SUNDAY TIMES
Commentry & Analysis
March 23, 2008
Story by: Omar Ali
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The two major partners that will form the Unity Government, namely PNU and ODM should heed the call made by Danson Mungatana very seriously.
The Garsen MP proposed the two political organizations establish a secretariat that would belong to their union, to act as a “nerve centre” for their working coalition. We must realize that the two political parties and their affiliates are not a willing coalition but one that was necessitated after the disputed presidential election.
I am afraid that the former Justice and Constitutional Affairs Assistant Minister will be dismissed as a noise maker but, this time at leat, I think Mungatana has made a great suggestion as the way forward. Kenya politicians are very jittery of ‘coalition’ governments’ because of the not so great Narc experience.
It must be remembered that ODM as a political party refused to become a coalition of parties simply because of “the NARC incident”. Hence the party wanted to remain as a single political entity as a party and politicians from other parties such as Kanu and others were compelled to switch their parties’ loyalties to join ODM.
The problems that faced the original Narc as a coalition were the fact that there were no functional party organs and no one made any effort to build them. We saw that the then ruling party did not conduct any elections.
To date Ngilu still has the party certificate in her hand bag or pocket book.
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