US ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, said President Barrack Obama's ad ministration had also issued warning letters to 15 prominent Kenyan personalities, to stop slowing down the pace of constitutional reforms in the East Africa nation.
'Letters signed by Assistant Secretary of State, Johnny Carson, have been sent to 15 persons, making clear that the future relationship of those persons with the US is tied to their support for the implementation of the reform agenda and opposition to the use of violence,' the US Envoy told a news conference here.
President Obama has sent repeated messages to Kenyan leaders to move on with the reforms targeting the judiciary, the formation of an independent permanent electoral commission and the formation of an international court to try post-election violence plotters.
The US has also warned that it will scrutinize any proposals for funding in favour of Kenya, under the international financial institutions as part of its actions against the lack of progress in Kenya, which it says could make the country more politically unstable.
'These steps reflect the view at the highest levels of the US government that implementation of these comprehensive reform agenda agreed to as the foundation of the coalition government must proceed with a much clear sense of urgency, because doing so is crucial to them future of democratic stability of Kenya,' he said.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga formed a coalition government in April 2008 after a chaotic election which failed to show a clear winner.
The new government was formed on the basis of a comprehensive political reform agenda, including a pledge for a new constitution within the first three months of the new government coming to power.
Nairobi - 24/09/2009
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