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Assassination Of Kenya Human Rights Defenders

This evening, two leading human rights defenders, Mr. Oscar Kamau King’ara and Mr. John Paul Oulu (also known as GPO), both of Oscar Foundation, were executed in cold blood by a group of men in two vehicles. The two were driving to meet Mr. Kamanda Mucheke of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights at his office. Eyewitnesses have said that the assassins were policemen. In fact, the minibus driver was in police uniform.

An eyewitness at the scene was also shot in the leg and was later taken away from the scene by policemen. We are calling upon the police to reveal the whereabouts of this man since he might be the only one who can positively identify both the assassins and their vehicles. Therefore, we fear for his life.

Oscar was a trained lawyer and a human rights advocate who was the Chief Executive Officer of Oscar Foundation. He was a member of the Law Society of Kenya.

Mr. GPO Oulu was a former student leader, and an educationist who has worked for many human rights organizations, including the Youth Agenda. He left the Youth Agenda recently to join the Oscar Foundation as the Communications and Advocacy Officer.

Oscar Foundation is a registered charitable organization that offers free legal services to the poor. Some of its major projects include organizing caravans to offer free legal aid to the poor around the country. They have a strong track record researching corruption in the police force, the prisons, and police brutality against the urban poor. The latest activity was researching and documenting cases of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings.

The Oscar Foundation has been a major source of information to Parliament on atrocities playing out against the poor in the country. On February 18, 2009, before Parliament debated the motion on extra-Judicial killings, he presented Oscar Foundation’s findings on ongoing extra judicial killings to Hon. Peter Mwathi, the motion’s mover. Their last engagement with Parliament was a presentation to the Kioni Committee investigating organized gangs a couple of days ago.

We believe they were killed because of the sensitive information they had shared with both the Prof. Philip Alston the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, and with the MPs.

Where we are in Kenya today is where the Jews were in Nazi Germany shortly before the Holocaust. The Nazis stage-managed a smear campaign that made the public hate the Jews and allow for their extermination.

During the Emergency the colonial government hired collaborators to commit atrocities which they blamed on the Mau Mau to give them a bad name so that they could exterminate them.

We hold the Government Spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua complicit in the two murders for making wild allegations that the Oscar Foundation was a civil society front for Mungiki, and they were going to deal with it. What does he know about the assassinations? Was this what he meant by dealing with the Oscar Foundation?

As we condole with the families of the deceased, we assure them, and the nation that their deaths are not in vain.

Signed
Kenya National Commission for Human Rights and other Kenyan Civil Society Organisations

March 5, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 8 Comments

Long Piece About Departed Awuonda’s Son’s

By DAVE ZEITLIN, Staff Writer

All across the globe, from rusty playgrounds to patches of grass to isolated gymnasiums with the lights on and the doors unlocked, there are athletes. And all of them have a story. Here in suburban Philadelphia, a basketball player named Kehinde Roberts has become a fixture on the of Chester County athletic scene, playing the game first at Downingtown High, then at Bishop Shanahan High, and now at West Chester University.

The son of a single, white, middle-class woman, Roberts developed a passion for basketball the same way many other young boys do — by staring at the television set, mesmerized by the sleek, almost effortless ability of NBA players. Sometimes he cramps up so badly he needs to drink pickle juice. But when he’s on the floor, his game is explosive. He can make a basket with three hands in his face, and when he drives to the hole it seems as if defenders are standing still.

Full story click here

March 5, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment

Pastor Steals Barbz’s Emails In Dirty “Fight Back” Strategy

Behind the scenes, very strange things have been happening in the Barbz story and we had to retreat to check them out. Readers will remember a guy calling himself “Charles” and who came to KSB to begin a serious defence of Pastor Mapozi at the comment section. Naturally, I became curious and decided to give him some attention because he appeared to know “too much” about the Pastor and Barbz.

Including the Pastor

Charles contacted me using an anonymous email, explaining that his connection to the case meant that his identity had to remain hidden. Before long, Charles began to pump emails into KSB account with “anti-Barbz propaganda” which did not address the core issues which were being raised at KSB. His main intention was to illustrate that Barbz was not being truthful with KSB readers. As he continued with his outpourings, KSB published a lengthy rebuttal from Charles as investigations were diverted to dig more about Charles and his knowledge about Pastor Mapozi.

What emerged was shocking to say the least. With our investigative skills, we cornered Charles and he admitted in an email that he is the Pastor. That was after he sent lots of pdf documents containing information stolen from Barbz email. The emails were exchanged between Barbz and friends when she was living in Upplands Väsby after they became homeless.

After the email exchanges, there is nothing to salvage in the Pastor’s credibility and it could have been better if he didn’t enter into this game of subterfuge because we caught him lying red handed before he retreated to lick his wounds.

Mainly, the information was meant to portray Barbz as a woman who had been dating other men and who had conned other Wazungu of cash. The Pastor appeared to have believed that if he stole Barbz’s mails to portray the impression that she was taking contact with other males, it would work to turn opinion in his favor and help with his damage control strategy. After his identity was busted, he began to post in his real name and from his real email address (all the mails are on file).

The “Pastor’s postings” are themselves a mine-field of intelligence which helped in busting him. He claimed that he obtained the mails last year although he forgot that he had earlier forwarded mails that showed that the mails he was sending to KSB were harvested from Barbz’s email last Thursday by himself when the stories had began to roll at KSB. Another mail was forwarded this Monday after he began a fight back incognito. In the meantime, he continued to pump the comment section with more rebuttals to KSB readers who were questioning his identity and suggesting that he was the real Pastor because of the nature of information he was sending.

A History of Ruthlessness, Dirty Methods and Conmanship
According to his modus operandi, the Pastor appears to have hijacked Barbz’s email after stealing her password long time ago using a key logger. He appeared to have had the capacity to get into Barbz’s history of chats using her pass word, extract information then try and use it to better his case. From his own admission, the KSB articles have driven the congregation away from his Church and in surfacing at KSB as “Charles” to try and repair the damage, he appears to have worsened the situation because his attempts have not only exposed his dirty tactics but has also left his credibility in tatters.

What he did is that after getting access to Barbz email, he searched for what he thought was “evidence” then he forwarded the material to his email address then posted them to KSB anonymously. Just before he began to mount a defence, some members of his congregation who have sent mail to KSB could not understand how the same person who stood before them to preach had conned a Nigerian national and left him with a bill of over 100,000 kr.

The Nigerian is a family man and what shocked some members of his congregation is that they never knew the truth about what had happened between the Pastor and the Nigerian. For a person who had helped him acquire a house when he was homeless just before Barbz arrived in Stockholm, failing to pay the rent without informing the Nigerian was cruel, inhuman and barbaric given the economic difficulties facing ordinary immigrants in Sweden.

Many Kenyans who have been communicating have agreed that if the Pastor had the brains to con a Naija, Barbz was just a sitting duck who had no capacity to understand how she was sweet talked into giving the Pastor almost a million Swedish crowns. To have taken control of Barbz’s email demonstrates the level of the Pastor’s conmanship.

Another problem the congregation has been unable to deal with is how he could have began an affair with Terezza at a time when he was still with Barbz. Then when he heard that Barbz millions were on the way, he collapsed with shock in the Church because he could not understand how he would get to Barbz’s millions when he was already engaged with Terezza.

In his cheap propaganda transmitted through the comment section where he posed as “Charles” he claimed that Barbz was “paying him back” for having maintained her. What he did not admit is that soon after Barbz came to Stockholm, the Pastor became homeless and had to be helped out by a Youth Pastor as Barbz was rescued by a neighbor.

The Pastor has been jobless and he could not explain how, in less than a year, he was maintaining Barbz to the tune of almost a million crowns which Barbz was allegedly “paying back”. Although he is a professional brain washer, a sweet-talker and a con Artist who specializes in using religion as a tool for taking over minds, he is also forgetful, illogical and, at times, naïve.

Because he was so desperate for money, and as stated in our last installment, he began a process of getting back to Barbz in order to get her millions. In the meantime, he dumped Terezza, a cleaner who had sacrificed 5.000 kr to buy him an expensive mobile phone at a time when Terezza had five kids to feed back in the Filipines. The story about the Pastor which has not been told is horrible to say the least.

Another shocking development is that the Pastor had conned his Swedish wife of almost half a million Swedish Crowns after impersonating her. Although he destroyed the life of this woman completely, he is unapologetic. That was after he destroyed the lives of two women in the United States whom he abandoned with four children and escaped from the US to avoid paying child support. Because this crime was considered too serious by the United States government, his Passport was confiscated by the US government and now, he cannot travel back because he can only be issued with a one way travel certificate.

The Pastor’s Love Game with Terezza and Barbz’s
May be, readers still do not understand how he went to Kenya and created havoc in people’s lives through his dubious church-building activities. According to Munala wa Munala, who worked with him, the Pastor conned the Church millions of Kenyan shillings before escaping back to Sweden to await for new prey. He then started spreading anti-Munala propaganda which mainly centered on personal attacks, mud-slinging and allegations which could not be substantiated. Somehow, his prayers are always answered because it did not take long before Barbz surfaced to be conned.

As he lay in his hospital bed following his collapse in Church, he was scheming on what he needed to do once Barbz came to visit him and he played it smart.

He started by apologizing to Barbz for the terrible thing the devil had done to him. He said that he had been in deep prayers that God forgive him so that their relationship with Barbz could continue. According to Barbz, the Pastor moved him so much with apologies, going to the point of tears as he blamed the devil for having tempted him.

Then, as Barbz sympathy began to rise, the Pastor began to encourage her by introducing a new angle to his relationship with Terezza. He told her that the link was “just for papers” after he allegedly sympathized with Terezza who had five kids to feed back home from her cleaning job. He said that Terezza had been conned by some man whom she had paid money in exchange for papers but that as the papers approached maturity, the guy who was helping him out increased the price.

When Terezza failed to raise the money, the guy divorced her. The Pastor said that he had been so much moved by Terezza’s situation that he had decided to help her out and that the relationship was nothing but paperwork. This is the same person who accepted a phone of 5,000 kr from a poor woman with five mouths to feed miles away from Sweden. This is how the Pastor worked himself back into millionaire Barbz’s heart.

From the point of view of Barbz, helping Terezza with papers was not a big deal because she was herself not looking for papers. The Pastor stayed in hospital for five days but by the time he was discharged, he had succeeded in brainwashing Barbz who took him back so that they could begin to plan for a new life because after all, money was no longer a problem. When asked how she could have fallen so easily to the “Terezza bait of papers”, Barbs said that there are stuff the Pastor had done in the past that moved her to think that he was a very honest and sympathetic person.

For example, one day the Pastor came back home and told Barbz that he had donated his monthly bus card worth 700kr to a Kenyan Church member who had no card. This happened at a time when they had no money and for Barbz, this was an act of great sympathy and compassion for other people. When the Pastor told her that he was only helping the Filipino woman, she believed him. Once the Pastor took her back, money started rolling into the Pastior’s Church account.

On January 16th this year, there were four huge transactions that were wired in direct from Germany by a contact who had bought Barbz property. 6,000 Euros was wired directly into the Pastor’s Church account at Nordea which ends with 2279 while another 12,500 Euros was wired into the same account the same day. In both transactions, the name of the Pastor’s Church is clearly written on the receipts making any denials about the transactions impossible.

On the same day, another batch of 950 Euros was wired in through Western Union but this money was sent to Barbz who then surrendered it to the Pastor. As Barbz was receiving the money the same day, another 12,500 Euros was wired into the Pastor’s Church account at Nordea. In our next installment, find out how more cash came in before the Pastor and Barbz bought a house at Älsjö to live happily ever after.

Okoth Osewe

March 5, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 4 Comments