Update on Mr. Sumba

Friends who are trying to help Mr. Onyango Sumba have reported that it will take at least 60.000 Kenyan shillings (about 6.000 kr) to move him out of Kenyatta hospital (where conditions are very poor) to Nairobi Hospital where treatment is much better.

A contact who is in touch has told KSB that Mr. Sumba cannot be moved unless the cash is paid. The team trying to help him have no resources and they have appealed for funds from friends, well-wishers and sympathizers in Sweden to help save Mr. Sumba’s life. The ODM’s political establishment, which was expected to help, have not been able to do anything.

Further, the contact said that if Mr. Sumba is to be moved to Nairobi hospital, charges per day stands at 30.000 Ksh (about 3.000 kr). The contact said that Mr. Sumba is conscious although he cannot talk. He said that his situation may continue to deteriorate if he is left at Kenyatta hospital.

Okoth Osewe

September 21, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment

Pregnant Paperless Chick “In a State of Panic”

A paperless Kenyan chick who was balooned by a Kenyan national is reported to be confused and in a state of panic because friends of the Kenyan ballooner

Contacts are appealing for urgent help to avert a looming disaster. Photo not related to story.

have put her under pressure to conduct an abortion. She says that she cannot take such an action because she is a Christian but the problem now is that buddies of the bull have threatened to report her to police so that she can be deported to Kenya. Friends of the bull believe that if she is deported, the problem will be solved.

The girl has no good advisors, alone, ignorant about the rules while her pregnancy has put her under enormous stress. Friends of the bull are very unhappy that the story has hit KSB and they are reported to have blamed her for having leaked the story. The truth is that the story was picked up by an agent who operates in a Network close to the Kenyan who has ballooned her and we can report that she has nothing to do with the report.

Watu Wengine who have spoken to her say that because of pressure, she is on the verge of changing her mind to conduct an abortion but the concern of those who are sounding the alarm is that she is contemplating swallowing pain killers to induce a kinda back-street abortion, an act which may lead to her loosing her life.

She is not receiving any proper help from anybody while she is also reported to be afraid of being deported in case she is reported to police. The fear is that in case she is turned in by the balooner’s friends, she will arrive in Kenya pregnant and she cannot imagine life in Kenya as a single mother because she has no resources.

In another twist of the story, an agent who is working on the case say that she had been working for the Kenyan bull as a child minder but with time, the situation began to change as she increasingly began to cool down the guy’s manyege.

Those who are raising the alarm are afraid that something bad may happen to her because the bull is also not happy that the story is being consumed by KS-beers. A contact told KSB that Kenyans should not say that they were never warned if this lady meets a tragic end. Juliet Kavinga was in a similar situation and she ended up paying with her life after she was allegedly shot by her Swedish boyfriend who was freed by the courts. The lady is reported to be reading KSB and readers have also been requested to post any useful tips that could help her.

“We should call a meeting to discuss how this lady can be helped because despite her good education, she is currently emotionally vulnerable and she needs good people to advise her”, the contact told KSB. The lady is reported to be a university graduate.

Okoth Osewe

September 21, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 44 Comments

How Millionaire Barbz Conned Swedish Jungu

INSIDE EDITION

"Barbz property" in Mombasa allegedly sold for millions

By the time she was arrested and taken into police custody, Barbz had conned a Swedish man a total of 101.000 Kr which she has been instructed to pay by a Swedish court sitting in Stockholm city. The money was transferred to Barbz through several transactions which were also well documented by the Swede. Investigations by KSB reveal that although Barbz admitted in court of having taken money from the Swede, she denied wrong doing. The money was received as “loans” by Barbz who promised to repay using her vast resources in Mombasa, Kenya. Between June and July this year, Barbz signed a total of ten documents entering into financial transactions with the Swede who says that he believed that Barbz had money and that she could repay the loans.

A court document shows that the charge carries a maximum of three months jail term. According to the prosecution, the size of loans that were advanced to Barbz by the Swede were not in proportion to the amount of cash Barbz promised the Swede.

For example, the prosecution observed that in the first document signed by the two parties, the Swede advanced 25.000 Kr to Barbz with request for an additional 5.000 kr for triggering a payment of 250.000 Kr to the Swedes account in Sweden. The documents (except one) used as evidence in the case indicates the dates when the cash promised was to be paid in the Swede’s account by Barbz. The Swede was introduced to Barbz by a lady called “Nancy” who then vanishes from the whole story.

According to court documents, Barbz convinced the Swede to borrow her cash by posing as a millionaire who owned property in Kenya and who had large amounts of money at her disposal at Barclays Bank, Mombasa, Kenya.

In another example, Barbz promised to deposit 3.7 million Kr in the Swede’s account if he could loan her cash. The court was told that the Swede had a total of 15 documents in Barbz’s name in his computer which detailed transactions. The first payment was supposed to have been made on 6th June 2009.

Barbz did manage to convince the Swede that the reason why she needed to deposit large amounts of cash in his account as opposed to the small amounts the Swede was loaning her was because since she did not have a Residence Permit to live in Sweden, she did not have the last four digits which could have enabled her to open a bank account in Sweden.

The arrangement was that once the Swede loaned her cash, she would, in turn, deposit large amounts of cash in the Swede’s account after which the Swede would chop off the loan amount and the rest of the cash retained by Barbz. If, for example, he loaned Barbz 25.000 Kr, Barbz would deposit 250.000 Kr in his account then he would deduct his bit of 25.000 kr as Barbz remained with the balance to spend in pubs in Stockholm.

“Barbz Lawyer” in London
The Swede appears to have swallowed the bait that was hooked on a large amount of money being deposited in his bank account in exchange for a small loan. The Swede told the court that he never had any sexual relationship with Barbz although he admitted that he felt “Attracted” to her. Barbz, however, said that the Swede was her boyfriend and that their romance ended on 23rd July this year.

Out of the documents that were availed to police by the Swede, three were addressed to a Mr. Jan Johansson whom Barbz claimed, worked at Nordea Bank located at Hamngatan in Stockholm and whom Barbz said, was in charge of making transactions from her Barclays bank account in Mombasa to Nordea in Sweden. The letters were addressed to Johansson in his capacity as the Bank official in charge of the transactions.

However, according to police investigations, there was nobody by the name of Jan Johansson working at Nordea bank at the said address. Nordea Bank also confirmed to police that no such official existed at their bank while the bank reported that no single transaction had taken place through the bank in favour of Barbz or any of her aliases. Barbz uses at least four other names not known to the public.

Apparently, Barbz had also convinced the Jungu that she had money in Barclays bank in London and, according to police investigations, three letters availed to police by the Swede were addressed to three people – a Barclays bank Official in London, a Barclays bank Official in Mombasa and a Mr. Ian McLean whom, the police said, was identified by Barbz as her lawyer in London.

In court, Barbz admitted that she dictated the content of a letter in favour of the Swede that was sent to a Barclays bank official in Mombasa, Kenya. The documents contained details instructing the Barclays Bank in Mombasa to transfer 4.7 million British pounds to the Swede’s account at Nordea, Sweden.

The document that was forwarded to Ian McLean in London detailed problems that Barbz was experiencing in Sweden in the process of trying to transfer funds to the Swedes account at Nordea. In the Ian McLean letter, the alleged lawyer is urged to put pressure on Nordea to transfer funds to the Swede’s account on grounds that Barclays Bank in Kenya had already done their job by transferring funds to Nordea in Sweden.

Police said that they could not find any evidence that Barclays bank in Mombasa had made any transactions in favour of Barbz neither could Barbz produce any document to prove that the said funds had been transaferred.

As the process of letter writing back and forth continued, Barbz continued to induce the Swede to loan her even more cash which she then pocketed to be spent at Södermalm pubs under the tag of a millionaire.

While KSB has documents showing that more than 8 million Kenyan shillings passed through Barbz just before her case went public, she appears to have ran out of funds after her debacle with Pastor Mapozi. The story continues.

Okoth Osewe

September 21, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 9 Comments

Update: Mr. Sumba Emerges from Coma

According to latest reports from Kenya, Mr. Onyango Sumba has emerged from coma although he is still unable to talk. A contact in Kenya told KSB that Mr. Sumba’s sister is permanently with him at Kenyatta National Hospital where he is admitted.

A group of Kenyans led by Mrs Hellen Opwapo, Mr. Jared Odero and Mr. Githuku wa Muirani have expressed concerns at the condition of Mr. Sumba. According to opinion in Stockholm, Kenyans here need to meet and discuss the Sumba issues with a view to exploring possibilities of what could be done to help under the current circumstances.

A leading proposal is that Kenyans should fundraise and money channeled towards getting Mr. Sumba transferred to Nairobi Hospital which is much better than Kenyatta.

Okoth Osewe

September 21, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment