emali
Full Member
Posts: 219
|
Post by emali on Jun 3, 2011 10:10:50 GMT 3
What I’m really intrigued by this is ‘WHY’…don’t get me wrong they are all obviously criminals…from Gichuru to most of the current government .Are these recent arrests as a result of Raila’s constant travels to US/Europe? Or is Obama doing his duty as a Kenyan? ‘Lets round all this scum up folks!!’…There are a bunch of criminals involved in the world drug trade much much bigger than Mwau…can you really tell me that Mwau is amongst the 5 most visible Kingpins?? Please he would barely register at 450…. Anyway my take on all this is Raila maybe the PM but he is already Kenyas Defacto president…very soon there will be no one left to Challenge him either politically or financially… ...nice one. Only pity is that he never will be Kenya's president! The sad part is you will see it & no tsunamis or earthquakes will engulf uhuru park...I used to think so too...things have changed...its almost inevitable at this point... |
|
|
|
Post by b6k on Jun 3, 2011 12:13:10 GMT 3
...nice one. Only pity is that he never will be Kenya's president! The sad part is you will see it & no tsunamis or earthquakes will engulf uhuru park...I used to think so too...things have changed...its almost inevitable at this point... Emali, you're right. In the grand scheme of things, Mwau is way down the pecking order of the drug kingpins. Note the #2 below had a net worth of $23 billion compared to Mwau's alleged paltry KES 23 billion. No contest! listverse.com/2009/10/02/top-10-most-powerful-drug-lords/Kenya also doesn't feature as a druglords haven...at least not yet. blog.thegooddrugsguide.com/0754/7-countries-where-drug-lords-lord-it-over/We have to assume Obama would like to visit KE, his fatherland, while he is still POTUS. To do so, he has to rearrange the political furniture in KE or face condemnation back home for visiting a narco-state in the making. I'm ok with it as the drugbarons need to be removed before they become permanent fixtures in the political scene. With some warlords already headed to The Hague, & others bound for extradition to Jersey CI, bagging Mwau is part of the spring cleaning process. I wouldn't write off RAO just yet. With a new US ambassador who actively trained the KE airforce from 1980 to August 1982 now in country, & a friendly POTUS in the White House, we may just witness the crowning of RAO come August 2012. |
|
|
|
Post by shifta on Jun 3, 2011 21:41:48 GMT 3
Whether paltry or not the fact that someone has to clean up our mess says a lot. There are messed school children in Kenya and at the Coast in particular familes are being torn apart by drugs...so Obama fa.gia!! I could care less their political affliations.
I hope this is teh first step to what the US did in Jamaica - which was extradite the most notorious kingpin.
|
|
|
|
Post by einstein on Jun 3, 2011 23:42:28 GMT 3
It must surely depress a lot of people that Mama NARC aka PNU Activist was not the one everyone thought it was! Out of curiosity, why would Obama have any problem naming anyone such that he appears to also protect the name people wanted? The point is that the guy bankrolling a chunk of the Raila campaign used drug money to fund it...! And all along I thought it was Barack Obama (US), Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa) who funded Raila's campaign. At least, that was the PNU story back then. Today, Kamale and Co. are coming up with different names! Strange indeed. While at it, who funded PNU campaign? THE KENYAN TAXPAYER of course!!! Now, which one is worse? The choice is yours bwana Kamale! By the way, did you have to bring up Raila's name on an issue completely unrelated to the funding of presidential campaigns in 2007? Oh my bad, I forgot Raila's name sells in any issue! He is now behind the misfortunes of Okemo & Co. and Mwau & Co. after his tour of the US and Europe. Before that, he single-handedly delivered the O6 to Den Haag aka The Den for Warlords!! Yeah, that is the almighty Agwambo doing what he does best; getting rid of his political competitors!! Please, go tell that to the weaver-birds. They might just listen to you! |
|
|
|
Post by politicalmaniac on Jun 4, 2011 0:01:17 GMT 3
While at it, who funded PNU campaign? THE KENYAN TAXPAYER of course!!! Now, which one is worse? The choice is yours bwana Kamale! By the way, did you have to bring up Raila's name on an issue completely unrelated to the funding of presidential campaigns in 2007? ! Ya they will blame the Rt Hon Prime Minister if they are unable to do duty in the bedroom tonight. Its his bloody fault if the plumbing to that organ is faulty!! So now they know eti its Deya who funded the ODM campaigns? How did they know this? If they know this can they tell us who funded the PNU campaigns? Did I hear it was the rheumy eyed budget fudging jomo jnr? sheesh! During the preamble to the first KATIBA war, which PNU got votes only in Central, kiraitu told us they will shake each and every money tree and are guaranteed to win. They lost. Badly and comprehensively. The mafiya wa mt kenya funds its campaigns directly from the state coffers be it by having their minions placed in state corporations which they then loot, and hand the money over to their benefactors, or by using drug money from kina livondo and Mary Mwai, keguoya's second wife!! |
|
|
|
Post by enigma on Jun 4, 2011 20:50:33 GMT 3
PM and Einstein,
Some people in this forum are in the throes of a prolonged terror-induced orgasm that is bound to end in a blank-fest in 2012, thats why they are thinking about Deya the baby maker. It will only get worse as the moment of truth approaches in 2012. You would be within your right to pick and choose which posts you respond to, just to save your jaws for meatier stuff. You are dealing with victims of phobia and paranoia here.
They run with the hare while hunting with the hounds.
|
|
|
|
Post by b6k on Jun 5, 2011 7:54:37 GMT 3
Meanwhile in Tanzania, it is not quite clear what the nationality of Mama Lela is as she is not, as of now, considered a Kenyan: Eight suspects in court over Sh225m cocaine Saturday, 04 June 2011 11:28 By Rosina John Citizen Correspondent Dar es Salaam. Eight suspects including two Kenyans alleged to be drug dealers were yesterday charged with trafficking 5 kilogrammes of cocaine worth Sh225 million.The Kenyans, Ben Ngare and Anthony Karanja, were charged along with six Tanzanians including three women at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate ’s Court. The eight were arrested on Wednesday night in Dar es Salaam ’s Mbezi suburb in the house of Mwanaidi Ramadhani Mfundo, who is believed to be a drug kingpin who has been black listed in many countries over her alleged involvement in the illicit business. Charged along Ms Mwanaidi who is also identified as Mama Leila, were Sara Munuo, Alma Said, Yahya Ibrahim, Aisha Kungwi and Rajabu Juma. The accused were not allowed to enter any plea because the court does not have jurisdiction to hear the case. State Attorney Patric Marogoi alleged that the accused were on June 1, this year, at Mbezi Beach area within Kinondoni District, arrested while trafficking 5kgs of cocaine worth Sh225 million. The accused allegedly committed the offence contrary to Section 16(1) b (1) of the Drugs and Prevention of Illicit Trafficking Act.Mr Marogoi told resident magistrate Mustapha Siyami that investigation into the case was still on and asked the court to set another mention date for the case. The accused will remain in remand until June 15, when their case will be mentioned again.Photographers jostling to get pictures of the accused had difficult time to capture faces of the women suspects who covered their faces with mats all the time they were present in court to hide their identity. During the arrest, anti narcotic officers found the accused with the drugs stuffed in two small packets weighing 1kg each, labelled Coffee Care Original, apparently to conceal the substances. And the arrest of the two Kenyans come at a time when US President Barrack Obama had named Kenya ’s Kilome MP Harun Mwau and another Naima Mohamed Nakiniywa, among seven foreigners targeted by his government over narcotics. There have been conflicting versions as to the nationality of Mama Leila. A source has confided to The Citizen on Sunday that the woman holds more than two passports and that she is well known in Kenya for engaging in drugs. Police have said they were working with their counterparts in Kenya to get records and nationality of other suspects. www.thecitizen.co.tz/news/51-other-news/11554-eight-suspects-in-court-over-sh225m-cocaine |
|
|
|
Post by merlin on Jun 6, 2011 14:11:30 GMT 3
How come a police report tabled in parliament exonerated Kilome MP Harun Mwau from drug trafficking allegations yet US President Barack Obama’s administration seems to have the evidence?
I perceive no one like to give a factual answer on this question as the answer will have lethal consequences.
Drug trafficking is no ordinary business. You do not need a single business licence; obtain a “Certificate of Incorporation”, pay taxes, and publish annual business reports or obtain a “VAT – Certificate of Registration”. It is a business that is illegal within Kenya which also means there is no protection for the business under the Kenya Law enforcement agencies.
However it is a business like any other and you will meet competition, fraudsters, customers who do not fulfil their commitment of paying their bills, or suppliers who confront you with inferior or non-deliveries.
None of these can be taken to a court of law to enforce their business commitments. Dealing in drugs means to set-up your own law enforcement agency to protect the business. The rules of this system are codes of honour and the enforcement is lethal.
Protecting drugs business also includes threats from the legal law enforcement agency and any investigating police officer will meet the Kingpin law enforcement agency.
What does this means for a police officer with the task to investigate drugs trafficking?
It is not a business where you can request to peruse the business administration or interrogate the CEO of the business. The low level police investigator will be confronted by the Kingpin law enforcement agency and if left on his own; be at great risk to be liquidated.
The low level investigator needs to be coached by his superior though his coach – police unit – left on their own be at great risk to be liquidated. This goes up into the police hierarchy at a level where the Kingpin law enforcement agency cannot reach and lost their influence to manipulate the police organisation.
An effective Kingpin law enforcement agency has to be able to exhort influence at a high level in the police hierarchy along the ranks to the ultimate top position of Police commissioner Mathew Iteere or beyond to the Minister for Security George Saitoti. Even aspirant presidents could be confronted by the Kingpin law enforcement agency.
The Kingpin law enforcement agency will use bribery, sponsor quest for presidency or job position or make people lose their position, and goes as far as liquidation.
What does this mean for related Ministers, MPs and the whole structure of police personnel?
They do not like to confront the drugs business with their Kingpin law enforcement agency, risking their position or even their life. So everyone stays away from this as far as possible.
If the Kingpin law enforcement agency has reached the Political top of Presidency they will be able to neutralise the fight against drug trafficking.
There will be public pressure though this will result in useless reports and other cover-up actions. The Kingpin law enforcement agency can even make use of the police force to ward off competition in the drug trafficking business and tip them off to confiscate drugs assignment from the competition - who’s drugs law enforcement agency has not reached as far in hierarchy of the Kingpin. Fighting drug traffic can only be done from a level where the influence of the Kingpin law enforcement agency has not yet reached.
This is why the drug trafficking in Kenya can only be fought by other countries like the U.S.
The drugs trafficking business has also a marketing department - which promote a positive image of the Kingpin - and money whitewash department to make the financial gains from the drugs effective for legal business.
Is Kilome MP Harun Mwau a Kingpin in drug trafficking? The Americans still can say this in public though any Kenyan who can substantiate this claim is on a lethal trial.
Kenya seems to be a failed state and it will be very difficult to regain a lawful position between the world nations. It needs all the help it can get from the international community.
|
|
tom
Junior Member
Posts: 75 
|
Post by tom on Jun 10, 2011 17:59:56 GMT 3
Ever heard of names like , Manish Shah, Manoj Shah,
Those two names from your list are Sound familier. The Manish I know with a Shah cognomen works at Mitsumi Distribution a company that deals with importation and redistribution of Computers and other IT products locally. The company is now eying East African market. But I have noticed the company's sudden rise. They are suddenly moving around with heavy machinery in the form of huge 4x4 SUVs together with a host of other vehicles. They are buying properties in the city discreetly as well as using Otieno Kajwang's office to import unskilled indian labourers into the country. Manoj on is the other hand is closely related to the Owners of Mitsumi. He has married their sister. He runs his own company Niti Distribution, named after his wife, which also sells computers and related IT hardware. He drives a huge hummer and has a palatial house in spring valley among other properties like the current ultra modern 5 storey building at Kasuku Road junction, off, Muthithi Road which houses his business. The second wing of the building is under construction in Westlands area. He also sells furnitures. He has frustrated all black Kenyans to resign and instead used Kajwang's office to import illiterate Indians to work for him. Niti and Mitsumi are barely 300 metres apart. Both are suddenly experiencing rapid growth. The recession did not seem to wear them down. There is often a certain flying squad Peugeot paying the two companies a visit. |
|
|
|
Post by job on Jun 10, 2011 22:10:47 GMT 3
Tom,Here is what I wrote on June 2nd:Eight days later, Daily Nation columnist Robert Shaw had this to say in his Op-ed titled: At long last, age-old impunity is on the run, and Kenya’s the better for itwww.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1177918/-/nb2wgwz/-/index.htmlPay attention to these paragraphs below in Shaw's piece: [/size].[/i][/blockquote][/quote] That’s exactly what it is Tom – wakina Manoj, Manish and Sanjay Shah, wakina Narc Activist, wakina Kabogo, Sonko and Livondo, had better know that the sanction on Mwau and Mama Leila extends to include all ASSOCIATES and BUSINESSES linked to him – even remotely. Like I said, start watching their businesses into the future. Patiently watch this space! And when Robert Shaw talks of the global village becoming smaller, don’t miss the allusion of unprecedented collaboration between the US (under Obama) and the UK. The two have said – enough is enough! They want to clean up and shake off dirt in this country market called Kenya.For the very first time, thanks to Obama, there’s near perfect congruence between British and American interests (at the fundamental level) in Kenya. Their interests have suffered badly from corruption, drug dealing, Somali piracy, West-targeted terrorist-threats, tax-evasion by competitors, and the dumping of cheap (counterfeit) Chinese products into Kenya. It is the new joint US-UK collaboration and reinvigorated attention that is shaking up the old Kenyan system from all angles and quarters. The biggest shake-up tool for use is of course Kenya’s brand new constitution. You may have noticed that both the US and the UK deliberately invested heavily in passage of that new constitution. Opponents of the new Katiba, basically beneficiaries of the previous old rot (corruption Kingpins, drug Kingpins, Land grabbing Kingpins – through their political mouthpieces Ruto (No- Red) and watermelons (like Uhuru and Kalonzo) definitely knew that Katiba was ultimately going to hurt them – yes it will. Capitalism in Kenya has been so distorted by corruption, drug dealing, land grabbing, Judicial inertia, Police complicity in crime, impunity, Somali piracy, and terrorist-related activities to such an extent that whether it’s a British, American or simple Mama Mboga willing to do business in Kenya, you can’t compete with the bad guys. How will Baba Duka’s Estate Kiosk fair in a business competition with tax-evading Nakumatt or Tuskys ya wakina Mwau and the Shahs? Mama Mboga or Baba Duka’s only chance to eke a living is to delve into the kadogo (kalongo longo) economy of mini-scale – subdividing merchandise into tiny mini portions. The smallest package of Blueband margarine for instance is further repackaged into 5g or 10g mini units and sold to the very poor for exorbitant margins. In the end, the poor are even buying merchandise at a higher price (per unit) than the rich. Meanwhile, Tax evasion and corruption-facilitated importation of cheap Chinese counterfeit products (eg the batteries that last exactly one day) has just driven the Nairobi-based American Battery manufacturer {Carbacid – maker of EverReady Batteries} out of business. Jobs have been lost right there. The American Capitalist has been (beaten) and driven out of (business) competition here in Kenya. Why? Basically because of the corrupt government of Kenya has let in 'unfair' competition from the corrupt Chinese counterfeit batteries. Corruption at Kenya Bureau of Standards, KRA, Customs, KPA etc aided by the government’s unwritten policy of “Facing the East."Traditional British businesses (Banking, Finance, Food Processing) in Kenya can’t also survive under the now artificially altered market (drug money, money laundering loopholes, corruption, Chinese invasion, Somali Piracy, Terrorist & security threats etc). They (British & Americans) have begged the government to reform Police, reform Judiciary, curb corruption in key areas (Customs, KRA, KPA, Airports, etc) all to no avail. In fact the government leaders they have been begging are themselves immersed deeply into the very vices they talk about. The same leaders want to re-open Harun Mwau the Shah family owned money-laundering factory called CharterHouse Bank – the greatest facilitator of tax-evasion and flouter of all Banking rules. Drug dealers, Somali pirates, mega corruption beneficiaries and lots of crooked Chinese dealers are entering all manner of businesses in Kenya from mitumbas, dairy farming, horticulture farming, and importation of counterfeit products. Was I not surprised recently that the non-English speaking Chinese are even running Estate Kindergartens and Academies in Nairobi, designed along British and American education systems? You will find the same family running the cheapest Pharmacy in the same neighbourhood? How did they manage to get the License? Where are they getting the competition-beating cheap drugs from? Are they really genuinely tested medicines they are selling? Any clean and straight-forward businessman or woman can’t compete! Any unfamiliar merchandise you buy is probably counterfeit. You can almost be guaranteed any spare part you buy at Kirinyaga Road is a fake counterfeit. Some even melt in the engine’s heat. The business climate (& market) is so badly distorted. Some forces have started acting to shake up the dust. Like Robert Shaw, with the recent developments in the Judiciary, Okemo & Gichuru, & Harun Mwau’s sanctioning, I see things slowly beginning to change. Keep an eye into 2012!
|
|
|
|
Post by destiny on Jun 11, 2011 15:31:26 GMT 3
|
|
|
|
Post by kamalet on Jun 11, 2011 16:17:23 GMT 3
Meanwhile, Tax evasion and corruption-facilitated importation of cheap Chinese counterfeit products (eg the batteries that last exactly one day) has just driven the Nairobi-based American Battery manufacturer {Carbacid – maker of EverReady Batteries} out of business. Jobs have been lost right there. The American Capitalist has been (beaten) and driven out of (business) competition here in Kenya. Why? Basically because of the corrupt government of Kenya has let in 'unfair' competition from the corrupt Chinese counterfeit batteries. Corruption at Kenya Bureau of Standards, KRA, Customs, KPA etc aided by the government’s unwritten policy of “Facing the East."Purely for correction of this error! Eveready batteries were made in Nakuru by the Merali-owned and NSE quoted company Eveready East Africa Limited. The americans sold their interest ages ago and they just franchise the Kenya operation. On the other hand Carbacid is the controversy ridden 27% owned company by Matiba that BOC Gases wanted to take over. Carbacid manufactures Co2 and ice based products for industry. |
|
|
|
Post by job on Jun 11, 2011 17:18:22 GMT 3
Meanwhile, Tax evasion and corruption-facilitated importation of cheap Chinese counterfeit products (eg the batteries that last exactly one day) has just driven the Nairobi-based American Battery manufacturer {Carbacid – maker of EverReady Batteries} out of business. Jobs have been lost right there. The American Capitalist has been (beaten) and driven out of (business) competition here in Kenya. Why? Basically because of the corrupt government of Kenya has let in 'unfair' competition from the corrupt Chinese counterfeit batteries. Corruption at Kenya Bureau of Standards, KRA, Customs, KPA etc aided by the government’s unwritten policy of “Facing the East."Purely for correction of this error! Eveready batteries were made in Nakuru by the Merali-owned and NSE quoted company Eveready East Africa Limited. The americans sold their interest ages ago and they just franchise the Kenya operation. On the other hand Carbacid is the controversy ridden 27% owned company by Matiba that BOC Gases wanted to take over. Carbacid manufactures Co2 and ice based products for industry. Thanks for the correction. It's Eveready EA, not Carbacid - that makes the Eveready and Pakapower batteries. And as you note, the American interest (in Eveready EA) is still represented by the franchise royalty fees and brandname. You can bet that a certain % of the gross sales of Eveready and Pakapower batteries still end up in the franchisor's account -Eveready Batteries USA. Thus any business threat to Eveready EA (by Chinese counterfeits or whoever else) is by extension a threat to American interests. That's the bigger point I was driving at. |
|
|
|
Post by kamalet on Jun 11, 2011 18:17:57 GMT 3
Job
No argument on anything you wrote!!....just a correction on my part!
|
|
|
|
Post by madgf on Jun 11, 2011 19:11:49 GMT 3
Kenya's staple livelihood is drugs. No country wants cheap imports but supply meets demand - cheap is better than starvation and abject poverty. Kenya needs an epic contract like the way Gazprom took the former Soviet Union out of poverty, likewise Hyandai for South Korea. Maybe it can specialise in sustainable mobile military technology.. fuelled by clean energy or something. What was it 80% ? of mobile phone thingies inside come from Congo? Maybe if Kenya became the custodians of pan-africanism and put in place trade regulations so people aren't stealing raw materials from Africa.. it really needs to specialise in something sophisticated, move away from tea / agro initiatives.
|
|
|
|
Post by kasuku on Jun 12, 2011 21:17:29 GMT 3
Kenya's staple livelihood is drugs. No country wants cheap imports but supply meets demand - cheap is better than starvation and abject poverty. Kenya needs an epic contract like the way Gazprom took the former Soviet Union out of poverty, likewise Hyandai for South Korea. Maybe it can specialise in sustainable mobile military technology.. fuelled by clean energy or something. What was it 80% ? of mobile phone thingies inside come from Congo? Maybe if Kenya became the custodians of pan-africanism and put in place trade regulations so people aren't stealing raw materials from Africa.. it really needs to specialise in something sophisticated, move away from tea / agro initiatives. Vielen Dank im Voraus MAdgf, i echo your sentiments. That’s it. Even with 50 Billions and more others. Mwau and co are only bringing cheap junk in Kenya but earning 1000’s % profit with it. And don’t even pay tax on it. While others who want to bring quality think twice because of the high duties they have to pay on them. We have got to move forward, indentify a Technology that will put us where we belong; namely among the leading Technology giants of this world. For heaven’s sake, we are Kenya. The land of many opportunities and go getters...at least till now we have being educating our kids to go get it. But what should those kids then go and get, if we don’t do by example? High technology is the way to go, I Identify renewable Energy; we have got the space and the manpower to do it. I would very much like to see a thread here looking for a way to build a future successful Kenya. (Near future of 10-15 years) |
|
|
|
Post by commes on Jun 12, 2011 22:14:52 GMT 3
KasukuWhere is Reporter911? Obama wants to kill me over Sh50bn empire: MwauWhile Harun Mwau looks for sympathy among Kenyans, I wonder where Reporter911 who feed us with factual and candid background info is? I like ur post. b6k also does some good background digging.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2011 23:05:24 GMT 3
KasukuWhere is Reporter911? Obama wants to kill me over Sh50bn empire: MwauWhile Harun Mwau looks for sympathy among Kenyans, I wonder where Reporter911 who feed us with factual and candid background info is? I like ur post. b6k also does some good background digging. commes, I was going to post this article because it is so ridiculous. The guy has the nerve to tell us that in the last 50yrs he has been in "business" and made $750 million. And that is just what is in the U.S. Oprah has a billion but we know how she made it. |
|
|
|
Post by einstein on Jun 13, 2011 1:38:27 GMT 3
I thought Mwau said he does not give a shit about Obama shutting down his business empire in the US coz he's got even a wider empire in the East?! Why is he trying to look for public sympathy now?
He should simply account for his wealth, period! He can even do this is the US courts if his conscience is clear!
|
|
|
|
Post by commes on Jun 13, 2011 15:39:05 GMT 3
commes,I was going to post this article because it is so ridiculous. The guy has the nerve to tell us that in the last 50yrs he has been in "business" and made $750 million. And that is just what is in the U.S. Oprah has a billion but we know how she made it. The likes of Harun Mwau will stop at nothing to protect their multi-billion underworld network. The will cry that Obama wants to finish them. They will call on to the highest levels of government to protect them. They will spend millions of shillings in bribes to cover up their tracks, and they will intimidate just about anyone to cover up their criminal activities. This is why the local cops could not nail him. I would like to believe that the spate of KRA computer shut down at the port is closely related to the narcotics trade. That is the bit we are not being told. Various reports reveal that the Kingpins bring in the narcotics in containers with falsified papers. They by-pass port security and move the drugs to special container freight stations. Harun Mwau owns such container freight stations. Saitoti at one point appeared scared of the “Boss” in parliament while giving a ministerial statement on the 6 suspected drug barons. The 6 MPs were so confident that no evidence could be brought against them as most of their witnesses end up dead anyway. Dead men tell no tales. It is obvious that the likes of Harun Mwau are so wealthy and have a network of informers, right from the streets to the government’s intelligence units. These guys are well connected and like it were reported of Kabogo, kill at the slightest provocation. Do you recall the story of Hassan Abdillahi, the District Criminal Officer at the Port of Mombasa? He was assassinated in Ganjoni area of Mombasa town on New Years Eve of 2005. Abdillahi was said be investigation the presence of some 50 containers of hard drugs at the port. In August of 2010 a Flying Squad police officer Ali Aboud, who was based in Mombasa, was also assassinated in cold blood while driving on Al Nassar Road in Mombasa. Aboud was on the trail of a network of drug dealers. Many mysterious murders related to hard drugs are not fully investigated because they are passed of as normal crime or framed to look like suicides. There is too much blood on these guys hands. There was another case of a lawyer who stumbled on alteration of minutes at Kenya Ports Authority to ensure one prominent businessman who dabbles in drugs got a multi-million tender. He was killed when he was preparing to blow the whistle. Yet another killing was that of an Administration Police officer who stumbled upon drugs being removed from containers at a Freight station. The AP took photographs of the scene as evidence. He was later trailed and killed by a regular police officer on the payroll of the drugs cartel. A few months ago gunshots disrupted a peaceful anti-drugs protest march in the costal town. Several people were left sprawling on the ground with blood oozing out of their bodies. Luckily those who were shot survived. It is a massive syndicate of influential people ranging from the police department, the Kenya Revenue Authority, the National Security Intelligence, the Kenya Ports Authority, The Mombasa Municipal Council, the Department of Defence, the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission that Harun Mwau had a short stint with as its head. These developments are a cue for KRA to investigate this group for tax evasion. It is a cue for the police, if it will ever be reformed, to investigate the crimes and murders around these drug cartels. kenyanjurist.blogspot.com/2011/06/harun-mwau-drugs-kingpins-and-us-war.html |
|
|
|
Post by politicalmaniac on Jun 13, 2011 19:15:12 GMT 3
In the US The so called War on drugs is a total absolute failure. All it does is to target the street level vendor and poor small time consumers and then populate the jails with them.
How about decriminalizing these drugs? Levy Taxes the stuff! use some of that tax money to treat those who want to get off the drugs. There needs to be a bold out of the box thinking on this issue.
Tobacco causes more deaths and so does alcohol. Yet they are legal!
|
|
|
|
Post by b6k on Jun 15, 2011 13:11:08 GMT 3
Here is Jerry Okungu's take on the money laundering saga. He may not be as popular as MM on Jukwaa but he's talking sense: Moi's legacy: Crime, theft and impunity don't pay in the end Thursday, 9th June, 2011 By Jerry Okungu FORMER President Daniel arap Moi’s legacy is on trial. All his cronies of the 1980s that helped themselves to the national resources and ripped off state corporations are now on the run. The International Criminal Investigators are on their trail. With former Kenya Power and Kenya Anti- Corruption bosses being hunted by Interpol for economic crimes they committed against Kenyans almost 30 years ago, it would appear like soon there will be no place for the thieving Kenyan political elite to hide in. Chris Okemo was Moi's minister for finance and energy on various dates during Moi ’s 24-year rule. It is during his tenure as energy minister and the defacto superior to James Gichuru, then the chief executive officer of Kenya Power and Lighting Company that they took bribes from power investors and invested the money in the British Jersey Island. A few weeks ago, they failed to honour summons to appear for mention. Now the Jersey Court has issued a warrant of arrest for the duo. Media investigations in Kenya indicate that either the two are in hiding in undisclosed locations or are on the run. How long they will run is anybody’s guess. Other than these two, there is this case of Haroun Mwau, Kenya ’s first anti-corruption chief under Moi. Mwau has been accused by President Barack Obama as a major kingpin in the drugs trade internationally. Consequently, Obama has frozen his assets and bank accounts in America with possible extension of that punitive action to Kenya, East Africa and Western Europe. As it is, Mwau has been banned from visiting the USA or doing business with any American for life. A look at the scenario does not augur well for the Kenyan political elite especially in criminal activities that the Americans and the British are interested in. It is, therefore, possible that as the Jersey Court will be arraigning Okemo and Gichuru in court, chances are that the flamboyant Mwau will have been extradited to face drugs charges in an American court. If Manuel Noriega of Panama’s case is to be a pointer to how drug dealers will be dealt with, it is possible that the FBI will pluck them from our midst pretty soon. The reason Kenya is facing this embarrassing situation internationally is because for almost 50 years, we lived in a fool ’s paradise. We believed that we were the best and that nobody could touch us. The impunity of our leaders went to their heads. The political class permeated the entire social fabric like a colossus. The president and his men were the law. They were our alpha and omega—the beginning and the end. Those who questioned their evil ways paid a high price, some with their lives. As we wait for the Jersey trials to start, another trial rooted in that rotten era will most probably start in September at The Hague. Whereas The Hague trials will look at crimes against humanity, the Jersey trials will most likely focus on economic crimes that have become a way of life among the elite. A look at the violence that took place in Kenya after the 2007 elections shows that such violence, perpetrated by the same people had been going on in Kenya since 1991 when the Second Liberation forced KANU to accept multiparty government. In the early years of the 1990s, these killings of innocent political rivals went unpunished because people in power were behind them. They had the guns and the wherewithal. As the trials open at the ICC, Kenyans will be waiting with bated breath to know who planned the massacres in Eldoret Church, reprisal Mungiki killings in Naivasha and who ordered the torching of villages in the name of tribe. Kenyans will want to know why a handful of criminals could plan to kill 1,500 innocent Kenyans, displace 600,000 from their homes and destroy 15,000 homes. More importantly, Kenyans will be waiting to see how the ICC will deal with compensation especially for the internally displaced still in makeshift camps many years later. At the end of the day, these trials should serve as an example that crime, impunity and theft do not pay in the end. With the new constitution in place and a new Chief Justice, his deputy and the director of public prosecutions, one hopes that many of these crimes that cannot be tried in foreign courts will finally find their way into our courtrooms. www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/757052 |
|
|
|
Post by commes on Jun 15, 2011 14:09:03 GMT 3
Here is Jerry Okungu's take on the money laundering saga. He may not be as popular as MM on Jukwaa but he's talking sense: Moi's legacy: Crime, theft and impunity don't pay in the end Thursday, 9th June, 2011 By Jerry Okungu www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/757052. Mambo bado! I am glad that you posted this though Jerry Okungu is recycling news that has been debated here. However, what he reiterates are warning shots that have been sounded to “ Wenyeinchi ” who have committed known crimes, thefts and benefit from impunity without any recourse. What we the ordinary “wananchi” are waiting for is tangible concrete actions. Heads rolling, a cabinet reshuffle, shit hitting the fan and those adversely mentioned in audit/watchdog reports suspended or sacked from government and prosecuted. Power has been restored to the people and it is time to hold those entrusted with public institutions and public resources accountable. We want to hear the government’s position on the named drug kingpins. Where is Alfred Mutua or is he getting a fix? |
|
emali
Full Member
Posts: 219
|
Post by emali on Jun 29, 2011 10:19:27 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/US+targeted+Mwau+over+Sh6b+drugs+/-/1056/1190838/-/52jok5z/-/index.htmlIt’s becoming clear that Mwau is a dead man walking…and it’s looking like Mercy Keino maybe the Kenyan mini-Mohamed Bouazizi…just reading through the press & pure common sense Kabogo is being exposed for what he really is…unlike before where everything was based on conjecture & hearsay…With Mutunga’s nomination, the Okemo/Gichuru/Mwau issue, the MP’s paying tax…& now this Keino story just seemingly gaining momentum by the day…well…I think we are seeing a serious change going on….will keep watching…
|
|
|
|
Post by commes on Jun 29, 2011 11:47:40 GMT 3
|
|
