Petty’s In-Law Passes on in Kenya
Petty Osewe Okulo, the wife of Mr. Okulo Masala, has lost her In Law in Kenya after a long illness. Kenyans, friends and well-wishers are invited to a harambee on Saturday 26th September 2009 at Hornsgatan 137 (Tube Station -Hornstull) from 18.00. The late has left a huge hospital bill which needs to be defrayed and the Petty family has appealed for help in kind. Further info can be obtained through :0737883068. KSB sends deep condolences to the bereaved family during this trying time of great shock and sorrow.
Okoth Osewe
Diaspora: Jack Owuor Passes on in the United States
The late Jack
Our late brother Jack Owuor was taken by the Lord suddenly, shockingly and unexpectedly on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009. The prayer of the family is that the body should be transported to Kenya to be buried in the land of his ancestors.
Melitus Apollo Owuor, known to his family and friends as Jack, was born to the late Mzee Robert Owuor and the late Mama Salome Owuor on May 5, 1949 at Kano near Kisumu, Kenya East Africa. Jack Apollo, who is the brother to Hon. Miruka Owuor, Advocate and other brothers and sisters attended Onjiko Primary school and later Homabay Boys Secondary and Nakuru High School. After High school Jack married his wife Pamela Owuor and in 1973 flew to the USA where he attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and completed his Bachelors and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering in 1978.
Immediately upon graduation, Jack Owuor was hired by a paper mill company- Genster and relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1982. While in Los Angeles, Jack started his own business which became successful and allowed him to sponsor many relatives and friends to the USA for further studies. Jack Owuor later contested the Nyando Parliamentary seat in Kenya in 2007.
Our brother struggled with illness on and off and on September 15, 2009, Jack Owuor collapsed at his home in Los Angeles and attempts to revive him were in vain. He is survived by his dear wife, Pamela Owuor, two sons, two daughters and two grandchildren. A Committee set up to accomplish this wish has determined that the costs are approximately:
- Funeral home $ 9,500.00
- Transportation $ 6,000.00
- Burial expenses $ 4,000.00
Total $ 20,000.00
Jack A. Owuor The fundraiser will be held on:
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm
Venue: 14911 Calle Las Brisas
Paramount, CA 90723
The Family Appreciates all the help they can get to ease this final journey. If you are unable to attend, but wish to help, please contact the following for a funeral account information. Alternatively, you can simply forward or mail your contribution to:
Mrs. Pamela Owuor
14911 Calle Las Brisas
Paramount, CA 90723
(As stated above, Account details will be availed soon)
God bless you all for caring, and for your love and support.
Committee Chairman: Humphrey Ong’ondo (202)374-4050
Assistant Chairman : Williams O. Owuor (213)216-5481
MELITUS APPOLO OWUOR FUNERAL
May the almighty God rest his soul in eternal peace.
KSB sends deep condolence to the entire family of the late Jack Owuor during this period of great shock and sorrow. We hope that the family will have the courage to go through this difficult and trying moment.
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
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
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
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
Millionaire Barbz Serving Prison Term
According to latest reports reaching KSB, millionaire Barbz has been sent to prison following successful prosecution on charges of financial fraud. The Kenyan youth has not been seen in public since judgment was delivered on her case about three weeks. According to details of the case, she got contact with her prey through dating sites in the Internet, lured them into a trap before conning them of huge amounts of cash.
All her three phone lines are currently dead while a day before she was reportedly jailed, she missed an appointment with a KSB agent who wanted to find out the truth about her problems with the police.
A case in which she had claimed that a Pastor had defrauded her of millions of Kenyan shillings was dismissed by the prosecution. Although she could show that cash worth over 8 million Kenyan shillings had been wired to her in Sweden through contacts in Kenya and Germany, and although it could also be shown that part of this money was wired to a bank account which belonged to a Church, the prosecution could not show that the Pastor and another Kenyan youth who were signatories to the account were breaking the law by withdrawing money from the account or spending it using Credit cards.
A few months ago, rumours hit Kenya-Stockholm that Barbz had been arrested but this information soon dried up when Barbz surfaced at a pub in Södermalm in Stockholm. According to a contact who has been in the know, Barbz was released pending judgment of her case and it is during this time that she surfaced before being locked in after judgment.
After she was released from custody, KSB booked an appointment with her which never materialized as she was reportedly nabbed by police to begin serving her sentence. We understand that she will be deported to Kenya once she finishes her prison term.
In the meantime, a Kenyan businessman is also doing time in prison for failure to pay taxes. It is estimated that the Kenyan has not paid taxes amounting to over 7 million Kenyan shillings. In Sweden, tax offences are taken very seriously.
The Kenyan has been experiencing problems with the tax authorities for over 3 years although news that he is serving in prison took some Kenyans by surprise. During the period when the tax authorities were after him, the Kenyan reportedly sold all his assets including cars and other valuables. He closed down his business and took a very low profile before the tax men came for him. This is very sad news because the Kenyan was one of the most progressive and inspiring within the Kenya-Stockholm business community.
Okoth Osewe
“Top Ten” Kenya-Stockholm Gossipers Named
HUMOUR:
Lady "Wakenya Wanasema": Top gossiper in Kenya-Stockholm
Whenever a scandal breaks out in Kenya-Stockholm and it begins Kutembezwa, there are scandal barons who have been playing a key role in circulating the tales, whether true or false. KSB has tracked down these gossipers and named them as a contribution towards the minimization of both circulation of rumours and manufacture of hot gossip that damage people’s reputations. The naming of these country-men and women is part of a new program funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) aimed at eliminating rumours and dirty gossip among Kenyans in Stockholm. After months of research, the following names have popped up.
1: Watu Wengine
Top on the list is a guy called “Watu Wengine” whose knowledge of members of the Kenya-Stockholm community is so huge that he is believed to know almost everything happening around. Almost every Kenyan knows him and if you were to eavesdrop on Kenya-Stockholm phones, you will most likely come across his name being mentioned almost on every conversation especially if gossip is involved. He is a guy to watch out for and if a Kenyan names him during a conversation, know that the storo may have circulated 80 percent among Kenyans in Stockholm.
To identify him, look for a combination like “Watu Wengine told me that Makozewe lost his job and that currently, he is in Kronofogden…”. Watu Wengine is very dangerous because when he circulates his stories, he doesn’t warn you not to quote him as some Kenyans normally do. Ever heard of “Makozewe is stuck in Kenya after going there with a one-way ticket but don’t quote me…?”. With Watu Wengine, you can quote him anyhow and one funny thing is that nothing usually happens to him. You can vividly say that “Watu Wengine told me that blah blah blah…” and get away with it. It’s that simple. When you want info from him, give him beer.
2: Nili Pigiwa
She is also known by her nick-name of “Nilipata Simu”. If you have ever been on the phone for an hour with someone and what you have been discussing is Wakenya and gossip, then, most likely, you have been talking to “Nili Pigiwa”. The strongest characteristic of this lady is that she has a never ending tale of storos about almost everybody. Sometimes, the stories are normally so hot that as soon as you put your phone down, you call a friend to say something like “Aiseh, Nili Pigiwa eti so and so is in police custody.
Nilipigiwa aka Nilipata Simu could get in touch any time to ask you if you have some time to spare. Then, you know that something hot is on the way. Even if you were already on the dining table, you will simply say that you have a few minutes then you will get your feed as the real food cools down on the plate. Nili Pigiwa is a very diplomatic lady. If she calls late in the night, she always apologizes in advance. “Excuse me if I am calling so late but do you have a few minutes”, she could open up the conversation. “Of course… no problem. I was just getting ready to go to bed so no problem”, you would say as you prepare for the hot tale late in the night.
Even if you were in the middle of hanyaring/kuhanywa, you could jump off and claim that you have a few minutes to spare because the more she calls deeper in the night, the more juicy the storo could be and you don’t want to miss it eller hur?
Nili Pigiwa will then give you a powerful package of the latest about so and so and end quickly with a shot that she will call you in the morning for more. If you insist on getting the details right away, she will be happy to be your guest for the next hour and you will have to forget about your mhanyo for some time. The next day, you will find yourself in a situation where you are quoting her. It goes like “Mamen, jana Nili Pigiwa in the dead of the night eti nani is hanyaring ex wa nani…”. The answer that never comes up is Ulipigiwa na nani? You will yourself begin to spread the rumour without even knowing it because Nili Pigiwa is an infectious virus in the community of hot gossipers although everybody protects her ID because of some reasons.
3: Ina Semekana
This guy operates more like a Radio station. He is not known to manufacture rumours or negative propaganda by himself but he specializes in picking up stories and then circulating them in a kind of daily broadcast. For example, if you have an enemy and you want to begin circulating dirty propaganda against him/her, the best guy to call is Ina Semekana. When you call with a storo, don’t ask the guy directly to spread the stuff.
Make it look like you are telling him a story then add as much spices as possible. If you are the enemy of say Mr. Makozewe aka Notorias and you want kumchafua, it can go something like this: “Mamen, what is wrong with Makozewe these days? I understand that he conned a lady almost half a million Kenyan shillings in Kenya by pretending that he could bring this lady to study in Sweden. After scooping the quid, he sneaked back to Sweden and now, he is wanted to face charges of theft. I did not know that he was capable of doing such a thing”.
Leave it there then try to cut off the conversation. Don’t forget to tell him to update you in case of any new developments. Ina Semekana will never interrupt you when you are delivering information and he will never ask you for your sources because that would spoil the storo. He is likely to just mutter words like “really”, “I can’t believe this”, “that is serious” etc as you puke your crap about your victim. Just in case he tries to find out lightly, you can say that you were told by “Watu Wengine” and that’s it. The storo will begin to do the rounds but the victim will never know who is behind it.
Ina Semekana is very creative. When he packages the story, it will begin with details of how Makozewe amefirisika mpaka the guy is conning innocent people in Kenya. “Kuna maneno makubwa sana because I have received info direct from Kenya and from a source that is a cousin to the lady Makozewe conned”. Ina Semekana shall have transformed the story by adding stuff and repackaging it to make it flow like a movie.
4: Watu Wanasema
This guy operates like a Kenyan Member of Parliament. When he speaks, it is like he is doing so on behalf of the entire Kenya-Stockholm community. If a story has already reached the custody of Watu Wanasema, then almost everybody already knows about it. The guy is always ready to be quoted at any time and on any storo.
Watu Wanasema is a kind of King in the Kenya-Stockholm hot gossip line-up and his information is normally transmitted after it has gone through a series of processing to give it some kind of undisputed authority. The guy is a kind of collective voice of many Kenyans who seldom believe in what he says because information he gives may have passed through the mouths and ears of many Kenyans without changing much, either in detail or presentation.
In fact, info from Watu Wanasema is treated almost as the absolute truth due to the continuous filtration process over a period of time. As an example, a story could be circulating that a Kenyan has HIV but as soon as Watu Wanasema begins to circulate it, an added detail could be that another Kenyan met the HIV+ dude at a clinic when he was collecting medicine. The story then gains more currency as it slowly becomes the accepted truth even if there is no verification.
5: Kuna Rafiki
Another source of hot gossip is called “Kuna Rafiki” and the guy is very smart. In fact, he is the smartest of them all. He is a good friend of yours and you know him so well that he is one of the few guys you can actually trust with sensitive information.
You know that if a certain piece of info gets to Mkenya A, Mkenya B will, most likely, get it in less than an hour (because they are buddies) then it will spread to Mkenya C (linked to Mkenya B) who is in so and sos Network before it hits Vasa through Mkenya D who is a very close friend of Ina Semekana (the Radio station). Kuna Rafiki is the guy who will never tembeza the storo with your name still attached to it for an angry victim to call you back kukusomea as to why you are spoiling his/her Ka-name. You give him a storo and he first takes it to the garage where he tactfully unbolts your name off the front panel then pushes it forward for circulation with a new source – Watu Wengine.
What is puzzling is why many Kenya-Stockholmers are very polite when dealing with Kuna Rafiki because when they quote him, there is never graphics that could lead to his Keja. In a moment of revelation, it goes something like “Kuna Rafiki who told me that Ambassador Purity was seen swinging at Mama Afrika reggae Club last Sato” or something like that.
6: Wakenya Wanasema
Lady Wakenya Wanasema is actually the wife of Watu Wanasema, a notorious gossiping couple in Kenya-Stockholm. They are related, just like Watu Wengine is related to Sam Pippo. When a storo is being broadcast by Wakenya Wanasema, there is little you can do but to live with it and such stories never go away even after a very long time. There are some scandals which disappear from the scene as soon as they have been enjoyed but when it comes to storos spread by Wakenya Wanasema, it is always a permanent kind of tale. An example will suffice.
A story about a Kenyan hanyaring a paperless chick may melt from the Kenya-Stockholm atmosphere after some days but if you gather that Wakenya Wanasema eti so and so has been selling precious goods in the market since them days, such storos never melt. Wakenya Wanasema has no mercy and could spread anything (usually very negative stuff) that could send your enemies tossing at Vasa in a moment of joy and shouting “amewezwa” this time around jinga yewe mavi ya kuku.
7: Nili Sikia
In Kenya Stockholm, nobody is as social as ”Nilkisikia”. Although a single lady, Nilisikia always tends to avoid direct human contacts when unleashing her storos. She operates on the phone while she is also the favourite of Kenyans who are often not afraid of quoting her when trying to trace the source of a storo.
When being quoted, her name is always inserted into a conversation to make it go something like “Nilisikia eti so and so has split with his ka-wife he has been boasting around with…”. “Nili Sikia eti the guy has been treating the wife like they are in Kenya but Sam Pippo have also been pumping the wife with propaganda that this is Sweden and that she ought not to take shit from the guy.
8: Sam Pippo
As mentioned earlier, Sam Pippo is related to Watu Wengine by blood. They are cousins and you can be sure that if Sam Pippo knows something, Watu Wengine also has a copy. According to intelligence, the two drink together and when you spot them at a joint, they are, most likely, putting together the latest rumour to be circulated in Kenya Stockholm. They don’t go to Vasa Temple very often because they have developed a Network of contacts who specialize in circulating information they have cooked in their rumour kitchens.
9-10: Other two Kenyans who have been identified by KSB’s research unit as people in the front line of spreading gossip and propaganda are Ali Niambia and Nili Ambiwa, two brothers who are also suspected to be members of Al-Wanaskandali. However, very little is known about the two and our researchers, led by Professor Ume Jua, are still investigating how they operate. Another name in the list is “Ai Andastand” but details later. Kenya-Stockholmers should watch out for these ladies and gentlemen because they are the people manufacturing rumours and driving unwelcome gossip in Kenya-Stockholm. KSB will continue to expose them as a contribution to the fight against “The Axis of Rumours” in Kenya-Stockholm.
Okoth Osewe
Invitation to Christian Conference by Pastor Tillarh
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD
Conference poster
GRACE CONNECTIONS
Pastor E.A Adeboye
General Overseer Worldwide
“Jesus the same yesterday, today and forever” – Heb 13:8
Letter of Invitation
Dear Brethren,
On behalf of the entire congregation and members of the Grace Connections Uppsala, a Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, we hereby warmly extend our invitation to you and all the members of your family to our Annual Autumn Conference, entitled:
Whence Cometh My Help Conference ’09
from Friday 25th September to Sunday 27th September 2009.
Venue: RCCG, Pingstkyrkan, St. Persgatan 9, Uppsala
This year, the theme of the conference is:
“Divine Wisdom” (Col.2:3)
The following servants of God will be ministering together with the Holy Spirit;
- Pastor Esther Obasi-Ike (RCCG – Nairobi, Kenya)
- Pastor Tosin Macauley (RCCG – Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Mrs. Fidelia Osime (Haggai Institute / UNILEVER Central Africa)
Come and receive your blessing through the various sessions and a special seminar on
Leadership as you get charged to go forth unstoppable.
Attached please find handbills for more information/details and which you are free to use to
invite others. You can also use this invitation letter if you so wish. Remember, he who wins a
soul is wise (Prov.11:30).
Please do not hesitate to call in case you need /require additional information in this regard.
May God richly bless you even as you invite others.
Yours In His Royal Service,
Tillarh & Lydiah Mukasa
Parish Pastor
OFFICIAL DOWNLOADS (pdf):
New Kenya Film to Feature at CinemaAfrica
VICTIM OF OUR RICHES
Directed by: Kal Touré
Ubuntu film Festival
Mali, 2007, 58 min, French, English subtitles
The opening film is the Victims of Our Riches. It deals with some of the hundreds of thousands of people each year trying to get from Africa via Morocco, Libya and Turkey to Spain, Italy or Greece. Some succeed, but many are forced to return in degrading conditions and many die. For all of them, travel is extremely demanding, the road is lined with beatings, torture, rape and intimidation.
Kal Touré is visiting the festival.
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FROM A WHISPER
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Kenya Film at Festival
Kenya, 2008, 100 min, English
We also show the young film director Wanuri Kahius feature film debut, From a Whisper. The film, which has been triumphal at festivals, is based on the 1998 bombing of U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. Tamani has devoted much of his life to looking for her mother, who disappeared on that day ten years ago. From a Whisper is a powerful and emotional tale of yearning and grief to accept, forgive and understand.
Wanuri Kahiu will be at the festival.
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MASQUERADE
Director: Lyès Salem
Masquarade
Algeria, France, 2008, 94 min, Arabic, English subtitles
Miss Nor, the Algerian wedding farce Masquerades of Mounir is living with his family in a dusty little town in Algeria, where he hasn’t’ had much success but struggles to get respect. His sister, Munir, who is a die-hard narcoleptic and a laughing stock, clearly reduces his chances of marrying until an immensely rich Australian appears in the picture …
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MOTHER (MORE-BI)
Director: William Mbaye
Mother
Senegal, 2008, 55 min, Wolof & French, English subtitles
The Senegalese documentary, Mother, is a gentle and proud portrait of the outspoken, wise and deeply committed 82-year old Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, Senegal’s first trained journalist, who is also a poet and a famous profile in public debate throughout the decades. Her story is also a story about the recent history of Senegal and Africa’s freedom movement.
Full program available at www.cinemafrica.se
Order tickets now at www.biorio.se
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Tickets to Thursday evening’s show of the Soldiers of Peace on Klarabiografen, can be bought an one hour before the show at the cinema entrance.
Welcome!
Ubuntu! Film Festival is organized with support from Sida in relation to Development conference – European Development Days, a co-arrangement between Canada and the European Commission, 22-24 October at the Stockholm International Fairs. Read more at www.eudevdays.eu.
See also outreach program on www.sida.se / EDD. Debating on theworldlog.org.
CinemAfrica working to distribute African films in Sweden by organizing film festivals, screenings of seminars on topical themes and offer free film to schools around the country. For more info, contact us at info@cinemafrica.se.
Diaspora Scandals: Kenyan Faces “Sexual Battery Charge”
As Kenyans in Stockholm begin to experience a season of new scandals, Kenyans in Diaspora appear to be engaged in much more serious scandals. After a Kenyan was reported to have murdered another Kenyan in Newzealand, a new case in which a Kenyan has sexually abused a mentally retarded elderly woman in a nursing home has surfaced.
Njoroge: Abused an elderly woman at a nursing home
JACKSONVILLE, FL — A man faces two sexual battery charges following his arrest in a local nursing home. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, it happened just after 3:30 Sunday morning at the Regents Park nursing home on the Southside. A witness told police she heard something from one of the rooms, and when she went in she saw Anthony Mgugua Njorge engaged in a sexual activity with a woman in the room. The woman is disabled. The witness told police she reached for her cell phone, but Njorge tried to stop her.
She was able to make a call anyway and someone else came into the room. That witness told police she saw Njorge cleaning up. The witness says Njorge then left the room and threw something in the disposal room. Police came and investigated, then arrested Njorge.
Njorge, 35, faces charges of sexual battery (victim mentally impaired) and sexual battery (victim physically helpless.) “When something like this happens, especially to someone of a certain age, it’s disgusting,” said John Harrell, spokesperson for DCF. The Department of Children and Families is working alongside JSO on the investigation. Harrell says DCF has investigated eight allegations of abuse at Regents Park in the past year, though none have been verified. “Of those eight reports, four showed no findings, but four had some findings, including inadequate supervision [of patients]. That happened a couple of times,” Harrell said.
Regents Park Spokesperson Tom Groesbeck confirmed Njorge was employed at the nursing home, and that the care facility is cooperating with law enforcement on the investigation. A former employee of Regents Park told First Coast News that Njorge has worked at Regents Park as a nursing assistant since at least 2005. First Coast News has learned that Njorge also worked at another Southside nursing home.
A spokesperson for Life Care Center says Njorge was employed at the nursing home up until his arrest Sunday. The spokesperson went on to say that resident safety is Life Care Center’s highest priority, and that there have been no allegations of this nature at their facility. Authorities say the elderly victim from Regents Park is doing as well as can be expected. DCF is now looking into whether the attack is an isolated incident.
“Obviously there are a number of vulnerable adults there. They need to be safe. They need to be in a safe environment. I’m sure there are a lot of families feeling a lot of concern right now,” Harrell said. Police are withholding any further information due to the nature of the crime and the investigation.
Njorge remains in jail on a $500,000 bond. Aside from this arrest, he has no criminal record in Duval County.
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New “Scandal Leak” at KSB
The management of KSB wishes to announce that there has been a new “scandal leak” at KSB’s deport. In an early morning attack by “Al-Wanaskandali”, several Kenya-Stockholm scandals which have been locked at the depot for months are believed to have escaped and are now doing the rounds in greater Kenya-Stockholm. The stated aim of Al Wanaskandali is to ensure that all scandals locked at KSB deport zimetembezwa.
Using sophisticated SMS-propelled grenades and strategic email rockets, suspected members of Al-Wanaskandali attacked KSB’s main “Scandal depot” located at the western wing of the storage facility where 23 scandals were being stored. An underground tank where “Scandals of Mass Personality Destruction”are stored was not affected. The attack took KSB’s security forces by total surprise and as we went to press, it is not yet clear as to how many scandals escaped following the surprise attack.
KSB personnel are still trying to assess the damage while an emergency meeting of KSB’s top brass is planned over the week-end to assess the situation and to decide on what needs to be done. One proposal is that the government of KSB may have to declare next week a “Kenya-Stockholm Scandal Week” because it is feared that some members of Al-Wanaskandali who masterminded the attack may be having in their pocession several explosive scandals that they might try to detonate in order to create panic.
As a consequence, KSB may have to conduct some “controlled explosions” so as to limit the damage in case Wanaskandlai try to explode explosives already in their custody.
According to a scandal that was intercepted at Vasagatan in Stockholm, a Kenyan woman has fallen in love with the son of her ex Jungu hubby who helped her fix papers. After dumping the father for “Non performance” in the bedroom allegedly due to “advanced age”, the woman settled for the son, an act which has outraged the woman’s closest friends who are concerned that by falling in love with her ex hubby’s son, the woman is committing an abomination and violating the African tradition which prohibits members of society from engaging in romantic relationships with people perceived to be their relatives directly or indirectly. A team of KSB security services arrested a member of Al-Wanaskandali as she was on her way to Vasa Temple to explode the scandal.
Breast Feeding
In another case, a Kenyan has ballooned a paperless Kenyan lady after he reportedly engaged in several “trial sessions” of her precious goods to test them. It is not clear when the “accident” occurred but what is known is that the Kenyan is currently in deep crisis because the girl has refused to discuss possibilities of an abortion arguing that she is a Christian and that the last she can do is to think about “committing an act of murder” by aborting the unborn child.
Behind the scenes, it is reported that the chick has been advised by Kenya-Stockholm veterans to ensure that she carries the pregnancy “to term” because her papers now rests on whether or not she will be able to deliver. They say that the Kenyan must take responsibility for his actions and that there is no need of abandoning the lady at a critical time when she is pregnant and therefore needs maximum support.
The Kenyan bull has been in several romantic crises with different women although this latest one is said to be “the most serious”. The Kenyan bull does not want Kenyans to know that he has been hanyaring the girl because of possible charges of exploiting a paperless girl from his own country.
In yet another developing story, a Kenyan lady surprised her friends in her flat when she began to breast feed her child in front of her shocked friends to prove to them that she was not suffering from Aids. Propaganda has been doing the rounds in Kenya-Stockholm that the Kenyan lady has Aids and since HIV positive mothers do not suckle their young, the lady found it necessary to prove her HIV negative status by feeding her baby with milk directly from her breasts. The Management of KSB will update readers as the situation develops. The scandal leak is the worst crisis KSB has ever faced in recent times.
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SAY NO to Block “Negro” name in Karlstad
Demo poster
SAY NO to Block “Negro” name
Where: gathering at Karlstad Station
When: Wednesday 23 September at. 11:00
Protest list: www.centrummotrasism.nu
In Karlstad there is a neighborhood called “Negro”. This name has been in place for nearly 150 years but now, the story has caught up with Karlstad and it is time that the name be changed to something that is not racist and that spares Sweden from international shame. On Wednesday, September 23rd, the City Planning in Karlstad Municipality will vote whether the name should be retained or not and the “Center Against Racism” and its member organizations are planning a demonstration in this connection.
During the period leading to the vote, four respondents had commented on the name change issue: National Land Survey, County Administrative Board of Värmland, Värmland’s Museum and Carl Urban Guild. All four institutions wish that the racist name be retained. You can read Lantmäteriets consultative opinion on www.cmr.nu. No African or Swedish anti-racist organizations have been asked what they think over the issue which reveals the institutional racism that has characterized the entire process.
Are you as shocked and upset that a region in today’s Sweden can have a clearly racist name and that Swedish authorities would like it to be retained? If so, go to www.centrummotrasism.nu and sign the petition.
You can also join the demonstration to be held in front of City Hall in Karlstad on Drottninggatan 32, at 12.00-14.00. We gather at Karlstad Railway Station at 11:00 and match jointly to the City Hall.
Coordinated travel to Karlstad will be held from Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm. Contact persons responsible for each place for details and more information. Since seats are limited, we urge anyone interested to try and get to Karlstad by either train, bus or car.
For more information:
Malmo: Momodu Jallow, equality for Afro-Swedes, jallow_66@hotmail.com, tel 076-2072219
Gothenburg: Charles Buyondo, Unplugged forever, charliebuyondo@hotmail.com, tel 070-4921130
Stockholm: Kitimbwa Sabuni, Afro-Swedes’ federations, kitimbwa.sabuni @ afrosvenskarna.se, tel 073-6872684
See You There
Center against Racism
Diaspora: Kenyan Sought for Murder in Newzealand
Lydia Munene: In critical condition
Moves to have a Kenyan man suspected of the slaying of a fellow countryman in Christ church brought back to New Zealand broadened today as police named the victim. He was Stephen Mwangi Maina, 38, a close friend of Lydiah Muthoni Munene, 34, who was found badly injured in a dwelling in suburban Avonhead on Monday night. She was covered by a blanket in a bedroom of the house while Mr Maina was found dead on a bed in the same room.
Ms Munene’s estranged husband, Samuel Ngumo Njuguna, 39, flew out of New Zealand at the weekend, headed for Kenya. He boarded a Sunday morning flight from Auckland International Airport and is understood to have arrived in Kenya on Tuesday morning.
Police have alerted Interpol and Kenyan police in an effort to track him down. Christchurch police today contacted officials at Kenya’s High Commission in Canberra and also began talking to the Crown Law Office in Wellington, discussing possible extradition once Mr Njuguna is located.
New Zealand has no extradition treaty with Kenya but some media speculated today that Commonwealth treaties might mean that the suspect could be returned to New Zealand if and when he is found. Detective Inspector Greg Williams, the man in charge of the case, told reporters this afternoon that talks today had focused on “procedural matters required to extradite the man back to New Zealand”.
Mrs Munene, mother of sons nine and 13, remains in an induced coma in Christ church Hospital with head injuries. Her condition late today was reported to be serious but stable. She is reported to have been in New Zealand for several years and her sons were said today to be “very tall and good looking, charming, lively, intelligent and lovely”. Child Youth and Family is now caring for them.
Mr Maina arrived in New Zealand in October last year and had been working at a meat processing plant in Ashburton. Mr Williams said police contacted the mother of the dead man in Kenya and spoke with his brother. Mr Maina was the third son the mother had lost, Mr Williams said.
Mr Williams added police continued to search for a weapon but did not specify what it was. He declined to speculate on the relationship between the dead man and the injured woman and would not say if others were involved Mr Williams said it was unclear whether the relationship between the woman and the dead man had been beyond a friendship. Police, called in by neighbours, found Mr Maina and Ms Munene on Monday night but police have said the victims might have been attacked as early as Friday night.
Mr Williams said police thought the children were removed by their father from the Burrows Place house where they lived with their mother sometime early on Saturday morning between midnight and 6am. “It appears that this is also the likely time the two people were attacked in the house.” Mr Njuguna later dropped off his sons at a friend’s house
Kenya-Stockholm Drivers Invited to Paper Presentation
A.C Gullon, A Researcher based in Canada, has taken contact with KSB to invite interested Kenyans or anybody willing to check out his presentation on Traffic safety. The subject should be of interest to car owners or drivers generally. Gullon will be in Stockholm and available on the dates listed below. The following is his brief introduction. He was introduced to KSB by a Kenyan resident in Canada but who has also been residing in Stockholm before changing base. The researcher is ready to make his presentation to any number of people, publicly or privately. He is driven by the need to keep roads safe and to save lives by introducing new safety angles to the concept of road safety. Interested persons can contact Gullon directly via email or through KSB.
As an introduction, I have been a ‘car nut’ since the age of 12, a transport officer in the Canadian air force, head of motor vehicle emission control for Canada in the ‘70’s and early ‘80’s and an automotive journalist (with much time spent on traffic safety research – incl. 55,000kms on rental cars in Europe). I took early retirement in 1996
I am arriving at Arlanda airport on Friday morning to present my 8th traffic safety paper the following Wednesday in the ITS World Congress in Stockholmsmassan.
My previous 7 papers (5 diagnostic, 2 prescriptive) have shown a strong correlation between the ups and downs of the economic cycle and the traffic fatality rate (per vkmt) … in 17 countries representing every inhabited continent. This curious correlation is explained by the AMPS* Theory of ‘Accident’ Causation: ‘Accidents’, whether in the home, on the job or on the road, occur because “the mind is not on the motion”. [*Absent-Minded Professor Syndrome] Excerpts from the first (SAE Detroit ‘97) and third (FISITA Seoul ‘00) papers are on my web site with a ‘route map’ below the signature block.
Availability
On the question of time for such a presentation, I as yet have no commitments for this Saturday (Sept 19) or for the following weekend – Friday evening through Sunday afternoon (If given an appointment with Volvo on the following Monday I may leave for Gothernberg very early in the morning.) Except for Wednesday morning, the 23rd Sept. when I will be presenting my paper at the Congress, it may even be possible during the week of the Congress (16th ITS World Congress – Stockholm 2009 - Stockholmsmaessan, 21-25 September 2009 – in Älvsjo. I am booked on Tuesday evening (next week) but will be available during all other evenings. The target group is between 16-24 years although other interested parties can also attend.
I will have a rental car the whole time and any driving is welcome as part of my research (personal observation of the roadway infrastructure and the conduct of the drivers is often important to understand what the traffic safety statistics are trying to tell us).
A. C. Gullon, BSc., PEng.
Automobiles+Concepts+Environments
Consulting on Safety & the Environment
Technical Articles & Lectures
Ph: 613-738-0712 Fx: -8946
eMail: al@alsaces.ca Web: www.alsaces.ca
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