How Garissa Governor Ali Korane ‘Planned Killing’ Of Lawyer Kajama, Idriss Muktar And David Mwai

By Boniface Mwangi

David Mwai used to operate a play station shop and a number of boda boda’s. He was approached one day with a job offer to kill someone. In Kenya, human life has no value. It’s cheaper to get someone killed than it is to bribe them. Lawyers and witnesses against powerful politicians have been killed in the past. It’s become the norm. The offer on the table for carrying out the job was Sh2.4 million. Mwai couldn’t resist.

The target for this kill was Idriss Mukhtar and his lawyer Charles Kanjama. The client, according to Mwai’s family, was Ali Korane. Ali is the current Governor of Garissa. He was working in the airforce in 1982, during the attempted coup. During the purge that followed the failed coup, he was saved by his wife, as she happened to be General Mahmoud Mohamed’s daughter, the man who quashed the coup. His father-in-law went even further to cushion Ali, by ensuring that he was absorbed into the provincial administration. He rose from the position of District Officer to Provincial Commissioner, before becoming a Permanent Secretary in retired President Moi’s regime. After the NARC government came to power, Ali started a security company. He had links in the military, the police and the National Intelligence Service and his businesses thrived.

Last year, Ali ran for public office and Idriss Muktar joined his campaign team. Idriss later fell out with Ali Korane and decided to expose the Governor’s fake academic credentials. Korane had claimed he had a masters from Nairobi University and Idriss had evidence that Korane’s academic credentials were fake. It’s alleged that Governor Korane then engaged Mohamed Hussein Aden to deal with Idriss. It is Mohammed who is alleged to have recruited David Mwai for the job and offered to pay him Sh2.4 million. The assignment was to kill Idriss and his lawyer, Charles Kanjama, who was preparing a court case to challenge Ali Korane’s academic qualifications.

On 19th August 2018, David Mwai shot Idriss in the head outside a mosque in Kileleshwa. He was supposed to shoot Idriss seven times. He tried, but the gun failed after firing three rounds. Idriss was hit in the head once and is currently admitted at Nairobi Hospital with the bullet lodged in his head. David Mwai escaped on a motorbike after the shooting.

Before Idriss was shot, he had filed a report at Kilimani Police Station claiming that he was receiving death threats from the Governor and his security people. Police tracked Mwai to Dandora Estate and on 27th August, the 28-year-old was arrested, together with his wife, Rebecca Hajila. With the mother of his two babies in custody, Mwai was shown CCTV footage of him shooting Idriss Mukhtar. Police persuaded him to confess and turn state witness. This he did, with the hope of buying his wife’s freedom, since she wasn’t part of the crime.

In his confession, Mwai said he was hired by Mohammed Hussein Aden, who worked for the Governor, through a lady known as Njoki. On Tuesday, 28th August, Mwai called his elder sister, Esther Wanjiru, and asked her to find his wife. He had been told she would be taken to Milimani Law Courts, but family members had already gone there and failed to find her. On Thursday, 30th August, Mwai called Esther and told her that he had confessed to the shooting and was ready to face the judge. He added that he’d been approached by some people, inside his cell, who said they could help him escape. Esther urged him not to do it, suggesting that they were tricking him, so they could kill him. Mwai had been given some documents to sign, but since he didn’t understand them, he had refused. That evening, during the 7pm news, Esther learned that her brother had allegedly killed himself. David Mwai’s evidence allegedly implicates Governor Korane as the mastermind and the person who would have benefited from Idriss’ murder.

The police, using telephone records, tracked down the people involved in the case. All of them have a connection with the Governor. The people in custody are the Governor’s bodyguard, his security advisor, and the lady who connected David Mwai with the Governor’s people.

The police arrested Governor Ali Korane, but following numerous phone calls, he was eventually released. Korane had threatened the investigating officers and pushed for the case file to be moved from Kilimani Police Station to CID Headquarters. The officers who had cracked the case were removed and new officers introduced to help cover up Korane’s involvement. Whereas, it is human nature to hate David Mwai for agreeing to be used as a killer, there is no excuse for the police to have murdered him inside a police cell. Mwai’s murder is to help a bigger murderer get away. I am not defending a cold-blooded killer, but it is wrong for one to be murdered inside a police cell. We live in a country with laws.

I have slept in almost every police station in Nairobi. Most police stations were built during the colonial era and the cells are horrible. The “windows” are just a small strip of an opening near the roof, barricaded with iron bars. As someone who has been arrested enough times, I can tell you for certain that you’re never alone inside a cell. Belts and shoe straps are confiscated and if someone brings you food, they must taste it first.

A country must be governed by the rule of law. David Mwai deserved his day in court, as do his masters, who hired him to kill, and his murderers too. If the killers of Mwai get away with murder, what will stop any other accused person from killing a whistleblower, a witness? David Mwai’s murderers were paid by the same person who paid David to kill Iddriss Mukhtar.

Six people are in police custody in connection with Idriss Mukhtar’s shooting, but the main culprit may not be among them. The police have denied David Mwai’s family access to view his body and his wife is still missing. Betrayed by law enforcement, now there is pressure on Iddris’ family to settle this issue out of court, using camels. Tradition, like political privilege, seems only to be invoked to defend the rich, never the poor. Iddris’ family wants justice. We want the laws of the land to be upheld. #TeamCourage

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Amazing: Kenya’s Top Five Powerful Politicians, Classic Photos With Their Wives

Kenya’s top five leaders; H.E Engineer Raila A Odinga (Prime Minister), H.E Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (President), H.E William Samoei Kipchichir Arap Ruto (Deputy President), H E Mike Sonko Mbuvi (Governor ,Nairobi City County) and H E Kalonzo Musyoka (Vice President) images from their youthful years together with their wives.

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Uhuru’s Nephew Jomo Gecaga Was Not Jailed Over Bribery Claims, Story Was Fake, Std Media Apologizes To Statehouse

Nairobi’s leading gutter press on Friday shocked the world after it admitted faking a story on the alleged arrest of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nephew Jomo Gecaga over a bribery scam.

In an editorial apology, the Nairobian regretted publishing the fake story that greatly damaged the image of Gecaga who’s President Kenyatta’s Private Secretary.

The paper has now promised to report fairly, objectively and truthfully to avoid such embarrassment in future.

Gecaga was considering taking legal action against the paper owned by the Moi family, but we have since established that he dropped the move after Moi’s son and Baringo Senator Gideon Moi intervened.

Here is the cover page of the fake news story by Nairobian that was published last week on Friday.

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NTV’s Mark Maasai Caught Red Handed ‘Eating’ Co Anchor Gladys Gachanja Inside The studio

Yes, it finally happened, Mark Maasai was caught red handed literally doing nice stuff with his colleague hmmm, he is now elevated to a senior Team Mafisi life member ! Check out Mark ogling at the light skin beauty as he smiled away like a love struck teenage boy.

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ODM STATEMENT On Bob Wine’s Arrest, Torture, Sham Prosecution and Blockade At Entebbe Airport

ODM STATEMENT ON BOBI WINE

For several weeks now, we have watched with concern ongoings in Uganda with regard to the arrest, torture and sham prosecutions of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known better by his stage name, Bobi Wine and his other Colleagues.

We have monitored the situation quietly with the expectation that the various interventions from across the world would bring pressure to bear on the regime to do the right thing but are now forced to speak out due to the deterioration of affairs in the country.

Uganda is a key cog in the East African Community, a key trading partner of Kenya and a country whose stability, or lack thereof, often has an impact on Kenya.

Besides, the barely concealed tendency of its President, Yoweri Museveni, to assert political influence on its neighbours, including Kenya, makes it a country of great interest to us as a Party.

In its eleven years of existence, the Orange Democratic Movement has remained steadfast in its fight for freedom and justice, and remains cognizant of the fact that greater freedom, not just in Kenya, but across Africa, is key to democracy and development of all Africans.

The assault on the freedom of Hon Kyagulanyi and his colleagues does not sit well with this principle. We are saddened by the fact that even after leaving custody with injuries that needed treatment abroad, Hon Kyagulanyi was stopped from leaving Uganda, and in the most callous and inhumane manner.

We urge all parties in Uganda to urgently embrace the values of democracy and justice, for ultimately, dictatorship in the modern world remains unsustainable. More importantly, we demand that the rights, dignity and freedom of Hon Kyagulanyi be respected by the regime. In particular he must be allowed to immediately access the medical attention he deserves on humanitarian grounds. There are no two ways about this.

We will keep an eye on these unfolding events, as we encourage the forces of democracy and peaceful revolution to remain unwavering and firm in their resolve to make our countries more responsive to the needs of their people.

Edwin Sifuna
Secretary General,

Hon. John Mbadi, CPA
Chairman

Orange Democratic Movement
Republic of Kenya

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”Return All Land Your Father Grabbed, Your Family Is Corrupt”- Hon Barasa Tells Uhuru

Kimilili Mp Didmus Barasa has called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to surrender the large chunks of land allegedly grabbed by his late father President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in different parts of the country if the seriousness in fighting corruption is to be realized.

Speaking at Katiba grounds in Kimilili town on August 30, Barasa said that majority of Kenyans are landless and its time the Head of State should surrender the land his father grabbed for it to be allocated to the suffering squatters.

The legislator stated that the war against graft will only be won by the government if it won’t target individuals who seem to stand for the truth.

“Things aren’t moving well in the country, discrimination should not be seen in the fight against corruption, the fight should target those individuals who have failed to account for their wealth,” he said.

The law maker noted that the fight against graft should not be used to fight the deputy President William Ruto, Judiciary officers and other top public officers.

“I embrace the fight against Corruption and I will always stand for it, during his tenure former President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta used to waylay and kill their opponents especially those who used to complain about their grabbed land, life style audit should start with him and his family,” he said.

He called on the Judiciary not to sacrifice their independence that is being abused for political gain.

“The judiciary officers are being targeted, charges against the Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu is frivolous, meant to humiliate her and cause fear among other judicial officers, she has been framed and targeted for her stand in fighting graft menace in the country,” said Barasa.

He continued, “President Kenyatta should not fight the judiciary, he is revisiting what he said, he had warned that he will deal with the judicial officers after being sworn in and it is being revisited, the arrest of DCJ Mwilu is an indicator that the Judiciary isn’t independent at all,”.

He asked the Chief Justice David Maraga and Judicial Service Commission not to allow Mwilu to be arraigned in court because soon they are going for them.

He asked them to safeguard the independence of the judiciary at all costs.

“DPP should not allow himself to be used by a few individuals to humiliate other people, there are those who were ahead of you in the same office, be careful,” said Barasa.

The MP also used the opportunity to thank Kimilili constituents for electing him and showing him immense support all this while. He invited them to a thanks giving ceremony that will take place on 30th November this year!
#KimililiPeopleFirst

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BIG BLOW To DPP Haji, Court Stops Criminal Proceedings Against DCJ Philomena Mwilu

Anti-Corruption Court chief magistrate Lawrence Mugambi on Friday formally stopped the trial of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu.

The magistrate said he had perused the amended order and is satisfied that it relates to the case before the court. There was a mix-up in case numbers, which was to be rectified.

Mugambi said the proceedings will rest at the point they had reached and that the status quo of all matters relating to the case should be maintained.

The magistrate directed the case to be mentioned on October 22, two weeks after the matter shall be mentioned at the High court on October 9.

The DPP, through state counsel Alexander Muteti, said the proceedings before the court, though a matter of acute sensitivity, should not be taken as an affront to the independence of the Judiciary.

“We respect the court. We respect rights of individual persons and as an office we do expect that just like the accused persons do expect fair trial,” he said.

He added that the proceedings have been brought against the two individuals.

On Wednesday, the magistrate declined to stop the proceedings saying the file number quoted on the stay order differed with the one on the case before him.

He referred the defence counsel back to the high court to rectify the clerical error.

Mwilu was arraigned on corruption-related charges, including abuse of office, failure to pay stamp tax, improperly obtaining Sh12 million from the troubled Imperial Bank, obtaining security by false pretence, among other counts.

She did not take a plea and obtained a court order suspending the criminal trial until October 9, “pending determination of weighty issues.”

The DCJ has sensationally claimed in an affidavit that there have been efforts to remove her from office after she joined in nullifying President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election in September last year.

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”I Sleep With Two Old Men For Good Life, Give Me Money, Gifts etc”- Student Tells BBC

A 21-year-old Kenyatta University student has narrated how she has learnt to keep up with the likes of Vera Sidika and Huddah Monroe. According to Jane, the only way a student like her can live a lavish life is by sleeping around with old sponsors.

In an interview with BBC seen by KT on Thursday, August 30, Jane stated she has two men who give her money for her various needs. “You have to hustle or else you will end up in the streets. The socialites are an inspiration to me. Vera owns a house in the US and she is living the life I want,” Jane said.

The bubbly lady does not understand why people cringe whenever they learn women exchange intimacy for money. “People just make it sound wrong but actually sometimes nothing about it is wrong at all,” she explained.

According to the bodacious student, older men are well aware of what they want. To her, most ladies do not want to run around with young campus boys. Her two sponsors ask about how her day has been and often pay attention to her needs. That, to her, is effort.

The KU student started work as a masseuse and her job helped her score a few rich men who were willing to pay handsomely for some hanky panky. In a day, her massaging job can make her up to a whopping KSh 10,000. “My only dream is to make my parents happy. People need to do what they have to do to get money,” Jane opened up.

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Dear Ruto, No One is Conspiring against you- Your Team is Incompetent , your Advisors are Shallow- HON CHESANG

Francis Imbuga, the greatest satirical Playwright of his time, in ‘Game of Silence’ wrote “…..the world no longer runs on the fuel it used to run on. That is why the book a man reads is more important than the man… My background demands silence of me, except at night when the belching of the men that matter drowns my mournful Protest.”

Fate does not come with greetings, and fate is unfolding right before our own eyes, yet we are helpless. Human beings are born weak and helpless then they become strong, rich and powerful and then again they grow old, weak and helpless.

Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the founding father of the Republic, went through these cycles of life and so did the second President Daniel arap Moi, but they did not make a great deal of their background. They focused and groped about until what must happen did happen.

Instead of flamboyant colors of heated imagination, they had rather the clear lines that compose a picture by a dispassionate observer of human destiny, who constructs a vision out of his awareness of an inexorable order. This is true of Julius Nyerere, Nelson Mandela, Kenneth Kaunda and others.

William Ruto is perhaps the greatest and the most consummate politician in Kenya today only rivaled by his nemesis Raila Odinga. Great leaders make, from their teams, great players through effective recruiting, mentoring, coaching, encouraging, rewarding, delegating and motivating them.

Even the dull and the ignorant must be sounded out and made to believe that they are great in their own right. Consensus is sought in every aspect from resolving land disputes, minor trials to declaration of war. Men engage each other in a game of wits whether you are rich or poor – the real measure of a man is only that he has a house (family).

Mr Deputy President, you suggested that there are people in Kenya running the “Injili ya Shetani (gospel of the devil); that unless your father was a minister, a vice president or a president, however hard you work, you must remain poor and if not, you must be corrupt and have stolen, they should know that those without godfathers have God the Father, Shindwe”.

The greatest impediment to a Mr Ruto presidency in 2022 is not Kenyans or his competitors. Henry David Thoreau rightly observed that “if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them… what does it profit a man to succeed from time to time but fail in the long run? The deputy president ranted and raved after an Ipsos survey said he was perceived as the most corrupt leader in the country.

That: “the constant, perennial and unending headlines about William Ruto this, William Ruto that, opinion polls this, corruption the other is sponsored by my competitors.”

If your competitors can sponsor a survey to finish you politically, what do your highly paid strategists, communication team, public relations gurus, political advisors and firefighters do from morning to evening? Maybe they need to be paid more or get fired.

The vicissitudes of high office require that you should surround yourself with some of the best and brightest team in the land – whose agenda and motto is “Results Matter Most.”

To worsen an already bad situation, the deputy president had Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru over at his residence. It is not clear if this had been planned long before. But supposing it was done hastily, would it be that the strategy was to create a siege mentality and help yoke themselves up into a RutoGuru Camaraderie for 2022, akin to the UhuRuto phenomenon of 2013 created by the burden of the International Criminal Court.

Chinua Achebe, one of Africa’s most significant writers said that “all art is propaganda, though not all propaganda is art.”

The statement has the terseness and cogency we have come to associate with our time. It sets before us a truth about art that is often obscured by theories which fail to take account of the elementary fact that all forms of artistic expression must have reference to human life and consciousness if they are to take on any significance.

The deputy president has been consorting with the least strategic minds in his quest for power. There is nobody or any group burning the midnight oil, planning William Ruto’s political future. Therein lies the problem.

BY MR. Walter Chesang -a historian.

As Published in the Standard

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Drama as Hitman in ex Garissa Finance CEC Shooting Found Dead in Cell- DPP Accused of Protecting Fellow Muslim

A key suspect in the attempted murder of a former Garissa finance executive was found dead in a police cell yesterday.

David Wanjiru Mwai alias Mwas allegedly committed suicide at Parklands Police Station, where he was being held as the investigation into the August 19 shooting went on.

He and six others had been remanded in separate cells as police went on with their investigations. A magistrate had visited Mwai and his accomplices in the cells before she allowed police to detain them for 14 days.

According to police, Mwai used clothes to hang himself. A police officer who was at the report desk said he heard noises from the cells and assumed the suspects were singing. A few minutes later, he said, the other suspects banged on the cell door, demanding his attention. He went to the cell and found Mwai hanging from the window with clothes tied around his neck.

The officer said he raised the alarm and other officers rushed Mwai to the nearby MP Shah Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Some of the officers at the station were, however, not convinced that the prime suspect had committed suicide.

“He might as well have been killed. We will see more drama in this case,” one of them said. Mwai and his accomplices had confessed to the attempted murder and were said to have named the key players in the assassination plot and the amount he was paid to do the job.

police said they had recovered Sh400,000 from suspects in Mukhtar’s shooting. The money was part of Sh2.4 million allegedly paid by the person who was plotting to kill Mukhtar and his lawyer, Charles Kanjama. Investigators found the money in the boot of a car owned by a suspect police believed was at the center of the saga.

Mukhtar was shot in the head and is still admitted to hospital after the August 19 attack in Kileleshwa, Nairobi. According to investigators, the man who pulled the trigger and a woman who was his link to other suspects in custody visited Mr Kanjama’s office twice as part of their reconnaissance mission ahead of the planned attack. The two posed as clients asking to be represented in a case of police abuse.

They reportedly paid Sh3,000 as consultation fee before they met Kanjama in his office to narrate their ‘ordeal’. The meeting, according to confessions by the suspects, was meant to introduce the gunman to the lawyer ahead of the planned hit. “They met twice and the lawyer even gave them his business card and agreed they would return.

He did not know the day they would return was meant to be to kill or harm him,” said an investigator in the case.

The man who was alleged to have pulled the trigger on Mukhtar was said to have told police he and an accomplice visited a restaurant near a mosque in Kileleshwa on August 18, a day before the shooting, as part of their recce mission.

They sat at the restaurant for almost 20 minutes. Mwai reportedly told police he had been given a gun and 15 bullets and ordered to use half of them on Mukhtar.

However, the gun jammed after firing once. The weapon and 14 bullets have also been recovered. The receipts Mwai and the woman got when they visited Kanjama’s office and a car are part of exhibits police are holding ahead of the suspects’ possible prosecution.

The suspects have further claimed there was an alternative plan to inject Mukhtar with a chemical if the shooting mission failed. Mukhtar was said to have been followed to a mosque in the city twice as the would-be assassins plotted the mission.

The gunman said he was given Sh1.8 million and Sh200,000 to buy the weapon for the mission. A relative of Garissa Governor Ali Korane was arrested on Wednesday in the city centre.

Korane was released on Tuesday night after being questioned the entire day. The governor and Mukhtar are married to first cousins. The governor was one of eight people who were questioned in connection with the shooting. The rest, including a police officer believed to be Korane’s bodyguard, a woman said to have hired the car that was used to trail Mukhtar, and a boda boda rider are still in custody. Kanjama recorded a statement with the police on Tuesday. He later identified the man and woman who visited his office twice.

“The lawyer was shocked to learn what the visit to his office was about. He is shocked up to now,”

Courtesy- Standard

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Exposed: Uhuru Harassed And Threatened DCJ Philomena Mwilu Before Arrest, Statehouse FIXING Judge

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has taken her battle to survive to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s doorstep.

In an affidavit filed before a High Court Judge, the DCJ has sensationally accused President Kenyatta of engineering her misfortunes.

She said that a number of utterances and actions by the Head of State were meant to harass and threaten her over her decision to side with the majority in the nullified Presidential election of 2017.

“Immediately following the determination of the SCOK on September 1 last year, the President made public statements issuing both explicit and implicit threats against the majority judges who decided the outcome of the presidential petition. That is why I believe the impugned charges are not coincidental and appear to be part of a larger scheme to embarrass me, to expose me to ridicule and harassment,” the DCJ stated in a sworn affidavit.

Mwilu goes ahead to list some of the remarks President Kenyatta made in the aftermath of the historic ruling by the Supreme Court judges who included Mwilu, Chief Justice David Maraga, Justices Smoking Wanjala, and Justice Isaac Lenaola.

“We shall revisit this thing. We clearly have a problem…” the President is quoted saying. The reference to the judges as Wakora (crooks) is also included in Mwilu’s affidavit.

In another public speech President Kenyatta is quoted saying the judges should be fixed because they are not elected, “who even elected you? Were you? We have a problem and we must fix it.”

In the end prosecution of Justice Mwilu is a sensitive matter that touches the heart of the Judiciary. In the final analysis, justice for Kenyans and for Justice Mwilu should not only be done, but be perceived to be done.

An impartial legal process is the only path that will protect and entrench the rule of law and build the requisite confidence in the vulnerable and nascent justice system.

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‘It Is Uhuru who Wants Me Out!” Deputy CJ Philomena Mwilu Cries Out in Leaked Affidavit

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has sensationally claimed that there have been numerous efforts to remove her from office after she joined in nullifying President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election last year.

In an affidavit filed in court,Mwilu says that following threats made by the President after nullification of his first win, a series of events have targeted the Judiciary, specifically the majority judges.

The vote was 4-3, Mwilu read the majority opinion and was adamant that the presidential outcome must be overturned and a rerun scheduled. The court cited massive “illegalities and irregularities”.

Tomorrow will be the first anniversary of the globally acclaimed landmark decision. It was the first time a supreme court has nullified the election of a sitting African president.

On Tuesday Mwilu was arrested. On Wednesday she was arraigned on corruption-related charges, including abuse of office, failure to pay stamp tax, improperly obtaining Sh12 million from the troubled Imperial Bank, obtaining security by false pretence, among other counts.

She did not take a plea and obtained a court order suspending the criminal trial until October 9, pending determination of weighty issues.

In her affidavit, Mwilu says the President’s public statements after the win was overturned were clearly understood to mean that there would be retaliation against both the Judiciary as an institution and the majority judges.

On several occasions after the decision, the President categorically took issue with the Judiciary over the decision and said the country has a problem with the Judiciary.

The President threatened, “We shall revisit this thing. We clearly have a problem,” reads the document. He cited ‘transmission of results’, indicating it was a minor issue not affecting the outcome.

The President also sensationally called the justices ‘wakora’, or thugs.

On September 2 last year, Uhuru said, “Who even elected you? Were you? We have a problem and we must fix it.”

He continued, “The Supreme Court sat and decided that they are the ones with a bigger power than the 15 million Kenyans who woke up, queued in lines, and voted for their preferred presidential candidate.

“As a Supreme Court, they cannot annul the wishes of the people. And we will revisit this thing.”

Mwilu, Chief Justice David Maraga, Justices Isaac Lenaola and Smokin Wanjala were the majority judges. Mwilu, reading the opinion, said they concluded that the IEBC’s election transmission system was compromised and data interfered with, thus leading to the nullification.

“Immediately following the determination of the SCOK on September 1 last year, the President made public statements issuing both explicit and implicit threats against the majority judges who decided the outcome of the presidential petition. That is why I believe the impugned charges are not coincidental and appear to be part of a larger scheme to embarrass me, to expose me to ridicule and harassment,” the DCJ says. .

Mwilu says she will elaborate on the threats later. One involves the shooting of her driver, which she did not mention in the affidavit.

“The foregoing sequence of events provides the surrounding circumstances and the contextual backgrounds against which the conduct of the DPP, DCI and AG, whether jointly or severally, must be reviewed.

Through lawyer Okong’o Omogeni, the DCJ says the criminal justice system is clearly being used to settle scores and instigate her removal from as a Supreme Court judge and more importantly as the DCJ.

Mwilu claims the office of the DPP and DCI are being used to achieve a purpose not connected with the rule of law.

“The charges brought against me, though fashioned as corruption and economic crimes, were in fact investigated and filed through the office of the Inspector General of Police, over whom the DPP exercises constitutional powers of control and direction..,” she says.

The judge says the basis for the alleged offences emanate from contractual commercial/banking relations, which are governed by the contractual relationship between her and her bankers, the Imperial Bank of Kenya.

According to court documents, any claim concerning banking and commercial transactions should have been pursued by the bank through the civil contractual relationship mechanism.

Mwilu explains that the Sh12 million referred to was an unsecured loan advanced to her by the bank and credited to her account.

“The loan was advanced to me in my capacity as the bank’s customer as negotiated with the bank. The loan has been repaid in full…”

“The DPP and DCI are being allowed to use the machinery of the justice system to cause injustice. The intended and ultimate effect or consequences of the actions complained is to punish, intimidate, and grossly undermine the institution of the Judiciary and to take away its independence,” says Mwilu’s affidavit.

Courtesy, The Star

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How DP Ruto Angered Mt Kenya Mafia, What He Should Have Avoided To Survive Politically

By Kiberenge Jnr

Ten lessons we must learn from DP Ruto’s predicament, mainly drawn from Jubilee Administration first term:

1.When the King treats you as his equal, humble yourself and show him that he is above you.

2. When the King delegates to you excessive powers, be cautious.

3. When the King allows you to steal as much as you can, be careful. You are walking into a trap.

4.When the King moves you closer to power, never be tempted to imagine that you are part of the power.

5.When the King does not dispatch you to represent him beyond Africa, ask yourself why

6.When the King allows you to wine and dine with him, it does not mean you are friends.

7. When the King asks you to demolish your house and stay with him in the palace, think twice (Read URP dissolution).

8 When the King acts dump and drunkard, read his body language.

9.When the King nods his head in affirmation and approves every suggestion you make, you must worry. It’s a sign of bad things ahead.

10. Finally, never allow your ambition to over shadow the legacy of the King. That is disastrous.

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EXPOSED: Garissa Governor Ali Korane Paid Police To Kill Assassin He Hired To Murder Finance CEC

Activist Boniface Mwangi is alleging that Garissa governor Ali Korane who is currently held by Police over attempted murder masterminded the shooting of former Garissa county CEC of Finance in Killeshwa.

The assassin one David Mwai had agreed for a plea bargain to disclose to the police that Governor paid him 1.8million to eliminate the CEC. Now, Boniface Mwangi is also alleging that the suspect David Mwai was murdered by Police at Parklands Police station. See tweets

All evidence points to @HonAliKorane as the mastermind who hired a gunman. The assassin, David Mwai was paid Sh1.8 Million and was supposed to get a plea bargain and become a state witness and the @PoliceKE were paid to kill David while he was in lawful custody. @IPOA_KE @ODPP_KE pic.twitter.com/ecSDnWpn29

— Boniface Mwangi (@bonifacemwangi) August 30, 2018

Here is a video l shot inside Parklands Police cell. The windows are so high, there is no way anyway can hang themselves,you can’t even tie a noose. @DCI_Kenya @ODPP_KE @IPOA_KE this must be investigated. Spoken to a cop and he says David Mwai was murdered. Will write more later! https://t.co/xU8MKJKhGs

— Boniface Mwangi (@bonifacemwangi) August 30, 2018

Here is a video l shot inside Parklands Police cell. The windows are so high, there is no way anyway can hang themselves,you can’t even tie a noose. @DCI_Kenya @ODPP_KE @IPOA_KE this must be investigated. Spoken to a cop and he says David Mwai was murdered. Will write more later! https://t.co/xU8MKJKhGs

— Boniface Mwangi (@bonifacemwangi) August 30, 2018

David Mwai was likely murdered inside a police cell. As someone who has been arrested enough times, you’re never alone in a cell. Belt, shoe straps are confiscated and if someone brings you food, they must taste it. So @DCI_Kenya this must be investigated. @ODPP_KE #KenyaMafia https://t.co/hOTTfBRvud

— Boniface Mwangi (@bonifacemwangi) August 30, 2018

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DETAILS Of How Uganda MP Bobi Wine Was Arrested At Entebbe Airport, Blocked From Flying To London

UGANDAN MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, blocked from leaving country to seek medical treatment abroad, reports from Kampala say.
Eye witness account confirmed police violently abducted Bobi Wine from Entebbe airport, forced him into a police ambulance and drove him to unknown destination.

Bobi was traveling to the UK to seek specialized treatment after being tortured by army officers.

Here is how his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi who was at the airport reported live on Facebook and also captured a short video of the events;

Security forces just manhandled my husband and and whisked him away to an unknown destination from Entebbe airport. He groaned in pain as he called my name to save him from being taken by his tortures again. They forced him into an ambulance and drove out of the airport departures section.

The MP commonly known as Bobi Wine, arrived at Entebbe Airport in a Land Cruiser, he was first denied to access to the Airport grounds by Aviation Police at Entebbe Airport, and ordered to wait for further instructions at a Mogas Petrol station near the Airport gate.

According to Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo, Mr Kyagulanyi was grabbed by Police and put into a waiting Ambulance, and is now being driven to an unknown destination.

Mr Robert Kyagulanyi and Francis Zaake have now arrived at Kiruddu hospital on Salama Road in Makindye Division.

Bobi Wine has been admitted at Lubaga hospital after being reportedly beaten by security forces. He was expected to abroad for treatment, however, the day itself had not been announced.

Earlier, his Mityana Municipality counterpart Francis Zaake who was at the Airport, was blocked from flying to India, and arrested by Police.

READ MORE: MP Francis Zaake arrested at Entebbe Airport

Police had earlier told Zaake that he needed to get clearance from the Director, Criminal Investigations Grace Akullo.

According Mr Kyagulanyi’s Lawyer Asuman Basalirwa, the Director CID, informed him that Kyagulanyi and Zaake have cases to answer, and will be taken to court.

He says Ms Akullo also informed him that the two will be checked by government doctors.

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”Arrest your father Senator Yusuf Haji For Grabbing Public Land If You Are Serious”- DPP Noordin Haji Told By Kenyans

Kenyans have urged the director of public prosecution Noordin Haji to arrest Garissa senator Mohammed Yusuf Haji who also doubles as his father for illegaly acquiring squatters’ land worth 84 acres at the Coast in 1990s .

The acquired land was later sold to a charitable organisation . The National Land Commissioner (NLC) started a public inquiry into historical land injustices at the Coast on Tuesday. The commission is investigating all land disputes since 1895, when the Kenyan Coast was taken over from its Omani rulers.
Haji and the charitable organisation he allegedly sold the land to were notified of impending adverse testimony against them and invited to yesterday’s proceedings, but neither came nor sent a representative. Sh4.8 million

The family of Kazungu Moli claimed yesterday the senator acquired the land in the 1990s and later sold it to the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation.

Earlier on ODM Communications Director Philip Etale, called for immediate investigations and possible arrest and prosecution of Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji.

“DPP Noordin Haji, this is a matter that requires your urgent attention. Act now… Senator Haji now accused of grabbing 84 acre squatter land in Coast in 1990s.”

Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo responded to Etale in a Twitter conversation saying:
“That’s below the belt Ndugu. Let the man work.”

In a presentation before NLC’s committee on historical land injustices, a member of the family, Mr Harry Chogo, claimed the PC sold the land (Majaoni settlement scheme) for Sh4.8 million. He said residents were living on it. Mr Chogo said Sheikh Zayed has since leased the land to African University Trust of Kenya (AUTK), which has constructed the Mombasa International University (MIU) at a cost of about Sh500 million.
He made the presentation to the NLC committee chaired by Commissioner Samuel Tororei at the Kenya School of Government.

“We are facing eviction threats from AUTK, which has several times told us it would deploy bulldozers to bring down our houses,” said Chogo. The claimants want the original title deed for plot number MN/I/5141 cancelled and the land reverted to them. Dr Tororei said AUTK and Senator Haji would be given an opportunity to respond. “The other parties did not come and we will therefore give them a chance to respond to the claimants,” Tororei said, after Chogo appeared for the second day yesterday. Chogo said the family currently has about 250 members living on the land. His father, Kazungu Moli, 85, attended the hearing.

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We Did Not Chew Prostitutes Night before Game with Rwandan Team- Gor Mahia Coach Says

On the night of August 18, something that may have cost champions Gor Mahia a most desired three points when they hosted Rwandan outfit Rayon Sports on August 19 happened.

Six dependable Gor Mahia players reportedly spent the last hours of Saturday night, a few hours before the crucial Caf Confederation Cup, engaging in “away matches”.

A reliable source said Four players sneaked out of their hotel rooms at Sports View Hotel and went on a drinking spree the whole night at a nearby Club Switch.

Two other players, according to the source, sneaked heavily lipsticked women for some ‘tuition’ in their rooms.

The six players had chosen to engage in a moment of unmitigated excesses, bankrolled by their not-so-humongous salaries on a night considered sacred and holy by K’Ogalo players and ardent fans.

“It is true that some Gor Mahia players partied the whole night ahead of the match against Rayon Sport. Some were at the club partying, while two other players were having a good time with these women in their rooms. Gor needed that win. This is indeed unfortunate,” said the source who did not wish to be named.

Gor midfielder Francis Kahata however denied the rumours doing rounds.

“I was shocked when my wife asked me about this party thing; because I slept at the hotel till morning. Going out is not a bad thing since I always do that after games, especially if we win important matches, but I never stepped out on Saturday,” Kahata, a prolific midfielder and an automatic first team member told The Nairobian.

“Hizi ni story zinakam sababu we lost the match. Na understand the pain yenye mafans wako nayo ju pia sisi ma players tunafeel vibaya sana. Kwanza mimi I think hiyo game ndo ilikuwa my worst at Gor Mahia hii season na iliniuma sana. Hata nilikuwa niende out (Reggae night) nikiwa mtaani after that game lakini singeweza sababu niliboeka sana. But Kama tungeshinda ungesikia kuna wasee walikuwa out lakini wameshinda. Ingekuwa story different,” Kahata told The Nairobian.

Gor Mahia coach Dylan Kerr after denied allegations that he too had hosted a woman in his room, allegations he vehemently denied.

Kerr expressed shock and rubbished the claims as baseless, but added that it would not have been wrong for him to invite a woman to the camp.

“No. I had no guest at the hotel room. However, even if my girlfriend was here and she was in the camp, that has nothing to do with the team’s performance. But my girlfriend is in England; so I don’t care about that rumour,” he said.

Adding: “I’m a staff member; I’m in charge. I can have anybody I want in camp. I’ve got nothing to hide. I’ve got nothing to be guilty of. But that’s so different for players. If a player goes out camping, then that’s a different story.”

“If that’s true, that some players partied the whole night before Rayon Sports match, I will go berserk. If that’s true, then K’Ogalo fans will kill the players. They better get out,” he told The Nairobian.

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SHAME ON Uhuru As A New Multi-Million Shilling Corruption Scandal Rocks NHIF, Looting Continues!

As President Uhuru Kenyatta continues to slay the corruption dragon, a fresh scandal has rocked the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).

It has now been revealed that NHIF that offers medical insurance to Civil servants and private members may have lost hundreds of millions in the biometric registration of members that kicked off in 2015.

NHIF had embarked on the use of fingerprints to identify all its members when seeking services in health facilities.

During launch of the exercise NHIF CEO Geoffrey Mwangi said the fund had completed the biometric registration of civil servants and it was in the process of enrolling other members.

The use of biometric identification was expected to reduce cases of fraud in the medical cover scheme.

Our snap check in government institutions including Kerugoya hospital, members of staff seem unaware of such product, but they told our team that they only heard of the product a year ago, although nothing tangible has been done.

The CEO further noted that at least 1,370 hospitals had been fitted with biometric kits by 2017.
He said the programme will take three years and will be completed by 2018.

Currently, the fund has about 6.7 million principal members and in total, serves about 20 million Kenyans.

In 2015, the NHIF started the biometric registration of civil servants and security officers as the first step to migrate its members to the use of smart cards to identify themselves in hospitals.

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‘My Eyes Are on You’- President Uhuru Tells Maraga Led Judiciary over Corruption Crackdown

President Uhuru Kenyatta has assured the Judiciary of his full support in their endeavor to bring justice for Kenyans by prosecuting the graft suspects.

On Thursday he told BBC’s Zainabu Badawi: “Corruption suspects have been arraigned before court, we are ready to support our Judiciary, in whatever manner that they desire as an independent institution, to ensure they (corruption suspects) are prosecuted and justice served”.

He maintained that the Judiciary was now on the spotlight and urged the courts to expeditiously process the cases before them and convict the suspects.

“This (graft war) is something that I am committed to and I intend to leave as my legacy,” he said in the no-holds-barred Hardtalk television interview. Uhuru said the fight against corruption and transparency was to ensure that the nation’s resources are used in the best interests of the people of the republic.

He made it made it clear he was committed to the anti-graft fight and supported the State multi-agency graft-busting effort that brings together the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), the EACC and other security agencies.

“My focus is now on courts so that Kenyans realise the age of impunity is over.” In reference to the trend where African presidents have been extending their terms in office, Uhuru dismissed any chances of him serving for extra years after the end of his second term saying there was no provision for that in the Constitution.

Uhuru also said that no position will be created for Opposition leader Raila Odinga following their historic handshake in March to unite the nation after a long electioneering period.

“Handshake had nothing to do with ethnic communities…it basically denoted what we us leaders are saying that regardless of our ethnic backgrounds and political differences we will work together to ensure that going forward, political differences will not result in ethnic and religious animosity,” said Uhuru.

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‘You are a THIEF! Carry Own Cross’- KANU Fires Back at Waiguru after She Claimed Moi Stole more Than Her

Kanu has rebuked Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru for dragging retired President Daniel arap Moi into her “historic looting”.

In an interview on the Jeff Koinange Live show on Wednesday night, Waiguru questioned the validity of a recent Ipsos poll that ranked her the second most corrupt leader in Kenya.

She said: “It (the poll) also ranked me above the former President Moi, who ruled this country for 24 years… I mean, how ridiculous can it get? Everybody knows what we think about the Moi era. Are you saying that I stole more than Moi?”

Waiguru’s sentiments angered the oldest political party in Kenya, which told her to carry her own cross without involving the retired President.

“Governor Anne Waiguru oversaw the historic looting at NYS. It is unfortunate that she dragged retired President Moi into her situation. The Governor should carry her own cross,” Kanu tweeted on Thursday.

In the interview, the county chief rubbished the report insisting that it was sponsored by her political rivals.

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”Dear Waiguru, Please Shut Up, Stop Harassing Us With Fake Tantrums” – Hon Njoya

Waiguru’s persistent defence is:

1.If I’m corrupt, why have I not been arrested?

2. If I’m corrupt, why aren’t Kenyans saying the same about other CSs in whose ministries money was stolen?

3. If I’m corrupt, show me the evidence.

Clever strategies, but they are still fallacies.

1. Not being arrested is not a sign of not being corrupt. It could be a sign that you are favored and so you will not be arrested, or that you covered your tracks so well, it’s difficult to pin you down. Equally, being arrested isn’t necessarily a sign that you are corrupt. You have to be successfully tried and convicted. That is yet to happen to a big shot.

2. Asking about other CS’s is whataboutism: you’re asking why not them. Maybe they too are corrupt, but that has no relation to your being corrupt. In fact, what makes Waiguru look so guilty is her persistent daring of the public to prove her guilt when we are the victims. We’re the ones whose money was stolen. If she is all that innocent and was so efficient, how come she keeps saying she doesn’t know who stole or who used Kabura as a pawn? Give us a break.

3. Show me the evidence is the burden of proof argument. Waiguru is challenging we the public, whose money was stolen, to provide the proof that she stole. She has not provided sufficient proof that she didnt. So what am I, an ordinary, citizen, supposed to do? All I know is that she was in charge of IFMIS, in the Treasury under Muigai, son of Ngina, before TNA became government. Kabura says that just before the 2013 election, Waiguru told her that if TNA won, Kabura stood a chance of getting rich on government jobs. The director of the IT company that installed IFMIS is her brother in law. IFMIS has been common in heists in both Malawi and Kenya. Waiguru’s friends received money which they supposedly returned (minus interest). I haven’t heard her ever explain those coincidences.

But also, the media is helping her because they are making this story about her and not presenting to her other facts and asking her to explain. That’s why some Kenyans feel that this IPSOS poll is more to her advantage than disadvantage.

That said, memo to Waiguru: please just shut up. You’re harassing Kenyans with your tantrums, and yet we are the victims of the heist. It’s OUR money, which is taxed from us, that is being stolen. And then you keep saying “Kenyans” chose you as governor. It’s Kenyans in Kirinyaga that chose you, and even then, many Kirinyagans voted for Karua, not for you. And her video evidence for her election petition against you disappeared from the court storage.

So just give us a break. I even wonder why you are fighting for your public reputation as if it really matters to you what we think.

By Dr Wandia Njoya

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South Africa Leader Cmde Julius Malema Mocks Uhuru For Bootlicking America’s Donald Trump and British, Says Kenya Is Colonized by America

Police Hunting For Ex Limuru MP Who Shot at Sonko’s Officials Sent to Demolish His Illegal Buildings

Police are looking for former Limuru MP George Nyanja after he reportedly fired his gun towards offices of the Nairobi County Officers who were demolishing a building he owns in Karen.

Witnesses claim that County Officials arrived at Nyanja’s business premises on Wednesday afternoon and started bringing down some buildings that he was allegedly constructing without the county approvals.

Nyanja, known for his abrasive approach to issues, arrived at the scene and reportedly fired in the air – forcing the county officials to scamper for safety.

Nairobi County’s Chief Media Officer Elkana Jacob said that some of the officials engaged in the exercise suffered injuries while running for cover.

The matter was reported at the Karen Police Station.

Nyanja served as Limuru MP from 1992 to 2002 and was fondly referred to as General Kaiyaba for his militant style of opposing former President Daniel arap Moi.

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Intersting Facts about British Prime Minister Theresa May Currently Meeting Uhuru at Statehouse

British Prime Minister Theresa May is in the country for a one day visit seen as crucial for Kenya’s trade ties with the UK.

The premier is on a three-nation Africa whistle-stop tour coming months before Britain leaves the European Union. Theresa May is scheduled to hold talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta and sign what the foreign affairs ministry terms as crucial agreements.

The British prime minister is expected to hold bilateral talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House and later address a public lecture at Strathmore University.

But who is this woman who leads one of the world’s economic and military powerhouses?

Here are some interesting facts about the British leader:

Theresa Mary May is the second woman to hold the position of British prime minister after Margaret Thatcher, who held the position from the year 1975 to 1990.

Also like the late Mrs Thatcher, Mrs May is the leader of the Conservative Party, since 2016.

She joined active politics in 1997 when she ran and was elected as the MP for Maidenhead.

She was a student at the prestigious University Oxford, from where she graduated in 1977 with a degree in geography at St. Hugh’s College.

Besides politics, Mrs May enjoys cooking. She owns 100 cook books.

In January 2017, Mrs May was the first foreign leader to meet the then newly elected US President Donald Trump.

She was appointed Home Secretary in May 2010. She held the position until July 2016.

Theresa May was responsible for the ban of the exportation of khat (miraa) from Kenya and its use in the UK, against the advice of experts on drug use.

The UK Prime minister is diabetic. She was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, also known as Type 1 diabetes, in 2012 and injects insulin daily.

She co-founded Women2Win, an organisation dedicated to increasing the amount of women in the Conservative Party in Parliament.

She was introduced to her husband, also a student at Oxford, in 1976 by Benazir Bhutto, who later became the prime minister of Pakistan.

She is a practicing Anglican.

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DPP Boss Noordin Haji and His DCI Friend Kinoti are Lethal But Working For Who?- Lawyer Nelson Havi

The DCI and DPP have powers to investigate and prosecute. Judicial officers — magistrates and judges — are no exception.

However, there’s a precedent. Unless it’s a crime of a personal nature causing bodily harm or anything requiring immediate police action — as for GBM Kariuki — all other cases have been handled through the Judicial Service Commission.

The case of DCJ Nancy Baraza, which was essentially a criminal complaint, was not pursued through the DCI. The JSC itself picked it, reviewed it and recommended formation of a tribunal. This was also the case for Justices Joseph Mutava and Philip Tunoi.

This was a big surprise because of the manner in which DCJ Philomena Mwilu was raised in the Daily Nation for the last three days. The reports tended to indicate the DCI was investigating a very serious crime of abuse of office, corruption and tax evasion.

However, the charge is a clear case of commercial transaction between a judge and a bank.

Therefore, it’s baffling why the DCI decided to take such a serious case that had the effect of demeaning the DCJ’s office. It was neither a serious nor a criminal matter.

From what we’ve reviewed, this is clearly a civil dispute between Imperial Bank, which is under receivership, and the judge.

Further, the properties she is claimed to have purchased without paying stamp duty were all acquired before she became DCJ. By the time she was being vetted, she received clearances from KRA, EACC and the DCI.

I highly doubt they lacked capacity to unearth these alleged crimes. Or does it mean the crimes were not there, and have just been created?

Graft must be fought to extinction. But you cannot fight impunity with impunity. At this rate, independent institutions will be misused.

Here it appears the DCI and the DPP have been working in cahoots. Yet, one is suppose to investigate and the other look at the investigations and make an independent decision. When they work together, where is the objectivity?

Lawyer Nelson Havi

As Published in the Star

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Governor Waiguru Reveals She is Worth 300Million, sheds light on Deputizing Ruto 2022

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru is worth “at least” Sh300 million.

She revealed the same during the popular talk show JKL Live where she claimed she is not a corrupt individual contrary to common opinion.

“There are those who have been pushing the corruption narrative and they have found it difficult to recant it. I have a property in Mlolongo, half an acre in Lukenya, another rentable half an acre in Sagana, a house in Runda and Kihiga,” she divulged.

The governor was linked to the Sh791 million NYS Scandal back in 2016 when she served as the Devolution CS during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first term.

She further claimed Josephine Kabura of the NYS saga was someone’s puppet but remained cagey about the details.

“Kabura was a pawn, somebody used her. I know who it is. I will not answer whether it is a politician or not. We have a new Director of Public Prosecution in town and we expect that he will do the right thing,” she stated.

Asked whether she is keen on deputizing Deputy President William Ruto come 2022, the governor said she is focusing on serving the people of Kirinyaga.

“Being Ruto’s running mate I think is not my decision to make. My focus now is to serve as a governor. Ruto will decide who he wants to be his running mate,” she said.

She was in the past week ranked as the second most corrupt leader at 31 per cent by the Ipsos Synovate poll.

Leading the pack was Ruto at 33 per cent, coming in third was former President Daniel Moi (17%) and President Kenyatta (11%) at number 4.

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DPP Haji Orders Arrest of Ruto’s main man PS Dr Lesiyampe Over Maize Scandal

The Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji has ordered for the arrest of Agriculture Principal Secretary Richard Lesiyampe.

The DPP early on Thursday morning directed the PS be arrested and prosecuted over the irregular purchase of maize by officials of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB).

The PS a few months ago suspended five NCPB managers from Moi’s Bridge, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret and Bungoma over the scandal.

NCPB Managing Director Newton Terer resigned in May after Dr Lesiyampe questioned the dealings at the parastatal.

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Letter from Gikuyu, Why We Have Problems With Rest Of Kenyans

Letter from Gikuyu

By Binyavanga Wainaina

For the first time in my life, to be Gikuyu was a public event. You were tagged and measured, and then people let you in. There was a national conversation taking place and this conversation was happening in Gikuyu, for Gikuyu and of Gikuyu.

The rest of Kenya became The Tribes. Or Beasts from the West. This sort of thing was being peddled even among the middle classes. The direct target of this was the Luo, personified by Raila Odinga, then leader of the Orange Democratic Movement and now Prime Minister in the coalition government, who became the devil in hundreds of text messages and websites. For decades, the public face of Kenya’s struggle for identity has been symbolized by towering Gikuyu politicians fighting towering Luo politicians. In our vague, unthinking way, we Gikuyus have come to see the Luo as meaning the coming of communism, emotionalism and the collapse of order.

To be Gikuyu, it is now being said every day in nearly every forum where Gikuyus gather, is to be reasonable. We are the invisible middle-class objectivity of Kenya. For others to belong among us, they have to behave like us. We do not need to examine ourselves.

We need to tame the tribes.

Years ago an old man I respect told me that Kenya would work wonderfully if we had an overt policy to develop people according to their tribal abilities. Positive tribalism, he called it. The Luhya are strong, and make good labourers; they also speak English very well. The Luo are very artistic and creative. They are good tailors. The Kamba make good soldiers, because they are loyal. So the man went around the pizza that is Kenya, naming every slice and according it grace. It completely escaped him that every skill coincided near-perfectly with the first acts of labour division introduced by the British; that he was, in fact, affirming exactly how we were defined and given roles to play in colonial Kenya. These identities were, to him, our permanent tribal personality. I asked him, So what will the Gikuyu do in this utopian Kenya? He was surprised, and frowned. It had not occurred to him. The Gikuyu just were, and everybody else was an ethnic.

Something slipped into his generation’s view of a possible Kenya. Those early Gikuyu technocrats under Kenyatta inherited almost exactly the British idea about who does what: who runs things, who can, who can’t and why not. The tribes were primeval and could not escape their fate. This impartial and objective view is always presented as the conclusion of a long and thorough analysis that, by complete coincidence, comes up with the finding that we are the best people to allow the tribes to develop.

Over the past four years, many Kenyans complained that nice middle-class Gikuyus were meeting in office corridors and speaking in their language. It was a strangely disturbed place to be: many Kenyans assumed I was not Gikuyu and would share their concerns with me. An equal and opposite paranoia about the Gikuyu was starting to spread around Kenya. By the December general election of 2007, Gikuyu had become cockroaches and weeds. Many Gikuyus spoke of their newly discovered contempt for everybody else. The mood was triumphant. We are back! And now Kenyatta is on the face of the Kenya shilling again!

It is clear that this sort of ethnic chauvinism has been growing all over Kenya, with all tribes, and the terrible post-election violence of earlier this year was the inevitable culmination of this new reality. The most visible Gikuyus in Kenya said nothing about the rising sense of a Gikuyu establishment. Our new cardinal took, exclusively, his tribe’s position in the political debates last year.

Of the older generation, hardly anybody credible was speaking to the idea that we were better than the political rhetoric. Nobody was prepared to admit that their own tribe had anything to account for. To publicly criticize ourselves was to give the enemy a weapon to use against ‘us’. We had all gone mad. It was left for us to assume that the elders had closed ranks to make sure a Luo was not elected president in the December general election. For it has come to be, now, that part of what it means to be a Gikuyu is not to be a Luo.

~ Binyavanga Wainaina, In Gikuyu, for Gikuyu, of Gikuyu.

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This Is Pure Witch Hunt Not Fighting Corruption-

FIGHTING CORRUPTION OR POLITICAL WITCH HUNT?
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Picture this. You have been embroiled in a long land dispute with your neighbor in the village. One day, your local chief and the community elders settle the dispute in your favour, in a public baraza.

Utterly infuriated, your neighbor who is suspected to be in the habit of practicing witchcraft in the ungodly hours of the night, goes ahead to publicly threaten you right there.
To everyone’s amazement, he declares that you won’t live another week!

After two days, you drop down dead due to a massive heart attack. You’ve been suffering from hypertension and heart problems but nobody knew about it.

Will the villagers be blamed if they pounce on the neighbor who publicly threatened to send you back to your maker and lyncih him?

Before a postmortem reveals that complex medical conditions like coronary thrombosis were responsible for your death, your neighbor will have burnt into ashes. Don’t you think so?

Wisdom dictates that you don’t publicly threaten your enemies (perceived or real) in public and promise them fire and brimstone, if you aren’t planning to do exactly what you promised them.

If you do, then it’s in your interest to ensure that nothing suspicious happens to them. They shouldn’t develop even a normal fever because you will obviously be held responsible.

President Uhuru publicly threatened to REVISIT the Supreme Court judges after his election was nullified last August.

Can you then blame Kenyans for thinking that the REVISITING has begun in earnest with DCJ Lady Justice Philomena Mwilu being the first victim?

It doesn’t matter whether she is guilty or not. What matters here is the perception it creates and whether such perceptions help the fight against graft. Perception is very important in leadership and politics.

The fight against corruption is obviously a good cause that should be supported by all. However, it must be tapered with a considerable measure of wisdom.

Any good cause is likely to be watered down and trashed, if its approach creates a wrong impression which might lead to the erosion of public goodwill.

In my opinion, the timing of Justice Mwilu’s dramatic arrest and prosecution isn’t wise, especially coming just one year after none other than the president threatened the SCOK.
It can only create a nasty confrontation between the executive and the judiciary arms of government.

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Drama In Court As Magistrate Rejects High Court Order To Stop Prosecution of DCJ Mwilu, Case Is Political

BREAKING:

Chief Magistrate Lawrence Mugambi rejects High Court order by Justice Chacha Mwita stopping prosecution of DCJ Philomena Mwilu.

Now ladies and gentlemen, it is now Obvious that in Philomena Mwilu’s case,it is not about fighting corruption but “fixing” the judiciary as promised by Uhuru on 1st September 2017.

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WATCH Kalonzo Musyoka, James Orengo Turn DPP Haji’s Lawyers into Quacks prompting Judge to Dismiss Case Against Mwilu

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu’s lawyers on Wednesday accused DPP Noordin Haji and DCI George Kinoti of using a criminal process to maliciously remove her from office.

Led by James Orengo, and Wiper’s Kalonzo Musyoka- they told the Anti-Corruption Court that the offences preferred against the DCJ purely relate to a commercial dispute of which a criminal court has no jurisdiction.

The lawyers told chief magistrate Lawrence Mugambi that the case ought not to have been dragged before him, but should be handled as a commercial dispute, at the High Court.

Orengo and a battery of other lawyers argued before the magistrate, even as another group appeared before justice Chacha Mwita in a bid to block Mwilu’s prosecution.

Noordin Haji has suffered a blow in his quest to prosecute the country’s second-highest judge for alleged corruption.

The High Court on Wednesday stopped criminal proceedings against Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and lawyer Stanley Kiima.

Charges against Mwilu…

The DCJ added that she became aware of the arrest and allegations through newspapers. Mwilu’s charge sheet at a glance:

Count 1: Abuse of office Justice Mwilu:

Between August 15, 2013 and October 23, 2013 at Imperial Bank Headquarters in Westlands, Nairobi, being a person employed in the public service as a judge of the Court of Appeal, used the said office to improperly confer a benefit to herself of Sh12 million frombthe bank.

Count 2: Justice Mwilu and Stanley Muluvi

Obtaining the execution of a security by false pretence where it is alleged they conspired to execute a discharge for two parcels of land being securities for a loan of Sh60 million.

Count 3: Failure to pay taxes Justice Mwilu

Between December 2, 2013 and December 10, 2014 in Nairobi, unlawfully failed to pay taxes payable to KRA for the sum of Sh3.1 million being the stamp duty on the purchase of land reference number 3734/202 situated within Nairobi County.

Count 4: Unlawful failure to pay taxes to KRA Justice Mwilu

–Between December 2, 2013 and December 10, 2014 in Nairobi, unlawfully failed to pay taxes payable to KRA for the sum of Sh58,000 being the stamp duty on the purchase of land reference number 3734/209 situated within Nairobi County.

Count 5: Unlawful failure to pay taxes to KRA Justice Mwilu

–Between August 10, 2013 and March 21, 2016 in Nairobi, unlawfully failed to pay taxes payable to KRA for the sum of Sh3.2 million being the stamp duty on the purchase of land reference number 3734/1129 situated within Nairobi County.

Count 6: Unlawful failure to pay taxes to KRA Justice Mwilu

–Between June 8, 2016 and June 27, 2016 in Nairobi, unlawfully failed to pay taxes payable to KRA for the sum of Sh2.4 million being the stamp duty on the purchase of land reference number 330/634 situated within Nairobi County.

Count 7: Unlawful failure to pay taxes to KRA

Justice Mwilu –Between July 31, 2015 and December 16, 2016 in Nairobi, unlawfully failed to pay taxes payable to KRA for the sum of Sh3.6 million being the stamp duty on the purchase of land reference number 3734/1297 situated within Nairobi County.

Count 8: Forgery Justice Mwilu and Mr Muluvi

–On unknown date and place within the Republic of Kenya, jointly with others with intent to defraud, forged a certain document to with KRA stamp duty declaration assessment and payslip S/2331415 dated December 4, 2014 purporting it to be genuine stamp duty declaration, assessment and pay-in slip issuedby KRA.

Count 9: Uttering false document Mr Muluvi

–On August 27, 2018 at AAAC House in Westlands in Nairobi knowingly and fraudulently uttered to Inspector Arthur Kennedy Onyango a false document namely KRA stamp duty declaration, assessment and pay-in slip purporting it to be genuine valid stamp duty declaration from KRA.

Count 10: Forgery Justice Mwilu and Mr Muluvi

–On unknown date and place within the Republic of Kenya, jointly with others with intent to defraud, forged a certain document to wit KRA stamp duty declaration assessment and payslip S/2611055 dated March 11, 2016 purporting it to be genuine stamp duty declaration, assessment and pay in slip issued by KRA.

Count 11: Forgery Justice Mwilu and Mr Muluvi

–On January 5, 2014 at unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, jointly with others with intent to defraud, forged a certain document to with National Bank of Kenya cash deposit number M548740 for transaction S/No 2331415 dated December 5, 2014 for a sum of Sh3.6 million in favour of account number 010013210600 in the name of commissioner of domestic taxes stamp duty purporting it to be a genuine and valid cash deposit slip duly issued by NBK.

Count 12: Forgery Mr Muluvi

–On March 16, 2016 at NBK Hill Branch, Nairobi, jointly with others with intent to defraud, forged a certain document to wit National Bank of Kenya cash deposit number F236421 for transaction S/No 2611055 dated March 16, 2016 for a sum of Sh2.8 million in favour of account number 010013210600 in the name of commissioner of domestic taxes stamp duty purporting it to be genuine and valid cash deposit slip duly issued by NBK.

Count 13: Forgery Mr Muluvi

–On December 2, 2014 at NBK Hill Branch, Nairobi, forged a certain document to with National Bank of Kenya cash deposit number F236422 dated March 16, 2016 for a sum of Sh110 in favour of account no 010013210600 in the name of commissioner of domestic taxes stamp duty purporting it to be genuine and valid .

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BREAKING: 5 KDF soldiers die, 10 injured in a Lamu explosion

5 KDF soldiers have been killed in a I.E.D explosion in Boni forest Lamu county .
To what has been seen as an AL-shabab work, its has come as an ambush just hours after president Kenyatta’s Visit to the united states. The U.S.A has helped in terrorism war through financing Kenya defence forces(K.D.F) team in helping secure the neighboring Somalia.
the soldiers were taking water to their collegues.

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Deputy CJ Philomena Mwilu Files Petition At High Court To Stop Criminal Proceedings Against Her

After being released on a 5 million bond yesterday in the evening, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has filed a petition before the High Court seeking to stop criminal proceedings against her over charges of abuse of office and graft.

The petition was filed on Wednesday morning before High Court Judge Chacha Mwita by her lawyers Nelson Havi, Harun Ndubi and Okong’o Omogeni.

Justice Mwilu arrived in court on Wednesday morning to answer to corruption charges related to the Imperial Bank scandal.

She was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and taken to the Milimani Law Courts.

However, due to a technical hitch over gazetted hours for plea taking, the court was adjourned to Wednesday morning.
She was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and taken to the Milimani Law Courts.

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‘Hon Milicent Omanga did not ask for Bribe, Moses Kajwang, Linturi, Wamatangi Did- Francis Mburu

The Senate Committee of Powers and Privileges has commenced investigations into the allegations by businessman Francis Mburu that some senators solicited Sh100 million during the probe in to the controversial Ruaraka land.

Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, who chairs the powerful House committee, yesterday announced that while his office was yet to formally receive the claims from Mburu, he had given County Public Accounts and Investments Committee chairman Moses Kajwang’ a go a head to submit a detailed report to the committee on the matter.

“After deliberation, the committee has taken the position that the matter is serious and suitable for inquiry within the meaning of Section 15 (5)of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act, when presented with adequate information on the basis of which to commence inquiry,” Lusaka told journalist at Parliament Buildings.

The watchdog committee investigated the circumstances under which Mburu, a director of Afrison Export and Import Ltd, was allegedly paid Sh1.5 billion as part of the deal for the compulsory acquisition of 13.5 acres also claimed by Ruaraka High and Drive Inn Primary school.

Mburu wrote a statement and submitted an audio recording to the DCI, implicating Public Accounts and Investments Committee chairman Moses Kajwang’ (Homa Bay), and members Mithika Linturi (Meru), Kimani Wamatangi (Kiambu) and nominated senator Millicent Omanga. All have denied wrongdoing.

But in a new twist, Mburu has written to the Senate Speaker exonerating Omanga

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SHOCKING DETAILS Of How Nigerians Trick Girls In Nairobi Into Drug Business- Matiangi Was Right !

Ladies be careful with these foreign men you meet in these streets.If you see a dude from Congo run,if you see a dude from Ghana run,if you see a dude from Nigeria run faster.

I used to live in this apartment hapo Ngong road.We had several Nigerians kwa apartment.Most landlords don’t like Nigerians in their apartment but that’s where Kenyan girls come in.A lady uses her name to rent an apartment,before you know it.You have 12 Nigerians living in a two bedroom house.But that is besides the point.

A year ago on a Saturday hapo ma 5pm.The watchman opened the gate to 5 police vehicles.Wale maaskari wa bunduki. I was just from hanging clothes uko nyuma.Kidogo I see this Nigerian dude ameruka from 3rd floor.These askaris don’t even have huruma.Sisi wote nje tuliambiwa tulale chini.They went to all these houses removing those Nigerian dudes na girlfriends. Girlfriends wanakuanga wakenya mostly. In the House they found drugs.Watu wakabebwa mateke mpaka kwa police station.Those dudes defense ilikua the “The lease isn’t in our names,we are just guests,the women are the ones selling drugs.”Those guyz stuck to that story like glue.The apartment next to ours was also raided.They didn’t find the Nigerians who were living there,they found girlfriends.This chiqs tried telling the cops but wapi,they were arrested and charged for selling cocaine.

Four women I know personally were arrested in SA over drugs few years back.This is what happened.One of them met a Nigerian dude at junction.Became friends,then got into a relationship.I have never understood how they manage to fool even the smartest of women (juju is the only explanation).Now once they were dating,she started introducing her friends too wale wako single.She managed to hook four of her friends up.One of them got engaged after 6 months.You Know how fast “Yahoo” boys fall in love when they are trying to run game on you.Marrying you won’t be a problem.He will marry you and send you on death row (they have no empathy).

So they decide to celebrate the engagement Cape town.The dudes tell them they are going ahead to prepare a villa they had rented.Chiqs are happy.SA!!Who wouldn’t want to?.Suitcases are bought by the boyfriends.Those dudes take the old suitcases that these women had and present them with Luis Vuitton suitcases.

These chiqs got out of Kenya fine.Ngori ikaanza pale SA.These dudes did the same thing,they cut places ndani ya suitcase.Four Women ended up in prison for something they didn’t know about.These Nigerians you meet in these Kenyan streets will wreck havoc on your life and not be seen ever again.The time I went to Ethiopia there were two dudes sweating kwa check point.One of them started being friendly then tells me “Can you look after my bags for me.” I laughed and laughed and told him “I wasn’t born yesterday.” After nimefika uko mbele I see dogs and security running towards them.Coincidentally when I was coming back at immigration JKIA those guys were talking about how they don’t like processing Nigerians and Ghanaian passports,Ati juu they are always in Kenya to cause trouble.

Stay safe ladies these dudes you see wameenda kuset standards 1824 na kununua drinks za 20K will land you in trouble.Ata akwambie babake ni prince wa dubai kataa hizo story.

Nigerians wamefanya hadi we now have to use visas going to Malaysia.They also wanted to change the rules for us at the Thai embassy because of the same Nigerians.Actually I got to the Malaysian embassy and the things I was told at reception.Lets say they make the rest of us look bad.
Stay safe ladies.

They will tell me I’m stereotyping but it’s okey.

#copied

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