Kenyan Election NTV television video clip. Portmanteau government inauguration, Martha Karua.

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De5054
August 19, 2009

Live television coverage of the post/ peri election-fixing in Nairobi. Filmed by me in January 2008. I filmed with my compact camera to avi, audio video interleave from the telly.
As a photographer i use prime SLR units, but have sidearms, IXUS's & a Pentax Optio compact as it records directly to DivX®.

The swearing in of members of parliament. Mwai Kibaki, it was said off-script, did not want to continue as the Republic of Kenya's premier, his wife however had other ideas - indeed she is noted for going around & slapping MPs. ('forgotten her nick name)
Mwai Kibaki from Nyeri is a Kikuyu, & his political party, the PNU denotes 'Party of National Unity'.
Raila Odinga's father had "some history" with Mwai Kibaki in decades past.
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The ODM (Orange Democratic Movement) headed by Raila Odinga (who is of the Luo tribe - the same as that of Mr Barak Obama, USA President) had won the December 2007 Republic of Kenya election all the evidence suggests. Technically, a 'landslide' election victory has to be 55% / 45%. Their was little evidence that the vote papers had not been tampered with. The KICC, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, is where lights were mysteriously being switched off when the office room occupants realised that there was media cameras in opposing buildings. Shadows seen crawling about on their hands & knees.

Many Kenyans had wasted precious money by taking days off work for to travel back to their home canton in order to vote, Their registered home town or village. So many had told me that if they had known what would happen, they would not have bothered to vote. A waste of money, a waste of time, and fear on people's faces was palpable.
It was awful to see the fear in people, it was tangible and it was needless. The worst this was the fear that the people lived in in Kenya. Uncertainty; hey it is a killer. A bible maxim notes in Proverbs 13:12 that 'Expectation postponed makes the heart sick". This is such a clever observation as as in psychology, the part of the mind taking on expectation does not differentiate between good or positive expectation & that of negative expectation. It is post ingestion that it forks & the social knock-on has placement.

Armed police were running around with automatic weapons chasing after demonstrators, closely followed by reporters & photojournalists.
Protest was extremely common. (Uhuru [Freedom] Park in the city centre was bodily ringed-off by troops & a trench dug around it to prevent vehicle intrusion). Rioting, chaos & confusion was almost hourly at one point, & the death toll - not leastly - was wild. Such a waste. Bodies lying in the street or on patches of ground. Dropped where they were hit.

The main artery leading out North-East of the city centre, the road out to Kasarani/ Zimmerman/ Thika (Thika Road), the military police had shot a bullet in the air to disperse a crowd, the bullet went through an overhead electricity cable, the cable swung down and killed a woman instantly.

Looting. Indiscriminate killing. Infants & youths being shot cold dead. Rape. Gangs, armed police known as the (GSU) General Service Unit, & the standard-issue opportunists & carpetbaggers.

Days before the Kenya election, Karachi MP Benazir Bhutto was executed in Pakistan, I instantly knew that that would hog most of the airwaves in the media placement. BBC is the world's largest news org, then CNN...,
As Lenin had it, 'One death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic'.

Kenyan saying, 'Haraka haraka haina baraka'.
(English; 'Hurrying has no blessing')

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