Post by adongo23456 on May 8, 2011 14:25:55 GMT 3
titchaz,
Thanks for the piece you posted. It is very informative to Jukwaa folks. It tells a story some of the cowards always trying to belittle the courage of activists do not not know. It is a capacity they cannot comprehend. I don't blame them.
Now, this is a stunning development. I don't know what the naysayers have to say now to defend the merchants of death and impunity.
Here we go.
www.nairobistar.com/national/national/23536-kimeli-killers-executed-in-covert-police-operation
The murderers of former Kenya Police College commandant Bernard Kimeli, who was found dead in his Nairobi home on April 28, were reportedly executed in a covert police operation, the Star has reliably learnt.
Multiple sources said the three men suspected of shooting and stabbing the ex-police chief, were shot dead and their bodies mutilated with acid were dumped on the Nairobi-Magadi road the day after the murder.
The body of the fourth suspect picked up by detectives from the Special Crime Unit was retrieved from the Ndakaini Dam in Thika on April 30 and taken to Thika District Hospital Mortuary. No identity documents were found on the bodies.
The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said the four men were picked up by the police in Githurai and Dandora estates after detectives traced one of them through his cell phone. The cell phone was used to make a call to Kimeli a few hours before he was found dead.
The man was arrested and he led the police to the other suspects who were also arrested and questioned before they were executed. Police sources said they were yet to zero in on the actual motive for Kimeli's murder.
Kimeli had been stabbed twice in the abdomen and shot twice in the torso. His body was stretched out on a seat in his living room at the Muguga Flats in Westlands.
Neither his neighbours nor his son who was living at the servants' quarters heard anything. The house was not broken into and neither was anything stolen. Kimeli was buried at his farm in Nandi yesterday.
Police said they were pursuing leads that Kimeli was murdered because he had information which could incriminate some former and current security chiefs who were involved in dealing with the 2007-08 post-election violence.
Police as well as sources associated with the Waki Commission confirmed that Kimeli appeared before the commission and some of the testimony he presented to the commission in camera formed part of the evidence that the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo intends to use in his prosecution of the six suspects he has identified as bearing the greatest responsibility for organising, financing and planning the violence.
A Kimeli close relative who claimed to know of the existence of the classified information told the Star: “He collected some of the information from his own trusted officers in the field in the period leading to, during elections and after President Kibaki was declared the winner. The information included the selective manner used by some partisan police commands to deal with election violence in Rift Valley." "Kimeli had been ordered by some people in the government to provide undercover and uniformed police officers from the Police College to do some dirty work against some ethnic communities which he refused,” said the relative who claimed some of the documents with the information had been taken away by Kimeli's killers.
The sources said that orders were issued to Kimeli to release "the idle policemen" at the police academy to assist deal with the violence.
The decision about which of the trainees were going to take part in quelling the violence was done in a selective manner because it favoured one ethnic group.
“There are forces in Kenya who are fearful that the officer’s evidence could have been dangerous to some of the Ocampo Six. These people would not have wanted Kimeli to testify or provide any documentary and photographic evidence to the ICC or even a local tribunal if one is established,” said another senior officer who worked for the Waki Commission.
Yesterday lawyer Evans Monari who represented the police in the Waki Commission denied suggestions that Kimeli could have been murdered because of what he knew of the post-election violence. “Kimeli was never a witness. He never presented a memorandum to the Waki Commission and was never intended to be a witness by anybody. He did not have any information that should make anyone scared.
This is misinformation by Ocampo who has lost his case to try and enhance the conditions for the six suspects. He wants to use the report of Kimeli's murder to claim that witnesses are being killed,” said Monari.
Ocampo has filed another application in which he is asking the court not to compel him to present the witness statements he has so far collected to the suspects' lawyers claiming doing so would jeopardise their safety.
Yesterday Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere denied there was any link between the three executed men and Kimeli's murder which was still being investigated.
Iteere, who spoke through police deputy spokesman Charles Owino, denied the three men had been executed by police and said their deaths were being investigated.
”We cannot reveal the information that we have because that will jeopardise the investigations. We will only do so at the end of our investigations,” Owino said.
The CID director Francis Muhoro Ndegwa also declined to confirm whether or not there was any link between the Rongai and Kimeli murders. "The police will reveal the necessary information when they finish their investigations," Muhoro said.
Kimeli's abrupt retirement in 2008 raised concerns with Keiyo South MP Lucas Chepkitony asking why Kimeli had been pushed out of the service.
Responding to the question, assistant minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security Simon Lesrima said Kimeli left the service on March 3, 2008 after he attained the mandatory retirement age of 55 years. Lesirma said Kimeli had not applied to continue working on contract and that is why he was allowed to retire.
Thanks for the piece you posted. It is very informative to Jukwaa folks. It tells a story some of the cowards always trying to belittle the courage of activists do not not know. It is a capacity they cannot comprehend. I don't blame them.
Now, this is a stunning development. I don't know what the naysayers have to say now to defend the merchants of death and impunity.
Here we go.
www.nairobistar.com/national/national/23536-kimeli-killers-executed-in-covert-police-operation
Kimeli killers executed in covert police operation
The murderers of former Kenya Police College commandant Bernard Kimeli, who was found dead in his Nairobi home on April 28, were reportedly executed in a covert police operation, the Star has reliably learnt.
Multiple sources said the three men suspected of shooting and stabbing the ex-police chief, were shot dead and their bodies mutilated with acid were dumped on the Nairobi-Magadi road the day after the murder.
The body of the fourth suspect picked up by detectives from the Special Crime Unit was retrieved from the Ndakaini Dam in Thika on April 30 and taken to Thika District Hospital Mortuary. No identity documents were found on the bodies.
The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said the four men were picked up by the police in Githurai and Dandora estates after detectives traced one of them through his cell phone. The cell phone was used to make a call to Kimeli a few hours before he was found dead.
The man was arrested and he led the police to the other suspects who were also arrested and questioned before they were executed. Police sources said they were yet to zero in on the actual motive for Kimeli's murder.
Kimeli had been stabbed twice in the abdomen and shot twice in the torso. His body was stretched out on a seat in his living room at the Muguga Flats in Westlands.
Neither his neighbours nor his son who was living at the servants' quarters heard anything. The house was not broken into and neither was anything stolen. Kimeli was buried at his farm in Nandi yesterday.
Police said they were pursuing leads that Kimeli was murdered because he had information which could incriminate some former and current security chiefs who were involved in dealing with the 2007-08 post-election violence.
Police as well as sources associated with the Waki Commission confirmed that Kimeli appeared before the commission and some of the testimony he presented to the commission in camera formed part of the evidence that the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo intends to use in his prosecution of the six suspects he has identified as bearing the greatest responsibility for organising, financing and planning the violence.
A Kimeli close relative who claimed to know of the existence of the classified information told the Star: “He collected some of the information from his own trusted officers in the field in the period leading to, during elections and after President Kibaki was declared the winner. The information included the selective manner used by some partisan police commands to deal with election violence in Rift Valley." "Kimeli had been ordered by some people in the government to provide undercover and uniformed police officers from the Police College to do some dirty work against some ethnic communities which he refused,” said the relative who claimed some of the documents with the information had been taken away by Kimeli's killers.
The sources said that orders were issued to Kimeli to release "the idle policemen" at the police academy to assist deal with the violence.
The decision about which of the trainees were going to take part in quelling the violence was done in a selective manner because it favoured one ethnic group.
“There are forces in Kenya who are fearful that the officer’s evidence could have been dangerous to some of the Ocampo Six. These people would not have wanted Kimeli to testify or provide any documentary and photographic evidence to the ICC or even a local tribunal if one is established,” said another senior officer who worked for the Waki Commission.
Yesterday lawyer Evans Monari who represented the police in the Waki Commission denied suggestions that Kimeli could have been murdered because of what he knew of the post-election violence. “Kimeli was never a witness. He never presented a memorandum to the Waki Commission and was never intended to be a witness by anybody. He did not have any information that should make anyone scared.
This is misinformation by Ocampo who has lost his case to try and enhance the conditions for the six suspects. He wants to use the report of Kimeli's murder to claim that witnesses are being killed,” said Monari.
Ocampo has filed another application in which he is asking the court not to compel him to present the witness statements he has so far collected to the suspects' lawyers claiming doing so would jeopardise their safety.
Yesterday Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere denied there was any link between the three executed men and Kimeli's murder which was still being investigated.
Iteere, who spoke through police deputy spokesman Charles Owino, denied the three men had been executed by police and said their deaths were being investigated.
”We cannot reveal the information that we have because that will jeopardise the investigations. We will only do so at the end of our investigations,” Owino said.
The CID director Francis Muhoro Ndegwa also declined to confirm whether or not there was any link between the Rongai and Kimeli murders. "The police will reveal the necessary information when they finish their investigations," Muhoro said.
Kimeli's abrupt retirement in 2008 raised concerns with Keiyo South MP Lucas Chepkitony asking why Kimeli had been pushed out of the service.
Responding to the question, assistant minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security Simon Lesrima said Kimeli left the service on March 3, 2008 after he attained the mandatory retirement age of 55 years. Lesirma said Kimeli had not applied to continue working on contract and that is why he was allowed to retire.