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Kenyans
express appreciation to President Kufuor
From: Kwaku Osei Bonsu, GNA Special Correspondent, Cape
Town, South Africa
Cape Town, June 6, Ghanadot/GNA - Kenyan Prime Minister,
Raila Amolo Odinga has expressed appreciation to President
John Agyekum Kufuor, for hisleadership and personal efforts
in brokering a peaceful resolution of the EastAfrican
nation's post-election crisis.
"You proved to be a true African brother at a time when
Kenya was torn apart and was on the brink of
disintegration."
Premier Odinga expressed the sentiments when he called on
President Kufuor in his suite at Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town
on Thursday.
Both of them are attending the 18th World Economic Forum on
Africa.
Kenya has been considered one of the most promising
countries in Africa – an oasis of stability in a turbulent
region, but it spun into chaos after theNational Election
Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki winner of aclosely
contested election in December last year, over Premier
Odinga, whoinsisted, he won most of the votes.
The polls fall-out violence left more than 1,000 people
killed and displaced over 300,000 others.
President Kufuor who was Chairman of African Union (AU)
during the crisis, did not only travel to Nairobi to talk to
the feuding parties but set up a three-member Committee of
Eminent Africans, chaired by Ghana's most celebrated
Diplomat, Mr Kofi Annan, that eventually succeeded to
mediate a peaceful solution, culminating in the signing of a
power sharing deal.
Premier Odinga said "you did not only get us to talk to each
other but brought a message of hope to our country by your
intervention."
President Kufuor advised the political leaders to keep faith
with the agreement they had signed and work together to heal
and reconcile the nation.
He said they should see themselves as one people and go the
extra mile tosecure lasting peace by providing for
themselves an enlightened Constitution that would ensure
equal rights for the citizenry.
GNA
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