Vumbi Dekula at Little Nairobi: 02-03/12
TV Interview in Daressalam
Dekula Band “Ngoma ya Kilo”
Place: Wien”Little Nairobi”
Date: 02-03.Dec.2011
Time: 21.00-01.00
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Shiloh Family Week at Geneva Christian Guest House
Men and Women communicate differently. Men want to go straight to the point and fix whatever problem there is and women want to be listened to and understood. You are welcome to attend to our FAMILY WEEK and learn more about our differences and how we can build a bridge as a husband and wife to reach and support each other without suffocating the love that holds; and how to close the gates that have been speaking negatively about our marriages and families.
Miss Africa Crown 2011 Receives Prizes
Miss Africa Crown 2011 Queen, Jessle, receives prizes from Hudah of The Ritz Society for winning the title. Along with a ticket from Ethiopian Airlines to Africa, the winner also recieved a box of bling-bling, Luois Vuitton bag and a 500 Euro cash prize. Other Miss Africa winners also received their prizes at a private "Home-Coming" Party in Märsta on Saturday November 26th 2011.
Confessions of a Journalist About Kalonzo’s Dirty Games Against Ngilu
Could he have been thinking of "wiping out" Ngilu?
Dear Countrymen, My name is Kaplich Barsito. Currently I am the official personal Assistant (PA) to the Vice – President Dr. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka. I am a journalist by profession with training upto Post Graduate Level from Nairobi Universty. I have worked as a newsman for Nation Newspapers, The Standard Newspaper and the defunct Kenya Times. For all of them, I served at their head office newsrooms in Nairobi.
After several years as a newsman, I got employed as the Chief Public Relations Officer for the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), the job which is today being held by Mr. Simani.
While at KACC, I ably used my Media training well. I quickly befriended key staff calleagues but got much more closer to the Investigative team. Soon we were buddy buddy and close personal, family and social friends. From when I worked with them todate, we have maintained very close friendship and more so the top investigation officals.
Unfortuntely, my boss, having noticed my closeness to my KACC investigator buddies, decided to push me into tapping their services to help him fight his Ukambani Political Wars against water minister Mrs. Charity Ngilu.
This dirty work intensified early last year (2010). He has made me drag KACC top investigators to go out of their way and mandate to look for anything to use to fix and if possible prosecute and jail mama Ngilu.
In return he has always sent me with kitu kidogo to the involded KACC investigators, which I always deliver.This is done every weekend and mostly money diverted from the office vote of the ministry of Home Affairs.
The freshly started cases against Dennis Apaa (Hon. Cecily Mbarire’s husband), Billy Indeche and several officials in the ministry of water are part of this dirty scheme. They are meant to cause Mrs. Ngilu a psychological breakdown and mental stress. Besides, they are meant to keep her busy in Courts and Nairobi to reduce her influence and forays on the ground in Ukambani.
Fellow Kenyans, as a good christian, I believe in the power of confession and repentance. It heals and restores.
And as a dilligent Kalenjin homeboy I am taught that it is taboo for men to fight a woman. Kwanza a widow! It is even worse when such is malicious and out of petty envy.
Althoughy my boss, the VP has blackmailed, threatened and boxed me into this nasty plot to frame up and destory Mrs. Ngilu on exagerated corruption allegations. I’m ready to spill the beans and face the consequences. If anything happens, to me, please pray for me.
Hon. Kalonzo is too dirty and corrupt to dare point an accussing finger at anybody else, leave alone Mrs. Ngilu.
Just in the last two .years he has sharelessly coersed government officials to divert over Sh. 260 Million for the refurbishement, rehabilitation, expansion a nd decoration of his private homes at Matuu (Yatta), Karen (Nairobi) and (Kaningo (Tseikuru). Infact a single gate at one of these private residences cost a whoopping Shs.10 million which was paid from public coffers.
This is the same man who is wasting sh.5 million every weekend from state coffers for personal 2012 political campaigns. Much of these monies are just given as handouts or used to feed and entertain his youth wingers a nd sycophants who zurura with him across the country on 2012 presidential campaigns.
Now, this is the VP who wants others jailed on corruption allegations. My KACC friends have whispered to me that he is one of the top government leaders who have consistently been pressurising KACC to go slow on Anglo-Leasing, Grand Regency, Tokyo embassy land scam and Triton Scandal Investigations.
Another hidden fact about Dr. Kalonzo is that he is desperate to defect to ODM and be Raila Odinga’s Presidential running mate or leader of the majority party for 2012 but fears Mrs. Ngilu is more credible in Raila circles than him. So he is out to crudely crowd her out of national politics at all costs.
Also you should know that it is likely Kalonzo himself or his closest handlers are the ones who sent his Mwingi court jesters: Joe Mutambo and Mr. Ngeana to Nairobi Hospital at night when Mrs. Ngilu was hospitalized. The two were on a mission to clear her and flee in a waiting vehicle.
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Waiting for Kidum: Friday, December 2nd 2011 at Alvik
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The first single from East Africa Music Awards [EMAS] winner for Artist of the year KIDUM’s 5th Album. Arranged and produced by Robert “rkay” Kamanzi
Kenya Embassy Unable to Trace Late Gacheru’s Relatives in Kenya
Ambassador Purity Muhindi: Should take responsibility in tracking Gacheru's relatives in Kenya
The Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm is unable to trace relatives of the late Boniface Gacheru who was found dead in his apartment in September. After news about Mr. Gacheru’s death was broken, KSB contacted Mr. Aurther Andambi, the First Secretary, and requested that the Embassy track down Mr. Gacheru’s relatives in Kenya through government machinery to prevent Gacheru’s body from being buried in Sweden without the knowledge of his relatives.
Contacts with the Embassy was made after KSB learnt from Linda Magnusson, an Official of Isacsons Funeral Company handling Gacheru’s body, that the Company was planning a requiem mass for Gacheru on December 1st. According to an advert placed by the Company in “Mitt I Botkyrka Salem” Weekly newspaper, Gacheru was also scheduled to be buried after the Mass whose kick-off time was fixed at 11.00hrs.
After KSB alerted the Company about Gacheru’s circumstances, the Company accepted to put Gacheru’s burial on ice until further information about his relatives could be obtained. The Company had contacted the Swedish embassy in Nairobi to try and track down Gacheru’s relatives but at the time the story was reported at KSB, no word had come from the Swedish embassy.
KSB contacted the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm for help because the Embassy is the official representative of the Kenyan government that could help solve the puzzle about the whereabouts of Mr. Gacheru’s relatives.
According to Mr. Andambi who spoke to this writer, the Embassy could not help because the Mission does not know where to start the investigations. When prompted that the Embassy could start by contacting the Immigration department in Nairobi to check Mr. Gacheru’s name on the records since he was a Kenyan Passport holder, Mr. Andambi said that there could be many Kenyans with such names and that following their backgrounds could be difficult.
The risk now is that without further information about the late Gacheru’s relatives, he will be buried in Sweden without the knowledge of his relatives in Kenya.
Another problem is that members of the Kenyan community do not appear to be bothered with the case because many of them did not know Gacheru in person since the late Kenyan never mingled with his fellow Kenyans. Majority of Kenyans who have been contacted by KSB are on a “wait and see” posture.
Kenya Embassy should live up to expectation
In Sweden, the body can only be kept for a maximum of 3 months after which it will begin to attract mortuary charges of approximately 30.000 Kenyan shillings per day. If there is no one who can sort out the bill or if there is no legal reason why it should not be disposed of, the body will be interred. In the absence of Gacheru’s relatives, and with the lackadaisical attitude of Kenyans towards the circumstances, it is most likely that the body will go down without much ado.
We appeal to the Kenyan Embassy not to allow Mr. Gacheru to be buried in Sweden because it is known that he came from Nyeri and even if many names emerge during a search at the Immigration, the names can be narrowed down to investigate names that can be linked to Nyeri. It is known that Gacheru was 67 years old at the time of his death and this can also help in narrowing down any similar names which may be in the Immigration department’s data base.
The Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm has failed Kenyans on many fronts and it will be very unfortunate if Mr. Gacheru is buried in Sweden without the knowledge or consent of his family members back home simply because of the inexcusable reason that these relatives cannot be traced by the only government agency in Scandinavia.
If the late Gacheru was not a Kenyan passport holder at the time of his death, the Embassy’s position could be understable. Through links with the Swedish authorities, KSB has confirmed to the Embassy that Gacheru never surrendered his citizenship while according to the Funeral agency, he never left any known will to be buried in Sweden.
KSB has also furnished the Embassy with the name and telephone number of a key Swedish State official dealing with Mr. Gacheru’s terminal benefits to be paid to his relatives since he has been in gainful employment throughout his active life. If his relatives cannot be traced, these benefits will be confiscated by the Swedish State as per the Swedish laws dealing with unclaimed benefits of dead persons.
The Embassy has to live up to expectation and Ambassador Purity Muhindi needs to chip in because at the end of the day, it is her tattered reputation which will further go down the drain if her Office fails to trace Gacheru’s relatives in Kenya using flimsy excuses. Already, KSB has done a lot of ground work which ought to have been done by the Embassy. The Mission should therefore not abdicate its responsibility by failing to intervene on behalf of Mr. Gacheru’s relatives who have every right to participate in his funeral and for Gacheru who has a right to be buried in Kenya, his motherland.
Okoth Osewe
Challenging Uhuru Kenyatta as “Richest Person in Kenya”
Forbes classification criteria questioned; Uhuru’s wealth is stolen wealth
Uhuru Kenyatta is a beneficiary of stolen wealth from the people of Kenya and should not be on Fotbes list
Forbes Magazine recently published a list of Africa’s 40 richest persons with Uhuru Kenyatta ranked 26th and number one richest person in Kenya. His net worth is an estimated $500 million, which translates to almost 50 billion Kenyan Shillings.
This is how Forbes described his wealth: “Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is the son of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, and heir to some of the largest land holdings in Kenya. He owns at least 500,000 acres of prime land spread across the country. The land was acquired by his father in the 1960s and 1970s when the British colonial government and the World Bank funded a settlement transfer fund scheme that enabled government officials and wealthy Kenyans to acquire land from the British at very low prices. Uhuru and his family also own Brookside Dairies, Kenya’s largest dairy company, as well as stakes in popular television station K24 and a commercial bank in Nairobi, among other interests.”
In a WikiLeaks cable dated June 26th 2009, former US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger described Uhuru’s wealth this way: “Although his wealth is the inheritance from his father’s corruption, the Kenyatta family still holds a special status”. Yet another description from veteran Kenyan journalist and lecturer Joe Kadhi on his blog ‘Msemakweli’ goes: “Among the haves, Uhuru represents the pinnacle of cornucopia. He has wealth he hardly worked for. Wealth that was acquired by his father through the use of despotic powers. All this, when children of true freedom fighters are languishing in indescribable poverty, caused by the exploitation by the very people who opposed the fight for independence.”
Did Forbes investigate the origins of Uhuru Kenyatta’s wealth? According to the magazine, it does not include political leaders on its list of the richest because it is not easy to calculate how they have generated their wealth. Ironically, Uhuru is a Member of Parliament for Gatundu South, Leader of KANU Party and Deputy Prime Minister. Information on its website notes that: “Forbes has long separated rulers and dictators from our annual rankings of the World’s Billionaires, distinguishing between personal, entrepreneurial wealth and wealth derived largely from positions of power, where lines often blur between what is owned by the country and what is owned by the individual.” How many generations does it take to “clean” allegedly ill-begotten wealth?
Since Uhuru is now on the Forbes list, Moi’s son Gideon should be considered at a certain point because his father was also president, yet gathered wealth unscrupulously as noted in the Kroll Report commissioned by president Kibaki in 2003 and submitted in 2004. It is alleged that Moi and his relatives “siphoned off more than £1bn+ of government money.” Gideon Moi was then worth £550m.
Kenyatta: The biggest land grabber in Kenyan history
The naming of Uhuru as Kenya’s richest man generated mixed reactions from Kenyans in the social media. Many felt that his father Jomo Kenyatta, used his position as president to grab land and accumulate enormous wealth. There are documents indicating that Jomo Kenyatta acquired land through resettlement schemes organized by the then British government and the World Bank. Uhuru Kenyatta has mentioned in the past that his wealth belongs to the “Kenyatta family”. In November 2010, the online business magazine “Africa Investor” wrote that Uhuru had estimated his family’s wealth at $10 billion.
Journalist John Kamau reported in 2009 that by September 1963, Jomo Kenyatta had consented to the transfer of Kikuyus from the transit farm Bahati in Rift Valley, to the tsetse fly-infested Mpanda Settlement Scheme in Tanzania. This was basically because the Kenyatta family and other African elite, had taken over most of the farms formerly owned by Europeans who had decided to sell. The ex-Mau Mau fighters who returned to reclaim their land found nothing and were pushed by Kenyatta to Rift Valley. It was only after many protests by Kikuyus that the Mpanda transfer was abandoned.
In 2009, a Kenyan-run blog Kumekucha, wrote that Pio Gama Pinto (who was an appointed politician in the House of Representatives in 1964), discovered that “Kenyatta had allocated himself a total of 50 farms in Central province and Rift valley. Some of the farms had poor Kikuyu squatters who were to be evicted. Others were farms that had been owned by whites and sold back to the Kenyan government. Pinto was incensed by this and despite making overtures to Kenyatta not to go ahead with the evil he was doing, Kenyatta adamantly stuck to his guns. Pinto decided to move a vote of no confidence in Kenyatta. Kenyatta confronted him within the precincts of parliament and challenged him over the no confidence vote. When Pinto refused to back down Kenyatta called him a bastard to which Pinto immediately responded by telling Kenyatta in front of witnesses and other cabinet ministers that he (Kenyatta) was also a bastard. A stunned friend pulled Pinto aside and asked him how he could call Kenyatta a bastard to which Pinto retorted, ‘he called me one first’. It was shortly after this incident that the decision was made to kill Pinto.”
In June 2000, journalist John Kamau published an article named “Kenyatta in trouble 22 years after his death”. He cited people who questioned how he had acquired so much wealth in only 15 years as president, while others called him murderer, tribalist and land grabber. “Kenyatta’s family must account for its wealth,” retorts Wanyiri Kihoro, the opposition MP from the Democratic Party of Kenya. He hails from the same populous Kikuyu tribe as Kenyatta. But he is unfazed by tribal loyalties. “We all know that Kenyatta was a land-grabber”, Kihoro adds somewhat irreverently. Luke Obok, the Chairman of the Kenya Pipeline Company: “Kenyatta’s regime was worse [than Moi's]. Nobody was allowed to question the ills of his government. It is sad that under him, many Luos [from the other big tribe in the country] who were in top positions were frustrated and those in the army and police were summarily dismissed”.
Links to illegal trade in Ivory and forced Kenyatta shares in companies
“How did Kenyatta amass all that wealth given that he was in detention for eight years”, asks Martin Shikuku, a member of the team that negotiated Kenya’s independence constitution at Lancaster House in London in 1962. An outspoken member of Moi’s cabinet, Francis Lotodo, has even demanded that Kenyatta should be tried posthumously for “crimes committed against Kenyans”. Says Martin Shikuku: “It is common knowledge that Kenyatta’s regime thrived on the plunder of the national economy. He surrounded himself with a gang of tribalists that controlled his government.” Shikuku was detained without trial in 1976 by Kenyatta, for saying in parliament that the ruling Kanu party was dead.
Shikuku is particularly scathing in his attacks. “[Kenyatta] was not a nationalist as depicted by historians, he was a manipulator,” Shikuku says. “He concentrated too much power in the presidency, no wonder the colonial governor (Sir Patrick Renison) referred to him as `a leader unto darkness’.” But the respected former Kenyan freedom fighter, Bildad Kaggia, who was detained with Kenyatta in 1958 by the British, appears to have finally twisted the knife by saying that Kenyatta tried “many times” to harm him. Kaggia fell out with Kenyatta in 1969. He now says he refused to amass wealth like other cabinet ministers and that was why he was sidelined. Today, he lives a pauper’s life, operating a small posho mill in central Kenya.
In May 2011, a staff reporter at “investmentnewskenya.com” wrote that an American news magazine noted in 1979 that the Kenyatta family estate was worth $200 million. In a recent report by Kenya’s Citizen TV, the family’s wealth was more that $ 1.9 billion. It is questionable that Forbes reported Uhuru owns 500,000 acres of land, which is equated with the size of Nyanza province. This ownership has always been mentioned under the Kenyatta family. When did Uhuru become the sole owner of his family’s wealth? How did Forbes sort out what was owned by whom? Uhuru’s younger brother Muhoho is noted as the person largely running the family business. Earlier, it was his mother Mama Ngina who was seen as the force behind the vast Kenyatta business empire, which constitutes diverse investments ranging from dairy farming, banking to real estate, among others.
Rumours abound about Uhuru’s elder step sister Margaret Kenyatta, and Mama Ngina’s links to ivory smuggling in the 1970s. On May 22 1975, Jon Tinker wrote in the New Scientist magazine about elephant poaching in Kenya, which involved some prominent persons. Sections of the article are quoted verbatim here: “Kenya has perhaps 120 000 elephants, and every year between 10 000 and 20 000 elephants are being killed for their ivory. At this rate, the Kenyan elephant will be virtually extinct within a decade. Kenya’s ivory trade is currently worth around $10 million a year, but little of this money goes to the poachers. Not much goes to the government of Kenya either, for officially it has banned all private dealing in ivory. The profits are made by a few merchants in Nairobi and Mombasa, who bribe the game department and the wildlife ministry, the customs and the police to let them ship ivory by the ton to Europe, Hong Kong, Japan and People’s China.”
Enough money to compensate the PEV victims
The identity of these ivory queens is a matter of common gossip in Nairobi, and the most prominent of them are said to be Mama Ngina and Margaret Kenyatta, respectively wife and daughter to the President. In Kenya today, you can be sent to prison for what is called rumour-mongering, so in this article I shall confine myself to provable fact. And there is now documentary proof that at least one member of Kenya’s Royal family has recently shipped over six tons of ivory to Red China. Moreover, in spite of repeated denials from the Kenyan wildlife ministry that they have issued any licences to deal in or export raw ivory, this trading is being carried out with the active connivance of the highest officials in the game department.”
Tinker wrote that despite the government’s ban on private ivory export in August 1974, Margaret Kenyatta had since then “illicitly sent over 6 tonnes worth $200 000 to People’s China”. The United African Corporation (Kenya) Limited was a key exporter of ivory to China, Hong Kong and Japan. Records at that time showed she held 16 per cent shares in the company which was registered in 1964. However, by 1974, she held 49 per cent and had become chairperson of the company.
John Kamau’s investigative articles about Kenyatta’s estate published in Kenya’s “Business Daily” in May 2009, did not indicate the amount of money paid to some parcels of land acquired by Jomo Kenyatta and Mama Ngina. Instead, a lot was shown to have been bought under the names of his elder sons, Peter Muigai and Magana Kenyatta. “The only farm registered in Jomo Kenyatta’s name in 1964 was a 5 acre farm he bought from a Mr. J.R. Wood and for KSh 400.” Kenyatta paid KES 45 000 to buy 400 acres of land in Dandora, as trustee to minor son Uhuru.
Logically, Kenyatta’s salary as president was not enough to buy 500,000 acres of land in the 15 years he ruled. There have been rumors of Kenyatta having forced all foreign companies to offer 15 per cent of their shares to his family before trading in Kenya. This might explain the high stakes they have in many businesses. It was recently noted by Citizen TV that the Kenyattas have shares worth $830 million in the privately-owned Commercial Bank of Africa.
There are no records of Uhuru paying taxes on his salary as Gatundu South Member of Parliament since 2002 or as Deputy Prime Minister, since 2008. Did Forbes investigate how much property taxes he pays to the Kenya Revenue Authority? What about reports about large sums of money “disappearing” at Treasury since he became the Finance Minister? What of all the Parliamentary and media reports of the highly-priced and single-sourced procurement of low fuel consuming official cars for ministers? Since Mama Ngina has other chidren beside Uhuru, how did Forbes determine how much Uhuru is worth within the Kenyatta estate? On the other hand, the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo must be marvelling because he wants a stop on the transfer of all movable and immovable assests he owns, in case he will be found guilty in the ongoing post election violence (PEV) case. Uhuru is rich enough to compensate the PEV victims if found guilty.
In conclusion, the background of Uhuru Kenyatta’s wealth is awash with alleged illegal acquisitions by other members of his wider family, so it was unethical for Forbes to list him as the richest man in Kenya and the 26th richest man in Africa.
Dr. Jared Odero
Miguna Miguna’s Life in Danger
Issued at Nairobi, Kenya – Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Miguna Miguna
At 7 a.m. this morning, I received a telephone call from my father-in-law who resides in Migori town, in Migori County, in Nyanza Province, informing me that yesterday, four men who identified themselves as ODM politicians from Kisumu visited him at his home and demanded that he communicates to me the following:
(a) That I have been saying and writing bad things about Raila Odinga; and
(b) That if I don’t stop immediately, they will kill me.
After issuing this threat, the men left.
Sometime last week, another person visited my elder brother in Magina village in Kisumu County, Nyanza Province and issued a similar threat.
My father-in-law is an elderly retired education officer. My brother is a retired public officer. They are both innocent and law abiding citizens of this country.
They were deeply troubled, worried, traumatized and concerned about the threat. I am similarly concerned.
Last Thursday November 10th, 2011, I received written communication from the Chief Executive Officer of the Star newspaper, Mr. William Pike, advising that the Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, was very upset about an article I had published in the Star on Tuesday November 8th, 2011, titled: “We Must Never Tolerate Theft of Public Resources”. That article was about corruption in government; not about Raila Odinga.
William requested that I should “go slow on the Prime Minister” in my column until the “dust settles.” The Star subsequently caved in to political pressure from the Prime Minister and refused to publish an article I submitted for my column of Tuesday November 15th on political violence and hooliganism. That article appears in today’s issue of the People newspaper (and is attached herewith).
I take all threats to my life very seriously. I intend to file a formal complaint with the Criminal Investigations Department shortly after this press conference. I expect and demand that these threats be thoroughly investigated and the culprits dealt with to the full extent of the law.
My freedom of thought, conscience, expression and association are entrenched, enshrined and guaranteed by the Constitution. I shall never waive them nor allow anybody – no matter how powerful – to violate them without a good fight.
Finally, I hope and expect that my security that was arbitrarily and maliciously withdrawn on August 4th, 2011 will be reinstated with immediate effect.
My life is more sacred and more important that someone’s delusional belief that he has a God-given right to the presidency of the Republic of Kenya!
Finally, I hope and expect that my security that was arbitrarily and maliciously withdrawn on August 4th, 2011 will be reinstated with immediate effect.
I shall continue to exercise all my rights without fear or favour.
Moguna Miguna
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