Editing Mwai Kibaki (section)

===Political legacy===
President Kibaki was accused of ruling with a small group of his elderly peers, mainly from the educated side of the Kikuyu elite that emerged in the [[Jomo Kenyatta]] era, usually referred to as the "Kitchen Cabinet"<ref name="See for instance"/> or the "[[Mount Kenya]] Mafia".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7199757.stm|work=BBC News|title=Kenya's 'mafia' feel the heat|date=21 January 2008|access-date=19 May 2010|first=Noel|last=Mwakugu}}</ref> There was therefore the perception that his was a [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]] presidency. This perception was reinforced when the President was seen to have trashed the pre- 2002 election Memorandum of Understanding with the [[Raila Odinga]]-led Liberal Democratic Party,<ref>Renson Buluma and Peter Atsiaya. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200709110217.html Keriri Tells Why Kibaki Trashed Coalition's 2002 MoU] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011175150/http://allafrica.com/stories/200709110217.html |date=11 October 2012 }}. allafrica.com (11 September 2007)</ref> and was further reinforced by his disputed 2007 election victory over the [[Raila Odinga]] led ODM Party being achieved nearly exclusively with the votes of the populous Mt. Kenya [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]], [[Meru people|Meru]] and [[Embu people|Embu]] communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afrobarometer.org/papers/AfrobriefNo48.pdf |title=Ethnicity and Violence in the 2007 Elections in Kenya |work=Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No. 48 |date=February 2008 |access-date=19 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509093413/http://www.afrobarometer.org/papers/AfrobriefNo48.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2008 }}</ref>

The Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence (CIPEV) put it thus:

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The post election violence [in early 2008 therefore is, in part, a consequence of the failure of President Kibaki and his first Government to exert political control over the country or to maintain sufficient legitimacy as would have allowed a civilised contest with him at the polls to be possible. Kibaki's regime failed to unite the country, and allowed feelings of marginalisation to fester into what became the post election violence. He and his then Government were complacent in the support they considered they would receive in any election from the majority Kikuyu community and failed to heed the views of the legitimate leaders of other communities.<ref>Report of the Justice Philip Waki Chaired Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence [CIPEV] formed to probe into the post 2007 Kenya General Elections Violence: pp. 29–30</ref>
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Critics noted that President Kibaki failed to take advantage of the 2002 popular mandate for a complete break with the past and fix the politics largely mobilized along ethnic interests. "... when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew."<ref name="MICHELA WRONG Page 11">Michela Wrong, ''It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower'' p. 11, Harper, 2009, {{ISBN|0061346586}}</ref> Elected in 2002 on a reform platform,<ref name="nation"/> Kibaki was seen to have re-established the ''[[Status quo ante (phrase)|status quo ante]]''.<ref>[https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2008-03-13-voa30-66744582/562252.html Kenya's Proposed Government Faces Challenges in Overhauling Constitution] . Voice of America (13 March 2008)</ref> His opponents charged that a major aim of his presidency was the preservation of the privileged position of the elite that emerged during the Kenyatta years, of which he was part.<ref name="See for instance"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Mwakugu|first=Noel|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7199757.stm|title=Kenya's 'mafia' feel the heat|publisher=BBC News|date=21 January 2008|access-date=1 June 2010}}</ref>

In summary, the Kibaki Presidency did not do nearly enough to address the problem of tribalism in Kenya.

Lawyer [[George Kegoro]], in an article published in the ''[[Daily Nation]]'' newspaper on 12 April 2013<ref name="nation2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Will-the-roads-and-economy-define-Kibakis-legacy/-/440808/1746850/-/lfd8x4/-/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413044636/http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Will-the-roads-and-economy-define-Kibakis-legacy/-/440808/1746850/-/lfd8x4/-/index.html |archive-date=13 April 2013 |url-status=dead |title=KEGORO: Will the roads and economy define Kibaki's legacy or the lost chances? - Daily Nation|access-date=28 July 2016}}</ref> summarized the Kibaki Political Legacy thus:-

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"Kibaki was, by far, a better manager of the economy than Moi before him. He brought order to the management of public affairs, a departure from the rather informal style that characterised the Moi regime. Kibaki's push for free primary education remains an important achievement, as will the revival of key economic institutions such as the Kenya Meat Commission and the Kenya Cooperative Creameries, ruined during the Moi-era. ... However, Kibaki was not all success. Having come to power in 2003 on an anti-corruption platform, he set up two commissions, the Bosire Commission on the [[Goldenberg scandal]] and the Ndung'u Commission, which investigated irregular land allocation. However, the reports were not implemented. Further, the Kibaki administration was rocked by a corruption scandal of its own, the [[Anglo Leasing]] scam, involving his close associates. [[John Githongo]], an inspired appointment by Kibaki for an anti-corruption czar, resigned from the government in 2005, citing lack of support from the president. As he leaves office, therefore, the fight against corruption remains unfulfilled. ... But, perhaps, the most controversial aspect of the Kibaki tenure will always be his relationship with senior politicians of his day, particularly Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka. The context of this complex relationship includes the post-election violence of 2007, whose roots go back to the dishonoured Memorandum of Understanding between Kibaki and Raila in 2002. The quarrel over the MoU directly led to the break-up of the Narc government, after which Kibaki showed Odinga the door and invited the opposition to rule with him. The effect was that the opposition, rejected at the polls, joined government while Raila's faction, validly elected to power, was consigned to the opposition. ... To the supporters of Raila and Kalonzo, Kibaki will be remembered as a person who did not keep political promises."
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[[File:President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki (5915590053).jpg|thumb|President Mwai Kibaki with [[United Kingdom|British]] Foreign Secretary [[William Hague]] in [[Nairobi]], Kenya]]