S.Sudan Deal is a Baloon. The Making of a Bad Election. Prosecutions don't Need Parliamentary reports

South Sudan peace deal…

It is a good turn in the conflict up in Juba. There has been considerable

progress towards peace since June this year.

Observation:

The approach of slicing government so thin may be the undoing of this

accord. The agreement essentially brings together many armed groups

into one unit and expected to function together. It is not far fetched that

some other groups may spring up and make demands.

The proposed structure of government is a balloon which may be blown to shits.

 But it appears like this was the only easier way out. The main challenge of finding

 peace in Juba is the fact that the conflict has been running for many years. 

Long conflicts get people used to bad life and the value of peace dwindles.

We now have many grownups that have never seen peace. How will they ever 

value peace if all they have known is blood all their lives?

IGAD has failed to crack the whip on the protagonists namely Riek Machar

and Salva Kiir. They represent the biggest stumble to true peace in there.

President Kiir and Riek Machar during the deal signing

 Elections in Harare…

It was a very tight race down in Zim.

Even thought the incumbent Mnangagwa was declared winner, it was a bad election.

Any election in which citizens die is a bad election. First, both camps were announcing 

it to their supporters that they had won. At that point one could predict the overall 

outcome as well as the peace situation. Horribly, a number of people lost their lives in 

a country that is fighting to regain its beauty and stature among the community of nations.

A mistake appears to have happened the moment a close ally of Mugabe was installed 

as interim President. Africa and indeed the world at large was in full expectation of a 

radical change hence the whooping disappointment after the elections.  But still it is unfair

 to find fault with the Zimbabweans, for they have waited so long for a window of change 

only to be crestfallen.

 President Mnangagwa’s continued use of the military casts ashes on democratic prospects

 in Harare. The main opposition, Movement for Democratic Change, will put a challenge 

on the election sometimes next week. 

Looking at the entire picture, there is a way in which you see the behavior of making elections

very complicated and opaque, which guarantees a post election strife.

Zimbabwe’s elections stand as a premonition to the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose 

elections are intended for December.

Nelson Chamisa of  MDC

One year on after Kenya’s Elections…

Even though political foes in Kenya have made peace, there is darkness and silence upon

 the enterprise that forged enmity among the people. It is unclear how electoral justice will be

recorded in history. The Election of August 2017 was annulled by the Supreme Court specifically

over lack of transparency. The fall out within the ranks of Commissioners after the elections

has remained as evidence of a poor team that was barely holding together at a time that was 

so crucial for the country and grope into an election that was worth billions and souls.

In the Baringo South by election (17/8/2018), IEBC, without shame stated that they were 

not to transmit elections results electronically. This thinking was also abundant in the repeat

elections of 2017. In my view the Commission lost a key opportunity to show off their mastery

and recapture lost credibility.

Observation: I see no commitment to electoral justice

Sugar probe fiasco…

It is a blunder. Kind of your representatives saying “You may as well keep on taking poison”

The parliamentary probe into illicit sugar which has not resulted into anything meaningful

has led to allegations of bribery in the National Assembly. It is a total let down to the citizens

 by their leaders. However, we really do not need a report from parliament to prosecute 

any government official. So cabinet secretaries cannot be protected by undermining 

parliamentary work. Indeed anybody can be prosecuted with or without parliamentary reports.

A blunder is a foolish mistake.

Demolitions …

Observation: lots of poor people are celebrating demolitions of huge buildings in the city as if

that will render the owners as poor as themselves. There is too much emotion as to make reason

weak and grey. Those who support demolitions should know that everybody pays for the sins

 that men commit. For this reason (mine is still clear and intact) we may need to isolate which

 violations are excessive and which ones may be forgiven.

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I beseech heavens to accept the soul our diplomat Kofi Anan.