Raila said in a press statement faxed from the United States where he is leading a Kenyan delegation on a three day official visit, that the message of power sharing in the Zimbabwe situation was misplaced.

"Instead Mbeki should be telling Mugabe that he does not own Zimbabwe and that the country can do without him, Mbeki should tell him he was not born to be Zimbabwe President, he should be told he is a dictator without a cause, a leader who had been overtaken by time, a fighter without weapons, " Raila said in his sharpest criticism yet of the Mugabe regime.

Raila argued that he had chosen to speak firmly since "Africa is in a transition from the OAU charter to the Africa Union days, those days member states were supposed to keep off internal affairs, but now we are in the era where human rights dictate how we react, those are the new days and we must speak up," Raila said in a follown up email question.