On Sunday March 27 the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, made the following statement before he was enthroned a Kikuyu Elder and ‘King’ of the Agikuyu. ‘We will not allow ourselves to be killed just because we do not follow our leaders. Those who fail to do this, we will follow them to their homes and expose them as the ones who are betraying us. We will say ‘See, this person is the one who is failing to work with us’. We will not go into the issues of making him elder or King.
However, as a group that comprises members of the Agikuyu community we find the statements he made completely irresponsible, especially coming from a leader who also serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. They are not only dangerous, but they are intra-ethnically and inter-ethnically divisive as well as detrimental to the national cohesiveness most of us are working so hard for, following the 2007 PEV.
In our opinion these comments are also a direct threat to internal and national democracy as they purport to determine, without input from elsewhere, what the stand of Kenya’s largest community is, as regards issues such as the ICC or post-2012 political leadership.
We want to inform the Deputy Prime Minister that we cannot stand aside and watch him completely ignore the benefits of the new constitution as regards sovereignty of the people, be they Kikuyus or members of other communities. We hereby remind him that we, the Kenyan people, will decide who will lead us.
In addition, we find the comment that ‘we died because of not following our leaders’ callous, false and insensitive, especially to the thousands of mainly Kikuyus who even now find themselves out of home and hearth, as IDPs, in various parts of the country. The Deputy Prime Minister seems to have forgotten that these Kikuyus are actually in their present predicament because they did exactly what he is suggesting: voted for our leaders in 2007, literally to a man!
We want to remind Uhuru that Agikuyus still live in camps as IDPs, and they have received neither justice nor compensation, three years on. This is after they watched their loved ones burnt to death in a church, or hacked or shot dead with arrows, or raped, or forcefully moved out of their houses and land and their hard-earned property taken over. We also want to remind the Deputy Prime Minister that despite his new found friendship with William Ruto, these victims of the 2007 post-election atrocities, and even those of the 1992 and 1997 atrocities, have still been unable to go back home. We are being forced to buy them land elsewhere, against new resistance from other communities.
We also want to remind the Deputy Prime Minister that the Agikuyu have not been charged at the Hague. On April 8 he will be going to the Hague to represent himself, in his own capacity. He will not be going to represent the Agikuyu as Kikuyu King or Elder. This means that his defence there, and even his defence here (which now seems to be focused on fighting the Prime Minister), are his personal wars: they are not between the Agikuyu and Ocampo, and certainly not between the Agikuyu and Raila.
Uhuru Kenyatta must realize that, unlike him, most Kikuyus are more interested in preventing a re-occurrence of election-related violence next year, getting justice for the victims of the last election-related violence incidences, and getting them compensated and resettled. We know that he has the capacity, by himself, to take care of himself as regards political wars with his rivals, or the cases against him at the ICC.
We also make this statement because we have deliberately and consistently taken a stand against the ethnicization of the ICC process, and we take the comments he made as a direct threat to us. We believe they are targeted to us because we have publicly stated that the ICC is not about Kikuyus, but about six individuals-a position that goes against his message to Kikuyus. We repeat, again, that six individuals are going to answer to charges at the Hague: whilst others will be tried locally, also in their own personal capacity. This is not about Kikuyus, Kalenjins, Merus, Somalis, Kisiis, Luos, etc.
We conclude by calling out to all our independent-minded political leaders in Central Province. Leaders like Paul Muite, Martha Karua, Peter Kenneth: new aspiring leadership in every county: to take heart. We ask them not to accept to be intimidated or threatened, or forced to kow-tow to a monolithic, undemocratic brand of politics.
As this generation of Kenyan voters we ask anyone who wants to lead us not to be forced to follow a tribal political idealogy out of fear. Millions of Kenyans are independent enough: what we are looking for is independent leadership that will rally us behind them through ideas and policy: not through threats or coercion. That time has passed; we have learnt our lessons well, and we will vote only for those leaders who have policies that will do the greatest good, to the greatest number of Kenyans.
Ngunjiri on behalf of Kikuyus for Change
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Uhuru is a disgrace to humanity just where in Runda did he crop up? such comments are uncalled for,they are tantamount to commiting suicide,looking upon such dimwit will make ourselves look like intelectual midgets,these Kikuyus are thinking for the likes of Uhuru kenyatta.
Fair thee well Uhuru and Ruto at The Hague
If you’re looking for the origins of Kenya’s ethnic tensions, look to its colonial past. Far from leaving behind democratic institutions and cultures, Britain bequeathed to its former colonies corrupted and corruptible governments.
Colonial officials hand-picked political successors as they left in the wake of World War II, lavishing political and economic favours on their proteges. This process created elites whose power extended into the post-colonial era.
Added to this was a distinctly colonial view of the rule of law, which saw the British leave behind legal systems that facilitated tyranny, oppression and poverty rather than open, accountable government. And compounding these legacies was Britain’s famous imperial policy of ‘divide and rule,’ playing one side off another, which often turned fluid groups of individuals into immutable ethnic units.
In many former colonies, the British picked favourites from among these newly solidified ethnic groups and left others out in the cold. We are often told that age-old tribal hatreds drive today’s conflicts in Africa. In fact, both ethnic conflict and its attendant grievances are colonial phenomena.
It’s no wonder that newly independent countries such as Kenya maintained and even deepened the old imperial heritage of authoritarianism and ethnic division.
The British had spent decades trying to keep the Luo and Kikuyu divided, quite rightly fearing that if the two groups ever united, their combined power could bring down the colonial order. Indeed, a short-lived Luo-Kikuyu alliance in the late 1950s hastened Britain’s retreat from Kenya and forced the release of Jomo Kenyatta from a colonial detention camp.
But before their departure, the British schooled the future Kenyans on the lessons of a very British model of democratic elections. Britain was determined to protect its economic and geopolitical interests during the decolonisation process, and it did most everything short of stuffing ballot boxes to do so. That set dangerous precedents.
Among other manoeuvres, the British drew electoral boundaries to cut the representation of groups they thought might cause trouble and empowered the provincial administration to manipulate supposedly democratic outcomes.
Old habits die hard. Three years after Kenya became independent in 1963, the Luo-Kikuyu alliance fell apart. Kenyatta and his Kikuyu elite took over the state; Oginga Odinga formed an opposition party that was eventually quashed. Kenyatta established a one-party state in 1969 and tossed the opposition, including Odinga, into detention, much as the British had done to him and his cronies during colonial rule in the 1950s. The Kikuyu then enjoyed many of the country’s spoils.
The Kikuyu’s fortunes took a turn for the worse when Daniel arap Moi, a member of the Kalenjin ethnic minority, assumed dictatorial power in 1978. He managed to hang on for more than two decades. Western Kenya enjoyed the economic benefits of state largesse until 2002, at which point the pendulum again swung back to the Kikuyu, led by the incoming President Kibaki.
Fears of ethnic ascendancies, power-hungry political elites, undemocratic processes and institutions – all are hallmarks of today’s Kenya, just as they were during British colonial rule. This does not excuse the undemocratic behaviour of President Kibaki, who is not a true voice of the masses. It does not excuse the horrific violence that unfolded in 2008 either.
Rather, it suggests that the undemocratic historical trajectory that Kenya has been moving along was launched at the inception of British colonial rule more than a century ago.
In retrospect, the wonder is not that Kenya descended into ethnic violence. The wonder is that it didn’t happen sooner.
Caroline Elkins
Unearthing of the sources of tribal disagreements and ethno-politics in Kenya
1969 Kenya was one filled with a feeling of outside threat by the government and the ruling elite, mostly from Kiambu District. They resorted to using violence- it was the era of use of tear gas, closure of Nairobi University after riots, firing of live ammunition into crowds, peaceful or not, and detention of many of the KPU leaders and supporters. The electoral system that emerged with one candidate was not an electoral democracy but one of acclamation for the candidate. The 1974 general elections showed that there was ennui within the voters with only 57% of registered voters voting. There were no presidential elections and these were the elligibility requirements for those vieing for any position.
•All aspirants had to be life members of KANU.
•Former KPU members had to have been members of KANU for a period of three consecutive years since being released from detention.
•All candidates and in particular former KPU members had to identify themselves with the government and KANU policies.
The only important force that challenged this and the government was Oginga Odinga and the hope he represented for his people, the Luo. The detention was viewed as an affront to the Luo by the ruling Kikuyu elite. The transfer of 1.6 million hectares of land to the ruling elite and others, mainly Kikuyu in origin led to an open challenging of the government even within KANU. The murder of an advocate for the welfare of the common citizen, JM Kariuki (was the next possible successor to Kenyatta), a murder that was successfully covered up by the government whose ruling elite were threatened, was another momentary upheaval in KANU. The succession crisis triggered a formation of group advocating for constitution change. Their efforts were thwarted by the Attorney general making it an offence to talk, think or discuss any such thing as the death of the president. KANU was thus able to nominate a presidential candidate in the absence of opposition parties, which it did after the death of Kenyatta in August 1978.
Being the sole candidate for president of KANU in the October 1978 elections, he was uninanimously elected and sworn in. In a seemingly Kenyatta dominated KANU, he was able to consolidate his position with the help of Kibaki and Njonjo appointing the former Vice president and retaining the latter as Attorney general. The 1979 general elections enhanced his power within KANU. Oginga Odinga was still not cleared to vie for elections, another trigger for riots at the Nairobi University. Moi, seeking to reduce power of Kikuyu elite, tried to make a seemingly even distribution of his cabinet, and gave Odinga a position as Chairman of the Cotton Lint and Seed Marketing Board and life membership to KANU. However he was expelled from Kanu in 1982 for questioning the state of the economy which was on the decline due to poor terms of trade and a resultant heavy borrowing from international coffers.
An attempt by Odinga and his supporters to register a party (Kenya African Socialist Alliance (KASA)) was thwarted by a constitutional amendment that changed Kenya into a de jure one party system. It was followed by a subsequent house arrest of Odinga and many people were detained without hearing. The attempted 1982 coup de etat rocked Moi’s seeming control though he managed to quel it. He outmanoeuvred any attempts to throw him out and announced that elections would be held a year earlier, in an attempt to remove any members of his cabinet that he felt were against him. Odinga was yet again not cleared to vye. Only 48% of registered voters turned up.
In 1986, he started of a witch-hunt that still haunt many up to today. It was supposedly a crack down of anti-government groups who wanted to overthrow the government and many people were detained and many went on exile especially Nairobi University students. The 1988 elections (secret ballot replaced by queue voting) were the turning point for many questioning their validity, that they were rigged, a resurrection of opposition. Calls started getting louder for multi-party democracy for example the 1990 saba-saba (7-7 seventh July) riots and other riots in major cities and towns leading to more that 100 deaths. All multi-party proponents were rounded up and detained, people from across many ethnic lines. The 1992 elections were ridden with violence against opposition members, notable is the raiding of the property and harassment of the first and only contender against Moi for Baringo he bowed out of the race.
In an attempt to show that multi-party politics leads to ethnic violence and civil war, the government set in motion a series of events never imagined. In preparation for the 1992 general elections, it preached that propaganda, targeting and successfully instigated ethnic conflict in the Rift-valley province which has a large number of mixed voters and succeeded in killing and displacing many of these potential voters. The task forces set to investigate these clashes were either partisan and when challenged and another picked, their reports about the clashes being politically instigated and used to influence number of voters was rejected, the whole process stopped.
The effect of ethnic conflict of 1992 on the Kenyan opposition was devastating. While in 1992 Moi was facing three major opposition parties the conflicts often along ethnic lines divided them into 6 Parties, not one of them having the influence to challenge the government.
The “ethnicizing” of multi-party elections started then, so did the idea that one ethnic group controls a particular vote pattern and determines the winner of an electoral mandate.
Dieser Beitrag
The ethnic partitioning of Kenya’s geo-politics by the British colonists contributed to the current ethnic crisis in Kenya.
In a bid to sustain their control over the nation when the call for independence was high, the British colonists, as in other African countries, resorted to divide-and-rule tactics of handing over power to a particular ethnic elite that are favourable to its continuous exploitation of the nation’s huge resources after lumping different ethnic groups with different cultures together without their consent.
Furthermore, inability to lift the masses out of economic deprivation fuel this ethnic division. Neo-liberal capitalism supervised by Kibaki’s government coupled with high corruption only bring this crisis to its ripened state.
The only way to avert the crisis in Kenya is for a working class solidarity. The source of the crisis in Kenya is the neo-liberal economic policy that had deprived millions access to basic lives which has degenerated to ethnic disharmony in the absence of a working class solidarity that will oppose economic policies of public service privatization, social service commercialization, trade liberalization and retrenchment. This is where the role of the labour leadership comes in.
Workers, cutting across ethnic lines can unite all other poor and oppressed class together to oppose economic and political policies that deprive the masses the basic necessities of lives. This will mean the formation of a working class political party that will oppose imperialism, neo-liberalism and capitalism but will fight for the nationalization of the commanding height of the economy under the working poor democratic political control and management, which will see the huge resources of the country, rather than going to the pockets of the rich few in big business and multinationals, will be used to provide adequate and secure jobs for all citizens, adequate living wages for workers, massive development of the economy, technology and infrastructure and provision of basic social services like free education, healthcare, housing, road, etc.
This will mean the labour leadership abandoning the political support for the corrupt ruling capitalist class and wrest power from the political class through a democratic socialist policies. Though the example of failed Stalinist Soviet Union may be cited, but it is obvious that the lack of democratic control of the economy by the masses led to the collapse of the Stalinist Russia (a caricature of genuine Marxism), yet the gains of nationalised Soviet economy, despite its caricature, has never being rivaled in the world.
It is however unfortunate that the labour leadership in Kenya has been running away from this. Rather than lead the masses, it has been echoing imperialism’s and Kibaki’s slogan for peace without defining any alternative for achieving peace. The labour leadership even condemned the protest led by civil societies to reject the posture of imperialist nations. A genuine labour leadership will call for a rerun of the elections and end to all neo-liberal capitalist policies alongside building a pan-Kenya political platform to provide radical alternative to the two pro-imperialist candidates. Political activities would have been built around these programmes.
The imperialist governments fear the radicalization of the masses who may be emboldened to move towards radical economic demands. This further shows the rotten nature of imperialism which the labour leadership are so entangled with.
What is happening in Kenya resembles to some degree what is obtainable in many African countries where neo-liberal capitalist economic policies presided over by the pro-capitalist cum corrupt governments on behalf of imperialism and local big businesses, have led to economic deprivation for the masses who are looking for alternatives but could not find one in their labour leaderships (who prefer to hobnob with imperialism rather than fight for the masses).
From South Africa where the lack of independent political leadership of Cosatu has led to masses choosing between the two evils of Mbeki or Zuma (both of whom stand for neo-liberalism), to Nigeria where failure of the labour leadership, despite having led seven general strike, to provide radical, working class political alternative for the exploited masses, thus making the masses to choose among the arch-neo-liberalist capitalist elements, leading to continuation of the old ruinous capitalist policies by a new government that emerged from a rigged election. The 2008 crisis in Kenya affected other East African Countries that depend on Kenya’s refined oil.
Therefore, unless the genuine working class and youth activists start building a political alternative to the rotten capitalist one around African countries, misery will continue. A genuine working class platform will fight for socialist voluntary collaboration of all ethnic groups, not only in Kenya, but in the whole Africa to build the nations and continent for the benefits of the millions and not millionaires as against the divisive politics of capitalism and imperialism. It is only the working people’s alliance which can combat neo-liberal capitalism that can unite all ethnic groups together, not only in Kenya and Africa, but around the whole world.
Kola Ibrahim
Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife)
kmarx4live@yahoo.com
The Star – .Wambui WA MWAI (KIBAKIS KIKUYU TRADITIONALLY MARRIED TO KIBAKI FROM OTHAYA=) !warns ICC against Uhuru arrest threat .
Thursday, 31 March 2011 00:02 BY GEORGE MURAGE
. PNU activist Mary Wambui has defended Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta over allegations that he was involved in the post-election violence. Wambui warned of undisclosed consequences if the ICC jails or detains Uhuru.
The outspoken activist also defended former police commisioner Hussein Ali and Head of public service Francis Muthaura over the cases facing them.”We shall defend them to the end and if they don’t come back they (ICC) will know who we are,” she said.
Wambui said Uhuru led other leaders to plead with the youth to maintain peace during the violence and wondered why he is being ‘persecuted’.
On IDPs, Wambui hit out at some of their leaders who are misleading the victims to refuse to the land offered by the government.”Any Kenyan can live in any part of the country and we castigate those people in Mau Narok and Taita who are opposed to IDPs being resettled there,” she said. Wambui was speaking in Karunga, Ol Kalou during a farmers’ field day where MEA limited donated fertilser and maize seeds to farmers.
She challenged the government to move fast and deliver fertiliser and seed to farmers before the long rains start.”We are urge the concerned ministry to move fast and deliver the seeds and fertiliser so that farmers dont fall behind in their plans,” she said.
Uhuru has already isolated the LUO in his power plan for 2012. Uhuru is a true KIKUYU CHAUVINIST hell-bent to divide Kenyans with his tribal arithmetics by stating which communities he will work with. Kenyans need to wake up to the reality that Uhuru has turned into a true Kikuyu neo-conservative all the way and has no development agenda for his aspirations to be president.
Uhuru, Ruto hint at new strategy to lock Raila out of State House
By Athman Amran
A new strategy to defeat Prime Minister Raila Odinga in 2012 General Election will be unveiled before the end of this month.
Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto indicated on Friday that in the proposed plan, all communities across the country would be united in readiness for next year’s polls.
Uhuru and Ruto hinted during their meet-the-people tour of Kiambu that they will work with Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa, Adan Duale and Matuga MP Chirau Ali Mwakwere.
While Uhuru will spearhead the efforts in Central, Ruto, Kalonzo, Wamalwa, Mwakwere and Dualle will be in charge of Rift Valley, Eastern, Western, Coast and North Eastern regions respectively.
However, they did not disclose who their representative in Nyanza, which is Raila’s stronghold, would be.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000032415&cid=4&ttl=Uhuru
The PNU -GEMA GOVT is Protecting &defending the Ocampo Six >But Why is the PNU-GEMA GOVT doing the same to Protect these Low-class Kenya Citizens Depoted to Uganda for Just being suspects >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWXsj3m7Z4&NR=1
UHURU&COY has destroyed the youth of this Country>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pZkcKT0ms&feature=player_embedded#at=340
Why is Kikuyu Culture Primitive &dumpfounded?
Author Topic: HOMECOMING PLANNED FOR OCAMPO SIX (Read 2 times) nowayhaha
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The Myth That Kenya belongs to 42 tribes is Fake!
Kenya belongs to two bigeest tribes in Kenya Kikuyu & Kalenjins >Read this Home Comming arrangement that according to Master-Planners >Will send chilling spines into Raila Ogingas Inner -bones?????????>
HOMECOMING PLANNED FOR OCAMPO SIX
Even before the Ocampo Six appear at the ICC, their supporters are already planning a massive homecoming party and rally for them. Close allies and supporters of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto who will not be able to accompany them to the Hague have for the past week been meeting to plan the event.
At least 20 MPs have received visas to travel to the Netherlands. Another 25 are expected to get them early next week to accompany Uhuru and Ruto who are due to make their initial appearances before the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber judges.
Uhuru, Ruto, Tinderet MP Henry Kosgey, Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura, the Postmaster-General Hussein Ali and Kass FM journalist Joshua arap Sang will be appearing in court next week. Ruto, Kosgey and Sang will appear on Thursday while Uhuru, Muthaura and Ali will appear on Friday.
Local government assistant minister Lewis Nguyai is the chairman of the organising committee as he will not be travelling to the Hague. He and other committee members have been mobilising support from their colleagues in Parliament and within the political, religious and business circles as they make arrangements for what some of the MPs have described as “a heroes’ welcoming party like no other.” The party-rally will be held on the day the six are expected back home. This is likely to be Sunday April 10 or Monday April 11.
According to the tentative programme drawn up by the organising committee, at least one million Uhuru-Ruto supporters will be mobilised to receive the Ocampo Six on their arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and line the route from the airport to Uhuru Park.
The organisers say they want the reception to rival that accorded Stanley Matiba in 1992 when he returned from the UK where he had been taken for treatment on his release from detention (on Saba Saba Day, 1990) for demanding a multiparty system of government.
The organisers hope the Ocampo Six rally will be bigger than the reception accorded President Kibaki in the run-up to the 2002 when he returned home from the UK where he had gone for treatment following injuries suffered in a road accident at the Machakos turn-off. In both instances, hundreds of thousands of Kenyans thronged the airport and lined the route to receive the two men back home. The Ocampo Six rally organisers say they want to use the Matiba, Kibaki events as benchmarks of their celebrations.
Yesterday Nguyai confirmed he had opted out of the Hague trip so that he could steer the homecoming planning committee. Other members of the committee — Nithi MP Kareke Mbiuki and his Limuru colleague Peter Mwathi — said they expect the attendance at the rally to break the record set when President Kibaki, still in a wheelchair, was sworn in as President at Uhuru Park.“I can assure you that we will bring a million people who will march from JKIA to Uhuru Park on that day,” Mwathi said.
He said supporters of the Ocampo Six from all parts of the country will not be ferried to the JKIA or Uhuru Park but will voluntarily travel to the airport to receive the Ocampo Six before the rally.“The events of that day will change the political landscape of this country forever, you will see a people united in support of the six,” Mwathi added.
On his part, Mbiuki was confident that the reception and subsequent rally will be attended by a crowd “equivalent to the promulgation ceremony ( August 27, 2010) of the new constitution crowd.”
Mbiuki said the rally will be symbolic as it will send a clear message of the political direction that the country will take in the next elections.“It will signify the grand march to State House by the Uhuru-Ruto team. That will be the message that will be made that day,” said Mbiuki, a close ally of the two.
A senior PNU Cabinet minister, who sought anonymity this early in the planning stages, confirmed receiving an invitation to attend the two events.“They are yet to agree on the date but have been keeping us posted with every single step they have taken for the rally,” the minister said.
Raila should be a worried man .
Let us devide Kenya Rift Valley and central Kenya form One formindable New Kenya ! The lest40 tribes take the rest and form a new Kenya and solve this Germs/Bacteria called >Ukabila/Tribalism!
A Jua-Kali generous Kenyan has volunteered his 2 seater aeroplane to fly Uhuru&Ruto to Hague free of charge!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-_dsNTZch0&feature=player_embedded
Mimi kama uhuru Embu Raila Ajaribu tena na atakiona cha mtema-kuni maana titarudia kufanya kitedo kama ile niliyofanya Naivasha>
Former Speaker of Parliament describing Kenya Govt ministers as european 2yrs Nursary school kids>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq3ZM6KM7mc&feature=player_embedded#at=356
KIbaki &PNU-GEMA ruining Kenya Economy Hence Wananchi inclunding Business community /Investors sleeping like sleeping-dogs>
The list of things to bring the country to its knees goes on:
1. Central banks loss of billions of dollars.
2. KRA shortfall in revenue collection
3. Uhuru’s sneaky 5 billion for enhanced security in the supplt. budget.
4. Rushed stocking of tonnes of illicit drugs before 2012
5. Robbery of precious goods like Kabila’s Gold transiting through Kenya
6. Buying of virtually all MPs willing to back impunity
7. Rushed disposal of illegally acquired land held by the land aristocrats under the guise of settling IDPs mpende msipende
8. Premeditated Budget typos version 2011/2
9. Unilateral appointments in the Judiciary and Police
10. Selective use of PLO Lumumba’s KACC to weaken ODM stalwarts (Kosgey, Mudavadi, Ngilu, et al.)
11. Use of Ruto’s ICC and corruption conundrum to peel off Kalenjin from ODM – for impending dumping.
12. Upscaling extrajudicial assassinations
13. Grounding the implementation of the new constitution
14. Unilateralism vis-a-vis coalition decisions (shuttle diplomacy, admissibility challenge, appointments etc!
THE USA GOVERNMENT HAS THE RIFGT TO DEMAND THE PEV PERPETRATORSZ TO BE ARRESTED AND TAKEN IN USA COURTS ! THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA HAS ALSO RIGHT TO MAKE SURE THE PEV & DRUG-.BARONS IN KENYA TO BE TRIED IN USA COURTS AS THEY DID TO FORMER PANAMANIAN STRONGMAN GEN: NORIEGA ! IF THE ICC HAGUE COURT FAILS TO CONDEMN AND JAIL PEV MASTERMINDS ,THEN THE KENYAN PEOPLE HAS THE RIGHT TO APPEAL TO THE GOVT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO COME FOR THEIR AID!
Serikali ya GEMA-PNU Yahara mharo(diarrhearing) The Kibaki Mafia govt in Panick> .State files request to stop ICC The government has filed a request with the International Criminal Court to hand over all the reports on post election violence in readiness for a local process scheduled to start after September this year.
In its challenge on inadmissibility filed by two British lawyers Sir Geoffrey Nice and Rodney Dixon, the government says the six month deferral period which it has requested will enable it to set up the local tribunal to try the violence suspects.
The government says the circumstances which obtained when the pre-trial chamber authorized investigations in March 2010 have since changed. The government argues that the enactment of a new constitution had greatly improved Kenya’s capacity to handle the trials.
The government also promises to continue investigations up to September when it hopes it will have put in place all systems for thorough and independent trials. It also commits itself to providing regular reports to the court. “The government hopes the prosecutor may share the outcome of his investigations to date with the appropriate Kenyan authorities in order to assist the Kenyan investigations. The government will be enthusiastic in exploring ways in which the prosecution could continue to co-operate with the Kenyan authorities in the future,”said the application.
Surprisingly, the government claims that investigators continue to be dispatched into the field to collect evidence and lay the groundwork for local trials. The investigators are hoping to rely on the findings of the various international and national bodies, including the Waki Commission to guide them.
The ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo relied on these reports as well as those filed by his own investigators to come up with his list of the six suspects whom he believes hold the greatest responsibility for the violence. It is on the basis of these reports and his own findings that he drew up the charges which the six are expected to respond to when they appear before the ICC next week.“An updated report on the state of these investigations and how they extend upwards to the highest levels and to all cases, including those presently before the ICC, will be submitted by the end of July 2011,” the government says in its application.
The government seeks to explain the lengthy delay in setting up the local process to “immense challenges” the country has faced since the violence. It says these have steered the country “step by step to the point it has now reached of being able to exercise its sovereign right to investigate and try its citizens.”
It also attributes the delay to the challenges posed by the coalition which came about as a result of the violence. Saying it was the first of its kind in the country, the lawyers claims the reforms had been delayed due to “differences and tensions” within the government and parliament.“They (differences) should not be seen as inimical to this application in any way but rather should be acknowledged as a sign of health in a modern, pluralistic, parliamentary democracy, especially one that has a coalition government (as a majority of countries around the world probably do),” it says.
In the application, the Kenyan government demands respect from the court saying it merits the respect and should not be treated as if it was unwilling and un-cooperative. Rejecting the application will imply that the ICC did not respect the government.
On the court’s earlier explanation that an admissibility challenge should be based on ongoing proceedings against the six suspects summoned at the ICC, the government says that its investigations will touch all levels but does not make a commitment on the six.“The government accepts that national investigations must, therefore, cover the same conduct in respect of persons at the same level in the hierarchy being investigated by the ICC. The Kenyan national investigative processes do extend to the highest levels for all possible crimes, thus covering the present cases before the ICC,”the application says.
It claims that its investigations against low level perpetrators will form the foundation for extending investigations to senior leaders associated with the ODM and PNU for the most serious incidents.
The government says to reject Kenya’s application to try its own citizens in the would disorient countries that are seeking to strengthen their national jurisdictions as well as to those that are considering becoming parties to the Rome Statute.“It could even be regarded as sending an inappropriate message to those major countries – including some permanent members of the Security Council – that have not ratified the Rome Statute and who face or will face in time moral pressure to join the ICC and to make it a court of truly universal jurisdiction,” the application reads.
In the application, the government cites the enthusiasm shown by the Charles Nyachae-led Commission for Implementation of Constitution saying it was pushing hard on reforms. It makes no reference to the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission work.
The lawyers asked to be given an opportunity to address the court next week during the initial appearances of the Ocampo six. They also asked for a status conference to be convened between the government and ICC to discuss the timetable of the local prosecutions.
Meanwhile, Ocampo yesterday lost in his plea to appeal against some aspects of the pre-trial chamber ruling delivered last month which failed to pin down the government for its role in aiding Mungiki carry out attacks in Nakuru and Naivasha; the shootings in Kisumu and Kibera and to admit that forced male circumcision was sexual crime.
The ICC JudgeEkaterina Trendafilova dismissed Ocampo’s appeal saying he had missed the point and misunderstood their earlier ruling.
Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto are on the final leg of “prayer tours” around the country ahead of their departure to The Hague, Netherlands, later this week. They are scheduled to hold a rally in Nakuru on Sunday.
MPs who accompanied the two on their tour through Kiambu County on Friday made statements that could amount to the kind of talk banned by the law.
Most of the statements were directed at Mr Odinga, who has in recent times emerged as their strongest rival and whom the two are seeking to fight at the polls next year.
Mr Kenyatta pioneered the use of the word kimundu (a nuisance bully) to refer to Mr Odinga, and that word was liberally used by most of the Kikuyu-speaking MPs whenever they spoke about him.
“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.
“Ithui tutikoragwo na thina na andu a Nyanza, tiga kimundu kimwe, na ni mukiui (We don’t have a problem with the people of Nyanza, but with one man, and you know who he is),” he added.
Public Works assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri was particularly scathing in his descriptions of Mr Odinga to residents at stop-overs and at the well attended rally in Githunguri.
He might falter in his speech in English but Mr Kiunjuri is eloquent in Kikuyu, and he employed coded language, proverbs and analogies to portray Mr Odinga as an enemy.
“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.
“The red card for him is ready, and it will be handed to him in August next year when we go to the polls,” he added.
He suggested that Mr Odinga was responsible for the uprooting of the railway in Kibera, the forceful takeover of people’s houses in the slum and cited the PM’s call for mass action at that time as the root cause of the post-election violence.
“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. Kihii gititumagwo uthoni tondu ihii mungiikara nacio no iriina nguru. Muhiiro wa kihii 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).
There were similar statements from PNU Chief Whip Johnstone Muthama, who employed a variety of rhetorical questions to suggest Mr Odinga should be held responsible for the violence.
“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.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1137688/-/7qad2x/-/index.html
Ruto is contradicting himself on The Hague issue that he initially supported against the current call for a local judicial mechanism.
Wakenya should be aware that he is not a principled man. He has been running around Kenya with Uhuru, lying that Raila is leading their journey to The Hague which is cheap propaganda to tarnish his name. Ruto is accused of murder and arson, so he cannot be eligible for the presidency. He should be in jail in a true democratic country unlike Kenya, which is led by criminals like Kibaki and Michuki etc.
In 2008 Mungiki members and many other Kikuyus wanted Ruto’s head on a plate. Today, Ruto is walking freely with the Kikuyu king that sent Mungiki to kill non-Kikuyus. Ruto is accused of being behind the Rift Valley killings of the Kikuyus. When did he become a holy man for the Kikuyu? When did he ask for forgiveness?
Kenyan politicians surely know how to manipulate the masses for their own profit.
Joshu arap Sang lied to ICC that he cannot speak English properly and needed a translator when he goes to The Hague. Listen to him lying at Jeff Koinange’s program.
More of Sang’s lies. He has a date with Ocampo and he will be lodged in one of the ICC cells. He was against the Kikuyu during the PEV inciting the Kalenjin using hateful words at the KASS FM station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-GEdNJEg4
Joshua Arap Sang
Joshua Arap Sang was born in Kitale, Trans‐Nzoia District, Rift Valley Province in Kenya. He is part of the Kalenjin ethnic group.
In 1993, he graduated from the Kitale Academy Secondary School and in 2006 from the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
Since 2005, Joshua Arap Sang is a radio broadcaster at the Kenyan radio station KASS FM based in Nairobi where he hosts a call-in program called “Lene Emet” (“How is the country?” or “This is what the world says” or “what is the opinion of the country?”).
From December 2006 on, Sang, a prominent Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) supporter, along with William Samoei Ruto and Henry Kosgey (see “related cases”), allegedly established a network with the aim of committing crimes directed against supporters of the Party of National Unity (PNU). Their goals were to gain power in the Rift Valley Province and the Kenyan Government and to punish and expel from the Rift Valley those perceived to support the PNU.
After the Electoral Commission of Kenya declared on 30 December 2007 that Mwai Kibaki, the candidate for the PNU, had won the presidential election of 27 December 2007, thousands of members of the network allegedly began to attack PNU supporters in Turbo, Huruma, Kimumu, Langas, Yamumbi, Kapsabet and Mandi Hills. The network members allegedly burnt down the houses of political opponents, killed civilians and forced them out of their homes. On 1 January 2008, they allegedly burnt down a church in Kiambaa with more than 100 people inside the church. At least 17 people died. The attacks continued into the first week of January 2008.
Sang allegedly held a key position in planning and organizing crimes against PNU by using his radio program to collect support and provide information for the members of the plan on when and where to attack through a coded language.
On 15 December 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) requested the Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC to issue summonses to appear for William Ruto, Henry Kosgey and Joshua Sang. According to the Prosecutor, there are reasonable grounds to believe that they are criminally responsible under article 25 of the Rome Statute (individual criminal responsibility) for murder, torture, deportation or forcible transfer and persecution on political grounds, as crimes against humanity, pursuant to article 7 of the Rome Statute.
On 15 December 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) requested the Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC to issue summonses to appear for Joshua Sang, William Ruto and Henry Kosgey (see “related cases”).
According to the Prosecutor, there are reasonable grounds to believe that they are criminally responsible under article 25 of the Rome Statute (individual criminal responsibility) for having committed following crimes that fall under the ICC’s jurisdiction:
– Murder as a crime against humanity pursuant to Article 7(1)(a) of the Rome Statute;
– Deportation or forcible transfer of population constituting a crime against humanity, Article 7(1)(d);
– Torture constituting a crime against humanity, Article 7(1)(f) and;
– Persecution as a crime against humanity, Article 7(1)(h).
In addition, to requesting summonses to appear for William Ruto, Henry Kosgey and Joshua Sang (case 1), the Prosecutor requested summonses to appear for PNU members and/or Government of Kenya officials Francis Kirimi Muthaura, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and Mohammed Hussein Ali (case 2, see “related cases”).
On 8 March 2011, Judge Ekaterina Trendafilova and Judge Cuno Tarfusser of Pre-Trial Chamber II, by Majority, issued the decisions on the applications submitted by the Prosecutor to summon William Joshua Arap Sang, Samoei Ruto, Henry Kiprono Kosgey, Francis Kirimi Muthaura, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and Mohammed Hussein Ali (see “related cases”) to appear before the Court on 7 April 2011.
http://www.trial-ch.org/en/resources/trial-watch/trial-watch/profile.html?tx_jbtrial_pi2%5Btab%5D=legal-procedures&tx_jbtrial_pi2%5Bprofile%5D=joshua-arap_sang_995&cHash=1253a0c7ce
I do not believe the Kikuyu community is under threat. This is a creation of Uhuru. He is the one under threat. He is accused of bearing responsibility for atrocities that occurred during PEV and has been summoned to the International Criminal Court.
His political career is on the line. His interests — political and economic — are on the line. But he doesn’t want to go down alone, or as they say, carry his own cross; instead, he wants to go down with his community.
The irony of it is that Uhuru has repeated severally that his only problem is one man — Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Why, then, does he make it look like it is all Kikuyus who have issues with Raila?
Uhuru tries to make every independent-minded Kikuyu feel guilty of not playing the tribal card. He threatens the community’s leaders who will not toe the line, saying that they will be followed to their homes and exposed as betrayers. This amounts to incitement.
Uhuru has no authority to speak on behalf of the Kikuyu community. We are not in a monarchy. He was appointed ‘king’ by his cronies, and sadly for him, he is only king over them.
There are many peace-loving Kikuyus who would not approve Uhuru’s behaviour of late; individuals who are willing to stand by and support any politician from any tribe who is progressive and has the nation’s interests at heart.
Kenyans, it is high time we shunned leaders dividing us ethnically. When there is ethnic conflict, the politicians’ families are not affected. Their sisters, mothers and daughters are not raped; their houses are not torched, nor their businesses looted.
Unfortunately, this happens to the people who attend their rallies, a lesson they would do well to remember.
{Robertson Kabucho, via e-mail}
Is this the way UHURU looks ??
He must be battling hangovers everyday !! Poor him, he should get his lever checked !!
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File | NATION The International Criminal Court building at The Hague.
By EMMANUEL ONYANGO
Posted Monday, April 4 2011 at 17:51
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday confirmed receiving an application by the Kenya government that seeks to quash the post election violence cases on grounds that they are inadmissible before the court.
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The Judges however said the application will not stop ongoing cases against the Ocampo six.
“The Judges of Pre-Trial Chamber II have received the Application on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Kenya pursuant to Article 19 of the ICC Statute and are currently in the process of reviewing the application,” a statement posted on the ICC website said.
“The Rome Statute and the Rules of Procedure and Evidence do not provide for any specific time-limit during which the Judges should make a decision regarding this application, and the ongoing judicial proceedings will not stop.”
The Kenyan government had filed the application on March 29 pursuant to Article 19 of the Rome Statue that established the ICC.
Under Article 19, a State may challenge the admissibility of a case before the ICC on grounds that it is investigating or prosecuting the case in question or has investigated or prosecuted the said case.
This opportunity is only afforded once.
“This is to confirm that Counsels, Sir Geoffrey Nice Q.C. and Rodney Dixon, Barrister-at-Law have today, on behalf of the Government of Kenya, filed an application pursuant to Article 19 of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), respectfully requesting the Pre-Trial Chamber to determine that the two cases currently before the ICC are inadmissible before the ICC,” said a statement from Attorney General Amos Wako’s office at the time.
Addressing the crowd, Mama Ngina Kenyatta, Uhuru’s mother expressed confidence that the six suspects will return home.
She thanked Kenyans for standing with her son during this time. “Am sure Uhuru, Ruto and the rest will go to Hague and come back so that we can proceed with national building,” said Ngina.
She ended her rare speech by laying hands on her son and Ruto.
Others family members who attended the meeting are Uhuru Kenyatta’a wife, Margaret Wanjiru, their children, Jomo, Muhoho and Ngina.
Others were Uhuru’s sister, Christine Plat among others.
The Ocampo six will leave for The Hague Tuesday evening for their initial appearance hearing before the ICC on Thursday and Friday.
They will be accompanied by politicians supporting them and family members.
Sunday Live Interview: Uhuru Kenyatta on Hague.
Uhurus Mother & Beth Mugo Uhurus cousin Diarrhearing (kuhara/Muharo)when banding her son to hague ICC to answer war-crime charges against Humanity!Her son might face a life-sentence if found guilty!http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/
ICC MAY FREEZE OCAMPO SIX ASSETS .
Monday, 04 April 2011 00:02 BY FRANCIS MUREITHI AND PAUL ILADO . IN TUINE: DPM Uhuru Kenyatta with Kalonzo Musyoka, William Ruto and Najib Balala at Afraha stadium yesterday.
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International Criminal Court agents have been tracing and profiling the assets owned by the Ocampo Six ahead of their appearance in court this week.
The agents have profiled investments valued at Sh20 billion reportedly owned by one of the suspects even as they draw up detailed lists and verify information provided by other suspects.
The assets probe, which started months ago, officially started on March 8 after the pre-trial chamber judges issued summons.“We have a deadline to trace these assets and investments both in Kenya and abroad. So far the bulk of the assets we have traced belong to one suspect and his family. All this information will be handed over to the relevant arm of the court so that if the court wants these assets and bank accounts frozen, then they know where they are,” said an agents who cannot be identified because he is not authorised to speak to reporters.
The ICC is believed to have hired different asset-tracing firms to keep track of the money that two of the six suspects have been moving around in their attempt to conceal the cash.
Families and relatives of some of the suspects are said to have become increasingly agitated as fears grow of the possibility of ICC ordering a freeze on their assets or accounts.
Wanted by ICC are deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Eldoret North MP William Ruto, Tinderet MP Henry Kosgey, Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura, former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali and radio journalist Joshua Sang’.
One of the suspects has in the past few months transferred millions in cash and assets to his lawyer who is supposed to hold them in trust. An offshore firm registered in the Cayman Islands is also reported to have taken up his shares in a well known insurance business.
A second suspect has sold assets valued at Sh10 billion, including hundreds of hectares of land and a food processing business.“In one of the companies known to belong to the suspect’s family, the shareholding was transferred last week on Wednesday to one of the partners who is very close to the family,” the agent said. A number of top law firms in the city are reportedly involved in the transfers.
Under the Rome Statute, once a suspect has been summoned or a warrant of arrest issued, the ICC judges have powers to issue orders freezing the assets and accounts of any suspect at the request of the chief prosecutor.
Article 57 (e) provides that ICC seizure of a suspect’s assets or accounts is done as a “protective” measure in case a suspect is convicted and fined and if cash is needed to compensate victims.
Once the suspect is tried and convicted, the judges can issue an order for transfer of such assets into the Victims’ Trust Fund for disbursement to victims as reparations. But if the suspect is found innocent, the court must lift the freeze order.
Articles 57 (e) and 58 sets out how the court can issue a warrant while Article 93 compels the government to assist the court in “the identification, tracing and freezing or seizure of proceeds, property and assets and instrumentalities of crimes for the purpose of eventual forfeiture, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.
It is not immediately clear if the government has helped the ICC, but the Star established ICC representatives have met senior officers at the Attorney General’s office to discuss asset tracing.
In January, the ICC wrote to the Cabinet sub-committee on ICC chaired by Internal Security minister George Saitoti, requesting for support in tracing, freezing or seizure of property of the Ocampo Six when the Pre-Trial Chamber judges issue summons.
In the letter, the ICC stated the procedure of tracing and freezing or seizure of proceeds, property and assets for the purpose of eventual forfeiture and compensation to the victims of the violence.
Under the International Crimes Act (2008), the government is bound to cooperate with the ICC regarding tracing and seizure of assets owned by ICC suspects.
Article 106 (a) and (b) of the Act states that where the ICC requests assistance in identifying, tracing and freezing, or seizing, any property for the purpose of eventual forfeiture, the Attorney General shall only give authority for the request to proceed only if he is satisfied the request relates to an international crime and the property is or may be located in Kenya.
Article 130 (1) of the provides that “any money or property, including the proceeds of sale of property, recovered as a result of the enforcement under this Part of an order of the ICC shall be transferred to the ICC”.
MPs supported the passage of International Crimes Bill when it was brought to the House by Amos Wako at the end of 2008 with President Kibaki signing it into law immediately it was approved by MPs. By that time, majority of MPs were pushing for Hague trials as opposed to a local tribunal. It is this Act that effectively domesticated the Rome Statute.
ICC has already frozen the assets and accounts of Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba who is on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The decision to freeze his assets was taken by the court three days after he was arrested in Brussels, Belgium, following issuance of a warrant of arrest. The former DRC vice-president was arrested on May 24, 2008 while his trial started in November last year after the court rejected his application that the trial be dropped.
After Bemba’s accounts were frozen, he complained he could not raise money for his defence and applied to the ICC to meet the cost. The application was rejected and the court re-opened one of Bemba’s account held in a bank in Portugal so he could pay his lawyers and support his family.
An estimated $6 million (Sh480 million) assets belonging to former Liberian President Charles Taylor held in ten countries in Europe were frozen after a United Nations-backed special war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone started prosecuting him for war crimes. The then Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone Stephen Rapp announced that once there is proof that the money belongs to Taylor, the Special Court will bill him for his legal defence currently offered free. The UN Security Council is also pressurising the Liberian government to freeze Taylor’s assets in Liberia.
The PNU Govt has spent 45.7 billions on The Six named by Ocampo Plus another 50 million on Kalonzos Failed shuttle Diplomacy But the same Govt cannot Raise Money to the Dying Turkanas of Nothern Kenya>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ag3-QjeJ8k&feature=player_embedded
Mama Ngina sent off her son Uhuru with a lot of emotions over the weekend. Yes, Uhuru the Kikuyu King who is a highly suspected criminal who sponsored the murders of Luos in Naivasha.
Uhuru the son of Jomo Kenyatta, who killed Tom Mobya, who banned Jaramogi Odinga’s KPU Party; Jomo Kenyatta who killed JM Kariuki a fellow Kikuyu, who told him the truth about his bad habits of oppressing others, and land grabbing. Jomo was behind so many bad things including grabbing land in Central Province and drove out his Kikuyus to the Rift Valley. This is the bitterness among so many Kalenjins who feel they lost their land.
Kenyatta never respected the true Kikuyu freedom fighters that he never rewarded after taking their land which was returned by the British. Kibaki is another culprit Kikuyu who has been eating since Kenyatta’s rule in the 1960s.
Uhuru Kenyatta has to face the White man’s knife to be initiated into morality and ethics, to become a honest man. Uhuru, who is Kenya’s Finance Minister, is behind the loss/stealing of billions of Kenya Shillings to prepare a war chest for next year’s presidential campaigns. Yes, he is the only Kikuyu who should be approached for anything concerning the Kikuyu leadership. He was initiated as promised by Michuki, another colonial murderer, who was used by the Whites to kill fellow Kikuyus.
Mama Ngina is now feeling the pain of other mothers who lost their children because of hier son, during the Mungiki attacks that Uhuru sponsored. That is how painful it is for other mothers. However, she is lucky her son is alive and still controlling billions of shillings stolen by her husband Jomo Kenyatta.
The truth about the Naivasha Killings:
I have been to Naivasha on two occasions to help evacuate some of my
relatives who were victims of the violence that took place in Naivasha.
The first time, we did not get the gory details of what took place, and I bet, the press is afraid of bringing some of these planned murder and killings in Naivasha to the fore.
We must have the courage to face the truth and confront the same, then talk of the healing process. If we gloss this under the carpet, we are doing nothing.
The Naivasha Massacre was planned in complicity with government agencies. The police were informed, and they only brought officers who were not armed to confront the murderous Mungiki team.
The DC was in the picture, as some of the politicians who had lost in general elections. They were well coordinated by donations from some current ministers and the pangas that they used were bought at Shamba Hardware in Naivasha town.
When the mungiki were to strike on the 27th, the prison warders came out and thwarted all their moves. They retreated so that orders could be made to bar the prison warders from coming out in support of non Kikuyus who were the target.
When they struck the second time, they were under police escort, and they killed Luos specifically, in a systematic way. They torched their houses and chased them like rats in town.
When the Luos organized themselves to hit back, the police shot at the them instead. This went on for three days. Within this time, the mungiki murderers were housed at Lake Side and Silver Hotels.
They used to come to town at 6am, reign terror until 6pm when they retreated to their hotels to brief their pay masters, chief suspect among them, the former MP.
The Naivasha Massacre of the Luo was well planned in a meeting attended by Uhuru Kenyatta, Chris Kirubi, Jimna Mbaru, George Muhoho, Jayne Kihara and others.
They were annoyed that it is the Luo who have made things elephant for them. They hence came up with a plan that hitting at the Luo would be the best thing.
They did not look at the fact that it was the Kalenjins who removed them mostly from Rift Valley. They thought that it was the Luo who made the Kalenjins do that.
The Red Cross that has been acclaimed as the best relief support agencies, did not come to the aid of the IDPs at Naivasha Prisons for a whole 3 days, yet, they were in Burnt Forest and Eldoret within hours of the fracas breaking out.
It came out that the Red Cross, just like the government were partisan in addressing the problems. In the case of Naivasha, the Red Cross and the government were looking at it as a Luo affair, not a Kenyan affair.
This partisan approach to this massacre has exposed the Red Cross as a dishonest agency.
When mungiki were brought in at Kabati cemetery for oath taking, the police were very much in the picture. When they ransacked Kabati estate, the police looked helpless. When the people ran to Naivasha Prisons for safety, the police moved in on the road, armed and ready to shoot at anybody who dared come out of the prison.
I bet they should have been engaging the mungiki so that they could save our property, but they only escorted mungiki on the macabre mission.
The world must know the truth. And it is this truth that will set us free.
Why were Kikuyus hell bent on eliminating Luos from Naivasha, when it is a known fact that Luos never killed any kikuyu in Nyanza?
Why were Kikuyus in Naivasha cheering and telling our people that we wanted Majimbo, and now, we had to move out?
Why were the police under instructions to safeguard mungiki, and to shoot at any resistance from people whose houses were being burnt and their people killed as they watched?
It is time to make clear marks, those who shout loudest about crimes against humanity are the main pay masters of the murderous mungiki sect.
The evidence of the violence is still there on Youtube. Just type Naivasha as a search word and you will see real images of the violence perpetrated by one community against another. Given the beastly violence by those financed by state house, the Waki report should be implemented. Kibaki should come out and tell Kenyans that it is not true he allowed meetings that resulted in the massacres that were filmed by local and foreign cameras and whose images have made a tour of the world. The violence was recorded and is right there on Youtube for everyone to watch.
Jan 29, 2008
By: Lucy Manning, Nick Paton Walsh.
“Inter-ethnic violence in Kenya continues, despite the efforts of former UN chief Kofi Annan.
The accompanying report contains disturbing images
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has launched talks between Kenya’s political rivals, insisting that he was confident the post-election crisis could be resolved.
Presdent Kibaki called it a “defining moment” for his country.
But the inter-ethnic violence is still spreading. Some of the worst clashes have taken place in the Rift Valley, where more than 100 have died since Thursday.
In Naivasha army helicopters fired rubber bullets at a crowd of Kikuyus threatening to attack Luo refugees trying to flee town.
At least two people were killed in the opposition stronghold, Kisumu. And in the capital, Nairobi, at least seven people were killed during fighting in Kibera slums after an opposition MP was shot.”
How the OCampo 6 think:
1. There was never a PEV, there was a spontaneous excitement to nothing.
2. ICC is a Jaluo conspiracy by Odinga, Obama & Ocampo
2. There was no rigging of elections, so PEV was just an action about nothing.
3. Kalenjins and Kikuyus have never been enemies, they just had a small misunderstanding.
4. People in Uasin Gishu were evicted by marauding Luo warriors who were stopped in
Naivasha by ordinary wananchi.
5. Kiambaa Church burning is mystery that is hard to solve.
6. IDPs are a political fabrication.
7. The ICC trial (and its timing) is a political calculation to give Odinga
a monopoly in 2012.
8. Ocampo is playing Kenyan politics ( 2012 )
9. All the Ocampo 6, are innocent political scapegoats, about an
event that never was.
10. Post-Elections violence? Which violence?
Moses Kuria’s vicious attack on Raila Odinga
Let them panic. Hague is a marathon. They are going to write letters every week. This week Uhuru will see the inside of The Hague as a suspect in one of the worst possible crimes a person can commit. If he wants he can invite kina Kuria and Mututho to form a choir outside singing about the bad Raila who has sent his hero next to Charles Taylor. All these crap about Raila is going to dismantled piece by piece as the real evidence of what these people did comes public.
We will find out if Raila at any one time offered money for Uhuru to fund Naivasha killings. The country is going to know exactly who met who and what they planned to do and how it was done. The country will see if all these time Raila was organizing press conferences in Nairobi he was also busy working with kina Ruto or Uhuru to butcher people across the country? It is amazing that people who are so sure that they are innocent are so terrified to face the hearing so that the truth can be known. The guilty of course are always afraid. Shauri zao.
It is one thing for people who are illiterate and are gullible to to be mouthing this kind of rubbish, but when people who can at least read and write like Kuiria choose to behave like illiterate morons at least politically it just pathetic. But I don’t blame Kuria. His little god is facing Ocampo and may actually have the worst of all the six cases. What is Kuria going to do? Very soon they are going to learn that writing rubbish and talking all that filth is of no value when you go to the actual courtroom. They are going to realize how useless all that verbal diarrhea is when you are in court.
Kenyans want to know the truth about what happened. I think they will. Then we can have some adult discussion about who did what and deal with it. Ni hiyo tu. No need for alarm. But yeah, the jamas are hararing too much. They must be jumping out of their beds sweating and screaming the name Raila. Hehehehehehe. If you are tough enough to kill kids get some spine and defend yourselves instead of crying like babies all over the place.
Riu tondu atindaga akiuga ni tunyuaga muno-ri, no anga tunyuaga na muka? Na tondu atindaga akiuga tuthii Hague ri, Hague iyo ni ya nyina? Hague ni kwa nyukwa guku ugutinda ukiina? (Now that he (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? Is The Hague your mother’s place for you to keep singing about it?),” he said at the Githunguri rally