Police Imposter: Kenya’s Internal Security Minister Should Resign
Statement by the Kenya Red Alliance (KRA)
Imposter Joshua Waiganjo
The attention of the Kenya Red Alliance has been drawn by the shocking news that a former matatu tout, Joshua Karanjai Waiganjo, has been posing as the Deputy Provincial Police Officer of Rift Valley and an Assistant Police Commissioner for over five years without detection.
According to the story, Waiganjo has been using his position to “sack” junior officers, attend “high powered security meetings” while he is reported to have flown in police helicopters to “assess security situations” at trouble spots across the country. It is very shocking that since this imposter was discovered, no senior government official has issued any comprehensive statement over the issue. The National Intelligence Security Services (NSIS) and the Minister for Internal Security have all remained silent as the scandal unfolded. This is unacceptable.
While Waiganjo is said to be facing charges in court, the fact that he could pose as a senior police officer of the ranks mentioned raises a lot of questions about the State of Kenya and its security.
The immediate puzzle is how someone could have penetrated the police force to an extent of assuming such high ranks and for such a long period of time without detection. Who is the real DPPO in Rift Valley and how could someone else have posed as the DPPO for such a long time without detection? Was Waiganjo drawing a salary and if the answer is “Yes”, how could a ghost worker in the police force get his name on the payroll and draw a salary for such a long period of time without detection by anybody?
Obviously, the DPPO reports to the PPO. Who was Waiganjo reporting to and how comes that Waiganjo’s immediate boss did not notice that he was an imposter right from the beginning? Does the PPO ever get to meet the DPPO in the cause of duty? What is the procedure for hiring senior police officers of the rank Waiganjo assumed and how did he manage to fool the whole police bureaucracy for such a long time without detection? Was Waiganjo acting alone or is there a senior member of the government who assisted him in his schemes?
Waiganjo was not invisible and took photos with several senior police officers while he was in uniform. How comes that no one detected that something was not right? How could a total stranger attend high calibre security meetings without being noticed and, in any case, where did Waiganjo get the several police uniforms and badges that were recovered in his house soon after his arrest? In view of the sensitivity of the issues, where was the National Security Intelligence Services (NSIS), the CID and other Intelligence organs of the government as Waiganjo engaged in one of the most spectacular impersonation of high ranking police officers without detection and for such a long time?
If Waiganjo could stage such a spectacular show without detection by the government’s top Security and Intelligence services, what else are crooks getting away with in the Department of police in Kenya? To what extent was the security of the Rift Valley compromised and who is responsible for this gigantic failure?
As a matter of protocol, both the NSIS and the CID are well represented at Provincial Headquarters across the country. How could someone assume such high ranking titles without drawing a single suspicion for such a long time and where are Kenya’s security officers trained?
In view of the many questions which cannot immediately be answered in relation to Waiganjo’s case, it is the view of KRA that the Minister for Internal Security, NSIS boss and the CID boss should resign over the scandal as investigations continue. As the custodians of the country’s security, the three Institutions have failed in their duties and the best possible action is for those heading these Institutions to resign as Kenyans await for the outcome of the investigations.
Martin Ngatia,
Chairman, Kenya Red Alliance
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The fake PPO just had to be a Kikuyu. It reminds us of the Artur brothers who were supported and given top police positions in Kibaki’s government. How many other fake ones exist?
a good call by KRA although in Kenya nobody takes responsibility. It is a puzzle that an imposter can penetrate high-powered security meetings without being noticed. But Kibaki forced himself back into leadership and anything is possible under him.
A 2008 report by Kenya National Commission on Human Rights alleged that more than 1,500 youths had died at the hands of police, mostly at the hands of this squad. In February last year, Internal Security Minister George Saitoti told Parliament that Kwekwe Squad no longer exists, that it was disbanded in 2007.
But was it really disbanded? Our investigations reveal the squad is much in operation, although under a different name. It changed its name to Eagle Squad sometime in 2008. But the faces behind the outfit did not change, save for a few. When it was formed, the 14-member squad was mainly composed of officers from the Kikuyu, Meru and Embu communities as well as a few others from other communities.
After restructuring in 2008, the officers from other communities were deployed to other units within the police force. Today, the squad draws its officers exclusively from the Meru, Kikuyu and Embu communities.
According to a police source familiar with the operations of the squad, members of the Eagle Squad were moved to various stations within Nairobi.
Covert operations
“But they were not given specific duties. They are on standby and are available any moment they are wanted for any operation,” added our source.
This Nation(Kenya) has a huge problem security-wise for entrusting the security of a Country to a single ethnic tribe (the Kikuyus) known for their chauvinism tribalism ,domination and hegemony.On the other side there is nothing other tribes can do hence Mdomo Kaya from their corrupt leaders busy boot-licking the Son of Jomo Kenyatta Uhuru Muigai the Gema heir to the throne.
These are very dangerous Police Special Squads for eliminating govt critics within the National Police Force>
http://allafrica.com/stories/201103280483.html
Kasaine
4 January 2013 6:17 PM
We knew it. The senior police bosses were behind this. Someone tell me who this police reservists are, are they the same fake police? Ave heard of anotherone arrested in baragoi. Who hires them?
nyapara
4 January 2013 5:55 PM
I find it extremely hard to believe that someone impersonated a senior police officer at the PPO level for five years…sonds too far fetched. This guy was planted by someone within the police or the intelligence system. That someone ensured that he remained in the force and gave him the access and protection to operate. Remember the Artur brothers? Some very powerful “dark forces” planted dangerous foreigners in the police force and made the Assistant Commissioners. Same story as PPO Waiganjo.
milimo Everton
4 January 2013 5:33 PM
That cant happen in a civilized state where officers in the disciplined forces are badged numbered.It calls upon us to ve a sober and candid investigation.
t5
4 January 2013 5:27 PM
Ibrahim Waiganjo is preacher and hence he’s telling the truth. Mbijjiwe and Iteere must come out clean! What a mess? Another one for Kimaiyo
WANYAMA
4 January 2013 5:20 PM
there is possibility that the force was aware about the existence of the deputy ppo,it may have some implications and especially the way appointments and promotions are done in the force.Moreover like a Kenyan who is entitled to know whereabouts of ho my country is run….I may probably want to know if the deputy ppo in question had gone through the basic police training,was he accessed to the armory of our force,do we take responsibility by investigating the alleged family counter reaction.let the former Boss be questioned over the allegations,if possible be prosecuted for abuse of office like Rabeka Nabutola with her collegue faced the hand of law for letting away with an abuse of office at the KWS.Kenyans are keen about these developments and we would like in a special way proper investigations done…we ought not let the man rot in jail if he was appointed by the then Boss to oversee the duties of a Deputy ppo.And if by chance he is decieving Kenyans then he ought follow the wrath of the full law force.its too much havoc.there is probably much more.
KATANA
4 January 2013 5:17 PM
The truth, and nothing but the truth !!!! Iteere had absolute powers to hire and fire at will….. You can confirm with Iteere
Baijo
4 January 2013 5:08 PM
Oooops….now the circus begins with turns and twists, the Kenyan style. As usual some things are only possible and happen in Kenya by Kenyans! But, I’m somehow lost and probably dreaming….you mean a whole top cop, Mathew Iteere can promote a fake bonoko con cop, Joshua Waiganjo? Yoyu mean a con cop can be celebrated for many years by family friendly ‘top’ Kenyans cops? Are we any safe? Can there be any better explanations.
JOgendi
4 January 2013 5:00 PM
I totally believe 100% what Mzee Abraham Waiganjo,the father of the accused is saying.Obviously this dude could not have operated alone as a senior policeman for more than 5 years without the backing or knowledge of more senior officers including Itere.I’m sure there are many other “policemen” who have not gone through police training like this guy still operating. To me this is a case of a deal gone sour or at worst “use and dump”.
Henry N. O.
4 January 2013 4:45 PM
Ibrahim Waiganjo, the father, seems to know alot. We hope nothing sinster happens to Joshua and family while he is in plocie custody. Police are known to eliminate sources of information that may tesify agianst them. Even Waganjo senior should seek protection.
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Whom are Kenyans going to believe? First Police Hqs said The Police Imposter was not on Police Pay (was not being paid by Police) First lie then the true story follows from Karianjahis Dad(father)>
Iteere recruited alleged police imposter – family
Posted by CORRESPONDENT on January 4, 2013
The family said Waiganjo could only take orders from Rift Valley Provincial Police Officer, John M’mbijiwe/FILE
NAKURU, Kenya, Jan 4 – The family of a man accused of impersonating a senior police officer has said their kin was recruited into the force by former Police Commissioner, Mathew Iteere.
The described the ex-police commissioner as a close friend to the suspect, Joshua Waiganjo and that the two were in constant communication.
The family said Waiganjo could only take orders from Rift Valley Provincial Police Officer, John M’mbijiwe.
They said that Waiganjo’s first stint with the police was in 2002 when he was taken in as a police reservist but this was short-lived after former police commissioner Major General Hussein Ali disbanded the group.
The family added that Waiganjo went back to his father’s farm in Njoro and worked as a tout using a family matatu before being re-absorbed into the force as a senior superintendent of police and was posted to the Nakuru PPO’s office in 2009 when Iteere took over.
Waiganjo’s father, Bishop Iphraim Karianjahi said M’mbijiwe was also a close friend to his son and that he attended several occasions at his home the latest being last Christmas eve.
The old man showed the press pictures of M’mbijiwe attending the funeral service of Waiganjo’s grandmother last August while accompanied by the suspect and other senior police officers in the region.
He added that the PPO gave his son a goat which was grazing in the compound as a wedding gift.
The bishop recalled how his son called him around September last year to inform him that he had been promoted by the commissioner of police to the rank of assistant commissioner of police.
The family showed several photos of an operation conducted by senior police officers in Rift Valley in Baragoi area of Samburu County on October 30 which their son attended.
According to Bishop Karianjahi, the misfortune afflicting his son dates back to that operation conducted 10 days before approximately 40 police officers and police reservists were killed in an attack by cattle rustlers.
He said after coming from Baragoi, his son told him that he had been summoned by Deputy Police Commissioner Julius Kosgei to record a statement about the operation.
Karianjahi claimed that his son confided in him that the Rift Valley PPO did not want him to go record the statement and had prevailed upon Iteere to direct him not to record the statement but he eventually went and recorded the statement at the police headquarters.
The bishop revealed that his son was using anti stock theft unit commandant Remy Ngugi’s car whenever he was working and at other times, he would use a green land rover belonging to the PPO’s office.
Contacted for comment, M’mbijiwe said he was away from Nakuru on official business and he could not comment on the matter on phone.
He said he would give a full report later.
Family: Iteere promoted ‘PPO’
By Digital Reporter
NJORO, KENYA: The family of imposter PPO Charles Waiganjo has claimed that retired Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere was behind Waiganjo’s promotion.
Ibrahim Waiganjo, who is the father of the accused, told The Standard that his son was hired as a Police Reservist in 2002 and was later promoted by Iteere.
Ibrahim, who served as a police officer and is now a preacher, has said that senior members of the police force knew of his son’s position.
Speaking at his Njoro home, he presented photos pictureing his son alongside senior police officers.
Ibrahim added that Rift Valley PPO, John M’binjiwe, was a friend of the family and that M’binjiwe had attended several family functions.
Earlier in the week, news that Waiganjo had for five years masqueraded as Rift Valley’s Deputy Provincial Police Officer made the news attracting sharp criticism countrywide.
Former Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere must be summoned by CID HQs to go and write a Statement concerning The Rogue RV PPO Waiganjo Karianjahi and shed light these are serious National matter in the security of Kenya>
With Such a High Rank in The Police Force You can easily get access to Kill A PM Raila Odinga MUsalia Mudavadi Or Musyoka Kalonzo This Police Bandia Must also tell Kenyans who Killed Saitoti ?
Waiganjo the Police imposter is here to stay!He belongs to the Right chosen tribe (Nyoomba)Kenya ni ya kikuyu Na kikuyu ni kenya mtado! Typical of what happens in a country where key positions in government are held by people from one ethnic community. Appointments are made based on tribal alliance with total disregard for merit. Carrying out any investigations on the matter at this time is a total waste of public funds because the truth is already out for everyone interested to see. Francis Kimemia knows quite well that Joshua Waiganjo was a protégé of Mathew Iteere. No one should expect Mathew Iteere to admit to that fact. And even if he did, he should not be fearful of any negative repercussion because he belongs to the chosen community. Just a word of caution – Kenyans should be prepared to hear more of similar phantom projects as the reign of this regime nears its end.
M.r itere should answer all the questions,and did he get monthly salary?
A senior police office based at Police Headquarters, Vigilance House, wept openly on the day Mathew Iteere handed over to David Kimaiyo, the new Inspector General of Police. It is not clear why the man cried but those close to him whispered to Corridors that it was because Iteere was his godfather. The officer later told a friend he cried because he is not sure of his position and his wealth now that Iteere is out.
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Our Conglaturation goes to Kenya Red Alliance hence your demands have been met Some of the corrupt in the Rift Valley Police chiefs has been fired >
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2013/01/3-top-cops-suspended-over-imposter-saga/
WHen muuuthaura handpicked iteere from leave to abruptly take over from hussein ali despite past complaints from kenyans that the kenyan security leadership was dominated by one tribe,one region following on the legacy of moi and kenyatta thereby creating insecurity in kenya and attendant risk nobody listened,now the chickens have come home.
there is no doubt there are many impostors masquerading as senior security officers in police,cid and nsis and there are not only unqualified undeserving of such lofty titles,they have created inefficiency nepotism and source of insecurity in kenya.examples abound.
ship hijacking of high value cargo couldn’t happen without leakages.
cattle rustling supported by police for commercial reasons cannot be stopped
drug trafficking at the coast where drug barons like late akasha paid police for escort and protection
the arrest and detention of ocalan
escape of terrorists and high valued suspects
ineptitude /killing of investigations of serious crimes in kenya is legendary and police are never accountable for unresolved crimes.
what next.Kenya police has to be turned upside down and stated all over with transparent motivated recruitment not based on nepotism and bribery
the officers have to be vetted all without exception
promotions have to be declared and applicants invited in open system without having certain people in mind
merit,knowledge and relevant experience must be encouraged.
kimaiyo should borrow from chief justice,he should not protect the rotten force and the officers.he should allow vetting of all ranks and encourage only knowledgeable educated people to serve.see how judiciary is transforming.that’s why we need a good government with the will to effect change and Kenyans should not be hoodwinked to elect criminals like uhuru/ruto.who wants to go down with the whole nation just like Hitler did in Germany.
Hakuna Pahari Mtampereka Waiganjo Si yeye ni Kikuyu Wenye-Nchi ! You must be Lucky to be born a Kikuyu in Kenya .Mtado Who is oppåosing Uhuru aka Muthamaki?
Uhuru buys every Chimp that stands his Way! Na Mtado Mambo Bodi!
The Resurgence of the “Ngoroko” State in Kenya
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EXCLUSIVE – Right from the lion’s belly!
It is now official – we have a parallel police force colloquially referred to as “Ngoroko” which is surreptitiously running illegal activities for the Mt. Kenya ruling class. Their unlawful activities range from:
■Cattle rustling
■Poaching – esp. Elephant and Rhino
■Electoral malpractices
■Assassination hits
■Car jackings
■Extortion of citizens for police and military recruitment
■Takeover of Mungiki extortions
■Bank robberies
■Money laundering
■Escort and storage of narcotic drugs
■Escort of looted minerals from Congo
■Import and escort of looted merchandise from Somali pirates
■Gun running
■Protection for wanted fugitives like Felicien Kabuga
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The reported police imposter Joshua Waiganjo and his family have admitted that the former was indeed a member of the revived “Ngoroko” squad. The Waiganjo-Baragoi debacle has unearthed stinking rot involving police instigated cattle rustling in the pastoralist areas of Lokitaung, Turkana, West Pokot, Marakwet, Samburu, Keiyo, and partly Laikipia.
It has been officially revealed that the Ngoroko outfit embedded within the KENYA POLICE (Regular Police, AP, GSU, Anti-Stock Theft Unit & CID) have been killing pastoralists and stealing cattle from them. This has then been shrewdly blamed on rival communities (Turkana v Pokot; Samburu v Turkana; Pokot v Tugen etc).
After robbing the pastoralists their source of livelihood, the cattle are then transported across the border into Uganda for fattening, then returned and supplied to Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) for a multi-billion shilling illegal trade. Some of the beef is exported to the Middle East.
The Senior Police Officers in the former Rift Valley, from interdicted PPO John M’Mbijiwe, suspended Anti Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) commandant Remi Ngugi, interdicted Njoro Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) Peter Nthiga, and others, including former Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere, are all deeply involved in this earth-shaking scam.
Many Kenyan lawmakers while indicating not an iota of surprise are nevertheless shocked at the deep extent of the rot in this syndicate. The roots of the Ngoroko can be traced back to the period between 1976 and 1978 when a quasi-official police force and private army – exclusively serving ethnic and illegitimate business interests of the Kiambu mafia – was formed. The force reported directly to the Kiambu elite who often surrounded former President Jomo Kenyatta. Ironically, this force was using the dreaded reference of “Anti-Stock Theft Unit” existing today.
Today’s Ngoroko was structured under the wings of the Administration Police (AP), Anti-Stock Theft Unit, and part of the regular police. It has been reported that Ngoroko squad’s informal commander has been James Ephantus Mungai who has been reporting to both the former AP Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua and former Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere.
Evidence is now revealing that this latter-day Ngoroko has been operating the lucrative cattle rustling operation on a massive scale. State resources are being deployed to rob struggling pastoralists their only source of livelihood, leaving a trail of bloody retaliation between and among neighbouring ethnic communities. While the Pokots, Tugens, Samburu, Turkana, and Marakwets kill each other, the actual culprit in rustling has been the “Ngoroko” force commanded by the likes of M’Mbijiwe and Iteere.
So lucrative has this trade been that a bank employee – linked to the unearthed police imposter Joshua Waiganjo – recently resigned from his well-paying job to “join” the Ngoroko in Rift Valley, the very epicenter of cattle rustling. It has been reported that Faulu Kenya Nakuru branch manager Michael Njiru Runji confirmed that a Mr. Gerald Maina, who was a credit officer, went with the security team to Baragoi for a fact-finding mission but could not explain what his task was in security matters. Shortly after the trip, the bank employee resigned and purportedly joined the “police” outside the formal recruitment process.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000074606&story_title=Kenya-Bank-admits-ex-officer-had-links-with-Waiganjo
Very embarrassing details have been exposed detailing how the police have been fooling the public regarding security and cattle rustling matters in the Rift. While police helicopters have been regularly deployed in the pretext of aerial surveillance and mapping of cattle rustling routes to Uganda, these have actually been trial runs for the Ngoroko operations themselves.
http://www.nation.co.ke/Counties/Police-map-raiders-escape-routes/-/1107872/1659130/-/33887nz/-/index.html
Whenever the police and paramilitary Ngorokos embark on their actual rustling operations, local scouts have often been involved. The latter are eventually ‘disappeared’. Ngoroko’s mayhem usually results in many deaths and displacement of innocent and poor pastoralists, many being children, women, and the elderly. It has been established that just recently, Ngoroko operations resulted in displacement of more than 3,000 people in Bartabwa division and Kipsaraman in Baringo North. From the Baragoi incident, which now looks more like a botched Ngoroko operation, thousands of Turkana are still trekking northwards away from Samburu County. These security hotspots are indeed artificially created in the name of state agents chasing illegal money.
It is clear that besides lip service, the Kibaki administration which has revived Ngoroko, has placed little priority in ensuring safety of Kenyan pastoralists, whom the Ngorokos are busy robbing using state machinery. Kibaki succession anglers like Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are deliberately mum on these serious security breaches affecting pastoralists whom they are right now inundating with diversionary campaign rhetoric. This entire lot seems to offer dim if not dire prospects for pastoralists in general. The overwhelming evidence now stares at the pastoralists’ right in their eyes.
It is from this Ngoroko context that Kenyans can now start appreciating the current wave of artificially instigated insecurity in targeted hotspots, whether in Tana River, Samburu, Garissa, or Mombasa. There is a general sense of lawlessness and insecurity across the entire country. Good cops and bad cops seem all drawn into making illegal side money, following in the footsteps of their Ngoroko counterparts.
The Mt. Kenya mafia decision to revive Ngoroko was probably motivated by many reasons apart from illegal hustling for quick money. Back in November 2007 a special squad of uniformed people was taken to the Embakasi AP Training School to train for certain unspecified activities prior to the ill-fated 2007 elections. These early Ngoroko graduates were to be later deployed to various polling stations to act as PNU agents. Some were to later storm into the KICC election tallying center, conspicuously displaying uncharacteristic police habits, for instance failing to salute the then Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali. By the time the uniformed and gun-toting Ngorokos evicted citizens from the KICC plenary, ambushed former Electoral Commission Chairman Samuel Kivuitu, and forced the latter to declare Kibaki the winner of the 2007 elections, it was clear why the Ngoroko was formed in the first place.
The deployment of services of these very Nakuru-based Ngorokos by Uhuru Kenyatta and Francis Muthaura during PEV is something that will be eloquently detailed at the Trial Chamber at the Hague in a short while from now.
Some reputed security experts have questioned the high frequency and unprecedented numbers of graduation ceremonies for AP recruits over the last couple of years. Many of these officers, in essence Ngorokos, have ended up with the mandate to guard Kenyan borders, through which cattle rustling and pirate merchandise influx have been revolving between Uganda and Somalia respectively. Some of their accomplices and operation counterparts are deliberately kept off the official roll of police – sometimes concealed under files of the disbanded ‘police reservists’.
The latter group is clandestinely kept away from official records for easy ‘elimination’ when needed. Joshua Waiganjo belonged to this group, and his current singing like a bird is indeed helping save his life – at least temporarily. When his father announced to the whole world that Waiganjo’s ‘outing’ had something to do with the Baragoi massacre, the old man knew exactly what he was doing – saving his son’s life!
Apparently, Waiganjo had earlier blurted out into wrong ears some secret details of the Baragoi operation – unraveling the maze of the tragic slaughter of 40-plus inexperienced cops. It is clear that Ngoroks were in the middle of a cattle rustling operation in Suguta Valley (near Baragoi), when they summoned for back-up. PPO M’Mbijiwe , the Anti-Stock Theft Unit boss, and others quickly assembled some recently police graduates and hastily sent them into Suguta valley. The youthful green horns walked into a death trap…and the rest is history, save for the missing bodies of some Ngorokos. Someone surreptitiously collected several bodies of Ngorokos in police uniform in a bid to conceal their identification through the government pathologists. Who retrieved these bodies? Where were they eventually dumped? This was a rustling operation gone bad…really bad. It was clear Waiganjo was disturbed that some of his semi-official police colleagues met untimely death.
This Ngoroko rustling operation is a big multi-billion enterprise in itself. There has been a quiet and unlawful redefinition of the roles of various security and military branches including the Army, Air Force, and Navy, precisely to give room to these Ngorokos to oversee illegal cross-border activities.
In this Ngoroko regime, drug-and-gun running and escort of looted minerals from Congo have flawlessly moved across our borders with unparalleled intensity. Well paid Ngorokos under direct instruction from top police officers (including former Commissioner Mathew Iteere) are said to regularly escort two Kenyan smugglers of Congolese minerals – Mr Joe Kirimi and Mr Paul Kobia, who have been named in a UN report as key dealers in fake and smuggled gold from the DR Congo. The duo are said to have helped smuggle a huge consignment of Congolese gold – an incident that brought DRC President, Joseph Kabila to Nairobi. It was while investigating this case that the Ngorokos assassinated a Senior Assistant Commissioner of KRA, Joseph Cheptarus. That was yet another example of the vicious and ruthless blood-spree by the Ngoroko squad.
Accompanying looted merchandise from foreign countries have also been an extraordinary flow of people (illegal migrants). Wananchi have literally witnessed The Great Somali Migration into Kenya. It is not without doubt that the Ngorokos have been financially benefiting immensely from these cross-border movements that will soon endanger the country’s stability and very survival. It is yet another lucrative industry for the Ngorokos in extorting large amounts of cash from these migrants.
A panel of analysts studying this security situation has already established (report yet to be published) that the infrastructure through which Ngoroko expansionism heightened was provided by the Provincial Administration which was unilaterally restructured by President Kibaki – into a system that confused even experienced bureaucrats. The idea was to obfuscate and blur roles of previous administrative entities like provinces and districts. Kibaki was in essence setting stage for the rebirth of Ngoroko.
During his tenure upon which the Ngoroko resurgence occured, President Kibaki illegally created 265 districts which have been nullified on paper by the High Court, yet the Office of the President and Treasury keeps funding the illegitimate units. The AP, the official cover for the Ngorokos, is the security custodian of these unlawful districts. They have been accused of overseeing a lot of illegal activities operating within the areas. The AP budget has ballooned under President Kibaki, almost surpassing that of the Regular police. It is obviously clear why brand new weaponry and choppers have been purchased for exclusive use by the AP rather than regular police. Without doubt, these state assets are being placed into the hands of Ngorokos to effect sensitive illegal activities that occasionally require aerial surveillance.
The other lucrative domain from which Ngoroko state agents and their Mt. Kenya backers have been fleecing the country’s resources is illegal poaching and export of elephant tasks and black rhino horns to China, Thailand and other South East Asian countries. This is yet another multi-billion industry which incidentally implicated the Jomo Kenyatta family in the 1960s and 70s. It is back in vogue! Kenyan elephants are going down in alarming numbers, with thousands of tasks heading to China.
Another angle that has been brought up in this explosive dossier is that illegal Ngoroko activities by the AP embeds, have resulted in direct fatal clashes between the police and the AP (many being Ngorokos). Occasional brushes between well-meaning police and ill-trained Ngorokos in uniform, have often turned into brutal shoot-outs. It is now confirmed that the Ngorokos have sometimes received instructions to ‘eliminate’ police that stand in their way of rustling or hustling other illicit activities. The murder of former commandant of the Kenya Police College, Kiganjo, Bernard Kimeli Kemey, and several senior police investigators, have now been attributed to the Ngoroko outfit. It is an extrajudicial assassination squad in itself – taking over from Mungiki-exterminating Kwekwe squad.
As if cementing continued territorial attachment to lucrative operating areas, it is interesting that the former AP Commandant, Kinuthia Mbugua has been attracted into vying for political leadership within the Ngoroko dominated County of Nakuru.
Have you wondered why Kibaki’s tenure has been dogged by accusations of ethnicizing the security forces? Do you see the connection between use of security forces to effect illegal magendo? Why has the Ngoroko been exposed in the dying hour of Kibaki’s regime? Has Inspector General Kimaiyo got anything to do with the exposé? I await more answers from the Ngoroko grapevine.
http://deepcogitation.com/2013/01/10/the-resurgence-of-the-ngoroko-state-in-kenya/#comment-1763
Waiganjo and M’Mbijiwe ‘reign of terror’ exposed
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
BY IRENE WAIRIMU
The West Pokot divisional police commander yesterday narrated how the the provincial police boss John M’Mbijiwe ordered him to issue police impostort Joshua Waiganjo with a letter appointing him as a reservist.
David Wambua told the probe team investigating Waiganjo activities how M’Mbijiwe called him sometime in November last year and told him to expect a senior police officer who should be issued with a letter appointing him to the Kenya Police Reserve.
He said he waited for the better part of the morning but left to attend a meeting at the county commission’s office. “While at the meeting, the PPO called me very furious asking where I was since the person he had sent to me had found my office empty,” Wambua said.
He recalled that M’mbijiwe’s voice was booming in anger as he ordered him to immediately leave the meeting and go back to his office to wait for the ‘officer.”
“He ordered me to immediately open a file for the said officer and write him a letter appointing him as a police reservist in West Pokot. He told me to ensure that the letter was sent back to the provincial police headquarters the same day,” Wambua said.
He said that he waited in his office for more than five hours before Waiganjo eventually turned up. Waiganjo was visibly drunk and bragged to him about the wide network he had in the police from the police headquarters to Turkana.
At the same time,Waiganjo pretended to be talking to senior policemen at police headquarters on his cellphone as he ordered Wambua to write him the appointment letter.
“I found it very irregular as the PPO had told me that he was an assistant commissioner of police. It would have been improper for me, a senior superintendent of police to appoint him. With this argument, I wrote back to M’mbijiwe and advised him to appoint Waiganjo himself,” Wambua said.
He said he assigned a policemen to check the Kitale police records to authenticate Waiganjo’s claims that he had served there. It emerged that Waiganjo had actually been fired in 2003 due to bad behaviour.
Wambua was just the latest policemen to narrate to the probe team how M’mbijiwe and Waiganjo terrorized junior officers and forced them to obey unlawful orders.
Earlier, Chief Inspector Stephen Komen, who is in charge of transport at the Rift Valley police headquarters said he discovered that Waiganjo had been using a police service number—56748— assigned to a constable recruited in the early 1980s.
Komen said Waiganjo not only signed work tickets for police vehicles but on several occasions signed out police vehicles for various missions with the permission of M’mbijiwe.
Komen said Waiganjo appeared at his office several times between last August and November asking to be assigned vehicles and fuel.
“On all these occasions, I would call the PPO to confirm the orders and the PPO always asked me to comply with Waiganjo’s demands. Actually, at one time he asked me to personally drive Waiganjo to Naivasha after I released a vehicle to him,” Komen told the commission.
Subukia divisional police boss Jecinta Odhiambo narrated how she was intimidated by M’mbijiwe and Waiganjo and ordered to release two lorries that she had impounded for being involved in robberies.
Odhiambo said Waiganjo’s brother arrived at her office in August last year with what he purported to be court orders directing the release of the two lorries.
It emerged that Waiganjo signed an affidavit claiming he was Samuel Kabiru, the proprietor of Lakers Auto Spares whose lorries had been illegally impounded by the police. It is on the basis of these claims that he was granted release orders by senior principal magistrate John Njoroge.
Odhiambo said M’mbijiwe threatened her when she called him and informed him that she could not release the lorries as the orders were directed at Lakers Autos and not the police.
“He asked me if I had read a paragraph in the orders directing the he (M’mbijiwe) be the one to supervise the effecting of the orders. When I told him yes, he said, ‘Jecinta, nikiitwa kortini juu ya kupuuza orders, sitafanya kazi tena na wewe’ (Jecnita, If I am summoned to court for disobeying court orders, I will no longer work with you).
She said M’Mbijiwe did not give her time to complete her investigations and instead summoned her to his office where she found him in the company of Waiganjo.
“They seemed to have a cordial relationship from the way they spoke to each other. At one point, Waiganjo called the commissioner of police Matthew Iteere and asked me to greet him but I declined knowing the protocol of the police service meant I could only deal with my immediate boss, the PPO, on the matter,” she said.
She said that after Waiganjo ended his phone conversation, he told M’Mbijiwe in her presence, that Iteere had promised to promote him to the rank of assistant commissioner of police.
She said she resisted the pressure to release the lorries but the next day when she was off duty, M’mbijiwe visited the station and ordered her deputy to release the vehicles.
John Mwitereri who is in charge of the Rift Valley provincial armoury and police uniform store told the commission that Waiganjo was not among the list of the 4,700 Kenya police reservists currently serving in Rift Valley.
Before his interdiction, M’mbijiwe had claimed that Waiganjo was an assistant commissioner of police heading the Kenya Police Reserves in Rift Valley province.Mwitereri denied issuing any uniform or weapons to Waiganjo.
An officer in charge of issuing uniforms and firearms at the Anti Stock Theft Unit in Gilgil —Susan Nashushu—denied she had issued Waiganjo with the uniform he was spotted wearing at Baragoi.
Isaac Musyoka, the provincial transport officer said it become impossible to advise M’mbijiwe on matters related to the deployment and repair of police vehicles.
Musyoka said M’Mbijiwe issued instructions that all major repairs on all police vehicles be assigned to Waiganjo including paint jobs to change the colour and registration numbers of police vehicles to civilian vehicles.
Three other witnesses—Peter Nzioka attached to Highway Patrol, the Naivasha base commander Roy Njeru and a Constable Jackson Makaya based in Nakuru were allowed to testify in camera due to the sensitive nature of their evidence.
Also allowed to testify in private was the secretary in the PPO’s office Lucy Kariuki. Hearing continues this morning.
waiganjo should die with his mentioned bosses and there is non who would hold seen post minus being known
let the seniors take action to avoid lowering their degnities.
guys arthurs was good for ur country
and guys we bring law and order that time, and i was the first who say u have tribal police, if from that time u was hearing me that killing of post election was not going 2 happen, same biatch ali was shooting on u with life amunations