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Kibaki appoints committee to
lead crisis talks
Published on January 19, 2008, 12:00 am
EA STANDARD
By Patrick Wachira
President Kibaki has appointed a high-level committee to spearhead
national political dialogue and end the current crisis.
The committee is expected to represent the Government in
international negotiations expected to be headed by former UN
Chief, Kofi Annan.
"The committee is mandated to promote national reconciliation,
international understanding and good relations on the political
problems facing the country," said a PPS statement.
ODM also hinted yesterday it would pick its negotiations team for
a process headed by international mediators.
The committee is headed by Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, and
comprises Internal Security minister, Prof George Saitoti,
Attorney-General Amos Wako, Foreign Affairs minister, Mr Moses
Wetangula and Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Ms
Martha Karua.
Others are Finance Minister, Amos Kimunya, Local Government
minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Transport minister, Chirau Mwakwere and
Mbooni MP, Mr Mutula Kilonzo.
Joint secretaries for the committee are Mr Ludiko Chweya, a senior
political science lecturer at the University of Nairobi and Mr
Geoffrey Gichira Kibara, the Director of Legal Statistics in the
Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.
However, the committee is free to co-opt any other member as it
deems appropriate, a dispatch from the Presidential Press Service
said. The move by the President is seen as an attempt to break the
deadlock that has left the country reeling from mass
demonstrations, 500 deaths and 500,000 people displaced from their
homes.
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