Why PNU is unhappy with Annan

By Gakuu Mathenge Monitoring and playing supervisor for the Grand Coalition compliance to Agenda Four mandate has been an acrimonious affair between former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and a section of the Government, especially PNU.
To President Kibaki’s aides, Kofi Anan’s regular updates on his views on successes and shortcomings of the Grand Coalition performance or lack of progress – through Nairobi-based South Consulting – is nothing more than meddling and poking his fingers into the Kenyans’ nose.
ODM, however, appreciates the big brother who occasionally keeps a ‘truant’ PNU within the straight and the narrow. Resented as a ‘foreign imposed’ third leg of Kenya’s experimental triumvirate (government dominated by three rulers – Kibaki, Raila and Kofi Annan – the Ghanian was recruited by the African Union (AU) to mediate a truce between President Kibaki and their supporters to end post-election violence.
Annan’s mediation produced the National Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008. However, although he was recruited by the AU, and is under AU’s mandate, the European Union and the US Government foots the bills for Kofi Annan’s operations in Kenya, an aspect President Kibaki’s side of the coalition resents. Unfortunately, only the EU can terminate his service by turning off the funds, if the AU does not recall him.
Last January, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs report on why International Criminal Court’s operations in Kenya lists Annan as among entities allegedly responsible for ‘smearing’ Kenya’s name abroad to create the impression that only ICC could do justice to post-election violence victims.
"…These perceptions are underscored by the manner in which some international actors have remained involved seeking to shape developments in Kenya to suite certain dispensation … Significant to this is the Kofi Annan outfit that has continued to collect and distribute misleading information to the international community…" the report, based on meetings between the ICC President of State Parties, Mr Christian Wessnessner and African diplomats said when he visited Kenya last month. However, Annan makes it worse by snubbing the AU summits, and failure to report the AU Peace and Security Council or Heads of States Summit like other mediators and envoys on missions around Africa.
Last year, the AU peace and Security Council protested to former Foreign Minister Moses Wetang’ula that it had received no briefs on the Kenya situation. Annan did not show up at Addis last month or in Uganda last year to give a brief on Kenya.
But despite claims Annan does not brief the AU, his South Consulting firm publicly issues updates and progress reports on the Grand Coalition in Nairobi every quarter.