Posted on 08/07/2017 3:02:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Former President Barack Obama on Monday called for unity and peace during what he fears could be potentially violent elections on Tuesday in Kenya, his father's homeland.
"I urge Kenyan leaders to reject violence and incitement; respect the will of the people; urge security forces to act professionally and neutrally; and no matter the outcome," Obama said in a statement on Monday. "I urge all Kenyans to work for an election — and aftermath — that is peaceful and credible, reinforcing confidence in your new constitution and the future of your country." Every Thought Leader Must Either Publish Or Perish Watch Full Screen
Incumbent Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is running for a second term as president against opposition leader Raila Odinga as the two primary candidates out of eight running for election on Tuesday. Kenyans will also vote for the governors of 47 counties in Kenya.
In 2007, more than 1,000 people died as the result of violent clashes in the aftermath of the election after Odinga said the election had been rigged. The election in 2012 did not result in major violence, but people are still concerned about potential violence, and Kenyans have fled the capital of Nairobi in anticipation of the election, the BBC reported.
According to the Independent, Kenyan politics is often divided along ethnic lines and areas where these tensions could erupt into violence also concern Kenyans and election monitors.
"In Kenya's election we have already seen too much incitement and appeals based on fear from all sides," Obama said. "But I also know that the Kenyan people as a whole will be the losers if there is a descent into violence. You can make clear that you will reject those that want to deal in tribal and ethnic hatred. As I said two years ago, the voices of ordinary people and civil society can make sure that Kenya will not be defined by divisions of the past, but by the promise of the future. Today, those voices - your voices — are needed more than ever."
Obama added that during his visits to the country where his father grew up, he's witnessed the progress made in the country and hopes to see it live up to its potential.
"This election is one more milestone for Kenya, and I urge President Kenyatta, Mr. Odinga, and all Kenyans to act with respect for the proverb: ‘We have not inherited this land from our forebears, we have borrowed it from our children,'" Obama said. "The choices you make in the coming days can either set Kenya back or bring it together. As a friend of the Kenyan people, I urge you to work for a future defined not by fear and division, but by unity and hope."
He’s trying to advance Islam. The country used to be primarily Christian but Obama starting in 2007 when he was still a US Senator heaving interfered in the election which kicked off a waive of Muslim violence, burning churches with congregations inside, etc.
I can't read that enough.
He and Moo claimed it was his homeland.
I do recall +100 Christians were burned alive in their church.
What laws, US and/or Kenyan were broken?
Any videos of his speeches floating around?
Interfere in the elections of foreign countries much, Barry?
I also seem to recall that Little Dick "Twinkle Toes" Morris and his wife were campaign consultants for odinga's.
They used the same paradigm as they're using here.
Don't accept the results of the legitimate election.
Claim it was "fixed".
Use any means to over turn the election, including violence.
As a native son he should have some clout there.
Maybe the Magic Mulatto can convince Al Gore to go over there as an election monitor ... his latest movie has bombed and he has nothing else important to do.
While he and his army of buttwipes work behind the scene to overturn the legitimate presidential election in America.
Disagree. The hijacking of the medical profession now run by DC lawyers, was the largest welfare increase since the 60s. Furthermore, he fanned their diversity attacks on whites by thousands. He also shipped bundles of tax dollars to African shitholes and 35% of federal employees are African. Free cell phones and other increases in welfare programs were also increased substantially.
He was there in about 2006 creating chaos for his family to get elected.
Obama’s possible cousin Ralila Odinga (pinko) LOSES badly to more conservative incumbent President, whines about “hacking”, even John Kerry tells him to eff off.
Odinga wanted to go Mugabe on Kenya’s Whites, was educated in East Germany.
That already happened in 2014. History repeats itself!
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