One criteria for Ministers should be to select people that are willing to donate 95 percent of their salaries to charitable organizations to help heal and rebuild the country. That would still leave them with 5 times what a school teacher makes and 10 times what any of them are probably worth.

What is interesting is that the world seems to think the solution to Africa's problems is to pump more money in - in the form of development aid. Aid projects can create jobs, increase harvests, build "capacity", conserve forests, set up income generating activities etc etc. But - when most of the Govt's budget is channeled towards keeping an overweight Parliament happy...all that happens is the reinforcement of a vicious cycle.

Let's look a little closer at the day in the life of a "beneficiary". There are no roads - so all the inputs I need for my farm costs far too much and getting my harvest to the market is equally impossible (Question? - why are there no roads). Every night I need to pay more and more to the gangs for "protection" as there is no security (Q? why is there no security). And maybe...just maybe I'll make it through 5 years...but then - during the inevitable election violence, they will burn everything I own. I have no land I can call my own to build my house again - because the overweight Government had to do something will all their excess money and bought it all.

I look at my children and know the best that I can offer them is a life exactly like mine.

Africa is not poor. It's a suburbian emotionally & physically battered housewife.

Briefly speaking, west and specifically USA have played significant part in contemporary African warfare. They are not specific to Africa, as the Balkans bears testimony, nor are they phenomena of this age. In Africa, these private out-of-state actors gained prominence in the 1960s. Then they were labeled mercenaries or ‘dogs of war.’ The activities of the often quoted Bob Denard, ‘Mad’ Mike Hoare and Jacques Schramme set the scene for perverse and insidious characters to engage in civil war conflicts at the request of a particular warring faction. Today we have African themselves a Raila and Ruto’s.

Apartheid South Africa also exported various mercenary forces, either to destabilize those who challenged its existence, or to exacerbate tensions in other war zones. Today we are seeing different kids of mercenary or the warlords who have being legalized by the west and thus sycophant of the west. In Kenya we are looking at warlords with a west stamp, whom have declared war on the Kenyan people if thing do not go their way.

The precedence set by the GANG of ODM is illegal and dangerous to African democracy. When a group of people predict of winning an election and testify that they will not accept defeat and then the west camp with them, and then this is a very sad day for democracy in Africa and the world as a whole. If Kibaki had used force, like Mugabe has done repeatedly, I promise there would be peace in Kenya but less democratic. Maybe the west wants more Mugabe’s in Africa. Zibambwe is quiet one week after the election, Where are the American and the west. Kibaki should read a script from Mugabe.

Without wanting to generalize, one thing seems apparent in several African societies – law and order has broken down entirely in certain societies, even in those we saw to label as conflict-free zones like Kenya with the blessing of west. Civilians are increasingly the victims of armed robbery, harassment, theft, thuggery, rape, ethnics cleansing other unspeakable offences, while the west look and enjoy the evening news. Civilians are also suffering from the indiscriminate use of force. Violence and criminality, sometimes leading to armed internal conflict and eventually open warfare between state and legal Gangs-ODM, has marred numerous regions on the continent. If what is happening in Kenya was in Europe, USA would have intervened and stopped these Gang of five. Yet they insist the people who planned and killed children to be include in the government. What a shame, what slap of the face for the African people!!! Try that in the west.

We know these people are planning to stabilize the Kenyan government at any means necessary. It is also clear they want to go back at their plan to remove some people from the parts of Kenya. It is very clear that these crimes were organized and still financed by the same people! If the UN can prosecute the crimes committed in Yugoslavia, and especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, then they can prosecute those in Kenya being committed by Raila and Ruto under the hypothesis of rigged elections. The destruction that started today is again another campaign designate to harm and label some groups as `the enemy', which could imply intent of war against those groups again. We the people of Kenya and the world deserve peace and it’s about time these people answer in Hague for crimes committed against the humanity.