Word: otieno
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...some officials' old Mercedes have engines smaller than 1,800 cc. Should they be exempt from the change? No, said Kenyatta. Nevertheless, a few ministers have refused to turn in their luxury wheels. "We are not schoolchildren to be given uniforms in the form of Passats," Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said recently. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...
...windows and nab a few things. This time, however, the protest's leaders tried to defuse the situation and urged their followers to head back to the University of Nairobi campus for a prayer session. "The direction they are now taking is not the direction we wanted," said Walter Otieno, 28, a Strathmore University student and one of the protest's leaders, who had gotten permission from Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the march to go ahead. "Our whole point was to get the masses to know that injustice happened and that someone has been killed," said student Collins Chikezie...
Kung'u and Otieno believe the best way to take down the politicians' armies is to take away the cannon fodder. For them, it's a simple calculus: Get kids to reject a culture in which they must obey the commands of their elders. Then, get kids to start working so that the next time politicians come offering $15 for them to go kill someone from the wrong tribe, they stop and think about how much they have to lose. "We are trying to create that rebel mind, where you think on your own," says Kung'u. "If the young...
...head off that possibility, Kung'u, her close associate Tony Otieno and their group of volunteers are again taking on responsibilities that ought to fall to the government. They hope by acting now, far in advance of the next presidential election in 2012, they might just keep chaos...
Odinga's supporters are just as defiant. "We cannot accept [the election result]," says Otieno, the Kibera businessman. He vows that if the march does not go ahead as planned, there will be worse conflicts to come. "We will go peacefully into town. But if the police interfere, you can guess what will happen. All hell will break loose...