Kenya was elected to the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday, defeating Djibouti in a second-round of voting by the 193-member General Assembly after an initial ballot failed to produce a clear winner.
Mexico, India, Ireland, Norway – who were elected on Wednesday – and Kenya will take up their two-year terms on the 15-member council on Jan. 1, 2021. Mexico and India were elected unopposed, while Ireland and Norway beat Canada.
To ensure geographical representation, seats are allocated to regional groups. All candidates need to win the support of more than two-thirds of the General Assembly to be elected. Neither Kenya or Djibouti achieved that during the first round of voting.
After operating virtually since March amid the coronavirus pandemic, diplomats – wearing masks and social distancing – returned to the General Assembly hall on Wednesday and Thursday to cast their secret ballots at allotted times.
The Security Council is the only U.N. body that can make legally binding decisions like imposing sanctions and authorizing the use of force. It has five permanent veto-wielding members – the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia.
‘a section of Kenyans say no’
Because of super-divisive elections, some Kenyans have questioned the intention of their philandering government to go for the UNSC seat.
Some argue that with the ‘handshake’ and other political groupings not being enough to pacify the general public, the Kenyan deep state, deem it fit to go for this seats, first the AU seat which they failed, then the UNSC seat, whcih they’ve become successful.
In September 1978, weeks after death had taken away Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta. The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had expressed fears of a fall-out in Kenya; where the populace would rise up against his family.
The US and its interests, which were presented well by the ruling elite, even till date, were at stake.
CIA agents state that Mama Ngina was highly resented due to a perception that she had accumulated a lot of wealth through unorthodox and aggressive business practices.
“The family’s hold on the economy is increasingly resented. Public criticism has been fanned by open parliamentary debate about scandals and high-level corruption…Students at the University of Nairobi are particularly concerned about the uneven distribution of Kenya’s wealth. They and the man on the street are critical of the family’s involvement in the charcoal and ivory trade,” one of the memos reports.
At first, the fear was that Jomo’s successor President Daniel Moi would use this public resentment to “take over large shares of the Kenyatta’s holdings.”
Ladies and gentelemen of Kenya, this is the same scenario that we are presented with, this is the same scenario, that led the second president from the Kenyatta clan to make peace with the agitators for good governance, the Luos.
What Uhuru is trying to do with Building Bridges Initiative is to extend his reign on power. Do not believe what the media or even, he, tells you.
It was not by coincidence that he reiterates yesteday, whule lobying for the UNSC seat, that he will not rule past the two term limit set for Kenyan presidents.
See, what he didn’t tell you is that the name of that which represents the presidency, locked within two terms can change to a Prime Minister. Or worse, the name remains but in the forthcoming referenfum, the terms limits is changed to seven years, so he can still have some time in office.
Some Kenyans have seen through the poliTRICKS and know why UNSC seat is important to Kenya.
The fear in the Kenyatta clan is real once more, because the Presidency is going away.
‘Who will protect us from the savages, when they rise against us?’
I share the tweets on the mater below:
In April 1994 when the 100 days of genocide began in Rwanda, guess who was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council? Yes, Rwanda.
— BABU AL-AMIN (@alaminkimathi) June 19, 2020
When Kenya's president wants to illegally extend his term in 2022, you have to be worried about this UN Security council thingy.
Rwanda's genocidaire government of 1994 was on the council at the peak of its crimes. UN looked the other way.
— #LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia (@wmnjoya) June 17, 2020
In 1994 when100 days of genocide, Rwanda was a non-permanent member of #UNSC. With a seat at table, Rwanda had access to permanent members of UNSC, influence and relevance. If your country is bordering on becoming a banana republic, you join UNSC to perfume the stench @kwamchetsi
— Ndung'u Wainaina (@NdunguWainaina) June 19, 2020
Don't lie to us, we shall just be kissing ass in NY, if Rwanda had this same position in 94 and no one in UNSC attempted to prevent the genocide, we are just sitting lame ducks, decades later, awaiting our fate considering the political hocus pocus in our beloved motherland Kenya
— Henry Kariuki (@RasKaris254) June 19, 2020
I am not supporting Kenya’s bid for a seat at the UNSC. We have failed to provide leadership at the regional level. All we have done is to send troops to protect our charcoal selling business in Somalia and install the illegitimate Madoobe in Jubaland. Self interest not national!
— CS Moses Kuria (@HonMoses_Kuria) June 17, 2020