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The PNU Gema Govt Led by President Mwai Kibaki is doing everything in its Might & Power Using very Un- othodox methods & Schemes to protect Uhuru from facing(appearing) at the ICC in Hague!
Police link heroin boats to politician, activist> Mary Wambui Wa Mwai Kibaki Who married Kibaki in accordance with Kikuyu Tradition in Othaya & both has a very Powerful Daughter who loved & married to the Infamous Armenian Drug Barrons who led the destruction & burning of std Newpaper Hqs in Nairobi under the Leadership of John Njoroge Michuki who was the Interal Security Chief!
Six charged with trafficking Sh204 million narcotics
Dark side of Kenya policeBy Standard Reporter
A Nairobi politician, with powerful connections in Government, is behind the Sh204 million-heroin a special police unit seized last week.
But in a strange turn of events, the police have literally thrown in the towel over arresting the politician they say owns the speedboats used to transfer the drugs from the high seas to his house.
The politician is said to be under the protection of a well-connected activist and businesswoman. As if to underline their impotence in the face of the worsening drugs crisis, the police complained drug barons were “boasting in public places” how the force is useless.
A statement from police headquarters further claimed the drug barons were intimidating and attempting to bribe police officers investigating the high profile case.
The police claim the beneficiaries of the haul were using every means to discredit the police so they could continue drug trafficking.
Last week, the officers led by Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere airlifted what they said was 196kg of the highly addictive narcotic to Nairobi, using a helicopter under the cover an F5E jet fighter.
Upon landing at Wilson Airport, the drug was quickly secured by armed General Service Unit officers with a fighter jet sitting on the runway.
But in a strange turn of events barely 24 hours later, police told journalists the drug they were holding was in fact 102kg, 94kg less than what they earlier declared.
Yesterday, Mr Iteere issued a statement through spokesman Eric Kiraithe and warned they would not relent in their efforts to get those behind the haul.
“Some of them are boasting in public places saying police are useless and have tried to compromise, demoralise and intimidate officers pursuing the case. Let the beneficiaries know the war is still on,” said Kiraithe.
He did not explain the ways the barons have tried to use to curtail investigation.
Kiraithe spoke as it emerged police are now concentrating on the ‘owners’ of five speedboats believed to have been used in bringing the drug ashore at the Coast before one of them was impounded.
Ali Mohamed (right), Khan Mohamed (centre) and Abdul Baseet at Nairobi Law Courts Thursday, where they are facing charges of trafficking narcotics. [PHOTO: EVANS HABIL/ STANDARD]
Sources said the speedboats, which are usually parked in the Bamburi area, have been linked to the Nairobi politician named in the investigations.
Police are yet to interrogate the politician even after his mobile phone was found to have been in constant contact with some of the suspects in custody over the seizure, and him being a master to one of them.
The same man has been linked to the house where the 102kg haul was netted on March 21, in Shanzu.
Police claim the politician enjoys the protection of an official in the Ministry of Internal Security who has blocked police from interrogating him.
Fear calling
“He has been mentioned, but police fear calling him for interrogation. This haul does not belong to the six people who were caught with it. Reports indicate it is his,” said a detective close to the investigations who requested anonymity.
But yesterday, Kiraithe said police investigations are still on, and warned they would not spare anyone if there would be evidence to show link with the shipping of the drugs.
“It doesn’t matter who he is, he will have to face the law if and when his time comes. These drugs are causing a lot of damage to our society and those responsible for their importation have to be answerable,” he said.
He said anyone found to be linked to the haul would be enjoined in the case, which is in court.
Kiraithe confirmed investigators are pursuing leads that the seized haul could have been part of a larger consignment of about two tons that was shipped in from Pakistan. The ship waited in the high seas before speedboats started delivering the drugs to coastal towns of Lamu and Malindi.
Other reports indicated some of the haul may have ended up in Zanzibar, through the same speedboats undetected, and officers there have been alerted.
Officers rushed to Lamu and Malindi to follow leads that there were more of the drug that may have been shipped there in a similar manner.
Although the owner of the house is known police are yet to reveal the registered owner of the two cars – a Nissan saloon car and a Toyota Rav4 that delivered the haul to the house.
Kiraithe insisted according to their register, the two pistols and 59 bullets that were seized from two of the suspects were illegally owned. The suspects have given out firearms licenses, which show they had the guns legally.
He added investigations into the case are complex given some of the suspects in custody had arrived in Mombasa two days before the seizure by officers from Special Crimes Prevention Unit and Anti-Narcotics Unit.
The suspects include three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani.
Kiraithe said they had initially presumed the haul to be 196kg, based on the 2kg-mark on each of the 98 packets, which were seized.
Nothing wrong
“But when our officers and those from Government Chemist weighed it in Nairobi while preparing a charge sheet they found it to be 94kg less. There is nothing wrong,” stated Kiraithe.
The seizure of heroin at an apartment in Shanzu followed a two-week wait by police who had been tipped the narcotics would be arriving.
Police said the traffickers had arrived and were waiting for the ground to clear before delivering.
The traffickers were using a GPRS phone to communicate with their contacts at sea for direction before they could deliver the cargo.
The drug was disguised as dog food under the brand name and labeled, “Science Plan: Veterinary formulated Canine Senior for older dogs. New improved taste.” The whitish powder was concealed in nylon papers.
One of the suspects identified had, according to police, rented the apartment two days before the arrival of the drugs.
The suspect introduced his other accomplices as investors who wanted to rent the Jupiter Apartment, police boss said.
Other Kenyan suspects were Hassan Ibrahim, and Yusuf Hassan. Iranians suspects were identified as Ali Mohamed and Abduk Baseet. There was also Khan Mohamed, a Pakistani.
Police say they want to establish if the six were part of a syndicate, and that their intention is to break it by dismantling their local and international networks.
Isn’t it just frightening that the police publicly admit they know it is Kibaki’s wife and his friends who are behind the recent brazen heroin imports but they cannot do anything. I mean these people actually park a ship full of heroin in dock area and just offload the drugs with speed boats and everybody just watches this as a game.
This drug dealer, who is the wife of the president of the republic of Kenya, is protected by Kenya police who are her body guards as she goes on with her illicit drug smuggling in Kenya and in the region.
I think it is time Kibaki is asked to take responsibility for his wife’s abuse of state resources and massive drug smuggling and trafficking in Kenya. Imagine Ida Odinga was doing this!
This is an outrage. Mary Wambui should be arrested by the DEA if her husband, the Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki keeps facilitating her drug trafficking operations in Kenya.
Osewe Baba unaonekana kama anti kikuyu na kibaraka wa luo elite tumekuw tukikuona kama mzalendo bila mpaka , msosholisti shujaa. Ukienda Kibos GK Prison nani ndio wengi? Prison ya kenya kwa jumla nani ndio wengi
KSB: Gagula, it depends on yr level of political consciousness. What have I done or said that is anti-Kikuyu? Does posting a list here from a reader constitute anti-Kikuyuism? If you must hear it direct from the horses mouth, I am anti-Kikuyu ruling class and their ethnic chauvinism. If you cannot differentiate between the Kikuyu ruling class and millions of ordinary Kikuyus suffering along side other Kenyans, then you still have a long way to go. To change Kenya, the country needs everybody. Martha Karua and Peter Kenneth are opposing this gang so are they also anti-Kikuyu. Wake up from your sleep and slumber.
First I do agree with you,but lazima uongeze chumvi kwa wa luo kidogo ndio tuone balance, angalia Anyang Nyongo anwatukana madakitari wakenya, ongeza chumvi ya hapa na pale.
And dont forget I am one of your greatest fan, and thank for allowing me to critisize you.
KSB: Galuga, sina ubaya na wewe. Let us debate honestly because the solution to the Kenyan crisis requires the input of everybody concerned. Look at ethnicity in Kenya like a pyramid. The ethnic bosses are or on top, are talking and collaborating to share the loot while the majority at the base are not communicating, being encouraged to hate one another and to fight so that those at the top can continue eating. I have no reason to hate the ordinary Mkikuyu who has nothing to do with the problems in our country. Lastly, chakula ina sikizana na chumvi kwa hivyo hakuna noma.
I do agree with you Menji ,Kibaki government protects drug berons and in my thinking its time he man Kibaki should be brought to UN, US radar, then action should be taken, the way they did to Noriaga, it beats no sense that Kibaki is inderectly has something to do with the drugs we are seing in kenya
Gagula, read this piece written by Kikuyus in Kenya.Majority of my Kikuyu people are against the rich Kikuyu leaders who spend time acquiring massive wealth at our expense. we need serious non-elite Kikuyus to lead us.We are stuck with Uhuru whose father robbed us of huge tracts of land,then sent many of our people to Rift Valley,thus the ongoing land conflict.Our Mau Mau survivors were never rewarded after the British left,unless they were eating with Kenyatta.
Challenging The Kikuyu Oligarchy
By Kikuyusforchange Secretariat in Deep Thoughts on April 24th, 2009
By Maina Kiai & Paul Muite
In Kenya, politics has hinged on the pre-eminence of ethnic identity since 1964; and today ethnicity has been elevated beyond all other identities and interests. We reject this notion totally and completely. None of us chooses the identity that we are born into, but as we grow older we take on various identities that make us who we are and determine our interests. We are of the Kikuyu ethnic community – and take pride in our language, culture and norms – but we are far more than that. We see ourselves as Kenyan first and foremost with a national outlook and perspective.
But we have suffered for this view, being called “traitors” and “disloyal;” even receiving credible death threats.
Since 2004, it has become apparent that what NARC stood for, nationally, has been seriously eroded. Mwai Kibaki declared in his campaigns he was for zero tolerance on corruption; yet he seems to be condoning it. He had stated that he would operate a meritocracy with due regard to the diversity of Kenya; yet his appointments to the most sensitive and crucial offices are tilted to one ethnic group and its relatives. He had asserted that he would change Kenya from the dark days of the Moi years, raising our hopes and aspirations; but he was soon recruiting Moi’s people-especially if they were his kith and kin–to crucial positions in public service. Patronage and fear has been used. Simply put, his 2002 rhetoric was exactly that – rhetoric- and now we are continuing ‘business as usual’.
For us, it does not matter what ethnic group the leadership comes from: we expect and demand a government which has the interests of the nation at heart, which is fair, honest, effective, accountable and transparent. And we expect the government to follow the law, especially with regard to human life, and fundamental rights. We challenged Daniel arap Moi on these issues. We can challenge anyone – including Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, George Saitoti, Musalia Mudavadi, Martha Karua and Uhuru Kenyatta – interested in being president of Kenya. Why can’t we challenge Mwai Kibaki?
We know what we have fallen foul of is something larger than ‘political opposition’ or ‘dissent’. It is a bigger problem that the Kikuyu community and its allies must urgently confront.
It is the issue of “speaking with one voice.” This is the question of blind ethnic loyalty to decisions made by some wealthy old men (there are no women here) who determine the leadership of the community and convince us, mostly through trickery and fear, to follow. There is nothing democratic or progressive about it. They do it on their own, and without our input, behind closed doors and in clubs where the majority of the Kikuyu can never get access. These are the Kikuyu oligarchy, and they are dangerous because they work on the assumption that the rest of the community, and indeed the country, are fools and can be taken for a ride. It is a fatal road we drive along. Their decisions, cloaked in forged assumptions of ethnic nationalism and pride, are never about the good of the nation – or even the good of the community. It is all about themselves, and extending their hold and power over Kenya for their own selfish benefit.
With the elevation of ethnic politics in Kenya, this behind-closed-doors community trickery is dangerous and unacceptable within any community. But we are addressing ourselves to the Kikuyu community at this point, because the power, assumptions and suspicions of the Kikuyu political elite is at a critical crossroads and could destroy this country.
“Speaking with one voice” suggests that because of our ethnic heritage we have the same values, interests and ideals, and we should therefore accept the things that these old men, sipping single malt whisky after a game of golf, decide for us. But nothing could be further from reality. In fact, critically assessed, this class – conservative, corrupt and chauvinistic – has nothing but disdain for the majority of Kikuyu, who are poor and struggling, and pay for their arrogance and mistakes. If they did care for poor ordinary Kikuyu, then some of the things that have happened over the last few years would never have been condoned.
Consider the following. It is during the time of a Kikuyu president, with a Kikuyu Minister for Internal security, a Kikuyu intelligence chief, a Kikuyu head of CID, a Kikuyu PS in internal security, when there are extra-judicial killings of poor young Kikuyu men, claimed to be Mungiki. More than 600 cases are documented of these deaths in 2006, and hundreds more disappeared. For the sake of argument, let’s assume they were Mungiki – despite the fact human rights defenders are sure that more than two-thirds of them were not. There are laws that govern these matters. Why were they not used? Killing poor young Kikuyu men, illegally, does not solve the problem of Mungiki. It shows utter contempt for the poor. It shows us that although we are expected to ‘speak with one voice’; the Kikuyu community is certainly not one. There is the powerful, old class and there is the “other” Kikuyu.
We doubt that there has ever been such a large-scale state-sponsored killing of Kikuyu since the Emergency period or during the clashes in the 1990s; yet none in the oligarchy has uttered a word in protest or shock. The silence – from the president down – speaks volumes about the view of the poor.
And consider this. When the post-election violence started in January 2008, these same Kikuyu men were in control of the security apparatus. They decided it was better to deploy security to Uhuru Park, to prevent Raila Odinga and his supporters from gathering there, than to stop the killings of Kikuyus – mostly peasants – in Eldoret. We know for a fact that emissaries were sent to State House and Harambee House to plead that the Kenya Airforce be deployed to fly jets over the affected areas to ward off the invaders and others who had targeted the Kikuyu in Eldoret. But these suggestions were rebuffed. The effect is that peaceful protests at Uhuru Park were prevented, and security forces concentrated on killing opposition demonstrators in Western Kenya – at the cost of hundreds of lives in Rift Valley, and the destruction of property worth millions belonging to the poor.
And last but not least: listen carefully to the old guard, and some of their new recruits. They put the entire community at risk with reckless and derogatory comments that undermine national unity. Comments like the “Stock Exchange is not a fish market” are arrogant and demeaning to everyone, and exacerbate perceptions that the Kikuyu leadership feels superior, and needs to be taught a lesson. Unfortunately, because this leadership is inaccessible and far removed, these lessons are “taught”–tragically–to the ordinary Kikuyu who are more accessible, rather than the leadership.
We are all diminished by stereotypes and chauvinism. We would dismiss the attitudes of old men with humor, but for the fact their destructive views translate directly into the significant state power they wield.
Expecting us to speak with one voice does not protect our interests. It protects theirs. Statements that assert—as Minister John Michuki recently did – that the state has no obligation to explain why it conducted an illegal act in raiding the Standard Group, show a dangerous attitude. His mindset is essentially that if something is done by the state, it cannot be wrong. So if the state kills, say 2000 people in the name of “state security”, we should not ask questions? It is instructive that John Michuki was in charge when a number of killings by the state have occurred – young Kikuyu men pre-election; in Western Kenya during the post-election crisis; in ‘security operations’ in Mt. Elgon and Mandera–and there has been no accountability.
This mentality is not new in Kenya. It was the prevalent attitude of the colonial government, the Kenyatta government, and Moi’s government. Now we have that old political class, dangerously entrenched by a sense of ethnic ‘entitlement’. Kikuyus should realize that this does not bode well for the nation, let alone their community.
But this attitude is not just the prerogative of powerful politicians; it has also affected the middle class and ordinary Kikuyu. There is a dangerous sense of victimhood and entitlement.
The feeling of victimhood is now deeply entrenched in the community—and understandably so, given the colonial emergency, the clashes in the 1990s, and the post election violence in Eldoret—but it is coupled with a sense of entitlement and superiority over other communities, expressed in attitudes that the Kikuyu are somehow superior; that they work harder than other Kenyans; that they have more financial and entrepreneurial sense than others; and better able to govern than others. It is also expressed in derogatory assumptions and stereotypes about other communities.
This is foolhardy, a recipe for disaster and chaos: and once we start ranking people and communities, we will be ranked ourselves. It has made our position precarious, and if we don’t start asking questions of this “leadership,” we will only have ourselves to blame if the current tensions explode.
This is the time to re-think and reject the old class, whose interest is now focused on ensuring that their sons (never daughters) take over from them as the “leaders” of the community. These ‘sons’ have no skills or vision to lead, just a sense of entitlement in the “family” business. This is not just contemptuous of the ordinary Kikuyu, but also of the entire nation. It assumes that they can continue to maintain this charade, cloaking their personal interests as community interests.
We should learn from the experiences in other countries. Look at the demons and forces unleashed in the Balkans by Serbian leaders who continuously highlighted what they described as the Serbs’ historical grievances, as well as their “specialness,” playing on that for their own political ends. But even closer to home is Rwanda. Can any of us, here in Kenya, forget what happened there? By whipping up anger about historical injustices against the Hutu majority, and emphasizing the “right” of Hutus to rule, Hutu leaders facilitated the genocide. And always, it is the ordinary Hutus who paid the price for not questioning received “wisdom.”
This is a moment of truth for the Kikuyus as a whole. We recognize that much of what we have said may not be be palatable to many. It will, in fact, be painful. But these are truths we cannot run away from. Let us have a robust debate, but one that is based on what each of us has analyzed for him or herself.
If there was ever a time for change and challenge, it is now.
When Kenyatta followed ethnic preferences in the redistribution of land that took place after independence, much of the land went to a small Kikuyu elite. Some established or took over highland plantations and continued to employ locals as labor. President Moi, in particular, during his long reign shamelessly created, manipulated, and advertised “tribal” loyalties in an effort to control the population and enrich certain powerful social groups.
“Tribalism” was an effective way to keep power, but it did not necessarily reflect Kenyan society. The enrichment brought by government corruption has continued to consolidate the power of a small landholding elite. However, this elite is now more markedly mixed ethnically because of Moi’s policies of privileging Kalenjin and others. President Kibaki selected as his vice-president a Kamba man, Steven Kalonzo Musyoka, who came in third in the disputed election running in a third party.
Violence and “Nairobbery”
Violence has long played a role in Kenyan politics and society. Moi, for example, deliberately organized attacks by hired thugs on his enemies to convince Westerners that he was the only one capable of keeping order in Kenya. Under his regime—in which the current President, Mwai Kibaki, was Vice-President—most of the government ministers pursued corrupt careers that persist under Kibaki. Hired thugs have now become, according to Amnesty International, a prominent feature of the political scene and the source of some of the murders/assassinations.
But hired thugs have been perpetually on the scene, drawn from an underclass with nothing to lose and no jobs. In the 1990s they burned down Gikomba to get the land for developers/corrupt government officials. Kenyan elections have been notoriously corrupt and have involved, to a greater or lesser extent, attacks by thugs on voters in every election. Toward the end of his regime Moi used them as well as the police to attack opposition leaders in the yearly protests in favor of multi-party government on Saba-Saba, July 7th.
Kenya’s 2006 Nobel Peace Prizewinner, Dr. Wangari Maathai, was the victim of one of these attacks while leading a protest and so spent time in hospital as well as in jail, while Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife were beaten by thugs during a brief visit to Kenya more recently. Banditry and other forms of robbery have been common in and around Nairobi in particular, but also in some rural areas. A friend who was kidnapped and robbed in Nairobi christened it “Nairobbery”.
Such violence and corruption also should not surprise us. Kenya’s colonial regime relied on violence, especially during the 1950s Emergency. The British declared the Emergency when urban and rural guerrilla warfare began in central Kenya in 1952. Anti-colonial Kenyan nationalists (dominantly but not exclusively Kikuyu) attempted to achieve independence, calling themselves the Land and Freedom army, but called (and vilified) by the British as “Mau Mau.” Those deemed to be Mau Mau fighters, or terrorists, along with many civilians, were interned in concentration camps and murdered by the thousands (fewer than a hundred whites were killed in the uprising).
NYERI RESIDENTS WANT OCAMPO 6 TRIED AT THE HAGUE!!!!
Nyeri residents want the Ocampo Six tried at The Hague as a deterrent to further violence.
This was the overwhelming message they gave yesterday at a meeting organised by rights campaigner Maina Kiai, who was recently appointed a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
The residents were shown a film Kesho Itakuja: Kupata Haki Nchini Kenya, made by InformAction and Mr Kiai.
In the debate that followed, a majority of residents queried the government’s motive in trying to defer the ICC cases, saying, IDPs were more important than the six individuals.
The Ocampo Six trials have of late dominated headlines, with politicians holding rallies on the issue every week.
This, according to some Nyeri residents, showed that politicians were more keen on saving themselves from prosecution than seeking justice for post-election violence victims.
A resident, Mr John Wachira, said he feared the issue would interfere with the 2012 General Election.
“As long as we view the Ocampo Six as the most important public matter today, this nation will not heal from the wounds of 2008. It seems like we have not learnt a single lesson from the fighting,” he said.
“Fear of The Hague will make some people tone down their talk, which if unchecked, could incite violence. To show that the ICC is serious, the Ocampo Six must go to The Hague,” added Mr Wachira.
Participants also said they did not trust the current Judiciary to try the violence perpetrators.
“Let the big fish go to The Hague. I think we can try the small ones here, but I am not sure we can prosecute the big ones,” a participant said.
Mr Kiai said there was even more reason to bring in the ICC as the police could not be asked to investigate themselves.
“Let us not play with justice. We don’t yet have the capacity to deal with this issue, whether it be in the Judiciary or in terms of political will,” he said.
Mr Kiai said the energy being expended on trying to shield the Ocampo Six from the ICC was at the expense of IDPs.
“What we need to do is to ask tough questions of our leaders. We are sparing no effort to defend the six while the real victims languish in camps,” he said.
“We cannot go on assuming our view is the only one. There are many perspectives to the ICC debate that cannot be ignored,” Mr Kiai said.
He said only the political perspective was being highlighted, yet the social aspect of justice for the victims was being ignored.
UHURU KENYATTA will be replaced by another GEMA-PNU Royalist named KIMUNYA THE REGENT THIEF>There is no any other son or a daughter from other tribes who can be entrusted by GEMA-Mafia>.KIMUNYA IN LINE TO REPLACE UHURU .
Saturday, 02 April 2011 00:02 BY STAR REPORTER . BRIGHT FUTURE:Trade Minister Amos Kimunya
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TRANSPORT Minister Amos Kimunya could replace Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta as Finance Minister if charges against Uhuru are confirmed by the International Criminal Court.
Kimunya is also being fronted as a possible presidential candidate for central Kenya should Uhuru be unable to contest the elections in 2012, according to multiple sources close to President Kibaki and the minister himself,.“There is general talk that the Kikuyu community may not have a strong candidate like it happened to Rift Valley when President Daniel Moi left power. So Kimunya is being fronted by some rich and powerful people who think that he can replace Uhuru and be able to protect the community’s interests,” a PNU Cabinet minister said yesterday.
The ICC factor has complicated the Kibaki succession politics in central Kenya as he is expected to retire in less than 13 month, assuming the elections are held on the second Tuesday of August next year as stipulated by the constitution.
In Central Province, Gichugu MP Martha Karua has declared her interest in the presidency. Gatanga MP Peter Kenneth is widely rumoured to be a possible presidential candidate in 2012, although he has yet declared his interest.
Last November Kimunya was made Deputy Leader of Government Business in Parliament. He is said to be close to the President and the First Family.“Although he does not enjoy a lot of support from MPs, he has the President’s ear. Most of the time when we go for Cabinet meetings, Kimunya is the one who summarises what has been agreed and sometimes he acts like he is the Secretary to the Cabinet even when Muthaura is present,” an ODM minister said.
Uhuru will appear before the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber next Thursday to hear the charges being brought against him by Chief Prosecutor Louise Moreno-Ocampo for crimes against humanity committed around the December 2007 election.
Uhuru has been vigorously campaigning in recent months and last week was made the senior elder of the Kikuyu. He has insisted in his rallies that he will contest the Presidency in 2012 but some of his colleagues from central Kenya fear that this may not be possible if the ICC confirms the charges against him.
Apart from Kimunya, another group of Central Kenya leaders are exploring the possibility of Internal Security minister George Saitoti in case Kimunya proves difficult to market in Central and nationally.“We have heard talk that there are people in PNU who want Saitoti to be the PNU alliance candidate in 2012 in place of Uhuru. But nothing serious has been discussed and we are all waiting to see how events turn out,” said Katoo Ole Metito, a close ally of Saitoti.
Leaders from Meru are apparently considering PNU Secretary-General and Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi as an alternative candidate should Uhuru be ruled out.
Laikipia East MP Mwangi Kiunjuri, the leader of the Grand National Union Party, is also mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. He has previously claimed that powerful forces in government were out to undermine him.“They thought the Water ministry gave me too much political mileage on the ground. With ICC threatening to alter the political terrain, Kimunya is being propped up to become a political kingpin and must be shielded from competition. These tricks will not work and must be resisted,” Kiunjuri said. There has been a flurry of political activity in central Kenya with former MPs reviving moribund parties in preparation for 2012.
Former ministers Mutahi Kagwe and Njeru Ndwiga have re-activated the Social Democratic Party as Secretary General and National Vice-chairman respectively. Former minister Chris Murungaru is also trying to revive President Kibaki’s former Democratic Party. Civil society activists and youthful professionals have been trooping to Safina which is starting to hit the campaign trial in by-elections.
Kimunya was born in Murang’a but immediately migrated to Nyandaura district where he got elected as the MP for Kipipiri. He is serving his second term in Parliament.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Nairobi. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) and a Certified Public Secretary (CPS-K). He previously served as the Chairperson of ICPAK which is the national body of Certified Public Accountants.
President Kibaki appointed Kimunya Minister of Lands and Settlement in 2003 following a landslide victory by Narc. On February 14, 2006 he was appointed as Minister of Finance by President Kibaki following the resignation of David Mwiraria following the Anglo Leasing scandal. Kimunya was re-appointed Finance minister by Kibaki in January 2008 following the disputed Presidential elections.
On July 2, 2008, Kimunya lost a parliamentary vote of no confidence over the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel which allegedly had been sold for far less than its actual value to the Libyan company LAICO. Kimunya resigned in July 2008 despite having announced earlier, “I would rather die than resign!”
In November 2008, an official inquiry cleared Kimunya of any wrongdoing. The commission’s report was not made public. Kimunya was reappointed to the cabinet by President Kibaki as Minister of Trade in January 2009.
This is Hate Speech by Masterminds of Impunity &Hate Kikuyu chauvinistin Kiambu!!
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Uhuru said
“Riu tondu atindaga akiuga ni tunyuaga muno-ri, no anga tunyuaga na nyina? Na tondu atindaga akiuga tuthii Hague ri, Hague iyo ni ya nyina? Hague ni kwa nyukwa guku ugutinda ukiina? (Now that Raila keeps describing some of us as drunkards, do we go drinking with his wife? And now that he keeps telling us to go to The Hague, is that Hague his mother’s place? Is The Hague your mother’s place for you to keep singing about it?),” he asked at Githunguri.
Kiunjuri said
“Twaga kwaria uhoro wa Raila Odinga riu, tutikamenya kiria gigaturia twita Gikuyu. “If we don’t talk about Raila now, we shall be caught unawares as a community),” he said when the convoy stopped at Kiambu.
Hiti ihitagwo ni mundu na muthoniwe na nyumba itari ndundu iguthagwo na ihiga rimwe (A hyena is hunted by a man and his in-law and a house that is divided is destroyed by one stone),” said Mr Kiunjuri in his calling on the Kikuyu community to unite behind Mr Kenyatta.
“Hiti ituraga ifuataga mundu yetereire guoko kugue. No hiti ino no nginya tumieherie (A hyena hunts by following you in the hope that your swinging hand will fall off. But we must get rid of this hyena now),” he added.
“Rekei ndimwire. tribal slur gititumagwo uthoni tondu ihii mungiikara nacio no iriina nguru. Muhiiro wa tribal slur uthiragira kahiuini (Let me tell you, uncircumcised boys are not invited to dowry negotiations because, as you know, boys will always take time to sing their play songs. An uncircumcised boy’s goings are only ended when he faces the knife).
“Raila ti kimundu kiega kihana nyamu iria iriaga nguku na matumbi macio (Raila is not a good person. He is like the animal that eats the chicken and its eggs).
Muthama said
Who said his votes had been stolen and asked his people to fight? Who asked people to uproot the railway in Kibera, to remove people from their houses and occupy them?” he asked.
“Ucio ni muguruki (He is insane),” he added.
“This country cannot be governed using riddles and football commentary, and by people who cannot speak grammatical Kiswahili,” said Mr Muthama.
“We’re going to the polls next year and we are going to send him (Raila) back home to fish,” he said in apparent reference to the PM.
urgency, can he please look into the plight of these hungry Kenyans who are going to the extreme in order to survive.
Hungry IDPs sick from eating cats
Twenty five IDPs were taken ill after eating cats at Gwakung’u IDP camp in Ndaragwa constituency. The victims were from seven families who slaughtered four cats on Monday evening when they failed to get supper. Among those affected were two elderly women aged between 70 and 80, and seven children.
Those who were able to travel to the nearby Kahembe dispensary were treated for stomach problems and diarrhoea, while the rest remained at the camp as they had no means to get to hospital.
Yesterday, many of the affected were still in agony, taking pain killers and drinking water. Joseph Mwangi, a father of eight who slaughtered the cats, said they were extremely hungry. “It was after my wife gave me the go ahead that I slaughtered them at a nearby bush. I then shared the meat among six other families who were also starving,” he said. He said this is not the first time they have eaten cat meat.
His wife Susan Muthoni, who is sick from the meat, said she gave the meat to her already malnourished children. “I prepared it like a normal meal, just like I have done in the past when we have had to feed on the cats. They ate and went to bed only to wake up with diarrhoea and stomach problems,” she said.
Camp chairman Charles Kariuki said the problem had been caused by the government’s failure to provide them with relief food. He said the last time they received food was last December when President Kibaki cancelled his Christmas festivities. “We have written to the members of the provincial administration since January but no one has come to our rescue. They have always given us false promises,” he said. He said school-going children at the camp have stopped attending due to hunger.
While these poor IDP Kikuyus are eating cats because there is no food from Murugi, another Kikuyu minister concerned with them, their King Uhuru is milking the Treasury dry.
The Treasury is again on the spot for failing to account for Sh714 billion collected from taxpayers over two financial years.
The Mars Group, a non-governmental anti-corruption watchdog, on Wednesday raised the red flag over the amount said to have been collected by the government as tax revenue during the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 financial years but is yet to be accounted for.
Group chief executive Mwalimu Mati released a report revealing that the Treasury had not accounted for Sh489 billion in tax revenue raised in 2007/2008 and another Sh215 billion in 2008/2009, among others.
The PNU Gema Govt Led by President Mwai Kibaki is doing everything in its Might & Power Using very Un- othodox methods & Schemes to protect Uhuru from facing(appearing) at the ICC in Hague!
Police link heroin boats to politician, activist> Mary Wambui Wa Mwai Kibaki Who married Kibaki in accordance with Kikuyu Tradition in Othaya & both has a very Powerful Daughter who loved & married to the Infamous Armenian Drug Barrons who led the destruction & burning of std Newpaper Hqs in Nairobi under the Leadership of John Njoroge Michuki who was the Interal Security Chief!
Six charged with trafficking Sh204 million narcotics
Dark side of Kenya policeBy Standard Reporter
A Nairobi politician, with powerful connections in Government, is behind the Sh204 million-heroin a special police unit seized last week.
But in a strange turn of events, the police have literally thrown in the towel over arresting the politician they say owns the speedboats used to transfer the drugs from the high seas to his house.
The politician is said to be under the protection of a well-connected activist and businesswoman. As if to underline their impotence in the face of the worsening drugs crisis, the police complained drug barons were “boasting in public places” how the force is useless.
A statement from police headquarters further claimed the drug barons were intimidating and attempting to bribe police officers investigating the high profile case.
The police claim the beneficiaries of the haul were using every means to discredit the police so they could continue drug trafficking.
Last week, the officers led by Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere airlifted what they said was 196kg of the highly addictive narcotic to Nairobi, using a helicopter under the cover an F5E jet fighter.
Upon landing at Wilson Airport, the drug was quickly secured by armed General Service Unit officers with a fighter jet sitting on the runway.
But in a strange turn of events barely 24 hours later, police told journalists the drug they were holding was in fact 102kg, 94kg less than what they earlier declared.
Yesterday, Mr Iteere issued a statement through spokesman Eric Kiraithe and warned they would not relent in their efforts to get those behind the haul.
“Some of them are boasting in public places saying police are useless and have tried to compromise, demoralise and intimidate officers pursuing the case. Let the beneficiaries know the war is still on,” said Kiraithe.
He did not explain the ways the barons have tried to use to curtail investigation.
Kiraithe spoke as it emerged police are now concentrating on the ‘owners’ of five speedboats believed to have been used in bringing the drug ashore at the Coast before one of them was impounded.
Ali Mohamed (right), Khan Mohamed (centre) and Abdul Baseet at Nairobi Law Courts Thursday, where they are facing charges of trafficking narcotics. [PHOTO: EVANS HABIL/ STANDARD]
Sources said the speedboats, which are usually parked in the Bamburi area, have been linked to the Nairobi politician named in the investigations.
Police are yet to interrogate the politician even after his mobile phone was found to have been in constant contact with some of the suspects in custody over the seizure, and him being a master to one of them.
The same man has been linked to the house where the 102kg haul was netted on March 21, in Shanzu.
Police claim the politician enjoys the protection of an official in the Ministry of Internal Security who has blocked police from interrogating him.
Fear calling
“He has been mentioned, but police fear calling him for interrogation. This haul does not belong to the six people who were caught with it. Reports indicate it is his,” said a detective close to the investigations who requested anonymity.
But yesterday, Kiraithe said police investigations are still on, and warned they would not spare anyone if there would be evidence to show link with the shipping of the drugs.
“It doesn’t matter who he is, he will have to face the law if and when his time comes. These drugs are causing a lot of damage to our society and those responsible for their importation have to be answerable,” he said.
He said anyone found to be linked to the haul would be enjoined in the case, which is in court.
Kiraithe confirmed investigators are pursuing leads that the seized haul could have been part of a larger consignment of about two tons that was shipped in from Pakistan. The ship waited in the high seas before speedboats started delivering the drugs to coastal towns of Lamu and Malindi.
Other reports indicated some of the haul may have ended up in Zanzibar, through the same speedboats undetected, and officers there have been alerted.
Officers rushed to Lamu and Malindi to follow leads that there were more of the drug that may have been shipped there in a similar manner.
Although the owner of the house is known police are yet to reveal the registered owner of the two cars – a Nissan saloon car and a Toyota Rav4 that delivered the haul to the house.
Kiraithe insisted according to their register, the two pistols and 59 bullets that were seized from two of the suspects were illegally owned. The suspects have given out firearms licenses, which show they had the guns legally.
He added investigations into the case are complex given some of the suspects in custody had arrived in Mombasa two days before the seizure by officers from Special Crimes Prevention Unit and Anti-Narcotics Unit.
The suspects include three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani.
Kiraithe said they had initially presumed the haul to be 196kg, based on the 2kg-mark on each of the 98 packets, which were seized.
Nothing wrong
“But when our officers and those from Government Chemist weighed it in Nairobi while preparing a charge sheet they found it to be 94kg less. There is nothing wrong,” stated Kiraithe.
The seizure of heroin at an apartment in Shanzu followed a two-week wait by police who had been tipped the narcotics would be arriving.
Police said the traffickers had arrived and were waiting for the ground to clear before delivering.
The traffickers were using a GPRS phone to communicate with their contacts at sea for direction before they could deliver the cargo.
The drug was disguised as dog food under the brand name and labeled, “Science Plan: Veterinary formulated Canine Senior for older dogs. New improved taste.” The whitish powder was concealed in nylon papers.
One of the suspects identified had, according to police, rented the apartment two days before the arrival of the drugs.
The suspect introduced his other accomplices as investors who wanted to rent the Jupiter Apartment, police boss said.
Other Kenyan suspects were Hassan Ibrahim, and Yusuf Hassan. Iranians suspects were identified as Ali Mohamed and Abduk Baseet. There was also Khan Mohamed, a Pakistani.
Police say they want to establish if the six were part of a syndicate, and that their intention is to break it by dismantling their local and international networks.
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Isn’t it just frightening that the police publicly admit they know it is Kibaki’s wife and his friends who are behind the recent brazen heroin imports but they cannot do anything. I mean these people actually park a ship full of heroin in dock area and just offload the drugs with speed boats and everybody just watches this as a game.
This drug dealer, who is the wife of the president of the republic of Kenya, is protected by Kenya police who are her body guards as she goes on with her illicit drug smuggling in Kenya and in the region.
I think it is time Kibaki is asked to take responsibility for his wife’s abuse of state resources and massive drug smuggling and trafficking in Kenya. Imagine Ida Odinga was doing this!
This is an outrage. Mary Wambui should be arrested by the DEA if her husband, the Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki keeps facilitating her drug trafficking operations in Kenya.
Osewe Baba unaonekana kama anti kikuyu na kibaraka wa luo elite tumekuw tukikuona kama mzalendo bila mpaka , msosholisti shujaa. Ukienda Kibos GK Prison nani ndio wengi? Prison ya kenya kwa jumla nani ndio wengi
KSB: Gagula, it depends on yr level of political consciousness. What have I done or said that is anti-Kikuyu? Does posting a list here from a reader constitute anti-Kikuyuism? If you must hear it direct from the horses mouth, I am anti-Kikuyu ruling class and their ethnic chauvinism. If you cannot differentiate between the Kikuyu ruling class and millions of ordinary Kikuyus suffering along side other Kenyans, then you still have a long way to go. To change Kenya, the country needs everybody. Martha Karua and Peter Kenneth are opposing this gang so are they also anti-Kikuyu. Wake up from your sleep and slumber.
First I do agree with you,but lazima uongeze chumvi kwa wa luo kidogo ndio tuone balance, angalia Anyang Nyongo anwatukana madakitari wakenya, ongeza chumvi ya hapa na pale.
And dont forget I am one of your greatest fan, and thank for allowing me to critisize you.
KSB: Galuga, sina ubaya na wewe. Let us debate honestly because the solution to the Kenyan crisis requires the input of everybody concerned. Look at ethnicity in Kenya like a pyramid. The ethnic bosses are or on top, are talking and collaborating to share the loot while the majority at the base are not communicating, being encouraged to hate one another and to fight so that those at the top can continue eating. I have no reason to hate the ordinary Mkikuyu who has nothing to do with the problems in our country. Lastly, chakula ina sikizana na chumvi kwa hivyo hakuna noma.
I do agree with you Menji ,Kibaki government protects drug berons and in my thinking its time he man Kibaki should be brought to UN, US radar, then action should be taken, the way they did to Noriaga, it beats no sense that Kibaki is inderectly has something to do with the drugs we are seing in kenya
Gagula, read this piece written by Kikuyus in Kenya.Majority of my Kikuyu people are against the rich Kikuyu leaders who spend time acquiring massive wealth at our expense. we need serious non-elite Kikuyus to lead us.We are stuck with Uhuru whose father robbed us of huge tracts of land,then sent many of our people to Rift Valley,thus the ongoing land conflict.Our Mau Mau survivors were never rewarded after the British left,unless they were eating with Kenyatta.
Challenging The Kikuyu Oligarchy
By Kikuyusforchange Secretariat in Deep Thoughts on April 24th, 2009
By Maina Kiai & Paul Muite
In Kenya, politics has hinged on the pre-eminence of ethnic identity since 1964; and today ethnicity has been elevated beyond all other identities and interests. We reject this notion totally and completely. None of us chooses the identity that we are born into, but as we grow older we take on various identities that make us who we are and determine our interests. We are of the Kikuyu ethnic community – and take pride in our language, culture and norms – but we are far more than that. We see ourselves as Kenyan first and foremost with a national outlook and perspective.
But we have suffered for this view, being called “traitors” and “disloyal;” even receiving credible death threats.
Since 2004, it has become apparent that what NARC stood for, nationally, has been seriously eroded. Mwai Kibaki declared in his campaigns he was for zero tolerance on corruption; yet he seems to be condoning it. He had stated that he would operate a meritocracy with due regard to the diversity of Kenya; yet his appointments to the most sensitive and crucial offices are tilted to one ethnic group and its relatives. He had asserted that he would change Kenya from the dark days of the Moi years, raising our hopes and aspirations; but he was soon recruiting Moi’s people-especially if they were his kith and kin–to crucial positions in public service. Patronage and fear has been used. Simply put, his 2002 rhetoric was exactly that – rhetoric- and now we are continuing ‘business as usual’.
For us, it does not matter what ethnic group the leadership comes from: we expect and demand a government which has the interests of the nation at heart, which is fair, honest, effective, accountable and transparent. And we expect the government to follow the law, especially with regard to human life, and fundamental rights. We challenged Daniel arap Moi on these issues. We can challenge anyone – including Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, George Saitoti, Musalia Mudavadi, Martha Karua and Uhuru Kenyatta – interested in being president of Kenya. Why can’t we challenge Mwai Kibaki?
We know what we have fallen foul of is something larger than ‘political opposition’ or ‘dissent’. It is a bigger problem that the Kikuyu community and its allies must urgently confront.
It is the issue of “speaking with one voice.” This is the question of blind ethnic loyalty to decisions made by some wealthy old men (there are no women here) who determine the leadership of the community and convince us, mostly through trickery and fear, to follow. There is nothing democratic or progressive about it. They do it on their own, and without our input, behind closed doors and in clubs where the majority of the Kikuyu can never get access. These are the Kikuyu oligarchy, and they are dangerous because they work on the assumption that the rest of the community, and indeed the country, are fools and can be taken for a ride. It is a fatal road we drive along. Their decisions, cloaked in forged assumptions of ethnic nationalism and pride, are never about the good of the nation – or even the good of the community. It is all about themselves, and extending their hold and power over Kenya for their own selfish benefit.
With the elevation of ethnic politics in Kenya, this behind-closed-doors community trickery is dangerous and unacceptable within any community. But we are addressing ourselves to the Kikuyu community at this point, because the power, assumptions and suspicions of the Kikuyu political elite is at a critical crossroads and could destroy this country.
“Speaking with one voice” suggests that because of our ethnic heritage we have the same values, interests and ideals, and we should therefore accept the things that these old men, sipping single malt whisky after a game of golf, decide for us. But nothing could be further from reality. In fact, critically assessed, this class – conservative, corrupt and chauvinistic – has nothing but disdain for the majority of Kikuyu, who are poor and struggling, and pay for their arrogance and mistakes. If they did care for poor ordinary Kikuyu, then some of the things that have happened over the last few years would never have been condoned.
Consider the following. It is during the time of a Kikuyu president, with a Kikuyu Minister for Internal security, a Kikuyu intelligence chief, a Kikuyu head of CID, a Kikuyu PS in internal security, when there are extra-judicial killings of poor young Kikuyu men, claimed to be Mungiki. More than 600 cases are documented of these deaths in 2006, and hundreds more disappeared. For the sake of argument, let’s assume they were Mungiki – despite the fact human rights defenders are sure that more than two-thirds of them were not. There are laws that govern these matters. Why were they not used? Killing poor young Kikuyu men, illegally, does not solve the problem of Mungiki. It shows utter contempt for the poor. It shows us that although we are expected to ‘speak with one voice’; the Kikuyu community is certainly not one. There is the powerful, old class and there is the “other” Kikuyu.
We doubt that there has ever been such a large-scale state-sponsored killing of Kikuyu since the Emergency period or during the clashes in the 1990s; yet none in the oligarchy has uttered a word in protest or shock. The silence – from the president down – speaks volumes about the view of the poor.
And consider this. When the post-election violence started in January 2008, these same Kikuyu men were in control of the security apparatus. They decided it was better to deploy security to Uhuru Park, to prevent Raila Odinga and his supporters from gathering there, than to stop the killings of Kikuyus – mostly peasants – in Eldoret. We know for a fact that emissaries were sent to State House and Harambee House to plead that the Kenya Airforce be deployed to fly jets over the affected areas to ward off the invaders and others who had targeted the Kikuyu in Eldoret. But these suggestions were rebuffed. The effect is that peaceful protests at Uhuru Park were prevented, and security forces concentrated on killing opposition demonstrators in Western Kenya – at the cost of hundreds of lives in Rift Valley, and the destruction of property worth millions belonging to the poor.
And last but not least: listen carefully to the old guard, and some of their new recruits. They put the entire community at risk with reckless and derogatory comments that undermine national unity. Comments like the “Stock Exchange is not a fish market” are arrogant and demeaning to everyone, and exacerbate perceptions that the Kikuyu leadership feels superior, and needs to be taught a lesson. Unfortunately, because this leadership is inaccessible and far removed, these lessons are “taught”–tragically–to the ordinary Kikuyu who are more accessible, rather than the leadership.
We are all diminished by stereotypes and chauvinism. We would dismiss the attitudes of old men with humor, but for the fact their destructive views translate directly into the significant state power they wield.
Expecting us to speak with one voice does not protect our interests. It protects theirs. Statements that assert—as Minister John Michuki recently did – that the state has no obligation to explain why it conducted an illegal act in raiding the Standard Group, show a dangerous attitude. His mindset is essentially that if something is done by the state, it cannot be wrong. So if the state kills, say 2000 people in the name of “state security”, we should not ask questions? It is instructive that John Michuki was in charge when a number of killings by the state have occurred – young Kikuyu men pre-election; in Western Kenya during the post-election crisis; in ‘security operations’ in Mt. Elgon and Mandera–and there has been no accountability.
This mentality is not new in Kenya. It was the prevalent attitude of the colonial government, the Kenyatta government, and Moi’s government. Now we have that old political class, dangerously entrenched by a sense of ethnic ‘entitlement’. Kikuyus should realize that this does not bode well for the nation, let alone their community.
But this attitude is not just the prerogative of powerful politicians; it has also affected the middle class and ordinary Kikuyu. There is a dangerous sense of victimhood and entitlement.
The feeling of victimhood is now deeply entrenched in the community—and understandably so, given the colonial emergency, the clashes in the 1990s, and the post election violence in Eldoret—but it is coupled with a sense of entitlement and superiority over other communities, expressed in attitudes that the Kikuyu are somehow superior; that they work harder than other Kenyans; that they have more financial and entrepreneurial sense than others; and better able to govern than others. It is also expressed in derogatory assumptions and stereotypes about other communities.
This is foolhardy, a recipe for disaster and chaos: and once we start ranking people and communities, we will be ranked ourselves. It has made our position precarious, and if we don’t start asking questions of this “leadership,” we will only have ourselves to blame if the current tensions explode.
This is the time to re-think and reject the old class, whose interest is now focused on ensuring that their sons (never daughters) take over from them as the “leaders” of the community. These ‘sons’ have no skills or vision to lead, just a sense of entitlement in the “family” business. This is not just contemptuous of the ordinary Kikuyu, but also of the entire nation. It assumes that they can continue to maintain this charade, cloaking their personal interests as community interests.
We should learn from the experiences in other countries. Look at the demons and forces unleashed in the Balkans by Serbian leaders who continuously highlighted what they described as the Serbs’ historical grievances, as well as their “specialness,” playing on that for their own political ends. But even closer to home is Rwanda. Can any of us, here in Kenya, forget what happened there? By whipping up anger about historical injustices against the Hutu majority, and emphasizing the “right” of Hutus to rule, Hutu leaders facilitated the genocide. And always, it is the ordinary Hutus who paid the price for not questioning received “wisdom.”
This is a moment of truth for the Kikuyus as a whole. We recognize that much of what we have said may not be be palatable to many. It will, in fact, be painful. But these are truths we cannot run away from. Let us have a robust debate, but one that is based on what each of us has analyzed for him or herself.
If there was ever a time for change and challenge, it is now.
When Kenyatta followed ethnic preferences in the redistribution of land that took place after independence, much of the land went to a small Kikuyu elite. Some established or took over highland plantations and continued to employ locals as labor. President Moi, in particular, during his long reign shamelessly created, manipulated, and advertised “tribal” loyalties in an effort to control the population and enrich certain powerful social groups.
“Tribalism” was an effective way to keep power, but it did not necessarily reflect Kenyan society. The enrichment brought by government corruption has continued to consolidate the power of a small landholding elite. However, this elite is now more markedly mixed ethnically because of Moi’s policies of privileging Kalenjin and others. President Kibaki selected as his vice-president a Kamba man, Steven Kalonzo Musyoka, who came in third in the disputed election running in a third party.
Violence and “Nairobbery”
Violence has long played a role in Kenyan politics and society. Moi, for example, deliberately organized attacks by hired thugs on his enemies to convince Westerners that he was the only one capable of keeping order in Kenya. Under his regime—in which the current President, Mwai Kibaki, was Vice-President—most of the government ministers pursued corrupt careers that persist under Kibaki. Hired thugs have now become, according to Amnesty International, a prominent feature of the political scene and the source of some of the murders/assassinations.
But hired thugs have been perpetually on the scene, drawn from an underclass with nothing to lose and no jobs. In the 1990s they burned down Gikomba to get the land for developers/corrupt government officials. Kenyan elections have been notoriously corrupt and have involved, to a greater or lesser extent, attacks by thugs on voters in every election. Toward the end of his regime Moi used them as well as the police to attack opposition leaders in the yearly protests in favor of multi-party government on Saba-Saba, July 7th.
Kenya’s 2006 Nobel Peace Prizewinner, Dr. Wangari Maathai, was the victim of one of these attacks while leading a protest and so spent time in hospital as well as in jail, while Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife were beaten by thugs during a brief visit to Kenya more recently. Banditry and other forms of robbery have been common in and around Nairobi in particular, but also in some rural areas. A friend who was kidnapped and robbed in Nairobi christened it “Nairobbery”.
Such violence and corruption also should not surprise us. Kenya’s colonial regime relied on violence, especially during the 1950s Emergency. The British declared the Emergency when urban and rural guerrilla warfare began in central Kenya in 1952. Anti-colonial Kenyan nationalists (dominantly but not exclusively Kikuyu) attempted to achieve independence, calling themselves the Land and Freedom army, but called (and vilified) by the British as “Mau Mau.” Those deemed to be Mau Mau fighters, or terrorists, along with many civilians, were interned in concentration camps and murdered by the thousands (fewer than a hundred whites were killed in the uprising).
by Claire Robertson
NYERI RESIDENTS WANT OCAMPO 6 TRIED AT THE HAGUE!!!!
Nyeri residents want the Ocampo Six tried at The Hague as a deterrent to further violence.
This was the overwhelming message they gave yesterday at a meeting organised by rights campaigner Maina Kiai, who was recently appointed a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
The residents were shown a film Kesho Itakuja: Kupata Haki Nchini Kenya, made by InformAction and Mr Kiai.
In the debate that followed, a majority of residents queried the government’s motive in trying to defer the ICC cases, saying, IDPs were more important than the six individuals.
The Ocampo Six trials have of late dominated headlines, with politicians holding rallies on the issue every week.
This, according to some Nyeri residents, showed that politicians were more keen on saving themselves from prosecution than seeking justice for post-election violence victims.
A resident, Mr John Wachira, said he feared the issue would interfere with the 2012 General Election.
“As long as we view the Ocampo Six as the most important public matter today, this nation will not heal from the wounds of 2008. It seems like we have not learnt a single lesson from the fighting,” he said.
“Fear of The Hague will make some people tone down their talk, which if unchecked, could incite violence. To show that the ICC is serious, the Ocampo Six must go to The Hague,” added Mr Wachira.
Participants also said they did not trust the current Judiciary to try the violence perpetrators.
“Let the big fish go to The Hague. I think we can try the small ones here, but I am not sure we can prosecute the big ones,” a participant said.
Mr Kiai said there was even more reason to bring in the ICC as the police could not be asked to investigate themselves.
“Let us not play with justice. We don’t yet have the capacity to deal with this issue, whether it be in the Judiciary or in terms of political will,” he said.
Mr Kiai said the energy being expended on trying to shield the Ocampo Six from the ICC was at the expense of IDPs.
“What we need to do is to ask tough questions of our leaders. We are sparing no effort to defend the six while the real victims languish in camps,” he said.
“We cannot go on assuming our view is the only one. There are many perspectives to the ICC debate that cannot be ignored,” Mr Kiai said.
He said only the political perspective was being highlighted, yet the social aspect of justice for the victims was being ignored.
“Let us have both the ICC and a local tribunal for the victims’ sake,” Mr Kiai said. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/regional/Ny….pj/-/index.html
hehe KIBAKI’S OWN BACKYARD IS ROOTING FOR THE HAGUE TRAIL FOR THE OCAMPO 6!! KENYANS KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR THE COUNTRY FOR SURE
UHURU KENYATTA will be replaced by another GEMA-PNU Royalist named KIMUNYA THE REGENT THIEF>There is no any other son or a daughter from other tribes who can be entrusted by GEMA-Mafia>.KIMUNYA IN LINE TO REPLACE UHURU .
Saturday, 02 April 2011 00:02 BY STAR REPORTER . BRIGHT FUTURE:Trade Minister Amos Kimunya
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TRANSPORT Minister Amos Kimunya could replace Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta as Finance Minister if charges against Uhuru are confirmed by the International Criminal Court.
Kimunya is also being fronted as a possible presidential candidate for central Kenya should Uhuru be unable to contest the elections in 2012, according to multiple sources close to President Kibaki and the minister himself,.“There is general talk that the Kikuyu community may not have a strong candidate like it happened to Rift Valley when President Daniel Moi left power. So Kimunya is being fronted by some rich and powerful people who think that he can replace Uhuru and be able to protect the community’s interests,” a PNU Cabinet minister said yesterday.
The ICC factor has complicated the Kibaki succession politics in central Kenya as he is expected to retire in less than 13 month, assuming the elections are held on the second Tuesday of August next year as stipulated by the constitution.
In Central Province, Gichugu MP Martha Karua has declared her interest in the presidency. Gatanga MP Peter Kenneth is widely rumoured to be a possible presidential candidate in 2012, although he has yet declared his interest.
Last November Kimunya was made Deputy Leader of Government Business in Parliament. He is said to be close to the President and the First Family.“Although he does not enjoy a lot of support from MPs, he has the President’s ear. Most of the time when we go for Cabinet meetings, Kimunya is the one who summarises what has been agreed and sometimes he acts like he is the Secretary to the Cabinet even when Muthaura is present,” an ODM minister said.
Uhuru will appear before the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber next Thursday to hear the charges being brought against him by Chief Prosecutor Louise Moreno-Ocampo for crimes against humanity committed around the December 2007 election.
Uhuru has been vigorously campaigning in recent months and last week was made the senior elder of the Kikuyu. He has insisted in his rallies that he will contest the Presidency in 2012 but some of his colleagues from central Kenya fear that this may not be possible if the ICC confirms the charges against him.
Apart from Kimunya, another group of Central Kenya leaders are exploring the possibility of Internal Security minister George Saitoti in case Kimunya proves difficult to market in Central and nationally.“We have heard talk that there are people in PNU who want Saitoti to be the PNU alliance candidate in 2012 in place of Uhuru. But nothing serious has been discussed and we are all waiting to see how events turn out,” said Katoo Ole Metito, a close ally of Saitoti.
Leaders from Meru are apparently considering PNU Secretary-General and Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi as an alternative candidate should Uhuru be ruled out.
Laikipia East MP Mwangi Kiunjuri, the leader of the Grand National Union Party, is also mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. He has previously claimed that powerful forces in government were out to undermine him.“They thought the Water ministry gave me too much political mileage on the ground. With ICC threatening to alter the political terrain, Kimunya is being propped up to become a political kingpin and must be shielded from competition. These tricks will not work and must be resisted,” Kiunjuri said. There has been a flurry of political activity in central Kenya with former MPs reviving moribund parties in preparation for 2012.
Former ministers Mutahi Kagwe and Njeru Ndwiga have re-activated the Social Democratic Party as Secretary General and National Vice-chairman respectively. Former minister Chris Murungaru is also trying to revive President Kibaki’s former Democratic Party. Civil society activists and youthful professionals have been trooping to Safina which is starting to hit the campaign trial in by-elections.
Kimunya was born in Murang’a but immediately migrated to Nyandaura district where he got elected as the MP for Kipipiri. He is serving his second term in Parliament.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Nairobi. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) and a Certified Public Secretary (CPS-K). He previously served as the Chairperson of ICPAK which is the national body of Certified Public Accountants.
President Kibaki appointed Kimunya Minister of Lands and Settlement in 2003 following a landslide victory by Narc. On February 14, 2006 he was appointed as Minister of Finance by President Kibaki following the resignation of David Mwiraria following the Anglo Leasing scandal. Kimunya was re-appointed Finance minister by Kibaki in January 2008 following the disputed Presidential elections.
On July 2, 2008, Kimunya lost a parliamentary vote of no confidence over the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel which allegedly had been sold for far less than its actual value to the Libyan company LAICO. Kimunya resigned in July 2008 despite having announced earlier, “I would rather die than resign!”
In November 2008, an official inquiry cleared Kimunya of any wrongdoing. The commission’s report was not made public. Kimunya was reappointed to the cabinet by President Kibaki as Minister of Trade in January 2009.
This is Hate Speech by Masterminds of Impunity &Hate Kikuyu chauvinistin Kiambu!!
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Uhuru said
“Riu tondu atindaga akiuga ni tunyuaga muno-ri, no anga tunyuaga na nyina? Na tondu atindaga akiuga tuthii Hague ri, Hague iyo ni ya nyina? Hague ni kwa nyukwa guku ugutinda ukiina? (Now that Raila keeps describing some of us as drunkards, do we go drinking with his wife? And now that he keeps telling us to go to The Hague, is that Hague his mother’s place? Is The Hague your mother’s place for you to keep singing about it?),” he asked at Githunguri.
Kiunjuri said
“Twaga kwaria uhoro wa Raila Odinga riu, tutikamenya kiria gigaturia twita Gikuyu. “If we don’t talk about Raila now, we shall be caught unawares as a community),” he said when the convoy stopped at Kiambu.
Hiti ihitagwo ni mundu na muthoniwe na nyumba itari ndundu iguthagwo na ihiga rimwe (A hyena is hunted by a man and his in-law and a house that is divided is destroyed by one stone),” said Mr Kiunjuri in his calling on the Kikuyu community to unite behind Mr Kenyatta.
“Hiti ituraga ifuataga mundu yetereire guoko kugue. No hiti ino no nginya tumieherie (A hyena hunts by following you in the hope that your swinging hand will fall off. But we must get rid of this hyena now),” he added.
“Rekei ndimwire. tribal slur gititumagwo uthoni tondu ihii mungiikara nacio no iriina nguru. Muhiiro wa tribal slur uthiragira kahiuini (Let me tell you, uncircumcised boys are not invited to dowry negotiations because, as you know, boys will always take time to sing their play songs. An uncircumcised boy’s goings are only ended when he faces the knife).
“Raila ti kimundu kiega kihana nyamu iria iriaga nguku na matumbi macio (Raila is not a good person. He is like the animal that eats the chicken and its eggs).
Muthama said
Who said his votes had been stolen and asked his people to fight? Who asked people to uproot the railway in Kibera, to remove people from their houses and occupy them?” he asked.
“Ucio ni muguruki (He is insane),” he added.
“This country cannot be governed using riddles and football commentary, and by people who cannot speak grammatical Kiswahili,” said Mr Muthama.
“We’re going to the polls next year and we are going to send him (Raila) back home to fish,” he said in apparent reference to the PM.
urgency, can he please look into the plight of these hungry Kenyans who are going to the extreme in order to survive.
Hungry IDPs sick from eating cats
Twenty five IDPs were taken ill after eating cats at Gwakung’u IDP camp in Ndaragwa constituency. The victims were from seven families who slaughtered four cats on Monday evening when they failed to get supper. Among those affected were two elderly women aged between 70 and 80, and seven children.
Those who were able to travel to the nearby Kahembe dispensary were treated for stomach problems and diarrhoea, while the rest remained at the camp as they had no means to get to hospital.
Yesterday, many of the affected were still in agony, taking pain killers and drinking water. Joseph Mwangi, a father of eight who slaughtered the cats, said they were extremely hungry. “It was after my wife gave me the go ahead that I slaughtered them at a nearby bush. I then shared the meat among six other families who were also starving,” he said. He said this is not the first time they have eaten cat meat.
His wife Susan Muthoni, who is sick from the meat, said she gave the meat to her already malnourished children. “I prepared it like a normal meal, just like I have done in the past when we have had to feed on the cats. They ate and went to bed only to wake up with diarrhoea and stomach problems,” she said.
Camp chairman Charles Kariuki said the problem had been caused by the government’s failure to provide them with relief food. He said the last time they received food was last December when President Kibaki cancelled his Christmas festivities. “We have written to the members of the provincial administration since January but no one has come to our rescue. They have always given us false promises,” he said. He said school-going children at the camp have stopped attending due to hunger.
While these poor IDP Kikuyus are eating cats because there is no food from Murugi, another Kikuyu minister concerned with them, their King Uhuru is milking the Treasury dry.
The Treasury is again on the spot for failing to account for Sh714 billion collected from taxpayers over two financial years.
The Mars Group, a non-governmental anti-corruption watchdog, on Wednesday raised the red flag over the amount said to have been collected by the government as tax revenue during the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 financial years but is yet to be accounted for.
Group chief executive Mwalimu Mati released a report revealing that the Treasury had not accounted for Sh489 billion in tax revenue raised in 2007/2008 and another Sh215 billion in 2008/2009, among others.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Treasury+on+the+spot+over+Sh714bn+/-/1056/1160892/-/wicyeyz/-/index.html
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