Accuser: Chang Kun, male, born on June 6th ,1985, Han nationality, live in 53-2, Fulin Road, Chengguan Town, Linquan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province.
Accused person: Public Security Bureau?PSB?, Linquan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province.
Legal Corporate Representation: Chen Qi, director-general of the Linquan City Public Security Bureau.
Accused person: Chen Jie, male, the inspector of Linquan City Public Security Bureau in Dongguan Local Police Station. The telephone number is 13966587511.
Accused person: Gu Jian, male, the original instructor of Linquan City Public Security Bureau in Dongguan Local Police Station. The telephone number is 13805610988.
The request from the accuser:
A?That Chang Yingbin attacked Chang Kun is illegal. Linquan City Public Security Bureau, Anhui Province, should look into the case and Chang Yingbin shall be investigated for his responsibility.
B?Linquan City Public Security Bureau and the Local Police Station in Dongguan didn’t punish the illegal behavior of Chang Yingbin. So the accuser think they are illegal.
C?The accused person Chen Jie and Gu Jian shall be investigated for their misconduct.
The facts and reasons from the accuser:
A?The illegal crime fact of Chang Yingbin attacked Chang Kun. Chang Yingbin was the original deputy director of the Guangming community, Chengguan Town, LinQuan County.
At around ten o ‘clock in the morning on April 4, 2012, Chang Yingbin abused Chang Kun in the crossings of Xinjian Road and Gangkou Road (now it is a waste transfer station). Suddenly, Chang Kun was attacked by someone in the back. Then I ran out, and calling “police, someone is hitting me,”. They drag and hit me a lot, and I stood up finally , taking hold the box car behind me. The police come over, and also there had some riot police. They asked Chang Kun to the police station and assisted in the investigation. Chang Kun stand on the steps, back against the box car, and said to villagers around” I’ve just been attacked, now the police Meng Xianjing (telephone is 13966583485 )asked me to go to the police station to assist their investigation, I am not caught! I’ll come back soon!” the police Meng also loudly said “yes!”
On April 4, at about eleven, Chang Kun was in Dongguan Local Police Station to be investigated. Then he asked the police, why not control the attackers, otherwise they would continue to hit. The instructor of Dongguan Local Police Station GuJian (telephone is 13805610988) said a lot about to protect Chang Kun. At this time, Chang Kun heard that the attackers hit someone again. At last I knew that my mother was attacked by the brain when she was on the phone. She was taken to a hospital by emergency ambulance.
At 12:38 on April 4, Chang kun’s head suddenly was very heavy. Chang Kun can hardly support and put the head on the chair. Chang kun required the police to make a record of the happenings , and the police did it.
But at 14:10 on April 4, Chang kun and some friends came to conference room on the third floor of Kaiyue Wangchao Hotel, Linquan County. When Chang Kun sat on the chair and looked on the phone. Chang Yingbin and some other people suddenly rushed into the conference room. I fall on the floor on my back and lost consciousness.
About 19 o ‘clock on April 4, the police Meng (his telephone is 13966583485)came to the Brain Surgery in-Patient Department 11 beds of People’s Hospital in Linquan County to find Chang Kun. He made a record for Chang Kun. At that time Chang Kun have woke up, and the brain consciousness was relatively clear. But Chang Kun had difficulty in speaking and couldn’t completely say a word. Chang Kun’s upper body can’t move flexible, especially the head can’t turn.
B?The Public Security Bureau took sides in the criminals and his negative act is illegal.
(a), The police on the scene did not take measures to stop the criminal Chang Yingbin, and also didn’t take appropriate measures after the case happened. So that it led directly to Chang Kun and Chang Kun’s mother were attacked again.
At about ten in the morning on April 4, 2011, two policemen in Dongguan Local Police Station arrived at the scene. But they didn’t stop Chang Yingbin’s bad behavior, but took Chang Kun to the police station to make a record. Chang Yingbin beat Chang kun in the presence of the police. So Chang Kun was repeatedly attacked, and the clothes were also tore lousy. When Chang Kun asked the police, why not control the attackers, otherwise they would continue to hit someone? Amazingly, Gujian, the original instructor of Linquan City Public Security Bureau in Dongguan Local Police Station, said what they did are trying to protect Chang Kun. If so, Why don’t you put the violent catch up? Why don’t you stop the attackers when Chang Kun was under beaten? It’s all nonsense, Gujian and the attackers are in the same gang. He is an accomplice dressed in the police uniform. Chang Kun suggest to the leaders that you should get rid of him. Chang Kun’s mother was attacked by the brain when she was on the phone. She was taken to a hospital by emergency ambulance. It’s really can’t speak all his bad behaviors!
On 14:10 in the April 4, Chang Kun was in the conference in Kairui Wangchao
Hotel. Chang Yingbin rushed in it and hit Chang Kun. Chang Kun lost consciousness. The Public Security Bureau took sides in the criminals. May be they are in the same gang?If they don’t have interest relations, how can they neglect Chang Yingbin’s so bad behavior? They are really in for their own selfish, disregard to the state dignity and the law? !
(b). The negative act of LinQuan County Public Security Bureau and the Dongguan Local Police Station is illegal.
on April 4, 2011 at 11 o ‘clock, when Chang Kun was taken to Dongguan Local Police Station to make a record, Chang Kun’s mother was also attacked. On April 4, 2011 in the afternoon, the Public Security Bureau took sides in the criminals and led Chang Kun was attacked again to coma in hospital. All the things, Chang Kun’s father repeated visited LinQuan County Public Security Bureau and Dongguan Local Police Station to ask to punish the murderers all the year. But they all did not take any effective measures, and lack of supervision. In close to a year, they didn’t have any processing results about the case. The criminal Chang Yingbin are still at large.
In addition, Chen Jie(the telephone is 13966587511), the inspector of Dongguan Local Police Station, answered that they were waiting for the instruction of Ge Jinhai, secretary of Chengguan Town.
I am very confused about the relationships between LinQuan County Public Security
Bureau and Chengguan Town? Why the inspector of Dongguan Local Police Station Chen Jie actually need to the instruction of secretary of Chengguan Town GeJinHai? If not so, why LinQuan County Public Security Bureau still don’t handle the case?
According to ninety-ninth regulation of “L aw of the PRC on Penalties for Administration of Public Security”: ” Public Security Bureau has a time limit about the cases, from the date of acceptance of not more than thirty days; if the case is grave and complicated, the Public Security Bureau can prolong thirty days at the next higher level for approval.”
LinQuan County Public Security Bureau neglect the legal regulations of our country.
They maliciously dragged on the case, which is a serious violation of the rights of the accuser Chang Kun! The negative act is illegal. As its agencies, Dongguan Local Police Station disregard our national law, took sides in the criminals, and it is unable to perform a national legal obligation.
In all, the accuser request that the relevant authority should handle the letter. Supervise and correct the wrong act of LinQuan County Public Security Bureau and Dongguan Local Police Station, especially about their negative act and took sides in the criminals. Chang Kun request to punish the criminal Chang Yingbin. Please look into the possible malversation!
Best wishes
Fuyang City Public Security Bureau!
The accuser: Chang Kun
December 17, 2012
Copy to: People’s Congress Standing Committee of LinQuan County, People’s Procuratorate of LinQuan County, LinQuan County Commission for Discipline Inspection, Linquan County Supervision Bureau, People’s Congress Standing Committee of Fuyang City, Fuyang City Commission for Discipline Inspection, Fuyang City Supervision Bureau, People’s Congress Standing Committee of Anhui Province, Anhui Province Commission for Discipline Inspection ,Anhui Province Public Security Bureau, Anhui Province Supervision Bureau, Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Ministry of Public Security, State Bureau for Letters and Calls.
Statement regarding Chang Kun being wrongfully accused and the seizure of the magazine edited by him “Youth and AIDS”
From: Kun Chang
I am Chang Kun, in charge of the organization AIBO AIDS Relief, Zheng Zhou CityHe’rbutong Center – based HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment organizationin Henan Province, China. I state responsibly as follows: I will take all legal and humanitarian steps to maintain my dignity and value! I am against any form of misinformation to pretend I have done wrong !
Since October 25th ,2012, there have been a series of strange things happening in He’rbutong. First, someone wrongly claimed that I am moving to other city. Then, from November 8th to 11th, our office internet was broken for two days without any reasonable explanation.
At 15:30 on November 15th , the Domestic security team of the Public Security Bureau of Zhengzhou City, Cultural Market Comprehensive Enforcement Team of Zhengzhou City and the Wenhua Road Branch Office of Zhengzhou Public Bureau came to our office to check up. None of them wore work uniforms and they didn’t show the Work Permit. They seized and held in their custody the Youth and AIDSmagazine with the excuse that the magazines didn’t pass the relevant departments audit and they would to do an appraisal. On the Seizure Sheet, there was no official seal and only one police officer signed her name. I have no idea which Joint Law Enforcement organization the Seizure Sheet belongs to?
After this series of events happened, I had to cancel a meeting in Hangzhou, andcome back to Zhengzhou City by train overnight on November 17th.
On November 19th, I met with two department leaders of Zhengzhou City Politics and Law Committee who are responsible for AIDS and ideology. So far we knew that some people set me up by saying that I have some relation to an event—4 young people tore up a picture of the leader Mao Zedong in public at the Zhengzhou Zijingshan Square on October 25th. I only know three of the four people, but I had nothing to do with their actions. I am curious how they thought that I am behind the scenes of this affair, merely because I know the three people ?
What the most important is that no one has contacted me in any way to check regarding these events until I communicated with the leaders of the Zhengzhou City Politics and Law Committee. And they continue to set me up and harassed my colleagues! They may cheat their leaders and set me up in the name of their duty , I’m so frightened!
On November 26th , all my colleagues together went to the Domestic security teamof the Public Security Bureau of Zhengzhou City. We met some leaders and clarified some facts. We refused to be framed! However, until now, the Youth and AIDS have not sent back to our office.
On December 1st, 2012, the Word AIDS Day, There are 7 people with me had taken Hunger Strike for HIV/AIDS action.
I, Chang Kun, am engaged in the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS since 2004. I am always doing my best and study hard, though there are some rough roads in my life. I found my life fun in the field of AIDS and I aimed to the prevention and control of AIDS for all my life! I gradually achieve my ideal, business, profession and life unification. But now I really can’t understand why someone would set me up!
In the past eight years , I did my best to serve my country and people, actively undertook the state and national responsibility of the epidemic of AIDS, and got my parents, sister and brother’s support. I worked hard myself in various environments during these years, I coordinated the relationships between various departments, all of this I did solely to solve the problem of HIV/AIDS in China. But today someone told me to end my own life! Am I so afraid of death? I made and kept a will since 2007. The one who said “take your own life” to me, do you have a will? I had a plan to die once, and I was threatened with death from by Email when I criticized one foundation. But this is the first time, that I was told with a word to end my own life. I am very angry!
I am always honest and public on my work. I will acknowledge anything if I really did it, but on the contrary, no one should be able to set me up if I really didn’t do it!! The 25th World AIDS Day is coming, our country and relevant departments are becoming active to improve AIDS people and their survival/condition. These departments have a series of documents which guarantee the treatment rights ofHIV/AIDS patients and state that no one can refuse and prejudice them. The documents also said that the prevention of AIDS is a complicated work, which requires the whole society’s participation; there is a need to provide the necessary support and help NGOs. Only according to the central requirements about innovation and social management, can we gradually establish and perfect the work mechanism of folk NGOs to participate in HIV/AIDS prevention and control cause!
What about the current situation? Someone has framed an AIDS activist, which is not only a disservice to our country and government, but also makes trouble for no reason!
I would like to solve the problem peacefully, but the someone must seek truth from facts ! Sent the Youth and AIDS back to AIBO AIDS Relief, ZhengZhou CityHe’rbutong Center as soon as possible.
Chang Kun(13349108944)
Changkun2010@gmail.com
SKYPE:chinachangkun
December 1st, 2012 World AIDS Day
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Chang Kun
Director
Zhengzhou City He’rbutong
Tel:0371-87512825
Phone: 18697332373 13349108944
Email/MSN: heerbutong2011@hotmail.com
In central China AIDS activists step up pressure on the government
Sep 8th 2012 | ZHENGZHOU | from the print edition
AMID the daily drumbeat of protest across China involving citizens aggrieved by local injustices, a demonstration by around 300 AIDS victims outside the headquarters of the Henan provincial government late last month might have seemed routine. But the protesters’ growing frustration worries officials far beyond AIDS-wracked Henan. As the Communist Party prepares for an imminent leadership change it is more than usually anxious to keep the AIDS scandal quiet.
“The government is procrastinating, covering up and clamping down,” says an activist who joined the protest in the provincial capital, Zhengzhou, on August 27th. His son was found to be infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, at the age of six after a blood transfusion at a Beijing hospital a decade ago. Many of the other participants were infected in government-backed blood-selling schemes in the 1990s. Donors, mostly poor farmers, were re-infused with pooled blood once its plasma had been removed. Tens of thousands contracted HIV this way. The government has never admitted responsibility.
As the protesters grew impatient at the lack of an official response to their demands for more financial assistance, some attacked (and eventually toppled) the low retractable gate in front of the government building. Witnesses say riot police wielded batons to beat them back.
The man who is preparing to take over as China’s prime minister, Li Keqiang, has particular reason to prefer that Henan’s AIDS crisis is dealt with quietly. Mr Li was the province’s governor and then party chief between 1998 and 2004. Although the blood-selling infections mostly occurred before he arrived, Mr Li, who is now deputy prime minister, is widely blamed by activists in Henan for maintaining tight controls on media coverage of the calamity and for the harassment of whistle-blowers by police.
Blood ties
Mr Li is generally viewed as one of China’s more reform-minded leaders (including in health care, which he oversees). But protests such as the one in Zhengzhou are likely to prove a recurring embarrassment to him after he takes over as prime minister next March. In recent months Henan’s AIDS activists have been stepping up their efforts to put pressure on the government to take the blame and improve care for sufferers and their families. They are being helped by the rapid growth of microblogs.
In recent years the central government has become more open in admitting the extent of the problem and has provided a little more aid to those affected. But activists say that local officials often ignore central-government orders to improve care for victims. Last month’s protest was the latest in a series of demonstrations aimed at persuading the government in Henan to carry out the centre’s wishes. Of particular concern is “Document 26”, a proposal issued in 2009 by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It suggests that HIV-infected children and orphans whose parents have died because of the disease be given a minimum monthly subsidy of 600 yuan ($95).
Few local governments, which are notoriously averse to forking out for welfare, have taken up the idea. When they protested in Zhengzhou in April, demonstrators said an official promised a reply to their demands in a couple of months. They say they heard nothing. As the party prepares for its five-yearly congress in Beijing, officials are using increasingly heavy-handed measures to enforce stability.
An HIV-infected campaigner in Gongyi, one of Zhengzhou’s satellite towns, is one of the few who can claim his efforts have prompted any change. Last December he was in Beijing just as officials were looking for someone like him to meet the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, on World AIDS Day with TV cameras present. Mr Zhang (who does not want his full name used because of fears that fellow villagers might despise him for his illness) says that officials in Gongyi rapidly agreed to implement Document 26 after his handshake with Mr Wen. It was a low-cost decision: Gongyi is one of Henan’s wealthiest areas and therefore few of its farmers were attracted by the blood-selling scheme.
Mr Wen’s concern has done little to help Mr Zhang. He and his wife (who is also infected) still live with his brother, having sold their house to pay for treatment. Mr Zhang says courts have rebuffed his attempts to sue the hospital where he received the transfusion that he blames for infecting him. The government likes to give the impression that it is concerned about AIDS, says his wife, “but it does nothing to back it up”.
First of all, this campaign to kick out Chief Justice Mutunga is nonsensical, stupid, foolish, dimwit, dumb, idiotic, naive, trivial and extremely irresponsible; which, only simpleminded who assume they have the power are cheating themselves. Willy Mutunga was not rigged into office but passed through stages of nominations as is required by the National Reform Accord; where before a panel of professionals, he was nominated as the top best. The panel of legal professionals represents the people; so Justice Willy Mutunga was appointed by the spirit and will of the people. Willy Mutunga therefore is the choice of the people and will not be treated as a dog nor will be put down like Saitoti and Ojode.
Secondly, Coalition Government of Kenya is not an elected government by the people. It was formed to bring peace after election of 2007/8 was rigged, was chaotic and it became deadly and was unconstitutional because, the Status Quo wanted to remain in power and control the Government illegally. In other words, the Coalition Government is not an authentic; genuine; real; with unquestionable evidence for acceptance that can be relied or trusted unless it was bounded with a Reform Change Agreement they were to comply with.
Attacking The US State Secretary Ms. Hillary Clinton in the manner at the panel of Crossfire; is uncalled for, illogical and insane that cannot be acceptable. It is wrong and unfair to say ICC was imposed on Kenya to effect Regime Change. I condemn this behaviour in the strongest term. For this I will stand firm to defend The US State Secretary Ms. Clinton against these balooned uncalled foul allegations from agents of Coalition Government leadership……and Yes, it shall not be business as usual.
The American intelligence has kept Kenya from being attacked and in many instances they provided information early in time when Kenya is under attack. A recent case was that of Bombolulu including the Iran Mafia and terrorists in Kenya. With this, you cannot put aside the Al-shabaab and Al-Qaeda in Kenya.
It must be remembered that the Coalition Government lives and breathes from funding, loans and favors support from UK and US Government to be able to pay Government employee salaries, maintain Armed Forces, provide education, HIV/Aids and research with other logistics Kenya needed for many years. They definitely have a vested interest to protect their interest as Partners of Development. They must therefore have a concern and a voice to protect their interest in Kenya.
Now that it is clear that the Coalition Government has failed to comply with the Reform Change Agreement upon their oath of allegiance they were bound to uphold; they must have a choice to urgently vacate office for Kenyan people mandate to plan for way-forward, which will take them places instead of being stuck in the mud.
The Coalition Government leadership cannot send hooligans to attack handlers of America or the British so crudely; they must follow protocol. This behavior cannot be tolerated. We will not allow part of Coalition Government machinery to pre-empt excuses to create unfavorable situations of instances for making election insecure as this behavior is seen as a prescription to prepare for rigging the next election.
Terrorisms of any nature or form is illegal by any standards.
Can the Coalition Government with their Agents like those in the penalists of Crossfire explain to the world their involvement with
1) the domestic terrorism of Al-shabaab; Al-Qaeda with the latest those of Iran with Iran explosives that arrived at the port of Mombasa?
2) the involvement of drug dealing and cartels in and around Kenya
3) the involvement and influence of child prostitution
4) the reason why there is excessive youth and women’s unemployment when funds were made available for the same and where those funds were diverted to
5) why public land is taken away from public with forceful relocation of people without their concent
6) why coalition government is interfering with Willy Mutunga’s Judicial system
7) explain to public why they are comparing Chinese with America and why Chinese citizens are imported from China to do work Kenyans are able to do themselves
8) Although the meeting with the President, just like the subsequent ones with the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Chief Justice and the IEBC was behind closed doors, still word was leaked to the media detailing what Clinton said and the responses from the Head of State. Yes, it was reported that Clinton made it abundantly clear that if the two ICC suspects were allowed to run for elections then it would not be business as usual between the USA and Kenya……what does the Coalition Government not doing right and why are they afraid …. This the public want to know.
9) everyone knows the Coalition Government has messed the Constitutional Bills of Rights, do they want the civil public to keep quite without going to court??? Do the Coalition Government leadership want the world to believe that what the President says should be the religious truth even when it is clear things that are said by the president curve on special interest the reason why Kenya was at war killing and butchering themselves in 2007/8? That, people have not voice and must keep silent???
We have a competent judiciary ready to take on criminals and fraudsters masquerading as people of integrity must begin to start facing reality. For this reason, foreign governments who pay so much to protect their interest have a right to engage with the Government.
Lawyer Jennifer Shammalla, Jerry Okungu, Tony Gachoka and Wamalwa Kijana have errored by calling and trashing Obama Administration like they did. If it was not President Obama, the Referendum for people to own constitutional rights would not have taken place in Kenya. It is also criminal and insane to call the US State Secretary to have performed perjury………a Diplomatic Coup de tat (The breach of an oath or promise) in Kenya.
From the going ons in Kenya, we are convinced that the Coalition Government leadership have been sponsored by the Chinese and Iranian interest to attack America. It is now very clear that the Coalition Government must resign immediately or must be forced to resign now as nothing good will surely come from them. Pushing them to March will turn Kenya into a battle ground. They have failed and keeping them further is a prescription for more chaos, pain and sufferings ahead.
For the voice of reason and majority interest, on behalf of Kenya and Kenyans security and safety, I call on the Government of America to help us strengthen and provide solid security to CJ Willy Mutunga and support our call for Transitional Caretaker Committee to prepare way forward for Kenya to complete the Constitutional implementation and set a process to a safer electioneering.
Thank you all,
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Tony Gachoka Is a Political Gun for Hire
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 00:20 BY MUTHUI KARIUKI
In an opinion piece published in the Star of November 18, titled “Strange Bedfellows in G7, PNU Alliances”, Tony Gachoka makes one thing clear — Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka is his target.
Hiding behind the guise of an objective analysis of the political realities in the country, particularly in the PNU and G7 alliances, Gachoka uses the entire article to paint the Vice President as a rudderless and isolated political operator. It is clear from the article though, that Gachoka is in his element – a political gun for hire!
The question is: who is the unlucky politician who is doing the hiring? Surely it can’t be anyone who has had the singularly unfortunate experience of having Gachoka working for him or her. Looking at the political arena, it is obvious Gachoka has burnt bridges with almost everyone.
His first major engagement was when he had a tryst with Charity Ngilu’s SDP as Publicity Secretary and member of the National Executive Committee, a position he abruptly resigned from in June 2002, hoping to land on greener pastures. Soon after, his destination became clear when he backed the Uhuru Project, a move which he later rued when, it failed spectacularly.
After the embarrassing miscalculation, Gachoka wandered the political wilderness for five years until 2007 when he backed Raila Odinga’s bid, another disastrous move, typical of Gachoka, who manifestly walks as fast as he talks – and never takes the trouble to think before doing both!
If he thought the creation of the coalition government was a reprieve, it came as a rude shock when he was fired in 2009 as Director of Protocol at the PM’s office, for insubordination and disrespect of his boss, PS Mohammed Isahakia.
Finding himself out in the cold again, Gachoka found solace in a non-starter alliance with Jimmi Kibaki, Eugene Wamalwa and a few other relatively young politicians. Just like in all his political engagements, Gachoka was hoping to harvest big from this alliance but it yielded nought instead. These latter day Young Turks saw through Gachoka’s smoke screen in good time.
Something is glaring about the above brief chronicle of Gachoka’s star-crossed political journey: The only major political player he has not worked with is Kalonzo. For an extremely non-picky operator of Gachoka’s caliber, who changes camps with such bewildering speed, one may wonder why.
The answer is obvious: he has never been given an opportunity to ply his mercenary trade in Kalonzo’s camp despite begging to be let in on several occasions.
Besides playing gun for hire, his miserable attempt to depict the VP as a dark horse in the presidential race is also a severe case of sour grapes – he is simply lashing out at the VP because he can’t have him.
The truth of the matter is that Kalonzo is committed to the G7, PNU alliance or whatever name one chooses to call the group of progressive and like minded politicians who have sworn unity in order to win the next elections in order to build on the firm foundation established by President Kibaki’s decade of transformative leadership.
One final statement. From a quick glance at Gachoka’s decade-plus career as a political wheeler-dealer, one can conclude thus: The man has what can be described as the exact opposite of the Midas touch: any political project Tony Gachoka touches fails. Woe betide his current client.
The writer is the Media and Communications Advisor to the Vice President
Activist Gachoka writes to ICC on post-poll chaos ‘evidence’
By AGGREY MUTAMBO amutambo@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Monday, August 6 2012 at 12:26
Political activist Tony Gachoka has written to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking to give information he says is “relevant” to the on-going cases against four Kenyans.
In a letter dated last August 1 this year, and which was republished as a paid-up ad in The Standard on Sunday, Mr Gachoka told ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that he has information concerning the events of the 2007-2008 general election that culminated into violence.
Mr Gachoka told Ms Bensouda that he has volunteered to come forth and “disclose all that I know” with the support of documentary evidence because he has learnt the investigations the Prosecutor did in Kenya was not sufficient to get the culprits behind the post-election violence.
“Initially, I thought that the Prosecutor’s investigations would unearth the true circumstances surrounding and underpinning the post-election violence, and that the investigations would unmask the major players behind the violence,” he wrote.
There is no mention of the names that might feature in the information he is willing to disclose.
However, Mr Gachoka who is now close to the G7 and is working as an aide for Justice Minister Eugene Wamalwa claims he was in charge of Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s dairy for all local and international meetings as well as sitting in those meetings when he was the Chief Protocol in the PM’s office between 2008 and 2009.
He adds that he worked as the PM’s political aide from 2005, the time Mr Odinga’s party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was born.
“During my time working for the Prime Minister, certain information relevant to the ongoing International Criminal Court trials regarding the Kenya situation came to my knowledge.
“This information touches on some of the evidence adduced before the Court and which has been relied upon by the office of the Chief Prosecutor (sic),” he writes.
But the Prime Minister’s Office dismissed Mr Gachoka’s claim that he managed Mr Odinga’s meetings.
“He was never in charge of the diary,” PM’s Director of Communication Dennis Onyango tersely told the Nation. “Ask him to tell you what he did,” he added when we sought to know what his roles were.
Four Kenyans are facing a trial at the Hague for crimes committed during the post-poll violence in 2008 in which more than 600,000 people lost their homes and livelihood. They are Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Eldoret North MP William Ruto, former Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura and radio journalist Joshua Sang.
Mr Gachoka defended his decison to withhold the ‘evidence’, saying he feared for his life.
“For some time, I have agonised as to whether I should come forward and reveal what I know regarding the Post-election violence…”
“I am afraid for my life and the lives of my family as the information I hold is extremely prejudicial to some powerful and influential personalities,” he said.
Mr Gachoka’s announcement makes him the second former PM’s employees to state they hold crucial information related to the 2008 violence.
Last month, Mr Odinga’s former Advisor on Coalition matters Miguna Miguna told a gathering at the launch of his book, Peeling Back the Mask, that he had information that could take most of the government officials to the Hague.
That announcement made the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko to order that Mr Miguna be arrested for withholding evidence.
However, Mr Miguna argued that the Police could not verify whether he had already given the evidence to the Hague.
Raila: Ruto, Uhuru setting stage to disprove ICC
Posted by BERNARD MOMANYI on March 12, 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 12 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga fired yet another salvo at his arch-rival William Ruto and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta whom he accused of setting the stage for non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) where they are facing charges for crimes against humanity.
In a statement attacking the two ICC suspects only a day after another one published in newspapers on Sunday, the Prime Minister said outcries by the two leaders was only meant to seek sympathy from Kenyans, yet some of them are the ones who voted to have cases against post-election violence suspects tried in The Hague.
“It is this spirit of impunity that frustrated efforts to establish a local tribunal to deal with post-election violence,” a statement from the Raila Odinga Secretariat said adding “Parliament was mobilised to defeat the Constitutional amendment that sought to do this, with the main perpetrators cunningly creating the false impression that they sought real justice, and could only achieve it through the ICC. The reality is that they did not wish the matter to be addressed at all – locally or otherwise.”
Ruto and Kenyatta have previously accused Odinga of using the ICC to lock them out of the presidential race in which both have expressed interest during the next general elections.
The statement issued late Monday went on to say “The same people shouting then, “Don’t be vague, let us go to The Hague,” are the ones now demonising the ICC. They seek to kill two birds with one stone – dragging the Prime Minister and other innocent parties into their self-inflicted woes, and at the same time making political capital out of the ICC matter.”
An earlier statement issued on Saturday from the Prime Minister’s secretariat was met with anger and fury from Kenyatta and Ruto who termed Odinga, a “principal beneficiary of the post election chaos” that rocked Kenya soon after the 2007 disputed presidential election.
The two last week lost a bid to appeal charges against them at the ICC and are now left with an admissibility challenge which will determine if they will stand trial at the Hague-based court, sometimes in May or even earlier.
The Prime Minister accused the two of “unnecessarily” linking the ICC charges to the country’s national election.
Odinga believes Kenyatta and Ruto are the real beneficiaries of the post election violence, contrary to the Sunday announcement by Ruto that it is Odinga who benefited most.
“The real beneficiaries of post-election violence are only too evident. They include those currently in the process of returning property acquired in areas where post-election violence victims were known to have been dispossessed of their land. Now these beneficiaries are rushing to return the land, in order to evade court processes. What greater admission of guilt could there be?,” the premier posed in an apparent reference to a move by Ruto to return land being claimed by an IDP in an ongoing court case.
Odinga said he does not see why the two are linking the ICC issue to the general election Kenyans are gearing up to participate in later this year when President Kibaki relinquishes power.
“The ICC has unfortunately now become an election issue. But since it is an election issue, let it now be known that the coming elections will also be a referendum on impunity. The time has come when every one of us must stand up to be counted. Either you are for the rule of law, or you are for impunity. It can’t be both. A choice must be made,” the terse statement from the Raila Odinga Secretariat said.
There was no immediate reaction to this latest barrage from the DPM or Ruto.
Cases against the two were confirmed in January alongside those of Journalist Joshua arap Sang and former Head of the Civil Service Francis Muthaura, a key ally of President Mwai Kibaki who served most of his life in the public service.
And to stress his point, Odinga did not mince his words in the statement which sought to elaborate on the exact cause of the 2007-08 chaos in the country, largely blaming suspects facing charges in The Hague.
“Some forces with a selfish agenda of their own, which included settling scores that had nothing to do with the elections, took advantage of the ensuing protest against this disenfranchisement of the Kenyan electorate,” the statement said.
Similar occurrences had occurred in parts of the country in 1991-92 and in 1997.
Some 1,300 Kenyans were killed, more than half a million others forcefully renditioned and thousands suffered all manner of indignity, classified in the international system as crimes against humanity.
“The victims were Kenyan citizens. They were not occupying forces from some foreign country, whose killing and eviction might have been cause for heroism and celebration. The matter was then supposed to pass quietly away, as in 1992 and 1997, and to wait for another election and another wave of crimes against innocent citizens,” said the statement from the Prime Minister’s secretariat.
He also warned the duo against dragging him in the murky waters of the woes they are facing and instead advised them to “seek to defend themselves in the impending trial. If they are innocent, as they have frequently professed at charged public rallies, the court will no doubt acquit them. No public petulance on their part can substitute for the court process. Nor can forged documents and the besmirching of innocent persons’ reputations assist them.”
On Thursday, Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo tabled a document in Parliament purportedly authored by the British government which they also linked to Odinga alleging a conspiracy to have President Kibaki face charges at The Hague over the post election violence.
The UK government has since disowned the alleged dossier as a forgery.
“It is clear that the present posturing against the ICC, complete with the weaving in of the PM’s name and that of the British Government, is a dress rehearsal for non-cooperation with the ICC. It is clear that the foundation is being laid for the accused to refuse to attend trials of the cases against them,” the premier’s secretariat said.
Friday, February 09, 2007
Tony Gachoka: Gigolo Or Shrewd Operator With No Morals?
Most Kenyans first came to hear of Tony Gachoka during the late 80’s and early 90’s when he published an alternative press publication known as the Sunday Post.
What majority of Kenyans don’t know is the fact that the fast talking gigolo turned politician has such a sordid past that it could make a great script for a Hollywood thriller.
‘TG’ as he is popularly known by the ladies has been a fun loving guy from an early age and at one time, he used to hang out with Uhuru Kenyatta and Gideon Moi, two popular philanderers and playboys who’s limits were boundless
In a bid to sustain his big spending habits, Gachoka laid his hands on the title deed of the family’s coffee plantation and secured himself a big loan from the bank and went ahead to rent a full floor in a prestigious city building to conduct ‘business’.
One of the businesses he did was the publication of the notorious Sunday Post where his contacts with Gideon Moi proved useful because he was able to identify corrupt Asians, most of whom paid him handsomely to keep their stories out of his rag.
In between his business, ‘TG’ could usually take time off and fly to South Africa with the Moi and Kenyatta siblings for lunch or even a weekend and carry along beautiful young women who were in abundant supply for the trio, with the kind of money that was flowing.
Gachoka’s family only came to know of the loan when the bank attached their property for auction for nonpayment on the loan in a saga that resulted to Tony being cursed by the mother.
In a desperate bid to make money after the saga, Gachoka started preying on rich and lonely women and where best to find them than inside parliament and classy restaurants in exclusive suburbs.
He managed to catch the eye of Charity Ngilu while she was still in the opposition and an affair started soon after as her elderly husband, Engineer Ngilu was already senile and sick not to mention his terrible drinking habits. He died in December last year.
The rich engineer had already contracted high blood pressure and diabetes, two diseases that are known to quickly kill libido.
During this same period, Gachoka was also having other affairs with rich women in Nairobi, some even married as he struggled to maintain his big spending lifestyle by ‘borrowing’ lots of cash from his lovers.
His big break came when NARC came to power and Ngilu was appointed health minister. Gachoka o date been awarded lucrative tenders worth millions of shillings to ironically publicize the HIV-AIDS scourge.
The philanderer has made so much money that he has now opted to plunge into politics and he is contesting the Embakasi parliamentary seat on an ODM-Kenya ticket.
Unfortunately, most Kenyans in leadership positions know the story of Tony Gachoka very well and it will remain to be seen whether the high profile Gigolo will secure the ODM ticket.
Like any good, selfish opportunist, he has already made friends with ODM kingpin Raila Odinga and has even assured him that he is capable of securing votes for him from central province, a near impossible feat which Raila himself does not believe but again, with politics, ‘yote yawezekana’ which means everything is possible.
— On Sat, 8/11/12, Joseph Lister Nyaringo wrote:
From: Joseph Lister Nyaringo
Subject: Campaign to Kick out CJ Willy Mutunga
Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 10:28 AM
Thank God for the new constitution. Its exposing many and their nakedness.
Joseph Lister Nyaringo – North America
www.listernyaringo.org
http://listernyaringo.blogspot.com/
In prosperity our friends knows us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 10:28 AM
Thank God for the new constitution. Its exposing many and their nakedness.
From: paul nyandoto
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: Campaign to Kick out CJ Willy Mutunga
Guys:
I like kenyans in one way or the other. Sometimes we kenyans act very stupidly as if God never gave us any gift. What do we expect from Moi`s (Ruto) of Kenyatta`s (Uhuru) kids.
Kenyatta and then Moi ruled Kenya as if they were ruling their own back yards. Rules and laws were left to the poor and less fortunates to follow.
The ICC & United Nation wanted Kenyans to form local tribunal for the PEV. Did we do it?.
Now GSU should arrest Waki for committing treason. Come on kenyans have we now reduced ourselves to toddlers or what ?. Who in kenyan soil signed the Roman agreement concerning ICC and Hague?. Why can`t we be logical once in our life and send the GSU to arrest whoever linked kenya to the ICC officially and signed the agreements.
On the MRC I still think that we should think very hard on what those MRC are after: I would not like our country to be divided into parts just because some greedy arab sultan arrived earlier and settled in the cost so we have to follow their rules they used by then. It is an historical injustice against our local people by then which the greedy arabs never compensated for up to today.
On Willy Mutunga I think he has stood firm and he is not singing `baba na mama`with other idiots, that is why they want him off.
Paul Nyandoto
http://www.the-star.co.ke/national/national/89106-campaign-mooted-to-kick-out-cj
Campaign mooted to kick out CJ
SATURDAY, 11 AUGUST 2012 00:04 BY WALTER MENYA
The Star (Nairobi)
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Kenya: Campaign Mooted to Kick Out Chief Justice
Tagged: East Africa, Kenya, Legal Affairs
By Walter Menya, 11 August 2012
A campaign to intimidate the judiciary and eventually bring down Chief Justice Willy Mutunga was gathering pace yesterday. The Star has established that the the National Conservative Forum intends to launch a massive attack on the judiciary and the CJ to wear out Mutunga’s credibility and that of the judiciary.
According to multiple sources, the forum which is associated with politicians allied to Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto, is composed of professionals, some of whom were in the ‘No’ side during the 2010 referendum on the constitution.
Yesterday, the forum held a seminar at Panafric hotel in Nairobi, where key speakers launched scathing attacks on the judiciary for advancing a foreign agenda. The theme of the workshop was ‘Has judicial activism and civil society replaced the sovereign will of the people and become the alternative government?’ Sources said the forum was a launchpad for politicians allied to Uhuru and Ruto to make concerted calls for the CJ to resign or call on President Kibaki to set up a tribunal to investigate his conduct. The sources revealed that the workshop was a precursor to a nationwide political campaign to intimidate the judiciary.
Yesterday, the forum’s founder Jeniffer Shamalla and one of the speakers Charles Kanjama refuted claims that politicians close to the ICC suspects were the sponsors of the workshop. The workshop dwelt on the US’s interests in Kenya’s elections, especially after the recent visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “That is absolutely not true. It is simply an attempt to intimidate us,” Shamalla said. “Ask whoever said that. As far as I am concerned they are rumourmongers,” she added.
Among the speakers at the workshop were lawyers Kibe Muigai and Dr John Khaminwa. The speakers said the judiciary delivers rulings that were not based on law but on political correctness. Kanjama, who was in the ‘No’ camp in 2010 said he was not aware of such a scheme. “There may be such a plot but I am not aware of it,” he said.
During yesterday’s forum, Muigai accused the judiciary for being excessively activist. He cited three cases in which the judiciary allegedly played to the gallery and political whims in its rulings. These are the High Court ruling that found the appointment of county commissioners unconstitutional, the ruling on the delimitation of constituency boundaries and the another that lifted the ban on the Mombasa Republican Council. “I have no problem with judicial activism but it should serve the best causes. If you engage in activism, you must get the law right,” said Muigai. He asserted that in lifting the ban on MRC, the judiciary had legitimised treason.
He berated Justice Philip Waki whom he accused for committing acts of treason when he handed the envelope with names of the PEV suspects to chairman of the Panel of Eminent African Personalities Kofi Annan. “The reason why we have the ICC cases in Kenya is because Waki, on the steps of Harambee House, handed the envelope with the names of suspects to Kofi Annan. If I was President Kibaki, I would have ordered the GSU to immediately arrest Waki for committing treason,” Muigai stated.
Yesterday, the Star learnt that the group is also said to have identified human rights defenders who are alleged to be cooperating with the ICC for intimidation. “The CJ has been consistent in the application of the spirit and letter of the constitution which has caused a lot of panic among this group, considering the kind of rulings that are coming from the courts and the only way they have devised is to attack the CJ.
They are getting massive support from those who were against the new constitution and those who have plundered this country’s resources,” one human rights activist said yesterday. Last week, Uhuru’s lawyer Evans Monari sought the direction of the court on why Mutunga was commenting on the matter before the court.
10. Aug, 2012 Annanymous:
Reforms implemented in the judiciary since chief justice Dr. Willy Mutunga and his team assumed office last year have been cited as the most far reaching and worthy of being emulated by other arms of government. The judiciary has been asserting its authority as an independent arm of government, going by recent rulings delivered. And judicial activism, a term introduced to most Kenyans during the vetting of candidates to the position of chief justice and his deputy, is increasingly being used in reference to the workings of the judiciary today. But, is the trend good or bad for the delivery of justice? Put it differently, are the judges overreaching themselves? Sylvia Chebet sought some perspectives into this debate.
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Kenya: CIC Faults U.S Remarks Over Hague Suspects
By Brian Otieno, 11 August 2012
The Constitution Implementation Commission has criticised the assertions by the US that certain presidential candidates should not be allowed to contest in the general election. CIC chairman Charles Nyachae said Kenya seeks to implement the constitution notwithstanding anybody that might be affected by it.
Speaking in Mombasa yesterday, Nyachae said the law should not be implemented so as to target any individuals. “I read in the media and I have not read a denial to date…that the US secretary of State is said to have said to either the President or I’m not quite sure who about the US position on certain presidential candidates not being allowed to contest the coming elections.
“What we seek to do us Kenyans is to implement the constitution that we passed. What we are required to do as the commission that has an oversight responsibility is to ensure that that constitution is implemented in letter and spirit,” said Nyachae. “Implementing this constitution is not about targeting any individuals. We want a law that we would be able to have reference to,” he added.
US secretary of State Hillary Clinton is said to have expressed the US’ position regarding the candidacy of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyata and Eldoret North MP William Ruto. Uhuru and Ruto are facing charges of crime against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Their trials are set to starting in April 10 and 11 after elections.
Clinton, who visited Kenya last week and held talks with both President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, is quoted as saying suspects facing criminal charges should not be allowed to contest the presidency, noting if they were voted in, the US may find it difficult working with them. Yesterday, Nyachae said laws should be formed for posterity and that if anyone falls on the wrong side of the law then that will be that individual’s problem.
Nyachae said Chapter six of the must be respected and that laws must be right for anyone in the country and not made in such a way that it has particular effects on certain individuals. “What I would have expected, whether it is the US secretary of State or any other person who really seeks to support our constitution, what I would expect them is to call for Kenyans to ensure that we confirm compliance with the letter and spirit of the constitution and the law that is made there under.
“But the minute you begin talking about specific individuals then it looks like you are doing a law to target specific individuals. That cannot be the intention of the implementation of the constitution,” said Nyachae. At the same time, Nyachae also reiterated CIC’s disappointment over the Cabinet’s removal of the entire section of the Leadership and Integrity Bill that deals with the vetting of persons seeking state of public office.
“Right now as the Bill reads, there is not a process that can be used to vet you, when you want to run for office, to ensure that you are compliant with the letter and spirit of Chapter Six of the Constitution,” said Nyachae. He maintained that the commission will send detailed advisory to the National Assembly as they discuss the Bill. The commission has already published a public advisory.
“If that doesn’t work we will send another advisory to the President before he assents to the Bill, if that doesn’t work then we will have no choice but to go to the constitutional court,” said Nyachae. He was speaking on the sidelines of the CIC retreat with MPs on three security bills including the Kenya Defence Forces Bill, the National Security Council Bill and the National Intelligence Service Bill.
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Election will not be free and fair without the New Constitution is completed as agreed between Kibaki and Raila under National Reform signed Accord Agenda which became part of the New Constitution act.
Kibaki and Raila must be forced to step down and dissolve the Coalition Government in order to pave way for investigations and The Transitional Caretaker Committee for way forward for Kenaya to fix the Public Mandate Bills of Rights.
The constitution is faulty. It has been severely and dangerously damaged. Candidates who plan to use the severed damaged constitution are in a conspiracy to put public democratic mandate, life and security in danger. Their purpose of doing so is to benefit from faulty constitutional document apparatus they put in place in an irregular out-of-order against National Reform Accord Agenda Ch. 6; which is equally against the principle Agreement taken between Kibaki and Raila for which Coalition Government was formed and at which the two Principals swore to uphold; protect, preserve and constitute; wherefore this schemed behavior makes their political landscaping engagement of fuelling the election to be illegal and unconstitutional; that which according to popular law, is believed to be a prescription the two Principals preferred to throw Kenya into chaos and instability. It amounts to pollute and destroy the otherwise present peaceful environment so they can factor their engineered chaos to evade democratic process of constitutional governance as well as confuse legal justice to fail Public Mandate.
In an environment lacking security or safety, the political environment remains extremely vulnerable and susceptible to attack. It is therefore insecure to allow election to take place under such conditions more or so before the Constitution is completed according to public mandate. Involving or causing danger or risk to humanity; being liable to hurt or harm through utilization of organized dangerous criminal gangs; instability by causing threats or intimidation through political mission agents or Administration Police (AP) as is the case on the ground, is part of the engineered plan for creating insecure environment with unemployment reaching dangerous proportions, where crooked corrupt and unscrupulous politicians organized to take advantage of vulnerable people to engage in chaos and are paid to kill each other from political handout given to the youth to propel such destructive mission agenda. Part of this was recently witnessed where family members of Miguna Miguna were harassed and Villagers instigated to burn Miguna’s effigy; while Al-Shabaab warns of Nairobi terror attack during Ramadhan. These are organized criminal activities by the leadership of the Coalition Government with a purpose to throw Kenya into chaos and use Kenya as a battle ground in the wake of Arab Spring smoking Kenya from Syria……….the Drones might get into wrong hands of Chinese control in Kenya’s Coalition Government Special Interest…………..Things may fall apart………..?????
It is an open book that Chinese are not working in isolation but engage with unscrupulous International business enterprising network of free traders who engage in shoddy professional lobbyist; they engage drug peddlers; they deal in offshore baking; Ponzi Scheme, Pyramid Scheme and Hedge funding for Equity Financial Institutions; they engage in Oil, Minerals and Natural resources like Gold and Diamond, land with fresh water ways; they focus and target to own and control all seat-bed FOUNTAIN for Public Wealth Resources from Africa………with intention to WIPE OUT AFRICANS FROM AFRICA. This is the reason why they influence the Coalition Government leadership not to honor their obligated Public Mandate Bills of Rights, Human Rights or the Reform Accord…..but instead, Mutilate the New Constitution to provide a window for their unscrupulousness with corruption to benefit Special Interest……..In short, trading into trillions of fiscal debts burdening taxpayer and without Trading policy regulations for Bills of Right and against public protection acts or security to environment pollution distability of land firmness from droping heavy Oil and Mineral riggs on the ground without care is illegal and unconstitutionally posing social and economic risks and injustices to the people’s health and survival.
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA GOING TO SIT BACK AND JUST WATCH THINGS FALL APART IN KENYA AND THE CORRUPT ENJOYING A FIELDS DAY AGAINST PUBLIC INTEREST AND MANDATE….. ???????
Presently there is fear and anxiety from show-case of political organized looming crime threatening great harm to public and the situation is fluid and life-threatening specifically so, in such severe incidences from those terrorists calling for attack. This is critical and it calls for critical crucial emergency to avert alarming insecurity. The situation is extremely unsafe, precarious and treacherous to undertake election.
Where there is no law or order in governance; possible expected results is absolute confusion and chaos is what reigns. This therefore amounts to Failed Government. Kenya is best placed in category of Failed Government.
To save a situation and instead of the dromes, Kibaki and Raila must urgently face justice. Kibaki and Raila are irresponsible and extremely corrupt. They have failed Kenya miserably. They both have burdens of illegalities they committed against human rights and must face the law and they must face justice before they can be cleared from wrong doing. For that reason, we cannot go to war because of 2 or 25 dangerously corrupt Kenyans who prefer to rule by hooks or crooks after selling Kenya to the unscrupulous corrupt International Corporate Special Business Interest scrambling to Africa and using Chinese and Indians as Commission Agents. This cannot be acceptable…….90% of good people must stand up and act to save Kenya with the rest of Africa……. If what Esther Arunga claims here is true, then Kibaki and Raila have a case to answer…….These are some of the reason why Kibaki and Raila must face justice urgently…….
A Transitional Caretaker Committee must be urgently instituted to chart way-forward for Kenya……..This is the surest way to avert looming battle-ground in Kenya which is schemed to spread all over Africa; an aim of Chinese takeover colonialism.
Since this case-scenario is pre-engineered by the Status Quo; people’s lives must be protected from unsafe, risky, hazardous, insecure and likely to cause physical injury in a security flaw of engineered dangerous political landscape with an option of taking legal intervention.
People, we cannot sit pretty. We must do whatever necessary that needs to be done in probability of legal justice to save flood of death looming in Kenya. We are the ones (in our own ways) engage to better improve situation in Kenya. This cannot wait people……….
May God continue to give us wisdom to overcome……..
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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China to Give Kenya Ksh 1.7 Trillion Loan
Published on Jul 19, 2012 by kenyacitizentv
China will give Kenya 1.7 trillion shilling in new loans to fund various development projects over the next three years. the money is part of an Africa investment fund set up by the world’s second largest economy in the year 2009 that has now been doubled to 20billion U.S dollars. Prime Minister Raila Odinga who is leading the Kenyan delegation to the china- Africa co-operation summit in Beijing, said the new funding will be used to finance projects in infrastructure, manufacturing and development of small businesses. Denis Otieno has the details.
China: “No cap” to financial assistance we can give Kenya
Published on Jun 28, 2012 by NTVKenya
http://www.ntv.co.ke
The government is seeking 21 billion shillings from the Chinese government to build 3 berths in Lamu, part of the 35 to be constructed under the ambitious Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport project, LAPPSET. Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua revealed this during the signing of a 6-billion-shilling concessional loan with China for the expansion of the country’s fibre optic infrastructure. The funds will be used to enhance fibre connectivity between Nairobi and former provincial headquarters as well as inter-linking the large area networks of 36 district administrative centres.
Is China the next superpower?
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Many people see China’s strength mainly in its economy and although China’s economy now ranks as the second largest in the world, its per capita income is still roughly 10 times lower than that of Japan and the United States. Due to The low standard of living China is forced to export. And that’s what the Chinese economy is, an export- oriented economic system. This has made China overwhelmingly dependent on consumers in the West. Chinese exports, which go through the global sea trade routes, are dominated by the U.S. Navy. This forces Beijing to invest its resources to build a modern navy to protect its interests. Aside from the economics and naval buildup, China faces enormous domestic issues. The east side of its territory is inhabited by secessionist-minded minority groups. The control of the Eastside takes an enormous toll on the Chinese economy as Beijing has to balance the prosperity in the East with the disparity in the West. Aside from internal fragmentation China faces a lot of external pressure from its neighbors. Unlike the United States, China has to contend with strong regional rivals. Just think of Japan, Russia, and India. Even the smaller neighbors are no pushovers: Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam; they will put a lot of weight on the Chinese military and economic resources just to defend the Chinese territorial integrity.
At best China will be an economic superpower and it will take place as one of the world’s leading trading powers. But the economic and military resources of Beijing will always be stretched thin. It has to devote enormous amount of military resources just to defend its territorial integrity from its internal fragilities and external rivals.
What are Chinese troops doing in Kashmir?
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US plans to give Kenya drones in Shabaab war
Serviceman of the Baltic fleet marines’ reconnaissance group setting a Grusha unmanned air vehicle in flight at the Khmelevka military range, the testing grounds for air drones in this file photo. The United States plans to provide eight small drones to Kenya as part of a new package to help combat Somalia militia Al-Shabaab July 21, 2012
By NATION Reporter
Posted Saturday, July 21 2012 at 10:12
The United States plans to provide eight small drones to Kenya as part of a new package to help combat Somalia militia Al-Shabaab.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the “eight hand-launched Raven drones” will form part of key military assistance from the Pentagon.
The WSJ said a review of Pentagon documents shows that Kenya will get the Raven drones with sensors used to pinpoint targets.
Ravens are unarmed but can be used to identify targets for strikes using ground forces, the WSJ says.
“This assistance will help build the capacity of Kenyan national military forces to conduct CT (counterterrorism) operations by providing tactical unmanned aircraft systems and training,” the WSJ reported quoting a Pentagon document.
“This assistance will improve the tactical effectiveness and operational reach of the Kenyan National Defence Forces engaged in CT operations against Al-Shabaab in Somalia.”
The Ravens for Kenya are part of an initial $41.4 million package of military aid that also includes trucks, communications gear and rifles for Burundi, Djibouti and Uganda, WSJ said.
Shabaab warns of Nairobi terror attack during Ramadhan
Al-Shabaab militia head to Somalia’s southern port of Kismayu October 1, 2009. The terror group has warned of terror attacks in Nairobi over the month of Ramadhan July 20, 2012. FILE
By FRED MUKINDA fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Friday, July 20 2012 at 09:11
Somalia militia Al-Shabaab has warned of terror attacks in Nairobi over the month of Ramadhan that starts Saturday.
Nairobi police boss Anthony Kibuchi made the revelation Friday, barely a day after he ordered increased police presence around shopping malls and bus stops in the city.
“Al-Shabaab terrorists have issued threats that they will carry out massive destruction during Holy Month of Ramadhan. Let everybody be extra alert,” he said.
On Thursday, the Israeli embassy in Nairobi repeated warnings of a global onslaught by terrorists, saying Kenya was among the countries targeted.
The Al-Shabaab has since October last year hit targets in Kenya, most recently in Wajir, where four people were injured in twin grenade explosions on Wednesday.
One blast went off at around 7.45pm at Dubai Shopping Mall and the second exploded about 400 metres away.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the attacks as “horrific” and likened them to an earlier explosion at a bus in Bulgaria where seven people, among them six Israelis were killed.
The bus was packed with young Israeli tourists.
In a dispatch from the Nairobi embassy, Mr Netanyahu said: “All signs point towards Iran. Over the last few months we have seen Iran’s attempts to attack Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya, Cyprus and other countries. This is a global Iranian terror onslaught and Israel will react firmly to it.”
Two Iranians — Mr Ahmad Abolafathi Mohammed and Mr Sayed Mansour Mousa — were arrested in Kenya last month and detained at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison on charges of being in possession of 15 kilogrammes of RDX, a chemical used in making bombs.
RDX is a more powerful explosive compared to TNT, the conventional ingredient for making bombs such as the one used in 1998 US embassy attack in Nairobi which killed more than 200 people.
In Nairobi, Mr Kibuchi said “vulnerable places” had been identified and more officers deployed to keep vigil, including the paramilitary General Service Unit personnel.
On Wednesday, a United Nations report that cited intelligence reports revealed that Al-Shabaab was planning grenade attacks at one of its offices in Nairobi.
“It is possible that the increase in media reporting on UN aid to Amisom forces as well as on security at the Dadaab refugee camps could have contributed to raising the profile and priority of the United Nations as a potential target,” the report says in part.
Al-Shabaab launched terror attacks in Kenya after Kenya Defence Forces entered Somalia in October last year.
At least 19 attacks have occurred since with grenades being used in most of them.
Nairobi has been hit four times, most recently when a fertiliser bomb exploded at Assanand’s House on Moi Avenue, injuring 36 people in May.
America’s Associated Press reported that the two Iranians are believed to be members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, an elite and secretive unit that acts against foreign interests.
Last week, the United States embassy announced that the country’s government employees had been prohibited from traveling to North Eastern province, where most of the terror attacks have happened, and also cautioned its citizens from making unnecessary visits.
China’s Internal problems:
There are 20,000 violent clashes every year in China and it is getting worse and worse. The Chinese citizens are ramping up for an Arab Spring of their own as factories continue to close down throwing millions of young single men out on their asses and it’s gonna be a blood bath. America could decided to send the jobs to Latin America.
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China, Kenya pledge closer cooperation
English.news.cn 2012-07-19 21:52:17
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amollo Odinga in Beijing, capital of China, July 19, 2012. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)
BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amollo Odinga on Thursday agreed to further promote bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which kicked off in the Chinese capital on Thursday.
In recent years, China-Kenya ties have developed rapidly and comprehensively, with fruitful achievements in the cooperation in various fields, Xi said.
Both sides have continued to push forward practical cooperation in trade and economy, maintaining an annual bilateral trade growth of over 30 percent, Xi said, adding that people-to-people and civil exchanges between the two countries have also been expanded.
Xi said China is willing to work with Kenya to further promote the relations of friendship and cooperation. The two sides should enhance communication in governance experience and strengthen mutual political trust through high-level exchanges, he said.
China and Kenya should also strengthen mutual support in issues of each other’s core interests and concerns, deepen practical cooperation, and consolidate the substantial foundation of the two countries’ friendship, Xi said.
China will consider taking part in the financing and construction of Kenya’s key developmental projects, and promote bilateral trade balance in various forms, according to Xi.
China will also push forward people-to-people exchanges between the two sides, and enhance exchange and cooperation with Kenya in areas including education, culture, press and tourism, he said.
Xi said consolidating and developing relations with African countries is an important foundation stone of China’s diplomatic policies. China is ready to use the Fifth Ministerial Conference of FOCAC as an opportunity to join hands with African countries, including Kenya, to push the new type of China-Africa strategic partnership to a new stage.
For his part, Odinga said in recent years, cooperation between the two sides have developed in a vigorous manner. The Africa-China cooperation under the framework of FOCAC have brought important changes to Africa and strengthened the energy and momentum of Africa’s development.
He said Kenya is willing to enhance ties with China to benefit peoples of the two countries. Kenya will firmly adhere to the One-China policy, he added.
Odinga said Kenya welcomes Chinese companies to invest in his country, and take part in Kenya’s development in the sectors of oil, infrastructure, ports, electricity and manufacturing. He said he hoped more Chinese tourists will travel to Kenya.
Kenya is also ready to strengthen coordination with China in international issues such as United Nations reforms and confronting climate change, Odinga added.
Despite Mary Wambui’s interference: It will be FREE and FAIR
The Kenyan DAILY POSTNews04:17
Saturday July 20TH 2012–
Despite allegations that PNU activist Mary Wambui is behind the wrangles in the tendering process for the supply of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), a survey indicates that the IEBC is capable of conducting a free and fair election.
The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation team (KNDR) found out in their survey that 78 per cent of Kenyans are optimistic the commission will deliver on its mandate. The report said the next general election will be free and fair and only seven per cent think other-wise. The report says that although members of the public have confidence in the commission; they still want the process to be transparent and accounted for.
The report comes in the wake of rumours and speculation that Wambui through her contacts from State House, has been awarded the lucrative tender to supply Biometric Voter Registration kits worth Sh 3.9 billion by the IEBC. The company named Symphony Ltd which Wambui is one of the directors was blacklisted by parliament after it was declared insolvent in year 2007-08 but it has been awarded the tender anyway.
According to unaudited accounts of the company, the firm made Sh 3.4 billion sales in the last two years but placed a bid to supply Sh 3.9 billion Biometric Voter registration equipments.The company is also on the spotlight over financing of Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi’s presidential campaigns. Wrangles over the tendering process have even forced the resignation of the initial board as IEBC sought to fast track the tendering process.
The KNDR sought to know what two things should be done to ensure the next general elections were fair and majority of Kenyans responded that transparency and accountability in the election process.
http://www.kenyan-post.com/2012/07/is-raila-dating-shebesh.html
REVEALED: Mary Wambui, State House and now the IEBC mystery
The Kenyan DAILY POSTPolitics01:58
Friday July 20, 2012 –
We at the DAILY POST inform Kenyans without fear or favour.
Reports just in, is that PNU activist Mary Wambui is behind the wrangles in the tendering process for the supply of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
Through her contacts from State House, the controversial political activist has been awarded the lucrative tender to supply Biometric Voter Registration kits worth Sh 3.9 billion by the IEBC.
The company named Symphony Ltd which Wambui is one of the directors was blacklisted by parliament after it was declared insolvent in year 2007-08 but it has been awarded the tender anyway.
According to unaudited accounts of the company, the firm made Sh 3.4 billion sales in the last two years but placed a bid to supply Sh 3.9 billion Biometric Voter registration equipments.
The company is also on the spotlight over financing of Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi’s presidential campaigns.
Last month, Mary Wambui visited President Mwai Kibaki at his office in Harambee House, in a bid to woo him to push for her to be given the tender by the commission. This is the visit that cost the head of Presidential Security’s job after Mama Lucy Kibaki ordered him reassigned immediately because he had allowed Mary to visit her husband.
Wrangles over the tendering process have even forced the resignation of the initial board as IEBC sought to fast track the tendering process.
Is this not CORRUPTION?
Officer disarmed by thugs in Nairobi
By ZADOCK ANGIRA
Posted Friday, July 20 2012 at 08:11
A police officer lost his firearm during a confrontation with thugs who had carjacked a bus in Kilimani on Thursday night.
The officer, who was seriously injured, was in company of two of his colleagues and were trailing suspects who had allegedly carjacked a Citi Hoppa after it picked passengers in Ngumo Estate.
Five men had boarded the bus posing as passengers and when the bus reached the Mbagathi flyover, they started robbing the passengers. On spotting the officers, they alighted and headed towards Kibera on foot.
The officers, in civilian clothes and armed with pistols, pursued them and shot one of them dead. They recovered some cash, six handbags and three mobile phones.
The rest escaped and the officers started pursuing them in different directions. As the officer tried to fire, his Ceska pistol failed to discharge and the thugs attacked him, hitting him on the mouth.
Constable Tanui, who is said to be a stable condition, lost his upper teeth and suffered an injury on the mouth in the attack and is admitted to the Kenyatta National Hospital.
The officer in charge of operations within Kilimani division and the OCS Capitol Hill police station rushed to the scene but did not recover the firearm. Operations could not be coordinated since the police communication channels were still jammed.
Elsewhere, in Kayole, Nairobi police arrested a house girl who had abducted a one-year-old child and demanded Sh50, 000 ransom. The suspect, 29, had abducted the child in Kayole’s Sabasaba area before she started calling the child’s parents demanding the money. Police laid a trap and arrested her and rescued the baby.
In another incident, motorist was carjacked on Outering Road and robbed of Sh5, 000 by two armed men who later abandoned him in Kamulu, Ruai.
Villagers burn Miguna’s effigy
By Nicholas Anyuo,
Posted: Jul 17, 2012
Villagers angered by the writings of Miguna Miguna carried his effigy demonstrated against him and even bought a coffin which they burned and poured ashes in a river.
In small tiny dusty and rusty township of Ahero near Lake Victoria, there were emotional reactions laced with political messages just because Miguna Miguna had attacked Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a man they considered a hero in his book Peeling Back the Mask.
Women, youths and the elderly people alike demonstrated along the Kisumu-Nairobi highway, causing a traffic snarl-up for over three hours.
Chants, ululations and whistle blowing rent the air as villagers jigged in fits of anger and protest.
They were not done. Armed with the coffin the demonstrators sang funeral dirges and sounded drums of mourning borrowed from the Luo rituals of death and cleansing and performed routines required in fending off evils that cause death.
Earlier, the demonstrators threatened to stage a mock burial at Miguna’s home in Buoye, few Kilometres from Ahero township, but it was later shelved and the effigy of Miguna and a ‘coffin’ were instead burnt to ashes at Ahero-Kisii junction.
And the ashes too were sprinkled on River Nyando hoping the evil spirits flow all the way to Egypt leaving behind a ‘cleansed village.
The protesters, were led by Nyando MP, Fred Outa, prepared the coffin from cartons together with an effigy of Miguna Miguna, which they carried shoulder high along the road before burning them.
Some of the placards carried by the protesters had unpublishable graffiti.
The ‘coffin’ that had a red cross over it had an inscription, “R.I.P Miguna,’ as demonstrators gave armed police hectic time to control the traffic along the Kisumu-Nairobi highway.
They claimed he has been a bad child of the village who does not obey his people. We are fed up with him,” said a demonstrator who only identified himself as Ochieng’.
The protesters started the demonstration in Ahero town, towards Kisumu and then back to Ahero where the MP addressed them before they proceeded to Ahero junction to burn the effigy and the ‘coffin.’
Before burning them, they staged a traditional celebration tero buru, which is normally performed when the community is chasing away the evil spirits, mostly ones that they believe death.
The elders and some civic leaders who carried the Luo traditional clubs, rungu, lined in front of the ODM office as the ‘coffin’ was placed before them, where they bashed Miguna that he was no longer a recognized son of people of Nyando.
“We don’t support him at all in this area. We need a man who respects his people. Miguna is not a respectful son,” said Mzee Adhiambo Lomo.
The area OCPD Patrick Mbarire said there was tension and security would be availed to ensure the family of Miguna is not exposed to risk.
“Security is fine. Some of the claims are about security of the brother, but we are here to save the situation in case,” he said.
However, Mr Outa advised youths against planning to attack Miguna’s brother. He said that the demonstrators were only concerned with what they were doing in Ahero and no one was planning to proceed to Miguna’s brother’s home.
“We have no problem with the family at home. No one is planning to do that. Our peaceful demonstration was in Ahero and it ends there,” he said.
Earlier, family of former Miguna in his ancestral Magina village claimed they are living in fear after claims youths were planning to attack them over the contents of his newbook.
When The Standard visited the only Miguna’s brother, Erick Ondiek Miguna at his home in Magina, he said that he had received information yesterday morning that some people were planning to attack him over Miguna’s book.
He said that he heard that demonstrators were to proceed to his home and burn his houses as a show of solidarity against his brother Miguna Miguna.
“I don’t know what is wrong with people. I am not Miguna Miguna. I don’t even want to be a politician and I am not one. Why do they have to threaten me? I am a humble Kenyan and I have to be loyal to the Government,” he said.
He said he was forced to call the area District Commissioner and the OCPD over the matter who had promised to send him security officers to help him save the situation.
“I have talked to the police and they have promised me security over this. I have my family and I have to protect them. What do you think will happen if they come and meet my sons here? If they want Miguna they go to his home in Nairobi,” he added.
But in a quick rebuttal of the demo in Nyando, Miguna responded aptly:
“Current happenings in Nyando is an evidence of psycophancy and cultism with shambolic Outa leading demonstrations carrying a coffin. It shows how Idiot and shameless he is. I will never be threatened.”
Raila should have resigned a long time ago. He is totally incompetent; he is very disorganized; he is dysfunctional; he is confused, [and] he has not executed his functions as he should.
“Do you think I will stay in the same country and challenge a prime minister of an African country? Do you think by this time I would still be walking free? Wouldn’t they have locked me up on any flimsy [charge]? I am clean. I mean he has not said that what I said was false. He has not denied any of the allegations. Why can’t he stand and deny them,” said Miguna.
“Why does he fear going to court? Why is he trying to threaten me using goons…is that how a responsible prime minister behaves?”
He added : “I am not a project. It’s a quest for justice. As ODM prepares a team of 50 lawyers to cool matters, I urge them to go ahead. I will teach them some law and take all of them to Hague.”
Source: Standard
AIDS Care China has over the past few months facing closure of their very successful treatment programs for PLHIVs. The Nanning authorities have decided to close the ACC supported clinic creating a gap in services for those PLHIV that it served. The ITPC Global Secretariat condemns this decision by the Nanning health authorities. Their decision has resulted not only in the denial of treatment services for those in need but also has affected AIDS Care China’s work on implementing the WHO/UNAIDS strategy of Treatment 2.0 with a focus on community provided services and support. This is a major setback for community organizations as this community-clinic demonstrated the cost-effectivies of such services.
In solidarity,
Sarah
ITPC
Closure of clinic raises AIDS care costs
Updated: 2012-06-26 05:12
By Shan Juan (China Daily)
The decision to close the first private clinic to treat AIDS patients on the Chinese mainland will create a gap in affordable HIV/AIDS treatment, critics say.
Health authorities decided to close the clinic in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on May 28 after finding that it was not registered to treat AIDS patients.
They also said the decision was a result of their campaign to regulate medical practices and ensure that Nanning has an orderly healthcare industry.
“If a physician lacks expertise and the appropriate buildings and equipment, there will be the risk of cross-infection and a further spreading of the disease,” Ding Wei, deputy director of the health bureau in Nanning, told Xinhua News Agency.
During its 19 months in operation, the nonprofit clinic, mainly funded by AIDS Care China, an NGO that supports AIDS patients and their families, treated more than 100 full-blown AIDS patients who suffered from tuberculosis, bacterial pneumonia, meningitis and other infections. Medical care at the clinic costs less than at large public hospitals.
Thomas Cai, who leads AIDS Care China, acknowledged that the clinic had defects, but said it had helped save the lives of those who could not afford to be treated at public hospitals.
China’s Five-year Action Plan for HIV/AIDS Control (2011-15) calls for qualified and competent NGOs to get involved in the country’s campaign to control and treat AIDS.
Most anti-AIDS NGOs now help health authorities with HIV/AIDS prevention and behavior intervention, said Jing Jun, a professor in Tsinghua University’s social policy institute.
He said health authorities should pay such organizations to provide services needed to supplement the government’s fight against the disease.
The work of civil societies should be integrated into the country’s comprehensive work in AIDS intervention, the action plan said.
The plan also said treatment costs should be lowered to make medical care less expensive for AIDS patients.
Cai said the cost of treating more than 100 patients was about 220,000 yuan ($34,600). Care in large, State-owned hospitals would probably have cost 10 times that amount, he said.
“Closing the clinic is tantamount to denying poor patients affordable and lifesaving treatment,” he said.
On the Chinese mainland, the government has been offering free antiretroviral treatment to AIDS patients since 2003.
Also, the country’s Infectious Disease Prevention and Treatment Law, promulgated in 2004, classifies HIV/AIDS as a Grade B infectious disease, meaning that those who contract it do not have to be quarantined at designated hospitals.
No regulations or laws now prohibit privately owned clinics on the Chinese mainland from treating AIDS patients.
“Patients should at least have the choice of obtaining cheaper treatment at clinics like the one in Nanning,” said an AIDS patient surnamed Zhao. He said he tends to go to large public hospitals if he can afford to pay for treatment.
The PLA’s sustained modernization effort over the past two decades has driven remarkable transformation within the force and put the creation of modern command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) infrastructure at the heart of the PLA’s strategic guidelines for long term development. This priority on C4ISR systems modernization, has in turn been a catalyst for the development of an integrated information warfare (IW) capability capable of defending military and civilian networks while seizing control of an adversary’s information systems during a conflict.
The effects of preemptive penetrations may not be readily observable or detected until after combat has begun or after Chinese computer network attack (CNA) teams have executed their tools against targeted networks. Even if circumstantial evidence points to China as the culprit, no policy currently exists to easily determine appropriate response options to a large scale attack on U.S. military or civilian networks in which definitive attribution is lacking. Beijing, understanding this, may seek to exploit this gray area in U.S. policymaking and legal frameworks to create delays in U.S. command decision making.
Earlier in the past decade, the PLA adopted a multi-layered approach to offensive information warfare that it calls Integrated Network Electronic Warfare or INEW strategy. Now, the PLA is moving toward information confrontation as a broader conceptualization that seeks to unite the various components of IW under a single warfare commander. The need to coordinate offensive and defensive missions more closely and ensure these missions are mutually supporting is driven by the recognition that IW must be closely integrated with PLA campaign objectives.
The recent upsurge in the sweeping waves of the Chinese businessmen in the East African market may soon come to an abrupt end following allegations and claims that a Chinese firm had sold obsolete aircraft to the Tanzania national carrier.
One of the plane crushed within weeks after the delivery to the Air Tanzania Corporation Limited {ATCL}.
Of late the Chinese construction companies are on the lead clinching nearly all the major roads construction contracts in Kenya, also been accused in certain quarters of doing shoddy works.
The Chinese firms win the tenders after corrupting their way through the top government officials.
They have since replaced the traditional construction companies from Western European countries,which used to handle major road construction projects in the region.
In the latest development,. China Sonagol International Holdings limited, the Chinese government investment firm has been plunged into fresh controversy following recent startling revelation that it procured obsolete aircraft for the Tanzania national flag carrier.
On of the three aircraft purchased by China sonangol, a Dash 8-300 series operated by ATCL crushed in April this year at Kigoma Airport in Western Tanzania injuring85 passengers and four crew members.The aircraft is now a write off.
This information has come to the surface following a detailed report by the Controller and Audit General released last week says that China Sonangol ltd as the lead investor in ATCL, with 49 per cent stake in 2007 leased two second hand aircraft contrary to the memorandum of understanding entered with the Government of Tanzania that same year,after the breakup of the partnership with the South African Airways in September 2006.
The planes were bombardier Dash 8-Q300 and an Airbus A320-214 that was all of ten years old in January 2009,the Airbus A320 underwent a check D, also known as a heavy maintenance visit, which is done after every four to five years.
Subsequently in July 2010, the aircraft was returned to the lessor, a Lebanese firm, Wallis Trading Company. The government on paper incurred a loss of USD 39 million on the lease of the Airbus, which according to the report did not fly, but the report further shows that the debt accumulated from the transactions with the two Lebanese firm rose to Tshs 322 {USD 200 million}, enough to purchase three brand new Airbuses of the same series.According to Airbus aircraft 2012 average prices,the purchase order price of a brand new Airbus 320 series is USD 88.3 million.
The Controller and Audit General Lodvick Utpouah says thwqt the government involvement in business decision making at ATCL is a serious problem.
Uto says that the parties involved in the acquisition of two Dash 8-400 series aircraft that are currently being operated by ATCL were the government and China Sonangol and the airline’s board of directors and management were not part of the negotiations.”They were only informed of the decision to procure the two aircraft and asked to advance USD 500,000 as commitment,” he says. Mr Uto has now recommends that the government officials who participated in the controversial Airbus A3200-214 leasing deal be taken to court and prosecuted for forcing ATCL I the first place ATCL exists as a private company wide section three of its article of association,” he writes, add9inbg that its governance,organizational structure and business processes are therefore to be viewed from a private prospective rather than than that of a public company.
He CAG’s report also notes that ATCL has for the past year been operating without a board of directors to oversee its operations and activities.When the previous board of directors tenure expired in March 2010,another board was not instituted until August 2010 when the government extended the tenure of the old board to March 31 2011,that has no board of directors in place ,”said the report.
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kitwete has set the record of an African head of state that has bravely parted the company with eight ministers in his concerted effort to help his government get rid of corruption and graft.
The latest emergence of rampant corruption in the Eastern African region is being attributed to the arrival of Chinese business people scrambling for influence and businesses, mainly in the construction industry.
The Chinese construction firms have taken over the construction of road network, building of bridges, expansion of ports and other economic infrastructure.
These Chinese big business people are said to be too generous in parting with colossal amount of money in “kick-backs” unlike the former traditional firms from Western European countries, which for many years dominated the construction industry in the region.
The Tanzanian head of state two weeks ago fired six ministers and their two deputies over corruption allegations and other accountability shortcomings, in a case that puts the Kenyan and Ugandan executives on the spot in their handling of cabinet members mentioned in shady dealings.
Kikwete relieved the eight ministers of their ministerial positions following nearly two weeks of pressure by members of Tanzanian Parliament and the public who wanted them dropped in order to repair the damaged image of the government.
The action came after four different reports, one by the Auditor and Controller General, and the others by parliamentary oversight committees exposed corruption an embezzlement of hundreds of millions of shillings in public funds in the respective ministries.
The sacked ministers include Mustafa Mkulo {Finance}.William Ngeleja {Energy}, Ezekiel Miage {Tourism and Natural Resources}.Cyril Chami {Trade and Industry}, Omar Nundu {Transport} and his Deputy Athumani Mkatakamba, the Health Minister Hadji Mponda and his deputy Dr Lucy Nkya.
It has since emerged that some of the fired officials are very close political allies of the president.
The sacking on May 4, 2012 was the second time in as many in as many years government minister implicated in scandals were forced out or resigned voluntarily to save the image of the government and safeguard the political interests of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi {CCM}.
In February 2008, the then Prime Minister Edward Lowasa stepped aside from office after parliamentary select committee investigating a USD 172 million emergency power generation contract between Tanzania Electric Supply Company {TANESCO} and an American registered firm accused him of influencing the award.
Resigning with him were two ministers who held the Energy and Minerals docket-Nazir Karamagiand Dr Ebrahim Msabaha.
In the recent reshuffle the ministers suspected of corruption and influence peddling. Some of them came under heavy censure for presiding over corrupt public institutions, including failing to take disciplinary action against those found to have misappropriated money meant for schools, health centers, roads and other public projects.
The former Finance Mister Mustafa Mkulo was blamed for rising national debt, deterioration of the local currency and spiraling inflation, which led to a sharp rise in the cost of living.
The sacked minister was also accused of diverting money in the budget without Parliament’s approval, MPs debating in Dodoma during the month of April session claimed the Finance Minister had interfered with the day to day management of boards of directors for the parastatals and agencies under his ministerial docket.
The fired Energy and Mineral Resources Minister William Ngeleja paid the price for the crippling power crisis in the country as well as failure to steer the ministry into delivering satisfactory national benefits from mineral resource, mainly gold.
The dismissed minster for Tourism and Natural Resources Ezekiel Maige found himself under a storm related issuance of wildlife and hunting block licenses. He was also forced to come out and explain how he had acquired his enormous wealth within the shortest time he had been minister.
The sacked Trade and Industry Minister Cyril Chami was blamed for being indecisive on alleged scandals in connection with the pre-shipment inspection of Tanzania destined vehicles- a task undertaken by the Tanzania Bureau of Standards{TBS} and which reportedly saw the agency lose colossal amount of money to the tune of Tshs 13 billion in suspect payments.
The sacked Transport Minister Omar Nundu and his deputy Athumani Mkatakamba, were dropped from the cabinet apparently due to irregularities in the expansion of the Dar Es Salaam Port. The two officials were also reported to have differed publicly on which companies to support to undertake the port project, with the minister publicly revealing in a press conference that his deputy was sponsored for foreign trips by a Chinese company interested in the construction tender of the project.
Not surprisingly, the top two top officials of the Ministry of Health an Social Welfare,Dr Hadji Mponda and his deputy Dr.Lucy Nkya, lost their slots as the result of a recent stormy doctors strike that shook the East African nation.
President Kikwete was quoted as having said,”it is a good practice for Ministers to take political responsibility, however, this time around directors in departments, chief executive officers in parastatals and the likes who caused the problems must also go. There are people who have a tendency of plotting against their ministers.”
Some political analysts and independent commentators say the the Tanzania case should be the roll model and should be adopted to make the East African region compliant to tenets of democracy, good governance and war on corruption.
They say, however, that Kenya and Uganda as senior members of the East African Community are worst affected and suffer deplorable levels of public accountability. Case in point is the going controversy involving the National Hospital Insurance Funds {NHIF} scandal with the Minister for Medical Services Prof Pete Anyang’ Nyong’o strongly resisting calls for him to step aside over what appears a monumental insurance cover rip-off under his watch.
Former Education Minister Prof. Sam K.Ongeri vehemently resisted a call for his suspension an deployed political tactics in resisting any disciplinary action an switched the blames to others after his ministry’s top official having squandered and vandalized millions of money donated by the British government for free primary education I the country.
East China’s Zhejiang province has scrapped its mandatory HIV testing for drug addicts, a move seen as great progress in protecting privacy.
Under current regulations for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Zhejiang, law enforcement officers should notify local disease prevention and control departments after arresting drug addicts, and work with them to carry out mandatory HIV tests on drug addicts.
Lu Hanfu, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Congress, said mandatory HIV testing of drug addicts has no legal basis, which is the reason the commission made the revision.
The move came after the Administrative Coercion Law – which aims to provide a legal basis to guarantee and supervise the administrative bodies’ performance – took effect this year. The law also aims to protect the rights and interests of citizens.
“The country hasn’t actually enacted any special laws or regulations in carrying out mandatory HIV testing on drug addicts,” Lu said.
According to current regulations in China, the State should implement voluntary HIV counseling and testing. Many provinces and cities, however, stipulate mandatory HIV testing for drug addicts.
For example, Jiangsu’s provincial regulation stipulates that the public security bureaus, judicial departments and health departments should carry out HIV tests for arrested prostitutes and drug addicts.
Shaanxi province stipulates that the public security department should notify the local disease prevention and control department when prostitutes and drug addicts are arrested. After receiving the notice, disease prevention and control departments should carry out HIV tests under the assistance of public security departments.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health showed a rapid spread of HIV/AIDS, and the HIV infection rate through drug use dropped to 38.5 percent in 2008 from about 70 percent in 2000.
Drug addicts are classified as a high-risk group for HIV infection, and are also the focus of HIV/AIDS prevention work.
“So far, mandatory HIV testing for drug addicts is a common practice across the country. The removal of the rule can be seen as major progress in protecting the individual privacy of drug addicts,” said Liu Yige, a Beijing lawyer who provides legal consultation in a civil organization.
“Once their personal information is disclosed, it will bring uncountable harm for drug addicts, making it harder for them to return to normal life,” Liu said, noting that other provinces and cities should follow Zhejiang’s example.
But some experts said the abolition of the rule may make it more difficult to prevent and control the spread of HIV among high-risk groups, and they called for new rules.
“From the point of HIV/AIDS prevention and control, new legal measures with higher legal effect should be set up to make up for the absence of HIV/AIDS management,” Chu Chenge, associate professor at Northwest University of Politics and Law, said.
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This report is one of the main outputs of a 12-month research project that examined the implications for peace and stability of China’s increasing engagement in conflict-affected states. The report is based on research in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan and South Sudan, and contributes to the evidence base about how China’s rise will affect conflict-affected states. It is meant not only to raise awareness, but also to encourage policy makers to engage with the new realities, including how they can respond to the changing context for international efforts to promote peace and stability.
On the 28th of January, 2012 African countries will collectively descend to a new low on the global index of state sovereignty, territorial integrity and actual independence of nations. On that day, Chinese President Hu Jintao will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to commission the new $124 Million African Union Headquarters built and donated to the continent by China. Termed “China’s gift to Africa”, the edifice was constructed by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation with over 90% Chinese labor.
According to Zeng Huacheng, a special councilor to the AU headquarters project from China’s Ministry of Commerce, “The panoramic view of the conference center is like two hands holding each other, signifying the strenghtening friendship between China and Africa.”
It is to the discredit of the African Union and therefore, every individual and country within that regional body that in 2012, a building as symbolic as the African Union Headquarters is designed, built and maintained by a foreign country, it does not matter which country.
The ancient and modern history of donation of buildings and structures from one nation to another is filled with intrigues and subterfuges, conquests, diplomatic schemings, espionage and counter espionage, economic manipulations, political statements and dominations. The construction of the Trojan horse by Odysseus and its ‘donation’ resulted in the Greek conquest of the ancient city of Troy after 10 years of unending skirmish.
In building the Basilica in Rome – termed the “greatest of all churches of Christendom,” contributions from faithfuls were emphasized rather than donations from friendly nations. Even the gift of the Liberty Statue from France to the United States on occasion of the latter’s independence was a joint effort, whereby over 120,000 Americans led by Joseph Pulitzer contributed funds for the construction of the pedestal in 1885.
In rare glimpse into the matter, the book Architecture of Diplomacy, Jane C. Loeffler reveals the underlying diplomatic maneuverings and political ramifications that defines the construction of American embassies all over the world . The author states that building an embassy requires “as much diplomacy as design.” Loeffler enumerates factors seriously considered in the construction of an American embassy building and they include “World politics, American agendas, Architectural politics, cultural considerations, security” and several others.
Common sense dictates that in an era of increasing exploitation of Africa’s natural resources by foreign powers including China, that the African Union, rather than the apparent submission signified by acceptance of the construction of its headquarters by China, will be an organization advocating for fairness in the relationship that exists between the continent and the global powers.
Should security considerations be included, then the question arises as to how African heads of state and government could hold confidential meetings in a building they have no idea how it was wired. What guarantee do African governments have that every word uttered in the new headquarters in Addis Ababa is not heard in Beijing? What evidence negates the suspicion that all activities in the just completed building are not replayed on a large screen in Beijing as Chinese secret service agents watch?
Culturally, indigenous Bantu culture abhors dependence on others for sustenance. A favorite Swahili proverb of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere’s is “Mgeni siku mbili; siku ya tatu mpe jembe” which means “treat your guest as a guest for two days; on the third day give him a hoe.” Indigenous African tradition largely abhors dependency of any kind. It is frowned upon for a man not to thatch his rooftops well before the rainy season, or to stay back while others are going to the farm, except he is bedridden. Add this to the logic espoused inArchtitecture of Diplomacy, and one reasonably concludes that it is unacceptable for Africans to accept a building from China that will house what should be the landmark of the continent’s achievements and its aspirations for the future.
Clearly, much indiscretion was exercised by the African Union officials in the acceptance of the offer of a new headquarters from China. The African Union has since deviated from the ideals of its founding fathers when in the 1960s Kwame Nkrumah and other great African leaders sought to establish an organization that would protect the geographical contiguity and territorial integrity of African nations. Emperor Haile Selassie in his historic 1963 speech stated clearly that the Organization was founded because “Africa has been reborn as a free continent and Africans have been reborn as free men. The blood that was shed and sufferings that were endured are today Africa’s advocates for freedom and unity.”
Contrary to his predecessor’s commitment to the continued freedom of the continent from imperial forces, Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi – currently being accused of selling huge swathes of Ethiopian land to foreign countries – on a tour of the facility boasted of how he single handedly lobbied Chinese officials to build the new headquarters and how he exempted taxes on all Chinese imported construction materials.
Gleeful at the opportunity for African heads of state to indulge in their lifestyles of conspicuous consumption during meetings and summits, AU Projects Director Fantahun Hailemikael reports that among the several luxuries of the building is a “helicopter landing pad so visiting dignitaries will be flown from the airport.” Of course the dignitaries will be spared the sight of the slum that much of Addis Ababa is. They will be flown from the airport to the AU building and from there to Sheraton Addis, reportedly the best of its kind around the world.
While the African Union might think it has gained from China by moving into its new ultra-modern facility, the reality is that the continent has lost tremendously in all matters worthy of reasonable consideration. The move to reverse the derogatory perception of Africa and Africans by all non-Africans has suffered another major setback. The resultant effect will be the continued political and economic manipulation and domination of the region by the West, and now China, and soon the rest of the non-African world.
Written by Chika Ezeanya
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(New York) – The Chinese government’s increasing intransigence on high-profile human rights cases requires governments to make progress on such cases a benchmark for closer relations and high-level visits, Human Rights Watch said. Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia are high-profile examples of cases of concern to the international community.
“It is time to make progress on individual human rights cases a real benchmark for engagement with China,” said Sophie Richardson, China director for Human Rights Watch. “When governments and visiting leaders fail to publicly call senior Chinese officials on their indefensible treatment of human rights defenders it allows Beijing to conclude there is no price to be paid for violations.”
As the first anniversary of Liu’s Nobel Prize approaches, the Chinese government’s willingness to comply with its international legal obligations as it continues its ascent on the world stage must also be called into question, Human Rights Watch said.
The international community’s approach to individual cases has often been marked by a preference for behind-closed-doors entreaties at the margins of diplomatic meetings or in bilateral human rights dialogues that take place regardless of the lack of progress. These discussions are often not backed by a commitment to press the Chinese government publicly when talks do not produce results and are sometimes undermined by high-level statements praising purported progress. Occasional passing references to individual cases are also held up as evidence of commitment to raise human rights issues with Beijing, yet the inconsistent, relatively quiet approach indicates to the Chinese government that there is no diplomatic penalty for ignoring such demands.
The Chinese government’s growing disdain for this inconsistent approach has become apparent in its refusal to receive or respond to case lists, and through its manifestly untruthful assertions regarding the status of citizens placed under extrajudicial measures.
Among the major individual cases that have dominated the human rights agenda for several years are:
Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, arrested on December 8, 2010, for his role in co-drafting an appeal for political reform and serving an 11-year prison sentence;
Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, who has lived under house arrest since the Nobel Prize ceremony in December 2010;
the lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been disappeared by the authorities since April 2010; and
the blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, illegally imprisoned at his home since his release from prison in September 2010.
There are no legal charges against Liu Xia, Gao, or Chen, and Liu Xiaobo’s trial violated minimum standard of fairness and due process. Both Liu and Gao’s deprivation of liberty have been ruled “arbitrary” by the United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Some foreign governments have repeatedly raised the cases of Liu, Gao, and Chen and called for their release over the years with little meaningful response from the Chinese government. Beijing routinely denies that any restrictive measures are being imposed on Liu Xia, Gao Zhisheng, or Chen Guangcheng, going so far as to suggest that Gao is merely “traveling” and that Chen is “at home.” In April 2011, Michael Posner, the US assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, said after the US-China human rights dialogue in Beijing that Chinese government responses to queries about individual cases gave “no comfort.” His and other governments’ requests to meet with Liu Xia have been repeatedly rejected.
Although international pressure contributed to the June 2011 release of the contemporary artist and outspoken government critic Ai Weiwei after a disappearance of 82 days, the government has continued to press a politically-motivated tax case, and has published proposed revisions to the criminal procedure law that would legalize secret detentions at locations chosen by the police for up to six months.
Such provisions would plainly undermine the prohibition on arbitrary detention of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights, which China has signed but not ratified. Under customary international law, China is obliged to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of a treaty it has signed.
In September 2011, in a clear sign of growing intransigence on the diplomatic front, the Chinese government issued a list of “core interests” on which “no compromise is possible.” This list includes the “political system established in the Chinese constitution,” which enshrines the leadership of the Communist Party, and a “basic assurance for the general social stability.” Human rights defenders and government critics are often accused of being a threat to social stability or national security.
“It is time for presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers, and ambassadors to publicly call for specific prisoner releases and for concrete steps towards respect for human rights,” said Richardson. “Xi Jinping and other senior officials deserve no red carpet welcomes until there is evidence the human rights environment in China is improving.”
Foreign aid from China is often characterized as ‘rogue aid’ that is not guided by recipient need but by China’s national interests alone. However, no econometric study so far confronts this claim with data. The study finds that political considerations are an important determinant of China’s allocation of aid. However, in comparison to other donors, China does not pay substantially more attention to politics. In contrast to widespread perceptions, the study finds no evidence that China’s aid allocation is dominated by natural resource endowments. Moreover, China’s allocation of aid seems to be widely independent of democracy and governance in recipient countries. Overall, denominating aid from China as ‘rogue aid’ seems unjustified.
According to the Financial Times, China outperformed the World Bank as the world’s largest provider of overseas loans to developing countries through its China Development Bank and China Export-Import Bank amounting to at least US$110 billion in 2009 and 2010. Tanzania was the single most important recipient of Chinese economic aid between 1956 and 1987. 62.0% of China’s economic aid between 1956 and 1987 has been provided to Africa, highlighting China’s aspirations to become the leading power in the Third World. 22.7% of China’s economic aid in this period were provided to Asia, with the intention of creating “friendly relations with its closest neighbours”.
China’s investments abroad are growing despite an overall decline globally in foreign direct investment (FDI) following the 2008 financial crisis. That trend in Chinese investments abroad is likely to continue, since China’s huge foreign exchange reserves are an increasing source of mobile capital and is a key part of China’s official government policy. The receipts from China’s existing global investments, combined with mounting trade surpluses, have made China the world’s largest capital-surplus economy. http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2011/GoingOut.pdf
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A significant difference between China and ‘traditional donors’ appears in terms of the norm of non-interference and no political conditions. Chinese aid policies do not adopt the language of ‘good governance’ or ‘failing vs. effective states’, and in fact utilise the backlash against these (excessive) policy prescriptions by continually highlighting China’s own policy of ‘non-interference’ in other countries’ internal affairs. This is the element that Western donors are most critical of and that China (and many recipient governments) highlight to create a distinction between China and other donors. Of course, as China’s engagement intensifies there is an increasing disjuncture between its rhetoric and practice – particularly when commercial and foreign policy objectives diverge. The Chinese insist that the difference is that they don’t impose or require policy changes: “we’re not trying to change the structures of recipient countries”.
Western donors are also concerned that China may be undermining the aid effectiveness agenda and accepted ‘best practice’. Because many DAC donors themselves don’t necessarily follow the recommendations, one could argue that they are already weak and that China is no different in that regard – although it might slow down the process of adoption if other donors are disinclined to reform their practices if this means giving China a comparative advantage. Not being a DAC member, China is not required to be ‘measured’ against regime rules and expectations, nor has it agreed to be subjected to DAC reviews or comparisons. http://www.whydev.org/is-china-challenging-traditional-donors-development-policy/
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“RSA and defense-contractor hacks are among the latest battles in a decade-long spy war. Hackers from many countries have been exfiltrating—that is, stealing—intellectual property from American corporations and the U.S. government on a massive scale, and Chinese hackers are among the main culprits……..it is impossible to know how much Chinese hacking is done on explicit orders from the government. In some cases, the evidence suggests that government and military groups are executing the attacks themselves. In others, Chinese authorities are merely turning a blind eye to illegal activities that are good for China’s economy and bad for America’s.”
Other companies that reportedly have been attacked include Google, Lockheed, “Baker Hughes, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Conoco Phillips, Marathon Oil, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Symantec, Juniper, Disney, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, General Dynamics, the law firm King & Spalding, and DuPont.” Other firms include Yahoo and Symantec, “Adobe, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace” and Intel
The office computer of U.S. Defense Secretary Gates was hacked. “German chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly confronted Chinese premier Wen Jiabao after hackers from his country gained access to the computers in her office, as well as those in the German foreign, economic, and research ministries. In December, M.I.5 sent a letter to 300 British C.E.O.’s and security chiefs warning them that state-sponsored Chinese organizations may have been spying on their computer systems.”
“Among the other countries targeted are Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Germany, and the U.K. In 2007, the year before the Beijing Olympics, one international athletics organization and the Olympic committees of three different countries were breached.”
A senior U.S. State Department official elaborates: “One of the core things we’re trying to do diplomatically is to build a consensus internationally to build norms of behavior, rules of the road,” as described in the president’s “International Strategy for Cyberspace.”
