Good People, We do not want war in Kenya. Raila with other politicians who borrowed heavily from business men are all in debt with those who sponsored their election and they dont know how to pay them back their debts. This includes the Nigerian business-men in Kenya who mostly were dealing in drugs. Kenyans have in the past suffered the same predicament in ways and means. Local families in the villages also had their chickens, goats, cows, harvested food crops from the farms were forcefully taken by agents of political lead groups, with peoples local lands, where many people are already driven out of their lands and the lands auctioned to the unscrupulous Corporate Special Business Interest.......whom in one way or the other sponsored elections of these lead politicians. Show-cases: For Example; We lost Kwale Titunium to Chinese Canadian Co. during Moi's leadership in this manner and in 2007/8 we lost Migingo in the same manner to Museveni ......where many people who resisted were shot dead and many strong young men and women were massacred or planted to die mysteriously to pave way for political special interest. Turkana was also sold to Israel special interest in the same manner; other areas are the Isiolo, Marsabit, Tana River, Kilifi, Taita Taveta, Garissa, Garsen etc., that lost huge number of their community people in such organized, planned and engineered Civil conflicts and many people continue to die in Kenya through such like organized terrorism and thuggery meant to fool peoples intelligence......leaving people suffering and pushed into further extreme poverty and homelessness.......it is because, these political agents treat people's property as their own and they do not care. This is the type of life in Kenya.......it is why there is civil conflicts with careless killings. During Kibaki and Raila's rule, we saw Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda mass entry to Kenya and through pirating business, they took the whole of Eastleigh attached to Eastleigh Air-Base. How can a responsible Government conduct themselves in this manner? No one having supported the Raila family come out safe. You must be finished.........even the little you have will be taken away from you.....so you cannot stand. Additionally, Chinedu made a story in Kenya. His wife Akinyi made very strong plea for help that Chinedu is a drug dealer. He invited his other notorious friends from Nigeria as business men in Kenya to support Raila's quest for Presidency. Raila promised them heavens from public wealth and resources. Why cant they be investigated, exposed and convicted instead of making them look like lordship who committed nothing wrong? This behaviour was seen very common in many occassions where some Agents, gangs, thugs and youth boot soldiers that associate to Raila's political groups go to Luo Businessmen and Women to demand for Big money saying they were sent by Raila's wife to collect money to support Raila's political interests. If you are critical, stubborn and do not part with your money, your life is in danger. Good people, It is sad, I am speaking from experience, and I am a victim of circumstances. Me and others from the same community in South Nyanza have lost heavily and today, 2,000 families in South Nyanza were given forced eviction from our ancestral community homes, where my fathers home and my home is one such target and my mothers life is in a very sorry pathetic situation hanging between life and death. Are we really going to continue to accommodate political leaders who will continue to hide the truth from the people? Is Kenya still sold-out? Why did Raila come to USA to complain to Corporate Special Business Interest about his victory taken away from him? Is he looking for sympathy to create civil war in Kenya??? Why is he going round bragging that he is a powerful man??? Did he not get 5 years as Prime Minister enjoying the 50/50 coalition with Kibaki.......did he not make enough money? why did he not use his powers then to deliver to the public and provide the rightful Constitution from the word go.......is he trying to fool the world that he is the best? I said it before and I wiss say it now, Raila got the best chances he had and if he never did any good to Kenyans, he need to retire and resign from politics. Consequently, we demand accountability from Kibaki/Raila administration to account for all public land that were sold under-table in exchange for political gains and that all stolen land with LAND GRABS must be returned to the people with immediate effect. Pushing people to war for selfish interest is unacceptable. People must wake up and stand firm. If, by any chance, there are political campaign debts that were incurred, that is not our problem, it was done behind peoples back....it is not the problem of Kenyans and Kenyans neck must not be put to pay debts they did not authorize.........We were never consulted. Therefore, Kenya must demand for people's right. Kenya is not going to go to war for the sake of political special business interest that went haywire, that were not sensored by public demand or authorized under their Public Mandate. Public Interest comes first and we are not going to allow this type of behaviour. It is unconstitutional and unacceptable. Raila with his friends must face their political debtors without involving the public ........ it is because, WE DO NOT WANT WAR.......and THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE ANY WAR........We shall not tolerate anymore elements of corruption, graft or impunity.........we demand clean public service delivery without corner corner.......... We demand that Government invervene and conclude LAND GRABBING ISSUES...........We the people, must be paid all damages and loses that have been incurred and we shall not be quite any more........Like you pay back your political debtors, we the people must be paid all that we have lost......... There is nothing that Kenya Government need to talk with Chinedu.....We demand that Nigeria release Kenyan ........ It is imperable that Kenya's Ambassador to USA explain and mak public details of former PM Raila's meeting in the USA. It all amounts to Transparency and accountability.......being that, the Embassy is a public utility and which tax-payer is spent to pay workers and maintain expenses for personnel. And whether former PM Raila's travel to US was authorized by Uhuru and Ruto Government....... People demand to know........ Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia (Full Length Documentary) Published on Jun 13, 2012 VICE travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation's eventual intervention, most of Liberia's young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu reads mischief in his deportation Published on Jun 4, 2013 For more news visit http://www.ntv.co.ke Raila Odinga in Kisumu "Opuk pekne Otenga" Tortoise is heavy for the vulture the scavenger bird ....is a bragging comment.... why brag is it necessary???..... then you cry baby...... Published on Jun 4, 2013 The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy leader Raila Odinga has called for education services to be devolved to the county level and teachers hired by the state to be contracted to county governments. Speaking in Kisumu, the former prime minister also called on the government to implement free education programmes to the letter, claiming that currently parents have been forced to bear the burden of paying various levies which are beyond many poor parents. State rules out talks with Anthony Chinedu Updated Wednesday, June 19th 2013 at 20:51 GMT +3 By Lonah Kibet The Government has ruled out negotiating with deported Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu on his return to Nairobi as a condition for release of Kenyans held in Lagos, Nigeria. Foreign Affairs Cabinet secretary Amina Mohammed said the Government will, however, intensify ongoing diplomatic talks with Nigerian authorities. “We need time to talk with Nigerian government before we make any comments on the issue. We need to ensure that the consultations are not interfered with by the comments we will make,†said Mohammed. She was speaking yesterday during a breakfast meeting in Nairobi with European Union heads. Mohammed dispelled the notion that Kenya is moving away from its traditional partners in Europe. Seven Government officials and five-airline crew of a private jet hired to deport ten foreigners, including five Nigerians, among them Chinedu, are stuck in the West African nation. The 12 have been detained for almost two weeks at Murtala Muhammed International Airport as Nigerian authorities claim Chinedu was not procedurally deported. Yesterday, Mohammed revealed she had made contact with Nigeria but refused to divulge information on the level of engagement. Address matter She said providing more details on the saga may jeopardise consultations and thus affect the progress of ensuring Kenyans and the jet are released. “There are a lot of bilateral consultations between the two governments to see how the issue can be resolved. I can’t give you more information as it will complicate issues under consultation,†she said. When pressed to explain further on the negotiations, Mohammed asked journalists to give the ministry time to address the matter. The detained Government officials are Barasa Okosa, Kariuki Ngugi, Mungathia Muriira, Pardala Dipason, Kivuva Muthama, Andrew Kambi and Mutinda Kakindu. The airline crew include Captain Tim Kavingo, flight engineer Alaka Ochieng’ and flight attendants George Kamau and Ismail Adan and a swede national first officer Rokshanker Masoud. From: jalkani@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, 19 June 2013 22:12 PM To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Reply To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [PK] Is this true? Raila should get into this because he is the true President of Kenya. You know when gets a job with forged papers soon the company realizes that the person cannot perform his duties that is what is happening now. Rigging an election and managing a nation are two different things. Do you think if I relocate to Canada I get a private jet to deport me back to Kenya? Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T --- On Wed, 6/19/13, Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> wrote: From: Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PK] Is this true? To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 2:51 PM Jalkani, Why should Amolo get into this? Isn't that why we pay ambassadors? Ambassadors should be the chief negotiators in situations such as this one. Then we have the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs if the Ambassador fails or needs back-up. The Foreign Affairs Secretary is the country's chief diplomat. Then we have the President and VP if all else fails. What do they need Amolo for? Are they admitting that the entire government has no enigma or gravitas required to find a solution here? Courage On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, <jalkani@yahoo.com> wrote: Hahahaha that is digital for you. No brains at all. Treasury asking for more money to cater for his travels and the Government asking him to help where they have failed and yet he is not a VIP cannot use VIP lounge. That is what Kenyans get when they replaced brains with processors in the name of digital Lord help Kenya. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T From: tomoreje@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:41:16 -0700 (PDT) To: progressive-kenyans<progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com> ReplyTo: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Subject: [PK] Is this true? UHURU GOVERNMENT SAID TO BE COURTING RAILA TO END CHINEDU ROW Top officials in Uhuru's government are said to be considering using the 'international goodwill' of the people's president, former PM Raila Odinga to secure release of Kenyan government officials still being detained by the controversial Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu. A highly placed source conversant with issue claims the talks had collapsed between Nairobi and Abuja as Chinedu is said to come from an untouchable political dynasty akin to that of president Kenyatta Himself! The source says the government had made 'preliminary contact' with Mr Odinga through an aide whom we cannot name due to the sensitivity of the issue. Chinedu is also said to have given the authorities in Abuja valid documents of businesses he was allegedly running with senior Kenyan government officials, some whom he accuses to be the force behind his deportation. However, the fear in the government is that engaging Odinga would give Chinedu an opportunity he does not deserve to spill the beans which has the potential of 'putting our people' in shame. Matters in the security apparatus of the country has also been made worse with the appointment of Ole Lenku as Interior cabinet secretary and the much publicized supremacy wars between police Inspector General David Kimaiyo and Johnstone Kavulundi,the Chairman of Police Oversight Authority. Those in the government comfortable with roping Mr Odinga in says his international stature allows him to 'intervene' in such cases. "That's what statesmen do. . .solve diplomatic crises with the potential to strain relations between countries," said the source on condition of anonymity. In a swift rejoinder, however, Odinga's supporters demanded the government first acknowledges that it was Odinga who secured the British government to compensate and also 'apologize' to the MAU MAU war veterans, many of them elderly poor Kikuyu men. "It is wishful thinking that any legal mind in Africa could win that case, so we were a bit shocked when we saw busybodies claiming they led to that outcome," a former cabinet minister now senator said. He added it was a shame even the 'old men' did not show gratitude. "He did a lot to them, but the word 'thank you' is not in their language," said another who did not wish to be mentioned citing his close links with the CORD leader. Both Foreign Affairs cabinet Secretary and her counterpart in the Interior are said to have been 'clueless' about the whole operation thus are embarrassed to give government position which they secretly claim may not be the 'official' government position.
Lesson in 'African pride': Kenya kicks out Nigerians and all hell breaks loose By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO cobbo@ke,nationmedia.com & twitter:cobbo3 Posted Wednesday, June 19 2013 at 19:00 Chinedu is talking big, saying things like the chartered plane is now his, and that unless the Kenya Government compensates him the money he has lost, it will not return. He is wrong if he thinks any of this is about him. It is about how Nigeria sees itself in Africa and the world. It is Africa's most populous nation at 150 million, and has produced some of the most world renowned Africans — Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, name it. It has some of Africa's most educated people. In a few years, it will overtake South Africa to become Africa's largest economy. Though its international image has been tarred by its rank corruption, its 419 fraudsters, and more recently, by extremist violence at home, Nigeria still expects to be treated with respect. In fact, precisely because of those negatives, it has become more sensitive to what it considers national humiliation. And no country in Africa is as unafraid to retaliate in these matters as Nigeria is (I guess followed by Rwanda and Ethiopia, in that order). Last year South Africa deported 125 Nigerians for allegedly possessing fake yellow fever certificates. A few hours later, a South African Airlines flight landed at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Nigeria promptly bundled the 28 South Africans who were on board back to Johannesburg. In one incident alone in May last year, it deported 45 Chinese for allegedly being involved in "economic scavenging" (only the Nigerians would come up with a crime like that). And what is that? Engaging in petty trade. It is understandable why Nigeria would want to be taken seriously. Kenya's economy is smaller than that of Lagos. By the end of this year, Lagos will surpass Cairo as Africa's largest city. It has nearly 120 million mobile phone subscribers, almost the entire population of East Africa. A friend who deals in mobile phones tells me he went into a shop in Dubai to buy about 50 phones, when a Nigerian dealer entered. He was kicked out, and the shop put up a "Closed" sign. The Nigerian had ordered "all" the phones on display and in the shop's stores. Last year, the BBC reported, Nigerians almost single-handedly saved London's High Street retailers. They plunked hundreds of millions of Pounds on everything from clothing to perfumes, with the average Nigerian shopper spending $700 per transaction. With property prices still reeling from the global financial crisis, the Nigerians rode to the rescue. In just the first half of 2012, they splashed more than $50 million on property in Dubai. But there is more. Being among the most authentically African people, Nigerians do actually believe in this "African pride" thing, and often are puzzled that other Africans find them loud and insufferable. Increasingly, some African countries are beginning to figure out that dealing with the pride issue is the best way to reach into a Nigerian's wallet. Nigerians gripe that it is difficult to get transit visas at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport when en route to or from places like Dubai when they arrive on those Kenya Airways (KQ) flights to Nigeria. Rwanda, which is hoping to grow RwandaAir's business by stealing some West African traffic from KQ, decided to remove pre-departure visa requirements for all Africans. The Nigerian press has several reports of Nigerian travellers praising Rwanda for its spirit of African brotherhood in recent months. Word has it that RwandaAir's flights to Dubai are overflowing with Nigerians. Nigeria, though, must still do its part. It needs to spend its diplomatic capital fighting for the "right" type of Nigerian. Kenyans, and indeed, the world, must rightly wonder whether a chap like Chinedu is worth all the trouble. Seven officials held in Lagos over Chinedu By EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA gmayaka@ke.nationmedia.com AND AGGREY MUTAMBO amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Sunday, June 16 2013 at 23:30 In Summary
Seven government officials and five airline crew have been detained in Nigeria for two weeks after they travelled to the country to deport Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu and two of his compatriots. The officials from different government departments including foreign affairs, immigration and police, left Nairobi for Lagos in a chartered aeroplane on June 3 escorting the controversial businessman and two other Nigerians, Christopher Nnanyelu and Oluwatosin Adebiyi. The three had been declared prohibited immigrants in Kenya. However, in a dramatic turn of events, the officials have not been allowed to leave Nigeria. They said authorities at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos were holding them and their chartered East African Safari Express plane. According to them, Nigerian authorities have insisted the Kenyans will not be allowed to fly out without the three men Kenya kicked out on drug trafficking claims. Speaking to the Daily Nation from Nigeria on Sunday, one of the officials, who requested anonymity, said that attempts by the Kenyan embassy to secure their release had been unsuccessful. Escorted deportees Those stuck in Nigeria include Captain Tim Kavingo and his colleagues, flight engineer Alaka Ochieng' and flight attendants George Kamau and Ismail Adan. First officer Rokshanker Masoud, a Swede, is also affected. The government officials who escorted the deportees were Mr Barasa Okosa, Mr Kariuki Ngugi, Mr Mungathia Muriira, Mr Pardala Dipason, Mr Kivuva Muthama, Mr Andrew Kambi and Mr Mutinda Kakindu. A Nigerian journalist confirmed to the Nation that the aircraft was being held at the airport's cargo air wing. The airline's office in Nairobi did not return our calls on Sunday. Sources indicated that the government of Sweden had already contacted its embassy in Nigeria to secure the release of the flight officer. "We are stranded here. The airport commander has instructed that we cannot return to Nairobi without the deportees," said the official who called the Nation from his hotel room. The airport commander had blocked attempts by the East Africa Safari Express management to fly its crew back to Nairobi on a Kenya Airways flight. On Sunday evening, Foreign Affairs ministry's Head of Communication Beatrice Kung'u admitted that several Kenyans, who accompanied the Nigerians deported 10 days ago, were still being held in Lagos. But she could not discuss the circumstances under which the Nigerian authorities were detaining them. "We are addressing the issue," she said, but added that only the Immigration authorities could discuss the details. Principal Secretary in the Interior ministry Mutea Iringo on Sunday said he was yet to receive information on the plight of the crew, but said he would check with the police. They lost contact with the deportees after they arrived in Nigeria, the PS, under whose ministry Immigration falls, said. Officials held in Nigeria had travel approval, says Amina  PHOTO | WILLIAM OERI Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed with EU Head of Delegation to Kenya Lodewijk Briet on June 19, 2013 at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. Ms Mohammed said officials detained in Lagos had genuine travel papers. NATION MEDIA GROUP By AGGREY MUTAMBO amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Wednesday, June 19 2013 at 23:30 In Summary
The Kenya government insists its officials held in Lagos after deporting a Nigerian suspected of drug trafficking had the necessary documentation to enter the West African nation. Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed told journalists on Wednesday that the officials who deported Mr Anthony Chinedu and two other Nigerians had genuine travel approval. "They had everything they needed to go to Nigeria; even had clearance to land," she said after meeting European Union diplomats in Nairobi. "It is their (Nigerians) country, and we are in consultations. Actually, it is not that they are in detention, they are in a hotel. They just can't be allowed to leave," Ms Mohammed added. The Cabinet Secretary said she had no idea why they were being held. The Kenyans and a Swedish pilot — five crew and seven security and immigration officials — were assigned to deport three Nigerians considered by the government as drug peddlers. They flew with the three to Lagos but were refused to leave. According to deportation orders signed by Attorney-General Githu Muigai on June 3, the officials were to escort Chinedu, Christopher Nnanyelu and Oluwatosin Adebiyi via chartered flight. But on arrival, Nigerian airport authorities held the officials' aircraft and blocked them from leaving unless they travelled back with the deportees. The officials were only removed from the airport when the Kenyan High Commission in Abuja intervened. The three Nigerians reportedly vanished upon arrival. Mr Chinedu on Monday claimed he would not let the officials travel back unless the Kenyan government compensated him for his investments. On Wednesday Ms Mohammed insisted Kenya was talking with no one apart from the legitimate Nigerian government authorities. "There is a duly-elected federal government of Nigeria that we are negotiating with. It is only the media that is talking to Mr Chinedu," she noted. Chinedu now demands pay for officials' release Deported Nigerian Anthony Chinedu on Monday demanded full payment of his investments in Kenya before seven officials and a plane held at a Lagos airport are released. PHOTO/FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP By AGGREY MUTAMBO amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Monday, June 17 2013 at 23:30 In Summary
Deported Nigerian Anthony Chinedu on Monday demanded full payment of his investments in Kenya before seven officials and a plane held at a Lagos airport are released. New details are emerging on how Kenyan officials who accompanied Mr Chinedu and two other Nigerians deported two weeks ago spent the night in their aircraft because they were not allowed to leave. Mr Chinedu, speaking to the Nation on phone from Leki Beach, Lagos, claimed: "I am the official of the government of Nigeria. The aircraft is now mine, it is waiting for me at the airport," he said, adding: "All I want is my money, and without these guys being detained here, I won't get my money. But you can rest assured they are safe, they are eating well." The Kenyans and a Swedish pilot — five crew and seven security and immigration officials — flew with the three Nigerians kicked out on drug trafficking claims to Lagos, but were not allowed to leave. On Monday, one of the detained officials claimed they slept in the aircraft and ate spoilt food because they were considered illegal entrants. They contacted the High Commission when they realised the issue was getting out of hand. "We were only allowed out in the evening the next day because embassy (Kenyan High Commission) officials had come in," one of the officials said. When contacted, an official at the Nigerian High Commission in Kenya said the group was currently staying at the Park View Astoria Hotel in the Ikoyi suburb of Lagos. Meanwhile, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed said the matter was being handled, but declined to give more details. Her Internal Coordination counterpart, Mr Joseph ole Lenku, under whose docket Immigration lies, said: These are delicate negotiations between the two countries. Until something comes out of it, we cannot give you the details. However, the government is doing everything it can." Nigeria: We Face Harassment in Kenya Because of Raila Odinga - - Nigerians20 June 2013Nigerian businessmen in Kenya say the current wave of deportation and harassment of Nigerians in that country is because the Nigerian community in Kenya is believed to have supported Raila Odinga during the March elections. A further wave of deportations of Nigerians has followed the expulsion of drug dealer Anthony Chinedu and two other Nigerians early this month. A Nigerian businessman based in Nairobi claimed that about 40 Nigerians have been forced to leave Kenya. The businessman, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said the situation deteriorated after President Uhuru Kenyatta publicly directed security agencies to deport drug suspects. "So if my wife does not like me and we have a dispute over property, or a disagreement with a business partner, what will stop them from calling the police and saying I am a drug dealer and I am deported without due process?," asked the businessman. He said the ongoing deportation of Nigerians was illegal as there is inadequate evidence against them. He claimed that legitimate Nigerian businessmen are being pressurised to accept one way air tickets back to Nigeria. In Nigeria, the deportations have caused fury in the media. Newspapers have called for Kenyans in the hospitality industry to be deported, for Kenyan tea to be boycotted, and a Kenya Airways plane to be impounded to compensate for the property left behind by the deportees. One deportee who identified himself as Joe told journalists that he was picked up in Nairobi and told to choose either to die slowly in custody or to quietly be deported. "I asked them what they meant by going home silently and they said they would just buy a normal air ticket for me, so I could return to Nigeria like other normal travellers, and I chose the latter," he said. "Till now, I don't know what offence I committed that warranted this inhuman treatment. Their security agents just go on the streets of Kenya, picking up anyone they identify as a Nigerian and tag him a drug dealer. I was doing my legitimate business in that country. I did not sell, take or keep drugs, and nobody has ever seen me with any narcotic substance. They picked me up on Monday June 3, and detained me till Thursday, before bundling about ten of us into the plane. We were not allowed to take even a pin," said another deportee, Paul Owoseni. The Nigerian High Commission in Nairobi has declined to issue a statement on the incidents. "For Nigerians resident in Kenya, these are the worst of times. Their plight could be compared to the era of slave trade when able-bodied Africans could not tell what the next minute held for them because human traffickers could pick them up the next minute. Checks revealed that in recent times, Nigerians have become victims of undeserved humiliation and deportation in Kenya. Nigerians are also accused of not paying taxes and abusing Kenyan women whom they are married to. There are an estimated 4,000 Nigerian businessmen in Kenya. They mainly deal in motor vehicle spare parts on Kirinyaga road, cosmetics, electronic goods, real estate and second hand clothes across Nairobi. "This harassment and deportation of Nigerians is taking a xenophobic form," the Nigerian businessman said. "I recently got an SMS from my former employee threatening me with deportation." Nigerian businessman Antony Chinedu was deported by immigration officers in early June after police insisted that he is a drug baron. Chinedu had been charged with possessing narcotics paraphernalia including 10g of drugs and weighing scales. He was escorted to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on June 3 by police and immigration officers and forced onto charter jet 5Y-SAX. The jet has now been detained at the cargo wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos for two weeks, together with the seven Kenyan officials who accompanied the Nigerians. The jet allegedly entered Nigerian airspace in a manner that was "not properly and officially documented." Nigeria has justified detaining the plane and seven Kenyan officials by Kenya's failure to secure Nigeria's prior agreement to accept Chinedu back as per the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Neither the owner of the plane is known nor who is paying for the private plane parking fee.
Top staff at ex-PM's office left, says Duale Majority Leader Adan Duale said 23 senior officials, who served under former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, have left the Deputy President's office since he took office last April. PHOTO/FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP By NATION REPORTER Posted Tuesday, June 18 2013 at 20:36 In Summary
Twenty-three senior officials, who served under former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, have left the Deputy President's office since he took office last April. The officers ran down their tenures and refused to renew them even after the DP, Mr William Ruto, offered new contracts, Parliament was told Tuesday. According to the Leader of Majority Adan Duale, most of them went out to pursue personal interests after their contracts with the defunct office of the Prime Minister came to an end. Mr Duale said in parliament that only three officers had been recruited by Mr Ruto to replace those who left. They are Marianne Kitany, chief of staff, Mr Reuben Maiyo, the private secretary and Mr David Mugonyi, secretary of communication. "The terms of service of some officers in the former PM's office expired as per the engagement with that office. When the Deputy President took office, he requested the Public Service Commission for an extension of their contracts. The PSC on June 5 extended their contracts to June 30, but they chose to leave," Mr Duale said. The officers had left before Mr Ruto took office on April 11, he said. Chose to quit The request for the extension was made by the former PS in the PM office Mohammed Isahakia. The officers who chose to quit include Caroli Omondi, who was Mr Odinga's Private Secretary, Dennis Onyango (Deputy Communication Secretary) and Jane Wangui (Youth Advisor). A further 294 officers who worked for Mr Odinga have been retained and continue to serve Mr Ruto. "It is therefore not true that the office carried out massive transfers of the staff at the former Prime Minister's office. On the contrary, it is the office of the Deputy President that requested the Public Service Commission to extend their contracts," the Majority Leader said. Suna East MP Mohammed Junet (ODM) had requested the government to supply Parliament with the list of persons he said had been moved from the DP's office. A generation of youth on the brink and the difficult choices they make Updated Wednesday, June 19th 2013 at 23:09 GMT +3 By Standard Team investigationdesk@standardmedia.co.ke Kenya: He graduated four years ago with big dreams, holding out with pride his crisp university graduation certificate. But the young graduate's wait for a job soon stretched into months and then years. Back in the Nairobi slums where all his friends were doing well from crime, his reluctance to be a gangster faded slowly. Tim, not his real name, started small, he says, stealing small items and selling them. He calls it hustling, in the slum slang. Before he knew it, he had been sucked into armed robbery where guns were involved. Tim, a father of three, is only one of the more desperate faces of millions of a frustrated generation of Kenya's youth who have found it impossible to find jobs even after attaining university education. New jobs Today, The Standard can reveal that many of them have turned to crime, drugs and even prostitution to make ends meet. Even as the country's unemployment threatens to stir an all-out social crisis, the government has watched helplessly, unable to devise measures that would encourage job creation and match the annual demand for 500,000 jobs. The economy created just a paltry 64,900 new jobs last year, according to official government data. Nearly a million people join the labour market every year. Industrialists blame the government for failure to stimulate fresh investment in manufacturing to generate new jobs. Consequently, millions of brilliant young minds have been set up for a life of failure at best or at worst death. Poor families that have sacrificed everything goats, cows, land and education loans â€" to see their now jobless young adults through school can't understand why their children are unable to find work. Now years of not finding a job is turning families into distress. Tim's family for instance, hoped that their son would one day get a good job that would enable them move out of one of the city's most dangerous settlements Korogocho slums. A decade later it is dawning on them that life on the fast lane for Tim might never happen. Neither his wife nor his family knows his dark secret. Tim graduated with an economics degree from the University of Nairobi four years ago. He was just short of a first class degree. Instead of a plum position that would utilise his knowledge with a financial institution earning a hefty salary, he turned out to be one of the victims of Kenya bulging unemployment factory. He has stolen and robbed violently from many. And he claims to have killed at least six victims and badly injured many more in his life as a thug. But he recognises his days are numbered. My deeds haunt me but that is the only way I can live and feed my family, says Tim who spoke to us from a nondescript location, armed with a Ceska pistol concealed by a slightly oversize jacket. Nightmare He agreed to talk to us only after persistent requests to tell his dark story, once shared in part in a KTN story. It included confirming our reporters identity, that we were not undercover police and that we were genuinely concerned about exposing the spiraling unemployment nightmare in Kenya. Before turning to violent crime, Tim says, he had applied for more than 100 jobs in different companies and was shortlisted for interviews on a few, four to be exact. He has never been lucky. In the three years he has been living dangerously in the murky crime world, more than 20 of his accomplices have fallen to police gunfire. His chest bears the scars of battle from gunshot wounds. Tim's biggest fear is that he won't be so lucky the next time. That he will fall prey to a hail of gunfire before he has lifted himself from crime and properly utilised his knowledge learnt from studying great economists like John Maynard Keynes or Paul Krugman. Early this year, Tim watched as four of his accomplices were gunned in an exchange of gunfire with the police as they attempted to break into a house in Kayole. Tim and another accomplice escaped with gunshot wounds. The epiphany of his demise under a hail of gunfire haunts him every night he tucks in his three children to bed a girl and two boys. He realises it is only a matter of time before the police catch up with him. This is the only life I know of, but it was never my wish to kill but you have to fight back, says Tim in an interview conducted under strict conditions and privacy to protect his identity. At university, he toyed with the thoughts of working as a bank teller. Now, he robs customers leaving or entering banks. Late last month, Tim and his gang had just waylaid a victim who had just made a deposit. But their plan went horribly wrong. One accomplice was shot, and succumbed to the injuries last week. Gun-toting robber Statistically, a fresh graduate would have 2 per cent chance of getting the job they have applied for. Poor employment creation policies have ensured that Kenya imports most of its needs, including eggs that can be produced at home, which in essence translates into exporting the jobs. The result is soaring unemployment rates and the associated disillusionment, pushing some of the youth into deadly lifestyles. But Tim is not the only one with broken dreams who has succumbed to crime. The ringleader of their crime gang has an MBA. A gun-toting robber is a far cry from the lawyer Tim dreamt of becoming. Would he give up his life of crime for the straight and narrow? He shakes his head. I am irreparable. He is too deep in crime to get out, he says. |
Odhiambo T Oketch addresses our Team Members at Huruma in Eldoret. The function was also attended by Hon Ruto as our Guest of Honour, the Eledoret North DC, Eldoret Mayor, Town Clerk and many more Leaders
Odhiambo T Oketch with Sen Prof Peter Anyang' Nyong'o when he was the Minister for Mediccal Services| Gang of thieves terrorize several villages in Nambale District |
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Confirming the incident, Busia deputy OCPD Francis Nguli said the six gangsters armed with pangas and rungus managed to rob two laptops, seven mobile phones and Sh 50,000, leaving some of the residents with serious injuries. "The attackers went to Exodus, Okatekok, and Maduna villages where they attacked several residents of the area at around 8 and 9pm," he said, speaking to journalists in Busia. Nguli said that among those affected was a woman with her two sons and a German national, a resident of the area who during the incident was seriously injured following deep cuts sustained on the head. The deputy OCPD said they have launched investigations over the incident to ensure the involved individuals are arrested to face the criminal charges, adding that the motive of the attack has not yet been established. "We have taken an immediate measure by combing the area and we will not relent on the issue until those involved are apprehended," said Nguli. Speaking to West FM, Mr Dismass Okware a victim of the incident said the criminals stormed his homestead, claiming to be searching for some stolen cattle in the name of being police officers from the Nambale patrol base. Okware who is a businessman, who sells cattle, revealed that during the incident, the six man gang hit him with a panga on the ear before parting away with sh 4,000 and his wife's mobile phone. "Among the six men, two had police uniforms and a toy pistol which they used to scare us when they came at our home," he said, remarks that the Busia deputy OCPD said will form the basis of their investigations over the incident. |
A six man gang invaded several villages in Nambale district, Busia County where they hacked and wounded more than five people before escaping with unknown number of assorted goods and money.| Gang of thieves terrorize several villages in Nambale District |
Written by Frankline Bwire 2012-03-16 15:50:00 Read 970 Times |
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Confirming the incident, Busia deputy OCPD Francis Nguli said the six gangsters armed with pangas and rungus managed to rob two laptops, seven mobile phones and Sh 50,000, leaving some of the residents with serious injuries. "The attackers went to Exodus, Okatekok, and Maduna villages where they attacked several residents of the area at around 8 and 9pm," he said, speaking to journalists in Busia. Nguli said that among those affected was a woman with her two sons and a German national, a resident of the area who during the incident was seriously injured following deep cuts sustained on the head. The deputy OCPD said they have launched investigations over the incident to ensure the involved individuals are arrested to face the criminal charges, adding that the motive of the attack has not yet been established. "We have taken an immediate measure by combing the area and we will not relent on the issue until those involved are apprehended," said Nguli. Speaking to West FM, Mr Dismass Okware a victim of the incident said the criminals stormed his homestead, claiming to be searching for some stolen cattle in the name of being police officers from the Nambale patrol base. Okware who is a businessman, who sells cattle, revealed that during the incident, the six man gang hit him with a panga on the ear before parting away with sh 4,000 and his wife's mobile phone. "Among the six men, two had police uniforms and a toy pistol which they used to scare us when they came at our home," he said, remarks that the Busia deputy OCPD said will form the basis of their investigations over the incident. |
| Gang of thieves terrorize several villages in Nambale District |
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| Nambale residents stare in shock after a gang of six raided various homesteads and wounded more than five individuals, before stealing commodities of unknown value. Below, a panga that was used by the gand when it raided several homes in three villages in Nambale district.[Photo/Frankline Bwire] A six man gang invaded several villages in Nambale district, Busia County where they hacked and wounded more than five people before escaping with unknown number of assorted goods and money. Confirming the incident, Busia deputy OCPD Francis Nguli said the six gangsters armed with pangas and rungus managed to rob two laptops, seven mobile phones and Sh 50,000, leaving some of the residents with serious injuries. "The attackers went to Exodus, Okatekok, and Maduna villages where they attacked several residents of the area at around 8 and 9pm," he said, speaking to journalists in Busia. Nguli said that among those affected was a woman with her two sons and a German national, a resident of the area who during the incident was seriously injured following deep cuts sustained on the head. The deputy OCPD said they have launched investigations over the incident to ensure the involved individuals are arrested to face the criminal charges, adding that the motive of the attack has not yet been established. "We have taken an immediate measure by combing the area and we will not relent on the issue until those involved are apprehended," said Nguli. Speaking to West FM, Mr Dismass Okware a victim of the incident said the criminals stormed his homestead, claiming to be searching for some stolen cattle in the name of being police officers from the Nambale patrol base. Okware who is a businessman, who sells cattle, revealed that during the incident, the six man gang hit him with a panga on the ear before parting away with sh 4,000 and his wife's mobile phone. "Among the six men, two had police uniforms and a toy pistol which they used to scare us when they came at our home," he said, remarks that the Busia deputy OCPD said will form the basis of their investigations over the incident.
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Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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From: sunoti@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:44:40 -0800
Subject: RE: [KOL] Why Won't Sungu and Oto Meet Gichaba?
Migosi Gichaba.
Warsama is a great peacemaker despite the wars,he called me endless times;even midnight causing my wife grief.In the interest of my marriage,I dropped the pursuit.Gichaba is safe.Infact,let me invite him for kuku choma at my place in Ruai.Kuria,tell him to catch me on 0729294743.We can have a drink at Pan Afric when he is back in town.Sungusungu wont harm him but he ought to leave chinkororo out lest we have a situation.Dont call my uncle,he comes in on weighty issues.
Sungu.
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Date: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:41 AM
I just woke up to the realization that Maurice Oduor has this obsession that I am not in Kenya. What's wrong with this idiot from Canada? I think all I need to do is declare a meeting with Makwiny.
Mobbi Gichaba, traveling to Keroka.
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I've tried my best to meet Otieno Sungu and Odhiambo Oketch but I've failed. I really need to meet these guys here in Nairobi and get to take a cup of tea with them. In fact, contrary to what Maurice Oduor has been telling them, I neither smoke marijuana nor drink alcoholic beverages. I also never use sugar or any meat products except fish. I am not a Luo, though. Lest Maurice Oduor start thinking I am his cousin. And he would start imagining he is also a clever man.
Let me know, on a serious note, how I can apply for a chance to meet these two Luo prospective leaders - Otieno Sungu and Odhiambo Oketch.
Henry Gichaba,
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| Maurice, I think Oduya or Sungu or Oto can answer your question much better. They know what is happening around this backyard. Nancy should avoid making such comments based on her bad history on reforms. Kombo Elijah --- On Sun, 3/11/12, Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> wrote: From: Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> Subject: [KOL] Re: (VVM Forum) Re: [wanabidii] Friends of KCDN; KAGAME & MUSEVEN JOIN NATIONAL CLEAN UP To: VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com Cc: "progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com" <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>, wanabidii@googlegroups.com, "Kiswahili" <Kiswahili@yahoogroups.com>, "KOL" <kenyaonline@yahoogroups.com>, "mailbox@nation.co.ke" <mailbox@nation.co.ke>, "Nation" <editor@nation.co.ke>, "newseditor@nairobistar.com" <newseditor@nairobistar.com>, "next_kenya@yahoogroups.com" <next_kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "opinion@nairobistar.com" <opinion@nairobistar.com>, "The Star" <letters@the-star.co.ke>, "uchunguzi online" <uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com>, "YP" <youngprofessionals_ke@googlegroups.com> Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012, 6:26 AM Kombo, Who is Nancy Karega? It sounds like a Ugandan name. Courage On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Elijah Kombo <komboelijah@yahoo.com> wrote: Nancy Karenga should be careful before provoking rattle snakes. If i were HER i would let those that have been caught pants down fight their own wars since if the anti-corruption agents extend and lengthen the codes she will suffer untold damage with no point of escape. I respect her personality and she should respect that the war against corruption must be won. Its corruption eat and not pay the bill..... Kombo Elijah On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Elijah Kombo <komboelijah@yahoo.com> wrote: Nancy Karenga should be careful before provoking rattle snakes. If i were HER i would let those that have been caught pants down fight their own wars since if the anti-corruption agents extend and lengthen the codes she will suffer untold damage with no point of escape. I respect her personality and she should respect that the war against corruption must be won. Its corruption eat and not pay the bill..... Kombo Elijah --- On Sat, 3/10/12, Ericson Oduya <oduyaericson@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Ericson Oduya <oduyaericson@yahoo.com> Subject: [wanabidii] Friends of KCDN; KAGAME & MUSEVEN JOIN NATIONAL CLEAN UP To: "VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com" <VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com>, "progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com" <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com> Cc: "Kiswahili" <Kiswahili@yahoogroups.com>, "KOL" <kenyaonline@yahoogroups.com>, "Madaraka" <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "mailbox@nation.co.ke" <mailbox@nation.co.ke>, "Mwananchi" <Mwananchi@yahoogroups.com>, "Nation" <editor@nation.co.ke>, "newseditor@nairobistar.com" <newseditor@nairobistar.com>, "next_kenya@yahoogroups.com" <next_kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "opinion@nairobistar.com" <opinion@nairobistar.com>, "The Star" <letters@the-star.co.ke>, "uchunguzi online" <uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com>, "Wanabidii" <wanabidii@googlegroups.com>, "YP" <youngprofessionals_ke@googlegroups.com> Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 11:26 AM Maurice thura, You are hitting your axe on a stone. Birds of the same feather flock together. Did you forget that it is the same character is one of the two folks that who fleeced money from NVK-M and failed to account for it to date and that was the soul reason Kombo, Sungu among others were kicked for asking for accountability? In fact, I would have been surprised if she said otherwise. Remember, she is just but a mouth piece; the must is busy listening! Regards, Eric. From: Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> Subject: [KOL] Re: (VVM Forum) Re: [wanabidii] Friends of KCDN; KAGAME & MUSEVEN JOIN NATIONAL CLEAN UP To: VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com Cc: "progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com" <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>, wanabidii@googlegroups.com, "Kiswahili" <Kiswahili@yahoogroups.com>, "KOL" <kenyaonline@yahoogroups.com>, "mailbox@nation.co.ke" <mailbox@nation.co.ke>, "Nation" <editor@nation.co.ke>, "newseditor@nairobistar.com" <newseditor@nairobistar.com>, "next_kenya@yahoogroups.com" <next_kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "opinion@nairobistar.com" <opinion@nairobistar.com>, "The Star" <letters@the-star.co.ke>, "uchunguzi online" <uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com>, "YP" <youngprofessionals_ke@googlegroups.com> Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012, 6:26 AM Kombo, Who is Nancy Karega? It sounds like a Ugandan name. Courage |
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Subject: (VVM Forum) Re: [PK] Friends of KCDN; KAGAME & MUSEVEN JOIN NATIONAL CLEAN UP
No one is against the idea of doing clean-ups. Infact all of us support the idea and would like to see it expanded to every town in the country and even more frequently. The problem we have to very simple: How does KCDN spend money donated to it? What are the expenses associated with a typical clean-up? How many employees are there in KCDN? Any office? What is happening with the monies allegedly swindled from JaGem and Janet? Will we ever get answers to the 100k and the bales of clothes (7?) that OTO was to deliver to Mzee Orinda Ndege? There are just too many questions. Mtume !!!!
Either we have a case of a lot of unfortunate misunderstanding here or a lot of corruption.
Courage
We had a very successful meeting in Kisumu yesterday with several Stakeholders.
On Tuesday, we are hosting a similar Consultative Forum in Umoja in preparation for the World Clean-up Day scheduled for 24th March 2012.
At least, we have the confidence of Friends of KCDN- the main drivers of this Campaign.
Oto
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Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012, 4:22 AM
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By virtue of these two great leaders leading in the Clean-up Campaign, they are Friends of KCDN. And this is a fact we do not want to contest.
And having been a very good Friend of KCDN, I want to share with you the list of our Friends in January and February 2012. This is just to show you that we are moving many people to The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign;
January 2012
- Mr. Hezbon Omondi- Kshs 1,300.00
- Ms Irene Wasike- Kshs 5,080.00
- Mr. Robert Oyiembo- Kshs 1,000.00
- Dr Abraham K Sing'oei- Kshs 6,000.00
- Mr. Ben Nyamweya- Kshs 1,000.00
- Mr. Lameck Siage- Kshs 20,000.00
- Cllr Kinoti- Kshs 7,000.00
- Mr. Richard Mogoko- Kshs 3,200.00
- Ms Selline Oketch- Kshs 2,000.00
- Mr. Elijah Agevi- Kshs 2,500.00
- Mr. Daniel Masetu- Kshs 2,500.00
- Mr. Stephen Ireri- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Dorothy Otieno- Kshs 3,000.00
- Mr. Enock Odhiambo- Kshs 1,000.00
- Mr. Daniel Mogeni- Kshs 675.00
- Mr. Samson Olendo- Kshs 2,750.00
- Dr. Edwin Otieno- Kshs 2,000.00
- Ms Dorcus Alooh- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Athaa Achola- Kshs 2,200.00
- A Better World- Switzerland- Kshs 42,054.00
- A Friend- Ezra- Kshs 1,750.00
- Mr. Eric Oyugi- Kshs 1,200.00
- A Friend- Julie- Kshs 1,030.00
- Mr. Samson Olendo- Kshs 4,275.00
- A Friend- Stanislas- Kshs 2,000.00
- Ms Dorcus Alooh- Kshs 1,525.00
- Ms Patricia A- Kshs 35,000.00
- Mr. Norman Amugira- Kshs 630.00
- Mr. Thaedeus Ochieng'- Kshs 530.00
- Mr. John Olendo- Kshs 1,650.00
- Mr. Richard Mogoko- Kshs 3,750.00
- Mr. Timothy Muriuki- Kshs 2,000.00
- Mr. Athaa Achola- Kshs 2,500.00
- Mr. Lameck Siage- Kshs 3,710.00
- Mr. Nixon Otieno- Kshs 1,825.00
- Mr. Daniel Masetu- Kshs 3,100.00
- Mr. Hezbon Omondi- Kshs 2,500.00
- Dr Abraham Korir Sing'oei- Kshs 4,000.00
- Mr. Eric Oyugi- Kshs 2,030.00
- Mr. Jacton Hongo- Kshs 2,525.00
- Mr. Robert Oyiembo- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Joshua Mbago- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Isayah Bwana- Kshs 1,700.00
- Mr. George Ogutu- Kshs 2,025.00
- Mr. George Odollo- Kshs 1,000.00
We also want to thank all the Ministries, Government Departments, the Local Authorities and the People of Kenya whom we are working very closely with in this Campaign. You have been the pillar upon which this campaign has succeeded.
As usual, we will post the entire support we have received from September to date in our website at our convenient timing.
The good thing is, your support to us has not been in vain. We will soon be announcing some very serious partnerships that is going to turn this Campaign around. Watch this space!
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
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Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012, 4:22 AM
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By virtue of these two great leaders leading in the Clean-up Campaign, they are Friends of KCDN. And this is a fact we do not want to contest.
And having been a very good Friend of KCDN, I want to share with you the list of our Friends in January and February 2012. This is just to show you that we are moving many people to The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign;
January 2012
- Mr. Hezbon Omondi- Kshs 1,300.00
- Ms Irene Wasike- Kshs 5,080.00
- Mr. Robert Oyiembo- Kshs 1,000.00
- Dr Abraham K Sing'oei- Kshs 6,000.00
- Mr. Ben Nyamweya- Kshs 1,000.00
- Mr. Lameck Siage- Kshs 20,000.00
- Cllr Kinoti- Kshs 7,000.00
- Mr. Richard Mogoko- Kshs 3,200.00
- Ms Selline Oketch- Kshs 2,000.00
- Mr. Elijah Agevi- Kshs 2,500.00
- Mr. Daniel Masetu- Kshs 2,500.00
- Mr. Stephen Ireri- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Dorothy Otieno- Kshs 3,000.00
- Mr. Enock Odhiambo- Kshs 1,000.00
- Mr. Daniel Mogeni- Kshs 675.00
- Mr. Samson Olendo- Kshs 2,750.00
- Dr. Edwin Otieno- Kshs 2,000.00
- Ms Dorcus Alooh- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Athaa Achola- Kshs 2,200.00
- A Better World- Switzerland- Kshs 42,054.00
- A Friend- Ezra- Kshs 1,750.00
- Mr. Eric Oyugi- Kshs 1,200.00
- A Friend- Julie- Kshs 1,030.00
- Mr. Samson Olendo- Kshs 4,275.00
- A Friend- Stanislas- Kshs 2,000.00
- Ms Dorcus Alooh- Kshs 1,525.00
- Ms Patricia A- Kshs 35,000.00
- Mr. Norman Amugira- Kshs 630.00
- Mr. Thaedeus Ochieng'- Kshs 530.00
- Mr. John Olendo- Kshs 1,650.00
- Mr. Richard Mogoko- Kshs 3,750.00
- Mr. Timothy Muriuki- Kshs 2,000.00
- Mr. Athaa Achola- Kshs 2,500.00
- Mr. Lameck Siage- Kshs 3,710.00
- Mr. Nixon Otieno- Kshs 1,825.00
- Mr. Daniel Masetu- Kshs 3,100.00
- Mr. Hezbon Omondi- Kshs 2,500.00
- Dr Abraham Korir Sing'oei- Kshs 4,000.00
- Mr. Eric Oyugi- Kshs 2,030.00
- Mr. Jacton Hongo- Kshs 2,525.00
- Mr. Robert Oyiembo- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Joshua Mbago- Kshs 1,500.00
- Mr. Isayah Bwana- Kshs 1,700.00
- Mr. George Ogutu- Kshs 2,025.00
- Mr. George Odollo- Kshs 1,000.00
We also want to thank all the Ministries, Government Departments, the Local Authorities and the People of Kenya whom we are working very closely with in this Campaign. You have been the pillar upon which this campaign has succeeded.
As usual, we will post the entire support we have received from September to date in our website at our convenient timing.
The good thing is, your support to us has not been in vain. We will soon be announcing some very serious partnerships that is going to turn this Campaign around. Watch this space!
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
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As we pay glowing tributes to the late Hon John Njoroge Michuki, this is one great news for us at KCDN and The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign. It is a real pleasure watching our Regional Leaders joining hands in the Clean-up Campaign.
In eulogizing the Late Michuki yesterday, President Kibaki had this to say of him; 'When he made a commitment he ensured that he followed it to the best of his ability', While the Rt Hon Prime Minister Raila Odinga had this to say of him; 'The politics of conservation is not for the faint hearted'. And we do agree.
In the course of driving the Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign, we at KCDN have made commitments we have ensured we follow to our ability as well. And in the politics of conservation, we are witnesses to the fact that it is not for the faint hearted. And this is why in respect of the Late Hon Michuki, and in response to the call by the Rt Hon Prime Minister, we will be planting 2,000 Trees at Kondele on Friday as our way of appreciating the virtues Hon Michuki stood for.
We also want to appreciate all our Leaders who have been with us in the trenches. You will all remember that the Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign was launched in Nairobi in September 2010 by the then Mayor of Nairobi Cllr Geoffrey Majiwa. It was then officially launched at Markinon Market by the Rt Hon Prime Minister Raila Odinga who was represented by Hon Amazon Kingi- the Minister for Fisheries Development.
We were later joined by Hon William Ruto in the trenches in Eldoret, Ms Janet Ongera in Kisii, the Mayor of Kisumu Cllr Sam Okello in Kisumu, the Mayor of Kakamega Cllr Sichele in Kakamega, the Mayor of Nyeri Cllr Muteru in Nyeri, the PC Nairobi Mr. Ndirangu Njoroge in Huruma Nairobi, and now, the Permanent Secretary Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government Prof Karega Mutahi will be our Guest of Honour during the World Clean-up Day in Umoja on the 24th March 2012.
This proves that our leaders are joining in the Campaign and soon, we will be having all our Local Authorities doing this all at the same time throughout the Country.
The campaign is gaining ground and we are happy that we are at least doing something that is transforming Kenya. We will remain committed to this Campaign and we will never be intimidated as we go about mobilizing and sensitizing Kenyans into action.
Fare thee well Hon John Njoroge Michuki.
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.
A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.
Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
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Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 1:06 PM
- CharlesI hope the President learnt how Rwanda has managed to keep its city clean. Lets wait and see whether he will emulate it to clean the filth and stinking Kampala city
- paulwow , uganda as a whole should adopt such a culture of general concern.Its a nice and adorable heritage to pass unto so many generations.
- Atleast our two countries are at peace now. The presidents realised the danger of being at log heads now and then. Then let them stop supporting each others dissidents
- robinMr President how can u do bulungi bwansi in rwanda and not in uganda
- jokeDuring Amin;s regime, we used to participate in what was called keep Uganda clean. That should be reintroduced so that we keep our towns and villages clean.
- zimbe mosesWonderful activity ! Let us do the same in our place (Uganda)
- James MukwayaI agree! Ugandans especially those in urban areas need to revise bulungi bwansi. The president and traditional leaders should lead our people in this nobel endeavor
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- kakeIts good these two relatives have dropped the pretence and started talking (openly).
- Seriously with all due respect how does the President clean the city? PEOPLE STOP pointing fingers. whenever he is passing thru the city is when they clean, why not blame the Mayor
- MuhindaKampala will be clean when it gets a Rwandan mayor. Gen. Kaiyihura can do better. Traditional leaders are busy scrambling for power instead of doing their traditional jobs including bulungi bwansi. If Uganda does not stop wasting time on useless ideas and embark on development, Rwanda will overtake us in every thing.
- fxxxxxxxxxkKampala needs a serious mayor for it to be clean.those of Lukwago thr jst a gambleling
- Momo ManassehI think a new nation like the Republic of South Sudan needs to emulate what is going on in Rwanda if it is to go far!Keep up that spirit guys! We admire you so much. Momo -Juba
- kaheeru godfreynot bad 4 our prsdent to copy frm rwanda cos it's very necessary & essential 4 d'pment.
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A UN report says Rwanda's defence minister is commanding rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It's the second time UN experts have accused Rwanda of interfering in its neighbour's territory. The report also says Uganda is hosting the rebels political office in Kampala. in the past six months, the M23 rebel group has taken control of the mineral rich North and South Kivu provinces in eastern DRC. Al Jazeera's Peter Greste has more.
Uganda Summit Pursues Political Solution to DR Congo
Uganda: Govt Angered By UN Report
Uganda denies supporting Congo rebels
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA | Associated Press – Wed, Oct 17, 2012JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ugandan officials on Wednesday dismissed allegations in a United Nations report that Uganda supports rebels in eastern Congo, saying the claims are intended to undermine efforts by regional leaders to stem violence in the central African country.
Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister Okello Oryem said the claims were made "in bad faith and intended to cause mischief."
"It's a heap of rubbish," said Oryem, whose ministry received a copy of the U.N. experts' report, which has been leaked. "It's malicious and it's intended to undermine the efforts of Uganda to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo."
James Mugume, the permanent secretary in Uganda's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the report accuses Uganda of actively supporting the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, whose mutiny has caused more than 200,000 villagers in the province of North Kivu to flee their homes.
The allegations come as Uganda is leading a regional effort to resolve Congo's rebel crisis by deploying a peace-enforcement force in eastern Congo. The regional effort, called the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), has recently held a series of meetings in which a "natural international force" of 4,000 troops contributed by regional governments would be sent to police eastern Congo. But the force has not yet been deployed, as it lacks funding and its mandate is not clear.
Oryem said the regional efforts have exposed the unreliability of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Congo. He said there had been a "lull in the violence" since the ICGLR started meeting over the Congo crisis, even though the well-armed rebels still control a huge part of eastern Congo.
The M23 rebels — the latest incarnation of a group of Congolese Tutsi rebels set up to fight Rwandan Hutu rebels in Congo — launched their rebellion in April after accusing the Congolese government of breaking promises made in a March 2009 peace deal that integrated them into the Congo army. The rebels are allegedly led by Bosco Ntaganda, a renegade general who is wanted for war crimes but whose current whereabouts are not known. The rebels, who now control hills within 30 kilometers (20 miles) of the eastern provincial capital Goma, have set up parallel administrative structures in the territories they control.
Rwanda, which faced allegations of arming the rebels in an earlier report by U.N. experts, has denied the charges.
Mass graves found after tribal fighting in Kenya's Tana delta
Reuters – 10 hrs agoMOMBASA (Reuters) - Two mass graves were found in Kenya's coastal Tana River region, police said on Tuesday, a week after at least 38 people were shot, hacked and burnt to death as two tribes fought over land and water.
The graves were discovered in Kilelengwani village, the epicenter of fighting that has killed 100 people in the last three weeks, including nine police officers.
The scale of the recent unrest has left many Kenyans convinced it was politically instigated and has raised fears of serious tribal fighting before elections next March.
President Mwai Kibaki imposed a curfew last week and sent extra security forces to the area to try to end the violence, intensified by an influx of weapons in the last few years.
"We don't know yet whether they are attackers who died while in confrontation with security personnel, or were just victims killed by attackers during the clashes and buried," regional police chief Aggrey Adoli said.
Settled Pokomo farmers and semi-nomadic Orma tribesmen have clashed for years over access to grazing, farmland and water in the coastal region. Dams along the Tana River, Kenya's longest, supply about two thirds of the country's electricity.
Police cordoned off the graves and said they had asked for a court order to exhume the bodies.
"We can't know how many bodies are buried in the graves until we exhume," Adoli said.
(Reporting by Joseph Akwiri; Writing by James Macharia; Editing by Louise Ireland)
Subject: [PK] Intelligence on President Kibaki of Kenya
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Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012, 5:02 PM
Kibaki has ensured his country has put a tight lid on Western investors direct foreign investment plans making it impossible for the West to make headway in the country.
The Kenyan presidency hardly engages in any bilateral, diplomatic, and military cooperation talks with European and American diplomats anymore leaving the lesser and keenly audited office of the Prime Minister to deal with the Americans and Europeans.
French Ambassador complained to the French government and the Kenyan foreign ministry about the unavailability of the president. Much diplomatic efforts are burdened to the foreign ministry.
French ambassador to Kenya Etienne de Poncins postulates that it is virtually impossible to reach the president of the republic of Kenya.
Analysis
President Kibaki is gradually growing tired of Western influence in Kenyan politics. It is certain that events that preceded the 2007-2008 elections violence and the outcome of Western and European political efforts to find a political solution to Kenya rather consummated to the ICC trials of Kibaki's key allies.
Why would the president snub diplomats whereas they represent the interests and close ties of the countries they represent? There are two key pointers to such outcomes and both are political with a bias on socio-economics of Kenya.
Politically, the president has realized the West and European has no love for him rather closely monitoring his political gains with the aim of destabilizing his tenure and the future of his economic gains besides any form of leadership he will leave behind to inherit his unique achievements in Kenya.
For a long time, European non governmental organizations have played an active role in shaping the socio-political sphere thus increasing their influence among local communities. The outcome of this influence is the increased dependence of Western and European governments spies on these NGO's.
ICC Prosecutor evidence on the PEV is dependent solely on NGO findings and other forms of firsthand reports obtained through NGO platforms on the 2007-2008 events making NGO's are a real threat to Kenya's national security.
Another political reason is the close knit relation between the European and American diplomats with Kibaki's prime minister Raila Odinga who the intelligence community views as a stooge of the West and Europeans. If Kibaki gives these diplomats audience, it is like giving Odinga audience and leeway to have his way in the politik.
Intelligence reports show that British, American, and French diplomats, European Union, besides Nordic countries envoys have constantly sought audience with the president but on all occasions their agenda had little economic significance rather full of politically inclined suppositions irking the president.
The recent international community foray about the general elections date and Kibaki's posture on the same exposed a rift between the Kenyan presidency and the International community.
Kibaki in his view finds the West and Europe as nosy, conspirators, and jealous of his development initiatives hence has elevated his position from one who gives audience to 'petty people with petty issues' to that of an astute leader ready to take Kenya to economic prosperity.
Kibaki has left the role of diplomacy to his foreign ministry and before he gives audience with these diplomats, the foreign ministry must vet them to avoid the president being engaged in a diplomatic talk of no economic value rather full of political jibe.
Outcomes
The election date fuss and recent evidence showing foreign hand in the ICC case against some of his key allies, indicate there is a cold war in the diplomatic theater between the Kibaki regime and the European countries.
In the intelligence community view, ICC under very good tutor-age is monitoring the political issues in Kenya with the intentions of disrupting the elections and ensuring the suspect Uhuru Kenyatta is cornered. Every ICC announcement coincides with a Kenyan political development.
Kibaki has used the Eastern countries beside engaging the BRICK countries to engage the country in real economic and military development.
In a reverse gear, Kibaki has used Odinga's previous communist doctrines to rally support, but in his strategy, Kibaki has not engaged subversive activity, rather communist economic-military development concessions. These efforts have massively paid off. On the ground, most middle class Kenyan's are now worried about post Kibaki era, besides wishing he could stay a-bit longer.
China has offered Kenya an economic lifeline with Russia opening a floodgate of military capability opportunities for Kenya. Russia is offering Kenya latest military technology .
Odinga who now embraces Western diplomacy is fiddling politically, making many political blunders and getting increasingly isolated by the middle class who find his Western-European friends as ill bent or rather Greeks bearing gifts.
Indeed, European-American efforts to stymie Kenyan political tradition is not getting headway, events playing out show Kibaki's NSIS, the intelligence outfit of Kenya, has set in motion military-economic strategies (regional cooperation, bilateral agreements and massive inter-country infrastructure-energy concessions/projects to economically unite regions in a symbiotic relation) that have very well pulled the rug under the feet of the European-American efforts.
Kibaki has written on the wall, that when he leaves office, the West will find institutions and regional ties that they will not be able to shake and make use of to their benefit.
Mercenaries don't work for free
Government connections
Pelser denied being involved in the training program in Puntland…saying he merely made introductions for another company called Saracen Lebanon.
Lebanese authorities have no record of a company called Saracen. Pelser did not respond to requests for contact information for Saracen Lebanon.
Saracen International, Not To Be Confused With Saracen International
at least three Saracens — the one registered in Lebanon, and two run by Luitingh's business partner and based in Uganda, where government office employees told the AP the registration papers have disappeared. An AP reporter in Beirut could not find the address Luitingh's company provided in the Somali contract. Lebanese authorities had no address listed for Saracen in Lebanon and said it is based in the United Arab Emirates.
Salim Saleh named in Somali 'mercenary' deal
Gen. Salim Saleh: Is he a suspect?
President Yoweri Museveni's young brother Caleb Akandwanaho aka General Salim Saleh may be linked to possible involvement in mercenary activities in war-torn Somalia, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.
The details emerged after Saracen International; a company associated with Gen. Salim Saleh, lost a lucrative contract to undertake some work in Somalia. Our source in Mogadishu said the Transitional Federal Government [TFG] of Somalia declared last week, Thursday 27th January that it had severed its relationship with Saracen International.
The decision, we are told, came after a closed door cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in the capital Mogadishu. Somalia's Deputy Security Minister Ibrahim Mohamed Yarow confirmed that cabinet had indeed cancelled the agreement that the TFG government had signed with Saracen International to train Somali troops and to revive social services including building health facilities in Mogadishu.
The decision, he said, was reached after Somalia's TFG government landed on evidence which suggested that Saracen International may have been involved mercenary activities. "…The cabinet has today overwhelmingly voted against Saracen International on the basis of mercenary acts. So the cabinet has revoked the agreement with this company", Ibrahim Mohamed Yarow said.
The Deputy Security Minister added that while there is no doubt that his government requires assistance, as government, he said, the TFG will only enter into contractual agreements with distinguished and clean companies. He also said the cabinet's decision on Saracen International was "irrevocable".
The TFG's decision to revoke Saracen International's contract follows widespread expression of concern by several foreign governments including the US. Philip J. Crowley, a US State Department Spokesman, said in December that the American government was "…concerned about the lack of transparency" of Saracen's financing and plans.
According to a New York Times report of 20th January 2011, "…at least one of Saracen's past forays into training militias drew an international rebuke. Saracen's Uganda subsidiary was implicated in a 2002 United Nations Security Council report for training rebel paramilitary forces in Congo".
Is war a lucrative source of business for powerful men?
Other than Burundi, Uganda is the only other country in Africa that has contributed thousands of soldiers to the AU's AMISOM peacekeeping mission in Somalia. The same New York Times report identified one of Saracen Uganda's owners as Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh, the retired half-brother of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni.
Salim Saleh's possible conflict of interest also highlights some crucial things in this terribly complex story. One of the things is that the lines that separate government security officials and owners or leaders of private armies have become so fuzzy that you can never really be sure as to the motivations of any individual player.
As mercenary forces become more and more prominent in armed conflicts around the world, the profit motive becomes almost impossible to rule out. In other words, it's almost impossible to know the real reasons that fuel the conflicts in which mercenaries play a role. UPC party President Dr. Olara Otunnu for example, has accused some UPDF soldiers of having had vested interests in prolonging the Kony war in northern Uganda.
The UPDF of course denied Otunnu's claims. But the New York Times report also accused General Saleh and other top Ugandan army officers of using their ties to paramilitaries to plunder Congolese diamonds, gold and timber. But what exactly is Saracen International? Who really owns it? Our efforts to get a comment from Saracen International were futile by press time.
So for the time being, it may be fair to say that no one really knows for sure what Saracen International is, and who owns it. What one can say however is that Saracen International is definitely a murky trade name that is shared by a number of private security companies across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Whether that is a coincidence or not, no one really knows.
What we can confirm without fear of contradiction is that Saracen International is fully established in Uganda; see http://saracen.co.ug/index.php. Most of the other companies however deny or downplay any financial or managerial relationships between them. A few have however been linked to the infamous South African mercenary firm called Executive Outcomes; the same company that allegedly tried to send mercenaries to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in order to tap into the country's oil and mineral wealth.
Saracen International has also been linked to a certain Erik Prince; the man whose company Blackwater is allegedly financing a "Counter-Piracy" mercenary squad in Somalia. Both the New York Times and Associated Press have carried similar allegations against Saracen International on the strength of "confidential" reports leaked from the African Union.
Somalia has been without a proper central government since 1991 when President Siad Barre was overthrown by armed warlords. That incident effectively condemned Somalia to decades of civil war. END. Please log into www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.
By Said Dualeh
is only adding to the miseries of the people of Somalia proper. I have been
a supporter of all types of governments in Somalia from The collapse of the
Siad Barre regime1991 to the present. In my previous articles I have
defended Sheikh Sharif and the parliamentary warlord Sharif Hassan thinking
that they had a little interest in their heart for our people the people of
Somalia who unfortunately do not know their rights as citizens of Somalia.
We need a bill of rights for Somalia to get out of this corrupt and failed
state status.
We as Somalis can be successful in business, education and professions any
other country in the world as proven by the Somali Diaspora except on our
own country-Somalia, why? Go figure the answer and you may have solved the
Somali Dilemma.
The Somali people do not know that they do not have to put up with corrupt
leaders, leaders who associate themselves with the enemies of the people of
Somalia, they do not need to put up with un educated and unenlightened
religious leaders who hide behind veils and brain washed youngsters who
never grew up as people with rights and never seen a just government who
cares about its people and their welfare. Somalis do not need to put up with
International organizations and Non governmental agencies who live off
destruction, mayhem and underdevelopment in less fortunate countries like
Somalia where they can test their new medicines and unorthodox, untested
theories of development and peacekeepers who look after their own interest.
At First in Somalia after 1991 it was unstable government getting in
contract with companies that dumped Nuclear Waste on our shores and
contracting with companies who took every piece of metal out of the country
and sold it as Salvage waste to Asian counties. We have seen Ambassadors
trying to sell off Somali government properties overseas, and then we have
seen presidents, prime ministers and regional authorities printing illegal
currencies in a clandestine ways that made people wonder if this poor
country had anyone who cares about it. We have seen where lack of
transparency and accountability can lead to misunderstanding of MOU's
memorandum of understanding which did not reference to the law of the sea-
regulations spearheaded by the United Nations. We have seen Ethiopia trying
to destroy Somalia using the old colonial adage (Divide them then Rule
them). If anyone ever thought Ethiopia wants to see a unified Somalia or a
strong Somalia think again as you may be living in a wonderland. The same
goes for all of our neighbors and our Arab brethren.
We have seen how corrupt the current Somali government officials are they
sold the .SO protocol bestowed to Somalia as a nation among 192 others. The
same people have contracted with Saracen International- one of the new
private military companies(PMC's) such Executive Outcomes(EO), Sandline Co,
Strategic Consulting International(SCI), KBR, Heritage Oil and Gas Co. The
name and their symbol of Saracen International looks like a middle ages
Templar Knight on horseback trying to show the "light"(Christianity) to
heathens in sub-Saharan Africa. The company is run by shady characters from
the former SADF- South African Defense Force and former employees of the now
infamous but defunct Executive Outcomes. The current TFG Finance minister
stated that the agreement was signed by Sheikh Sharif- through his trusted
then chief of Cabinet Abdulkarim Jama, the current Minister of information
and Post & Communication. On the other side it was signed by Lafras
Luitingh aka Louis Yssel- member of the notorious Former South African law
enforcement agency Civil Cooperation Bureau(CCB)- in some pulished reports
the finger was pointed to him during the truth commission hearings in the
new South Africa that he killed Dr. David Webster and Anton Lubowski (ANC
Activists in the former South africa).Lafras Luitingh aka Louis Yssel has a
checkered past that will scare anyone who reads about world intelligence
reports. He had dealing with characters such as Tim Spicer, Tony Buckingham,
Eeben Barlow and the late Former South Africa skin head chief of police
Henrick Van der Bergh, the creator B.OS.S and later the CCB where Lafras
Luitingh got his training in sabotage, political assassinations, and
intelligence gathering on dissidents. He was later recruited by (Executive
Outcomes) EO for their Angola, Mozambique, Malawi jobs and later Sierra
Leone.
The plane currently held in Hargeisa is the type used by these private
armies especially Saracen and they buy their weapons from the former Soviet
satellite countries. The two South Africans on the plane in Hargeisa were
released as fake Journalist but they were Saracen International employees.
They have connections with the British Foreign Office who called the
Somaliland foreign minister. Why did they not allow pictures to be taken or
invited the media to the kangaroo trail held in Hargeisa. South African
intelligence has some clout over Hargeisa for different a reason, that is
where the late Somaliland President Egal died in a hospital in South Africa.
The contact is Mohamed Ibrahim Egal's former wife Edna who was at one time
Foreign Minister of Somaliland and who owns a hospital that received
assistance from South Africa. Soon there will be another mock trial in
Hargeisa, Somalia Saracen will give the weapons on the plane to the
Somaliland administration formatting it as confiscation by their court and
they will release the plane and the crew intact. Saracen will once again
continue the operations they were hired for.
Sheikh Sharif of the TFG , Museveni of Uganda, Farole of Puntland, &
Sharif's Ala Shiekh group led by Abdulkarim Jama( former VA mosques
bookkeeper) and his prime minister (Formaggio) and his defense
minister(Fiqi) (2 former Somali embassy bookkeepers from Washington) the
Finance minister (Halane)& The Foreign Minister (Omaar) have no clue who
they are dealing with at Saracen International. Museveni's half brother is
just a cover up. This project is the deep throat of Somalia and we need
transparency in these dealings with select members of the Somali parliament.
Saracen guys and their friends have helped countries overthrew elected
officials and everything they do is for money. These guys were so powerful
at one time that they had The British navy servicing their Antonov and
soviet type helicopters near the coast of Africa. If a country like Somalia
does not have money these private military companies barter for oil and
fishing rights and sell those rights at a premium to the highest bidder.
They have close relationship with the leadership in the Emirates and even a
stronger one with current Sultan of Oman whom they assisted in overthrowing
his father off the throne.
Both the UN and the OAU despise these private military companies because
they want to put them out of business. Amisom is a cash cow for Uganda who
does not want the current situation to end and they sustain a weak TFG
government whose diplomatic failures include a drug dealing former
Ambassador in China and they keep recycling former diplomats to the UN
mission in NY who have publicly stated that he will join his clansmen back
home to kill people and destabilize peaceful areas. TFG are not bringing to
justice the ambassador who sold embassy property in Kenya. Will this
government survive without peace keepers? I do not think so.
Saracen International is a rented military company mostly comprised of
former special forces, formerly known as "dogs of war", mercenaries and now
they are known as security trainers and consultants (their sanitized PR
name). Their specialty is to loot poor African countries who are led by
corrupt individuals with no integrity.
The Somali people have a choice to change their leadership, or else if they
want to stand on the sidelines as always thinking that someone is going to
come to rescue them or should we as Somalis get our hands dirty and come
together and resolve our clannish divisions once and for all since we have
seen that no clan in Somalia is able to subjugate the others and live in
peace or wait for our destiny to be decided by organizations or private
military companies who follow their interest..
Best Regards,
Thank You,
Said Hersi Dualeh
*Freelance journalist*
Anaheim, California- USA
'Prince of Mercenaries' who wreaked havoc in Iraq turns up in Somalia
Blackwater founder sets up new force to tackle piracy
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
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Erik Prince, the American founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, has cropped up at the centre of a controversial scheme to establish a new mercenary force to crack down on piracy and terrorism in the war-torn East African country of Somalia.
The project, which emerged yesterday when an intelligence report was leaked to media in the United States, requires Mr Prince to help train a private army of 2,000 Somali troops that will be loyal to the country's United Nations-backed government. Several neighbouring states, including the United Arab Emirates, will pay the bills.
Mr Prince is working in Somalia alongside Saracen International, a murky South African firm which is run by a former officer from the Civil Co-operation Bureau, an apartheid-era force notorious for killing opponents of the white minority government.
News of his latest project has alarmed, though hardly surprised, critics of Blackwater. The firm made hundreds of millions of dollars from the "war on terror", but was severely tarnished by a string of incidents in post-invasion Iraq, in which its employees were accused of committing dozens of unlawful killings.
Mr Prince, a 41-year-old former US Navy Seal with links to the Bush administration, subsequently rebranded the company "Xe Services" and sold his stake in it. But he remains entangled in a string of lawsuits pertaining to the alleged recklessness of the firm.
For most of the past year, he has been living in Abu Dhabi, where he has close relations with the government and feels better positioned to dodge lawsuits. In an interview with a men's magazine, he recently declared that the UAE's opaque legal system will make it "harder for the jackals to get my money".
The exact nature of his sudden presence in Somalia remains unclear. The Associated Press said yesterday that the army Mr Prince is training will focus on fighting pirates and Islamic rebels.
The leaked intelligence report which prompted the news agency's story was compiled by the African Union, an organisation of African nations. It claimed that Mr Prince's money had enabled Saracen International to gain the contract to train and run the private militia. But that element of the report was flatly contradicted by a spokesman for the Blackwater founder, who claimed that Mr Prince had "no financial role of any kind in this matter".
In a written statement, the spokesman, Mark Corallo, added: "it is well known that he has long been interested in helping Somalia overcome the scourge of piracy. To that end, he has at times provided advice to many different anti-piracy efforts." He declined to answer any further questions.
Whatever the exact details of Mr Prince's role, his presence in Somalia will inevitably lead to renewed soul-searching about the growing privatisation of warfare. Critics of mercenary organisations, which are often prepared to operate where traditional armies fear to tread, claim they are often trigger-happy and lack proper accountability. In Iraq, Blackwater employees shot dead dozens of civilians; 17 people were killed in one incident alone in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
Criminal charges were eventually brought in the US against five Blackwater employees. However, they were dropped in 2009 after a federal judge ruled that the defendants' rights had been violated during the gathering of evidence. Iraq's Interior Ministry subsequently expelled all contractors who had worked with the firm at the time of the Nisour Square shooting.
Somalia, where the country's UN-backed regime is fighting a civil war against al-Shabaab, a group of Islamic insurgents with links to al-Qa'ida, is, if anything, a more volatile country than post-invasion Iraq.
The government controls only a small portion of the capital, Mogadishu, where it has the support of 8,000 UN troops from Uganda and Burundi. It is training an army to extend its reach, but observers fear that its ranks will be weakened by the arrival of Mr Prince – who will pay his troops a far better wage.
Saracen's shady corporate structure has not inspired confidence in its accountability. In 2002, the UN accused its Ugandan subsidiary of training rebel paramilitaries in the Congo. Recently, the firm has claimed to be registered to addresses in Lebanon, Liberia, Uganda and the UAE, some of which seemed not to exist when reporters tried visiting.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...a-2191270.html
WHO IS SARACEN INTERNATIONAL? WHAT IS IT DOING IN SOMALIA?
"Saracen" is what the Crusaders used to call the Muslims, back in the day.
"Saracen International" is a trade name shared, coincidentally or not, by a number of private security companies across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America. These companies deny or downplay any financial or managerial relationships between them. A few, however, reportedly derive from the infamous (and pioneering) South African mercenary firm, Executive Outcomes.
Yesterday, both The New York Times and the Associated Press carried a truly mind-bending story on Saracen International, based on a "confidential" African Union report that had apparently been leaked to both news organizations.
The report claims that none other than Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been financing a "counter-piracy" mercenary squad in Somalia, through Saracen.
Somalia, a chaotic demi-state, was the scene of an iconic American military defeat 18 years ago, not to mention a one-time home base for Osama Bin Laden.
It appears that Prince, an evangelical American mercenary with longstanding ties to the Pentagon and the CIA, has partnered with a group of equally notorious South African guns-for-hire for a paramilitary mission in an Islamic nation, under a corporate banner harking back to the Crusades. But what does all that mean?
Mercenaries don't work for free
Is this an American war by proxy? Notably, this Somali "counter-piracy" mission is advised by a former White House lawyer and by a former CIA official. However, it is also bankrolled in large part by someone in the government of Prince's new home, the United Arab Emirates.
Reading between the lines of yesterday's news stories, the report connecting Prince and Saracen was most likely leaked by someone who felt, understandably, that the presence of mercenaries in Somalia undermines the African Union effort there, and persists on account of official corruption.
Uganda is supplying troops to the uniformed African Union force in Somalia. And, according to AP reports, Saracen is "associated with" the younger brother of Uganda's president, Salim Saleh. That curious phrasing suggests a mutually beneficial financial relationship. Other African media sources say Salim Saleh is an "investor" or "major shareholder" in Saracen (Uganda).
Salim Saleh's apparent conflict of interest highlights the key take-away from this incredibly complex story: The lines that separate government security officials and the leaders of private armies have become so fuzzy that you can never really be sure as to the motivations of any individual player. As mercenary forces become more and more prominent in armed conflicts around the world, the profit motive becomes difficult to separate from other casus belli.
In other words, it's almost impossible to know the real reasons driving any conflict in which mercenaries play a leading role.
Government connections
The Saracen-in-Somalia story started gaining notice after a Washington Times story revealed the role of a former George W. Bush administration official in coordinating Saracen's contract with the Somali government.
The former official, Pierre R. Prosper, is pictured here in a 2003 photo from his a former gig as an ambassador for "war crimes issues."
Prosper and Michael Shanklin, a former CIA officer stationed in Mogadishu, previously told the AP they were being paid "paid by a Muslim nation [they] declined to identify" to advise the Somali government on "legal" and "security" matters. That unnamed "Muslim nation," it now appears, is the UAE.
Late last year, the Washington Times and the AP reported that Prosper met with United Nations monitors over their concerns that Saracen may have violated a long-running (but ineffectual) arms embargo on Somalia. (Mogadishu, a city that has roughly the population of Houston, Texas, averaged 534 "weapon-related casualties" per month last autumn, according to the UN.)
Prosper told the Times "that so far, no arms were shipped to the training camp, to the best of his knowledge." He told the AP that "Saracen is doing the military training" in Somalia. Yet the same story quotes Saracen (Uganda) chief executive Bill Pelser as disclaiming the company's training role in Somalia.
Pelser denied being involved in the training program in Puntland…saying he merely made introductions for another company called Saracen Lebanon.
Sure. Got it.
Lebanese authorities have no record of a company called Saracen. Pelser did not respond to requests for contact information for Saracen Lebanon.
Yesterday's AP story features quotes from Saracen (Lebanon) executive Lafras Luitingh—evidently a distinct entity from the Ugandan company of the same name that is also led by former employees of Executive Outcomes.
Also, it's supposed to be completely irrelevant that Saracen (Uganda) goes around "ma[king] introductions" for Saracen (Lebanon).
In the AP story, Luitingh says "the company had sought to keep the project secret to surprise the pirates." (Because the pirates don't know they might be attacked?) He "declined to say whether [Blackwater founder Erik] Prince was involved in the project and said [Prince] was not part of Saracen."
Is your head spinning yet? If not, it will be soon. Keep reading.
Saracen International, Not To Be Confused With Saracen International
The AP turned up
at least three Saracens — the one registered in Lebanon, and two run by Luitingh's business partner and based in Uganda, where government office employees told the AP the registration papers have disappeared. An AP reporter in Beirut could not find the address Luitingh's company provided in the Somali contract. Lebanese authorities had no address listed for Saracen in Lebanon and said it is based in the United Arab Emirates.
Saracen (Uganda)'s website says the company has branches in South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Hong Kong, Angola, Zambia, Sudan and Botswana.
My own research turned up two more "Saracen Internationals," not counting a Spanish real-estate firm with that name.
One, Saracen International Ltd, is based in Manchester, UK.
The corporate address of record is at the Towers Business Park in Manchester. The website registration, however, returns both that address and another, one shared with a café in the southern suburb of Stockport.
An email to the Yahoo account of the listed website registrant, Sira Yaqub, bounced back undelivered. The woman who answered the phone at the UK Saracen in Manchester office suggested calling back on Monday.
The other Saracen International I found is a limited-liability company based in Phoenix, Arizona.
This Saracen International is registered to William G. Lawrence and Tjaart Andre Van Der Walt, both of Phoenix. Lawrence returned a call placed to the company's listed phone number.
"I have no relationship to the UK company of the same name. I don't operate in Southern Africa," he says of Saracen (Arizona).
Van Der Walt, Lawrence says, is a "friend" who has "never been part of the corporation," although records show the LLC is registered at Van Der Walt's home address. Lawrence says Van Der Walt, whose first name is also spelled in public records as "Thaart," emigrated from South Africa 16 years ago and is now an American citizen.
I asked if Van Der Walt ever worked for Executive Outcomes. Lawrence says he doesn't know, and hadn't heard of that company.
He has, however, heard of the other Saracens. "I got a call from Somalia asking them to train their coast guard to fight the piracy threat. Only then I became aware that there was another Saracen International," Lawrence says.
Doesn't it seem strange, I suggested, that all these private security companies with an international client base—Lawrence's company has operations in Jordan and the UAE—seem content to share a business name, and aren't suing one another for copyright infringement? "I can't account for that except…[the name] has positive connotations in the Arabic world," Lawrence says.
Positive because, after all, they fought the Crusaders.
Lawrence says his company sells a Chevrolet Suburban outfitted with a concealed six-barrel gatling gun that can pop out of the hood and fire 50 rounds a second in every direction. The car, called the Raptor, costs upward of $300,000.
The Raptor is not something that you'd ever want to cut off in heavy traffic. You can watch its gunner blow up a hatchback on YouTube.
Is this the next must-have vehicle for Arizona's soccer moms?
"The people we do business with are national leaders. They are always subject to threats of one kind or another. King Abdullah [of Saudi Arabia] has had four assassination attempts on him," Lawrence says. "He doesn't ride in our car…but we're in his entourage."
(Unlike the other companies that share its name, Saracen (Arizona) does not have an up-and-running website of its own. However, the marketing video for the Raptor contains a plug for saracen.org. That domain is currently listed as for sale.)
Muddied (Black)waters
Yesterday's AP story on Prince's ties to Saracen (Uganda) connects another company to the dubiously funded "anti-piracy" mission there.
Afloat Leasing, which owns two ships that have been working with Saracen, said it was Liberian-registered, but an AP reporter didn't find it at the address given or in Liberian records.
I found an "Afloat Leasing Ltd" registered in South Africa. Records show this company owns a ship called the Seafarer, which departed Durban, South Africa roughly one month ago and was due to call last week in the UAE, a course that would take it past the pirate-plagued Horn of Africa.
This may or may not be the same "Afloat Leasing" named by the AP.
And as long as we're in the caveats department, it should be noted that Prince, who recently abandoned his "redneck mansion" for the UAE, has denied, through a spokesperson, having any "financial role of any kind in this matter" with Saracen.
It should also be noted that Prince has ostensibly cut his ties with Blackwater, the company he built from nothing, although he's tight with the new owners, whoever they are.
Did I say Blackwater? Of course, I meant Xe. Or whatever it is now. It's hard to keep all these companies straight, sometimes. Odd, isn't it? Most companies try so hard to come up with a memorable name. But with these companies and their constantly changing, generic-sounding brands—not to mention the roving headquarters and opaque registration—it's almost as though they're trying to confuse people. Like they don't want people to remember who they are, or something.
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The new faces behind molasses plant.
By John Kamau
The name Antonio Teixeira may not ring any bells in Kenya. But in international circles, the chairman of Energem Resources, which bought a 55 per cent stake in the Odinga family's Spectre International –sends several alarms.
His entry into Kenya's business circles is expected to raise eyebrows because of past business links with "mercenary" companies hired to protect mining companies in some of Africa's bloodiest war zones, The Sunday Standard can exclusively report.
Four years ago, the South African Portuguese, also known as Tony Teixeira, was accused in the British Parliament of gun-running for Angola's Unita rebels and for defying United Nations sanctions by supplying oil to the rebel movement.
Now questions are being raised about the controversial man behind a Canadian company that purchased the troubled Kisumu molasses plant from the Oginga Odinga family.
Teixeira has been linked to Branch Energy and Executive Outcomes, two notorious private security-cum-paramilitary companies with a record of involvement in war wealth.
Branch Energy, which had mining concessions in Sierra Leone, is 100 per cent owned by Teixeira's Energem, is one of the pioneers in the provision of private security in return for mining concessions in war-torn nations. Executive Outcomes, on the other hand, was founded by a former Teixeira ally, Tony Buckingham, who recently sat on the board of Energem Resources.
Buckingham, a former South African soldier, was a member of the dreaded South African apartheid-era assassination squad, the 32nd Battalion, and was also behind the British mercenary company, Sandline, which in 1999 broke a UN arms embargo in Sierra Leone, allegedly with the backing of the British government.
Sandline, however, closed shop in April, this year, citing failure to get British support for its private military activities.
According to an Energem company profile obtained by the Sunday Standard, Teixeira's newly registered company, Energem Kenya Limited, is licensed to "import refined oil products" and "bitumen for the Ministry of Roads", headed by Raila Odinga. It is the award of an exclusive contract to a company associated with the Odinga family by a ministry headed by a member of the same Odinga family that sparked the row over the acquisition of the Kisumu molasses plant last week.
But Teixeira is not new to controversy.
Last year, another of Teixeira's companies, Trans Sahara Trading (TST), was stopped from supplying oil to Zambia by President Levy Mwanawasa, who cited "irregularities" in the award of the tender.
And now, Teixeira's ownership of the Kisumu molasses plant has thrust him to the centre of another dispute only eight months after he announced that his company had acquired a controlling stake in the moribund ethanol plant.
Bondo MP Dr Oburu Odinga, who is also the chairman of East African Spectre, which partly owned Spectre International, says the family has "no interest" in the ethanol maker after pulling out last November. ***WE KNOW THAT THIS IS A LIE BECAUSE TODAY THE ODINGAS OWN THE ETHANOL PLANT (KISUMU MOLASSES PLANT!)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!****
The current storm was kicked up by newly appointed Urban Development assistant minister Maina Kamanda, who accused the Odinga family of "grabbing" the land occupied by the plant, "failing to pay for it" and later selling it to Canadians.
Official documents now indicate that the land in question was offered to Spectre International by the then Commissioner of Lands, Mr S.K Mwaita, in a letter dated January 11, 2001.
The value of the entire land measuring 112 hectares was put at Sh3,699,750.Twenty-three months later, Teixeira's DiamondWorks, renamed Energem, acquired a controlling stake in Spectre International and paid $2 million (Sh160 million) for a stake in the Odinga family-owned enterprise.
But the molasses saga deepened further after the Ministry of Lands and Housing issued a brief this week saying there "is no record of official valuation of the property by the chief government valuer".
Although the molasses plant was supposed to have been auctioned, the ministry's brief raised questions on the transaction: "What appears to have been processed for sale is empty land and there is no record of how the physical infrastructure investment on the stalled project (was) sold and for how much."
"The land deal was a direct allocation to Spectre International and there is no indication of other offers being sourced in the absence of official valuation".
Dr Oburu Odinga who sits on the board of Spectre International with his sister, Ruth, has denied any impropriety on the family's part.
With the matter now being investigated by a Cabinet committee, Kenyans have not heard the last of the matter.
It seems curious that the offer of the molasses plant land was made to Spectre International some five days after the Raila's National Development Party (NDP) entered into a partnership with then ruling party, Kanu.
Although Oburu denied that the Odinga family owns the molasses plant, he conceded that two family members sit on the board of Spectre International.***THE THIEF LIES AGAIN!
Texeira entered Kenya's business world through one of his subsidiary companies, Petroplus Africa Limited, which concluded a memorandum of understanding with the National Oil Company of Kenya (NOCK) and a separate "hospitality agreement" with the state corporation, Kenya Petroleum Refining Ltd, Kenya Pipeline Company and NOCK's Nairobi Terminal. ****These corrupt a-holes should explain oil/petrol problems/shortages to wananchi!
"These arrangements were entered into for purposes of enabling Petroplus's entry into the Kenyan market and to facilitate its ability to undertake a review of the mid-stream oil industry in Kenya aimed at its modernisation and development," the company said in a statement in November last year.
Under the auspices of NOCK, Petroplus imported two trial shipments of oil products in April and May and was awarded its own oil importation and trading licence for Kenya in June 2003.
"The test results were positive and supported the decision by DiamondWorks (now Energem Resources) to acquire control through Spectre of the Kisumu ethanol plant," the company said.
That entry, we have established, came after another of Energem's subsidiaries faced problems in the Zambian market where Teixeira reported "difficult trading conditions" in a statement he issued to shareholders in October last year.
Although Teixeira's name has not featured in Kenya, the allegations of gun-running made in Britain that his operations in Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia made a fortune out of blood diamonds is bound raise a lot of heat. *** these are Raila/The Odingas business partners****
In its company profile, Energem Resources says it is "supplying bitumen and other products to the Roads and Energy ministries", an issue that could generate political heat in Kenya.
Texeira came to the board of DiamondWorks, now known as Energem Resources, in January 2000 when his Isle-of-Man registered company, Lyndhurst Limited, advanced $5 million to the ailing DiamondWorks. The loan was converted into shares.
But the company appears to have run into trouble with Canada's Ontario Securities Commission, which stopped the board from sitting in April 2002 and accused its members of "failing to file financial statements" and to "disclose" the affairs of DiamondWorks.
The company immediately changed its name to Energem Resources.Executive Outcomes
Re: Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF),
one man army on Tue Oct 25 2011, 07:07
Mu7 on the other hand is a former Bush fighter who understands unparalleled level of violence.To this day he has used his former rag tag militia to entrench himself down the throats of poor Ugandans.To this old man who wont even admit his age an army is "bad" if it metes unknown violence against unarmed civilians the way u.p.d.f does.That's his valuation and because K.d.f has not done that they are a career army according to him.Lets face it.The only decent equipment in Uganda inventory is the new jets and 6 jets wont threaten anybody.Any country is Eastern Africa has the capacity to make sure they don't leave the ground incase of confrontation.The T55s Uganda has in its inventory are museum lyrics and would be of better use in a history class for exhibits.The few helicopters cant even fly.Does Uganda have a helicopter gunship flying?For your information Kenya has 40 declared and some are in the war front against al shabab who happen to be the unlucky target because these gunships were obtained to lay to waste the inflow of soviet scrap metals like t55 and t62 both in ug and ethiopia.The fact that kenya has executed this operation so precisely and decisively,some in U.p.d.f are saying that Americans are the ones doing it.I have a word for them:In mog Ugandans and Burundians with their U.N provided gear are being slaughtered left to right.Its them who need help.No wonder Americans just shipped i to help fight a fight that Ug has failed to finish 20 plus years.Hai watch this space.Sit back and see how quickly Kenya army will be served Kenyan tea in Kismayo.
one man army on Tue Oct 25 2011, 15:07
well,am not gonna be selfish with knowledge here.Md 500 gunship was manufactured with the same tank killing ability as any other gunship.What they had in mind was a light less expensive machine for average countries that would find it extravagant and outrageous to spend millions of dollars on monstrous ineffective Gun ships like Mig 24s.(ug had 5 of those where are they?reliable info say none of them cranks.)Anyway to make a long story short we are not arming these Gunships with Maverick missiles for killing tanks coz al shabab has none.Information is floating free out there check what our wz-9s are doing and the havoc and disarray they have caused.This strategy K.d.f has used attacking from several fronts including the sea ensures al shabab are spread out thus difficult for them to regroup.thats why they melting like ice in hot water.
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
GENOCIDE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
http://radiokatwenews.blogspot.com/2006/03/genocide-in-comparative-perspective.html
The path to consolidation of political and state power by Hitler and General Museveni are similar: First, both leaders began with creating environments where genocide would be seen as justifiable. Museveni ran a one-party state, where he and his associates conceived and meticulously planned genocide in broad daylight. Similarly, Hitler ran Germany as a one-party state. Both leaders excoriated democracy, constitutionalism and the rule of law, preferring bellicose militarism.
For genocide to occur with the apparent connivance of the population, an intellectual basis needs to be created and masqueraded as critical research. This is often used to brainwash the gullible.
[a]. Concentration Camps:
If we examine the phenomenon of concentration camps, we find that it is characteristic of most genocide. First, the concentration camps were created through a great deal of ruses and deception throughout Germany and Uganda.
The language used by the Nazis and the UPDF are comparable and similar. The Nazi concentration camps were mostly referred to as "work camps" and never as death camps, which was what the camps were in practice.
The Nazi's fooled nobody but themselves because, after the war, they were brought before the Nuremberg Tribunal and convicted. One of the problems in Germany was that most Germans were in a state of denial as illustrated by their attitude of silence and indifference. The UPDF are also fooling themselves. General Tinyefunza confirmed that only 15 soldiers are posted to protect a population of over 50,000 concentration camp inmates from the LRA attacks. Whereas, he agreed that Museveni, an individual, is protected by over 12,000 soldiers (1 Division of troops), consuming over one-third of the national military budget. Clearly, the concentration camps are not meant to provide protection.
In both Germany and Uganda, propaganda played a central role in shaping the course of genocide.
There have not been any clear pronouncements about the tragic human catastrophe in northern Uganda from foreign donors, who finance up to 52 percent of Museveni's administration budget. The donors have procured arms, trained and equipped the UPDF and the police force and continuously provided positive propaganda. It is this complicity that has made the donor community overlook the unfolding genocide in northern Uganda.
Army denies atrocities against civilians
Thursday, 22 September 2005
http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/6775.html
"Human Rights Watch documented four negligent or willful killings of civilians by the UPDF in three weeks in February 2005 alone. This does not include one other person suspected of being summarily executed by the army and two people who reported being shot and badly injured," says the HRW report covered in the previous article on this page. The UPDF ignores all claims.This article, written by Joyce Mulama for Inter Press Service, first appeared on the IPS website 20 September. It has been shortened and edited for republication here.
The army has been accused of committing atrocities such as rape, arbitrary arrests and detention, as well as beatings and killings in the camps. Attempts by the HRW to get explanations from the government have been frustrating. "If complaints are made, there is no action taken or whenever there is feedback from the government, it is always in favour of the army," Rone said. HRW wants the United Nations, which it is accusing of laxity, to step in and help resolve the conflict, once described by the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland as the world´s worst humanitarian disasters.
"The UN has not been interested to find a solution for northern Uganda. Of course, there has been UN relief; but at the political level, the UN has been almost silent," Rone remarked. The UN Security Council meeting held in Nairobi Nov. 2004 never touched on northern Uganda, but put pressure on Sudan to end its conflict. The pressure culminated into a peace agreement between the warring Sudan People´s Liberation Movement/Army and the government early this year, bringing an end to the country´s 21-year old war, the longest in Africa. The HRW urged the UN to put pressure on the government to prosecute all perpetrators of human rights abuses in northern Uganda, including its own army.
But UPDF maintains that it has always taken action on its soldiers who have disrespected human rights. "Our history shows that we have taken stern action against our officers who misbehave. In 2002, we executed two soldiers after they killed an Irish priest and robbed him in northern Uganda. In 2004, a captain was sentenced to life imprisonment for failing to protect a camp in the area. He went drinking and in the process, the camp was attacked by LRA," Lt-Col. Shabaan Bantariza, (left), UPDF´s spokesman, told IPS in a telephone interview from Kampala, Uganda´s capital.
"There is no single day we have failed to protect the people. There are more than 100 internally displaced persons´ camps in northern Uganda and each has a battalion of UPDF soldiers protecting them. The soldiers are paid to protect these people," he stressed. Bantariza says the government is equally concerned about the crisis, and has put in place measures aimed at bringing calm to the area including an amnesty law. Enacted in 2000, the law seeks to encourage LRA combatants to lay down their arms and surrender in exchange for amnesty packages of cash and other supplies to help them restart their lives.
More than 50 percent of the LRA combatants are reportedly children aged six to 17 years. According to the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF), more than 20,000 children have been abducted to serve as child soldiers and sex slaves since the start of the conflict that has seen more than 1.9 million people uprooted from their homes and forced to live in internally displaced person´s (IDP) camps. So far 15,000 people have taken advantage of the amnesty, an exercise the HRW opposes. "We do not oppose an amnesty for people who have not committed crimes against humanity, but we oppose an amnesty for people who have committed human rights abuses. These are crimes that should not go unpunished," Rone said.
Analysts say for peace to return to northern Ugandan, Sudan should be engaged. Sudan has for a long time been accused of backing the LRA, in retaliation for an alleged support that Uganda offered Sudanese rebels. Despite a 1999 agreement between the two countries to stop supporting each other´s rebel group, the Sudanese government has continued to accommodate the LRA, according to HRW. "Clearly the government of Sudan has not been willing to take the necessary steps to get the LRA because many times Kony has reportedly been spotted in Khartoum (Sudan´s capital)," Rone said. Sudanese government has denied the HRW allegations. "Definitely, it´s not the Sudan government. We are trying to push away the LRA from our region. I do not think the government is involved," Neimat Bilal, spokeswoman at the Sudan embassy in Nairobi told IPS.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Byanyima threatens to reveal Museveni's scandals
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Ali Rashid, Museveni has a case to answer at the ICC Hague......and with all these evidence we must begin to push forward the cases of Crimes, Violation and Abuse against Human Rights........It is time the ICC Hague to catch up with Museven, Kagame and Kabila. Meles is dead but we know Meles and Somali Salim Saleh with Team including Kibaki, Moi with Team must follow suit. Museveni is a bully, he took Migingo by force and killed many Luo fishermen and confiscated their fishing tools. He brought his brother Saleh Somali Pirates to take and control Migingo, Lake Victoria and the sorrounding lakes; ready to enleash lethal attack to wipe out Luo Nyanza with his Somali Al-Shabaab joined with the Mungiki which is why Kibaki has to do some explaining at the ICC Hague why the 2007/8 he used Museveni to target and wipe out the Luos from Nyanza....it is what is under conspiracy why Al-Shabaab is in the offensive to create instability by killing people from Garrisa, Tana River, Mombasa, Eastleigh in Nairobi and Kisumu. ICC Must begin to engage these investigations while they are behind bars.....and this cannot wait any longer. Evidence are crystal clear and there is no excuse to wait for another day....... Museveni with the Somali Brother Salim Saleh with Kagame, engaged in extreme commando with Kibaki to destroy stability of East Africa and through COMESA took pride in distabilizing the region with utter invasion of Lake Victoria with the surroundings, killed and destroyed livelihood and survival of many. They forced people to a forceful re-location because they planned an illegal OCCUPATION. This is unaccepted. The Law must take precedence and ICC Hague must take the lead to create favorable and stable habitation of people in the region. Legal Justice is the way to peace in the Greater Region of COMESA and this cannot wait. How could the Rebel training go on in Congo and Kibaki, Kagame, Kabila and Museveni are quite pretending to be dumb. They must pay for the lives lost, human livelihood and survival that are destroyed. They must pay for the forceful Migration of of Victims of Circumstances. They must pay for causing insecurity because of illegal occupation there. No one is above the law.........!!! Connect the dots people and everybody to push for ICC Hague to take up this matter with the urgency it deserve........!!! Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com |
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The Great Lakes Leaders meeting in Kampala has agreed to send a 4000-man joint force into Eastern DRC to fight rebels there including the M23. Tanzania pledged to contribute troops to be part of the proposed regional force at the conclusion of the two-day meeting. The size of the forces that Tanzania will commit to help fight the rebels in the vast mineral-rich country will be discussed at the regional ministerial meeting scheduled for next month. NTV's Chris Ochamringa reports.
Wayne Madsen: Will Obama change Congo policy or will it be business as usual? Pt 3 of 3
The footprints of the West are also quite prominent in some of the worst cases of misrule in Africa. The West killed Lumumba and installed Mobutu. How many years and people did the Congo lose? It decapitated Nkrumah's regime. How many years
and the people did Ghana lose? It waged a war against Angola through UNITA. How many years and people did Angola lose? It prolonged Apartheid in South Africa. How many years and people did South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe lose? It Installed Idi Amin in Uganda. How many years and people did Uganda lose? It installed Kagame in Rwanda and Kagame has plunged the Great Lakes Region into war with 8million dead. How many years and more people will that region lose? We have yet to know how Libya turn out. But Libya was one of Africa's best countries if not the best. Gaddafi's head is barely on his shoulders. How many years will Libya lose? The west invaded Ivory Coast and installed pupet as a leader how many more people will Ivorians lose?,U.S train military to tople democratic goverment in Mali for Al quida to invade mali how many people Mali will lose?What exactly is the monetary value of these costs to Africa?
Professor Willy Vangu, International Spokesperson for the UDPS - DRC Opposition Party
It is absurd that a country with more forests than Brazil, more minerals than Australia, more oil than Norway and more hydro-power potential than Finland can be home to over 52 million people (70 per cent of the population) who live on less than 80 pence a day. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country with vast natural wealth and it suffers this paradox.
Secretive mining deals left unchecked by the international community are a major factor in the Congolese people's enduring misery.
Why does this happen? Who is behind it? Why does it matter to the UK and what can we do to stop it? Using evidence gathered from the Congo, and from off shore tax havens, Professor Willy Vangu, will explain to the world over the next few weeks the detailed workings behind BVI shell companies.
Failure of the UK and the IMF to enforce existing transparency obligations on the DRC Government is wasting taxpayers' money and political capital. As a result, the opposition party of the DRC is calling on aid and loans direct to the DRC Government to be cancelled in return for renewed focus on tackling secretive mining deals, which keep the Congolese people poor and make a few within the DRC very wealthy.
The background:
In December 2011 a UK Member of Parliament released details of 59 shell companies, mostly registered in the British Virgin Islands and overseen by a Gibraltar trust, that have been involved in purchasing DRC mineral and oil assets. Backed by Global Witness, the MP's analysis of just four of these transactions -- all occurring in the last two years - showed a loss to the Congolese people of over $5.5 billion.
This was supposed to change as part of a 2009 loan from the International Monetary Fund. This $551 million loan was conditional upon the DRC government implementing broad transparency and governance reforms in the mining sector: mining contracts were to be published, along with the details of those individuals who are behind companies that own mineral assets and state assets would be put up for public tender. None of this has happened, and the IMF has turned a blind eye. All four of the transactions resulting in the $5.5 billion loss -- 10 times the amount of the IMF loan - occurred after the IMF loan was made. That is, at the time when the IMF was supposed to be closely monitoring the DRC government's promised reforms.
Cancellation of aid and loans to the DRC Government:
Professor Vangu said recently, "UK Ministers should work to suspend all direct aid and loans to the Congolese government through the IMF and World Bank until it has fully complied with its obligations to the IMF. We are calling on all governments to suspend direct support of the DRC Government, including through futile transparency programmes like PROmines. UK Ministers should also seek guarantees from the DRC that secret sales of state assets to offshore 'shell' companies will be properly investigated."
Furthermore, summon the will to clamp down on matters connected to your jurisdiction. This will be cheaper for the British taxpayer and more beneficial to the Congolese people than continuing to pour aid into an unaccountable government. In short, keep your aid but help end the raid. The significant impact it will make to improve the lives of the Congolese is not to be underestimated."
Conservative MP and member of the International Development Select Committee, Pauline Latham has called for the suspension of direct loans to the DRC government through the IMF. She has said, "Until the IMF start enforcing the transparency caveats attached to their massive loan to the DRC Government, British taxpayers should stop their support of this regime."
Personal
Tribe Ankole. / Christian-Possibly Born again according to 1998 African News Article
Other Affiliations Brother of President Allegedly his mother is President's mother (Rwandese Tutsi disent) and his father was of Somali origin.
Marriage Status Married to: Joviah Saleh Currently expecting 2 grandchildren.
Hobby
Civilian Education
2006 Receives "A-Level" certification the minimum requirement to serve in parliament
Military Education and Training
2005 Uganda Senior Command and Staff College (pioneer class)
Promotional History
Joins his brother in the "bush war" until 1986
Appointments Held
1986 Commands NRA assault on Kampala-led to the demise of Tito Okello's regime Museveni becomes President
Commanding officer of NRA
1987-1989 Becomes Army Commander succeeding Elly Tumwine--sacked by brother because of allegations of corruption
1996-1998 Senior Presidential adviser on defense and security
1999-2001 Commander of the Army Reserve Force
2006 Minister of State for Micro-finance.
Awards
Views of US
According to Mr Johnnie Carson, senior Vice President at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., Museveni is only running for a third term to protect Saleh from prosecution. (4 May 2005 Africa News Uganda; Kisanja is for Saleh, Muhoozi-U.S. Envoy)
In response Saleh called Carson ignorant.(Ugandan general raps ex-US envoy over presidential term remarks source The Monitor web site, Kampala, in English 6 May 05 )
Involvement in Politics
Senior Military Adviser to President
Minister of Micro-Finance
In August 2010 The Ugandan Observer reports the President ordered him to NOT run for a newly created Parliament seat in the Nakaseke South district. President Museveni. ordered him to stand down because the district is in a Buganda area at a time when Bganda nationalism is at a high and Saleh is from Ankole.
In the News
2009 Story alleges he one of the wealthiest men in the country,; tabloids report he earns sh150m/month and that he is the proprietor of a private security firm,Saracen, Spencon Construction, Techno Relief Services and Effort Corporation. He denies the allegations and claims he has property including: 6sqm of land in Mbarara, 3sqm in Bulemezi, 10 acres in Njeru and 32 acres in Wakiso "I also have an external account in HSBC Bank in the UK, which has been holding £2,000 since 2001. I do not own any credit card Saleh also dismissed reports that he holds shares in The Red Pepper.
allegations that his personal aid Cpt. Juma Seiko smuggled in 300,000USD worth of narcotics from Pakistan; thus the US DEA is looking into both Saleh and his aid.
"The article further excoriated Salim Saleh for his involvement in privatization in Uganda, saying that he took a $1.5- million commission on a recent purchase of defective army helicopters. "
1996 "General Salim Saleh, half-brother of President Museveni, was appointed special military advisor to the president. There is growing resentment within the military amongst the Baganda, Tesso and other groups from Eastern and Central Uganda. They claim they are sent to the front lines of the war against the LRA and that Museveni's tribe, the Ankole, are never sent to the front."
Owns 25% of Branch Energy in Uganda.
Controversy
Source: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:VkXANyxMfKYJ:www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/events/conferences/documents/Redesigning%2520The%2520State%2520Papers/Amundsen.pdf+salim+saleh%2Bspare+time&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShHs9vaGt8InNeSEfjaFy43Bp36lAu7ePN3eiB_--694CxiBxNpX83qqAbLwkgL7vH0Qa8D8_Sj0JgWf3dDjrw-Aa-MNlg2FrtRj5ljR1zxPPAb9t8q-W9zBoFcB1bWi_R1d6tT&sig=AHIEtbQVrt84kNvcsvnMnRBheEJgp_m4hw
In 2002 a high profile Muslim accused Saleh and MoD. Dr. Crispus Kiyonga of hating Muslims. The accusations came after the two interfered with a Muslim venture in the country. (African News 10 December 2002)
In 2002 the UN wanted him blacklisted for his involvement with the DRC. 22 October Africa News
In 2008 a former aid was arrested in the UK on drug smuggling charges, no direct link to Saleh however given reports of his involvement in illegal drug trafficking it is interesting. (Africa News 2 march 2008)
Uganda Commercial Bank
His brother, President Museveni, later said he'd sacked Salim Saleh, not for his involvement in the scandal, but for "indiscipline and drunkenness" in the army.
As one of the consequences of the UCB deal Greenland Bank would later be closed by the government under still controversial circumstances.
Before this debacle, Saleh had controversially been involved in the privatisation of Uganda Grain Milling Company in which it was reported that the public interest was not served.
"Major-General Salim Saleh, who is a joint owner of "Efforte Corporation", which allegedly improperly took over in-flight catering services. The Uganda police have since opened files on the individuals mentioned in the parliamentary report to see if they "contravened the law". In a related report, the same Major-General Salim Saleh resigned from his post as presidential security adviser for using a Malaysian company, Westmont, as a front to buy the Ugandan Commercial Bank (UCB). In a three-page statement, he confessed that Greenland Investments, a company of which he was a major shareholder, used Westmont as a front to buy a 49 percent share in UCB after he failed to secure the deal through Greenland Investment directly because of long standing liquidity problems. Then he persuaded Westmont to sell the shares to Greenland Investments after which Greenland Investments received US $44 million in loans from UCB to bail it out of its liquidity problems of which US $1.8 million went to Efforte Corporation. The parliamentary select committee has ordered his investigation and prosecution for his illegal take over while several members of parliament have called for his imprisonment for corruption. Saleh has maintained that he acted without the knowledge of the president. Uganda's Central Bank has placed Greenland Bank under statutory management and is attempting to formalise its irregular loans. Saleh has since disclosed that he will sign a multi-million-dollar business deal contract in Burundi concerning the export of beef. The timing of Saleh's confession and the parliamentary probe is linked to the upcoming foreign donors' conference in Kampala, which has corruption high on the agenda. Meanwhile, President Museveni has reiterated his commitment to fighting corruption."
Junk Helicopters
A subsequent commission of inquiry on this junk chopper scandal and a Cabinet white paper recommended that all persons involved in this deal be prosecuted. However, in 2005 the Director of Public Prosecutions dropped all charges citing lack of evidence. The middleman in deal, businessman Emma Katto was momentarily charged and held before the matter was quietly settled.
Involvement in DRC
The government of Uganda dismissed the report, and no punitive actions were taken against those involved. A commission of inquiry set up by the Uganda government and chaired by Justice Porter exonerated him of any wrong doing.
Saleh illegally exported cotton and gold from the DRC.
Saleh is a shareholder in Catalyst Corporation (Canada) which holds (held) substantial gold reserves in North East Uganda and has taken over adjacent concession from Branch Energy. And there are links Between Saleh and Barrick Gold which subcontracted Caleb International to export the gold .
Salim Saleh is a shareholder in Catalyst Co. of Canada, who has a 100% interest in Uganda's Kaabong gold fields; and is part owner of Saracen, a private military company created by the mercenaries-for-hire firm Executive Outcomes. The U.N. Panel of Experts on Illegal Exploitation of Congo Mineral Resources recommended Salim Saleh be put on a travel ban and have his assets frozen, but nothing was done. Further reports indicate Saracen is a subsidiary of Executive Outcomes (EO) a South African Private security company founded by Eeben Barlow a former LT-Col in the South African Army. Saleh owns 45% of Saracen.
SlideShare Presentation on Saracen International
Other Significant Links
Wealth Declaration from African News 8 September 2009P
"President Museveni's brother, Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho, yesterday declared what he called his modest wealth, referring to himself as "broke". Addressing a press conference he called yesterday afternoon to dispel media reports that he is among the top 10 richest Ugandans, Gen. Akandwanaho, who is more popularly known as Salim Saleh, said amassing of wealth by a few individuals in "a poor" country like Uganda was "dangerous".
Gen. Saleh, a senior presidential advisor on defence, castigated what he described as "primitive accumulation of wealth" and said listing him among the country's richest individuals was "not only unfair, but also ridiculous"
"I am a poor man. I am just Gen. Saleh. I am not super rich like people have said. I am a lumpen," he told journalists at the Media Centre.
Gen. Saleh however admitted that he belonged to the "super rich" class between 1994 and 1999. "But I got saved. It [the quest for riches] almost swallowed my revolutionary background. I was involved in many companies including ENHAS (Entebbe Handling Services) and others but I took a declaration to go back to my revolutionary background," he said.
He said reports had insinuated he was corrupt. "I am not corrupt. I am a revolutionary. In fact over 90 per cent of corruption is among the intellectuals - those who speak good English, not in the military. It's wrong to put me in the group of Sudhir (Ruparelia), Karim (Hirji) and Patrick Bitature," he said.
His declarations yesterday included nine square miles of land in Bulemezi and Kiruhura, 42 acres of land in Njeru and Entebbe and £2,000 in HSBC a UK bank, shares in security company Saracen. He said he earns a consolidated salary of Shs9.5 million as a presidential advisor.
While Gen. Saleh denies owning mansions in Kampala and investments abroad, Daily Monitor could not readily verify whether the former microfinance state minister's public declaration is in conformity with what he declared to the Inspector General of Government.
He said yesterday: "I am oscillating between peasants and middle class. For those who say I have a lot of riches, I don't. I even rent in Kampala. In terms of liquidity, I have an account that has been running at HSBC bank with only pounds2,000 since 2001".
However, Gen. Saleh's wife Jovia is known to be a wealthy businesswoman. Gen. Saleh is no stranger to controversy. In the late 1990's Gen. Saleh's string of businesses ranging from real estate to aviation, raised a lot of controversies as he got involved in several corruption scandals.
In 1998, he was forced to resign his position as presidential advisor, following allegations that Greenland Investments, a company in which he was a major stakeholder, had used the Malaysian company, Westmont, to illegally purchase shares in Uganda's largest bank, the now defunct Uganda Commercial Bank.
In 1998, Gen. Saleh was named in the junk helicopter scandal that the army purchased from Russia at $12 million. President Museveni later said Gen. Saleh had confessed to him that the suppliers of the junk helicopters had promised Gen. Saleh a commission of $800,000.
In 2001, Gen. Saleh was also one of the several Ugandan military officials implicated in a UN Security Council report for being involved in the illegal exploitation of natural resources from Congo."
http://kjohnah.instablogs.com/entry/president-musevenis-brother-declares-wealth-calls-self-poor/ blog site but some interesting things on his finances
Biographical Information Source: http://salimsaleh.com/about.php
Who is Gen. Salim Saleh?
Posted Tuesday, February 9 2010 at 19:24
In 1976, aged 16, he left Kako Secondary School in Masaka to join the Front for National Salvation (Fronasa) based in Tanzania, a rebel group formed and led by his brother to fight against the regime of Idi Amin.
Saleh proceeded to command the army against rebel groups that were remnants of the UNLA, including Uganda People's Defence Army (UPDA), in northern Uganda.
In 1998, Saleh resigned from his post as presidential advisor following allegations that Greenland Investments, a company in which he was a major stakeholder, had used the Malaysian company, Westmont Land, to illegally purchase shares in Uganda's's largest bank, the now defunct Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB).
In 1998, acting as individual, Saleh helped in the procurement of attack helicopters for the army, for which it is alleged that he received a commission of $800,000. The helicopters turned out to be junk. As the scandal unfolded, Saleh confessed taking the commission to his brother.
Saleh was specifically implicated in a UN Security Council report for being involved in the illegal exploitation of natural resources from DR. Congo during the second Congo war.
In 2005, Saleh, then a Lt. Gen., was one of the pioneer classes to graduate from the new Uganda Senior Command and Staff College at Kimaka in Jinja. Following that course, he was promoted to the rank of General in the UPDF. Prior to the 2006 general elections , Saleh went back to school and obtained an A –level certificate , the minimum requirement to become a member of parliament in Uganda or President of Uganda Following the elections, he was appointed Minister of State for Microfinance and then subsequently Senior President5ial Adviser on Defence a post he holds today.
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