DRAMA as ACTIVIST Boniface Mwangi DROPS ‘KILLER’ BOMBSHELL on DP Ruto

Dear Mr Kilukumi,
Re: Alleged Libelous tweet and DP Ruto’s threat to sue Boniface Mwangi

We refer to your letter dated 30th September 2016 bearing reference KK/GEN/DP/006/2016 addressed to our client Boniface Mwangi in which you give notice that unless our client publishes an immediate retraction, correction and apology to Deputy President William Ruto over a tweet allegedly published on 28th September under our client’s twitter handle you would institute proceedings for recovery of damages, and other remedies, for your client.
You have reproduced details of the tweet in your said letter.

Our instructions are that for reasons set out below our client will not retract, correct, withdraw or apologize for the said tweet.

Your client is the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, a State Office to which he is accountable to the people of Kenya. As long as he holds that office he must accept that he will attract and continue to attract not only praise where it is due but also most robust criticism for any conduct or behavior that falls below the requirements of the Leadership and Integrity provisions set out in Chapter VI of the Constitution.
All Kenyans are duty bound to protect and preserve the Constitution and the members of the press have an even higher duty in this regard.

Boniface Mwangi is not only a journalist but a human rights and public interest defender who has bravely and courageously fought for the preservation of our constitutional values and bringing to account leaders who do not live by their oaths of office. He has been subjected to death threats, torture, malicious prosecution and countless intimidations all geared to silence him. He sees the threat contained in your letter as falling in this category of harassment.

Your client appears to have singled him out because of his consistent defence of the public interest and he is not surprised by this.

The tweet your client is complaining of simply expresses his fears. He says: “I hope Deputy President has no plans of killing me the way he killed his old friend, Jacob Juma a fellow thief who became a whistle blower”
Is it not true that Jacob Juma was killed?

Is it not true that Hon Cyrus Jirongo, a close friend at one time of both the late Jacob Juma and your client pointed fingers at your client in connection with Jacob Juma’s death?

Is it not true that Jacob Juma was a one time friend of William Ruto?

Is it not true that when Jacob Juma fell out with William Ruto he became a whistle blower?

Is it not true that prior to his death Jacob Juma publicly disclosed that William Ruto was planning to kill him?
Is it not true that on account of the late Jacob Juma’s publicly expressed fears, William Ruto is a prime suspect in the ongoing investigations into the death of Jacob Juma?

Is it not true that your client’s notice of intention to sue our client is an ill motivated attempt either to forestall or impede the investigation of Jacob Juma’s claims by a contrived excuse that the matter is in court?
Our client has very real and compelling reasons for fearing that your client may wish to kill him and he reserves his right to disclose these in court should the need arise. The burden of proof in these circumstances will rest squarely upon your client to show up in court and clearly demonstrate that the fear by our client is not well founded.

It is a matter of public notoriety that your client was indicted at the International Criminal Court at The Hague over some grave crimes including murder. It is a grave matter of public record also, that the charges, or at least some of the charges were confirmed and your client was ordered to stand trial but that trial was terminated while your client was on bail for reasons well known to your client and which reasons include documented disappearances and extra judicial killings of witnesses and potential witnesses.

Because the ICC is part of the Kenyan judicial system by virtue of the legislation that domesticated the Rome Statute, our client will, if necessary and in his defence, seek leave of the court to produce those proceedings in the Kenya courts. Our client will then subject your client to robust cross examination which he, your client, was not subjected to by virtue of the termination of the case at The Hague, to show why he harbours these well founded fears that your client may want to silence him by having him killed, as Jacob Juma was.

Your client claims that his reputation has been injured and seeks the Kenyan court to intervene and give him protection and damages. Our client will seek to persuade the court that that he has no reputation worthy of the indulgence of a court of justice either in Kenya or elsewhere. If need be our client will call witnesses to testify that they believe and perceive your client to have been involved in corrupt practices including land grabbing.

Our client welcomes the opportunity to meet yours in court if and when this ill motivated attempt to silence him comes to court, as threatened in your letter.

We have, in the circumstances, instructions to accept service of process on behalf of our client and also to file a counterclaim against your client arising out of an internationally broadcast television interview in which your client defamed and ridiculed our client and sought to portray him as a drunkard who spends the night drinking and wakes up at 11a.m and is an unworthy citizen of the Republic of Kenya.

Be advised accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
For Gitobu Imanyara & Co
Gitobu Imanyara,
Advocate

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DP Ruto SECURITY was NOT Involved in KILLING of TWO WOMEN at Daraja Mbili, Kisii- HERE ARE the DETAILS

Here are the FACTS that confirm that DP Ruto Security were not involved in shooting of two women Kisii;

1.The Deputy President flew to the venue in Kisii and flew back, he NEVER used any motorcade.

2.The Deputy President left Kisii at 3pm and the unfortunate shooting happened after 6pm.

3.The DP’s bodyguards are drawn from the GSU and NOT the AP.

4.Those Involved in the shooting were AP officers

5.Larry Madowo may have been misled

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CHAOS in Kisii following KILLING TWO Women by AP Police at Daraja Mbili

Chaos erupted in Kisii town Thursday evening following an incident where two women were shot dead by police officers attached to Administration Police Quick Response Team (QRT) at Daraja Mbili Market in Kisii town under unclear circumstances.

One middle aged woman died on the spot while the other died on arrival at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital.

Witnesses say the officers riding on an Admnistration Police vehicle encountered a boda boda (motor cycle) accident and tried to intervene.

A slight argument is said to have ensued when the two women tried to request the officers to forgive the riders before gunshots were heard.

Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital CEO Dr Enock Ondari comfirmed the death of the second victim who had been rushed to the hospital.

The body of the other woman was by 7pm still lying by the road following the incident that occurred at about 5.45pm.

The riots led to the temporary closer of the Kisii-Migori road.

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TIBIM: How State nearly bungled CJ appointment

After the not so animated interviews of 12 candidates for the position of Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya, the Judicial Service Commission retreated to The Hague to deliberate on who will succeed Willy Mutunga.

The choice of The Hague was partly informed by the fact that Commissioners Prof. Githu Muigai and Prof Tom Ojienda were part of the legal team that was representing Kenya in the maritime dispute with Somalia at the International Court of Justice that was being heard the same week JSC was supposed to deliberate and nominate one candidate.

Sources privy to the on goings at The Hague indicate that the Commissioners unanimously settled on Justice David Maraga having performed way ahead of the rest.

Having settled on their nominee, the JSC members jetted back to the country on Wednesday evening with an intention of announcing to the public their nominee on Friday. This was not to be. The same Wednesday while the Commissioners were airborne, the Tribunal investigating Judge Joseph Mutava was at State House handing over their report to the President.

The Tribunal headed by Justice David Maraga had recommended to President Uhuru Kenyatta that the judge be removed from office for misconduct. This sent shivers down the spine of pro-establishment cadres in the Judiciary and the situation worsened when word went around that JSC had settled on the same Justice Maraga to head the Judiciary.

A process was activated to have the JSC relook into their verdict as the Judiciary gatekeepers though initially comfortable with his nomination could not fathom of having an independent head of the Judiciary.

Many felt that the way he had jettisoned Judge Mutava from the Judiciary was just a glimpse of his no-nonsense type of leadership. The powerful group around the Presidency managed to convince the Vice Chairperson of JSC Prof. Margaret Kobia to call for a meeting with a view of nominating another candidate.

Come Thursday morning, having been persuaded, Prof. Kobia started making calls to other Commissioners informing them of the need to have a sitting the same day to relook into their Hague discussions. The pro-establishment Commissioners welcomed the move but another group led by Prof. Tom Ojienda that included Justice Mohamed Warsame, Emily Ominde and Mercy Deche opposed the moved.

Jolted by these calls and knowing what was afoot, the Ojienda group decided to go public on the JSC’s verdict the same day. A press conference was hurriedly convened and addressed by Ojienda. This deflated the momentum of the other group and killed any clandestine plans to have Justice Maraga dropped.

The first battle to have Justice Maraga not occupy the apex position in our Judiciary has been lost. But the anti-Maraga team has crafted a strategy that now encompasses the Civil Society as they take battle royale to Parliament.

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TIBIM: Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohammed has a fake law degree

Foreign Affairs and International Trade CS Amina Mohamed has a fake law degree, Kenya Today can now authoritatively reveal.

Ms. Mohammed’s degree has been a heavily guarded issue within the Uhuru regime which has at times been used to intimidate her particularly when the regime is facing international pressure.

Beyond the facade of a hardworking CS is an academic fakery shrouded in mystery that starts in a small college in Ukraine and ends there.

If academic credentials uttered by public offices are spurious, work ethic and professionalism suffer.

Where all the other CSs listed their credentials and the institutions which awarded them, Amina is a lawyer from the blues.

Sources say she was awarded a BA in law, not an LLB.

That’s like studying biology and claiming you are a surgeon and demanding registration with The Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.

Her worst prevarications have a rich ground on Wikipedia where her entry claims she studied LLM at Kenya School of Law.  LLM? Amina has never set foot at KSL as a student. Two, KSL doesn’t offer LLM.

Or did she study by correspondence?

For years, Amina has struggled to get into the Kenya School of Law to no avail. To date, she has never been admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.

Sources at the the Council for Legal Education told this writer CS Amina was recently among the prime movers of a state house backed attempt to rid the institution of Prof. Kulundu-Bitonye and his board and bring far reaching changes which would have watered down the institution’s rigorous checks in who poses as a lawyer in Kenya. Prof. Bitonye’s spat with Chief of Staff Joseph Kinyua exposed the intrigues facing the legal system in Kenya.

Part of the intrigues is fueled by senior people in government trying to get admitted to the bar of Kenya without dropping a sweat. Amina Mohammed is one of them.

Amina started her career as Amb. Bethwel Kiplagat’s flowergirl.

Her hijab, which she increasingly wore half her scalp to reveal her beautiful somali hair to sexually frustrated men of power, among other feminine paraphernalia navigated her within the corridors of power, where she would, at times, intimately market herself not only as a minority but also as a requirement for the successful consummation of the “face of Kenya” balderdash.

From Kiplagat she soon found her way within the foreign affairs ministry, where a shortfall of legal officers provided her an opportunity to do ‘quasi-legal’ errands, which was better than serving tea and revealing her hairline while smiling devilishly to send men of poor libido with high power into making her grander and grander as time progressed.

The more she sexually objectified herself; the higher she rose.

Amina’s sterling career, fueled in part by her ability to bamboozle her way in a male dominated kakistoracy ( a system of government where the least qualified and most unprincipled get hold of power) doesn’t change the fact that she is a quack. Rather, it confirms it.

She is the least educated of all foreign CSs ever appointed in Kenya. Inside Uhuru regime, she is often referred to as the ‘somali girl with  a beautiful hair and fake degree”.

At UN, where she worked briefly, questions on her credentials led to her quitting before she became a scandal. She returned home.

Under Kibaki, she used to be appointed in positions that never required merit, only connections, and a good dose of sexual flare, for women.

As Kibaki receded to oblivion, she was ‘donated’ to Uhuru; who badly needed characters like Amina around him. She would, backed by increasingly powerful Somali  elite in government, get appointed as CS.

Scandal.

So why did President Uhuru recently nominate her for the AU job? Is it an elevation or a demotion?

Several impeccable sources paint a picture of a regime tired of her and glad of an exit strategy. To not offend Somali sensitivities a year to an election process that’s increasingly pandering to tribal primitivism, outrightly sacking her was a non-no.

The African Union needed a serious scammer to take over from Dlamini Zuma, the South African quack who has presided over the worst AU record on democracy, human rights and development since the inception of the body as AOU by African visionaries, many now dead.

Under her, Kenya has held highly successful PR events but with zero impact to the country. Forget ICC debacle. We all know the case collapsed because witnesses were killed and disappeared and bought and cases with no witnesses collapse the world over.

Amina was more of a beneficiary that a prime demolisher of the cases.

Apart from the ICC, there is nothing much to write home about Amina’s four years.

Increasingly, much of the international relations is being done by Amb. Dr. Monica Juma and Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the UN Mission Amb. Macharia Kamau either of whom have been tipped to replace her.

Amina’s incompetence came to the fore recently when she failed to organize high level meetings to the Deputy President William Ruto who was making his debut at the world stage at the just concluded United Nations General Assembly.

Ruto not only addressed an empty room but also had a terrible spat with the management of the hotel he was booked in when he was subjected to body searches and frisking in total contravention of the Vienna Rules.

Under Uhuru, mostly, Amina has thrived because of her ethnic heritage and the fact that behind her was the powerful politico-legal somali cartel chaired by lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi, himself another quack with questionable legal history.

However, in recent years, the power of the somali elite in government have receded, partly with Ahmednasir’s failure to remain a quintessential court jester. The latest spat between Ahmednasir and the government is on the Somalia-Kenya maritime row currently at the ICJ where the “Grand Mulla” is said to have been retained by Somalia.

Amina Mohammed, currently, is a portrait of “petty bourgeoisie” with a gradually diminishing importance, and receding hairline, exiting the high echelons of Kenya’s power.

There have been many like her.

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The LIES WIPER’s Senator Hassan Omar TOLD AT TONONOKA Rally

By Phil W
The so-called TONONOKA DECLARATION – The Making of A Constitutional Democratic Republic – by Senator Hassan Omar Sarai is a concoction of half-truths, empty self-praise and devoid of practical logic.

Senator Omar claims, rather naively, that WDM will upon its election to govt form a 50-50 administration with respect to gender inclusivity. Before Wiper claims what it will do when it forms government, can it show what it has done while in opposition? Has Wiper as a political party itself complied with gender balance requirements of the constitution within its NEC or national office?

The ODM has been all alone in its pursuit of issues that affect Kenyans including a case in point when it disrupted Uhuru’s state of the nation address during a joint sitting of the legislature. Not a single Wiper MP or Senator stood up to protest in solidarity with ODM counterparts. Yet today Sarai wants to lie to world about how Wiper intends to fight for social justice and confront corruption cartels. Its hot air!

What parameters does Hassan use when he declares that Kalonzo Muyoka is the best placed presidential candidate to secure victory in the 2017 general elections and lead the nation through the path of transformation? What has Kalonzo done that Raila or Wetangula has not done? Does Kalonzo have a compelling reform history, has he published a compelling vision, does he significant legislative or leadership record? These are the issues Kenyans want to introspect and not the empty threats and partisan heckling as seen at Tononoka on Sunday.

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MKU in court battle with US-based Cameroonian conman

Kenya’s fastest growing private higher education institution Mt. Kenya University (MKU) is embroiled in a legal tussle with a US-based “film-maker” who turned out to be a conman.

It is the story of an innovative university, gearing to power the new professionals in Africa’s film and movie industry, that got almost outsmarted by a smartly dressed, bearded cameroonian immigrant living in the United States.

It is also the story of functioning internal institutions, for had MKU been Moi or Maseno, or the National Youth Service, Yves Tchuota would be living off luxuriously after a meticulously pulled scam. It did not go through.

Yves Tchouta, based in Atlanta city of the US State of Georgia,  tried to swindle MKU millions of shillings while posing as a film investor willing to partner with MKU in making commercial films for MKU’s Institute of Creative, Film, and Performing Arts.

MKU, founded by entrepreneur Dr. Simon Gicharu is the largest privately owned higher education institution with a student population in excess of  52,000. It has campuses in all major Kenyan towns, in Rwanda and Somalia, where its Hargeisa Campus is one of the best institutions in the restive country.

The university busted Tchouta when it sent officials to the US to ascertain the man’s business background. It is then that the university realized the man was merely a local club promoter.

“He came with an idea to partner with MKU to produce a movie called Last Result. We thought the idea was good. However, the university policy states that due diligence must be done before entering into such a deal. It is only after visiting him in Atlanta, USA that we discovered he is a fraud,” said a source at MKU.

It is also now emerging that the man had approached another private university, the Aga Khan University, to pitch for the same idea which was also rejected.

 

In the suit papers, MKU wants the man to prosecuted for uttering false documents and misleading the institution which led to loss of money.

The University argues the man knew throughout the whole process that he was unable to meet the ends of the contract and was therefore attempting to extort money from the university through false pretense.

In an ongoing case in the US, Tchouta admitted that he no office and employees and was just a local club promoter, shocking even his legal representatives.

MKU is pursuing the case both in Kenya and the US, relentlessly.

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