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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kenya-faces-constitutional-crisis.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prime minister Raila Odinga was shocked the Kenyan president had announced nominees for top posts without consulting him" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-kenya-faces-constitutional-crisis.jpg" alt="Prime minister Raila Odinga was shocked the Kenyan president had announced nominees for top posts without consulting him"/></a></p>
<p>Kenya&#8217;s prime minister has warned that Kenya faces a constitutional crisis after the president nominated individuals to top judicial, legal and financial posts without consulting him as required by law.</p>
<p>Prime minister Raila Odinga told journalists he was shocked to hear President Mwai Kibaki had announced nominees for chief justice, top prosecutor, attorney general and budget chief.</p>
<p>&#8220;Without a doubt this decision has thrown the country into a major constitutional crisis and may be the beginning of the end in respect of the implementation of the reform agenda if not corrected and reversed,&#8221; Mr Odinga said.</p>
<p>He called on the president to withdraw the nominations or his party will pursue measures to block them, including legal ones.</p>
<p>The nominations were made on the eve of Mr Kibaki&#8217;s trip to neighbouring Ethiopia, where the African Union (AU) is holding a regular summit.</p>
<p>At the summit, Mr Kibaki is expected to follow up on a lobbying mission the vice president led in recent weeks to seek the support of several African countries for a request to defer the cases of six prominent Kenyans at the International Criminal Court (ICC).</p>
<p>Mr Kibaki&#8217;s supporters argue a new constitution passed in August lays out far-reaching changes to the judiciary to be implemented within a year that will see Kenya able to handle the ICC cases.</p>
<p>Mr Kibaki&#8217;s supporters want the AU to lobby the UN Security Council to pass a resolution in favour of deferring the Kenyan cases. The Security Council is the only body under international law that can request a 12-month deferral on an ICC case. Such a request can be renewed once.</p>
<p>Mr Odinga has said that the Cabinet has not discussed such a move. He argued that Kenya is better off applying to the ICC directly, but only after having implemented genuine reforms in the judiciary.</p>
<p>In December, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo asked judges to charge a deputy prime minister, the secretary to the Cabinet, two former Cabinet ministers, a former police chief and a prominent radio journalist with crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and torture. The judges are expected to make their decision in the coming months.</p>
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