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Strange Twist In The Rågsved Obama Party

On Friday the 20th of February, a poster was published at KSB by “Network for African Unity” informing KSB readers about an African Party that is scheduled for Saturday, 28th February at Rågsved Folkethus.

The offending poster

In the poster, it is stated that Mr. Tengo, a leading member of African Maison, a Stockholm-based African group, is one of the key contacts and, by implication, one of the organizers behind the Party. It was also stated that DJ Jimmy, who spins for African Maison, will feature at the planned disco.

The leadership of African Maison hereby informs all KSB readers, fans and the general public that the organization has nothing to do with the Rågsved Party. While we have organized a hugely successful Party before with “Network for African Unity”, we have neither been consulted nor incorporated into any organizational matter with respect to the planned Party.

Under the circumstances, Africa Maison is requesting the management of Network for African Unity responsible for the Party to pull the poster down, make corrections and stop using names of Africa Maison leaders to lure crowds to the Party without permission.

Most importantly, African Maison demands for a public apology which must be published at KSB as part of redress. To use the names of members of African Maison without permission and to include telephone numbers of individuals in a public poster without their knowledge is the height of fraud which is not just unacceptable but malicious. It is an abrogation of the fundamental principles of inter-organizational cooperation in any field.

We hope that Network for African Unity understands the magnitude and major legal implications of the fraud and that organization will act quickly on this issue to avoid African Maison taking any further steps or actions that may be open.

We can only build a lasting unity within the African community in Sweden through transparency and accountability, not through deceit, manipulation and back-door dealings.

Charles Otieno Owiyo
Secretary
Africa Maison

February 23, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 6 Comments

Millionaire Barbz Was a Victim Of Pastor’s Economic Crisis

If there is one thing that excited Lady Barbz, it was the thought and imagination of travelling to Sweden to meet and unite with her lover in a fresh romantic connection that promised to add flavor to her life following the death of her dear white hubby back in the white highlands where she was used to high life complete with a state of the art Benz car and other goodies of the millionaire type.

Although she had officially quit opulent life as a matter of principle especially after her life came into danger over property squabbles, the prospect of a new life with a brand new lover whom she had come to admire somehow filled the void that had crept into her life after tragic circumstances.

Barbz checked in at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on February 12th 2008 and as she waited at the departure lounge, her imagination wondered with lots of fantasy. She had never met the Pastor although it was like he was already part of her real life.

She had interacted with him before but only electronically in Cyberland. Now, she was destined to meet him in real life, a moment she had waited and worked for using all resources that were at her disposal. “I loved this guy with all my heart”, Barbz told KSB.

When she speaks, you notice her take a pause in a moment of nostalgia while sometimes, she begins to fight off tears as she expresses the kind of love she had for the Pastor who had melted her heart completely but who has now torn her heart apart. Suddenly, she is now depressed and needs to talk to friends all the time although she doesn’t know the real intentions of others moving very fast close to her.

Although she seem to have some really nice friends, predators and other suckers appear to have surfaced, competing for her attention, presenting their problems to be sorted out as she is pushed into playing the role of Social welfare by people who never used to be close.

Kenyans who know the Pastor and who are members of his Church have been tracked down by KSB. According to information gathered, the Pastor is a “Professional brain washer”, manipulative and cunning although other members of his Church have admitted that they never knew “the other side of the Pastor” until the Barbz story was blown out by KSB.

From tales collected around the Pastor’s Church compound by KSB agents posing as converts to gather intelligence, he passes as a “smooth operator” who has the ability to mesmerize his audience with biblical tales and as he liberally takes over people’s emotions, they open themselves up to be taken advantage of before they are conned in various ways that they never understand until it’s too late.

Arrival in Norway and Check in at Radison Hotel
It is reported that the Pastor draws strong ethos through a well-polished narration of emotional and, sometimes, tragic personal experiences that notoriously leaves his listeners in a powerful and sympathetic posture as he works them up to trigger a wave of “talking in tongues” moments that moves the Church experience to heavenly levels. He is reported to exhibit an unbridled level of piety while his rhetoric is said to be capable of convincing a princess right into the act of what you know in record time!

Barbz is just one single victim who is beginning to understand how her life was taken over by the Pastor within a very short time before she was converted into a slave and later exploited because she had resources that were stuck in Kenya. She is just beginning to experience freedom and as she fights depression, she is determined to see her life go on.

When the Pastor preaches, it is understood that he delivers the message so powerfully that sometimes, members of the congregation begin to shed tears as if Jesus Christ has just landed from space. What else could be more manipulative?

Back in Kenya, it was time for Barbz to board the plane and, like any other passenger, Barbz went through the delicate routines prior to boarding as she mingled with white people who were coming from holiday to take that last stroll into the aircraft with nothing but hand luggage. Eventually, she took her seat ready to await for the next item on the agenda, a flight into the world of wonders in Scandinavia.

When she landed in Norway hours later on February 13th, the Pastor, whom we can call “Pastor Mapozi”, was there to meet Barbz at the airport. It was during cold winter but with the warmth that awaited her in the arms of her new lover, winter could as well pass unnoticed especially during the first few days.

Interestingly, Barbz’s relative who had connected her visa to Norway was not at the airport to meet her because she was busy that day. The newly united lovers checked in at Radison Hotel in Oslo where they stayed until February 17th 2008 before hitting the road to Stockholm city where the real life was set to begin. The Pastor is said to be a good planner if he is looking for something.

Pastor Mapozi had taken all precautions and made sure that he had a car. From the Hotel room, the couple drove all the way to Stockholm, a journey that took slightly over six hours. Soon, they were in the Pastor’s Apartment where a new life had began.

It was first things first. Familiarization with the environment as they began a journey to understand one another. Barbz had to catch up quickly with life in Sweden and it should have been easy because she was living in the midst of a wealthy white family in Kenya. As each and every day passed, the barometer of love also climbed a notch higher. In summary, it was “all systems go”. Eventually, and after all the pain, Barbz had found that perfect partner or what some spinsters could call “Mr. Right”. Then one day, hell broke loose.

Pastor’s Women Abandoned in the United States
Pastor Mapozi lost his job and the sad development slowly began to change the economic situation between the two. Barbz was not pumping in any money because she had no money. In fact, it was the Pastor who paid for her air ticket because she was broke even though she had left a fortune in her name in Kenya. The Pastor became restless, negatively emotional, easily irritated and utterly unpredictable. Barbz began to wonder.

During the good short days that they had been together, Barbz had told the Pastor everything about her personal life and history. The Pastor knew that Barbz had left behind property worth 70 million Kenyan shillings, how she had feared for her life, how her dear husband had died of cancer and how she quit the home of her late white hubby when she believed that her life was in danger.

Armed with this information, starved of cash, desperate and without a job, an idea came to the Pastor. Barbz needed to begin a fight-back to recover her property in Kenya. The Pastor had been in Kenya before to try and set up a Church which didn’t work out because of fraud, conman-ship, greed and internal Church wars with loyal Church members who could not understand certain aspects of the Pastor’s behavior especially on the question of women who were members of the congregation.

According to Munala wa Munala, a Kenyan blogger who knew the Pastor way back in 2002 after meeting him at a Swedish language training school, the Pastor is a man who likes living beyond his means, loves underhand dealings with women and doesn’t take responsibility whatsoever.

In the course of investigations, Munala told KSB that Pastor Mapozi cannot return to the United States although he is a US Passport holder because he has not been paying child support after abandoning two women in the States. Because of his irresponsibility, his US Passport was apparently confiscated by the American Embassy and now, he can only travel to the States with a one way “Travel Certificate” because “he is wanted”.

In the States, the Pastor has two kids with an African American woman while he has another two kids with a Ugandan woman. Both women and the four kids were abandoned by the Pastor after he fled to Sweden to escape from justice. After he landed here, the Pastor hooked up with a Swedish woman whom he resided with for two years before the woman filed for divorce because the Pastor conned her of money estimated at over half a million Crowns.

Barbz Abused, Threatened and Passport Taken Away
During his “playing moments” with the Swedish woman, Pastor Mapozi allegedly approached a bank and pretended to be his wife, filled up a loan application form, forged her signature, submitted it to the bank and got almost half a million Swedish Crowns.

When the bills started rolling in, the woman was shocked because she could not understand why the bank was sending bills for a huge amount of loan she knew nothing about. She contacted police and the Pastor was arrested. KSB is trying to track down the Swedish woman for the “Inside Edition”. The Swedish woman discovered that she had married a thief and filed for divorce. By then, the Pastor was reported to have been in Kenya, running with Kenyan women.

The story is meandering and we will have to get back to the “Kenyan Church front” with Munala wa Munala later. As mentioned earlier, when the Pastor noticed that he was penniless, he systematically began to put pressure on Barbz to begin a struggle to reclaim her property which she left behind in Kenya.

In the process, Pastor Mapozi began to intimidate Barbz that if she couldn’t obey orders and try to get the money, he would talk with the Swedish immigration authorities and get Barbz deported to Kenya. Barbz was scared to death because she believed that if she is deported to Kenya, something bad could happen to her because since the property was still in her name, the white family could not get access to it without trying to harm her. To calm her down, the Pastor told her that he would seek asylum for her in Sweden!

As tension grew in the house with the Pastor getting more and more desperate, Pastor Mapozi began to use desperate means to get Barbz to act. The Pastor seized Barbz’s Kenyan Passport to ensure that she could not run away. In the process, the Pastor began to beat and mistreat her. Barbz was scared because her new lover was mutating into a molester and so she wanted to run away but she was trapped. It was one of the most difficult moments of her life. Frustrated and torn between the prospect of being deported to Kenya and fighting for her life in Sweden, Barbz gave in to the Pastor’s demands.

With his connections in Kenya built during the period he was trying to build a Church, the Pastor began the process of tracing Barbz’s property to be recovered and money sent to Sweden. In our next installment, find out how Barbz’s property was sold and millions of Kenyan shillings wired to the Pastor’s bank account in Stockholm city.

Okoth Osewe

February 23, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 29 Comments