38 thoughts on “Mr. Martin Ngatia Speaks: Kenya’s Drug Problem Comes from State House”
Mr Ngatia i love you ,cos if kenya had men like you women ,children,idps,old, youth wodnt be suffering and neglected like today.
I agree with you cos drugs is not only destroying youth ,but its killing them in thousands.In kenya there is no rehab centres like we have in Sweden.I hope and believe both men and women should join hands with your movement and lead the fight for liberating our motherland Jamhuri.
The wife of a very senior Kenyan government official is part of the drug trafficking network. She was a Narc Activist who has now turned into a PNU Activist.
This dossier contains heavy names,
Wambui wa Kibaki
Gideon wa Moi
Debra sanaipei wa Ntimama
Karanja wa CID
Eugene wa Wamalwa
Nyamu wa Customs
The whole of coast political establishment
Army commanders Air force
KACC Officers
Judiciary
Joho -Secretary wa ODM. Just to name a few!
Pepe–CFS is manned by Kenya Customs and Anti – Narcotics police officers who are controlled and are on Mwau & Gitau pay-slips that means they get double pay from the government and the BIGGER Dollars from the TRAFFICKERS- WHEN MWAU & GITUA’S SHIPPEMENTS arrive at PEPE CFS all entrances are LOCKED UNTIL THE SHIPMENT IS UNLOADED- according to the report from the officers at PEP CFS.
IS THIS A JOKE? WHAT AN IRONY- NO WONDER NOBODY IS WILLING TO TOUCH THE DRUG.HUMAN AND GUN TRAFFICKERS IT GOES ALL THE WAY UP IN THE KENYA GOVERNMENT – HEAD MUST START ROLLING KENYANS MUST!! I REPEAT!! MUST DEMAND ACTIONS OR WE WILL HAVE FAILED OUR CHILDREN AND FUTURE GENERATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
The Americans are also said to be planning to open charges in the US in June on Kenyans they believe have links to the international drug trading cartels.
“Already, US has advised international financial institutions about the suspects and they have in turn asked them to withhold their cash. Similar requests will be made in Kenya soon,” a source at the ministry said.
Dictators can be brought easly down by the Peoples Power through a well coodinated and planned youth upraising Tunisian Style
analysis and reaction as Tunisia’s police state collapses in the face of mass protests.
The Mp for Kamukunji>Mbugua a drug war-lord named in Parliament Is notorious in Singing >Shauri-Yakx2 Shauri yako wee>This time Mbugua cannot dare sing shauri yako wee in Public>Watch this one>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdQb0kDVRs&feature=related
ICC asks Kenya to help seize suspects’ property
By Cyrus Ombati and Ben Agina
The International Criminal Court (ICC) now wants Kenya to support it in the freezing or seizure of property of the Ocampo Six when the Pre-Trial Chamber judges issue summons on the suspects.
The latest development follows reports the issue of Kenya’s deferment of the ICC trial will feature during an Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) meeting to be held on the sidelines of the African Union Summit on Saturday.
Sources told The Standard the Kenya case would be adopted by Igad and attached as a resolution of the African Union. AU will in turn make a recommendation to the United Nations Security Council asking it to defer the case.
Igad chairman, Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi, recently met Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and agreed to support the Kenya agenda.
The court wrote to the Cabinet subcommittee on ICC last week, guiding the Government on the kind of co-operation it expects from Kenya if the summonses are issued.
In the letter, the ICC states the procedure of tracing and freezing or seizure of proceeds, property and assets and instrumentalities of crimes for the purpose of eventual forfeiture and compensation to the victims of the violence.
Taxation waiver
The letter also requested for taxation waiver of property of the court, which will be imported from March.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo named suspended Higher Education Minister William Ruto, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Head of Public Service, Francis Muthaura, Postmaster-General Hussein Ali, suspended Industrialisation Minister Henry Kosgey, and radio presenter Joshua Sang, in December as key suspects of the violence.
This means if, and when the judges issue their summons, the court would apply for freezing and seizure of their property.
It also emerged that five officials from the ICC arrived last week, and wrote to the chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee, George Saitoti, saying they did not want any help from the Government in their mission.
Targeted for seizure
Although their mission remained secret, informed sources said they are here as part of the team mandated to profile and trail the property to be targeted for seizure.
The development, according to informed sources, is a clear indicator on the direction that the cases before the court may take soon.
The Rome Statute, which Kenya is a signatory to, compels State parties to, in accordance with the provisions of it and under procedures of national law, to comply with requests by the Court to provide assistance in relation to investigations or prosecutions.
Some of the suspects, including Ali, Kosgey and Sang, have received letters from the prosecutor’s office to give their exonerating evidence.
Ali has so far hired Canadian lawyer John Philpot and local lawyers Evans Monari and Gerishom Otachi to represent him at ICC.
He last week moved to The Hague and filed an application before Pre-trial chamber seeking to participate in the proceedings before the possible issuance of summons against him.
Ali says in his application that since the prosecutor decided to name him publicly as a suspect before according him an opportunity to give his side of the story, it was imperative that he be part of the summons proceedings.
He wants to give appropriate submissions on the requisite evidentiary standard regarding the issuance of summons.
Three(3) Kenya women were arrested at the N airobi Airport Trying to smuggle Heroin & Cocain through Swallowing(hinding drugs through their (Anus)they are given food inside their cells in a Police station where they are (Diarhearing) cocain Pellets from their stomachs> read here>http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000028978&cid=4&ttl=Police arrest three women drug traffickers
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Drug warlords Vomiting names in Kenyas Parliament>Mp Kabogo may get light sentence in USA hence drug dealers must be handed to the govt of the USA hence Kenya does not jail drugwarlords for reasons well known (drugs protected by the state-house and State-house is the dealer and its occupants>Let kabogo cooperate and name names.
I am with you on this one, keep you eye on the ball.
Kabogo went as far as confessing to the parliamentary committee that, yes, indeed there is a senior cabinet minister doing this dirty drug trade as well.
That minister is none other than Prof George Saitoti. He is a frequent visitor to Mombasa, and some of us can even point out to you a well known posh residence in Nyali where Saitoti cuts his deals. Saitoti thinks he is a smooth a operator, but his immense wealth has been subject to much speculation because even Goldenberg could not have financed all that bank balance. There is hardly any member of cabinet, aside from Mwau, who can be said to be worth anywhere near George Saitoti, who has been confirmed as being ready to finance his own colourful presidential campaign without the tiresome harambees we in ODM are so much used to.
This scandal could easily bring down Kibaki’s government.
While PNU and ODM defectors are keen to avoid the date with Ocampo, we must remain vigilant because these desperadoes are quite capable of doing the unthinkable if only to avoid the Hague.
The cable alleges the government raided the Standard offices following a tip that they were about to publish a story implicating State House in graft and drug trafficking.
The Standard editors are said to have been told by a police officer that the information they had could easily bring down the government.
Police Commissioner has no right to arrest /investigate the Top NArc /PNU activist Mary Mwai Kibakli who owns the latest drug /Heroine arrested in Mombasa using Foreign Curriers(of Persian origins)>
Tuesday, 29th March 2011
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Drama as police seize Sh500m heroin haul
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Police seized only a small fraction of heroin when they intercepted six men in Mombasa last week with 196 kilos of the drug, The Standard can reveal today.
Two tonnes of heroin with an estimated street value of Sh4.2 billion ($49 million under current exchange rates) are now believed to have entered Kenya through the coastal strip before police seized 196 kilos, and was part of the drug consignment seized in Mombasa.
The revelations place show the police were just lucky to have intercepted the smaller consignment, raising questions as to how such a huge amount of drugs could have been ferried from a ship anchored in the high seas by speed boats without alarms being raised.
Ali Mohamed, Khan Mohamed, Abdul Baseet and three others were Monday charged at the Nairobi Law Courts over drug trafficking. [PHOTO: EVANS HABIL/STANDARD]
Highly placed sources within the police force yesterday revealed to The Standard that most of the drug consignment was offloaded at other locations along Kenya’s northern coast, before police captured six suspects with the 196 kilograms of heroin packaged in disguise as dog food in Mombasa last week.
The drops of the nearly two tonnes of heroin were made in locations around Lamu and Malindi according to the police sources who did not wish to be quoted.
“Reports suggest the barons may have dumped part of the haul in other coastal towns, before trying the Mombasa one that was seized, and that is why our attention is there for now,” revealed a highly placed source who requested anonymity because he did not want to be seen discussing ongoing investigations.
A new twist developed in the case yesterday when it emerged that some of the suspects arrested during the Friday night drug bust carried licensed firearms.
When they were arraigned in court yesterday, two of the six suspects arrested in Shanzu, Mombasa on Friday night said that the Kenya Police licensed them to carry firearms.
There was also another twist in the case when investigators told the court that the weight of the heroin seized was 102 kilograms and not 196 as stated earlier by the Anti-Narcotics police unit.
Initially, police had said the weight was 196 kilogrammes and put the value at Sh500 million but in court they stated it was 102 kilos worth Sh392 million.
The revelations come as Kenya’s growing reputation as a new hub for drug trafficking came under focus from the United Nations.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Kenya and the East African region was becoming a new route for traffickers following tighter controls in Asian countries known as trafficking hubs like Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference in Nairobi Monday, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said, “the recent seizure of 200 kilograms of heroin in Kenya tells us that we should be vigilant. We need to establish whether it was an isolated incident or routine.”
The revelation by police sources that nearly two tonnes of heroin came into the country dwarfs the 2004 seizure of 1.2 tonnes of cocaine then valued at Sh16 billion, which was Kenya’s largest ever drug haul.
Even though drug dependency is on the increase in Kenya, especially in the coastal city of Mombasa, experts say the larger consignments are usually on transit.
Police have not yet established how the drugs leave Kenya for other destinations, but the number of cases in which tourists or airline employees are arrested while carrying drugs out of the country could just be a pointer to how narcotics transit out of the country.
Yesterday, Fedotov said that the UN was ready to help Kenya combat traffickers, but only if the Government played its role effectively.
However, Kenya may only be able to control drug trafficking only if stronger measures are put in place to fight corruption and money laundering.
“We will support the Government of Kenya because of its vast border and coastlines, but Kenya has to act and prevent corruption and money laundering [of money from drugs trade],” said Fedotov.
The revelations that some of the suspects were licensed to carry firearms reinforces the view that drug traffickers are not operating in a vacuum, but work with complicity from law enforcement agencies.
Yesterday, Commissioner of Police Mathew Iteere revealed that contingents of police have been deployed in Lamu and Malindi to trace the rest of the consignment of the heroin, with the hope that it has not left the locality.
Iteere also said that he was yet to know the actual owners of the drugs because those arrested are believed to be working for the real barons
“We will know very soon if the six suspects are the real owners, or there are other people behind the same. Investigations are ongoing,” said Iteere.
Iteere made the remarks as more officers rushed to Lamu and Malindi to “pursue” leads that there were more of the drug that may have been shipped there in a similar manner that the Mombasa one was delivered.
The first team of detectives went to the towns on Friday.
New leads also opened in the probe, with reports that the police have been trying to interrogate a Nairobi politician they suspect could have links to the drug haul.
One of those arrested is said to be an employee of the prominent activist and police are trying to question him.
Yesterday, the Police Commissioner denied their investigations were being hampered by interference from other arms of Government.
Detectives were yesterday allowed to continue questioning the six suspects until Thursday, before they wrap up their investigations. The suspects include three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani.
Police handling the case revealed the traffickers had used speedboats to deliver the white powder from the high seas.
One of the speedboats that ferried the heroin to Mombasa was seized hours after it had finished its work.
The seizure of heroin came as a result of a two-week stakeout by police who had been tipped the narcotics were on the way to Kenya.
Police revealed the traffickers had arrived with the narcotics at the high seas in Kilifi or Mtwapa area, and were waiting for the ground to be clear for them to deliver the same.
The traffickers were using a satellite phone to communicate with their contacts on shore.
And come Thursday night, the narcotics that had been packaged and labelled as dog food were removed from a speedboat, and loaded onto two cars to an apartment in Shanzu.
The drug was disguised as dog food and labelled ‘Science Plan: Veterinary formulated Canine Senior for Older Dogs. New Improved Taste’. The whitish powder was concealed in nylon papers.
“It was a long wait that has borne fruit and we hope to get to the bottom of this issue and arrest and prosecute the real owners,” said Iteere.
The officers who conducted the sting operation also recovered two cars, a Nissan saloon and a sport utility Toyota RAV4, two pistols and 59 bullets and a satellite phone.
One of the suspects identified as Joash Omondi had, according to Iteere, rented the posh apartment two days before the arrival of the drugs.
Omondi introduced his other suspects as investors who wanted to rent the house, the police boss said.
Iteere added that the police know the owner of the apartment, and are trying to establish if he has any link to the narcotics.
Apart from Omondi, Hassan Ibrahim and Yusuf Hassan are Kenyans, while Ali Mohamed and Abduk Baseet are Iranians. Khan Mohamed is a Pakistani national.
Ibrahim told Iteere, who talked to him briefly, that he usually comes to Nairobi and lives in a guest in South C estate before heading to the Coast.
It is believed the heroin originated in Pakistan and was to be repackaged in the house before being redistributed to local and regional dealers.
New leads also opened in the probe, with reports that the police have been trying to interrogate a Nairobi politician they suspect could have links to the drug haul.
One of those arrested is said to be an employee of the prominent activist and police are trying to question him.
How comes that Drug carriers were licenced to carry arms by the Kenya Government of Mwai Kibaki & Mary Wambui wa Mwai>
A new twist developed in the case yesterday when it emerged that some of the suspects arrested during the Friday night drug bust carried licensed firearms.
When they were arraigned in court yesterday, two of the six suspects arrested in Shanzu, Mombasa on Friday night said that the Kenya Police licensed them to carry firearms.
Bwana Ngatia was right when he did this Video>The dealers of Drugs Comes From State House >Mary Wambui wa Mwai (Nark Kenya Activist) is the Drug lorld and Protects Kabogo/Sonko /Mwau Njoho and coy.According to Kenya Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere the police who are investigation the latest drug arrested in Mombasa being ferried from the Mother-Ship anchoured at the Sea are being threatened by very (seniour pple in the Govt!The Police spokesman Kiraithe has confirmed the same >http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000032354&cid=4&ttl=Police%20link%20heroin%20boats%20to%20politician,%20activist
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Police link heroin boats to politician, activist`(THE UNTOUCHABLE SECOND WIFE OF KENYAS LAME DARK PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI(MARY WAMBUI WA MWAI KIBAKI)!Brief:
A Nairobi politician, with powerful connections in Government, is behind the Sh204 million-heroin a special police unit seized last week. …more User comments(11)
1. On Friday April 1, 2011, 11:02 AM , Sisi Kwa Sisi, Qatar wrote:
The police have tried their best, now drug lords sitting in government offices are going to thwart these efforts. Kenyans must know that druglords have taken over this country- remember the contraband gold from DRC, the same suspects.
2. On Friday April 1, 2011, 10:36 AM , Rao, Kenya wrote:
The Media should stop wasting time by taking of a politician so powerful that cannot be named because of connections to some mighty being. This is all nonsense. Everybody can be named, shamed and if there is no naming, just omit the story all-together.
3. On Friday April 1, 2011, 8:45 AM , Ernest Omino, Netherlands wrote:
It is amazing how the country is playing with fire on top of that so helplessly naive. We are a country driven by quick money, never mind where it comes from so long as it is money and lots of it while we’re at it… The danger is though, when this type of money making – as in this case DRUGS – is accepted then we’re in for shock…
4. On Friday April 1, 2011, 8:11 AM , Bondo Ligawa, Botswana wrote:
Commissioner Iteere, your allegiance is to Kenya not individuals so why fear to name or arrest the Nairobi Politician and the activist woman business person? Arrest them, I hope it is not another Artur Magasiak…… saga, please save the country Commissioner Iteere.
5. On Friday April 1, 2011, 7:41 AM , Ndemi Maina Muriuki, South Africa wrote:
Here are the Kenyan politicians, a discredited and shameful lot. Not only do they advocate and promote lesbiansm & homosextuality together with tribalism, but now they even own speedboats to bring killer drugs into Kenya, while the vocal human rights activists who get paid by foreigners are surprisingly now dumb. The police should reveal the culprits for the general public to deal with them.
6. On Friday April 1, 2011, 6:44 AM , Steve Njoroge, Kenya wrote:
Kudos to Police.President Kibaki should be blamed because given the fact that he is the most powerful individual in the country,he should ensure that law enforcers carry out their mandate without interference from criminals.We are left wondering why he lets criminals ruin his name.Are some people above the law?The police should be given a list of those immune to arrest to avoid complications.
7. On Friday April 1, 2011, 3:10 AM , Sifu Msafiri, United States wrote:
It doesn’t require rocket science to know who the politician and activist are, but why are they being allowed to ruin peoples’ lives with impunity? And how can a whole police force be rendered impotent by two people who don’t even have official government positions? This is ridiculous, and Iteere should resign if he cannot arrest the duo.Perhaps the army should be called in to deal with t
8. On Friday April 1, 2011, 0:55 AM , Eric Mnene, United Kingdom wrote:
Once again the Police are playing their usual game! What is the point of telling us the suspect is a “nameless Nairobi politician with powerful govt connections? The definition of a failed state is when the forces of law and order in a country are helpless in performing their duty out of fear of powerful people or criminal elements within society. Now you know why people call Kenya a FAILED STA
9. On Friday April 1, 2011, 0:31 AM , Otto, Austria wrote:
If they know the Drugy why publication and telling us and how comes he hasn’t been reigned and locked in police remand while further investigation is being conducted-All bullshit from a special police unit-trying to cover our face with a cotton wool….Public are not wet behind their at time but not all the time ears
10. On Friday April 1, 2011, 0:13 AM , Bernard Rotich, United States wrote:
What a falacy! How can Police actually claim to have no powers to arrest suspects linked to the haul? There has to be a systematic collection of evidence that once completed can be manifested and all the suspects arrested accordingly. With concrete evidence the citizens of Kenya can do the job if the Police is that inept! In the mean time the suspects are getting rid of any evidence linking ’em
11. On Thursday March 31, 2011, 22:24 PM , Lutilo Wangila, United States wrote:
Itere and his boys should not be complaining. If drug barons try to bribe policemen, the policemen know what to do, have the KACC guys on stand by. Itere this a lame excuse. If you can perform your duties, pack up and go home.
Kenya – Shadow of Scandal Hangs Over Ricci Case
Husband and wife arrested on drug trafficking charges risk life imprisonment. Couple have languished in Nairobi’s decaying prisons since December 2004. Judge fails to appear. Hearing adjourned until 11 am on 28 June.
NAIROBI – The torments of Angelo Ricci and Estella Duminga Furuli, the couple accused of large-scale drug trafficking, are far from over.Yesterday, they were awaiting sentence, which for this kind of crime can be life imprisonment in Kenya.But Judge Aggrey Muchelule failed to arrive at the court and the hearing was adjourned until 11 am on 28 June. The two Italians are answering charges of drug trafficking.The quantity involved is huge – 1.2 tons of cocaine worth 70 million euros, to be precise – and it is for that reason that Foggia-born Angelo Ricci, 70, and his Argentine-Calabrian wife Estella Duminga Furuli, 43, neither with any previous convictions, have been languishing since 14 December 2004 in Nairobi’s insalubrious jails.Five Kenyan citizens charged for the same offence are in jail with them.
All those arrested protest their innocence and have described how harsh life is in Kenya’s prisons. Detainees have to pick maggots and insects out of their food, sleep on the bare floor and submit to humiliations of all kinds. The drug trafficking of which the two Italians are accused is becoming controversial in Kenya. After the revelations published by the Corriere della Sera, which referred to the involvement of top-level Kenyan authorities, the story was picked up by a number of other papers, including the prestigious Africa Confidential.It has the hallmarks of a Machiavellian international intrigue in which the two Italians and the other defendants have been cast as scapegoats.
The affair in which the Riccis are embroiled appears to be linked to a major scandal that is threatening the presidency of Kenya itself and involves leading members of the international Mafia. On Thursday 8 June, two Armenian brothers, Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargsyan, used their passes to gain entrance to Nairobi airport and prevent customs officers from inspecting nine suitcases owned by a female friend who had just arrived from Dubai. One of the two brothers produced a pistol and then the pair took the woman by the arm, seized the suitcases and marched off with a shout of “You don’t know who we are”.The following day, the chief of police, General Hussein Ali, issued orders that the two were to be deported and not hauled before a magistrate for trial.The Armenians had been living in Nairobi but were expelled a few weeks earlier. At their home, police officers broke down the door and found assault rifles, jackets and berets with “Police” insignia, diplomatic licence plates, Kenyan passports and identity cards issued to police deputy superintendents and permits for access to high-security zones of the airport.There were fifteen cars in the garden, some with government licence plates.
According to the Kenyan press, Artur Margaryan claims to be the partner of Winnie Mambui, the daughter of Mary Wambui, the most influential of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki’s advisers.It is also rumoured that she is his second wife of the chief of the State. Although Mr. Kibaki has always denied it, this widely retailed piece of Nairobi gossip shows just how close the two are.
In an attempt to gag press accusations against the presidency, Kibaki suspended the head of the Criminal Investigative Department, Joseph Kamau, and a series of high-level civil servants, including Winnie Wambui herself, a special adviser to the Ministry of Water.It was discovered that their access permits enabled the two Armenians to enter all parts of the airport without difficulty.And it was also discovered that the two had taken delivery of at least twenty-nine containers without having to go through the usual customs procedures.
What was in the containers? Obviously something illegal, otherwise they would not have bypassed inspection. News desks at the Nairobi papers that are investigating the affair are in no doubt:“Cocaine”. Inquiries by the Corriere della Sera have established that the huge quantity of cocaine the Riccis are accused of trafficking arrived at the port of Mombasa and was then transferred to Nairobi. Finally, some of it was taken to the Malindi villa that the Italian couple were employed to rent out, and had in fact leased to a group of Dutch citizens. The drug was transported by a Mombasa-based company, Prima Binns & Pest Control, owned by two brothers, Abubakar, known as Abu, and Hassan Joho.The company has the contract for refuse collection and pest control in the port.Until just a few years ago, the two brothers and their four ramshackle lorries were on the point of bankruptcy.
Then in 2003, the year in which Mwai Kibaki came to power, they suddenly acquired wealth and a new female friend,the ubiquitous Mary Wambui.“They are extremely arrogant”, someone who knows them well but wishes to remain anonymous says bluntly.“They use money to bribe police officers.And they do it in public, quite shamelessly, in front of everyone.When Mary Wambui comes to Mombasa, the Johos send their black Mercedes to pick her up at the airport.For the Johos, getting goods out of the airport is child’s play.The Riccis have nothing to do with drug trafficking.The cocaine they are accused of selling was taken out of the port of Mombasa in the lorries owned by the Joho brothers.They stuff the packages in amongst the refuse and no police officer at a check point would dare to search them”.
Abu and Hassan Joho are in partnership with Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargsyan.Their passes for the airport were issued to the Chelamed Ltd company, of which Abu Joho is general manager.But there is another embarrassing connection.The two Armenians are also in partnership with Baktash Akasha, a member of the powerful Akasha family, suspected of smuggling.Some time ago, Margaryan said that a female Akasha clan member was married to one of his managers.According to the Kenyan daily The Nation, the head of the family and one of Kenya’s richest men, Ibrahim Abdallah Akasha, is a former drug smuggler who managed to avoid a custodial sentence thanks to influential friends in government.He was killed in May 2000 in Amsterdam’s Bloedstrat (Blood Street), ambushed on his way to a meeting with an unknown dealer to discuss the non-payment of a consignment of heroin he had delivered to Holland in 1999.
The traffickers who used the Malindi villa rented to them by the Riccis were all Dutch, with the exception of George Kiragu, the husband of a Dutch citizen, Anita.Inspectors from the Netherlands are also making inquiries and have already arrested the individuals believed to be Kiragu’s accomplices in what is a complex international investigation.Their names are Robertus Johannes Stehman, Hendrik Baptiste Hermanj, Johan Neelen, Arien Gorter and Marinus Hendrik van Wezel, the organisers of the drug trade who found powerful friends in Kenya.When they fled just before police arrived at the villa in Malindi where the cocaine was found, they were able to fly to Nairobi undisturbed. They spent the night in the Hotel Panafric and the following morning embarked on a KLM flight bound for Amsterdam.Like the Armenian brothers, the five had permits to enter restricted areas at the airport.No trace has remained of their passage through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on 13 December 2004.Who covered their tracks and who issued their passes?
THE KENYA POLICE COMMISSIONER MATHEW ITEERE > blames drug barons for heroin haul :Iteere blames drug barons for heroin haul controversy .
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:02 BY MAXWELL MASAVA . SEIZED:The heroin displayed at Wilson Airport.
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POLICE Commissioner Mathew Iteere yesterday blamed unnamed drug traffickers for the fiasco over the actual weight of the heroin impounded by police in Mombasa last week.
Iteere said the drug traffickers and cartels in the country were trying to manipulate the investigations by compromising some of the junior and senior officers at Vigilance House.
In a statement issued by Iteere and read on his behalf by police spokesman Erick Kiraithe, the commissioner accused the drug traffickers of mounting a “media campaign” to discredit the detectives working on the case. He cited the weight discrepancies as one of the areas being used by the drug traffickers to manipulate the investigations.
Civil as well as religious leaders have been raising queries about the discrepancies in the weight of the drug police announced when it was impounded.
There have been growing claims that 94 kilos of the seized heroin went missing, a claim police deny. The original haul was said to be 196 kilos packed in 98 sachets. However, police amended the haul to102 kilos after weighing it claiming the original figure of 196 kilos was just an estimate.
On Tuesday, detectives assigned to investigate the seizure were summoned to CID headquarters to explain the discrepancy in the weight of the heroin recovered and the actual weight of the drug presented before the courts. Kiraithe explained the detectives had earlier relied on initial estimates of 98 sachets each weighing 2 kilos to give the total of 196 kilos.
But subsequent weighing before the consignment was taken to court as exhibit revealed it weighed only 102 kilos. The drug produced in court was said to be worth Sh392 million as opposed to an earlier estimate of Sh500 million.“Since the Commissioner took concrete measures to break the drug cartels operating in the country, the beneficiaries of this evil trade have been on the war path,” said Iteere.“Their ultimate aim is to compromise these diligent officers and force out those who cannot be compromised including those in the top echelons of Kenya Police,” he added in his statement.
He said that “well known individuals”, whom he did not name, had vowed to influence changes within the police department, especially at the Coast over the latest crackdown on drugs trade.“We are aware they have vowed to use every means possible to frustrate the current onslaught. After failing to use bribery, they have now embarked on a campaign to discredit, intimidate and demoralize the dedicated officers,” he added.
The statement was issued as Nairobi Chief Magistrate Gilbert Mutembei remanded the six suspects accused of trafficking in the heroin valued at Sh204million until he delivers a ruling on their application for bail.
Mutembei remanded the suspects for a week after the prosecution sought more time to complete investigations. The prosecution said these investigations would be jeopardised if the suspects were released from jail.
Three Kenyans — Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim, Hasan Ibrahim and Joash Omondi, two Iranians, Abdolbaset Ali and Ali Bafkin and the Pakistani Khan Haider have denied having the drugs, two pistols and ammunition. The three foreigners are further charged with being in the country unlawfully.
Defence lawyers Cliff Ombeta and Kiraithe Wandungi opposed the prosecution’s request to have the suspects remanded in custody claiming the police should have completed their investigations after holding them at Kileleshwa Police Station for three days.
Claiming that personal liberty should not be compromised at the behest of the authorities, the lawyers said the six would abide by any rules imposed by the court when it granted them bail.
Mutembei remanded the suspects in custody until April 4 when he will decide whether to grant them bail.
The two lawyers complained that they had received more threatening text messages even as they argued their clients’ cases in court. Mutembei told them they had two options — report the matter to the police or withdraw from defending the suspects.
The suspects have denied trafficking by storing 102 kilogrammes of heroin valued at Sh204 million on March 24 at Shanzu area in Kisauni District within Mombasa County.
Ngatia you are so right. Mama Wambui Kibaki is not mentioned by name yet is connected with the bad boys in KTN’s “Untouchables” documentary released last week about Kenya’s drug barons.
Mr Ngatia i love you ,cos if kenya had men like you women ,children,idps,old, youth wodnt be suffering and neglected like today.
I agree with you cos drugs is not only destroying youth ,but its killing them in thousands.In kenya there is no rehab centres like we have in Sweden.I hope and believe both men and women should join hands with your movement and lead the fight for liberating our motherland Jamhuri.
Key people named in a drug trafficking report are as follows:
• Chief point man – Adamo
• Gideon Moi – Arms trafficking to DRC; his company Orbit Transporters, co-owned with William Kabogo, used for drugs.
• William Kabogo MP Juja.
• Gideon Mung’aro – MP Malindi.
• Abubakhar Joho – Brother to Joho who hosts powerful politicians including Mary Wambui, second wife of president Kibaki.
• Debra Sanaipei Ntimama – Daughter of Minister of State for National Heritage & Culture.
• Mary Riziki – Owner, Makini Herbal Clinic, mother of Prezzo.
• Prezzo – Popular Musician.
• Andy – Israeli National working for Amiran Kenya (Horticulture farm).
• William Wachira – Senior policeman with warehouse in Nakuru; son was arrested in 2009 for stealing car and narcotics from father.
• Antony Chinedu AKA Tony Walz – remember Akinyi?
• Gatiba Karanja – Former CID Chief.
• Michael Munga aka SONKO – Owner, Coco Beach.
• Stanley Livondo.
• Mohammed Doukoure.
• Alan Herd – Manager, Kijepwa Airstrip, Mombasa Flying Club.
• Muthie – a well connected Police Officer.
• Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa – At one time had Ksh. 2 billion deposited into his account.
• Ali K. Pemba.
• Harub Katri Ibrahim.
• Moustafa Hakim.
• Swaleh Kanderemi, Billy Maharandi and Swaleh Ahmed ( Former Joho campaigners all arrested ad convicted).
• Din Barawa – received Ksh. 1m TO BRIBE magistrate
• Alessandro Toniani.
• Diana Koech – senior Flight Attendant Kenya Airways.
• Ken Obina.
• Mohammed Jaffer – Grain Bulk Handling at the Port.
• Ashik Deshi.
• Mohammed Muralli.
• Rashid Sajaad – Former Nominated MP, KANU.
• Kimathi – senior police officer.
• Paul – Heroine supplier in PAKISTAN.
• Kabogo’s mistresses, one lives in Thika, the other lives in Westlands.
• Kamunyo – Owner, Mwalimu Motors.
• Langata Motors – owned by Ugandan Crime Syndicate.
• 680 Hotel.
• Wines of the World.
• Brown.
• Yatich – NSIS.
• Joyce – A clothing Director.
• Paul Kamau Mburu – Kabogo’s Brother.
• Evans Kamau – Kabogo’s brother.
• Kangethe – Kabogo’s Brother.
• Metro Cash and Carry – Drugs come in as Mumias Sugar.
• Hinga – Policeman.
• St. Teresa Catholic Church – operational ground.
• Sahara Forwarders.
• Four Winds.
• Cover Africa – Canon Towers, Mombasa.
• Mama Mercy – was used to distribute to street children who would resell.
• Wamalwa Eugene – helped waive payment of import duty as a lawyer.
The wife of a very senior Kenyan government official is part of the drug trafficking network. She was a Narc Activist who has now turned into a PNU Activist.
This dossier contains heavy names,
Wambui wa Kibaki
Gideon wa Moi
Debra sanaipei wa Ntimama
Karanja wa CID
Eugene wa Wamalwa
Nyamu wa Customs
The whole of coast political establishment
Army commanders Air force
KACC Officers
Judiciary
Joho -Secretary wa ODM. Just to name a few!
Pepe–CFS is manned by Kenya Customs and Anti – Narcotics police officers who are controlled and are on Mwau & Gitau pay-slips that means they get double pay from the government and the BIGGER Dollars from the TRAFFICKERS- WHEN MWAU & GITUA’S SHIPPEMENTS arrive at PEPE CFS all entrances are LOCKED UNTIL THE SHIPMENT IS UNLOADED- according to the report from the officers at PEP CFS.
IS THIS A JOKE? WHAT AN IRONY- NO WONDER NOBODY IS WILLING TO TOUCH THE DRUG.HUMAN AND GUN TRAFFICKERS IT GOES ALL THE WAY UP IN THE KENYA GOVERNMENT – HEAD MUST START ROLLING KENYANS MUST!! I REPEAT!! MUST DEMAND ACTIONS OR WE WILL HAVE FAILED OUR CHILDREN AND FUTURE GENERATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
The Americans are also said to be planning to open charges in the US in June on Kenyans they believe have links to the international drug trading cartels.
“Already, US has advised international financial institutions about the suspects and they have in turn asked them to withhold their cash. Similar requests will be made in Kenya soon,” a source at the ministry said.
Dictators can be brought easly down by the Peoples Power through a well coodinated and planned youth upraising Tunisian Style
analysis and reaction as Tunisia’s police state collapses in the face of mass protests.
ibaki should follow the suiet>http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE70I0JF20110119?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FAFRICATopNews+%28News+%2F+AFRICA+%2F+Top+News%29
Would you agree to see political-class (lawmakers) selling narcotics to your sons and daughters,friends and their school kids?>
http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/2008/01/after-charles-taylor-mwai-kibaki-next.html
Watch &read this>After the ICC had dealt with Charles Tylor The ir Next one will be Mwai Kibaki!
The Mp for Kamukunji>Mbugua a drug war-lord named in Parliament Is notorious in Singing >Shauri-Yakx2 Shauri yako wee>This time Mbugua cannot dare sing shauri yako wee in Public>Watch this one>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdQb0kDVRs&feature=related
ICC asks Kenya to help seize suspects’ property
By Cyrus Ombati and Ben Agina
The International Criminal Court (ICC) now wants Kenya to support it in the freezing or seizure of property of the Ocampo Six when the Pre-Trial Chamber judges issue summons on the suspects.
The latest development follows reports the issue of Kenya’s deferment of the ICC trial will feature during an Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) meeting to be held on the sidelines of the African Union Summit on Saturday.
Sources told The Standard the Kenya case would be adopted by Igad and attached as a resolution of the African Union. AU will in turn make a recommendation to the United Nations Security Council asking it to defer the case.
Igad chairman, Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi, recently met Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and agreed to support the Kenya agenda.
The court wrote to the Cabinet subcommittee on ICC last week, guiding the Government on the kind of co-operation it expects from Kenya if the summonses are issued.
In the letter, the ICC states the procedure of tracing and freezing or seizure of proceeds, property and assets and instrumentalities of crimes for the purpose of eventual forfeiture and compensation to the victims of the violence.
Taxation waiver
The letter also requested for taxation waiver of property of the court, which will be imported from March.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo named suspended Higher Education Minister William Ruto, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Head of Public Service, Francis Muthaura, Postmaster-General Hussein Ali, suspended Industrialisation Minister Henry Kosgey, and radio presenter Joshua Sang, in December as key suspects of the violence.
This means if, and when the judges issue their summons, the court would apply for freezing and seizure of their property.
It also emerged that five officials from the ICC arrived last week, and wrote to the chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee, George Saitoti, saying they did not want any help from the Government in their mission.
Targeted for seizure
Although their mission remained secret, informed sources said they are here as part of the team mandated to profile and trail the property to be targeted for seizure.
The development, according to informed sources, is a clear indicator on the direction that the cases before the court may take soon.
The Rome Statute, which Kenya is a signatory to, compels State parties to, in accordance with the provisions of it and under procedures of national law, to comply with requests by the Court to provide assistance in relation to investigations or prosecutions.
Some of the suspects, including Ali, Kosgey and Sang, have received letters from the prosecutor’s office to give their exonerating evidence.
Ali has so far hired Canadian lawyer John Philpot and local lawyers Evans Monari and Gerishom Otachi to represent him at ICC.
He last week moved to The Hague and filed an application before Pre-trial chamber seeking to participate in the proceedings before the possible issuance of summons against him.
Ali says in his application that since the prosecutor decided to name him publicly as a suspect before according him an opportunity to give his side of the story, it was imperative that he be part of the summons proceedings.
He wants to give appropriate submissions on the requisite evidentiary standard regarding the issuance of summons.
Three(3) Kenya women were arrested at the N airobi Airport Trying to smuggle Heroin & Cocain through Swallowing(hinding drugs through their (Anus)they are given food inside their cells in a Police station where they are (Diarhearing) cocain Pellets from their stomachs> read here>http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000028978&cid=4&ttl=Police arrest three women drug traffickers
A member of Parliament Sonko tells Kenya Parliament that People who deals with Narcotics are the sons and daughters of both Mps and cabinet Ministers sitting right here in this Parliament>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl9FsEliMKI&feature=player_embedded
The USA govt has accepted in Helping investigating drugs (Narcotics) in Kenya This was said by the USA Ambassador Mr Ranneberga>http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/US-assisting-Kenya-in-drugs-probe-11759.html
Banks in Kenya are used to lounder dirty narcotic money and clean them white-snow>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clF-6TzaUqg&NR=1
Drug warlords >money is no problem with such ypoungmen who has never worked sweated their money in Kenya>http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Sonko+granted+bail+in+Sh1m+fraud+case/-/1064/1114044/-/vvfnqez/-/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHyrhHeoe6k&feature=player_embedded#at=35
Drug warlords Vomiting names in Kenyas Parliament>Mp Kabogo may get light sentence in USA hence drug dealers must be handed to the govt of the USA hence Kenya does not jail drugwarlords for reasons well known (drugs protected by the state-house and State-house is the dealer and its occupants>Let kabogo cooperate and name names.
I am with you on this one, keep you eye on the ball.
Kabogo went as far as confessing to the parliamentary committee that, yes, indeed there is a senior cabinet minister doing this dirty drug trade as well.
That minister is none other than Prof George Saitoti. He is a frequent visitor to Mombasa, and some of us can even point out to you a well known posh residence in Nyali where Saitoti cuts his deals. Saitoti thinks he is a smooth a operator, but his immense wealth has been subject to much speculation because even Goldenberg could not have financed all that bank balance. There is hardly any member of cabinet, aside from Mwau, who can be said to be worth anywhere near George Saitoti, who has been confirmed as being ready to finance his own colourful presidential campaign without the tiresome harambees we in ODM are so much used to.
This scandal could easily bring down Kibaki’s government.
While PNU and ODM defectors are keen to avoid the date with Ocampo, we must remain vigilant because these desperadoes are quite capable of doing the unthinkable if only to avoid the Hague.
Mambo bodi>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtG6CxQgkVc&feature=channel
The cable alleges the government raided the Standard offices following a tip that they were about to publish a story implicating State House in graft and drug trafficking.
The Standard editors are said to have been told by a police officer that the information they had could easily bring down the government.
Police Commissioner has no right to arrest /investigate the Top NArc /PNU activist Mary Mwai Kibakli who owns the latest drug /Heroine arrested in Mombasa using Foreign Curriers(of Persian origins)>
Tuesday, 29th March 2011
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Drama as police seize Sh500m heroin haul
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Mombasa port privatisation good for the nationBy Standard Team
Police seized only a small fraction of heroin when they intercepted six men in Mombasa last week with 196 kilos of the drug, The Standard can reveal today.
Two tonnes of heroin with an estimated street value of Sh4.2 billion ($49 million under current exchange rates) are now believed to have entered Kenya through the coastal strip before police seized 196 kilos, and was part of the drug consignment seized in Mombasa.
The revelations place show the police were just lucky to have intercepted the smaller consignment, raising questions as to how such a huge amount of drugs could have been ferried from a ship anchored in the high seas by speed boats without alarms being raised.
Ali Mohamed, Khan Mohamed, Abdul Baseet and three others were Monday charged at the Nairobi Law Courts over drug trafficking. [PHOTO: EVANS HABIL/STANDARD]
Highly placed sources within the police force yesterday revealed to The Standard that most of the drug consignment was offloaded at other locations along Kenya’s northern coast, before police captured six suspects with the 196 kilograms of heroin packaged in disguise as dog food in Mombasa last week.
The drops of the nearly two tonnes of heroin were made in locations around Lamu and Malindi according to the police sources who did not wish to be quoted.
“Reports suggest the barons may have dumped part of the haul in other coastal towns, before trying the Mombasa one that was seized, and that is why our attention is there for now,” revealed a highly placed source who requested anonymity because he did not want to be seen discussing ongoing investigations.
A new twist developed in the case yesterday when it emerged that some of the suspects arrested during the Friday night drug bust carried licensed firearms.
When they were arraigned in court yesterday, two of the six suspects arrested in Shanzu, Mombasa on Friday night said that the Kenya Police licensed them to carry firearms.
There was also another twist in the case when investigators told the court that the weight of the heroin seized was 102 kilograms and not 196 as stated earlier by the Anti-Narcotics police unit.
Initially, police had said the weight was 196 kilogrammes and put the value at Sh500 million but in court they stated it was 102 kilos worth Sh392 million.
The revelations come as Kenya’s growing reputation as a new hub for drug trafficking came under focus from the United Nations.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Kenya and the East African region was becoming a new route for traffickers following tighter controls in Asian countries known as trafficking hubs like Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference in Nairobi Monday, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said, “the recent seizure of 200 kilograms of heroin in Kenya tells us that we should be vigilant. We need to establish whether it was an isolated incident or routine.”
The revelation by police sources that nearly two tonnes of heroin came into the country dwarfs the 2004 seizure of 1.2 tonnes of cocaine then valued at Sh16 billion, which was Kenya’s largest ever drug haul.
Even though drug dependency is on the increase in Kenya, especially in the coastal city of Mombasa, experts say the larger consignments are usually on transit.
Police have not yet established how the drugs leave Kenya for other destinations, but the number of cases in which tourists or airline employees are arrested while carrying drugs out of the country could just be a pointer to how narcotics transit out of the country.
Yesterday, Fedotov said that the UN was ready to help Kenya combat traffickers, but only if the Government played its role effectively.
However, Kenya may only be able to control drug trafficking only if stronger measures are put in place to fight corruption and money laundering.
“We will support the Government of Kenya because of its vast border and coastlines, but Kenya has to act and prevent corruption and money laundering [of money from drugs trade],” said Fedotov.
The revelations that some of the suspects were licensed to carry firearms reinforces the view that drug traffickers are not operating in a vacuum, but work with complicity from law enforcement agencies.
Yesterday, Commissioner of Police Mathew Iteere revealed that contingents of police have been deployed in Lamu and Malindi to trace the rest of the consignment of the heroin, with the hope that it has not left the locality.
Iteere also said that he was yet to know the actual owners of the drugs because those arrested are believed to be working for the real barons
“We will know very soon if the six suspects are the real owners, or there are other people behind the same. Investigations are ongoing,” said Iteere.
Iteere made the remarks as more officers rushed to Lamu and Malindi to “pursue” leads that there were more of the drug that may have been shipped there in a similar manner that the Mombasa one was delivered.
The first team of detectives went to the towns on Friday.
New leads also opened in the probe, with reports that the police have been trying to interrogate a Nairobi politician they suspect could have links to the drug haul.
One of those arrested is said to be an employee of the prominent activist and police are trying to question him.
Yesterday, the Police Commissioner denied their investigations were being hampered by interference from other arms of Government.
Detectives were yesterday allowed to continue questioning the six suspects until Thursday, before they wrap up their investigations. The suspects include three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani.
Police handling the case revealed the traffickers had used speedboats to deliver the white powder from the high seas.
One of the speedboats that ferried the heroin to Mombasa was seized hours after it had finished its work.
The seizure of heroin came as a result of a two-week stakeout by police who had been tipped the narcotics were on the way to Kenya.
Police revealed the traffickers had arrived with the narcotics at the high seas in Kilifi or Mtwapa area, and were waiting for the ground to be clear for them to deliver the same.
The traffickers were using a satellite phone to communicate with their contacts on shore.
And come Thursday night, the narcotics that had been packaged and labelled as dog food were removed from a speedboat, and loaded onto two cars to an apartment in Shanzu.
The drug was disguised as dog food and labelled ‘Science Plan: Veterinary formulated Canine Senior for Older Dogs. New Improved Taste’. The whitish powder was concealed in nylon papers.
“It was a long wait that has borne fruit and we hope to get to the bottom of this issue and arrest and prosecute the real owners,” said Iteere.
The officers who conducted the sting operation also recovered two cars, a Nissan saloon and a sport utility Toyota RAV4, two pistols and 59 bullets and a satellite phone.
One of the suspects identified as Joash Omondi had, according to Iteere, rented the posh apartment two days before the arrival of the drugs.
Omondi introduced his other suspects as investors who wanted to rent the house, the police boss said.
Iteere added that the police know the owner of the apartment, and are trying to establish if he has any link to the narcotics.
Apart from Omondi, Hassan Ibrahim and Yusuf Hassan are Kenyans, while Ali Mohamed and Abduk Baseet are Iranians. Khan Mohamed is a Pakistani national.
Ibrahim told Iteere, who talked to him briefly, that he usually comes to Nairobi and lives in a guest in South C estate before heading to the Coast.
It is believed the heroin originated in Pakistan and was to be repackaged in the house before being redistributed to local and regional dealers.
New leads also opened in the probe, with reports that the police have been trying to interrogate a Nairobi politician they suspect could have links to the drug haul.
One of those arrested is said to be an employee of the prominent activist and police are trying to question him.
How comes that Drug carriers were licenced to carry arms by the Kenya Government of Mwai Kibaki & Mary Wambui wa Mwai>
A new twist developed in the case yesterday when it emerged that some of the suspects arrested during the Friday night drug bust carried licensed firearms.
When they were arraigned in court yesterday, two of the six suspects arrested in Shanzu, Mombasa on Friday night said that the Kenya Police licensed them to carry firearms.
Bwana Ngatia was right when he did this Video>The dealers of Drugs Comes From State House >Mary Wambui wa Mwai (Nark Kenya Activist) is the Drug lorld and Protects Kabogo/Sonko /Mwau Njoho and coy.According to Kenya Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere the police who are investigation the latest drug arrested in Mombasa being ferried from the Mother-Ship anchoured at the Sea are being threatened by very (seniour pple in the Govt!The Police spokesman Kiraithe has confirmed the same >http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000032354&cid=4&ttl=Police%20link%20heroin%20boats%20to%20politician,%20activist
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Police link heroin boats to politician, activist`(THE UNTOUCHABLE SECOND WIFE OF KENYAS LAME DARK PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI(MARY WAMBUI WA MWAI KIBAKI)!Brief:
A Nairobi politician, with powerful connections in Government, is behind the Sh204 million-heroin a special police unit seized last week. …more User comments(11)
1. On Friday April 1, 2011, 11:02 AM , Sisi Kwa Sisi, Qatar wrote:
The police have tried their best, now drug lords sitting in government offices are going to thwart these efforts. Kenyans must know that druglords have taken over this country- remember the contraband gold from DRC, the same suspects.
2. On Friday April 1, 2011, 10:36 AM , Rao, Kenya wrote:
The Media should stop wasting time by taking of a politician so powerful that cannot be named because of connections to some mighty being. This is all nonsense. Everybody can be named, shamed and if there is no naming, just omit the story all-together.
3. On Friday April 1, 2011, 8:45 AM , Ernest Omino, Netherlands wrote:
It is amazing how the country is playing with fire on top of that so helplessly naive. We are a country driven by quick money, never mind where it comes from so long as it is money and lots of it while we’re at it… The danger is though, when this type of money making – as in this case DRUGS – is accepted then we’re in for shock…
4. On Friday April 1, 2011, 8:11 AM , Bondo Ligawa, Botswana wrote:
Commissioner Iteere, your allegiance is to Kenya not individuals so why fear to name or arrest the Nairobi Politician and the activist woman business person? Arrest them, I hope it is not another Artur Magasiak…… saga, please save the country Commissioner Iteere.
5. On Friday April 1, 2011, 7:41 AM , Ndemi Maina Muriuki, South Africa wrote:
Here are the Kenyan politicians, a discredited and shameful lot. Not only do they advocate and promote lesbiansm & homosextuality together with tribalism, but now they even own speedboats to bring killer drugs into Kenya, while the vocal human rights activists who get paid by foreigners are surprisingly now dumb. The police should reveal the culprits for the general public to deal with them.
6. On Friday April 1, 2011, 6:44 AM , Steve Njoroge, Kenya wrote:
Kudos to Police.President Kibaki should be blamed because given the fact that he is the most powerful individual in the country,he should ensure that law enforcers carry out their mandate without interference from criminals.We are left wondering why he lets criminals ruin his name.Are some people above the law?The police should be given a list of those immune to arrest to avoid complications.
7. On Friday April 1, 2011, 3:10 AM , Sifu Msafiri, United States wrote:
It doesn’t require rocket science to know who the politician and activist are, but why are they being allowed to ruin peoples’ lives with impunity? And how can a whole police force be rendered impotent by two people who don’t even have official government positions? This is ridiculous, and Iteere should resign if he cannot arrest the duo.Perhaps the army should be called in to deal with t
8. On Friday April 1, 2011, 0:55 AM , Eric Mnene, United Kingdom wrote:
Once again the Police are playing their usual game! What is the point of telling us the suspect is a “nameless Nairobi politician with powerful govt connections? The definition of a failed state is when the forces of law and order in a country are helpless in performing their duty out of fear of powerful people or criminal elements within society. Now you know why people call Kenya a FAILED STA
9. On Friday April 1, 2011, 0:31 AM , Otto, Austria wrote:
If they know the Drugy why publication and telling us and how comes he hasn’t been reigned and locked in police remand while further investigation is being conducted-All bullshit from a special police unit-trying to cover our face with a cotton wool….Public are not wet behind their at time but not all the time ears
10. On Friday April 1, 2011, 0:13 AM , Bernard Rotich, United States wrote:
What a falacy! How can Police actually claim to have no powers to arrest suspects linked to the haul? There has to be a systematic collection of evidence that once completed can be manifested and all the suspects arrested accordingly. With concrete evidence the citizens of Kenya can do the job if the Police is that inept! In the mean time the suspects are getting rid of any evidence linking ’em
11. On Thursday March 31, 2011, 22:24 PM , Lutilo Wangila, United States wrote:
Itere and his boys should not be complaining. If drug barons try to bribe policemen, the policemen know what to do, have the KACC guys on stand by. Itere this a lame excuse. If you can perform your duties, pack up and go home.
Kenya – Shadow of Scandal Hangs Over Ricci Case
Husband and wife arrested on drug trafficking charges risk life imprisonment. Couple have languished in Nairobi’s decaying prisons since December 2004. Judge fails to appear. Hearing adjourned until 11 am on 28 June.
NAIROBI – The torments of Angelo Ricci and Estella Duminga Furuli, the couple accused of large-scale drug trafficking, are far from over.Yesterday, they were awaiting sentence, which for this kind of crime can be life imprisonment in Kenya.But Judge Aggrey Muchelule failed to arrive at the court and the hearing was adjourned until 11 am on 28 June. The two Italians are answering charges of drug trafficking.The quantity involved is huge – 1.2 tons of cocaine worth 70 million euros, to be precise – and it is for that reason that Foggia-born Angelo Ricci, 70, and his Argentine-Calabrian wife Estella Duminga Furuli, 43, neither with any previous convictions, have been languishing since 14 December 2004 in Nairobi’s insalubrious jails.Five Kenyan citizens charged for the same offence are in jail with them.
All those arrested protest their innocence and have described how harsh life is in Kenya’s prisons. Detainees have to pick maggots and insects out of their food, sleep on the bare floor and submit to humiliations of all kinds. The drug trafficking of which the two Italians are accused is becoming controversial in Kenya. After the revelations published by the Corriere della Sera, which referred to the involvement of top-level Kenyan authorities, the story was picked up by a number of other papers, including the prestigious Africa Confidential.It has the hallmarks of a Machiavellian international intrigue in which the two Italians and the other defendants have been cast as scapegoats.
The affair in which the Riccis are embroiled appears to be linked to a major scandal that is threatening the presidency of Kenya itself and involves leading members of the international Mafia. On Thursday 8 June, two Armenian brothers, Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargsyan, used their passes to gain entrance to Nairobi airport and prevent customs officers from inspecting nine suitcases owned by a female friend who had just arrived from Dubai. One of the two brothers produced a pistol and then the pair took the woman by the arm, seized the suitcases and marched off with a shout of “You don’t know who we are”.The following day, the chief of police, General Hussein Ali, issued orders that the two were to be deported and not hauled before a magistrate for trial.The Armenians had been living in Nairobi but were expelled a few weeks earlier. At their home, police officers broke down the door and found assault rifles, jackets and berets with “Police” insignia, diplomatic licence plates, Kenyan passports and identity cards issued to police deputy superintendents and permits for access to high-security zones of the airport.There were fifteen cars in the garden, some with government licence plates.
According to the Kenyan press, Artur Margaryan claims to be the partner of Winnie Mambui, the daughter of Mary Wambui, the most influential of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki’s advisers.It is also rumoured that she is his second wife of the chief of the State. Although Mr. Kibaki has always denied it, this widely retailed piece of Nairobi gossip shows just how close the two are.
In an attempt to gag press accusations against the presidency, Kibaki suspended the head of the Criminal Investigative Department, Joseph Kamau, and a series of high-level civil servants, including Winnie Wambui herself, a special adviser to the Ministry of Water.It was discovered that their access permits enabled the two Armenians to enter all parts of the airport without difficulty.And it was also discovered that the two had taken delivery of at least twenty-nine containers without having to go through the usual customs procedures.
What was in the containers? Obviously something illegal, otherwise they would not have bypassed inspection. News desks at the Nairobi papers that are investigating the affair are in no doubt:“Cocaine”. Inquiries by the Corriere della Sera have established that the huge quantity of cocaine the Riccis are accused of trafficking arrived at the port of Mombasa and was then transferred to Nairobi. Finally, some of it was taken to the Malindi villa that the Italian couple were employed to rent out, and had in fact leased to a group of Dutch citizens. The drug was transported by a Mombasa-based company, Prima Binns & Pest Control, owned by two brothers, Abubakar, known as Abu, and Hassan Joho.The company has the contract for refuse collection and pest control in the port.Until just a few years ago, the two brothers and their four ramshackle lorries were on the point of bankruptcy.
Then in 2003, the year in which Mwai Kibaki came to power, they suddenly acquired wealth and a new female friend,the ubiquitous Mary Wambui.“They are extremely arrogant”, someone who knows them well but wishes to remain anonymous says bluntly.“They use money to bribe police officers.And they do it in public, quite shamelessly, in front of everyone.When Mary Wambui comes to Mombasa, the Johos send their black Mercedes to pick her up at the airport.For the Johos, getting goods out of the airport is child’s play.The Riccis have nothing to do with drug trafficking.The cocaine they are accused of selling was taken out of the port of Mombasa in the lorries owned by the Joho brothers.They stuff the packages in amongst the refuse and no police officer at a check point would dare to search them”.
Abu and Hassan Joho are in partnership with Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargsyan.Their passes for the airport were issued to the Chelamed Ltd company, of which Abu Joho is general manager.But there is another embarrassing connection.The two Armenians are also in partnership with Baktash Akasha, a member of the powerful Akasha family, suspected of smuggling.Some time ago, Margaryan said that a female Akasha clan member was married to one of his managers.According to the Kenyan daily The Nation, the head of the family and one of Kenya’s richest men, Ibrahim Abdallah Akasha, is a former drug smuggler who managed to avoid a custodial sentence thanks to influential friends in government.He was killed in May 2000 in Amsterdam’s Bloedstrat (Blood Street), ambushed on his way to a meeting with an unknown dealer to discuss the non-payment of a consignment of heroin he had delivered to Holland in 1999.
The traffickers who used the Malindi villa rented to them by the Riccis were all Dutch, with the exception of George Kiragu, the husband of a Dutch citizen, Anita.Inspectors from the Netherlands are also making inquiries and have already arrested the individuals believed to be Kiragu’s accomplices in what is a complex international investigation.Their names are Robertus Johannes Stehman, Hendrik Baptiste Hermanj, Johan Neelen, Arien Gorter and Marinus Hendrik van Wezel, the organisers of the drug trade who found powerful friends in Kenya.When they fled just before police arrived at the villa in Malindi where the cocaine was found, they were able to fly to Nairobi undisturbed. They spent the night in the Hotel Panafric and the following morning embarked on a KLM flight bound for Amsterdam.Like the Armenian brothers, the five had permits to enter restricted areas at the airport.No trace has remained of their passage through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on 13 December 2004.Who covered their tracks and who issued their passes?
Massimo A. Alberizzi
THE KENYA POLICE COMMISSIONER MATHEW ITEERE > blames drug barons for heroin haul :Iteere blames drug barons for heroin haul controversy .
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:02 BY MAXWELL MASAVA . SEIZED:The heroin displayed at Wilson Airport.
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POLICE Commissioner Mathew Iteere yesterday blamed unnamed drug traffickers for the fiasco over the actual weight of the heroin impounded by police in Mombasa last week.
Iteere said the drug traffickers and cartels in the country were trying to manipulate the investigations by compromising some of the junior and senior officers at Vigilance House.
In a statement issued by Iteere and read on his behalf by police spokesman Erick Kiraithe, the commissioner accused the drug traffickers of mounting a “media campaign” to discredit the detectives working on the case. He cited the weight discrepancies as one of the areas being used by the drug traffickers to manipulate the investigations.
Civil as well as religious leaders have been raising queries about the discrepancies in the weight of the drug police announced when it was impounded.
There have been growing claims that 94 kilos of the seized heroin went missing, a claim police deny. The original haul was said to be 196 kilos packed in 98 sachets. However, police amended the haul to102 kilos after weighing it claiming the original figure of 196 kilos was just an estimate.
On Tuesday, detectives assigned to investigate the seizure were summoned to CID headquarters to explain the discrepancy in the weight of the heroin recovered and the actual weight of the drug presented before the courts. Kiraithe explained the detectives had earlier relied on initial estimates of 98 sachets each weighing 2 kilos to give the total of 196 kilos.
But subsequent weighing before the consignment was taken to court as exhibit revealed it weighed only 102 kilos. The drug produced in court was said to be worth Sh392 million as opposed to an earlier estimate of Sh500 million.“Since the Commissioner took concrete measures to break the drug cartels operating in the country, the beneficiaries of this evil trade have been on the war path,” said Iteere.“Their ultimate aim is to compromise these diligent officers and force out those who cannot be compromised including those in the top echelons of Kenya Police,” he added in his statement.
He said that “well known individuals”, whom he did not name, had vowed to influence changes within the police department, especially at the Coast over the latest crackdown on drugs trade.“We are aware they have vowed to use every means possible to frustrate the current onslaught. After failing to use bribery, they have now embarked on a campaign to discredit, intimidate and demoralize the dedicated officers,” he added.
The statement was issued as Nairobi Chief Magistrate Gilbert Mutembei remanded the six suspects accused of trafficking in the heroin valued at Sh204million until he delivers a ruling on their application for bail.
Mutembei remanded the suspects for a week after the prosecution sought more time to complete investigations. The prosecution said these investigations would be jeopardised if the suspects were released from jail.
Three Kenyans — Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim, Hasan Ibrahim and Joash Omondi, two Iranians, Abdolbaset Ali and Ali Bafkin and the Pakistani Khan Haider have denied having the drugs, two pistols and ammunition. The three foreigners are further charged with being in the country unlawfully.
Defence lawyers Cliff Ombeta and Kiraithe Wandungi opposed the prosecution’s request to have the suspects remanded in custody claiming the police should have completed their investigations after holding them at Kileleshwa Police Station for three days.
Claiming that personal liberty should not be compromised at the behest of the authorities, the lawyers said the six would abide by any rules imposed by the court when it granted them bail.
Mutembei remanded the suspects in custody until April 4 when he will decide whether to grant them bail.
The two lawyers complained that they had received more threatening text messages even as they argued their clients’ cases in court. Mutembei told them they had two options — report the matter to the police or withdraw from defending the suspects.
The suspects have denied trafficking by storing 102 kilogrammes of heroin valued at Sh204 million on March 24 at Shanzu area in Kisauni District within Mombasa County.
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