No end in sight to blame game on Kenya chaos inciters

Three ministers on Sunday clashed over last week’s accusations that top ODM leaders planned the bloody 2007 post-election violence.

Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey and assistant Finance minister Oburu Oginga differed with their Public Health colleague Beth Mugo over the remarks.

Mr Kosgey said the ODM pentagon, accused by a section of PNU and ODM MPs of planning the chaos, was held up at the tallying hall at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC).

The team, therefore, did not have time to plan the violence, which led to the killing of 1,133 people, he said.

“The same Monday morning when pentagon members went to KICC, we were repelled by GSU personnel acting on orders,” stated the Tinderet MP.

Mr Kosgey, who was speaking at Sega Girls Secondary School, blamed the provincial administration for the violence, claiming they acted from orders from “above” to shoot and kill innocent people demanding what was rightfully theirs.

Dr Oginga said ODM called for mass action to protest against the presidential elections results and did not plan the killings.

Stop diverting focus

He asked Rift Valley MPs alleging that ODM pentagon members planned the killings to stop diverting the focus of ICC investigators.

Mrs Mugo had claimed that ODM was on record saying the country would never be the same again, therefore, sparking the violence.

She asked the ODM pentagon to release the minutes of its meeting to aid ICC investigations.

“How can the ODM pentagon want Kenyans to believe that there are no minutes of their meetings?

The minutes are there and should be released to Kenyans and to the ICC,” Mrs Mugo said while addressing journalists.