Rice In his Kenya diary, Guardian journalist Xan Rice reports on ...

www.marsgroupkenya.orgAnother was William Ruto, the agriculture minister, who was alleged to have incitedKalenjin gangs. Both strongly deny any wrongdoing. <strong>Kenya</strong>tta had already taken theKNCHR to court to try to clear <strong>his</strong> name. Ruto subsequently announced in Novemberthat he was also pursuing legal action against the KNCHR.The two men, who both have strong presidential aspirations and are extremely wealthy,then came together to form an alliance.From outside the move may have seemed positive – leaders from the Kikuyu andKalenjin communities leading the way on reconciliation. But the alliance appears to bepurely political, meant to guarantee that one of the two is <strong>Kenya</strong>’s next leader, continuingthe Kikuyu-Kanlenjin hold on power (<strong>Kenya</strong>tta was Kikuyu, Moi is Kalenjin, Kibaki isKikuyu), to the exclusion of <strong>Kenya</strong>’s 40 other ethnic groups. Solidarity in case theyappear in Ocampo’s sights is likely to be another motivation.“Our <strong>Kenya</strong>” is under threat, but it is not donehttp://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1366&catID=17www.marsgroupkenya.org 3