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1. MIGUNA MIGUNA IS NOT FELICIAN KABUGAZZPost a reply 1 post • Page 1 of 1
   FBI Hunt Kabuga in Rift Valley
   by ICC.supporter » Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:46 pm

   theStar

   FBI HUNT KABUGA IN RIFT VALLEY

   Friday, 20 July 2012 00:02

   BY STAR REPORTER

   INTELLIGENCE officers from Rwanda and the US are reportedly in Rift Valley following up reports that wanted Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga is still in Kenya. The team includes four officers from the American Federal Bureau of Investigation and eight from Rwandan intelligence. Last Sunday they visited a local private hospital and a hotel in Eldoret. The investigators had received reports that a sick man resembling Kabuga would be brought in for medication.

   The staff at the hospital were not aware that the building had been surrounded by the team who were hoping to grab Kabuga. However the trap failed and reports indicated that the man may have been taken to a different hospital. Kabuga has been on the run since 1994 and is wanted for his role in the Rwandan genocide that claimed the lives of more than 800,000 people. They also visited a home of a politician in Nandi county where residents claimed they had seen strange people and vehicles escorting an unknown VIP.

   A senior police officer in Nakuru confirmed to The Star that he was aware of a team from Rwanda who have been searching for Kabuga in Rift Valley and Western regions. “They have been here for some time. They believe he is most likely in parts of this region”, said the officer who requested not to be named for security reasons. Eldoret Police chief Erastus Muthamia could not be reached for comment on the search for Kabuga in Eldoret and the town’s environs.

   The investigators have visited various towns and locations in Rift Valley and Western and recruited informers to monitor movements. In one incident, the investigators trailed a white Landrover to a businessman’s house in the Kerio Valley. The team have been staying at a hotel in Eldoret where they booked in under false names. They also visited a home in Bungoma town where informers reportedly witnessed a strange night burial last year. The team have also secretly combed locations in Kericho, Bomet, Nakuru, Keiyo, Eldoret town, Litein, Kuresoi, Kisumu, Isabania on the Kenya-Tanzania border, and Entente in Trans Nzoia.

   The team went on high alert last week when the Nation and NTV published a story that Kabuga was still alive and well in Kenya. They believed that the story might provoke Kabuga to move out of his hideouts. The team also used a woman working with a local authority to lure a man who resembled Kabuga but he slipped away. The team are closely monitoring activities of one MP and two retired politicians suspected to have had contacts with Kabuga.

   The spies are also closely monitoring activities of one serving MP and two other retired but influential politicians suspected to have had contacts with Kabuga. Kabuga has been on the run since 1994. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda issued an arrest warrant for Kabuga in 1998. He was accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide and being involved in Radio Milles Collines which broadcast instructions for the murder of Tutsis. Kabuga has always insisted that he is innocent of the charges.

   There have been persistent reports that Kabuga is in Kenya although the government have insisted that he is not here. The United States has offered a bounty of S5 million (Sh425 million) for information leading to the arrest of Kabuga.

   http://the-star.co.ke/national/national … for-kabugaZ

   Comment by Hindush Kushite | July 20, 2012

2. Comment by toivo | July 21, 2012

3. Of course not! You may not know Thuon, but Raila and his people are very
   dangerous. That’s why we, the villagers are worried. Do you know that Raila,
   Adhu Awiti, Ayiecho Olweny, John Pesa, Dalmas Otieno and many so-called Luo
   leaders visit magicians at night to plot on who to sacrifice? Do you know that
   they used to visit a Tanzanian magician called Odemba? Do you know they visit
   Kit Mikayi in Seme in the middle of the night and sacrifice animals there. A black
   bull is not slaughtered in the normal way; it is strangled by hand before it is
   skinned and then they eat the meat as the magician performs his things? Thuon,
   Raila is dangerous!”

   Comment by Ohhhh | July 21, 2012

4. Why Miguna’s Book Is Just A Passing Cloud .
   Friday, 20 July 2012 15:12 BY WAFULA BUKE

   When I was reading excerpts of Miguna Miguna’s alleged humiliation of Raila Odinga by President Mwai Kibaki behind curtains, I read on fast believing that an incident I have heard of would also be included. It is alleged that a youthful ODM MP held Raila by the collar and tie in Serena Hotel as he repeatedly told him not to accept a ceasefire during the negotiations for a peaceful settlement. Raila is reported to have calmly looked on without shaking off the antagonistic grip of this belligerent ODM MP.

   Who indeed, was the hero of the power sharing negotiations? Was it those who got the bigger chunk of the loaf or those who ceded ground to stop post-election violence? Is it not intransigence and selfishness that created the Somalia we have today?

   Miguna says, in apparent comparison to himself, that Raila wept in the heat of our national catastrophe. I would rather we have a Raila who weeps with those who suffer pain and cedes ground to satisfy those greedy for power than a snobbish traitor who is not only callous to the suffering of the people but is also inconsiderate in the pursuit of self-interest.

   Miguna who had never worked with Raila during the worst times, having been in exile, was justified to be taken aback by the emotional breakdown of Raila in 2008. Erroneously he considered Raila to be tough, selfish and apparently even callous. Miguna would have applied his literary prowess in capturing Raila in a similar emotional state during a visit to the home of the late student leader, Titus Adungosi in 1997. When Adungosi’s mother spotted Raila who was accompanied by former detainee Ken Matiba, she approached him and knelt down asking: “I have been told you were with my son in prison. Tell me, who killed my son?”

   Raila went blank. He had no handkerchief and used his bare hands to wipe his tears as he joined his former comrade’s mother in mourning his death. Raila shed more tears when he stood at the unmarked bushy grave where Adungosi was buried. On the return journey to Kisumu, John Kiema who rode with him in the same car says Raila was silent throughout the journey.

   On Wednesday 11th July 2012, I visited Raila’s office and found Mark Mwithaga, the vice chair of the parliamentary select committee on the JM Kariuki murder, JM’s widow Doris Nyambura Kariuki, Dedan Kimathi’s daughter and grandson, Gitu Kahengeri (the Mau Mau war veterans spokesman) waiting to brief the PM on the ongoing Mau mau case in London. There were also councillors from Nyandarua who had come to request that a hospital in Ol Kalau be named after a Mau Mau war hero. Raila has also employed JM Kariuki’s daughter in his office. Who other than a person filled with sympathy can have time for this marginalized constituency?

   Dedan Kimathi’s daughter summed it up when she told me: “You know what? Raila is the last born of our caring fathers.” The statement, “I value solid popularity—the esteem of good men for good action. I despise the bubble popularity that is won without merit and lost without crime,” by US senator, Thomas Hart Benton is apt in reference to the Miguna book.

   Its popularity and that of the author will quickly die and be forgotten within a short time unlike the achievements by historical personalities which do not lie in the hype of the moment but it’s a sum of activities, decisions, policies and positions taken over time. When a nation is in crisis, those who make sacrifices to save it pass the test of greatness and their actions are associated with selflessness, courage and heroism. John F. Kennedy put it succinctly in “Profiles in Courage” which is an analytical presentation of figures in American history who opted to eat humble pie (read half a loaf) but were vindicated by history. “Great crises produce great men and great acts of courage.”

   The writer is the chair of The National Victims and Survivors Network

   Comment by maningi | July 21, 2012

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9. Migun a Miguna Do not return to Kenya>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-terrifying-background-of-the-man-who-ran-a-cia-assassination-unit/259856/>

   Comment by Hindush Kushite | July 21, 2012

10. Come Baby Come http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=1M2eRIcCD9s&feature=endscreen

    Comment by Hindush Kushite | July 22, 2012

11. RAILA boost as Mudavadi suffers in Western

    Sunday June 22, 2012- Prime Minister Raila Odinga received a major boost on Saturday, after a group of Luhya professionals unveiled an elaborate vote hunting strategy for the Premier that will mainly focus on the Western Province to ensure that he occupies State House next year.

    The professionals launched a new group lobby group dubbed Western for Reforms (Wefor) in Kakamega town and said that they would use it to campaign for the Prime Minister in the region.

    The group attacked Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi saying that he did not have the required credentials to be a president that would take the country through the transition period.

    Through their spokesman Joseph Simekha, the lobby said they will ensure that Raila Odinga ascends to presidency in the upcoming polls.

    “Our deliberate choice of a presidential candidate is Raila because he fits out bill of values,” Simekha said.

    They also said they will ensure that the controversial book by Miguna Miguna Peeling Back the Mask does not harm the Premier’s popularity in Luhya land.

    The Kenyan DAILY POST

    Comment by kipling | July 22, 2012

12. Miguna Mask Reveals Our Leadership Crisis
    By David Makali, 19 July 2012

    “Nobody in the history of Kenya’s multiparty democracy could spur and incite a mob better than Raila. In another life, he would have made a stellar trade unionist.” Those are not my words but Miguna Miguna’s at page 366 of his tome, Peeling Back the Mask.

    Between calling him a vindictive and inconsistent flip flopper, turncoat and traitor, Miguna unintentionally credits Raila Odinga with substantial concessions that, everything considered, saved the country from further conflagration and kept the awkward Grand Coalition government going. He accuses Raila of recapitulating on his positions every time he met with an adamant Kibaki and ridicules PM’s negotiating skills which yielded heavy compromises.

    But on the whole, Miguna comes across as a man who stumbled on to the corridor of power but got overwhelmed by his excessive zeal to exercise influence without restraint and obsessive desire to change things in a controlled environment. It inevitably turned into poisonous frustration that he ventilated on everyone around him. If Raila had done just one tenth of what exuberant Miguna pressed him to there would have been more friction, perhaps no coalition government and, who knows, may be more inter-ethnic violence.

    Whether Raila should be applauded or condemned for his inaction or actions depends on one’s philosophy of leadership or political persuasion. The public can now judge Raila’s true character from two book-length accounts so far: Miguna’s Peeling Back the Mask and Babafemi Badejo’s “Raila Odinga- an enigma in Kenyan politics (2006), which profiled him in largely positive light.

    But whichever way you look at it, no sympathy will be forthcoming for Miguna from both sides of the coalition -or even Raila’s foes. Which might explain why he sneaked out of the country on Monday night with his family after literally setting the house on fire. His memoirs will not be applauded even by allies of President Mwai Kibaki whom he savages in equal measure as conniving, sly, partisan, dishonest and receding in his dealings with Raila. In all probability, while some of his rants deserve a closer look, they will suffer because they are dressed in such emotionalism and vitriolic hatred. They also fail the test of basic morality; should a man you have taken into confidence spill the secrets of your dealings or relationship upon falling out?

    Miguna’s book seeks to lift the veil on Raila and casts him as an untrustworthy, disorganized leader after power but who lacks the leadership mettle or nerve to stand up to pressure. It seeks to expose as a veneer the portrait of Raila as a reformist, principled, incorruptible and conscientious statesman. Which begs the question we posed last week: if the PM is such a weak-kneed wimp who kowtows to pressure, why the determination by foes to block him from ascending to State House? Why the proliferation of schemes to frustrate his presidential bid?

    Notably, the State House response to my column last week did not categorically deny that Kibaki does not support Uhuru Kenyatta or Musalia Mudavadi, who enjoy obvious influence and goodwill from the Establishment. It simply repeated the refrain that the president is committed to bequeathing this country a legacy of peace and development.

    In my view, the President has a right to support whoever he prefers openly but he cannot supply state apparatus to his preference. Indeed it is the democratic tradition in many places that outgoing presidents supports their deputies to succeed them which is why even here in Kenya, there was such furor when moves were hatched to change the constitution in 1976 to block Daniel arap Moi from succeeding Kenyatta. But Kibaki is not so lucky; the vice presidency is occupied by a tenant of convenience not his preferred choice.

    In my career as a journalist I have had occasion to interview Raila at length about his politics and the milestones in his career from the 1982 coup to the first Kibaki administration. Suffice to say that Raila is just human with his fears, anxieties, and moments of wisdom like everyone else. He is at best when cast against heavy odds. His foibles could just be as graphic or even worse than Miguna paints them. But who is a demigod among the current crop of politicians?

    Many are those who empathize with him because of his long struggle against the Kanu dictatorship, which some opportunists and beneficiaries are quick to trivialize or even criminalize as Kalonzo Musyoka attempted the other day. I agree with the PM that we cannot forget about our past, and the sacrifices of those who brought us to this happier, freer state. That’s an insult we reserve for ungrateful political vultures that would not hesitate to take us back to the dark past.

    Dictatorship, injustice, discrimination and ethnic prejudice are alive and with us. Only a firm leader with high moral rectitude will take us forward from our present predicament of pretended success and accomplishment. Unfortunately, the choice will be limited to the candidates who will make it to the ballot paper, however bad.

    Makali is a journalist and the director of The Media Institute.

    Comment by farida | July 23, 2012

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