Kenya Power sharing

Power sharing makes better politic wave, as Kenya just did that, so for the sake of thousands of innocent citizens!

A coalition cabinet for Kenya was sworn in Thursday amidst mingled relief and exasperation on the part of those living in the East African nation: relief at the possibility of Kenya now being able to rebuild the peace after post-election violence, and exasperation at the price tag attached to this hope.

The cabinet includes supporters of both President Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga, who has alleged that Kibaki's victory in the Dec. 27 polls was a result of rigging. The dispute over the presidential ballot sparked violence that claimed more than a thousand lives, and displaced as many as 600,000 people.

Hopes are that Kibaki and Odinga , now Prime Minister, will work within a government of national unity(Umoja) to address the social tensions that fuelled the violence. But, with the cabinet having been enlarged from 34 to 42 ministers to accommodate both camps, there are concerns that it will drain resources from a country already struggling to meet the needs of its citizens.

More positively, Kenya now has seven women in its cabinet, the highest number ever; under the previous administration, which marked Kibaki's first term in office, the number of female ministers never exceeded three.