Breaking News: Ramogi Achieng Oneko Is Dead
Ramogi Achieng Oneko, a well known Kenyan freedom fighter, is dead. Oneko is known as a member of the “Kapenguria six” who were captured and detained by British colonialists in Kenya. Oneko was born in 1920 at tien’ga village in uyoma sub location in Rarienda constituency. During his last days, he was a supporter of President Mwai Kibaki and Raphael Tuju, MP of Rarieda constituency.
Okoth Osewe
Mungiki: “Hands Off Mwandawiro Mghanga”, Says Pastor Beatrice Kamau
Pastor Beatrice Kamau has said that the Kibaki government should keep its hands off Honourable Mwandawiro Mghanga whom the government has tried to link with Mungiki sect, an underground Movement that has been beheading Kenyans in an orgy of cold blooded murders that have shocked Kenyan citizens and the International community alike.
Speaking to KSB, Pastor Beatrice said that the government knows who are behind Mungiki and that the Kibaki government should not therefore use the Movement to throw mud on respected and revolutionary politicians like Mwandawiro.
“I have worked with Mwandawiro here in Sweden for several years and I know him politically. Mwandawiro is too ideological to be engaged with a criminal organization like Mungiki”, Pastor Beatrice told KSB.
She said that Mungiki is a tiny organization and that if the government cannot contain it with the vast state resources at its disposal, then Kenya has no government.
Mwandawiro should not be harassed simply because he has been in the frontlines in fighting against the landless in Kenya.
“Mwandawiro’s political stand is well known and there is no way the Kibaki government will be able to deceive Kenyans who know Mwandawiro that he is connected to Mungiki”, Pastor Beatrice said.
“There are watch dogs examining events in Kenya very carefully. We are studying the lies being told around Mwandawiro with keen interest. The Kibaki government should be warned that there are people in Sweden and around the world who will not sit by and watch Mwandawiro’s reputation destroyed by the corrupt government that Kibaki leads”, she said. “We will respond to defend Mwandawiro from false attacks”, she added
Pastor Beatrice said that what Kenyans are witnessing today reflects the situation during the Mwakenya crackdown when the dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi used to arrest, intimidate, harass and imprison innocent Kenyans using Mwakenya.
“The days of harassing and intimidating Kenyans by connecting them to criminal or underground organizations like Mwakenya are over. We will never be taken back because Kenyans shed blood for the current democratic gains in the country”, she said.
“The risk is that if Kenyans cannot speak up forcefully on how the Mungiki killings are being used by the government for political reasons, Kenya may begin to degenerate the way Rwanda did”, Pastor Beatrice told KSB.
NON KIKUYUS CANNOT BE MEMBERS OF MUNGIKI
“Mwandawiro is a fighter for democracy and it is a big shame that the Kibaki government is trying to link him to Mungiki”, she said.
The Pastor said that it is a well known fact that Mungiki has publicly declared that non Kikuyus cannot join the movement because of the Kikuyu rituals involved.
“Mwandawiro is a Taita so how comes that for the first time, it is being claimed that a Taita is a member of a criminal organization reserved for Kikuyus?”, she posed.
Pastor Beatrice stated that Mungiki started as a Kikuyu cultural organization but added that at the moment, it is a terror organization killing innocent civilians in the name of the culture. She condemned the killings that have shocked Kenyans and members of the International community, saying that Movements like Mungiki have no place in modern Kenya.
“Cabinet Ministers have been named as having been linked to Mungiki. These are the people the government should arrest, not Mwandawiro”, she said emphatically.
Mwandawiro has today released a personal statement regarding the fraudulent connections the government is trying to make between him and Mungiki. The MP is currently out on bail after recording a statement with police.
For Kenyans in Stockholm, the issue is very sensitive because it is a demonstration that returning to Kenyan to practice politics to build the nation does not exclude the fact that one can still be targeted by the government using false accusations.
Okoth Osewe
Alby Fracas: Two Kenyans Challenge The Facts
Two Kenyans have come up to refute facts in a story that appeared in KSB recently which was connected to a fracas between two Kenyans at a pub in Alby. Jane Karanja, a well known Kenyan in Stockholm, called KSB and said that whoever gave the story distorted it for personal reasons. She said that she was at the scene and wished to correct a few distortions.
According to Jane, there was no fight between two Kenyans as had been reported. “We were many Kenyans there and people were drinking. They were arguing Kiwakenya. But nobody fought anybody”, she told KSB.
She said that what happened is that a Kenyan got a “slap on the back” in the process of gesticulating and that this did not amount to a fight. She also said that there was no discussion about Mungiki.
“We were having a discussion about Kikuyu culture, not Mungiki”, she said. She pointed out that the “Mungiki” tag that was given to a Kenyan who was allegedly involved in the fracas was wrong.
“Talking about Kikuyu culture does not make one a Mungiki. We discuss Kenyan culture all the time and this is what happened”, she said.
Jane told KSB that she simply wanted to put the record straight. She said that the Mungiki angle to the story was not correct and that whoever informed KSB about the story mixed two issues.
“There was a time when the Mungiki story came up but that was at a different forum, not at the Alby pub”, she said.
Jane told KSB that a group of Kenyans who were at the party are wondering why some members of the community could have gone out with false information about the incident. The alleged fracas is currently a police case.
Jane said that she doesn’t know why the incident was reported to police because as far as she is concerned, there was no “rungu-like” blows as reported in KSB. She also said that nobody’s face was deformed as had been reported.
She said that at a time when Mungiki is killing Kenyans back home, it is very dangerous to stamp any individual with a Mungiki badge here in Stockholm especially without evidence.
She was adamant that there is a conspiracy by some people who were present at Alby pub to malign others by exaggerating what happened. “I think there are people with personal differences which they wanted to sought out using the incident”, she said.
John Muchiri, another Kenyan who was present, told KSB that he was one of the last people to leave the pub and that there was no fight. He was also surprised to read about the story.
“It is true that Wakenya discuss about Mungiki from time to time and that when we talk, it can be like we are fighting each other. But on this day, I wish to be quoted that there was no fight and the Mungiki thing did not come up. This is the truth”, Jane told KSB.
She said that those who were there have narrowed down individuals who might have given the story and that they know why it was given.
“We know that one of them is a witness in the case but let the matter come up in court because everybody witnessed what happened”, she said.
KSB talked to three Kenyans who were at the scene before publishing the story. Jane did not however refute other aspects of the story but was sure that the fighting part and the Mungiki part were taken out of context.
“It amounts to character assassination and this is not good”, she concluded. She appreciated the fact that KSB was ready to give a different version of what happened at Alby, arguing that the matter has become of very serious concern to Wakenya who were present.
Okoth Osewe
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Kenya Action: All Roads Lead To Nosrborg Musikuset
If you have just switched on your computer and you are looking for action over the week-end, the place is Norsborg Musikhuset. Sound of blackness is throwing the Kenya “Summer Jam”, the first major Party since the Swedish sun started burning skins following cold winter. DJ Frank and DJ Safi will be spinning.
It is almost a month since Wakenya walikutana and the Summer Jam is expected to facilitate face to face contacts once again. Party geeks who arrive before 22 hrs will not pay anything but will save 60 kr. Music is expected to be a mixture although Kenya music is expected to dominate because a bigger part of the crowd is expected to be Wakenya.
As a group, Sound of Blackness crew is slowly establishing a name as a formidable force to recon with in the Kenya-Stockholm entertainment industry and this time round, one can only sit and hope that the good times they have given Wakenya in the past will simply be repeated. The Party is good for latest “hot Kenya” gossip and propaganda and KSB will be there to capture it live!
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