegation of massive corruption and misappropriation of the companyʼs resources.

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The Companyʼs acting Human Resource manager Tom Roy Onyango was sacked. Also fired is the companyʼs marketing manager George Matwere, the Legal Officer Mrs. Joyce Maina and the procurement manager Tobia Oloo.

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The Human Resource manager Tom Onyango, �it was alleged, however, that he had admitted having received the amount of Ksh. 50,000/- in bribery from a man contracted by the Company to carry the conservancy and sanitation work, and whose contract had expired.

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The money was dished out as a bribe to facilitate� the renewal of the contract. The manager further admitted that he had shared the loot bribe money with� the companyʼs Legal Officer who on being questioned on the matter flatly refused having received any money, but after being informed that the she would be suspended and the matter would be referred to the Anti-Corruption Commission{KACC} sleuths for thorough investigati0ons and possible prosecution changed her mind and voluntarily tendered her resignation.

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The company held two meetings of its Board of Directors under its Chairman Dr. S. Koech Mining, which was also attended by the managing director Eng Edward Ochiengʼ Musebe during which cases of the affected managers were perused and scrutinized individually.

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Reports emerging from the Government owned multi million shilling Chemelil Sugar Complex says the fired managers were given two options, either to resign voluntarily, be suspended and investigated by the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission sleuths. Most of the affected managers voluntarily quit their jobs on fears of possible prosecution� being preferred against them for the various offences..

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Prior to last weekʼs sackings, the head of the company security Willis Wandei, and the Chief Accountant Joseph Mireri as well the Financial Manager were shown the exit door. Rotich however,narrowly escaped the noose due to the fact that he had already retired from the company. services ,but was only retained on a few years contract.

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Those served with suspension letters pending investigation include the former acting Managing Director Charles Owelle and the stores manager Moses Ayaka Adhingʼa.

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Allegations against Owelle who is also the Companyʼs Agricultural Manager include the alleged massive theft of cane from the Companyʼs nucleus estate.

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It is being alleged that during Owelleʼs tenure as the Agricultural Manager, a large portion of� cane in the companyʼs nucleus estate were stolen from the harvesting field and delivered to the factory under mysterious names of phantom farmers.

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And the fictitious farmers had their accounts credited with cane bills for payments .It also involved individual farmer and other racketeers, and �Chemelil lost millions of shillings in this scam; which is said to have also involved unscrupulous Asians contracted� by the company as cane transporters. The money earned from the delivery of the companyʼs cane to phantom farmers was pocketed by individuals compliant to the racket.

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Unconfirmed report says that� these bold disciplinary measures taken by the company against theist top managers have raised political temperature within Muhoroni Constituency and its environs.

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. The area MP Prof. Ayiecho Olweny and the Chairman of Nyando County Council Onyango Ongʼou are said to be on the war path� against the new management team at the Chemelil sugar factory. The are said to have gone overdrive seeking the public support .under guise that Luo managers were being victimized.

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It is being alleged that the two have been heard inciting the sugar cane farmers to boycott the delivery of raw cane at the factory. But their machinations have met with stiffest resistance from the� sugar cane farmers who seemed to have disapproved the move to antagonize the new management team.

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The MP who is also an Assistant Minister for Education ,however, is facing myriad of problems and �accusation. These �include the claims that the MP has always been silent when his political surrogate and business friend the former Chemelil MD Prof Julius Omondi Nyabundi who it is being� alleged had run down the company during his six years tenure as the MD was there..

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Prof. Olweny is said to have remained quiet and did not raised any issue for six years when his political surrogate and business friend former MD almost brought the Company down to its knee. There were reports of alleged massive vandalizing and looting of the company property and assets. Chemelil Sugar company almost went burst at the time when the former MD left after the government refused to renew his contract early last year. The MP who was then a back-bencher vehemently defended his friend.

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It is being alleged that Prof. Ayiecho Olweny has introduced tribal angle into the affairs of Chemelil Sugar which is located in the Nyanza Sugar Belt in the Muhoroni Constituency just for simple reason of gaining political mileage, but he had grossly misread the feeling of the local farmers who seemed to have a lot of confidence in the new management team.

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This came to surface recently when the MP raised the issue at a well attended funeral gathering, but he was booed and heckled by the hundreds of mourners forcing him to cut down his speech. The mourners also heckled the County Council boss Onyango Ongʼou.

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It appears as if the cane farmers seem to have full confidence in the new management team headed by the new MD �Eng.Musebe and the new chairman of the board of directors Dr. Mining and wanted the team to be given a chance so that it could turn the ailing Sugar Company around to a vibrant profit making outlet..

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Already farmers are saying that they are happy with the new measures taken by the management� in streamlining the harvesting, delivery and payment of farmers money on monthly basis unlike the past when the farmers used to go for months without payment for their cane delivered to the factory crushed and sold.

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A number of farmers who spoke to this writer and requested for their anonymity, said they have rejected the tribal undertone being advocated by the area MP and have appealed to the Government, particularly the Prime Minister Raila Odinga to restrain the MP from interfering with the day to day management of Chemelil Sugar Factory

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