As we earlier reported in our article concerning the All Kenyans in Rwanda association (AKR), their preparations for elections are in full gear amidst turmoil from members who are believed to have poor reputation.
The majority who are in favor of Boniface Mutua and commonly referred to as the Mutua group received a communiqué from the Kenyan embassy two days ago postponing the elections without any tangible reason.
However this hasn’t discouraged the majority who want to proceed with elections scheduled to Saturday afternoon.
The Embassy communiqué signed by the Acting Ambassador Fred Eshilkuta read in part: “Following concerns raised by a cross section of Kenyans particularly regarding the issue of AKR membership, the elections scheduled to Saturday 6th August 2011 at the High Commission have been postponed to a date to be announced soon ”.
And the Ambassador declined to comment on the matter to the press and concerned AKR members.
“I’m not obliged to disclose any concerns raised by Kenyans or anyone who approaches us for help, “he said adding: “you know we’re like a family we don’t tell everyone our issues we try to settle them within us”.
But despite the embassy’s communiqué supporters of Mutua have decided to proceed with the election process tomorrow at Car Wash a Kenyan owned hotel in Kigali.
“I’ve not heard any good reason why the high commission postponed the elections yet they don’t have the mandate to do so or even mingle in our private affairs. My supporters are really discouraged by the embassy,” said Mutua, the aspiring chairman who is still unopposed.
Commenting on the matter, the current chairman John Kamwengu who’s disliked by many, allegedly due what they termed “mismanagement during his mandate” said that the Mutua group was taking decisions contrary to the constitution.
However, Kamwengu didn’t specify the clause in the AKR constitution that the Mutua group is violating but insisted that Mutua is impatient since there’s an election committee which is supposed to give a date for election.
But according to Mutua, the excuse was ridiculous since AKR had nominated an election committee on 16th July who were given ample time to conduct their duties and announced 6th August as the election date.
“These guys have ran out of ideas and nothing can stop Kenyans to vote for change, we have big plans for the association and among our main tasks is to contribute meals to those affected by famine back home,” he stressed.
But Kamwengu angrily reacted saying that. “We are not leaving power to them and even if they form a different association AKR won’t recognize them”.
To which Mutua fired back saying that the chairman words were like kicks of a dying horse since the constitution gave members the right to either revoke the embattled members or recall them.
“The constitutions says membership can be revoked on the recommendation of 2/3 of members and in a situation where the entire Executive Committee is recalled, the functions of the Executive Committee shall be automatically transferred to a caretaker,” Mutua stressed.
Apparently, the options will be among the agenda AKR members will discuss tomorrow to find whether it was appropriate to revoke membership of those alleged on embezzlement.
Geoffrey Muli who’s among the victims of the registered members whose names were scrapped off the register noted that the association was stuck and he hoped that a new team would revive the once strong team.
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