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  1. NSIS evidence links Ruto to violence – ICC .
    Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:04 BY FRANCIS MUREITHI

    ICC Pre-Trial chamber judges have ruled that there is enough proof that Eldoret North MP William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua Sang attended meetings where attacks were allegedly planned long before the December 27, 2007 general election. The court has ruled that there is evidence to believe a testimony that Ruto particularly convened the first planning meeting at his Sugoi home on December 30, 2006. “The Chamber is satisfied that there are substantial grounds to believe that the December 30, 2006 meeting took place in the presence of Mr Ruto,” ruled the judges.

    The judges however exonerated radio journalist Joshua Sang saying there was evidence, including photographs, to prove he was attending a football tournament that day. The chamber was comprised of judge Ekaterina Trendafilova, Hans-Peter Kaul and Cuno Tarfusser. The judges also ruled as credible evidence by witness number 8 that another meeting was held on the night of April 15, 2007 at the Molo milk plant where “Ruto and other important representatives of the Kalenjin community were sprinkled with blood of dogs previously slaughtered under the supervision of a traditional elder”. “The Chamber is satisfied that there are substantial grounds to believe that such meeting took place in the presence of Mr Ruto and Mr Sang,” ruled the judges.

    The Chamber also ruled that it is satisfied that another meeting was held at Sirikwa Hotel on September 2, 2007 in presence of Ruto and Sang. It said there is reason to believe testimony by witnesses that during the Sirikwa meeting, those in attendance discussed an update on the weapons obtained, the issue of funding and transportation of material perpetrators to and from the target locations.

    The judges have said there is reason to believe that another meeting was held in Ruto’s residence, in his presence, on November 2, 2007 and a subsequent meeting on December 14, 2007 at the same place. The judges have also ruled that there is no evidence that witnesses were coached to implicate Ruto and Sang. They said that they were not convinced by assertions made by the defence team of Ruto and Sang that some witnesses were coached by prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. “The Chamber is not convinced by the defences’ assertion that witnesses 4 and 8 were coached. Nor is the Chamber convinced that said witnesses are not reliable or credible,” they ruled.

    The judges also dismissed claims by Ruto and Sang’s lawyers that witnesses 1, 2, 6 and 8 were not reliable as they were self-confessed criminals who participated in the post-election violence.”The Chamber considers that the witnesses’ possible involvement in the commission of the crimes does not automatically render them unreliable and/or not credible, such that their evidence should be excluded or provided a lower probative value,” ruled the judges.

  2. Gitari is right.Uhuru has no agenda for Kenyans apart from fighting Raila. Kikuyus following him are blind because thinking that Ruto, a Kalenjin who is now accused of sponsoring the murders of many Kikuyus in 2008, will be Uhuru’s saviour through the Kalenjin vote, shows how stupid they are.they wanted Ruto’s head for the atrocities they claimed he did, yet are now thronging open spaces to listen to his ideology-empty speeches. no wonder it’s said there are no permanent enemies in politics.

  3. This war was brought about by ODM because they knew KIBAKI will not step down come rain come sunshine.Thats why they planned it in advance.There is no way Ruto could plan without Raila blessings.This is one reason Ruto parted ways with Raila.Now this is the same RAILA whom man of God turned man of devil aka Gitari is telling us to vote for president.The same man who said it all that he was behind the coup detat of 1982 where thousands lost lives.If Uhuru was involved with mungiki, he does not deserve to be elected.But worst of all is KIMUNDU aka TINGA bin NYUNDO arap MIBEI tractor

  4. This below is surely what must have rattled the President. He must be digesting this in Uganda right now…as legal gurus paid by taxpayers crunch the legal implications (on him)..

    310. In particular, the Chamber is satisfied that there are substantial grounds to
    believe that on 26 November 2007 a meeting was held at Nairobi State House
    between Mr. Muthaura, Mr. Kenyatta, Mungiki representatives, President Mwai
    Kibaki, and others.

    Is this man seeing a Gbagbo Hague thing coming pole pole towards him?

  5. Ndura Waruinge and Maina Njenga are still Mungiki

    Christian convert and PNU politician Ndura Waruinge and imprisoned mungiki chief Maina Njenga have not “properly deserted mungiki”, we can now report. A leader of the gang in Central Nairobi, a Mathenge (Mnyama) was asked by a reporter why his dreaded gang had not beheaded the duo. His answer was curt, “They are alive because we know they have not moved, there are clear structures on how resignations of top leaders are handled, look they were once Muslims remember that conversion? Now they are Christians, maybe tomorrow they will be Hindu but the bottom line is that they are still part of us”.

    From the interview, it emerged that some of mungiki’s followers are the educated middle-class who contribute a whooping KShs 2 billion a year to sustain the gang. Consequences for defaulting are scary, the gang says.

    Asked whether they kill people, Mathenge retorted, “True we have been killing people but you have to understand us, even God in the Old Testament killed people who did not toe the line of the Law. We have been killing defectors, and those who refuse to pay their dues for our services and that will not stop”.

    Asked how many mungiki members are in Kenya and abroad, “We had our last National Convention in April 2007 in Thogoto and we realized we had recruited 45,000 new members we are now about 2.8 million, of course excluding Women and Children”.

    The group is currently led by one Joe Waiganjo (General) and draws membership from some of the politicians in parliament.

    Meanwhile, a plan by the outlawed Mungiki, a sect which is slowly transforming into an Italian like Mafia, was to blame for most of the crimes committed in early 2007 in the East African nation, a confidential twenty-four page police report indicates. The report details a shocking blow-blow account of a Mungiki that is not only running real estate and transport businesses but one that is now boasting of making a number of poor people instant millionaires and one that was preparing to sponsor a number of candidates to parliament in last year’s general elections – which they did.

    The report says that the crime wave that had hit the country at the time the report was compiled under the spotlight was directly funded by the Mungiki and is intentionally aimed at the rich and prominent in the society and police officers.The report even lists recently fallen Kenya’s most wanted Criminal Simon Matheri Ikeere as one of the prominent members of the dreaded cult. “Out of the 26 criminals whose photo’s police have circulated over the last six months, 18 belong to the Mungiki,” the report says.

    So organized is the Mungiki, that the report approximates the net worth of the outlawed religious sect at Shs. 4.5 billion as at January 15 this year. Interestingly, the report says the Mungiki are currently preparing to have its first budget in May this year – a month before the National budget usually presented by Finance Ministers in parliament.Just like any other serious Mafia organization, the Mungiki runs six armouries – five less than what the state runs, across the country. The headquarters, the report says, is in Laikipia and that’s where all the sources of weapons direct their donations.

    “The Mungiki Laikipia armory is large and runs about 15 feet deep, those who steal guns from the police are rewarded with ranks within the organization and are branded heroes,” the report reveals.Other armouries are in Dandora, Tigoni area, Kayole, Njiru and Kitengela. “Each armoury exists for a reason; the Tigoni one is a back-up for highway crime, while Kayole and Njiru exist so as to offer refuge to gangsters and those commanding the transport sector.”“The Kitengela armoury is the main source of weapons and manpower to spread fear and panic, basically it is meant to organize and dispatch assignments,” the report reads.

    The sources of weapons for the organization has been directly linked to the beef business where guns are wrapped together with the meat as it makes its way from North-Eastern to the country, other sources include th Oromo Liberation Front in Ethiopia and North Uganda.

    In the armouries, the main weapons available are AK 47’s with a cache of bullets and G3 rifles.“The ultimate goal,” reads the report stamped highly confidential, “is to make sure that both the Police Commissioner and the Minister for Internal Security are sacked.

    “The attack on foreigners is so as to affect the booming tourism industry and to increase the pressure of the sackings from abroad countries housed in Kenya, attacks on the rich and the prominent is a strategy to unify Kenyans around the same cause, while that strategy of killing police officers is meant to scare the law enforcers, and those are all characteristics of a Mafia Organization,” the report chillingly reads on.

    “They have established a clear broad network and with the laws on money laundering still very weak they are able to access lots of money through charity like events and others directly from Kenyans with a die hard association with the group, a channel that cannot be stopped, because they educate hundreds of children and even run three credible children’s home,” the report says.

    Mungiki, the report further reveals has already adopted a flag that’s coloured white, yellow, green, red and black – hues associated with the sect.

    Links are also being drawn to an international organization the Universal Miracle Centre, little information about the mother body were forthcoming by the time of going to press. “The resurgence of the sect comes after a failed attempt to revive under the guise of the National Youth Alliance Party,” the report further reads.
    Young unemployed people are lured into Mungiki through practical pledges of employment and life changing fortune making assignments, “graduates pass through a rite that involves ingesting human urine and umbilical cords, before undergoing a public baptism, where English (or Christian) names are dropped in favour of authentic names”.

    Elaborate Ritual
    The report further details how conversion to Mungiki happens, “Initially held at their shrine in Karandi area of Laikipia District, the oathing ceremony is an elaborate process, which begins late in the evening, goes on through the night to end at dawn.

    ”Black sheep and goats are slaughtered and their blood mixed with some mixture said to be made out of wild plant roots. Other independent sources explained to our reporters that, “Traditional Kikuyu beer, Muratina, whose main component is honey is served in plenty as the initiates engage in singing and chanting slogan in praise of their gods and the movement.”

    Paraphernalia, which include walking sticks painted in red, green, black and white, gourds and small tobacco containers are passed around to members and a flag in the same colours is normally hosted outside the shrine. “We are Mungiki and we shall stick together and guard the secrets of our sect. We shall protect one another and remain united under our leaders…” the initiates chant as they sip a bloody concoction that is passed around to everyone present. They also sing traditional songs.

    “Roast meat is also passed around to members who take bites in turns after their leaders, and tobacco, in small containers, is passed around for members to sniff,” says a former member who requested anonymity.

    The man, who co-ordinated Mungiki activities in Rift Valley since the sect was founded until it was declared illegal, says the aim of the elaborate ritual is to unify the group. “All we wanted to achieve was strong unity and to be identified by the society,” he says. The sole purpose of the oath, he says, is to ensure that the initiates abide to our doctrines of coming together to form a society that respects the Kikuyu culture and the ancient practices.

    As morning comes, the new initiates are “baptised” in the wee hours of the morning at a dam near the shrine. The then sect spiritual leader Maina Njenga conducted the ceremonies. The converts are immersed in the murky waters before passing over a goatskin, which is spread on the ground where the spiritual leader stood. The sad thing about those who joined the sect after being coerced was that there was no turning back after the oath, our source revealed.

    “Anyone who joined the sect would be allowed to know all the secrets including our sources of funds our operations and other internal matters. That is why some people were killed once they denounced the sect,” he reveals. There is no turning back once you are a true Mungiki, he says, adding that no one has ever performed a reversal ritual.

    “This explains why those who join us disappear from the public domain once they feel like not continuing to be members,” he explains.

  6. RAILA TO START THE TOUR OF ALL COUNTIES THIS WEEKEND.

    Prime Minister and ODM Party Leader Mr. Raila Odinga will this weekend start a country wide tour of all the 47 Counties to popularize the ODM party ahead of general election.

    Mr. Odinga who had been out of the country for the past one week on official government matters, arrived back on Saturday morning and will be moving across the country to meet elected party delegates and chat ways of popularizing ODM as the party prepares for the elections.

    The Prime Minister will also meet party members and supporters in areas he will visit and address them on matters relating to the party. During the visits, the Prime Minister will open Orange House offices in all the Counties. This is aimed at enhancing party activities at the grassroots and also to devolve party matters to the people.

    Mr. Odinga will also use these forums to get to know the newly elected party officials from the sub-location to the County levels and exchange ideas on how best the party should prepare for the General Election.

    The Prime Minister’s programme for the next one week is as follows;

    1) Saturday 4th February – Machakos, Makueni and Kitui Counties in the lower Eastern region (Town hall meeting in Machakos Town).
    2) Tuesday 7th February – Turkana County (Meeting in Lodwar Town).
    3) Wednesday 8th February – West Pokot & Transnzoia Counties (Meeting in Kitale Town).
    4) Thursday 9th February – Bungoma County (Meeting in Bungoma Town).
    5) Friday 10th February – Kakamega, Busia and Vihiga Counties (Meeting in Kakamega Town).

  7. ICC’s Kenya decision is no cause for celebration

    Even though the ICC has charged four people with crimes against humanity for the 2007 violence, the state must also act.
    Last Modified: 31 Jan 2012 09:23

    New York, NY – Last week’s decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague confirming four Kenyans must answer to charges of crimes against humanity does not excuse their government from responsibility to pursue justice at home.

    Kenya must continue to investigate and prosecute those who orchestrated widespread post-election violence four years ago. The ICC has acted admirably in the circumstances and done exactly what it was established to do – step into the void when national authorities fail in their duty to investigate serious crimes. The Kenyan government must now act to remedy failures, and to restore and strengthen the independence of its judicial institutions.

    Chaos erupted in the country after foreign observers reported vote tampering by both sides in what is now regarded as a rigged presidential election in December 2007. In the weeks that followed, more than 1,000 people were killed, 3,500 injured, 600,000 displaced and at least 100,000 properties were destroyed. The violence was perpetrated by both sides of a political and ethnic divide and included arson, rape, torture and murder.

    Reports implicate serving police officers, security officials and powerful legislators for ordering attacks that were widespread, well-orchestrated and which unfolded in notable patterns. Two of those facing charges before the ICC – Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Education Minister William Ruto – are prospective presidential candidates. Even before the ICC’s confirmation, it was clear culpability extended throughout the upper echelons of the national government.

    In the four years since the violence, Kenyan authorities have been remarkably consistent in evading their obligation to undertake credible criminal investigations. To their credit, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), an independent body, fulfilled its statutory obligation to investigate abuses and produced a report offering several recommendations to the president and his cabinet. These appear to have been completely ignored.

    Sinister threats by the elite

    The Attorney General and police have not responded to calls from within the country for prosecutions. The Kenyan parliament voted against the establishment of an investigative tribunal comprised of local and international judges, and followed this decision with a brief debate on a constitutional amendment to establish another. The findings of an independent investigation led by Kenyan judge Philip Waki were passed to prosecutors in The Hague after its recommendations were also ignored. The ICC announced it would proceed with preliminary investigations only after giving the country several opportunities to resuscitate its own proceedings.

    Even though it has ratified the Rome Statute, the Kenyan government challenged the jurisdiction of the court after six prominent politicians were issued with summons. Many among the country’s elite argued that seeking justice would only inflame existing tensions and create further instability. This amounts to an assertion that ongoing impunity and the lingering threat of more violence is preferable to justice, an argument that is clearly a disingenuous lie disguised as sinister threat.

    This week’s decision in The Hague was welcomed peacefully across the country. It is telling that most Kenyans support the ICC and have little faith in their own judiciary, which is widely perceived as corrupt. Another set of elections is due in 2012. The best way to ensure stability is to ensure they are free and transparent, without fear of retribution from thugs marshalled by the state’s highest political powers.

    A further unintended consequence of the ICC decision is that, while the world’s attention is narrowly focused on a small handful of individuals, thousands of others are enjoying impunity from prosecution. Hundreds of thousands of victims have not seen justice, reparation or redress, and there is little indication of any external pressure from diplomats, media or donors to encourage the Kenyan government to remedy its significant shortcomings. Regardless of what transpires before the courts in the coming years, Kenya still has not demonstrated a willingness to investigate and prosecute the criminals in its midst, or recognise the rights of their victims.

    The ICC’s decision should not be regarded as a victory for international justice as much as it is another unfortunate reminder of the importance of independent national judicial institutions. The Kenyan government remains responsible for investigating crimes when and where they occur.

    All states have a duty to protect their citizens and to punish criminals. Kenya has failed on both counts.

    Paul Seils is Vice-President of the International Centre for Transitional Justice.

    The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

  8. Ethnic cleansing in Luoland
    Peace talks get nowhere as western Kenya becomes ungovernable
    Feb 7th 2008 | kisumu |

    AS THE road approaches Kisumu, Kenya’s third-biggest city and capital of the Luos, the country’s third-biggest but angriest ethnic group, it becomes littered with rubble and burnt vehicles. A man beats at a smouldering ambulance’s number-plate with his machete. “See,” he explains, “this belongs to the government of Kenya.” Mobs cry out for their fellow Luo, Raila Odinga, to be made president of Kenya. They plead for guns. An earnest man pushes to the front of one mob. “What we are saying is give violence a second chance.”

    On a bridge outside Oyugis, a small town a couple of hours’ drive south of Kisumu, angry Luos have overturned a lorry, pulled down a telegraph pole and are waiting. When your (white) correspondent happens along, they take aim with stones, machetes and poles. But what they wanted was a Kikuyu to kill—any Kikuyu. All the main roads in the area are punctuated with road blocks. Some travellers do not get through. At least 25 have been hacked to death or killed with poisoned arrows in Nyanza in the past few days.

    Across Luoland, from the unlettered to the university-educated, they tell the same tale of woe: that they have been politically and economically maltreated since independence. Provision of electricity and roads is far worse than in Kikuyuland. Many government projects in Nyanza, including cotton- and rice-growing, have failed. It irks Luos that the fish they catch in Lake Victoria are processed by Kikuyus in distant Central Province. A brain drain of able Luos into Kenya’s civil service has dried up. Luos say that a Luo name is sometimes a handicap in getting a job in business. Poverty among Luos has risen, even as Kenya’s economy has grown.

    In the past few weeks, Kisumu has been ethnically cleansed. The Luos have driven out 20,000 or so Kikuyus from a population of 380,000; few will return. Every Kikuyu business and home has been looted and burned. The UN recently chose Kisumu as a “millennium city”, with plans to turn it into a kind of hub. Now many of its streets are gutted and charred. Thousands of jobs have been lost; nearly three-quarters of Kisumu’s people are out of work.

    Luo bitterness has deep roots. Most Luos still believe that Mr Odinga’s populist father, Oginga Odinga, Kenya’s first vice-president, was cheated and abused by Kenya’s ruling Kikuyu elite after independence in 1963. Many still hark back to the unexplained assassination in 1969 of Tom Mboya, another Luo they believe was destined for the presidency. In 1990 another Luo hero, Robert Ouko, then Kenya’s foreign minister, was also murdered.

    A sense of economic desolation as well as political turmoil pervades the Luo fishing villages edging Lake Victoria. Since the election, insecurity has driven fish buyers away. Even if they come, the price is low. As there is no electricity and no refrigeration, the buyers drive hard bargains. Prices for basic foodstuffs have risen steeply, with sugar and maize meal costing double since the election.

    In the past decade or so, Luoland has been particularly hard hit by AIDS; malaria has long been endemic. George Onyango, a 40-year-old fisherman in the village of Bao, west of Kisumu, reckons that a quarter of his childhood friends are already dead. The village nurse has no antibiotics, let alone good transport. Villagers rail against Kikuyus, though no one remembers a Kikuyu ever living there. “If we could be our own country it would be different,” says a wistful elder.

    The longer-term effects of the ethnic cleansing are beginning to register. Professor Allan Ogot, a distinguished Luo historian who is chancellor of Moi University in Eldoret, says that Kenya’s research institutes have been ruined and that its universities may well follow suit. He has been confined to his house in Kisumu. A woman and child were shot dead outside his front gate. No amount of security, he says, will lure back the Kikuyu and Kamba students who made up half of Nyanza’s Maseno University. “Our universities will be worse than primary schools,” he says. “My question now is, is there a Kenya left to save?”

    Nobody has been angelic
    Kenya’s 4m or so Luos, most of them in Nyanza, voted overwhelmingly for Mr Odinga in the disputed election on December 27th. The Kikuyu-led party backing his rival, the incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki, was most blatant in ensuring that his tally of votes in the Kikuyu heartland north of the capital, Nairobi, was inflated. But Mr Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement was not spotless; some ballot boxes in Nyanza were reportedly stuffed on his behalf. In any event, nearly all Luos still want Mr Kibaki forced from office. If he stays, they say, it will mean civil war. There is a risk that Luoland might peel off—and a further risk that Mr Kibaki may feel forced to send in troops to stop that happening. For the time being, the Luo areas look ungovernable by Mr Kibaki or by any Kikuyu-led administration.

    In other parts of Kenya, not just in Luoland, the mood is so febrile that it is hard to see how the social fabric can be restored. Atrocities have been widespread. Most of the Luhya (the country’s second-biggest group, unrelated to the Luo), most of the ten or so Kalenjin-speaking peoples of the Rift Valley, most of Kenya’s Muslims and most of Kenya’s poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga. Many of them are angry. Some have vented their spleen against Kikuyus living among them, often chasing them away, burning their houses and shops and sometimes killing them.

    The violence has been especially bad in parts of the Rift Valley where different groups had intermingled as a result of the redistribution of former white-owned land since independence. In other parts of the country, especially in the Kikuyu heartlands, Mr Kibaki’s backers have treated Luos with similar harshness.

    But it is wrong to paint a picture simply of Kikuyus and the closely related Embu and Meru, who together make up about 28% of Kenyans, pitted against the rest. Many groups have mixed allegiances. Most of the Kamba, Kenya’s fifth group, which has been traditionally well-represented in the army, backed a 54-year-old former foreign minister, Kalonzo Musyoka, who won about 9% of the presidential poll and was promptly appointed vice-president by Mr Kibaki. As a result, many Kamba may rally to his cause—and perhaps even join a pro-Kibaki coalition in the (so far unlikely) event of a fresh election. Other tribes, such as the Kisii (6% of the total) have been divided, though most of them voted against Mr Kibaki.

    Amid this messy ethnic mayhem, peace talks in Nairobi look unlikely to restore calm any time soon. A former UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has managed to bring representatives of Mr Kibaki’s government and Mr Odinga’s movement to the negotiating table, which is progress of a kind. But the president has so far shown no sign of making serious concessions. Mr Annan has also gathered some of the country’s leading businessmen to stress the damage being done to the economy. Tourism and agriculture have been badly hit (see article). Meanwhile, the human toll is rising. The local Red Cross says that more than 1,000 people have been killed in the past five weeks or so, and more than 300,000 displaced.

    Mr Odinga has made no call for secession; he says he is still committed to a united Kenya. There is little evidence so far that he is organising an armed insurrection, though many Kikuyus believe he has been complicit in the attacks against them in Kisumu and elsewhere.

    An immediate fear, across the country, is that criminal gangs may take advantage of the mayhem. The government has given orders to police to shoot to kill if chaos on the street begins to spread; many innocents have already been gunned down. So far the armed forces have generally stayed out of the proceedings. If Mr Kibaki were to call them in, the danger of national disintegration might increase.

    http://www.economist.com/node/10653938

  9. Kenyas Attorney General Githu Muigai and who is Uhuru Kenyattas Cousin Is in London to Save Uhuru Kenyatta (King) Who will inherit Kibaki Gema Hegemony >
    Attorney General Githu Muigai’s visit to London has elicited speculation within the legal fraternity. Speculation abounds that Githu is in the UK to try and cut a deal with someone over ICC related issues. They base their speculation on allegations that the good Professor is scheduled to hold meetings with people who are reportedly “very knowledgeable” about the ICC. Remember, Githu has set up a team to advice him on how to deal with ICC.

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    Other people seeking advise are Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto. This time round, it seems some of their very close associates and advisors are looking into how— if possible— they could change the constitution to do away with clauses that might bar the two men from joining the race for the presidency. One of the options being considered is to mobilise a million signature petition to force through the various amendments to the constitution.

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    It seems there is a silver lining in the indictment of the Ocampo Four. Some MPs close to Uhuru are boasting that they have Ruto firmly in the place they want him to be. They believe that since the two have to present a united front in the face of the ICC charges, Ruto has no option but to play number two to Uhuru.

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  10. Ngatia is a family friend but wen it comes to the politiks im nt wit him so sorry for that coz uhuru wil rule our country until our God says that they can rest bt nt because of yr hatred of bad speech upon him the more they hate him the more the favour of God is upon him nd for yr i formation about raila spear our nation from blood shed coz raila wil die same like his father dying to seat as president never wil he seat that seat in Jesus Name Amen. Yr propagandas we will continue to hear bt that wil nt stop our president nd ruto
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