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### Viewing cable 09NAIROBI1084, A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH

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09NAIROBI1084 | 2009-06-03 04:04 | 2011-02-27 23:11 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Nairobi
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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 NAIROBI 001084

    SIPDIS

    AF/E FOR SUSAN DRIANO

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2019
    TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM KE

    SUBJECT: A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
    DEPUTY PM/FINANCE MINISTER KENYATTA

    Classified By: Ambassador Michael E. Ranneberger for reasons 1.4 (B
    and D)

    ¶1.  (C) Summary:  In a May 12 meeting with Deputy Prime
    Minister/Minister of Finance Uhuru Kenyatta, Assistant Secretary for
    African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council
    (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin expressed deep
    concern over political tensions in Kenya.  Gavin delivered a tough
    message from President Obama: the U.S. would not do business with
    Kenyans who obstructed reform or encouraged political violence.
    Kenyatta sought to deflect concerns, arguing that the government's
    focus should be on economic rather than political reform, given
    Kenya's multitude of idle youth. He blamed an irresponsible media and
    a slow moving Parliament for the lack of overall progress on the
    reform agenda.  A/S Carson and Gavin objected to Kenyatta's assertion
    that the media and Parliament were to blame and exhorted Kenyatta to
    work expeditiously towards significant progress on the reform agenda
    prior to the August 4-6, 2009 AGOA Forum in Nairobi.  Kenyatta was
    diplomatic enough to pay lip service to the reform agenda but could
    not provide any tangible evidence of a commitment to change.  End
    Summary.
    ¶2.  (C) Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance Uhuru
    Kenyatta on May 12, A/S Carson and NSC Senior Director for Africa
    Gavin expressed the deep concern of the new U.S. Administration over
    political tensions in Kenya.  While noting Kenya's critical role in
    Africa and its positive history of partnership with the United
    States, A/S Carson said there was growing concern that the political
    tensions that led to the eruption of violence in 2008 were building
    up again as a result of the slow pace of reform.  He added that the
    tensions within the coalition appeared greater and stronger than the
    glue holding the coalition together.  A/S Carson also emphasized USG
    concerns about the recent extra-judicial killings of human rights
    activists from the Oscar Foundation.  A/S Carson said the killings
    had the hallmarks of a police hit and "shook a lot of human rights
    advocates."  Particularly worrying, A/S Carson said, was the lack of
    prosecution or even the serious gathering of evidence.  A/S Carson
    reminded Kenyatta of the linkage between political and economic
    reform, noting that one cannot attract investment without political
    certainty and stability.  He said that failure to move rapidly on the
    political side will undermine what Kenya wants to do on the economic
    side.  No one wanted to see Kenya fall or go backwards and we wanted to help where we could.  Pointing to the upcoming August 4-6 AGOA
    Forum, A/S Carson made clear that he wanted Secretary Clinton to come to the Forum with a positive message, but that without significant
    reform she would be coming with a harder message for the GOK.
    ¶3.  (C) Gavin made clear President Obama's deep concern over Kenya's
    political gridlock.  She indicated that the U.S. wanted to help but
    that the new Administration is not interested in business as usual
    with political elites obstructing reform or contributing to political
    violence.  The President is worried, she added, that Kenya is headed
    in the wrong direction.  Gavin emphasized the importance of
    addressing disenfranchised youth and noted that their plight spoke to
    the need for economic growth and implementation of the reform agenda.

    ¶4.  (C) Kenyatta said Kenya's current political stalemate (over
    whether the Vice President or Prime Minister leads government
    business) could be managed and that it was simply part of the
    transition from one system of government to another.  In Kenyatta's
    view, the power to lead government clearly rested with the Vice
    President; he said he could not understand the Prime Minister's
    position in seeking to take over that power.  Moving to the reform
    agenda, Kenyatta asserted that the focus, due primarily to problems
    of youth unemployment and the serious criminal gang threat in Kenya,
    had to be economic -- rather than political -- reform.  According to
    Kenyatta, while the government had made progress on constitutional
    and electoral reform, focusing exclusively on the political front
    would be a mistake.  A/S Carson and Gavin demurred; it was important,
    they said, to move on both tracks expeditiously as economic and
    political progress were inextricably linked.  Kenyatta blamed an
    "independent Parliament" and "irresponsible media" for impeding
    progress on the reform agenda.
    ¶5.  (C) On the subject of extra-judicial killings, Kenyatta condemned
    the actions but said there must be a greater understanding of the
    context in which they are taking place.  He lamented the powerful
    draw of Kenya's pernicious criminal gangs, including Mungiki, on
    Kenya's growing multitude of idle youth.  Zigzagging, he conceded
    that the police are likely involved with the criminal gangs, and
    claimed that the Oscar Foundation had links with Mungiki.  In
    closing, Kenyatta sought additional USG assistance for Kenya.  He
    complained that the U.S. decision to deny Kenya access to MCC funds
    was based on misperceptions -- rather than the reality -- of
    corruption in Kenya.  If Kenya was so bad, Kenyatta asserted, it
    would not be receiving support from multilateral institutions such as

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    the World Bank.  Kenyatta said he wants a partnership with the U.S.
    rather than hammers and conditions, which he said moved regularly.
    ¶6.  (C) Comment:  In the face of repeated expressions of concern by
    A/S Carson and Gavin about Kenya's lack of reform and potential
    collision with renewed violence, Kenyatta appeared both defensive
    about the government's muddling and non-committal toward changing the
    status quo.  Kenyatta was diplomatic enough to pay lip service to the
    reform agenda, but could not provide any tangible evidence of a
    commitment to change.  End comment.

    ¶7. (U) This cable has been cleared by A/S Carson and NSC Senior
    Director for Africa Gavin.

    RANNEBERGER

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