A group of US congressmen has been visiting our country this past week where they held various meetings with political players. They went as far as any other US official has gone to back the enactment of the proposed constitution.
Unknown to many Kenyans, there is a sideshow to the big local fight for the draft law that is playing itself out in Washington DC. You hear about it intermittently from reports that certain congressmen sitting on the Africa sub-committee of the US House of Representative’s Committee on Foreign Affairs have been lambasting the Obama administration for supporting a Kenyan draft law that “legalises” abortion (the monopoly for untruths is by no means confined to Kenyan provocateurs).
And there are the scattered reports of US-based evangelical churches allegedly funding their Kenyan counterparts on the ‘No’ side. The most vocal US politician concerning our draft law is New Jersey congressman Chris Smith, the top Republican on the Africa sub-committee.
It so happens that virtually all the US politicians busy trashing our draft constitution are Republicans.
In this campaign abortion is just an excuse. In fact, I doubt very much if they care a hoot about the draft constitution, which they most likely have not read.
For mor einformation, visit http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Obamas%20right%20wing%20enemies%20see%20Kenya%20as%20new%20battleground%20/-/440808/955458/-/ttxn9/-/
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