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State Blamed Over Gucha Clashes
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- Published on Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:21
Paul Muite, James Orengo, Waithaka Mwangi and Shem Ochoudho criticised the "plot" to give President Moi a third term and urged the US and British governments not to support it.
They alleged Catholic priest John Anthony Kaiser's death was caused by the evidence he gave against the Government on the1992 tribal clashes. But the MPs declined to give any evidence of their assertion.
Speaking at Kisii town after attending a court case at Kilgoris, the MPs claimed the Kisii-Maasai clashes were part of Government-instigated "internal genocide" being "downplayed" as tribal clashes.
They said: "These clashes are systematic genocide in which the Government has a hand." Again they would not adduce any evidence, except, as Mr Muite put it, that "the highest office in the land" had not condemned the police killing of four people".
More than 30 people have been killed along the Gucha-Trans Mara border, the latest victim an old man attacked while picking tea on his Bobasi farm. The MPs urged the immediate sacking of the two districts' security personnel, from the district commissioners downwards, since they had failed to maintain law and order.
The MPs condoled with the families and relatives of those killed in the border skirmishes. Mr Ochuodho said the Government's failure to stop the fighting was a sign of its inability to maintain general law and order.
