Kenya Openly supporting South Sudan Cessation

Alarmed I must say I am that Kenyan MP's would go out openly on the weekend (11th/12th December 2010) and support the cessation of southern Sudan. My position on this matter is clear, every people have a right to self determination and so the cessation of southern sudan in my opinion is quite in order only if conducted in a democratic manner.

However, that a bunch of MPs from Kenya's Parliament together with their East Africa Legislative Assembly counterparts led by an Assistant Minister in Kenya's Foreign Affairs Ministry, is the strongest affront to the Khartoum government that has been seen yet.

That Kenya has always seen the cessation as strategic for the growth of the region, this new move is set to put in motion a series of events that would definitely mark a defining point for the outcome of the referendum.

What would have been better would have been the holding a neutral standpoint by the Government rather than the outright positioning. The fact that Kenya helped father the CPA, any position separate from the neutral one is bound to be viewed in bad light by the North and the fact of tanks from Kenya highlighted in Wikileaks doesn't help much.