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Get Kibaki and Uhuru behind bars

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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:12:51 -0700 [12:12:51 PM CDT]
From: jbatec@ . . .
Subject: Get Kibaki and Uhuru behind bars

Folks,

This is stupid. Can Martha Karua as head of Legal body in Kenya order Kibaki and Uhuru
locked in immediately while awaiting court charges?

Kibaki is guilty of selling Kenya.

People…….. get Kibaki out…….. shout and make peaceful demonstration until he
steps down………People…….get Uhuru out of Finance office……We need a clean
person we can trust at the Ministry of Finance. Dont rest people.

Will the United Nations and the World Leaders have Kibaki and Uhuru charged with Economic
National Flights, genocide, corruption of the worse order with other preferred charges at
the Hague and do everything possible to get them out of Kenya?

Sincerely,

Judy

Fw: Afro-Asia Investment company: Ministers sold off airport land – ANOTHER GHOST COMPANY

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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:55:31 -0700 [11:55:31 AM CDT]
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: Fw: Afro-Asia Investment company: Ministers sold off airport land – ANOTHER GHOST COMPANY

Folks,

Re: Afro-Asia Investment company: Another ghost investor known as Afro-Asia Investment
Corporation – known as a BOT (buy-operate- and transfer )

The ghost investment companies and our corrupt leaders will continue operating as they
wish until the genocide, corrupt and all graft cartels of the economic plunders Mt. Kenya
Mafia with Cohort and fear factors planners and sponsors of the Militia Gangs in Kenya
are brought to book or are put behind bars, Kenya is still in the woods.

Kenya desperately needs an Interim Governments to chart out directions for New Leadership
before it remains incorrigible free for all looters or it is left in the hands of Militia
Gangs led by our corrupt leaders.

The KAA Managing Director, George Muhoho is as corrupt in addition, after having
negotiated deals In his last media interview, he sounded arrogant and confident that his
contract will be renewed even though he is past retirement age. This is how the Kibaki
corrupt system operates — Muhoho brother to Ngina Kenyatta makes a deal with a ghost
company, requests money from the government, then the money is quickly released by his
famous nephew (UHURU KENYATTA) in the treasury, and then we hear the ghost company has
run out of the country as usual with billions of shillings. Why do we have to be taken
round in circus spin over and over again?????

Pray for Kenya and also act now each and everyone, small and big – We need an immediate
peaceful revolution which is going to the Hague, led by the United Nations. There is no
other other avenue to solve Kenya’s many many many many problems. There is no
round-about this, if anyone truely cares to save Kenya at all. It is now or never.

Thanks,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

Watch This……………..

March 28 2009 at 22:26
Ministers sold off airport land – HOW??????

A model of the development project at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport that is to
be undertaken by Qatari investors. The Kenya Airports Authority signed an agreement
giving the investors liberal privileges at the expense of the country.

By JAINDI KISEROPosted Saturday, March 28 2009 at 22:26
In Summary

Kenya signed lopsided 80-year land deal that gives foreigners sole rights to own complex

The agreement signed between the Kenya Airports Authority and Qatari investors to build a
five-star hotel and five office blocks at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport grants
liberal privileges to the investors but little in terms of benefits and earnings to Kenya.

According to the fine print of a confidential Cabinet paper seen by the Sunday Nation,
the KAA will only be entitled, during the first five years of the operations of the
hotel, to a concession fee of five per cent calculated on the gross turnover of the
business. The fee increases to 10 per cent after five years and must be renegotiated in
the 15th year.

The only other fee KAA is entitled to under the agreement is $1,000 a year, which will be
paid by the companies renting space in both the five-tower office complex and the
multiple exhibition centres ? and a Sh10 million annual rent.

In exchange for this, the agreement grants the investors from the wealthy Gulf state a
massive 90 acres of land strategically located within the airport area.

In addition, the Qataris have the right to exclusively own and manage the complex they
will be putting up at the airport for an uninterrupted period of 80 years.

The complex will include a 450-bed five-star hotel, a five-tower office complex,
exhibition and convention centres ? and large warehouses.

The Sunday Nation has learnt that since the Cabinet approved the deal in February last
year, the Qataris have revised their offer to include an additional four-star hotel (300
rooms) and a ?five-star ?250-bed hospital ? all to be constructed within the airport area.

Whether the Qataris will complete this massive project in three years as they have
pledged remains to be seen.

The agreement is silent on whether the businessmen have the right to sell some of the
airport land during the 80-year period in which they will own it.

In fancy jargon, the deal signed with the Qataris is known as a BOT (buy-operate- and
transfer ), an arrangement by which a country invites foreign investors to use their own
money to develop a property and in return receive rights to own and operate the assets
for a specified number of years during which the investors pay a concession fee. In this
case, ownership of the airport property would revert to KAA after 80 years.

Lopsided deal

Touted as the single largest foreign direct deal in Kenya in decades, the manner in which
it was negotiated is raising eyebrows, with critics asking how the Qataris managed get
the government to commit to such a lopsided deal.

Clearly, the Qataris are no ordinary investors. That they managed to easily clinch such a
big deal is a statement about the amount of political clout they wield within the
corridors of power.

Indeed, they were handed the multi-billion-shilling deal without competition from other
interested investors.

Contrary to normal practice, KAA did not procure the investor competitively. The
procedure of advertising to invite expressions of interest from potential investors was
also circumvented to accommodate the interests of the Qataris.

KAA did not appoint transaction advisers to negotiate on the government?s behalf the
terms of the agreement with the investors. Due diligence to determine the background of
the investors, their financial capacity and the bona fides of the corporation involved
was also bypassed.

Questions have emerged over the true identity and background of the principals in the
Afro-Asia Investment Corporation. The names of two Doha-based businessmen Dr Mohammed
Kalani ? referred to as the chief executive officer of Afro-Asia Investments Ltd, who
signed the final papers on the Qataris? behalf ? and the chairman of the company, Haj
Mohammed Yassin Ismail, are the only names on record.

There has been speculation that the corporation was a rich sovereign equity fund, but no
link to the Emirate of Qatar has been established.

Igor Olenicoff fled Communist Russia and is now a U.S. real estate developer worth $1.6
billion. Or a lot less, depending on who’s listening.

Shortly after Igor M. Olenicoff was born near Moscow in 1942, his Tsarist-connected
family fled Communist Russia for Allied-occupied Iran. There he attended an
English-language school run by missionaries. When he was 15, Olenicoff says, his parents,
his brother and he arrived in New York with $800 and four suitcases. They were robbed and
headed west. At the University of Southern California, Olenicoff earned degrees in
corporate finance and mathematics plus an M.B.A. He worked as a consultant and corporate
executive before launching a real estate development business in 1973. Today his Olen
Properties Corp., in Newport Beach, Calif., owns 11,000 residential units and 6.25
million square feet of commercial space in California, Nevada, Florida and Chicago.

We reckon all this gives Olenicoff a net worth of $1.6 billion. That assumes that he is
the sole owner of Olen, an assumption justified by what he originally led us (and has led
folks in the real estate business) to believe. Ah, but Olenicoff seems to tell a
different story to the Internal Revenue Service and people who are suing him. He’s told
them that he doesn’t own Olen Properties at all. When FORBES confronted Olenicoff about
the contradiction, he said that since 1980, Olen has been owned by an offshore
company–incorporated in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas and now Denmark–in which he has
no ownership.

Okay, if Olenicoff doesn’t own this mysterious migrating corporate parent, is the parent
perhaps owned by an offshore trust benefiting his family? A.N. Pritzker famously set up
trusts in the Bahamas in 1963, saving the billionaire clan a bundle in estate taxes.
“That’s a good question,” Olenicoff responds. Just not one he will answer.

The IRS isn’t so reticent. It thinks Olenicoff owns the company, and if it’s correct,
Olenicoff may be a poster boy for a less seemly version of the American dream, the one in
which wealth is built not just with brains and entrepreneurial grit, which Olenicoff has
in abundance, but also with offshore tax and creditor dodges.

In U.S. Tax Court filings the IRS claims Olenicoff is the “ultimate owner” not just of
Olen Properties but also of Sovereign Bancorp Ltd., a Bahamian company formed in 1990. He
used Sovereign, the IRS asserts, to evade taxes and hide assets from the IRS and
creditors. In an April court filing the government said there’s an ongoing criminal tax
investigation of Olenicoff involving “substantially similar issues.” The IRS has sent
Olenicoff a bill for $44 million in back taxes and $33 million in civil fraud penalties
based on Sovereign’s income for 1996 and 1997. That may be, if the IRS is behaving the
way it usually does, a somewhat inflated calculation.

Olenicoff asserted in an e-mail to FORBES that his tax problems are about to be settled
on favorable terms, now that “higher-up minds in the tax service” have finally accepted
his version of the facts. “There is no open investigation or open audit,” he wrote. But
when asked whether that deal would bring an end, without charges, to the criminal
investigation of his activities, he said he didn’t know. The criminal inquiry, Olenicoff
noted, covers different tax years, 2002 and 2003.

Olenicoff insists in court filings and told FORBES that Sovereign merely lent money to
Olen and was unrelated to him or Olen. Sovereign was set up, he says, by the
“Vozrozhdeniye [Renaissance] Fund,” which he describes as a Russian agency “created by
Boris Yeltsin” to make offshore investments. As of 1996 Sovereign held $270 million in
assets, according to an accounting the IRS says Olenicoff gave a bank.

No doubt, though, that Olenicoff is running Olen. Explaining why Olen sues renters who
walk out on their leases, he says: “If the money is owed, I’ll chase them until they
drop, because it wasn’t easy for me to make it.”

“For me”? Olenicoff has spent decades acting and talking as if he does own Olen, although
he insists that if asked directly, he doesn’t claim to own it. “Everyone in Orange County
assumes, obviously, I’m the ultimate owner because it seems to be a one-man show,” he
says. “All of our employees believe that I’m the sole owner; you ask anybody and they’ll
say, ‘Igor.'” Before the death of his son, Andrei, at 32, in a car accident last year,
Olenicoff talked about passing down the business to him. Now he’s grooming his daughter,
Natalia, as a successor. But what exactly is he passing down? The real estate he admits
his family owns–houses and an apartment building, none of it held in his individual
name–is worth less than $50 million, Olenicoff figures.

When real estate values were booming in the 1980s, the ownership of Olen Properties never
seemed to be in doubt. In 1988 forbes named Olenicoff a near miss for the 400 list,
estimating his worth at $200 million.

In 1990, with real estate values in decline, Olenicoff started moving assets around. He
split Olen Properties into three new companies, each holding real estate securing loans
from one of three lenders: Prudential Insurance; Swiss Bank (other-otc: SWBKY.PK – news –
people ); and National Depository Corp. Ltd., the Bahamas company which, Olenicoff has
said in Tax Court filings, owned Olen through the 1990s and was in turn owned by an
Iranian corporation. In 1992 Olenicoff put the company that owed Prudential $143 million
into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Prudential sued Olenicoff personally for fraud, claiming that
when it originally lent Olen the money, he had represented that he–not some offshore
entity–owned Olen. Olenicoff denied wrongdoing, and the suit was settled.

Prudential fought to block the reorganization plan as well, arguing that Olenicoff had
shown “bad faith” by divesting valuable assets–such as moving a portfolio of secured
notes to Sovereign–and failing to disclose the true identity of the various entities.
The bankruptcy judge sided with Olenicoff while noting there were some suspicious
indicators.

Other questions about Olenicoff’s asset shuffles cropped up. After a former business
partner won a $3.3 million judgment against Olenicoff, he moved $60 million in corporate
cash offshore to parent National Depository and disposed of U.S. assets in his own name.
In a 1993 deposition Olenicoff said he didn’t even have a personal U.S. bank account and
paid bills with cash drawn from a Russian account. “I carry around a stack of
hundred-dollar bills, and when it gets low, I may have to go to Russia.” Olenicoff later
settled with the partner for under $1 million.

The IRS began auditing the Olen corporations in 1997. In 2001 it sent back tax bills for
1993 through 1996. Among other things, the IRS disallowed what it said were sham
transactions between the Olen companies, Sovereign and National Depository. Those cases
were settled in 2003.

The IRS then sent Olenicoff a big personal tax bill for the 1996 and 1997 income of
Sovereign. Under Bahamian law, the ownership of Sovereign is confidential. But the IRS
points to several indications of his ownership: documents he signed for Sovereign and
accounts he opened for it; representations he made to lenders; and payments Sovereign
made allegedly for his benefit, including half a million dollars in 1996 to cover yacht
costs.

The government also found it odd that from 1992 to 1997 Olenicoff reported little income:
none from Sovereign and just $15,000 from Olen. Hardly enough, the government says, to
cover his lifestyle. Olenicoff says he lived simply and that Sovereign owned half the
yacht and made money when it was sold. His current 120-foot motor yacht is owned by Olen
Properties, which, of course, he doesn’t own.

In 1998 Olenicoff started taking a real salary, now in the seven figures, he says. “Olen
is doing extremely well. We netted over $50 million last year. We paid taxes,” he says.

Olenicoff says the matter has dragged on so long because of the difficulty the IRS had
verifying the Russian connection. As he colorfully relates it, Russian tax authorities at
first told the IRS to go “pound sand.” Then a Russian bank that bankrolled Sovereign was
shut in 1999, and its records were “loaded up by the government in three huge semis,
which just happened to go off the bridge in the middle of the river.” Olenicoff produced
for IRS agents a self-described Russian general to attest to Sovereign’s formation at
Yeltsin’s behest. Olenicoff recounts in an e-mail to FORBES how the general, ticked off
at the IRS, responded in Russian: “Just several years ago I was in charge of pushing the
button that would have wiped your agency off the Washington map!”

In court filings the IRS says Olenicoff was uncooperative during the audit and tried to
keep the government from getting records. Moreover, it complains, mail sent to the
personal addresses Olenicoff provided came back marked “refused” or “not at address.” In
fact, the two sides don’t even agree where Olenicoff lives. The IRS says he’s a resident
of California. He says he lives in Florida. Guess which doesn’t have a state income tax.

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UBS hits out at improper US legal action

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March 5, 2009

UBS hits out at improper US legal action

The Swiss bank accused the US Government of subjecting it to improper legal action over aiding American tax evaders
Christine Seib in New York

UBS accused the US Government of subjecting it to unproductive and improper legal action
over the troubled Swiss bank’s history of aiding American tax evaders.

Instead, the Government should pursue changes to global tax treaties via diplomatic
channels, UBS said.

On February 19, UBS admitted that it had assisted thousands of Americans to avoid US
taxes by putting their money in offshore accounts, and agreed to pay $780 million in
fines and disclose the names of 250 tax evaders.

But a day later the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) sued UBS for the names of as many as
52,000 other customers that the US tax authorities believe are hiding money in Swiss bank
accounts. The legal action that threatens Switzerland’s legendary banking secrecy.

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Mark Branson, chief financial officer of the bank’s global wealth management, appeared in
front of the Senate investigations subcommittee on Wednesday to be grilled on UBS’s
long-running dispute with the Inland Revenue Service (IRS).
Mr Branson told the subcommittee that UBS could not reveal the names demanded in the
lawsuit without contravening Swiss banking laws.
“Switzerland and the US are signatories to treaties that specify the circumstances under
which client names and account information located in Switzerland can be shared with US
authorities,” Mr Branson said. “We believe that the [IRS’s case] is inconsistent with
those longstanding treaties.”
He accused the IRS of attempting to resolve a diplomatic dispute between the two
countries via the courtroom. “[This] is neither productive nor proper,” Mr Branson added.
Carl Levin, the Democrat Senator that chairs the subcommittee, has criticised the tax
treaty, which forces Switzerland to co-operate with US tax evasion investigations only if
the IRS can provide specific names of secret account holders.
“The treaty is of very, very limited value,” Senator Levin said.
Americans are allowed to have offshore accounts as long as they report all income on
their earnings to the IRS and disclose if an account holds more than $10,000. But Mr
Levin said that as much as $100 billion was lost to the Government every year because
individuals did not make these disclosures.
He has introduced new legislation containing stronger punishments for offshore tax
evaders, as well as allowing the Treasury to take action against countries that impeded
IRS investigations.
Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, said yesterday that the White House would
support Mr Levin’s legislation.
Urs Ziswiler, Switzerland’s ambassador to the US, declined to testify at today’s
subcommittee hearing.

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:51:54 -0700 [11:51:54 AM CDT]
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: UBS hits out at improper US legal action

Re: WORRIED KENYAN (selling kenya )

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hi yp.

let me put this clear,somalis are hardworking people and believe me they started
investing before the piracy thing you are talking about,You go to europe and the u.s they
do some manual job you can’t imagine.They form a small merry go round and start putting
together their hard earned cash together in the name of investing,We trust each other and
they don’t have to come to kenya and buy properties ,a relative or a friend
can do that for them,For GOD’S sake they don’t grab they buy and the person selling is
not only the government but also you.Style up kenyans and stop lamenting when somebody
can afford something and you can’t.when will you raise five hundred million to purchase a
property without going for a bank loan?Money is not gotten only when you are educated you
should have some enterpreneul skills to succeed in life
not our salaries guys.Let them invest just the way you are calling the whites to invest
in this country.Its healthy for the economy.Can we concentrate on the mau forest issue
which will see kenyan dying of hunger
due to famine in the coming future,We don’t grab forest or fertile land we are just
buying properties to invest from those who want to sell(even gava).Any of you who has
money(120,000,000)come and i will show
you where to buy in eastleigh before the somalis buy.

Guys hope ur all well , am seriously worried about how Somails are purchasing property in
kenya.Not only houses but even property in the CBD .

Dont get me wrong i have no problem with somalis but doesn’t kenya (Gov ) care for its
country .before we know everything will be owned by Somalis muslim state .

Talk about South C , karioko ,Real estates , somalis have so much money if u sell for
them a house for 4m the buy at 8 or even 6mil my friend what will happen to kenya 4 years
from know . is there any law

I identify with this concern. Somalis source of money is questionable, given the state of
their country so I wonder where all their money comes from. Forget the buccaneers for
now, though it could be part of that.
If Somalis buy Kenya, and it looks they are doing, soon they will control all our
resources and that’s not interesting!

—
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223

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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:03:59 +0300 [03/27/2009 01:03:59 AM CDT]
From: Bakir Mohamed
Subject: Re: WORRIED KENYAN (selling kenya )

On the Disputed Migingo Island: Has Yoweri Museveni Become the Nyamgondho wuod Ombare of East Africa?

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Meshack Owino

Whenever I read reports of Yoweri Museveni?s government officials harassing poor
fishermen on Migingo Island, Lake Victoria, I cannot help but remember a traditional
folktale about a man by the name of Nyamgondho wuod Ombare. The folktale is quite popular
among the Luo of East Africa. It is about a good deed that never goes unpunished.

According to my grandmother, who was the first person to narrate the story to me when I
was a little kid, Nyamgondho wuod Ombare was a very poor man who eked a living by fishing
on Lake Victoria. By all accounts, Nyamgondho?s life as a young man was very miserable.
He hardly had anything to eat. He had very little clothes to wear, and, every evening,
his deprived circumstances forced him to walk long distance looking for a place among
kind neighbors to rest his head during the night. The story goes on to say that one
morning, Nyamgondho woke up so hungry that he thought he was going to die of hunger that
day.

Summoning some energy, Nyamgondho stumbled out of a kind neighbor?s house where he had
taken shelter that night, and staggered to Lake Victoria wondering what he would do with
himself if the net he had left to trap fish in the lake that night did not catch anything
for him to eat.

When he reached the lake, and started inspecting the fishing net, his hopes momentarily
rose when he felt a heavy weight on the net. As he reeled in the net, praying that
whatever was weighing it down should be a big catch, Nyamgondho?s hopes collapsed when,
instead of a big, edible catch, the net had caught an old, ugly woman.

Nyamgondho turned away in disgust, and was about to throw the net away together with the
old woman when her voice stopped him in his tracks, and urged him that instead of
throwing her back into the lake, he should take her home, and make her his wife. The old
woman told him that if he married her, she would make him the wealthiest man in the land.
She promised him a lot of cows, goats, and sheep. She also promised him many wives,
children, and a big homestead.

Realizing that he had nothing to lose, Nyamgondho decided to hearken to the old woman?s
entreaties, took her home, and made her his wife. That act alone changed Nyamgondho?s
fortune. Within a short time, Nyamgondho?s fishing net started catching incalculable
amount of fish in Lake Victoria. It is almost as if his net became a magnet for fish
overnight. Every morning, Nyamgondho would trudge to the lake, and he would find his nets
bulging with a large number of delicious fish. He sold many of his catch, exchanging them
for grains here, cows there, and farming implements somewhere else.

With all this fortune, it was not surprising that Nyamgondho no longer found it difficult
to find willing hands in marriage. His homestead grew in size. He married many wives,
sired many children, raised many herds of cows, and grew huge quantities of crops. Name
it, Nyamgondho had it. He became arguably the richest man in the land.

The story goes on to say that as his wealth grew, Nyamgondho started acquiring certain
traits that he never had when he was growing up poor and miserable. He became very
arrogant, haughty, and proud. It was not unusual for him to come back home drunk, singing
his own praises, shouting loud insults at his neighbors, calling them poor nothings, and
it was equally not unusual for him to set on his wives and children with kiboko.

Nyamgondho even started beating up his first wife, his mikayi ? the old, ugly woman from
the lake who had promised, and given him many riches. One day Nyamgondho beat up the old
woman so badly that she warned him that if he did it again, she would leave him, and his
wealth would vanish. Nyamgondho did not listen.

Consumed by his wealth and a haughty sense of his own self-importance, Nyamgondho beat up
the old woman again, and this time, he had pushed her one time, too far. She decided to
leave him. Nyamgondho was shocked when, as the old woman packed up to leave, all the
wealth in the homestead also started packing up by themselves, and got ready to leave. He
watched tongue-tied as the cows, goats, sheep, and chickens stood up, and as grains of
sorghum and millet packed themselves up in baskets and pots, and marched behind the old
woman as she trudged back to the lake.

As his other wives and children followed the old woman back to the lake, Nyamgondho heard
a horrible sound ensuing from what he thought were his own bowels, crying to the old
woman not to leave the homestead, begging her to forgive him, promising never to
misbehave again. His pleas fell on deaf ears; the old woman left, and together with all
the property in Nyamgondho?s compound, they all went back into the lake. Nyamgondho was
back where he was when he first met the old, ugly woman in the lake ? miserable, poor,
and desperate.

As I said earlier, the story of Nyamgondho wuod Ombare reminds me of President Yoweri
Kaguta Museveni, the benevolent dictator of Uganda now terrorizing the poor fishermen of
Migingo Island, Lake Victoria. When you look at Museveni?s life, wasn?t he a miserable
refugee in Tanzania whose fortunes turned for the better through the generosity of his
neighbors in East Africa just the other day? When President Idi Amin Dada, the erstwhile
Conqueror of the British Empire, was terrorizing Ugandans during the 1970?s, where was
Museveni? Wasn?t he pursuing an education at the University of Dar es Salaam through the
kindness of President Julius Nyerere, and the people of Tanzania? Didn?t he live as a
refugee in Tanzania in the late 1970?s and early 1980?s?

What about Yoweri?s vice-president, Prof. Austin Bukenya? When Idi Amin Dada was
butchering hundreds of thousands of Ugandans, didn?t Prof. Bukenya flee to Kenya, where
he was hired as a lecturer at Kenyatta University? Wasn?t he given a means of survival by
Kenya? Weren?t Kenyans his colleagues, friends, and neighbors?

Have Ugandans forgotten just how much they were helped by East Africans during their time
of need as a military dictatorship, and a civil war raged in their country in the 1970?s,
and 1980?s? Wasn?t it Tanzania that helped Uganda to get rid of the dictator Idi Amin
Dada? Or was that just a fiction?

When Museveni was waging war to grab power in Uganda, wasn?t he helped by the ordinary
Rwandese, particularly the Tutsis, who composed much of the rank and file of his
guerrilla army? Yet these days we receive numerous reports about Museveni harassing
Rwandan citizens.

Wasn?t it President Moi who helped to organize numerous meetings between Museveni and the
Government of Uganda in Nairobi to end the civil war that Museveni was waging against the
Government of Uganda in the 1980?s? So, why is Museveni harassing President Moi?s fellow
Kenyan citizens who are just trying to eke a living on Migingo Island?

Museveni?s government has been terrorizing Kenyans over a pathetic, little rocky island
known as Migingo, Lake Victoria. Migingo Island is only 2 kms from Kenya proper, and a
whopping 250 kms from Uganda proper. Although evidence from various documents place
Migingo, an island rock that measures no more than 2 acres, within Kenyan territory, that
has not stopped Museveni from sending soldiers 250 kms away to plant a Ugandan flag on
the island, claiming it as Uganda?s. Kweli, ahsante ya punda ni mateke. No good deed goes
unpunished!

Disregarding how he and his fellow citizens survived through the generosity of his
neighbors when Uganda was in turmoil during the 1970?s and 1980?s, Museveni?s policemen
routinely arrest Kenyans on Migingo Island, and throw them in prison even though the
island is in Kenya. His soldiers patrol the island using helicopters and speedboats. His
customs officials impose hefty tax on poor Kenyan fishermen on the island.

Just the other day, Uganda was at it again harassing Kenyans when it tried to raise fees
for Kenyan students studying in Ugandan universities by claiming that Kenyan students
were foreigners who should pay more fees than Ugandan students for education. Although
this crazy proposal was nipped in the bud when President Yoweri Museveni remembered in
the nick of time that he and many Ugandans received subsidized education in Tanzania and
Kenya during the 1960?s, 1970?s, and 1980?s, when their county was in turmoil, it makes
you wonder how people forget so easily.

I seem to remember only too well that it was just the other day that I was going to
school in the Busia part of Kenya with children of many Ugandan refugees. And I am sure
that there are many other Kenyans who have stories to tell of enduring friendships,
long-term relationships, and even loving marriages forged with Ugandans who sought refuge
in Kenya during the 1970?s and 1980?s.

During those days we regarded those Ugandans, not as Ugandans, but as our brothers and
sisters, as people, as human beings who had the same needs and dreams like us. We did not
even see them as refugees. We simply saw them as people who had suffered the misfortune
of coming under the control of a mad man who was masquerading as president of their
country during the 1970?s. We provided them with succor. We lived with them, went to
school with them, laughed and cried with them as fellow East Africans.

But just look at how their government now treats us? Look at how their government
harasses people all over East Africa ? from Migingo Island in Kenya, through Rwanda,
Eastern Congo, the Central African Republic, all the way to Southern Sudan. There are
cries everywhere that Uganda?s Yoweri Museveni is harassing people, that he is stealing
resources, that his ruthless soldiers are killing people from neighboring countries. Even
the far-way Somalia is not far enough for Museveni to throw his weight around in. This
former refugee has forgotten where he and his country were just the other day.

Like Nyamgondho wuod Ombare, it seems that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has forgotten
how he, his vice-president, Prof. Austin Bukenya, and the rest of his fellow citizens
were helped by East Africans during their time of need ? a time they suffered from
poverty, instability, deprivations, and wars. While we cannot tell whether Yoweri
Museveni?s life will come full circle like that of Nyamgondho wuod Ombare, it is getting
pretty close to mirroring it. Only time will tell.

Meshack Owino.
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:38:58 -0700 [03/28/2009 10:38:58 PM CDT]
From: Meshack Owino
Subject: On the Disputed Migingo Island: Has Yoweri Museveni Become the Nyamgondho wuod Ombare of East Africa?

KENYANS RETURN BROKE, JOBLESS

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By Kenfrey Kiberenge and Charles Njeru

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THOUSANDS of Kenyans are returning home every month broke and jobless as the effects of the global financial crisis continue to spread.

Records from the Ministry of Immigration show that about 14,000 Kenyans are opting for home instead of languishing in foreign countries where the economic recession has led to massive job layoffs.

“We have over 14,000 people jetting into the country each month,” said Kenneth Buhere, the Public Relations Officer at the immigration ministry.

As a result of the layoffs billions of shillings pumped into the local economy every year by Kenyans in the diaspora could be lost. In 2007, the Government put the level of remittances at Sh80 billion per year, a figure based on data provided by banks and money transfer agencies such as Western Union and MoneyGram.

This excludes data from other non-official channels of transfer, which are widely used by illegal immigrants. In 2008, the remittance declined by nearly half to just Sh49 billion, according to an official report released last week by the Central Bank of Kenya.

“The value of remittances received from Kenyans abroad through the banking system was estimated at US$611 million (Sh48.8 billion),” says the CBK monthly economic review for January.

Most of the money is said to come from the United States, Europe and the Middle East. But this is fast dwinding as the immigration ministry tries to keep track of Kenyans returning home.

Movements “I cannot tell you which specific countries these Kenyans are returning from since we do not have a system that tracks down their govements at immigration,” says Buhere.

“Although we merely stamp their passports at the airport upon arrival, we know the number of those returning home is 14,000,” he said.

In the US, most Kenyans are employed as blue-collar workers, and even those who have not lost their jobs have had to accept pay cuts, leaving them with very little to save, or send home.

The consumerist US economy allows individuals to live on credit rather than disposable income and, average indebtedness is 137 per cent of incomes.

That means Kenyans have been sucked into a system whose population has borrowed an unprecedented $8,565 (Sh685,200) each.

High cost Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Africa and Asia have returned from Britain and the US where some 4.4 million jobs have been lost in the last two years. One Kenyan who was forced to pack his bags and leave the US says he could not cope with the high cost of living.

“I think I am here to stay,” says John Karanja, back from Cleveland, Ohio.

“When I was in the US, life was very expensive,” he told the Daily Metro In February, reports indicated that an unknown number of Kenyan workers in Dubai could be headed home as the global financial crunch took its toll on the United Arab Emirates. And the bad news is that the global recession is expected to continue for the next two years before it stabilises.

Analysts estimate that this is the worst global crisis since the stock market crash in 1932 in the United States, and say it is likely to trigger other social events.

Also see http://dm.nationmedia.com/DM/DM/2009/03/16/INDEX.SHTML

A warm welcome to http://michaelmundiakamau.webs.com

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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:00:44 +0000 [03/28/2009 10:00:44 AM CDT]
From: Mundia Kamau
Subject: KENYANS RETURN BROKE, JOBLESS

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RACISM AND HOLY COMMUNION POLITICS IN US CATHOLIC CHURCH

BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ

NAIROBI-KENYA

MARCH 28, 2009

Recent remark by Archbishop Raymond Burke (pictured below), the former St. Louis prelate
who now leads the Vatican supreme court that President Barack Obama “could be an agent of
death” if his support for abortion rights becomes a model for leaders in other countries
sounds more racist than just a remark.

This June 27, 2008 file photo shows St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke speaking to the
media in St. Louis. Burke, the former St. Louis prelate who now leads the Vatican supreme
court, said that President Barack Obama “could be an agent of death” if his support for
abortion rights becomes a model for leaders in other countries during a videotaped
interview that anti-abortion activist Randall Terry showed Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in
Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam, file)

Though he has also said parishioners should press U.S. bishops to withhold Holy Communion
from Roman Catholic politicians who back legalized abortion, the fact that majority of
Democrat followers are Black Americans, and aging that they are predominantly protestant
while Republicans are white and catholic, is the reason why to argue that bishop?s
comments were purely racist.

Although during the 2004 election, when Burke was still in St. Louis, he sparked a rare
public disagreement among U.S. bishops over the issue, saying he would deny Communion to
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee and alleged by
Republicans as an abortion rights supporter, the fact that Democrats are identified with
blacks and protestant, while Republicans with whites and catholic, the bishop had no
other alternative but to express his racial anger.

Bishop Burke is not the only catholic bishop angered; a small minority of them is as
well. They took the same stand during 2004 elections that Kerry should be denied Holly
Communion.

Just as Bishop Burke is making racial remarks, Obama has pledged to find ways to reduce
the abortion rate, to find common ground with opponents. This is one of the four main
priorities of Obama’s faith-based office, to find ways to reduce the abortion rate, an
attempt at common ground according to recent media reports.

This is a fact that even New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes has acknowledged. While
begging for forgiveness in December last year for acts the church committed that were
racially insensitive or did not promote racial harmony, and committed the church to
action, the archbishop categorically said that racism is present in the hearts of some
Catholics and institutionally in the Catholic Church which the faithful must work to
purge in thought and in action, said a U.S. archbishop in a comprehensive pastoral letter.

In the document, ??Made in the Image and Likeness of God?: A Pastoral Letter on Racial
Harmony,? released Dec. 15, 2008, the pastoral which was also made available in its
entirety in the Dec. 16 issue of the Clarion Herald (www.clarionherald.org), the
archbishop said: ?I want to express an apology for the way in which I or other members of
the church have acted or failed to act,? he said. ?I want to acknowledge the past in
truth, seek forgiveness and recommit myself and our church in New Orleans to realizing
the gospel message in our relations with one another.?

Releasing it on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the issuance by New Orleans
Archbishop Joseph Rummel of the landmark and controversial pastoral, ?The Morality of
Racial Segregation, Hughes was quoted to have said: ?In this 1956 ground-breaking
message,? Archbishop Hughes said of his predecessor, ?he announced that racial
segregation was to be gradually dismantled in all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese. He
stated unequivocally: ?Racial segregation as such is morally wrong and sinful because it
is a denial of the unity-solidarity of the human race as conceived by God in the creation
of Adam and Eve.??

?Racism can be both personal and institutional,? he stressed. ?Hence, it involves not
only individual prejudice but also the use of religious, social, political, economic or
historical power to keep one race privileged,? the archbishop expressed.

The Vatican had also fired a warning shot over the bows of Barack Obama in response to
the President-elect’s intention to lift the US ban on embryonic stem cell research.

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico, who acts as the Vatican health minister, did
not only say that stem cells taken from human embryos and involving the destruction of
the embryos is immoral, but also “serve no purpose”.

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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:27:43 -0700 [03/28/2009 07:27:43 AM CDT]
From: People For Peace
Subject: Regional News

SUGAR WOOS

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SUGAR WAR DIVIDES LUYIA MPS

BY JEFF OTIENO

Luyia MPs are sharply divided over wars currently bedevelling Mumias Sugar Company Management.

The war which was ignited almost two months ago by the area MP Mr. Ken Washiali over what he alleged as muzzling of farmers over cane prices has instead divided the area legislators.

A clique which at inception were crusading with him have jumped out of his bandwagon describing his quest as driven with malice and personal vendetta.

Mumias Sugar Company is the leading sugar miller in the country and has been vibrant posting hefty profits since its Chief Executive Evans Kidero took the mantle almost six years ago.

Last year courtesy of post election violence coupled with global economic crunch which affected even our national carrier Kenya Airways, the giant American Insurance firm A.I.G among others didn’t spare the miller and they posted abit of lose to the acrimony of the MPs who seems to have given a parochial view.

The Company has of late witnessed incidents of burnt canes purportedly orchestrated by a clique of saboteurs who appears undeterred to ensure the company is crippled financially so that the management can be blamed for not performing.

Sugar barons are also said to be behind the woes bedevelling the miller with allegations that they’ve been behind torching canes owned by the company going the full throttle of even burning it’s nucleaus to create artificial sugar shortage with a view of making a kill.

MPs who are in washialis camp are Silvester Wakoli and Dr. Bonny Khalwale. On the other divide are MPs David Were, Shoita Shitanda, Wickliffe Osundwa, Dr. Oparanya and Chris Okemo who have attributed the woos of farmers to sugar act which must urgently be amended in parliament to end the stalemate.

For reasons which this journalist could not immediately establish, even some Luo MPs have been roped in the war to fight the management of Mumias.

A clique of the said MPs have been having night goat eating sessions with Washiali may be for strategic reasons nowander their dumb silence.

END.

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:54:58 -0700 [03/27/2009 12:54:58 AM CDT]
From: JEFF
Subject: SUGAR WOOS

KENYAN AND UGANDAN TOP OFFICIALS IN A SURPRISE MISSION TO THE HOTLY DISPUTED MIGINGO FISHING ISLAND IN LAK VICTORIA

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Report Leo Odera Omolo In Karungu-Bay Saturday 28th March, 2009

THERE was prolonged ululations and enthusiasms as the three Kenyan ministers made a surprise late afternoon visit to the disputed Migingo Island in Lake Victoria on Friday.

The three cabinet Ministers included Moses Wetangula{Foreign Affairs} James Agreey Orengo{Lands, Dr Paul Otuoma{Fisheries}and the Internal security Deputy Minister Joshua Orwa Ojode.

The Ministers were accompanied by two Provincial Commissioners for Nyanza and Western Provinces, Paul Oland {Nyana} and Abdul Mwasera{Western} and the Migori D.C. Julius Mutula. The two provinces all bordering the lake at one point or the other.

The Kenyan Ministers were joined by their Ugandan counterparts, the included three Ministers. They held an hour long discussions on the little island that for many years was uninhabited until 2000 when a few Kenyan fishermen landed there.

The officials had been joined by their Ugandan counterpart at the Kisumu Airport from where they boarded military helicopter and were flown to Muhuru Bay in Nyatike district from where they boarded two boats belonging to Kenya Fisheries and one for the Kenyan Revenue Authorities for the two hour sailing voyage to the rocky one acres Migingo Island.

The officials landed on the island in which 85 per cent of the population of about 600 people are Kenyans, but on which Uganda has planted its national flag and stationed about 30 soldiers. It happened only a day after President Mwai Kibaki had expressed hope for an amicable solution would be reached by the two countries.

Anear drama unfolded at Muhuru Bay pier, when the Migori D.C. Julius Mutula made a futile attempt to bar journalists from boarding the motor b\oat ferrying the Kenyan and Ugandan official to the island. And it took the intervention of the Nyanza P.C. Paul Oland to have the scribes on board of the two boats.

About 30 Ugandan soldiers clad in their full military combat gear and guns at ready, were still patrolling
The island two weeks after the Ministers meeting in Kampala had decided that the island be declared de-militarized zone or no man’s land until the two governments sorted out its ownership,diplomatically.

There were excitement among Kenyan fishermen and fish traders operating at the tiny island when the Ministerial delegation arrived.
ENDS
leooderaomolo@yahoo.com

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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:21:06 -0700 [03/28/2009 05:21:06 AM CDT]
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: KENYAN AND UGANDAN TOP OFFICIALS IN A SURPRISE MISSION TO THE HOTLY DISPUTED MIGINGO FISHING ISLAND IN LAK VICTORIA

A Ugandan Bishop scams Kenyan parents of Millions of Kenyan shilling

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RE: A Ugandan Bishop scams Kenyan Parents millions of Kenyan shillings.
African Christians in Development (ACID) is an example of an organization that claimed to help people, but instead has robbed thousands of their savings, including some of society’s most vulnerable – those living in extreme poverty, orphans, vulnerable children, widows, the elderly. They have accomplished this through an intricate web, designed to prey on the vulnerable and innocent. The result is that a select few have enriched themselves, while causing suffering to many others. ACID is well-known throughout East Africa, as they have pursued their activities in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Sudan.
The attached report provide detailed summary of how this organization has deceived people. In this regard, the Center for Social Responsibility and Accountability (CESRA) Kenya would like to request corporations, NGOs and anyone out there to help us bring this gentleman to justice and help us stop him from scamming innocent people of Kenya and other countries in Africa he might be planning to embezzle funds from.
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Subject: A Ugandan Bishop scams Kenyan parents of Millions of Kenyan shilling

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Fw: US arrests Anglo Leasing suspect

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From: Judy Miriga
Subject: Fw: US arrests Anglo Leasing suspect

From: jbatec@yahoo.com
Subject: US arrests Anglo Leasing suspect
To: “Judy Miriga”
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:06 PM

Folks,

For Kenya to see light, this is the way to go. This fire must keep burning so that there is no repeat of “Macho Makavu Theavery”. Corruption and graft must end, it has become a severe cancer in Kenya, which has caused Kenya from enjoying the dignity of survival in an environment of peaceful loving Kenyans. Corruption and Graft has brought Kenya to a halt and changed Kenyans into a beastly galore a Country with no morals, value or virtue.

It is not possible to hide rotten carcases under a blanket to conceal foul smell. Where there is smoke, there is fire. To clear the field and destroy dangerous weeds, fire must be lit.

I believe, Hague have now more evidence to bring culprits to books.

This is a matter that concerns each and every individual Kenyan, Friends of Kenya, investors and allies, those who think for tomorrow with better prospects for the future. A future you will be proud you cared for, where spirits will be at peace with each other.

Kudos……….. and thanks to you Big Brother USA. I love you.

Sincerely,

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US arrests Anglo Leasing suspect

By BENJAMIN MUINDIPosted Wednesday, March 25 2009 at 22:08
The United States has arrested a key suspect in the Anglo-Leasing scandal in which Kenya lost billons of taxpayers’ money through fraudulent transactions.
A 43-year-old American, Bradley Birkenfeld may be a key lead to the controversial dealings in which the Kenyan government paid some Sh56 billion in promissory notes to bogus companies.
Mr Birkenfeld, a banker and a financial advisor, has been working for UBS bank and is indicted with crafting tax-evasion schemes.
The Neue Zurcher Zeitung, a leading Swiss newspaper, has revealed that Mr Birkenfeld is intimately connected with Anglo Leasing and the Deepak Kamani brothers, alleged architects of the scam.
He signed one of the 18 fraudulent Anglo Leasing contracts on behalf of Info Talent Limited and his private residence, 20 Cours de Rive in Geneva, was listed in a second credit contract as the offices of Midland Finance & Securities Limited.
“This is a man the Kenyan government should be dying to interview to get information on Anglo Leasing,” said Mars Group director Mwalimu Mati, who broke the news on Mr Birkenfeld.
Midlands Finance has since sued the government for repayments of the never-received credit and even succeeded in blocking the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission from using a report by Price WaterHouse Coopers to prove the fraud.
“Why it was signed by the permanent secretary on the authority of the then Finance minister David Mwiraria is the enduring mystery of Anglo Leasing, and Bradley Birkenfeld may have the answer,” said Mr Mati.
Bogus financier
In November 2003, another bogus financier, Info Talent obtained 58.688 million Euros in promissory notes from the Treasury. In 2004, the company mysteriously refunded Sh509 million after Anglo Leasing was exposed by Mr Maoka Maore in Parliament in April of the same year.
That Info Talent fraud was proved by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee investigation of 2006, headed by current minister for Finance Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mr Birkenfeld has pledged to enter a plea bargain where he will volunteer information in return for his release.

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A federal judge in Southern Florida today unsealed an indictment charging two foreign bankers, one a former private banker for UBS AG, with defrauding the U.S. by helping billionaire Orange County, Calf., real estate developer Igor M. Olenicoff evade U.S. taxes on $200 million hidden in Swiss and Liechtenstein bank accounts.
One of the those indicted, Bradley Birkenfeld, is a 43-year-old U.S. citizen who, the indictment says, worked from 2001 to 2006 in the private banking division of a Swiss bank, which “also owns and operates banks, investment banks and stock brokerage businesses throughout the United States.” Federal election records show a Bradley Birkenfeld contributed to candidates during that period, listing his employer as UBS (nyse: UBS – news – people ) and his address as Geneva, Switzerland.
UBS disclosed recently that the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating whether it had helped wealthy Americans evade U.S. taxes on offshore accounts. In addition, earlier this month a senior UBS employee was briefly detained by U.S. authorities as a witness in that investigation.
In a statement today, UBS said it is “continuing to cooperate with this investigation” and that “in light of the pending investigation, it is not appropriate to comment on charges brought against a former UBS employee.”
Separately, UBS is also being investigated by U.S. prosecutors for its past involvement in the U.S. tax shelter industry.
Birkenfeld was arraigned this morning in Fort Lauderdale and entered a plea of not guilty. He was released on a $100,000 secured bond, and a $2 million personal surety bond, surrendered his passport and is subject to electronic monitoring. The other defendant, Mario Staggl, 43, a Liechtenstein citizen and resident, remains at large, the government said.
In the indictment, brought by the U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida, Olenicoff, who Forbes estimates is worth $1.6 billion, is named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” and referred to as IO. Olenicoff settled with the government in December, by pleading guilty to one felony count of filing a false 2002 individual income tax return; paying $52 million in back taxes, interest and civil fraud penalties; and agreeing to bring all the money in his foreign accounts back to the U.S. On April 14, he was sentenced to two years probation. Olenicoff’s use of offshore accounts, which was described in a story in Forbes in 2006 (see: ” The Billionaire With The Empty Pockets”), dates back to the early 1990s.
Olenicoff’s attorney, Edward M. Robbins Jr., declined comment, but the indictment left no doubt as to who the unnamed billionaire was, including among other things, details about the ownership of his 147-foot yacht.
The indictment notes that in 2001, Birkenfeld’s employer entered into a Qualified Intermediary agreement with the U.S. That agreement required UBS to identify any customers who received U.S. source income that was reportable to the Internal Revenue Service and to report that income. As part of the process, UBS agreed to have customers fill out IRS form W-8BEN, which requires foreign beneficial owners of bank accounts to be identified—a departure from historical Swiss bank secrecy laws.
But Birkenfeld and Staggl, the indictment alleges, defrauded the IRS by falsifying Swiss bank documents and W-8BENs, and by setting up “nominee entities” to hide the true ownership of assets. Staggl, according to the indictment, was the owner of New Haven Trust Company Ltd., a Liechtenstein trustee of accounts used to hide Olenicoff’s ownership of assets.
The indictment indicates Olenicoff wasn’t Birkenfeld and Staggl’s only wealthy client. According to the indictment, the men marketed to U.S. taxpayers the advantages of Swiss and Liechtenstein banks for attempting to evade U.S. income taxes, “claiming that Swiss and Liechtenstein bank secrecy was impenetrable.”
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Spotlight: High-level Ministerial meeting on M/XDR-TB in Beijing

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Spotlight: High-level Ministerial meeting on M/XDR-TB in Beijing
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[Mods note: The Health & Development Networks (HDN) is facilitating an on-site team of Key Correspondents (KC) at the 3rd Stop TB Partners’ Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Below is an article from a KC from the ongoing Forum. More information about the Forum is available online at: http://stoptb.org/events/partners_forum/2009/ .

For more information on the WHO high-level Ministerial meeting on M/XDR-TB in Beijing, China, go to:
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The High Level Ministerial Meeting on multi- and extensively- drug resistant TB (M/XDR-TB) will be held in Beijing from 1 to 3 April 2009 and is being organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This meeting is likely to bring together health ministers and other stakeholders from 27 high M/XDR-TB burdened countries, including justice and science ministry delegations and representatives from international agencies, civil society, research communities and the corporate sector.

“We have been able to convince the ministers of health of 27 high burden M/XDR-TB countries to come to the Beijing meeting and commit to achieve the targets of the Global Plan to Stop TB” said Dr Ernesto Jaramillo, Medical Officer, Stop TB Department, World Health Organization (WHO) at the 3rd Stop TB Partners’ Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“The 2nd Global Plan to Stop TB which was launched in 2006 had laid out specific targets for MDR-TB, to provide universal access to diagnosis and treatment of MDR-TB by year 2015” said Dr Jaramillo.

“Only 3% of people who have MDR-TB have access to effective treatment. We have compelling evidence that we know how to prevent and treat MDR-TB and treatment success rate is 80% in low resource setting. Its intervention is complex but is effective, feasible and is cost-effective” stressed Dr Jaramillo.

The 27 countries represented will be Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Republic of Moldova, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Pakistan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam.

The highest levels of MDR-TB ever recorded were reported by WHO in its ‘Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World’ report in February 2008 with nearly half a million new MDR-TB cases emerging worldwide. According to the new WHO report (Global Tuberculosis Control report 2009), the levels of multi-drug resistant TB might be more than half a million as previously thought.

The threat of MDR-TB and XDR-TB can be halted but few of the 27 high MDR-TB burdened countries have response plans in place. Many of these countries are not even properly equipped to diagnose drug-resistant TB.

“We need political commitment from the countries. The XDR-TB task force had met in April 2008 in order to assess the progress we had made in response to MDR-TB and XDR-TB. The Task Force came up with lot of positive things, major progress in many areas. However the number of people on treatment was far below the target. One of the clear recommendations coming out of the XDR-TB Task Force meeting was to convene a high level ministerial meeting where we can get ministers of countries responsible for the 85% of the global M/XDR-TB burden, to achieve the target of universal access to diagnosis and treatment of MDR-TB by 2015” explained Dr Jaramillo.

Countries with low resources are building their capacities to make things happen. Lesotho was able to make a state-of-the-art laboratory for diagnosis of MDR-TB in six months. “We have countries like Nepal, Philippines, Peru that despite of weakness in health systems are providing universal access to MDR-TB diagnosis and treatment” said Dr Jaramillo.

“So far the Green Light Committee (GLC) mechanism, which is an initiative of WHO, and has played an instrumental role in leading the response, began with only one country in the year 2000 – Philippines. Now 8 years later we have 58 countries that have 116 projects approved by GLC. However we have less than 20% of countries that are moving towards scale up country wide of these interventions” said Dr Jaramillo.

Dr Jaramillo expressed his concern that “Countries are not moving fast enough in order to prevent the death of 1000 people with MDR-TB every day.”

Vice Premier of China, the Director-General of WHO and very likely that Bill Gates and ministers of health confirmed so far from 21 high burden M/XDR-TB countries will be taking part in the Beijing meeting opening next week.

“We are expecting that this will be a watershed meeting in response to M/XDR-TB” said Dr Jaramillo.

“After this meeting we will like to move towards a World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution. The resolution of WHA is powerful in the sense that countries really commit to do things. After the Beijing meeting, one month later, the Government of China has agreed to submit a proposal of a resolution to the WHA in order to accelerate the response to M/XDR-TB” shared Dr Jaramillo.

The aims of the WHO high-level ministerial meeting on M/XDR-TB include:

– Strengthening political commitment and boosting engagement among affected countries and the global community.
– Using the months leading up to April 2009 to support countries to develop costed MDR-TB components of TB control within health sector plans.
– Working towards solutions in areas such as:
* Anti-TB drug quality, supply and rational use;
* Laboratory capacity and fast adoption of new and rapid diagnostic tools;
* Involvement of the private sector in MDR-TB prevention and control;
* Prevention of transmission of TB in healthcare facilities (infection control), congregate settings, prisons and communities;
* Promotion of patient and community rights and responsibilites (The Patients’ Charter for Tuberculosis care);
* Research and development of new drugs and diagnostics.

For more information on the WHO high-level Ministerial meeting on M/XDR-TB in Beijing, China, go to:
http://www.who.int/tb_beijingmeeting/en/index.html

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EAST AFRICA’S STANDBY MILITARY FORCE LIKELY TO BE OPERATIONAL BY NOVEMBER TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS IN MEMBER STATES

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New Analysis by Leo Odera Omolo

Countries in East Africa and the Horn will in the near future be obligated to intervene in trouble spots like Somali and Darfur, instead of relying on military help from the entire continent or peace keeper from the United Nations.

The East African Standby Brigade Coordinating Mechanism (EASBCOM) is expected to become a reality next year after the brigade meets the requirement set by the African Union (AU).

The planned force, according to sources in Nairobi will complete its field training in November 2009 thereafter which it will be certified as fully operational ready to intervene and resolve numerous conflicts within the regions.

EASBCOM’s coordinator Dr. Simon Mulongo was recently quoted as saying that the Brigade which was involve specially trained troops from eleven countries can only undertake peace support operation from early next year.

According to Mr. Mulongo. EASBCOM role is to ensure the brigade has common equipment needed for any peace keeping force support operation.

Initially, the East African brigade was originally meant to have 13 countries, namely Tanzania, union of Comoro, Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Seychelles, Madagascar and Maritimes.

But it has now emerged that the East African Brigade force will only involve 10 active members with Tanzania, Madagascar and Mauritius having joined SADCC still, however, Tanzania recently reveled it was still interested in the force and is considering participating in the group as an observers.

Mr. Mulongo said the priority areas of intervention will depend on three factors. The most deserving conflict situation; the voting by the AU peace and security architecture, which requires the five regions of Africa to develop their own standby brigades

The East North, west, Central and Southern Africa regions are expected to develop their own brigades that will ultimately form an African Standby force equipped to intervene in conflict, meaning the continent will no longer have to depend on the United Nations every time a conflict breaks out.

Military commander from the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region met in the Kenya capital, Nairobi early this month for a one-week that analyzed conflict and disasters in the region. The generates came from Kenya, Uganda, Somalia Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Rwanda.

Article 14 of the all constituencies act provides that member states establish Regional mechanism for conflict prevention and management as part of the overall securely architecture of the African Union

But as the region moves to strengthen its capacity to respond to conflict before they escalate, the new arrangements will not have it smooth.

One area to concern remains the political dynamics and ideology of member countries which would lead to some not being willingly to contribute or accept troop[s from countries with which they are in dispute or on the basis of religious difference.

However, could easily be resolved. There is the provision that the country force can only be deployed at the request of the country with conflict in it.

In January last year the Kenya government rejected suggestions of foreign military intervention, even though the post election violence had overwhelmed in its security forces.

The regulation governing the EASBCOM stipulates that each region must move to strengthen its capacity to respond to conflicts before they escalate.

Each member country must set aside especially trained and well equipped force within their arm units that can be called upon at a moment’s notice to respond to a conflict situation.

Conflict is considered the leading single internal factor behind socio-economic decline on the continent and the suffering civilians.

Resent estimates show that conflicts are costing the Africans continent approximately USD 8 billion a year in terms of peace-keeping, humanitarian assistance, logistics and loss of property and human life

Between 1995 and 2005, the war of conflicts on the entire African Continent amounted to a staggering USD 18 billion.

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:52:36 -0700 [10:52:36 AM CDT]
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Subject: EAST AFRICA’S STANDBY MILITARY FORCE LIKELY TO BE OPERATIONAL BY NOVEMBER TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS IN MEMBER STATES

OJODE, JAKOYO WAR ERRUPTS

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OJODE, JAKOYO WAR HEADACHE FOR PRIME MINISTER
BY JEFF OTIENO

The perceived entrenched enmity between Gem MP Jackoyo Midiwo who is also the ODM Chief Whip and an Assistant Minister in the office of the President Joshua Orwa Ojode came to fore last weekend during the burial of Griffins Okeyo(DOC) a son of a Nairobi based business magnet Erick Okeyo in Pap Onditi in Nyakach Constituency.

It all started when the combative Gem MP took the podium and took head on the dissent voices in the region led by two Nairobi based Lawyers George Onyango Oloo and Otieno Weda who were also present.

Midiwo described the duo as quacks who had no business to challenge the Prime Minister on any issue be it Political or Economic. After he concluded his speech, the apparently enraged legislator shouted to the two who were seated next to him saying that “you guys Ojode is cheating you” to the amazement of the mourners who also included the pragmatic Marie Stoppes country Director Cyprian Awiti.

Lands Minister James Orengo who had arrived with Jakoyo on a chopper however played down the growing dissent in the region being aggressively propelled by the two vocal Nairobi lawyers.

It is imperative to note that the two youthful advocates were unsuccessful during previous party polls primaries in their respective Constituencies namely Kisumu Town East and Kisumu Rural. They have been alleging that they were rigged out by cronies of the Prime Minister deliberately among other bureaucratic tenets being condoned by the ODM party leadership.

On their turn, the duo who are also ODM life members vowed to continue with what they termed “Liberation of Luos” whatever the circumstances.

Back to the two legislators, Ojode is a renowned Raila Odinga ally who has withered turbulent waters with him. In the run up to the last elections during a hurried reshuffle, he was given a ministerial flag in a bid to tilt his loyalty, but be declined.

He’s credited for his shrewd political tact but for reasons which shocked many, he wasn’t given a full ministerial docket during the formation of coalition government.

In the larger Southern Nyanza particularly his Ndhiwa Constituency, he has helped split administrative boundaries a move which has made him almost undisputed in the region.

Jakoyo Midiwo by nature is very combative and is also credited for consolidating the PMs Support in the region. So far he has done well but he will have to redouble his rapport and approach with fellow MPs who some argue he’s a little bit pushy and at times takes issues personal.

Contacted for comment by this writer, Ojode said he had no idea why Jakoyo has been fighting him.

“He found me in politics and his schemes to create enmity between me and the Prime Minister won’t work”, Ojode thundered.

It remains to be seen what prompt mechanisms the Prime Minister, Raila Odinga will deploy to reconcile his warring brigades to consolidate his support and bring harmony in readiness for 2012 elections.

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:44:06 -0700 [02:44:06 AM CDT]
From: JEFF
Subject: OJODE, JAKOYO WAR ERRUPTS

Kenyan shot in San Diego

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3 dead in MTS shootings

Police gun down man who shot co-workers

By Greg Gross (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer, Angelica Martinez (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer, John Wilkens (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer

2:00 a.m. March 25, 2009

Before he pulled the trigger, Lonnie Glasco had a chilling announcement. “Nobody’s going to leave,” he told co-workers in a lounge at a downtown San Diego bus-maintenance depot yesterday.

Then Glasco, a veteran Metropolitan Transit System mechanic, went outside in the early morning darkness and gunned down two employees before police fatally shot him in the parking lot.

Glasco, 47, had suffered some losses in recent years – first his marriage, then the house near Alpine that he saw as an escape from urban aggravation – but police yesterday were still unraveling why he turned violent after working at the agency for 29 years, his entire adult life.

He shot Benjamin Mwangi, 37, a maintenance foreman, who died at the scene, and Michael Stevenson, 55, a mechanic, who was taken to University of California San Diego Medical Center. Stevenson was placed on life-support and died at 3 p.m., the Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Glasco, a revenue technician who serviced fare boxes, had just finished a 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift at the facility at Imperial Avenue and 16th Street in East Village when the shootings occurred.

After he left the employee lounge, witnesses heard two shots. Then, moments later, more shots. The employees ran.

Police were called and found Glasco in the parking lot. He still had the gun in his hand. Officers ordered him to drop it. Glasco made a call on his cell phone, then pointed the gun at the officers, police said. Three of them opened fire, and Glasco was killed.

Mwangi had worked for MTS since 2007, after a job with National City Transit. He also owned Mwangi Smog Test in Spring Valley, where his sole employee called him “a good guy, a good father.”

“He was always a real cool guy with me,” said Diego Delgado, who added that Mwangi hired him because it was too exhausting working the graveyard shift at MTS while running the smog test shop. “He’d even give me bonuses for doing stuff around here. I’m in shock.”

Mwangi grew up in Muranga in south-central Kenya, his family said. He moved to the United States about 13 years ago, and met and married his wife, Mary-Spring, three years later. The couple, parents to daughter Kozette, 8, and Mary-Spring’s daughter, Kylie, 17, had planned to renew their marriage vows on their 10th anniversary, April 24.

A family friend, Diane Moses, called Benjamin Mwangi “kind, caring and willing to help you out in time of need.”

Stevenson was found in an MTS office near the service bays. He was from San Diego and had been with the transit agency for 31 years.

Further information on Stevenson was unavailable last night.

“This has been a tragic day for the victims of this incident, and for their families and friends,” Paul Jablonski, chief executive officer of MTS, said in a statement. “Our hearts and prayers go out to them.”

About 10 other people were working at the yard when the shooting happened. Grief counselors are offering group and individual sessions at the transit agency.

Police and transit officials were tight-lipped yesterday about a possible motive for the shooting. San Diego police Lt. Kevin Rooney said that investigators are following certain leads and have some thoughts on what prompted the shooting, but added that “feelings are not facts.”

Rob Schupp, an MTS spokesman, said Glasco had not been laid off. Schupp said he was unaware of any recent job-related actions and declined to comment on Glasco’s disciplinary record.

MTS is struggling to close an $11 million budget gap caused by a drop in state transit subsidies. Directors are planning to vote on fare increases and other adjustments later this week, but there has been no public talk of layoffs or furloughs.

Experts in workplace violence, which claims dozens of lives nationwide each year, said past episodes offer clues to a possible motive.

“I can tell you what it’s going to be: He was mad at someone in particular, or mad at the business itself,” said Greg Moffatt, a college psychology professor in Atlanta and author of “Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected.”

“It usually comes down to someone who believes that something has been taken from him that he didn’t think they had a right to take.”

Chris McGoey, a security consultant in Los Angeles, said, “Something set him off, something that was probably building, which is why he brought the gun.”

MTS policy prohibits firearms at work, Schupp said, and the facility has security guards around the clock. Neither the employees nor their cars are routinely screened.

Schupp said he was not aware of any past workplace shootings at MTS, which daily transports about 230,000 passengers on its trolley and bus lines. Some buses were delayed after the shooting, but service was normal by midmorning.

Glasco lived with his parents, William and Shirley, in Monarch Ridge, a gated subdivision southeast of El Cajon. A woman at the house yesterday said the family would not be commenting.

Glasco previously lived with his wife, Robin, on Dunbar Lane in Blossom Valley, near Alpine, and was active with neighbors who unsuccessfully fought construction of a new middle school. They were concerned about traffic, noise and safety.

“This is a tranquil setting with lots of privacy and peace,” Glasco told a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter in August 2002. “I came out here to get away from the city.”

Neighborhood worries mounted in 2003, when firestorms swept through that area and large swaths of the county. The Glascos stayed and fought the flames that October day, setting lawn sprinklers on the roof. The house survived.

The couple divorced in 2005, and Robin Glasco received the house on Dunbar Lane as part of the settlement. Property records show she sold it this year and apparently has moved to Montana. She could not be reached yesterday.

Mickey Smith, an 18-year-old senior at El Capitan High School in Lakeside, lives on Dunbar Lane. Smith recalled Lonnie Glasco as a friendly neighbor.

“He was pretty cool,” Smith said. “He helped me through a lot. He helped me with my motorcycle, and he encouraged me with school.”

The workplace-violence experts said the nation’s ongoing economic troubles are contributing to stress in the workplace, but they know of no evidence showing that workplace shootings are prompted by hard times.

“That would be the easy answer, but no,” McGoey said. “We’ve had them when times were great. People have their own issues. The economy just tightens the screws.”

Police said the three officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative duty, which is routine while a case is investigated. One is a 14-year veteran; the others have been on the force for one and two years, respectively.

Staff writers Mark Arner, Debbi Baker, Ray Huard and Pauline Repard, and staff librarian Merrie Monteagudo contributed to this report.

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Subject: Kenyan shot in San Diego

Fw: Kenya’s 3 Top Most Beautiful Girls

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A warm welcome to http://michaelmundiakamau.webs.com

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Subject: Kenya’s 3 Top Most Beautiful Girls [Kenyanlist.com]
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Date: Thursday, 26 March, 2009, 9:53 AM

Hi… I thought you might like this listing from KenyanList.com ›› Jokes. To see the listing, please click on the following link:
Kenya’s 3 Top Most Beautiful GirlsThanks, Mundia Kamau

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:50:30 +0000 [09:50:30 AM CDT]
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Subject: Fw: Kenya’s 3 Top Most Beautiful Girls [Kenyanlist.com]

Re: MARCH 24: THE DAY FOR KENYAN FREEDOM

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Date:            Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:26:46 +0300 [12:26:46 PM CDT]
From:          Mohamed Jiwa
Subject:          Re: MARCH 24: THE DAY FOR KENYAN FREEDOM

Thanks for this – really.  It contains an immense amount of orderly information.  God
bless you Orina.

2009/3/23 orina Nyamwamu

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATION FOR
KENYAN CITIZENSHIP

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Tomorrow March 24, 2009 is the Human Rights Defenders Day in Kenya. It is the day in 1996
when the Moi State assassinated our dear Karimi Nduthu. Karimi Nduthu had just finalized
an investigative report into the 1992/3 ethnic clashes that the Moi state sponsored and
executed targeting Kikuyu, Kisii, Luo and Luyha Populations in Rift Valley/Nyanza/Western
and Coast Provinces. That year Kenya witnessed the uprooting of nearly half a million
Kenyans from their homes- this Internally Displaced Citizens (IDCs) phenomenon is not new
after all!  The citizens from these ethnic communities were considered sympathizers of
the opposition FORD Kenya, FORD Asili and DP and therefore were considered Madoa doa in
Moi?s strong holds of Rift valley and Coast Provinces. KANU was convinced that Western
and Nyanza Provinces had fallen to the FORD (Kenya and Asili) waves whereas Central and
Nairobi had fallen to the FORD-Asili/Kenya and DP waves and KANU was fast running out of
Provinces. KHRC later published a report titled Burning the vote that detailed the
political economy of ethnic clashes in favour of the corrupt and criminal KANU state.

 It is thought that KANU wanted to secure Eastern, NEP, Coast and Rift valley provinces
and then divide Nyanza?s people ? the Luo and Kisii to see if the Kisii could vote for
Moi with the Kuria and possibly allow Moi the 25% he required. KANU was sure it was
headed to getting 25% in Western Kenya. The violence of 92/93 and 97/98 totally destroyed
the economy. Tourism and agriculture were affected and the character of the Kenya
republic was totally disfigured. Citizenship and rights, democracy and dignity all were
trumped on the altar of political careers. I had Kalonzo Musyoka caution Kenyans to go
slow on the Waki report because it is a report that had the potential to ruin people?s
political careers. The Christian Brother knows that human beings do not matter but
political careers. But he is the Vice-President any way and was in Moi?s government then
and knows very well what happened. But we Kenyans do not like the past; We do not like
the Truth; we want to go back to sleep when the cobra is still between our blankets! We
have become a nation of zombies and brainwashed masses. We have been dismembered and have
become slaves to the monster which is killing us vicious.

Karimi Nduthu had freshly been released from Jail where he had been for 5 years (some one
should correct me for any inaccuracies because I was in lower primary when this was
happening). He had been in Kamiti but mainly in Naivasha Maximum Prison allegedly for
being a member of the Mwakenya Movement. The Movement that pressurized the Moi State to
release Karimi and his 50 other colleagues was RPP Pressure Group that had been founded
in London by among others the likes of the Late Dr. Wanjiku Kihoro and her Husband
Wanyiri Kihoro, Ngugu Wa Thiongo among many others as the Committee for the Release of 
Political Prisoners.

Back at home the mothers and families of the Political Prisoners organized themselves and
descended on All Saints Cathedral and Freedom Corner where they pressurized for the
release of the sons. Moi broke up with monumental violence and brute force the mothers?
protests that lasted many weeks on end but the relentless mothers and sisters of the
struggle never gave up until their children were released. All except Apiny Adhiambo were
released in 1992. RPP had already been formed in 1991 so almost all joined the pressure
group to push for constitutional reforms and the restoration of democracy.

RPP working closely with the KHRC, ICJ and LSK and the NCCK/ Other Bishops and Muslim
Prelates later gave Birth to 4Cs and NCEC. Karimi was an active participants in these
initiatives. NCEC formally launched at Limuru exactly one year after Karimi had been
buried. Mureu Kariuki was elected Secretary General of RPP to succeed Karimi. Together
with Muthoni Kamau (as Chair of RPP) and Tirop Kitur (as Cordinator) they led the RPP
forward, courageously and with clarity.. I was elected Secretary General of RPP in 2000
to succed Mureu and with continue to participate in the intellectual development of the
organization. RPP was the most visible actor in the NCA-NCEC during these times until
donors began to pull the rag from under the feet of the progressive and radical
organization. In 2002 NCEC was denied funding for conducting civic education ?because it
was considered to be a highly political national organization that we think is not
capable of delivering civic education?. This is even knowing that the Gurus of civic
education like Prof. Kivutha Kibwana, Rev. Njoya, Dr. Mutunga and Kepta Ombati were the
leaders of NCEC.

That is why it is very saddening to see that these days, constitutional reforms have been
reduced to a mere academic discussion on what are the contentious issues and what are
not. The struggle for democracy and freedom is something that is a life and death issue.
It is not a domain subject of conservatives and turncoats like the ones currently
directly the direction and nature of constitutional reforms. Freedom and democracy are
values  that some Kenyan heroes and sheroes have given everything- including their lives
to secure and the struggle still rages on. Constitutional review has been bastardized and
hijacked by the most conservative forces, political entrepreneurs and the harlots of the
status quo and it has been reduced into a mere game for the ruling elite to satisfy their
egos with!

Karimi was arrested when he was pursuing his Engineering Degree at the University of
Nairobi. He was a conscious thinker, organizer and leader together with his comrades like
Tirop Kitur, Kangethe Mungai, Mwandawiro Mghanga, Onyango Oloo, Gupta Ng?anga Thiong?o,
Njeri Kabeberi, Oduor Ongw?wen, Wafula Buke, Paddy Onyango among many others.  These men
and women worked with other courageous and gallant soldiers of Kenya?s liberation such as
Wangari Maathai, Moseti Anyona, Njeru Kathangu, Koigi Wa Wamwere, James Orengo, Raila
Odinga, Willy Mutunga, Prof. Mazrui, Micere Mugo, Prof. Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof. Maina
Kinyatti, Prof. Edward Oyugi most of whom were the teachers at the University of these
emerging and Promising young and ideologically clear Leaders of our struggle and nation;
Leaders who loved life more than anything else- leaders who wanted a just, equitable and
prosperous Kenya where democracy meant that every Kenyan had a right to a life of dignity
and peaceful co-existence. These leaders had revolutionary chaplains like Rev. Timothy
Njoya, Manasses Kuria, Alexander Muge and many Muslim Imams and Sheikhs to look up to!
And they had a revolutionary in Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere to run to- there at the
southern border of our mother land. Nyerere proved decisive in the struggles for
democratization in Kenya and Africa. Like him, all these young and courageous leaders
were Panafricanists who never recognized ethnic and other parochial dichotomies but were
inspired by the Philosophy of Utu, Ubuntu, Solidarity to do good and uphold life; not
profits.

The touch stone of the youth movements, the women movements, the workers movements, the
students movements, the peasant movements and middle class movements these days is the
crave for profits and material wealth. Even poor university students are these seen
lining up to help the government auction Safaricom. We no longer know who we are and we
have become objects of the market.

Karimi Nduthu knew that an engineering degree in a society where he was merely  going to
be a new generation of a colonial subject- a native without rights and without
constitutional guarantees; in a surrogate economy presided over by Moi, Kenyatta and
Kibaki on behalf of the neo-colonial and imperialist powers was worthless; it was like to
give a prisoner clean linen to continue living in prison. Karimi wanted to be free but
more importantly Kenya to become truly independent.  To merely graduate from slavery to a
new form of slavery was not enticing to Karimi- he was not for vanity but prosperity in
justice  and peace. Karimi was in solidarity with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in his
declaration ?Not yet Uhuru!?- Kenya was not yet free!

I knew Karimi when I was a first year student at Kenya Polytechnic in 1995. I met Karimi
only three times before he was bludgeoned to death by the state assassins. The CID came
up with a Kiraithe-Mutua-Ali-like theory- that Karimi had been killed due to a Love
affair gone sour. When you see some of us scoffing at the instant and pre-meditated
theories that come from Kiraithe and his boss do not think that we are merely acting
emotional; It is because we can see through the propaganda. We know how these thugs do
their thing! Karimi was working with several International Human Rights organizations in
conducting the thorough and damning Research. They wanted to silence Karimi from telling
the Truth about who organized and killed thousands of Kenyans across the country in the
name of ethnic cleansing- did they really silence Karimi? I doubt.

The Month was March.

Karimi was investigating and had a report on Killings by state agents.

He was killed brutally and the state wanted to deface him. They wanted to Kill his
character after assassinating him. The Kenyan state not only kills Human rights
defenders, it also works to kill them in their death. The state wants to delegitimize the
Human rights Movement. Because it?s the only defense that stands between the evil ruling
class and their ambition of consuming all little material things the people have and hope
for. This imperialist, criminal state, like the vampire feeds on blood and souls of the
people. They work to kill human beings through famine, poverty, unemployment, clashes,
assassinations, privatization, laying off workers, still pension funds and auctioning of
the nation to foreigners.

That is why Oscar Kingara and GPO Oulu?s assassination is not going to be explained away
just like that. We know that When Pio Gama Pinto was headed to release a report on
Kenyatta?s corruption, he was assassinated; JM Kariuki was assassinated for speaking of
the necessary revolution, Karimi, Nduthu, Fr. John Anthony Kaiser, Oscar and GPO; Dedan
Kimathi before them, Muthoni Nyanjiru in 1922 at the central police station when she
mobilized our people to demand the release of Harry Thuku; the list goes on. Mambo ni
yale Yale! Only that the label keeps changing; from slavery, to imperialism, to
colonialism, to neo-colonialism and now globalization; but something fundamental has not
changed- the character of the states that engender these evil systems is the same; these
are states that are established to destroy lives in the interests of Profit primitive
accumulation;

So Karimi died and was buried in Githima Molo. His parents? home has been torched in
every bout of ethnic clashes when a President had to rig an election to keep himself in
power. But we promised Karimi that his death was never to be in vain.. And it shall never
be in vain. We promised the Moi state that for every Karimi they assassinated, 1,000
Karimis would rise! And for every GPO and Oscar Kingara they assassinate there shall be
10,000 GPOs to carry on with the work of our heroes. From 1920 until we liberate our
country we shall never stop at nothing but freedom and dignity for all.

From Dedan Kimathi, from Waiyaki Wa Hinga, Arap Samoei, Me Katilili Wa Menza to GPO and
Kamau Kingara Oscar; the people shall arise; they shall learn and expose these criminals
in suits and overthrow their rule. The people shall get their land back from the home
guards led by Kibaki, Uhuru, Moi and their clique. This is a Promise!

If they call poor unemployed Kikuyu young men Mungiki so that they can kill them and keep
the land they grabbed from the grandfathers of the displaced Kenyans, that shall be for a
short while but the people shall know the propaganda and reject- revolt against the
Kenyattas and Mois of this world.

You young Kenyan professionals and activists; Stand up and be alive. Do not be corpses
who died at 18years and are waiting to be buried at 70years! Why can?t we be Like Dedan
Kimathi Waciuri- who declared that ?it is better to die standing on my feet than to live
on my knees??

My generation of Kenyans are people who make me want to cry; they can?t see that we are
leading a worse life than that of our parents and that our children will lead a worse
life than the one we are leading today. We have betrayed the nation and we shall be
cursed by our ancestors who died for our freedom and nation; we are going to perish
because we have joined the government in using taxes- the sweat of our mothers and
fathers- to kill young Kenyans because they are poor and unemployed. We are the ones who
are guilty- not the home guards in power. The home guards in power are cowards who can
not – like Nyerere- entertain a debate; they can not debate; they can only kill those who
have a different view; those who stand on the side of the masses; and our generation has
gone along with this murderous regime- condemning the Partnership for Change and NCCK for
calling for elections.

I wonder why then we have eyes yet we are blind; and the physically blind can actually
see more clearly than all of us together.

We have ears but we can not hear the cry of Kenyans who are killed by the state through
commission and omission and the command from God our creator when he says ?For I your God
will hold your right hand; I am the Lord who says to you, Fear not; I will help you!?
Isaiah 41:13. We never hear any of what is being told to us. Like Mugabe we we can not
any longer understand the meaning stewardship. We are killing the people who have been
entrusted to us by stealing the medicines of their children and the maize for their
porridge.

We have mouths but we can not speak for the masses who educated us. As their markets, and
land, and hotels, schools and now universities are being privatized- being stolen, we are
indifferent. It is not our business we say.

We have brains for pleasure and gratification not to think for our greatness as a country

We are religious yet we can not sacrifice for this nation; we do the rituals but can not
live the calling of Islam or Christianity which is this: ?Defend the cause of the weak
and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed; rescue the weak and
the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked? Psalms 82: 3-4

We have money that we had better lose at the Nairobi Stock Exchange and in the Pyramid
schemes than to fund the development of our neighbours through cooperative societies and
movements. We better with our millions than share with those wrethched Kikuyu or Kamba or
Giriama neighbour.

We have entered into moral death and moral bankruptcy with gusto and as the Americans
descend into the pit we are overtaking them as we go down; yet they have been to the top
and build a civilization that we worship uncritically. We act like children of a lesser
god. Not children of GOD.

We have become the haters of our risk takers- the Human rights activists and lovers of
our killers. There is more love for Michuki in Kenya than Mwalimu Mati or Tirop ( some
are asking who the hell that is). We call our risk takers- our human rights defenders
masqueraders out to capture donor money; but we are out in the jua kali to be the
statistics in the next Kibaki rally;

We do not see the Grand coalition as the enemy of progress but see the poor youths like
us as the enemy that must be exterminated.

We hate those who say the truth and rush to prostrate before the known economic saboteurs
and criminals who have killed your mothers and relatives seven times over!

Men and women of little faith we are!

We are happier listening to 7 minutes of Akinyi and Wanjala on TV than to the report on
how the state is killing our fellow citizens in Samburu, in Mandera, in Sabaot, in Kisii,
in Moyale; we have become a failed state.

We have privatized university education and secured that money to buy phony cargo ships
at Kshs. 4.4 bn by labeling them navy ships!

But I remain happy, that on March 24; the day of Human Rights defenders; the day Karimi
Nduthu was assassinated; the month that GPO and Oscar Kamau Kingara were assassinated
together with Godwin Ogato Gisairo; I can declare that this is the hour to strike- not to
retreat; for the belly and bowels of the beast have decomposed and we must now open the
bowels; the darkest hour is near dawn it was said; and that dawn is now at hand;

I suggest 5 steps towards moving Kenya from a failed, corrupt and dictatorial state to a
democratic just and developmental state;

Five steps to break with the past and begin the process of building a new democratic and
developmental state and republic

   1. PASS AN INTERIM CONSTITUTION IMMEDIATELY TO OFFER THE BASIS OF DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNANCE.

1.1  What: a new constitution outlined as principles to govern the country for three
years.  This is an interim constitution the South African way. The CKRC draft of 2002
should form a basis of the Interim constitution.

1.2  Why an interim constitution: because the current government is not a legitimate
authority and has hijacked the process and made it a parliamentary process instead of
referring a Kenya people?s process for a democratic and popular.

1.3  Who should be involved in making and passing of the interim constitution: the
Interim constitution should be negotiated by a multi-sectoral forum using the current
Experts committee approved by parliament. It should be passed in Parliament as an interim
constitution by amending section three of the constitution to donate limited constituent
powers to Parliament.

1.4  When: the said interim constitution is made immediately by convening the
Multi-sectoral forum in April 2009 and the interim constitution be passed in parliament
in May 2009.

1.5  How: the committee of experts to be mandated to outline the principles of the new
constitution of Kenya that shall be passed by the Multi-sectoral forum and then presented
to the National Assembly as the interim constitution for adoption as the interim
constitution of Kenya

1.6  Rationale: the current Raila-Kibaki led Grand coalition wants to hijack the right of
Kenyans to make the constitution the people want. They want to make a constitution that
will not solve our governance crisis. The ruling class wants to get a constitution that
will not create a new order as regards exercise of power, separation of powers,
independence of constitutional institutions, land reforms etc. they want to use the
constitution as a succession tool to accommodate many more ethnic warlords and secure
votes. This must be rejected. The people must restore their constituent power to
themselves-WE THE PEOPLE!

   2. A COMPETENT ELECTORAL BODY (IIEC) IS ESTABLISHED WITH UNITED NATIONS (UN) BACKING
AT THE CONSTITUENCY LEVEL TO FACILITATE THE CONDUCT OF CREDIBLE, ACCOUNTABLE, FAIR AND
TRANSPARENT ELECTION IMMEDIATELY.

   3. BAR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN NAMED IN ALL THE REPORTS FROM AKIWUMI, GOLDENBERG,
ANGLO LEASING, NDUNG?U LAND REPORT, PAC AND PIC REPORTS,

   4. CONDUCT A FRESH ELECTION TO ELECT A CLEAR GOVERNMENT THAT WILL BE:

4.1  Clean government devoid of individuals who have pillaged the nation since
independence

4.2  Lean enough TO ENSURE that taxation burden is reduced, the national budget is
transformed to a 40% recurrent expenditure and 60% development budget policy. This is the
only public services can be restored to the people.

4..3  Effective government that shall deliver reforms, reconstruction and reconciliation
as per the schedule under the National Accord.

4.4  Accountable to the people where impunity and corruption is at zero tolerance

4.5  Responsive to the plight, needs and aspirations of the people of Kenya and their
national values

   5. THE NEW GOVERNMENT TO CARRY OUT THE FOLLOWING

5.1  Settle all IDCs ? internally displaced Citizens

5.2  Offer security and defense to all Kenyans by cutting down on crime while observing
the rule of law and by ensuring that Kenya?s territorial integrity is assured.

5.3  Restore human rights and freedoms to all Kenyans

5.4  Implement the Waki report in full

5.5  Implement the Kriegler report in full

5.6  Establish the TJRC and address all past injustices

5.7  Establish and run a CLEAR government

Agenda number 4

5.8  Renew all institutions of governance to the highest internationally established
standards of governance

5.9  Transform Kenya?s education system to make national values and aspirations the touch
stone of the education content and management

5.10                      Complete constitutional reforms by negotiating an enduring
democratic constitution based on the Interim constitution.

5.11                      Deal with the food crises in Kenya in far reaching manner

5.12                      Fix unemployment

5.13                      Fix regional inequality and poverty

5.14                      Fix the land problem in Kenya

5.15                      Deliver national healing and cohesion

5.16                      Deliver disaster preparedness and capacity to secure the rights
of Kenyans under hostile conditions.

5.17                      Prepare and facilitate the conduct of a fresh election after
five years

This is what the Human Rights day of March 2009 should resolve to undertake on behalf of
the people Kenya. As Frantz Fanon as said and I paraphrase; Our generation Must identify
its mission and decide to fulfill it or betray it. This is our historical mission- to
save the nation from being destroyed by the evil forces of greed, tribalism and ineptness.

If we did this;

Muthoni Nyanjiru will never die

Me Katilili Wa Menza will never die

Moraa will never die

Koitalel Samoie will never die

Musambwa will never die

Dedan Kimathi Wa Ciuri will never die

Pio Gama Pinto will never die

JM Kariuki will Never die

Tito Adungosi will never die

Karimi Nduthu will never die

Fr. John Antony Kaiser will never die

Wanjiku Kihoro will never die

Oscar Kamau Kingara will never die

GPO Oulu will never die!

The people who have died in the hands of state terrorism and neglect shall all arise; a
new heaven on earth shall blossom. We will become the greatest nation on earth.

Our march to victory; the people?s march to victory is unstoppable

We shall over come! Amen

Ndugu Cyprian Orina Nyamwamu

(These are my personal views not those of the NCA/NCEC, Partnership for Change or RPP
Trust all of which I am a member of)

MR. PRESIDENT..MIGINGO ISLAND IS GONE..WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

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As we speak Uganda Armed Forces are occupying Migingo Island whether Kenya government
want to admit or not. The recent Kenya delegation sent to Uganda to negotiate Migingo
Island was only token gesture to only to show that Kenya was concern with this issue. I
am providing Kenya government and the readers of this website to click on this Google
website to see where Migingo is located. Please, click on this map and type in ( Migingo
Island, Kenya).you will see Migingo is in Kenya  also  type in Mfangano Island and see
how these two Islands are both in Kenya borders. There is No reason for Uganda to claim
Migingo then NOT to claim Mfangano Island the next day!. There is nothing in Migingo
Island that Uganda would want!. Look at this map and tell me why Uganda will occupy or
take Migingo Island and leave Mfanagano Island alone for Kenya?

Mr, President Sir you are the leader of the all Kenyans and the entire country, please
get this Island back to preserve the integrity of Kenya lands and borders. If you let
Migingo go as some in your administration like the  chief of Staff Gen. Kianga has
suggested that ” Migingo Island is too small..and is the issue of mapmakers”.. you will
no have country to govern at the end of your last term in office.I urge you  Mr.
President Sir to look at this map and tell the country WHY UGANDA ARMED FORCES CAN STAY
IN KENYA TERRITORY FOR  A SECOND?.Let us all get ethnic/tribal politics out of Migingo
issue…we are  all Kenyans and this is Kenya land. Why is the President of Uganda
putting you and your armed forces on the sport on Migingo Island?. Does this mean that
they know that you and your government will do nothing if they occupy this Island?.has
your government conceded these Islands privately to the government of Uganda?. I don’t
profess to know any thing about Military, Bugiri district where U Uganda is sending UDF
is over 400+ Km and Mihuru Bay where Kenya government would send Kenya military force is
15 KM to Migingo Island..why would Uganda forces take this chance of logistic nightmare
to defend and occupy this Island?.

To Kenya MPS who hale from Western province, I  double dare  all of you to  to move to
Migingo Island and open local offices to show that this Island belong to Kenya as this
map shows. You MPs are Kenya citizens too you are not just leaders of your: tribes or
political district boundaries only but Kenya as a whole. For change, put off political:
party affiliations, tribal, salaries, taxes and 2012 election  address Migingo issue.
The Migingo Island disputes with Uganda should not only be left to Luo MPS to tackle.
What if the President of Uganda decide to occupy border territory in Kenya mainland like
Busia and others..who then will come to  Western MPS aid?. Yes, the public and Kenya MPS
are rightfully out rage with  Uganda aggression on this issue but “the bucks” stop with
you Mr. President!. If Migingo Island is taken and occupied by Uganda, Mr.President the
country will have nobody to blame but you. The history will not be kind when the :domino
of Kenya borders start to falling  from lake regions to the heartland on Kenya mainlands.
There is nothing that will stop other bordering States to  claim Kenya territory if you
CANNOT protect current Kenya borders.For readers of this blog, please, forward this
Google website to your MPS..don’t assume that they know where Migingo Island in located
in Kenya!.Most of these MPS are always occupied with daily politics and international
travels than knowing many parts of this country.  Migingo Island MUST remain Kenya
territory Mr. President!

JD BROWN

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Date:          Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:32:26 -0400 [11:32:26 AM CDT]
From:          Dan Orao
Subject:          [Fwd: MR. PRESIDENT..MIGINGO ISLAND IS GONE..WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT
IT?]

ALLIED SADC FORCES NOW PATROL INDIAM OCEAN NETS ILLEGAL TAIWAN FISH TRAWLER

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Reports By Leo Odera Omolo

Tanzanian police are on hot pursuit of a Taiwanese national whose  traveler was impounded
for fishing  illegally in Tanzanian exclusive economic zone in the Indian ocean.

The alleged Taiwanese pirate is said to holed up in Mombasa ,Kenya, from where he
coordinates fishing  piracy along the Tanzanian coastal line

The traveler christened Mv Taiwan 1, was impounded on march 8th ,2009 just 48 hours after
a patrol vessel to stem illegal fishing was launched in the Indian ocean

The vessel had more than 100 tones of tuna fish in its hold .The  haul has since been
stored at Bahari Food premises in three 40 foot container  pending the court case 
against the crew for illegal fishing.

The team now in custody of the Tanzanian police comprising Kenyan, Mozambique and
Tanzanian officer made the arrests.

A source privy to the police say the vessel and crew did not fly high  flag so its origin
could not be established besides the Kenyans, the crew comprised sailors from
China(15),Philippines(8) Vietnamese(5)  and Indonesia six.

The patrol vessel MV Sarah Bartman was launched on Friday ,March 23, 2009 by the minister
 for livestock development and fisheries  John P. Magutuli, together with the head of
marine force ,Brigadier  General Said Omar, and south African deputy  director of
environment  Keith Govendor

Mr. magutuli said the era of illegal fishing in Tanzania s exclusive economic  zone (EEC)
was over. ?Since only three of the crew had valid vaccination certificates ,we will
vaccuate then forth before locking up,? said Mr. Magutuli

He explained that under the deep sea fishing act ,2007 such offences attract a penalty 
Usd 15.5 million (Tan 20 billion ) or confiscation of the vessel or both  fine  torture
of traveler.

Maguti said this was in the right time for the country history that a suspected illegal
traveler and crew with such a huge fish catch been held.

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete recently invited the patrol team to State House for a
meeting ,  while the Minister gave them Maasai carvings, attire and a club in appreciation

Mr. kikwete said the arrest followed fruitfull conclusion of a recent ministerial
meetings in Swaziland where recommendations were made that big nations in the Southern
Africa Development Community (SADC) like south Africa ,assist member countries countries
to curb illegal fishing in their respective ?..

At the SADC meeting last July, ministers responsible for fishing in SADC agreed to
conduct a joint patrol among  member states bordering ,unregulated and unreported fishing

The head of the four nations surveillance team ,Keith G, said the crew of the impounded
vessel tried to speed off after they were confronted and called to stop

But the patrol team in mv Sarah Bartam gave chase and  caught up with them. By then the
travelers had  switched off its rador ,an act unusual practice on the high seas.
Last week a Chinese  identified as Ho Hanqing ,surrendered  to Tanzania police claiming
to be the agent of the impounded vessel.

Tanzania  loses more than Usd 200 million from illegal fishing .estimated have put the
number  of travelers  that engage in the illegal fishing as over 70 m  number

ENDS
leooderaomolo@yahoo.com

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Date:          Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:12:08 -0700 [10:12:08 AM CDT]
From:          Leo Odera Omolo
Subject:          ALLIED SADC FORCES NOW PATROL INDIAM OCEAN NETS ILLEGAL TAIWAN FISH TRAWLER
OFF TANZANIA COAST LINE AS POLICE HUNTS VESSELS BOSS