NAIROBI – Kofi Annan yesterday suspended crisis talks between representatives of Kenya’s president and opposition leader after the fatal shooting of an opposition lawmaker in the west of the country.
“We have postponed this afternoon’s session and we will work all day tomorrow so that the leaders can attend to urgent matters and call their constituents,” Annan told reporters in Nairobi. An official in President Mwai Kibaki’s negotiating team confirmed to AFP that the talks had been adjourned due to the killing of an opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) member of parliament in the volatile town of Eldoret.”The talks were adjourned because the MP was killed,” said the official, who requested to remain unnamed.The lawmaker, David Kimutai Too, was killed by a traffic policeman in a suburb of Eldoret – Nampa-AFPAn official in President Mwai Kibaki’s negotiating team confirmed to AFP that the talks had been adjourned due to the killing of an opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) member of parliament in the volatile town of Eldoret.”The talks were adjourned because the MP was killed,” said the official, who requested to remain unnamed.The lawmaker, David Kimutai Too, was killed by a traffic policeman in a suburb of Eldoret – Nampa-AFP
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