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  • Dirty Tricks Lawyers Used To Help Uhuru and Ruto Out Of The ICC Noose and Their Handsome Rewards

    Dirty Tricks Lawyers Used To Help Uhuru and Ruto Out Of The ICC Noose and Their Handsome Rewards

    They came, they spied, and they conquered! No sooner had the soil dried up on the mass grave resulting from the termination of the Kenyan cases than the pieces of the mysterious Hague trials began to come together. The role played by some of the who’s who in the legal fraternity, some of whom were involved in the pre-ICC investigations into the violence, is particularly intriguing.

    Nobody can alter the fact that following the bungled presidential election of 2007, Kenyans slaughtered each other. In the madness, 1350 family members, friends, and neighbors were murdered, and 650,000 countrymen were displaced. Various local inquiries were held. Six suspects were indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague: Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Joshua Sang, Francis Muthaura, Henry Kosgey and Major General Muhammed Hussein Ali. They famously became the ‘Ocampo Six.’ All of them got off scot free.

    In March 2015, a professor wrote an article in one of the local dailies. The hawk-eyed professor had been reading the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor’s 26 August 2013 pre-trial brief for the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta in close detail. The professor was surprised to see two of the names that the prosecutor was linking to alleged witness tampering. She was surprised because she recognized the names from the independent national investigations into the turmoil.

    One of them, a lawyer, had links to the Commission of Inquiry on Post-Election Violence (the Waki Commission, named after its chairman, Justice Philip Waki). In building up their case against the ‘Ocampo Six,’ the OTP had significantly relied on this Commission’s findings. According to the article, the lawyer was “in Kenyatta’s defence team”. But, the professor also recognized him from the Waki Commission, “when he served as a victim’s lawyer and, as such, attended many of the Commission’s public and in camera hearings”.

    Together with two others also working for the defence, in February 2011 the lawyer had, according to page 46 of the OTP brief**, approached three witnesses with the intention of identifying other witnesses and buying their silence. The OTP had claimed that the lawyer in question is Mbuthi Gathenji, identifying him as “a lawyer working for defence”.

    As late as mid-2015, Gathenji, a renowned lawyer, was also the chairman and board member of the Centre for Justice for Victims of Crimes Against Humanity (CJCH). He was quoted in a report by reliefweb.int which described Gathenji as “the head of an organization representing several victims.” The NGO’s website (now inactive) also described it as a Kenyan NGO, founded as a result of the post-election violence (PEV). It provided legal and technical assistance to victims. Furthermore, the website confirmed that the NGO had indeed participated in the Waki Commission, specifying that: “The Centre invited the intervention of the International Criminal Court as early as April/May 2008.” To further strengthen his work with PEV victims, in March 2011, Gathenji also had a short stint as the legal representative of the victims in the ICC’s Case against Ruto, Sang and Kosgey.

    It remains unclear when he shifted alliances. But by 15 April 2016, during the Thanksgiving rally hosted by President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto to mark the end of the ICC cases, Gathenji was duly introduced as one of the Kenyan lawyers who worked for Kenyatta in his ICC case. The introduction was done by Kenyatta’s chief lawyer in Kenya, Ken Ogeto.

    Does this amount to a conflict of interest? That can certainly be argued. And, taking into account the Prosecutor’s allegations of witness tampering, it could suggest a whole lot more. Gathenji may have used his knowledge from his work with the Waki Commission and the ICC’s victims unit to supply information to the defence that they would not otherwise have had. At the very least he must have bolstered their position. Yet, there are even more puzzling links between some of the lawyers of the ‘Ocampo Six’ and potential ICC prosecution witnesses.

    Ken Ogeto, Gershom Otachi and Evans Monari

    The circus and drama surrounding the Prosecutor’s frustration in getting the police to testify now comes into play. During the investigations in 2010, the OTP requested sworn statements from a number of Kenyan state local officials, including five provincial commissioners, six provincial police officers and dozens of district commissioners who were stationed in the areas where the violence broke out. In October of the same year, these officers went to court in Kenya to block their summons to testify. Their lawyers were none other than Ken Ogeto (who later turned out to be, at first Muthaura’s, and then Kenyatta’s ICC lawyer), as well as Gershom Otachi and Evans Monari (who both later reappeared as Major General Ali’s ICC lawyers during the 2011 pre-trial stage).

    Expecting the local officials to willingly give testimony against either Muthaura or Ali would have been naive. Ali was in charge of the police at all levels. Muthaura was the permanent secretary to the cabinet and head of the public service, roles that allowed him to have influence over the provincial and district commissioners. And, both these local and top national figures shared the same lawyers. Moreover, Monari was first assigned to Ali by a government body during the Waki Commission’s investigation in 2008. So, it is likely that Monari also attended the Commission’s public and in camera hearings. At these hearings, he probably already heard the evidence, if any, against Ali which would have been passed along to the ICC.

    Did some of these lawyers work extra hard to block any testimonies by local officials who could potentially incriminate their (soon to be) clients at the ICC?

    Ali’s lawyers were quick to point out during the ICC’s confirmation of charges hearing that the OTP had failed to show that the police were part of a criminal plan and that Ali led/contributed to that project. Ironically, the same lawyers were part of the legal machinery that had made it impossible for the OTP to collect crucial evidence from officers in the first place!

    Rewards for a job well done

    In their last show of might to the ICC to mark the end of their cases, Kenyatta and Ruto put on their peacock hats and strutted and paraded these lawyers in front of the public, to thank them, together with others, during their celebrations at Afraha Stadium in Nakuru in April. Today, after fighting the ‘good’ fight, these lawyers all hold comfortable positions in the government, peacefully enjoying the privileges of playing court jester to the king. In April 2015, after the termination of all the Kenya cases in The Hague, Ogeto and Otachi got appointments to lead parastatal boards. Ogeto is the chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering Advisory Board, while Otachi is the chairperson of the Geothermal Development Company. Meanwhile, Mbuthi Gathenji is a country assembly (a local government), legal advisor. There is no record of a government appointment for Monari.

    Clearly, it took many years for the OTP to realize that it was dealing with a complex justice web. When it started to do so, the web was already so intricately woven that it was impossible to see through it. Even a veteran spider could not have made heads or tails of it.

    *Omwa Ombara is a US-based Kenyan journalist.

    *M.A. is a Kenyan based in Europe.

    Credits to Justice Hub

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  • Expert Analysis: Money and Politics In Kenya, Why Grand Thieves Are Worshiped

    Expert Analysis: Money and Politics In Kenya, Why Grand Thieves Are Worshiped

    In diverse societies, people tend to appreciate different practices, which are pleasurable to those who assume positions in various public offices and that is irrespective of the activities having a retrogressive impact towards the society in general. Also, owing to the political affiliation with a concentration of unreasonable emotional aggrandizement, not to mention the strong abilities of the people to disregard social and economic development then it has become easier to cement poverty everywhere irrespective of one’s political affiliation.

    There is the need to save Kenyans from themselves and their leaders who have no principles and live like climbing plants. It is so, because of the unique characteristics of Kenyans, which include their abilities to blatantly disregard facts, laud those who unashamedly offend the law, bow down to those who utilize their ethnicity to substantiate the ‘national objectives,’ just to mention a few.

    It is noteworthy that there are many models of assistance that the citizens can pick from; for instance, the old known channels such as the executive and the legislature. However, they too need someone to save them from themselves, as they are the drive to the hardships that Kenyans are capsulated in; however, before casting stones, it is prudent to determine if it is right to officiate such an act.

    The early debates developing from the critical observations of great philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whereby the former alludes that humans are born wicked and need to be shaped by the society while the latter asserts that people are born innocent and corrupted by the society, can be useful to understanding Kenyans.

    Also, it is of the essence to appreciate before a child is born, there are high possibilities of the foetus to be affected by external factors such as music, the mother’s stress, etc.; therefore, that shakes the observations made by the philosophers.
    Out of the three factors mentioned above, it is clear that what appears as influential is the impact of the society on the foetus or the born child. In Kenya, apart from other influential factors such as religion, it is evident that ethnicity takes precedent.

    Ethnicity is the beauty and ugliness of Kenyans. Also, the Constitution of Kenya approaches it in a bipolar mode; thus, it appreciates the different ethnic cohorts but warns against discrimination on the line of ethnicity. Therefore, it is undisputable that ethnicity is a vital element in nation-building or destroying. For instance, Dr. David Ndii wrote about “Kenya is a cruel marriage, it’s time we talk divorce” the article is an excellent piece that reflected the words of the philosophers mentioned above, inclusive of John Locke. The doctrine of Social Contract, which in Kenya is best provided for under Article 1 of the Constitution of Kenya.

    In as much as the approach developed by Dr. David Ndii is viable, it is not necessarily advisable to run for it as it can be the last option just like the nuclear codes that the President of United States of America has everywhere the president visits. For instance, if nuclear families tend to differentiate, then it is impossible to assert that a particular ethnic group will lead itself without having problems of underdevelopment and discriminations based on family trees or clans.

    It is time for the people of Kenya to be rewired by the few sober minds that tend to be disregarded by the corrupt minds in the society. It is time to appreciate the value of the money in the hands of the peasant more than that in the hands of the “leaders.” For instance, if a troubled leader offers a peasant Kshs. 200 to beat up another peasant and on the other hand, the peasant who is the target offers Kshs. 200 to the person who intends to attack him or her so as not to be beaten, there are high possibilities that the peasant swayed by the leader will still beat up the other peasant. But who has the real value of the money?

    If the citizens of Kenya will value their differences and realise their immediate needs as individuals and citizens as a whole, and that unlike pre-colonial period where people thrived on ambushing each other and having unquestionable beliefs to the then clan or community leaders, then there is hope for tomorrow.

    As of now, the people of Kenya live like tribal soldiers who are on the battlefield, not to mention the Game Code of Conduct does not guide them, therefore, they are equal to robots that have malfunctioned after pressing non-tolerance button towards other ethnic groups and those that dissent to their ethnic “political goals”.

    Author: Ombo Duncan Malumbe
    Education: Kenya School of Law (2016 – ’17)
    Mount Kenya University, School of Law

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  • Third Force Politics, Illusion That Stands Zero Chance In Kenyan Space

    Third Force Politics, Illusion That Stands Zero Chance In Kenyan Space

    Desperate moments call for desperate measures, the former chief executive of the Committee of Experts; Dr. Ekuro Aukot was once a relevant man who enjoyed the limelight. Those days are gone, and he is the exact opposite now. Am told he is going to vie for the presidency in Thirdway Alliance Kenya; a movement he purports to be representing a better alternative to rescue Kenya from tribalism and poor leadership.
    Dr. Ekuro is a respected academician who can do something better, not representing himself as a busy body desperate for a government job. There is no place for the third force in the current political layout, in politics, you are either for or against something. You can’t challenge the government and the opposition at the same time. That is total confusion.

    These are futile attempts that were once harbored by the likes of Raila’s sycophant James Orengo, Martha Karua, Koigi wa Mwere and so on. These individuals had their dreams crushed by politicians who had deep pockets and ability to mobilize their tribes to rally behind them. Ekuro should not flatter himself thinking that the times have changed and Kenyans have learnt.

    Kenyans never learn, especially if your intention is to desperately criticize the government and opposition to get a job. It’s no secret this guy applied to be appointed a cabinet secretary, why then should he turn to campaign through his Twitter handle to discredit the same administration he wanted to sever in? What changed and what difference would he bring in case his midday dreams came true?
    Characters like him are known, trying so hard to be political saints, but they represent nothing fresh other their names. This guy cannot decline cabinet appointment neither can he decline to be ODM/Cord’s legal adviser. He is not any different from the guy from Emunyulia (Baraka Muluka) who does nothing other than criticizing his former boss, Raila Odinga.

    Muluka is so desperate for a government job to the extent of dreaming of President Uhuru passing by his village and have his elders request the president to appoint their son (Muluka) to work in his administration. ‘Kizuri chajiuza, kibaya chajitangaza’ the Swahilis say. PLO Lumumba tried this, spoke all the vocs, got tired and hid, Tony Gachoka was on a mouth running spree; spoke every political nonsense for and against both sides of the political divides. He got no job and went underground.

    Ekuro should identify what he stands for, the sad story he is telling of being a son of a nomad from Turkana is not any from that told by the hustler, DP William Ruto. No one pays attention to that. And is he joining politics because some folks have been in the game for a minute? It’s your relevance that will determine your longevity.

    Enough said third force has no place in the current politics, even Ababu who had or has similar dreams got lost in the air and landed in the arms of an old granny Dr. Julia Ojiambo to bring ‘change.’ The battle lines have been drawn, and the 2017 polls are going to be a two-horse race between President Kenyatta and the Former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga.

    That’s the sad fact, even ANC Leader Musalia Mudavadi who finished third in previous general elections is already indicating his willingness to join hands with Cord. If you can’t beat them you join them, Musalia is former Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister of Kenya, who is Ekuro? He is a political nobody who has never beaten even a village elder in a political contest. What has he to unseat Uhuru or end Raila’s long time in politics?

  • Possible Implications On Burundi Pulling Out Of ICC And Lessons From Kenya

    Possible Implications On Burundi Pulling Out Of ICC And Lessons From Kenya

    By Nicholas Olambo
    The government of Burundi has said the country is pulling out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and ‘they’ are ready to face the impacts of withdrawing. The cabinet announcement came six months after the court’s Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, indicated she would investigate the unending violence.

    Political turmoil erupted in Burundi in April 2015 when President Pierre Nkurunzinza indicated his bid for a third term. The violence has seen hundreds killed with thousands fleeing to seek refuge in neighboring countries like Rwanda. President Paul Kagame (Rwanda) is on record requesting Pierre to stop producing more refugees.

    The mantra that only Africa has the solution to its problems is a loose narrative that does not work for the civilians. The African Union whose body language supports the withdrawal of many African states from the Rome Statute has let Burundi down. AU chose to send peace delegation over peace troops to Burundi for mere threats from Pierre Nkurunzinza. How would his small force defeat over 50 nations?

    AU, under its charter, has the power to intervene in a member state because of grave circumstances as war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity without that member’s consent. AU chose to sit back and watch the unrest tear the small country into pieces stalling the idea of African solutions to African problems.

    AU failed miserably to assert itself and cut a clear difference from what is was before, the lethargic Organization of African Union. Sending troops to Burundi was the opportunity to do that, but it chose to row back. The choice favored Pierre who was against the deployment of peace troops.

    It’s the fault of Africa and AU to produce many ‘materials’ for the court, Pierre’s greed to force himself for a third term after intimidating the judges of the constitutional court to rule in his favor resulted into what can only be tried at the ICC. Ordinary Burundians have suffered and still continue to suffer under the watch of AU, a replica of the same is taking root in Congo but does AU care?

    It will watch in silence but put every pressure to support a withdrawal of member countries and suspects at the court. The court was under intense pressure from AU over cases against President Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto for their alleged in 2007/8 post poll chaos.

    AU has shown and will still demonstrate that it stands for the ruling African elites only and has nothing in favor of the ordinary African. Hundreds of ordinary Burundians are suffering under its watch; the same is the case in Congo and the Oromos in Ethiopia.
    Burundi’s withdrawal from ICC is not in the best interest of the country but one individual, Nkurunzina who knows that he will be declared a wanted man by The Hague-based court sooner or later to answer to charges of war crimes, genocide, forcible transfer of population and crimes against humanity. He has chosen to take a path already supported by AU to insulate himself.

  • Tribunal Blocks Esther Passaris From Registering Her Harambee Democratic Party On Flimsy Grounds

    Tribunal Blocks Esther Passaris From Registering Her Harambee Democratic Party On Flimsy Grounds

    A tribunal chaired by Kyalo Mbobu and James Atema Paul Ngotho as members before the Kilimani court has dismissed Passaris’ plea to have the decision by Registrar of Political Parties blocking her from registering Harambee Democratic Party overturned.

    In a letter dated 10th June 2016, the registrar declined to register the name saying it name could not be reserved for use by a political party since the name “was not in compliance with the Political Parties Act, 2011 and the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 Article 91.” There was no explanation as to how or why the proposed name was not in compliance with the Political Parties Act and the Constitution. 2.

    A second letter was issued by the registrar of political parties on 24th August 2016 by which Passaris was informed that “Section 8(c) of the Act provides that the Registrar may refuse an application for the registration of a political party if the name or symbol that wishes to use the Act so nearly resembles the name or symbol or an abbreviation of the name of another political party registered under the Act or any other legal entity registered under any other written law. This is, therefore, to inform you that the name Harambee forms part of the National Coat of Arms of the Republic of Kenya recognized under Article 9c of the Constitution.”

    In appealing the decision, Passaris premised it on numerous grounds, key among them being that the rejection of the proposed name by the registrar was unlawful, unconstitutional and whimsical since the allegation that the name is not in compliance with the Political Parties Act 2011 and Article 91 of the Constitution is a clear misreading of these provisions of the law.

    In her defence, Passaris argue that whereas the word “HARAMBEE” is protected by law from use; it is so protected, but not when used in other words and for purposes that are not in conjunction with other words and objectives connected with the National Coat of Arms, and the proposed use of HARAMBEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (HDP), is not an improper use of the said word, and is not prohibited under the provisions of Section 3 Cap.99 Laws of Kenya W . of the National Flag, Emblems and Names Act, while acknowledging such protection, her position is that such protection from use or abuse extends to the singular use of the each of the said names, and to avoid commercial exploitation and the creation of the notion of state patronage and approval in otherwise private undertakings, and to guard against the use of trademarks bearing such names; but when used in conjunction with other words, the same names are available and can lawfully be used for other purposes.

    Passaris argues further that, the said names have clear and distinct Kiswahili language meanings of their own, and cannot be said to exclusively belong to the State, and have therefore had widespread application and use in society when and where they do not violate any written law.

    One wonders why the case of Harambee Party is treated differently by the registrar in obvious bias steps alleged bias, for example, the fact that there is a party with the name Madaraka which, like Harambee, is a name protected under the National Flag, Emblem and Names Act.

    There have been entities registered using these protected names, such as HARAMBEE SACCO SOCIETY LIMITED, HARAMBEE STARS, HARAMBEE aircraft and marine vessels, HARAMBEE Foundation, a charitable educational organization, HARAMBEE SCHOOLS, ESTATE, HARAMBEE CONSTRUCTION LIMITED, JAMHURI HIGH SCH OOL, a leading secondary school in Nairobi, JAMHURI PARK, JAMHURI Savings Account by Co-Operative Bank of Kenya, JAMHURI ESTATE, in Nairobi, the NYAYO Motor Corporation, now renamed Numerical Machining Complex, and the NYAYO TEA ZONES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Corporation. What therefore would stop the Harambee name from being registered.

    The tribunal findings surprisingly coincided with Passaris’ thinking on The reasons given by registrar for refusal include that the name Harambee has also been used by other entities registered under other laws. The examples provided by the registrar are Harambee Stars (the national soccer team) and Harambee SACCO Society Limited. However, this argument is self-defeating for if other government offices have registered entities with the name Harambee, why should the Registrar of Political Parties claim that the name can never be used since it forms part of the Coat of Arms and is protected under the National Flag, Emblem and Names Act?

    In a sharp, abrupt turn, the tribunal ruled that in their reading of the National Flag, Emblem and Names Act is that the word ‘Harambee’ (alongside the other protected words Nyayo, Madaraka, Jamhuri and the name of the President) cannot be used as the names of companies, firms or other bodies of persons, including political parties. Saying they’re well aware of the evidence which seems to show that the Registrar of Companies has allowed the name Harambee to be used by a company.

    The ruling has been criticized by the section of legal fraternity with one prominent judge heard saying the findings were idiotic and out of the constitution. It’s for example laughable thinking Kenya can’t differentiate between Jubilee party and Jubilee Insurance as one of the examples cited by the registrar. These things are as separate and can be told apart.

    It’s, therefore, unfair for the registrar to deny Passaris a chance to registrar her party early enough to give her time to popularize it countrywide and formally launch her gubernatorial bid. She has moved to the high court to appeal the decision with hopes she will be granted permission to have the name registered.

  • If Corruption is Allowed To Continue in Kenya At The Rate It Is Doing, It Will Be The Sole Cause of The Collapse of The East African Powerhouse

    If Corruption is Allowed To Continue in Kenya At The Rate It Is Doing, It Will Be The Sole Cause of The Collapse of The East African Powerhouse

    Kenya, (in)famously known as East Africa’s powerhouse, is on the verge of collapsing due to extensive and institutionalised corruption. The corruption situation is so desperate it had the international community begging that if Kenyan political moguls must steal, they should just steal a little. Corruption is so deeply rooted in the Kenyan legal system it would have an oblivious onlooker think it is etched somewhere in the constitution; it is so extensive that the Kenyan citizenry would not be surprised if a sole individual rose and claimed to have radical title over the land of Kenya.

    Hardly a week passes before a new corrupt deal, involving millions of shillings, is unearthed, the most recent being the Nike apparel scandal involving the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Nock). A recent survey by audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that only two countries, South Africa and France, have higher corruption rates than Kenya, a new low for the country following a series of corruption scandals that have rocked the Jubilee administration and institutions in the country. South Africa is number one with 69%, while France is second with 68%. Kenya comes third with 62% on economic crimes.

    According to the survey, Kenya ranks top of the world in areas Former Judiciary Registrar Gladys Shollei was hounded out of office for graft claims. such as embezzlement, bribery and procurement fraud. Embezzlement is ranked as the most dominant economic crime in the country. The extent of corruption in Kenya would have one think there is no legal and institutional framework to curb corruption, which it does have; there are succinct laws and well-established institutions mandated to deal with corruption. It, however, would appear as though they do not carry out their duties as codified, and that they in fact aid in perpetration of corruption. This begs the question, is Kenya’s situation a case of institutionalised corruption? While Botswana basks in the glory of a world-class democracy, Kenya boasts, ashamedly so, of a thriving lootocracy, where leaders have no conception of sufficiency, setting up the rules to grab as much money as they can.

    They also concentrate power, to arrange the country for their benefit. Unchecked by modesty, satiety, or shame, they take all they can get away with. Their “core mandate” is to loot until someone stops them… or not. Highlight of top scandals Kenya has had as many corruption scandals as it has heard promises from political leaders to curb corruption, among other vote-wooing promises. Some quick calculation reveals that the country has lost trillions of shillings in corruption and embezzlement scams since the days of Jomo Kenyatta. Among the most notable scams are the 1990 Turkwel Dam project, the Police Mahindra Jeeps scam, Goldenberg, dubbed Kenya’s longest-running scandal, the Sh4.1 billion Navy ship project associated with Anura Pereira, the Sh300 Prisons boilers scam, Anglo Leasing, and the 2006 banking fraud scam worth Sh150 billion, among others. In 2007, Britain’s The Guardian featured on its front page a story about more than £1 billion (Sh132 billion) transferred out of Kenya by the family and associates of former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi. The Guardian sourced the information from the Wikileaks article “The looting of Kenya under President Moi” and its analysis of a leaked investigative document (The Kroll Report) prepared for the Kibaki government in 2004 to try to recover money stolen during Moi’s rule. Others are the Grand Regency Scandal

    (2008), the maize scandal of 2009, the Triton Oil Scandal, the Tokyo embassy scandal, the Sh53 billion laptop tendering project (under Jubilee), the Sh314.2 billion Standard Gauge railway project, the Sh10billion GDC scandal, the Sh55.6 billion Greenfield Terminal scandal, the Sh8 billion Karen land saga, said to involve 40 MPs, and the Sh250 billion Eurobond saga, among many, many others. From the Moi Era to Kibaki’s golden age and to the digital reign of the Jubilee government, each has had its fair share of corruption scandals and appears as though every new regime tries to outdo its predecessors in the corruption league.

    The mantra is to eat and let eat. Institutionalisation of corruption The Anti-Corruption Squad (ACS), dubbed the (first) anti-corruption body was constituted in 1993 and disbanded in 1995 before it could make any significant impact. Through an amendment to the Prevention of Corruption Act Cap 65, Laws of Kenya, the Kenya Anti Corruption Authority (KACA) was created in 1997. Its first director was John Harun Mwau, who was suspended and later removed in 1998 through a judicial tribunal. Mwau has since been named as one of the most notorious drug lords of the world by the US government.

    In 2000, KACA was disbanded through High Court case “Gachiengo vs. Republic”, with the ruling that the existence of KACA undermined the powers conferred on both the Attorney-General and the commissioner of police by the Constitution. It was further held that the statutory provisions establishing KACA were in conflict with the constitution then. In 2001 the Anti-Corruption Police Unit (ACPU) was created by an Executive order; it operated under the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). It was operated by the police and performed its functions until creation of the Kenya Anti-Corruption commission (KACC). KACC was a public body established under the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, 2003. It replaced the Prevention of Corruption Act. The new Act also established the Kenya Anti-Corruption Advisory Board, an unincorporated body comprising persons nominated by a cross-section of stakeholders. The Advisory Board made recommendations for appointment of a Director and Assistant Directors. It also advised the Commission generally on the exercise of its powers and performance of its functions under the Act.

    The first Director, Justice Aaron Ringera, and four assistant directors, formally took office on September 10, 2004. Following parliamentary pressure in July 2009, Justice Ringera was forced to resign from office together with some of his assistants, paving way for appointment of Patrick Lumumba in September 2010. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) was established after former President Kibaki signed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act into law in 2011. This Commissions’ life was also short lived. Between March and May 2015 Commissioner Jane Onsongo, Vice Chair Irene Keino and the Chairperson Mumo Matemu were forced to resign. In November 2015, President Uhuru Kenyatta nominated Philip Kinisu to chair the EACC. Less than a year later, Kinisu was found to have had undeclared dealings with the National youth Service, and forced to step down. Like its predecessWitness protection Act, 2006, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act, 2011, the Access to Information Act, Proceeds of Crime Act, and Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2009.

    The world views corruption as an antisystem. It is a universal phenomenon, independent of social system, age, position or class. It is also a very old phenomenon. Forms of corruption include systemic/endemic corruption, where corruption is integrated and is an aspect of the economic, social and political system. It is embedded in a wider situation that helps sustain it. This is what ails Kenya the most. There is also individual corruption, which occurs irregularly; political corruption, which includes transactions between public and private sector, notoriously known as grand corruption. At the bottom of the corruption chain is petty and moral/ legal corruption. Kenya, tragically, suffers from all of the aforementioned forms of corruption.

    The lootocrats of the regime give it in small dosages. The moment Kenyans seem like they want to forget one corruption scandal, another blows up, in is a never–ending cycle. It is so big and endemic that it undermines laws codified to curb it and infiltrates the institutions established to implement anti corruption laws. Kenya maybe rightfully said to have a deeply etched culture of corruption, one that is born with us and that survives generations on end. Why is this? Is it the insufficiency of laws, weak anti-corruption systems or a curse to the Kenyan people? The one thing that remains constant is that if it is allowed to grow on, it will be the sole cause of the collapse of the East African power house.

    To reiterate the words of the vice chair of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, Daniel Ogutu, “… Kenya is like a sick patient, who does not look sick but on going to the doctor, is told, ‘at this rate, you’re soon going to collapse… It may take f ive or 10 years, but you will surely collapse…”

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  • Clash of Interests, Is Marwa A Politician or Administrator As He Steps Up War On Governor Joho

    Clash of Interests, Is Marwa A Politician or Administrator As He Steps Up War On Governor Joho

    Coast regional coordinator Nelson Marwa is known for his stern administrative directives and enthusiasm to fight terror. He has also known for his on and off the feud with the Mombasa Governor H.E Ali Hassan Joho who at some point described him as ‘a small person’ in fact a desk officer.

    Their beef season is back, and Marwa is doing what he does best to please his boss. He is threatening to arrest Governor Joho for leading a group of rowdy boys to bring down a perimeter wall around a piece of land that the governor alleges belongs to the defunct municipal council of Mombasa.

    Marwa, on the other hand, told journalists that the parcel of land in VoK area near Bombolulu belongs to the Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation (KBC) and not Municipal Council. He said that the government would arrest Joho and have him charged in court.

    “We have not seen any of the 47 Governors chest thumping and breaking the law, we will not allow the governor to go free after destroying property that cost the tax payers money to put up,” said Marwa. The feud between the two is nothing new; Joho sees Marwa as the president’s ‘mtu wa mkono’ who seeks every opportunity to frustrate his efforts even after being promoted from being Mombasa County Commissioner to Coast regional coordinator.

    No one has seen other regional coordinators at war with governors either. The said parcel of land has been lying idle for decades in a place where absentee landlords dwell when the natives are turned squatters. The working relationship between the two leaders is wanting, no one is interested in watching their unending drama.

    The coordinator may have a valid point, but he seems to be so working for the executive forgetting that whatever he does for the executive should be to the right of the people. This cannot be achieved through constant fights with the county governments. You can’t transfer governors; you can transfer coordinators if their relationship with the regional governments is affecting service delivery.

    Mombasa and the entire coast region want to be served with dignity, not chest thumping and supremacy battles. The national government has always been seen to be ‘after’ governor Joho, the already created impression can’t just be whisked away whether Joho is wrong or right, Marwa is a federal government appointee and known to be serving the interest of his employer.

    Leading a troop of hooligans to demolish the wall is not acceptable, the governor had other better options to address the issue, but this is happening because it’s a habit that has been condoned. Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko once led a group of hooligans, punching walls and breaking private property in protest of public land grabbing, nothing was done to him. The law should not be applied selectively.

    Joho is not the only governor in the Coast region; Marwa has become so much of ‘a puppet,’ anyone can guess who is pulling his strings and the crowd he is entertaining. He should stick to provincial administrative mandates and let politicians play their dirty games. Provincial administration roles and politics don’t mix.

  • African Union, War Mongers and Dictators Harbour

    African Union, War Mongers and Dictators Harbour

    By Nicholas Olambo
    Article 4 of the AU Constitutive Act rejects and condemns impunity; on the contrary, that is what is visible. Many African governments thrive on dictatorship and brutality on their people. On Sunday a festival turned tragic following a confrontation between the Oromo ethnic people and the police. During the festival, the Oromos demanded equal rights as other ethnic groups in a country of over 90 million inhabitants displaying crossed wrists.

    Police responded by firing rubber bullets, tear gas and live bullets creating a stampede that resulted in over 200 deaths and 300 seriously injured. The Oromos have been protesting since 2014 when the government had a plan to expand the capital, the move that was a threat to their farm lands was deferred, but they have never stopped protesting against marginalization.

    Several people of the Oromo origin have been killed by government forces as AU watches in silence, the same organization that declared 2016 ‘African year of human rights’ and identifies justice as one its key shared values. The injustice against the Oromo people is unbecoming as they are being massacred by the government forces daily.

    Au and global leaders have chosen to turn a blind eye on the Oromo’s bloodbath. The trend of silence is ‘normal’ anyway but worrying. Hundreds are being killed in Congo, Zimbabwe; there is the political impasse in Gabon and Burundi but the world leaders, and AU does what they do best, shut. War is a big business and an excellent opportunity for corrupt and dictatorial regimes to siphon from the public coffers and bank in offshore accounts.

    African governments are cannibals, best at eating their own. Most nations in the continents heavily arm the police and other security forces to crush their people but engage in endless battles to neutralize external enemies like the small terror group, Al Shabaab that is a threat to the entire Horn of Africa governments.

    What is being done on the Oromos amounts to crimes against humanity prosecutable at the International Criminal Court (ICC), but since AU got a silly defense of threatening to withdraw from the Rome statute whenever one of their own is wanted for questioning, crime is an order of the day. Dictators are chewing their subjects right before the eyes of AU that has its headquarters in Ethiopia.

  • Analysis: Can Kenya Sustain The Growing Heavy Public Debt

    Analysis: Can Kenya Sustain The Growing Heavy Public Debt

    Public debt has been an issue of public discourse for centuries. The debate is not about to end anytime soon. With developing countries investing much more resources in public infrastructure, education and other social amenities, public debt is expected to become even a bigger point of discussion moving forward. Just before the March 4, 2013, General elections, Kenya for the first time, held a presidential debate. Uganda followed suit earlier on this year. From those debates, it is evident we are yet to start discussing ideas in our presidential debates. My guess, however, is that going forward, these discussions are going to tackle key issues affecting these emerging market economies, key among them the issue of Public debt.

    To start us off, let us try to understand some key terms. Debt refers to a contractual obligation in which a party uses the counterparty’s money or any other valuable resource with the view of repaying it at a later date, with interest. People have been borrowing since time immemorial, and they are not about to stop anytime soon. As long as resources for satisfying human needs and wants are limited, we shall always consume something we do not currently own with intent to repay at a later date. Just like individuals, body corporate and governments too, borrow. Public debt is what a government owes to its lenders. Government/ Sovereign debt can be used synonymously with public debt. Public debt can either be domestic or foreign. The former involves borrowing from within a country’s borders and among its citizens while the latter involves borrowing from outside the country’s borders. It could be a loan from foreign nationals, foreign governments or even international financial institutions. Ordinarily, domestic debt is denominated in the local currency while foreign debt is likely to be denominated in a foreign currency. External debt, on the other hand, is the amount of money owed to foreign investors by both the government as well as the private sector.

    Since the year 2013, Kenya’s public debt has been on an upward spiral. According to Keynesian Economics, there are two possible scenarios that would put a country’s debt on an upward trajectory; War and recession. Since war is unanticipated, it is usually not planned for adequately in the budget, and therefore in the event of war breaking out, the country is likely to start borrowing to fund the cost of the war. In a recession, the economy has slumped. Jobs are scarce, and demand for products within the economy dwindles. This reduces tax revenue that the government had anticipated and corporate profits plunge, leading to lower corporate taxes being availed to the government. In such a case, the government will operate on a budget deficit, which is, in fact, public debt. For the last four years, Kenya has neither had a war nor a recession. In fact, the Kenyan economy has grown enormously over the period, as H.E the president has persistently said.

    Key Facts and Figures

    As at 2013, Kenya’s debt ceiling was Ksh. 800 billion. That same year, Parliament in its wisdom or lack thereof raised this ceiling by 500 basis points. We ended the year with a debt ceiling of Ksh. 1.2 Trillion. By the end of 2014, Parliament had more than doubled our debt ceiling. It now stood at Ksh. 2.5 Trillion.This figure was higher than our budget for the financial year 2014/2015 which stood at Ksh. 1.7 trillion. Kenya Debt to GDP ratio has grown from below 30% in 2012 to currently stand at 49.7%, 4.97 points above the treasury’s benchmark.

    Is Debt Bad?

    In life, nothing is bad. Similarly, nothing is good in absolute terms. What matters is a person’s perspective. In the corporate world, most capital projects are undertaken through use of debts. Most individuals develop themselves by using debt. The government too can make enormous economic progress through the use of debt. In the corporate world, you will rarely find a company that operates on 100% equity. In fact, theoretically, the most valuable firm would be the one that is 100% leveraged. This is because, interest expense as a cost of capital, is a member of an exclusive club called “allowable tax deductions” To illustrate, let’s assume we have Firms A and B. A’s capital structure is 100% Equity while B’s capital structure is 100% debt. If these two companies make the same earnings before interest and tax, firm B will end up paying the lesser tax. Equity, as a cost of capital, is expensive. In practice, however, strong B does not exist. And if it did, it would have a very high risk compared to A. What companies therefore do, is to find a balanced mix between equity and debt. They get a debt that will enable them to enjoy tax benefits while not unnecessarily raising their risk profile. Finding the right balance is what governments should look at while borrowing.

    Measuring a country’s public debt

    There are various ways that can be used to judge whether a country’s debt is healthy or moving in the wrong direction. This article will attempt to look at Kenya’s sovereign debt using two approaches. The first method, which is preferred by most researchers, is to measure debt as a percentage of GDP. There is no rule of the thumb here. However, the world bank looks at it from two angles; developed economies and emerging market economies. According to the world bank, an extended debt to GDP ratio of above 77% drags economic growth. In fact, it states that for every additional point above the 77% mark, the country loses 1.7% in economic growth. For emerging market economies such as Kenya, the ratio should not exceed 64%. Any figure above that slows economic growth by 2% each year. As a matter of policy, the Kenyan treasury has set its target Debt: GDP ratio as 45%. This is 19 percentage points lower than what the World Bank considers to be the benchmark. To this, end one must appreciate the government’s proactiveness. 19 percentage points is a field, wide enough to play all manner of games.
    The second approach that can be used to measure a country’s debt is to look at it about Government revenues. This measure gives you a rough figure of how long it would take for the government to pay its debts if it were to use its ordinary revenue to pay for its debts. The current debt for our country stands at Ksh. 3.2 trillion. The government, on average generates Ksh. 100 billion every month. If we were to use our tax revenues to pay our debts exclusively, it would take us 32 months only! This is, of course, wishful thinking.

    Is Kenya headed in the right direction?

    There is no simple answer to this question. As alluded to earlier, it is evident we cannot explain our growing debt using Keynesian Economics. However, in a growing economy, the following variables are expected to be on an upward spiral as well. They include population, revenues, expenditure among others. To cater for the increasing need to provide service to the growing public, the government will need to dig deeper into its pocket. At this point, debt is the only option. Unlike in private sector budgeting where expenditure is based on revenue, in public financial management, revenue is based on expenditure. The government comes up with an expenditure plan, before creating revenues. This is why most governments operate deficit budgets.
    It is tough to answer the above question. The answer depends on who you ask. I know of a particular person who when asked about our high Debt: GDP, answers by stating that the USA’S Debt: GDP is at 106%.

    “This is more than double our own; we should not worry.” He concludes.

    France is at 116%, and Japan is at 228%. Bahama’s at only 6%. So if indeed Debt: GDP meant much, Bahama’s would be the most financially stable country in the world. This was as at 2015. Greece closed the year 2015 at 188%. We all know where Greece is, economically speaking.

    The above argument is simplistic. It does not take into consideration the individual components of that debt.

    Public debt is composed of domestic debt and foreign debt. A large chunk of the US debts are owed to its citizen, and even those owed to foreigners are mostly dollar-denominated thereby eliminating the foreign exchange risk. If bad comes to worse, the FED can just print more dollars to repay its debts. Conversely, as at August 2015, 51.9% of our public debt was external. The risk associated with the foreign debt is that it is exposed to foreign exchange fluctuations, meaning if the shilling were to fall, we would spend more money to pay the debt than we had anticipated. Of course, the government can still hedge against this exposure through the use of derivatives, such as interest rate swaps. However, such derivatives also come at a cost. Japan has the same case as the USA, most of its debts are owed to its own citizens. So, our Debt to GDP ratio should not blind us.

    In conclusion, it is not easy to determine if our public debt is sustainable or not, however, if you try to find ou the answer, here is my advice: Borrowing for the purpose of incurring recurrent expenditure is financial illiteracy unless you are in a financial crisis. Secondly, borrowing to loot, in the name of infrastructure development, and borrowing to invest in white elephants like the SGR, is not sustainable.

    Finally, it is Adam Smith who once said,
    “What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”

    The writer writes to inform.
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  • Grounds Turning Hostile For Sycophantic Murkomen

    Grounds Turning Hostile For Sycophantic Murkomen

    By Nicholas Olambo
    Elgeyo Marakwet Senator stormed a meeting he did not organize in his country. The meeting was organized by the County Government of Governor Alex Toglos and the local churches. As is the ‘norm’ these days political rallies are organized as prayer meetings, one wonders when prayers or crusades became the business of politicians.
    Murkomen stormed into one that he did not organize and received scathing attacks for his sycophantic politics at the cost of serving the locals. Accompanied by Mps William Kisang and Jackson Kiptanui, The Senator was received by speeches for from angry residents who accused him of not using his influential position in government to end insecurity in Kerio Valley.
    Governor Alex Toglos and Former IG David Kimaiyo who is eyeing Murkomen’s seat had earlier led thousands of residents from all the four sub counties to protest against the runaway crime. The leaders and hundreds of the protesters later travelled in buses to the ‘prayer rally’.

    Governor Alex Toglos and Former IG David Kimaiyo who is eyeing Murkomen’s seat had earlier led thousands of residents from all the four sub counties to protest against the runaway crime. The leaders and hundreds of the protesters later travelled in buses to the ‘prayer rally’.

    Murkomen interrupted the meeting and tried to urge people to be a little patient as the Interior CS Joseph Nkaiserry and IG Joseph Boinet would visit the area on October 14th. No one had time to listen to a sycophant senator who was accused of ‘eating the meat’ and left his people to enjoy the scent. He was threatened that the area would rather support the opposition if the government doesn’t end the crimes swiftly.

    ‘We would rather suffer in the opposition other than in government’ said Endo MCA Kirop Festus. The county governor Alex Toglos appealed to CS Nkaiserry to resolve insecurity as expeditiously as he ordered him [governor] to record statement over Moi University VC appointment remarks. Toglos was part of the tribal cocoons that protested against the appointment of Prof Laban Ayiro as the acting VC of Moi University. They referred to the professor as an ‘outsider’ heading ‘their’ institution.

    But who knew the mouth running Murkomen was this dwarf at home? Murkomen is a giant sycophant to the DP William Ruto who supports every non-sense to fill his stomach. Alongside his National Assembly counterpart, Aden Duale, Murkomen was accused of having benefited from the infamous shs 791 NYS scandal. The ‘Mr. Know it all’ senator is losing the ground to former IG David Kimaiyo and KI can authoritatively say that Murkomen is under siege.

  • The Matatu Terrorism

    The Matatu Terrorism

    The Matatu Terrorism

    According to statistics, every year an average of 3000 Kenyans lives are lost on the road. Accidents continue to escalate despite strict traffic rules and NTSA monitoring that has less to show. Are Kenyans going to sit back and watch the rogue police officers and NTSA officials conspire with the Matatu Sacco in the powerful cartel to drive them to their graves? Things have to change and the only people to push this is the public who at the day suffer the burden of reckless driving.

    Langata Road accident has exposed the ruthless and lawlessness of the Ongata Rongai Matatu crew, the busses are driven at devil’s speed with reckless and intoxicated drivers, the conductors treat their passengers like a heap of garbage, the music in these busses would burst an aged eardrum and don’t be surprised if I’m few years young people will be dealing with mysterious eardrum problems.

    The rogue matatu crew would pick and drop you wherever they feel like, they rarely reach agreed tension and will make abrupt turn at their convenient point forcing the passengers to board the second bus or walk to their final destination, they’ve perfected this art per if trickery that however much the passengers complain nothing happens and be careful most of these young intoxicated boys are ready to fight you when you demand for your rights as a passenger.

    The Matatu Cartel is run mostly by politicians, drug dealers, senior police officers amongst other money launders making it so powerful such that the crew operating them openly flaw traffic rules with the utado mentality since their owners are untouchable.

    The bus that killed four people had already been deregistered by the Ongataline Sacco and was operating without a license; this shows you the level of impunity and incompetence of the traffic police and the NTSA who were fully informed and yet they still let the bus operate and drive people to death.
    NTSA has staged a cosmetic PR drive over the past days including the banning of the Ongataline buses and stepping up their inspections; this is a typical knee-jerk Kenyan way of reacting to situations while the fire is still burning and soon it will be back to normalcy.

    NTSA has deliberately been ignoring the biggest danger and targeting soft spots. They let public vehicles flaw traffic rules as they get their daily cut instead fully prey on private cars this anyone who uses Nairobi roads will tell you. NTSA should focus on these big offenders who’re killing most. Example the Rongai vehicle that killed had been deregistered by Ongataline and NTSA was informed through an available letter; the NTSA, however, allowed the bus to ply the route. Being deregistered by the Sacco imply that it was operating without the license in full watch of NTSA. They should take their work seriously and not concentrate on taking bribes. The accident could’ve been prevented the sheer incompetence of NTSA is and will continue to cost more lives of things remain as they are

    NTSA doesn’t have arresting powers that’s why they walk around with police for law enforcement. If the police are now enforcing and ensuring all requirements are adhered to, then they’re part of the problem. Traffic police are to ensure all vehicles are upbeat if any passes them then they’re part of this massacre

    Drivers are biggest to take the blames for recklessness it trickles down to self-restrain. Most of these drivers are on the road intoxicated. Lack self-discipline that would put them in line. The ghetto mentality in the minds of these guys that want to rush for more squads while risking the lives of the passengers. It should be natural for drivers to put lives of passengers ahead of self-interests, most think they’re heroes when they over speed and do more squads in fact there’s a trend whereby the driver who goes the highest speed and makes most trips will have better chance in different busses since the rule is you can’t stay on one bus through, The drivers and conductors are switched on every trip, so you stand high chance of many trips according to how much speed. This mentality must again be stopped.

    Apart from the drivers, passengers are also to blame for tolerating and allowing these rogue drivers to drive them to death. It’s not like they’re helpless, you can tell off the driver if he’s over speeding. It’s gotten to a point where everyone must take responsibility for his life on the road. Responsibility means calling out rogues. Same passengers esp the young prefer the pimped buses with defining music and the ones that hepa jam most. In fact, you’ll hear people say I don’t prefer particular bus since they don’t overlap I mean it’s become lucrative and appealing for the busses that over speed and overlap as the most preferred. These are death traps.

    Severe legislations must be put in place to tame these rogue matatu crew before more lives are taken. Notorious drivers who persistently flaw traffic rules should have their licenses revoked and banned from driving for life and better yet a jail term would do just well. The system should be digitized that repeat traffic offenders can be detected on a click, eliminate them from the roads before they kill. Weed out criminal elements masquerading as
    The Sacco’s need to thoroughly vet their crew and train then on road etiquette with basics being treating passengers with utmost respect. They must work to ensure the crew is at all times sober and not high on drugs, these people have become sleek and resorted to cheap drugs that can’t be detected by NTSA. The driver who recently killed was chewing Mogoka a common stimulant amongst Matatu crew.

  • Authenticity Of Duale Development In Garissa In Focus, Constructed Tarmac Road Leads To His Hotel and Estate Only

    Authenticity Of Duale Development In Garissa In Focus, Constructed Tarmac Road Leads To His Hotel and Estate Only

     

    Majority Leader Aden Duale has been on an extensive tour in his Garissa Town Constituency where he’s trying to recapture with Farah Maalim former speaker and an ODM affiliate giving him a mad chase for his money. During his tour, the legislator put up a publicity show on Twitter with trends awash with all the projects he attributes to himself.

    It didn’t take long before the trend #DualeDevelopsGarissa was taken over by Kenyans who used it to ridicule his supposed to development projects. Most commentators mocked Duale for taking credits on projects that were even initiated by organizations like the World Bank.

    Medina Hospital Owned by Duale
    Medina Hospital Owned by Duale

    Several residential sources in Garissa, contacted Kenya Insights to reveal some behind the scenes in the development fiasco and the findings are startling. Duale unveiled the five Kilometer Dekabure Rd, but we learn the Rd could have been used to serve personal interest of the MP. The Road as it turns out only serves Duale’s Medina Hospital and ends just 20M from his upcoming estate. Our sources believe, Duale rushed the projects to improve easy access to his new ventures, the hospital, and property which are about 250M apart but lay along the newly constructed tarmac road. Residents are wondering why he didn’t complete the remaining 1.5KM remaining and only to cut it short at his premises.

    The contractors preferred by Duale and who also doubles as his business associates only identified to Kenya Insights as Ogle(Mula) and Catalina who supposedly give Duale a 25% incentive on every road contract awarded, are doing shoddy jobs in the constituency. The two are the ones allegedly he awards the contracts. Duale is also being accused of taking a Sh50M from the contractor of the World Bank funded Sewerage Project which was also haphazardly done.

    Duale's upcoming estate metres away from the hospital
    Duale’s upcoming estate metres away from the hospital

    Imported democracy in NEP and negotiations have pumped new energy to the scared Duale forcing him to go on a constituency tour overdrive and hastened developments. In this system, Elders sit down and in the process of sharing seats, decide to bring an outside from a different subclan who do not reside from the constituency to be given the MP seat. Someone who has never been in that constituency is made the MP.

    So Duale subclan ceded Garissa township MP seat for another subclan… Duale was to move to Balambala CONSTITUENCY to square it out with Abdi K – ODM where he stood to loose.

    Upon Realising he had zero chance of coming back, it was tym to splash money as residents tell KI. He bought every influential leader, all the elders, hurriedly started doing some projects like roads, harambee everywhere, donating buses, (things he didn’t do for the past 8 years he was an MP in Garissa)

    The Farah maalim candidacy also made him go closer to the people. Residents say they started seeing Duale in Garissa the moment Farah maalim declared interest.

    Mbalambala is CORD zone. He couldn’t win against current MP Abdikadir so he negotiated his ways to remain in Garissa Town where the eldersendorsement and tribal card would give him an upper hand against Farah.

    Now Duale family amassed enough wealth and are likely to use millions to keep things in their favor – maintain status quo the residents believe.

  • David Makali Is A Broke Man Struggling To Survive As He Turns To Ababu Namwamba For The Eurobond Share

    David Makali Is A Broke Man Struggling To Survive As He Turns To Ababu Namwamba For The Eurobond Share

    A jack of all trades and nearly a master of none, David Makali, a Senator wanna be for Bungoma County is a troubled man with a history of not keeping his jobs. Restless like a cow on heat, Analyst Makali has worked with ODM in the past, tried to run for the Bungoma senatorial seat as an independent candidate where he was beaten before the sun set.

    The veteran journalist recently quit his job at the IEBC to vie for Bungoma seat. He also quit his lucrative TV job for political ambitions. He is now the secretary general for the recently ‘re-launched’ Dr. Julia Ojiambo’s old Labour Party of Kenya where ODM rebel, Ababu Namwamba is the leader.

    The irony is the party which was a hot air blown by Ababu, was hyped to bring on board new faces as a move in popularizing new generation leadership only for the enveloped Ababu to pull up with Granny Ojiambo who should be home playing with her great granddaughters and enjoying her retirement instead of pursuing politics which in her times, has less or no successful story to write home other than playing a tribal brokerage position, we still haven’t forgotten about her flimsy attempt with Kalonzo Musyoka as running mate.

    It has not been confirmed whether Makali’s rifle is loaded or not, Namwamba complained of being an SG with an unloaded gun in ODM.
    Makali is a confused fellow, even a five-year-old will tell you that he has slim chances of clinching the seat as much as the strong incumbent Moses Wetangula has his eyes set on the presidency. He can be a Senator for two years then quit, he never stays in a job for long. He is known for messing up, making wrong choices and turning to his friends and former classmates to seek desperate refuge.

    Despite his long service in money minting positions, the senator wannabe still lives in an apartment near Lenana Rd at the mercies of Wachira Waruru who’s paying his rent, and the citizen TV boss was Makali’s junior when the two worked with Standard Media Group. Not just that, his former classmate IEBC chief executive, Ezra Chiloba gave him the communication consultancy job, and he threw it.

    He is now licking his tribesman’s boots, Ababu Namwamba, to get a direct nominations ticket to contest Bungoma senatorial seat as they feed on ‘Ababu’s Eurobond’ that he was paid to ditch ODM, the few coins Charlatan Ababu was paid has been broken and shared with all the political wolves from Luhyaland leaving the party with a near bankruptcy. Makali wore a torn face the entire time during the party launch knowing there was nothing much at stake but just skuma on the table, but the fella has no option but to hang in on there, you see, a man has to live.

    Makali’s divorce case is still in court despite receiving a thorough beating from his wife last December. His wife was all bare knuckles on him crushing him like a military boot on an ant. Beating is common with Bungoma senators anyway even Senator Weta received a dog’s beating someday, they say Bukusu women are the real tranquilizers we can see that in these fellas putting a rock face to the public and are baby powder soft at home.

    Makali forgot soon after nursing his black eye, and he quit his jobs when he cannot afford to pay his bullying wife Shs 600, 000 per month. He pleaded with the judge who told him to man up and pay the small amount. ‘You are always on TV, and you have a job with the IEBC, and you are a soundman running Sound Africa recording company” the Judge told him.

    Makali was paid millions by ODM in 2005, and his wife advised him to buy a house in Nairobi at SHS 5 million, but the poor millionaire chose to build a 7 million shilling house in his rural home. Now the Senator wannabe is a squatter; he has no house, and he can’t stand the force of his wife’s furious blows. He has been used and dumped, Machakos Governor Dr. Alfred Mutua bought him for a small bribing job then dropped him like a hot rod.

    Then an analyst at Cheche, citizen tv’s weekly political show was given money by Mutua to collude with citizen TV reporters who were highlighting his deteriorating image and dismal performance. That’s the guys who wants to be the leader of a county, an individual who deliberately fostered Mutua’s hoodwinking tricks to make quick bucks when Machakos witnessed strike after strike with many who work as civil servants unable to pay their children’s school fee and other essential needs.

    He did not stay long in the pockets of the ‘working’ governor whose much-hyped PR stunts are now backfiring right before his face, and the poor Makali has jumped into Ababu’s briefcase with invalid dreams to form the third force in Kenya’s current political scene. Let’s see how long he will last in Ababu’s suitcase, and maybe he is not only troubled and confused, he is looking for ways to fill his stomach. Man must live.

  • A Bright Career Killed, Willis Raburu From a Great Journalist to a Socialites Promoter

    A Bright Career Killed, Willis Raburu From a Great Journalist to a Socialites Promoter

    This is an intervention for Willis Raburu, Who has now become a male socialite and shame to the media fraternity.

    We Kenyans of good will have witnessed the rise of Willis Raburu and would not like to see the good brains wasted by a complicit and corrupt Royal Media Services.

    If you are not aware, Royal Media Service is the most corrupt media house in Kenya. Journalists working for Royal Media services especially the vernacular radio stations are the worst dogs. They are bribed by ethnic gods to create tension within the country. For Instance, Njogu Wa Njoroge is on the Payroll of Kikuyu politicians to promote the We against them narrative. Despite all these malpractices, the idiots err Bosses at the helm have refused to crack the whip of such ethnic zealots.

    Willis Raburu started off well till he started hosting some Socialites in the infamous show called 10 Over 10. This is a show that promotes mediocrity and the whore culture because most of the fellas that flock the show are famous socialites and commercial sex workers like Huddah Monroe and Vera Sidika.

    Why is the media introducing shows that won’t help this country? Shows like 10 over 10 and Nairobi Diaries should be done away with.

    Willis Raburu, an exceptional mind in the media fraternity should not be interviewing socialites. We are watching our dear brother Willis make mistakes like Larry Madowo who has become a shame and bad example in the Kenyan media.

    Old Camels like Caroline Mutoko and Sheila Mwanyigha promoted the whore culture and have had no real achievements as far as their legacy is concerned. They instead dumbed down the masses into believing that whoring around and becoming petty is a Godly act.

    My brother Willis Raburu, we loved you when you used to read the news. Interviewing socialites is not your forte: Leave that to Larry Madowo and the likes of Maina Kageni.

    Being a male socialite is a curse and must be detected and crashed. It is worse than prostitution. Look at the likes of Joe W Muchiri; his only life achievement is being drunk and bragging with alcohol on Instagram. Pathetic socialite if you ask me. Unlike many fake friends out there who don’t tell him the truth, I take this moment to urge Joe Muchiri to get a wife, get married and raise a family. Your agemates like Alai have already married.

    But then, media standards in Kenya have diminished. Starting from Royal media services that has now reduced Willis Raburu to a socialites interviewer.

    For instance, Royal Media Services owner SK Macharia used forged documents to transact a land deal 20 years ago; Police indicated in court documents when the case was hot off the press. This was a widely publicized case that embarrassed the media mogul. Do we expect this character SK Macharia to instill good media standards yet he is a renown fraud? Hell No!

    Willis Raburu must sit down, reflect and see the direction his media career is heading toward. What will he be remembered for? He must avoid taking the course the likes of Maina Kageni and Caroline Mutoko took. Anybody can be a socialite promoter, but it takes courage and immense wisdom to be a revolutionary Journalist.

  • Eating Their Own, Kenyan Journalists Killing Journalism

    Eating Their Own, Kenyan Journalists Killing Journalism

    Hundreds of journalists took to the streets in Kenya to protest against what they call continuous harassment, attacks, threats and free expression as enshrined in the constitution that was signed in 2010. Journalists accuse the police, politicians and governments for their harassments. “Journalism is a profession and not a crime, we should be allowed to do our job without threats” said George Otieno, a reporter with Baraka Fm, Mombasa.

    When other journalists dare to hold street protests to demand respect for freedom of expression, the lazy ones sneak into politicians and enemy’s beds without editorial foreplay. They go against the ethics code and set regulations of the profession to fill their stomachs. Journalists should play a watchdog role for the society but professionals who brave themselves to uncover truths like Jicho Pevu’s Mohamed Ali and investigative reporter John Allan Namu have been never appreciated but treated as enemies of the state.
    Responsible journalism is key but what really is responsible journalism? Members of the fourth estate may debate what constitutes responsible journalism. Truth and accuracy, independence, fairness and impartiality and accountability are some of the most common core principles and values that should outline the craft of journalism.

    Responsible journalism is key but what really is responsible journalism? Members of the fourth estate may debate what constitutes responsible journalism. Truth and accuracy, independence, fairness and impartiality and accountability are some of the most common core principles and values that should outline the craft of journalism.
    The same is not really the case among the practitioners of the profession in Kenya. Early this year it was widely misreported that African nations had agreed to pull out of ICC. The truth was that they were to go back to their respective countries and study the Kenyan proposal before making a decision.

    Misreporting is rampant with reporters and media houses more focused on profit maximization. It is in Kenya where you have journalists a signed to specific political divides.
    Citizen Tv’s Jacque Maribe majorly covers and reports jubilee events and stories, in fact there are rumours her son was sired by a prominent Jubilee politician. The talented reporter –cum- anchor has been accused of killing Cord stories covering Jubilee. Francis Gachuri from the same station whose piece was used by the defense in ICC cases at the Hague is one of the journalists in bed with politicians. Gachuri is an ethno-political chauvinist who reports all sorts of garbage after receiving a three bed roomed house gift from DP William Ruto.

    Citizen Tv’s Jacque Maribe majorly covers and reports jubilee events and stories, in fact there are rumours her son was sired by a prominent Jubilee politician. The talented reporter –cum- anchor has been accused of killing Cord stories covering Jubilee. Francis Gachuri from the same station whose piece was used by the defense in ICC cases at the Hague is one of the journalists in bed with politicians. Gachuri is an ethno-political chauvinist who reports all sorts of garbage after receiving a three bed roomed house gift from DP William Ruto.

    Former citizen Tv reporter Kendagor Obadiah, who covered Cord/ ODM like everyday is now said to be planning to get into politics. Commentators will be waiting to see the party and the seat he will be going for. It is not only journalists like the above mentioned and the likes of Jeff Koinange who lean on their ‘suitable’ political divides, Media moguls have endorsed presidential candidates in this country. Royal Media Services chairman SK Macharia supported Cord coalition in the last elections and almost fainted when Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner.

    Former citizen Tv reporter Kendagor Obadiah, who covered Cord/ ODM like everyday is now said to be planning to get into politics. Commentators will be waiting to see the party and the seat he will be going for. It is not only journalists like the above mentioned and the likes of Jeff Koinange who lean on their ‘suitable’ political divides, Media moguls have endorsed presidential candidates in this country. Royal Media Services chairman SK Macharia supported Cord coalition in the last elections and almost fainted when Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner.

    Star’s Oliver Mathenge is a known Statehouse errand boy and a propagandist clothed as a communication consultant to many Jubilee leaders including Sakaja and the Party’s script twist master. He recently confessed How love for Jubilee and announced that he would be vying for an elective post on a Jubilee ticket. He’s How bootlicking the NYS Grand Theft architect Ann Waiguru for the Kirinyaga seat. The scheme of Oliver and these political journalists is to be owned by the political affiliation with fattest wallets so as to control and push their agendas on the media. Here’s the cartel that we’re soon exposing in details.

    How do you achieve responsible journalism in an environment like this where media owners endorse politicians to have ‘favourable’ environment for their businesses, reporters and editors depend on payolas to find angle for their stories. Some media houses like Mediamax are owned by high profile politicians in power. Broke media houses stoop below ethics to get government advertisements and lay off workers who cover stories that put the government and big cooperate organizations like safaricom in bad light.

  • Gubernatorial Race Continue To Attract Corruption Tainted Figures, Corrupt Thuita Mwangi Joins For The Laikipia Seat

    Gubernatorial Race Continue To Attract Corruption Tainted Figures, Corrupt Thuita Mwangi Joins For The Laikipia Seat

    By Nicholas Olambo
    The former PS of Foreigner Affairs ministry has announced his quest to contest the Laikipia gubernatorial seat in 2017. Mr. Thuita Mwangi was in the company of his aide, driver and a body gourd when he pulled the overdone PR stunt, entered a food kiosk near the county commissioner’s office for a cup of porridge and mingled with the small crowd.

    Pirates spent their ransoms putting up hotels and businesses in Eastleigh, Nairobi, looters of the public funds finance their ways top elective leadership. Mwangi was in March this year acquitted of the Shs 1.6 billion corruption case that involved the procurement of the Tokyo Embassy during the Kibaki regime. Quite a number in the crowds raised an issue with others wanting to know how he is going to change the county.

    Known for flouting procurement procedures, Mwangi claims he posses the much needed different style of managing the county and its resources. He is not the only one, other looters and corruption tainted leaders have announced their intentions to run for county top jobs. Ann Waiguru of the infamous shs 791 million, Charity Ngilu who was kicked out of Lands docket over corruption charges and Felix Koskei.

    The sacked minister has declared he is in the race to unseat Governor Cleophas Langat of Nandi County in 2017 elections. Koskei illegally allocated sugar import permits and allowed illegal cultivation of 100acre government piece of land where he planted potatoes. He was supended in 2015 and subsequently kicked out by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

    EACC, a clearing house for the ‘big fish’ as always found no sufficient evidence to back the claims and throw Koskei to jail. He is now funding his campaigns with corruptly earned money and proceeds of potato sales from the government land. He was fired alongside Davis Chirchir, Kazungu Kambi and Michael Kamau.

  • Opinion: Is Eugene Wamalwa Jubilee’s Best Bet For Nairobi

    Opinion: Is Eugene Wamalwa Jubilee’s Best Bet For Nairobi

    By Nicholas Olambo
    ‘Wamalwa comes across as a sober leader of great character’ reads a section of an article by Chebweche Mabuto in standard newspaper. He/she goes ahead to purport that the CS did not contest the Saboti parliamentary seat in 2013 because he had his eyes on bigger things, he may gun for president one day and Nairobi’s top job sets a perfect stage for him’…… I don’t agree.
    Wamalwa may have some big dreams but he lacks the needed courage and aggression to champion his own course. He chose not vie for the Saboti parliamentary seat because he had set his on the presidency when he knew it was not the ripe moment for him, brilliant politicians saw this and duped him into pre-poll pacts shelving his ‘presidential ambitions’ for a speaker job that never came to pass. Wamalwa was an Mp material in 2013, aspiring for presidency was a bite he could not and will not chew.

    He may be sober, calm but he is not a go getter. He is an individual who sits back and waits for big wigs’ directive. He has no guts to gun for the Nairobi top job, he makes a good candidate to play a vote spoiler role to block the incumbent and an easy to manipulate governor by the executive. Thanks to the good Lord, he will not make it. You can’t become a Nairobi governor on borrowed ambitions, Wamalwa’s ambitions are not self driven presenting him as an individual who serve the interest of other quarters and not the interest of the great people of Nairobi.

    He may be sober, calm but he is not a go getter. He is an individual who sits back and waits for big wigs’ directive. He has no guts to gun for the Nairobi top job, he makes a good candidate to play a vote spoiler role to block the incumbent and an easy to manipulate governor by the executive. Thanks to the good Lord, he will not make it. You can’t become a Nairobi governor on borrowed ambitions, Wamalwa’s ambitions are not self driven presenting him as an individual who serve the interest of other quarters and not the interest of the great people of Nairobi.

    Much as Nairobi top job sets a better stage for one to begin their journey to presidency Wamalwa ought to have started from somewhere, bottom, you can’t begin climbing the tree from the top. The individual pushing for his candidacy is plotting to have his tribe’s vote in 2022 should the current deal go sour. Luhya Nation is considerably large enough to craft another ‘tyranny of numbers’ hypothesis with the Rift.

    Different places and situations must be faced with well calculated strategies that can handle them. Nairobi for instance is different from Trans Nzoia, Nairobi does not need a near violent type of leader but tough one who will not bend to the demands of the executive and city hall cartels. And whether you like it or not, you need deeper pockets to win this important seat that is a better stage to launch presidential ambitions. The financially limping water CS had to wait to be pushed and even after that pushing he still remains a weak candidate in fast shaping battle to unseat Dr. Evans Kidero from the lucrative seat.

  • Money Over Integrity and Reputation, NYS Grand Heist Deflated Mutahi Ngunyi

    Money Over Integrity and Reputation, NYS Grand Heist Deflated Mutahi Ngunyi

    By Nicholas Olambo
    2016 has not been a good year for the arrogant and controversial political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi. Mutahi has been known for his rapper attitude and ‘dissing’ analyses on Cord leader Raila Odinga. He once described him as ‘a busy house girl’ in the grand coalition government. He was alleging that Mr. Odinga wanted to be seen doing everything including nothing. He always appeared to have a bone to pick with Rail. Ngunyi is the brain behind generation of ‘tyranny of numbers’ hypothesis.

    His blunt utterances always caused uproar like suggesting that Raila should be jailed over Uganda sugar deal and calling Luo community poverty stricken. ‘Raila should be put on trial. The Judge: Poverty stricken Luos…. The Charge: selfishness. Selfishness, selfishness, selfishness…’ he wrote on a tweet. His political analysis career is ‘Raila based’ giving him all sorts demeaning descriptions like equating him to a slow punctured car. He is now cornered in the infamous NYS saga where shs 791 million was misappropriated. Ngunyi’s firm did business with NYS and was overpaid.

    His blunt utterances always caused uproar like suggesting that Raila should be jailed over Uganda sugar deal and calling Luo community poverty stricken. ‘Raila should be put on trial. The Judge: Poverty stricken Luos…. The Charge: selfishness. Selfishness, selfishness, selfishness…’ he wrote on a tweet. His political analysis career is ‘Raila based’ giving him all sorts demeaning descriptions like equating him to a slow punctured car. He is now cornered in the infamous NYS saga where shs 791 million was misappropriated. Ngunyi’s firm did business with NYS and was overpaid.

    He is finding no defense in Raila, instead he claims he is shocked why he was overpaid shs 11.87 million. He told the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that he did not know how NYS Picked his firm to do it’s restructuring and if it was single sourced. Guilty Mutahi claims that he only learnt from the auditor general that he was overpaid in March 2015 but he assumed it was from a different client since he had been paid his dues prior to that.

    He is finding no defense in Raila, instead he claims he is shocked why he was overpaid shs 11.87 million. He told the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that he did not know how NYS Picked his firm to do it’s restructuring and if it was single sourced. Guilty Mutahi claims that he only learnt from the auditor general that he was overpaid in March 2015 but he assumed it was from a different client since he had been paid his dues prior to that.

    The Mutahi defending himself now is so different from the one with the foul mouth, he looks rained on and begging for mercy with weak threats to sue ministry officials who made the mysterious payments. He swore on his mom’s bible that he is clean. Is he clean? This is the same guy who authoritatively said in an interview with the Nairobian that he makes money in CCP (corruption, consultancy and politics).

    The Mutahi defending himself now is so different from the one with the foul mouth, he looks rained on and begging for mercy with weak threats to sue ministry officials who made the mysterious payments. He swore on his mom’s bible that he is clean. Is he clean? This is the same guy who authoritatively said in an interview with the Nairobian that he makes money in CCP (corruption, consultancy and politics).

    Mutahi was responding to a question on the source of his money to rent lavish offices at the MMID Studio House in Museum Hill and pay his staff of mostly young, gorgeous and sophisticated looking women. The arrogant analyst claimed that The consultancy house (his firm) does a lot of work from bodies like governments and IGAD through referrals across 18 countries. Corruption is indeed his source of income and has finally ended his arrogance and career; no one listens to Ngunyi anymore.

  • Governor Mandago Shamelessly Bends Down To Low On Ethnicity Factor At Moi University

    Governor Mandago Shamelessly Bends Down To Low On Ethnicity Factor At Moi University

    By Nicholas Olambo
    Politicians will always say that Eldoret is a cosmopolitan town to win your vote but the reality is way far from that. A keen observer can guess a possible scenario if an individual from a community outside North Rift vies for a top political post, the ‘madoa doa’ narrative will begin. Negative ethnicity is the order of the day in this part of the world where public institutions are now turned into ethnic joints.
    It so sad that elected leaders from the region idle to an extent of hanging coats in their office then gather as tribal cocoons and unlawfully storm a public institution. What happened Tuesday was pathetic; a section of North Rift leaders stormed Moi University main campus in Kesses, Eldoret to protest against the appointment of Prof. Laban Ayiro as the acting vice chancellor of the institution for three months awaiting replacement of former VC Prof. Richard Mibey.

    It so sad that elected leaders from the region idle to an extent of hanging coats in their office then gather as tribal cocoons and unlawfully storm a public institution. What happened Tuesday was pathetic; a section of North Rift leaders stormed Moi University main campus in Kesses, Eldoret to protest against the appointment of Prof. Laban Ayiro as the acting vice chancellor of the institution for three months awaiting replacement of former VC Prof. Richard Mibey.

    Rogue leaders, members of the staff and residents were led by Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago and his Elgeyo Marakwet counterpart Alex Tolgos and Counter Assembly Speaker Isaac Terer and other Mps from the region who had nothing constructive to do on a working day. They went ahead and vowed to stop 32nd graduation ceremony slated for 23rd September 2016. They are demanding for the appointment of a substantive VC based on merit, fronting for Prof. Isaac Kosgey whom they claim emerged top in the recruitment interviews and should be appointed on permanent basis.

    Rogue leaders, members of the staff and residents were led by Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago and his Elgeyo Marakwet counterpart Alex Tolgos and Counter Assembly Speaker Isaac Terer and other Mps from the region who had nothing constructive to do on a working day. They went ahead and vowed to stop 32nd graduation ceremony slated for 23rd September 2016. They are demanding for the appointment of a substantive VC based on merit, fronting for Prof. Isaac Kosgey whom they claim emerged top in the recruitment interviews and should be appointed on permanent basis.

    The rogue leaders are claiming that ‘an outsider’ has been appointed to head the Eldoret based university by the Education CS Fred Matiang’i. Moi University is known for being the most ethicized institution in Kenya. The official language from the gate, lavatory, staff and to the students is Kalenjin. The toothless bulldog that is National Cohesion and Integration Commission does nothing but its usual incredible bark. The Commission’s Chairman Francis Ole Kaparo addressed the media condemning the action that depicts how public institutions have been ethicized.

    The rogue leaders are claiming that ‘an outsider’ has been appointed to head the Eldoret based university by the Education CS Fred Matiang’i. Moi University is known for being the most ethicized institution in Kenya. The official language from the gate, lavatory, staff and to the students is Kalenjin. The toothless bulldog that is National Cohesion and Integration Commission does nothing but its usual incredible bark. The Commission’s Chairman Francis Ole Kaparo addressed the media condemning the action that depicts how public institutions have been ethicized.

    The commission is investigation the actions by the leaders and should they be found guilty of contravening the provision of the NCIC Act, a disciplinary action will be recommended by the sleeping commission. What is really there to investigate? One may ask ‘It is stunning, abhorrent, and disgusting to see leaders who should be on the forefront in upholding the constitution, stoop that low’. Ole Kaparo said.

    The unpolished actions by rogue, tribal and idling leaders come at time when the country is struggling to find a solution to continuous fire problem in secondary schools that saw over 120 dormitories razed last term by rogue students. Matiang’I’s roadside declarations have been blamed on the fires in high schools the same way his choice to appoint an acting VC is facing protests.

  • Jacob Juma’s Murder Probe Takes Another Twist

    Jacob Juma’s Murder Probe Takes Another Twist

    The killing of Businessman turned anti-corruption crusader, Jacob Juma is one that continue to cause more questions as intrigues continue to pile, many questions with no tangible forthcoming answers.

    Jacob who was according to police reports gunned down by hitmen while headed home in May 5, is yet to get off the public’s eye who’ve waited with baited breath to know what exactly happened.

    However, the wait could take much longer just like the rest of historical prominent assassinations. Detectives from the Investigations Department has thrown in the towel saying their investigations had hit a  dead end writing to the Office of Public Prosecution to ignite a public inquest into Jacob’s murder in a bid to unravel the mysteries.

    The DPP has since refered back the files to DCI Muhoro to do more investigations turning down the tribunal request they had made. Tobiko has instructed the detectives to do more including questioning witnesses not included in the submitted list.

    Sirisia MP John Walukhe whom Juma’s relatives pointed fingers at for having bad blood with the slain has also been questioned amongst others like Jimmy Wanjigi, Ahmednasir and others in connection with the murder.

    Jacob Juma is believed to have been fell by the State’s owned hitsquad and Opposition leaders have in several occasions reiterated that Juma was killed for his position in exposing corruption within Jubilee and especially the Eurobond saga.

    Knowing the history of this country, it will take a complete system overhaul for the truth on what exactly happened and who killed Juma the rest are just sideshows to buy time.  Extrajudicial killings has been on the rise in recent times a worrying trend.