Post by jakaswanga on Jul 9, 2013 21:59:16 GMT 3
HOW THE KENYA POLICE ATE ITS OWN ACE HUNTER-KILLER
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087735&story_title=i-killed-rasta-wanugu-and-wacucu-then-my-colleagues-came-for-me
Kenya police death-squads turn on themselves. BUT WHY?
The White-Apartheid South African police and intelligence organisation, BOSS I think it was called, had several 'operative desks' to deal with the ANC. These were sleek death-squads commanded in the field by men like DeCock --you saw Desmond Tutu weeping as the ex-cop narrated his torture exploits on blacks-- who ran squads of black hitmen. I forget the south african word for them in the townships.
Well, when it appeared the Whites were going to loose power and the back 'terrorist' organisation known as the ANC take-over the reigns, a cleaning-up operation was launched. All the black police reservists who had composed the death-squads had to be silenced forever. So that they could never testify, nor write their memoirs, and embarass the former powers that were.
In Kenya, Kinyua of the Qweqwe squad turned whistle-blower, easily comes to mind. He was gunned down at the Sarit Center ATM by his former colleagues. 'The canary couldn't be let sing' as they say.
It remains one of the most dangerous games of power, when state-killers themselves are hunted down by the same state that once used their services. [---This is why it is always intelligent when one is a state killer, to branch a bit into crime and keep money for a rainy day, when one will be on the run, sick and out of friends! Because that is the way it usually ends for the foot-soldiers: alone, broke, weak and jumping at shadows.]
Now the standard begins the powerful narrative of the ace killer-cop Daniel Seronei
Everybody who went out with folks from Eastlands, especially from Githurai, Mathare, Kayole, Dandora, Kariobangi, in the last decade would have heard the legend of Rasta --Bernard Matheri Thuo. He was as notorious as the Wakinyonga who was gunned down by Patrick Show in the 80s. In Seronei we meet his nemesis.
Better late than never, the middleclass now gets to hear the stories in 'newspaper exclusives'. Hot from the mouths of the fallen angels. These are sad stories, tragic stories, like those of Erastus Chimorei ---a honest GSU officer executed by the police on orders from above about a cocaïne cache. Too, the story of a Mombasa-based crack CID officer who intercepted a drug container and unearthed a 'port of worms', only to be called to Nairobi, suspended and disarmed and thrown on to the Streets: a 'meal'.
This is the kitchen of law-enforcement in Kenya, and when you know how it works, and you go to the High Court and watch all those robed lawyers and esteemed Judges like Willy Mutunga in session, you always know you are watching 'theater'. A comedy yes, but that comedy is what power is, a performance. A show, because the reality is too horrid to be displayed as it is. ---How do you know the marauding police death squads operating in the shadows of the law haven't branched to 'moonlight' a bit? [Mexico Colombia and Brazil being perfect case studies]
The reality, is the harrowing tales of men like Daniel Seronei. As the wheels of power turns, and insiders become outcasts. Licenced to kill, is to be licenced to be killed, sooner or later. It is a captivating tale worthy of a block-busting Kenya film production.
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087735&story_title=i-killed-rasta-wanugu-and-wacucu-then-my-colleagues-came-for-me
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087740&story_title=inside-the-world-of-rogue-cop
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087738&story_title=former-president-daniel-arap-moi-s-order-birth-of-alpha-squad-and-hunting-down-of-wanugu&pageNo=2
[May be to combat the rising insecurity across the country, Daniel Arap Moi adviced young Kenyatta to form several Alpha-Squads to sow death with impunity amongst the ranks of the criminals! ---Old brooms sweep best! and do not spare that rod!]
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087735&story_title=i-killed-rasta-wanugu-and-wacucu-then-my-colleagues-came-for-me
‘I killed Rasta, Wanugu and Wacucu, then my colleagues came for me’
Updated Saturday, July 6th 2013 at 21:26 GMT +3 -----By NYAMBEGA GISESA.
Meet Daniel Seronei. He was once the Rambo, Commando and Chuck Norris — all combined — of Kenya’s crime busting efforts
Today at 49, he is a pale shadow of himself. We are in a shady hotel in a dusty town near the Kenya-Tanzania border, where I have tracked him.
.......
In 2001, Seronei was unceremoniously dismissed from the police force he had served for 17 years. Members of his squad and several other officers who provided him with crucial information that assisted in hunting down some of the most wanted criminals have either been gunned down or escaped into exile.
Seronei knows he is a marked man, constantly on the run.
Updated Saturday, July 6th 2013 at 21:26 GMT +3 -----By NYAMBEGA GISESA.
Meet Daniel Seronei. He was once the Rambo, Commando and Chuck Norris — all combined — of Kenya’s crime busting efforts
Today at 49, he is a pale shadow of himself. We are in a shady hotel in a dusty town near the Kenya-Tanzania border, where I have tracked him.
.......
In 2001, Seronei was unceremoniously dismissed from the police force he had served for 17 years. Members of his squad and several other officers who provided him with crucial information that assisted in hunting down some of the most wanted criminals have either been gunned down or escaped into exile.
Seronei knows he is a marked man, constantly on the run.
Kenya police death-squads turn on themselves. BUT WHY?
The White-Apartheid South African police and intelligence organisation, BOSS I think it was called, had several 'operative desks' to deal with the ANC. These were sleek death-squads commanded in the field by men like DeCock --you saw Desmond Tutu weeping as the ex-cop narrated his torture exploits on blacks-- who ran squads of black hitmen. I forget the south african word for them in the townships.
Well, when it appeared the Whites were going to loose power and the back 'terrorist' organisation known as the ANC take-over the reigns, a cleaning-up operation was launched. All the black police reservists who had composed the death-squads had to be silenced forever. So that they could never testify, nor write their memoirs, and embarass the former powers that were.
In Kenya, Kinyua of the Qweqwe squad turned whistle-blower, easily comes to mind. He was gunned down at the Sarit Center ATM by his former colleagues. 'The canary couldn't be let sing' as they say.
It remains one of the most dangerous games of power, when state-killers themselves are hunted down by the same state that once used their services. [---This is why it is always intelligent when one is a state killer, to branch a bit into crime and keep money for a rainy day, when one will be on the run, sick and out of friends! Because that is the way it usually ends for the foot-soldiers: alone, broke, weak and jumping at shadows.]
Now the standard begins the powerful narrative of the ace killer-cop Daniel Seronei
Seronei was the head of Alpha Romeo, a small and noble elite unit in the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) made up of the best from the dreaded Flying Squad formed on January 1, 1996, to kill Kenya’s most wanted criminals.
Everybody who went out with folks from Eastlands, especially from Githurai, Mathare, Kayole, Dandora, Kariobangi, in the last decade would have heard the legend of Rasta --Bernard Matheri Thuo. He was as notorious as the Wakinyonga who was gunned down by Patrick Show in the 80s. In Seronei we meet his nemesis.
Better late than never, the middleclass now gets to hear the stories in 'newspaper exclusives'. Hot from the mouths of the fallen angels. These are sad stories, tragic stories, like those of Erastus Chimorei ---a honest GSU officer executed by the police on orders from above about a cocaïne cache. Too, the story of a Mombasa-based crack CID officer who intercepted a drug container and unearthed a 'port of worms', only to be called to Nairobi, suspended and disarmed and thrown on to the Streets: a 'meal'.
This is the kitchen of law-enforcement in Kenya, and when you know how it works, and you go to the High Court and watch all those robed lawyers and esteemed Judges like Willy Mutunga in session, you always know you are watching 'theater'. A comedy yes, but that comedy is what power is, a performance. A show, because the reality is too horrid to be displayed as it is. ---How do you know the marauding police death squads operating in the shadows of the law haven't branched to 'moonlight' a bit? [Mexico Colombia and Brazil being perfect case studies]
The reality, is the harrowing tales of men like Daniel Seronei. As the wheels of power turns, and insiders become outcasts. Licenced to kill, is to be licenced to be killed, sooner or later. It is a captivating tale worthy of a block-busting Kenya film production.
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087735&story_title=i-killed-rasta-wanugu-and-wacucu-then-my-colleagues-came-for-me
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087740&story_title=inside-the-world-of-rogue-cop
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087738&story_title=former-president-daniel-arap-moi-s-order-birth-of-alpha-squad-and-hunting-down-of-wanugu&pageNo=2
[May be to combat the rising insecurity across the country, Daniel Arap Moi adviced young Kenyatta to form several Alpha-Squads to sow death with impunity amongst the ranks of the criminals! ---Old brooms sweep best! and do not spare that rod!]
