Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:39:51 +0000
From: Nicholas
Do not hang The Standard editors and reporters. Karua seems to be in big trouble than the visa saga. I sympathize with her children.
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Switzerland denies visa to Kenyan minister
Posted on Wednesday 5 March 2008 – 09:08
Francis Luchivya, Nairobi, Kenya
Switzerland has translated her travel ban for Kenyan leaders into practice by refusing a visa to minister Martha Karua who was to attend a conference dubbed ‘Session of State Counsel Law’ in Geneva that is scheduled to kick off tomorrow.
The Minister had applied for the visa on Tuesday. Kenya’s delegation to the forum is headed by her Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Dorothy Angote.
As if that was not enough, her son, a university student in Australia had his re-entry to Australia at the end of his stay in Kenya denied. As if this was not enough, more disaster has been visiting her. Another of her kids was deported from another western capital.
For Martha Karua, disaster has come following disaster. After being spurned by bandit Kibaki before he signed the power-sharing arrangement, she is devastated. Ms Karua, one of the hardliners of the bandit regime has been ruffling the Eminent African leaders the wrong way. She was missing in action on Friday when the mediators resumed their places at the Annan table. She was reportedly livid, and said as much to Wetangula because after being instructed to stone-wall the mediation efforts, Kibaki melted the walls that stood in the way of a political settlement, albeit without consulting her.
Switzerland, one of the vociferous foreign powers that was insisting on a settlement. It will be remembered that the wealthy Alpian federal state had threatened to follow the American cue and impose visa bans on anybody who was perceived to be adopting a hardline position on the mediation talks. This frustration of Karua comes as music to the ears of all patriotic Kenyans. She has no respect for anybody. The other day she was reported to have told off her colleagues from th bandit government, Prof Sam Ongeri and Mutula Kilonzo. Apparently, Mutula let the cat out of the bag when he insinuated that Ongeri was hurt by the exchanges. ‘You have never seen Ongeri as sad as this’, he had said.
Ms Karua was on the BBC’s hardtalk immediately after the election to defend the bandits. In a very articulate and strong-headed manner, she told off the former British High Commissioner to Kenya Edward Clay. At the interview, she even hinted that Clay was persona non grata in Kenya. Of course at that time Clay had no communication of his banning from Kenya. Later he was to be told by the Kenyan Embassy officials at St James Park that he was indeed banned from entering Kenya. She had goofed.
Hot on the heals of that Karua adopted an eloquent posture, arguing at every TV talk-show that the ODM was free to go to court. Of course she knew where that theatre was going to end with a pliant court. The hearing was to be open and fair but she was going to write the ruling at SH and have it read. Na mta do? Well, now things are collapsing all around her. With her children barricaded in Kenya and herself tethered in Kirinyaga, she is going to become more rabid.
Meanwhile, reports reaching us indicate that more hardliners are marked and will soon find themselves isolated much like Karua. Ms Karua can hardly travel to Europe and she certainly now remembers that ambassadors are not junior officials in the pecking order after all. They speak with authority and apart from the president, nobody else can address a meeting and say ‘my government’, except an ambassador. This part of diplomatic etiquette, the former junior magistrate needs to take in her Civics 101
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Zedekiah Nyanchama
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Subject: And Standard may have been right about Karua Visa saga – Switzerland denies visa to Kenyan minister
We all remember Condi mention ‘other means’ if the peace negotiations were only an ‘illusion’, it is a common secret among the Western powers that the Swiss account(s) from which the Kshs1 Billion part of Anglo Fleecing money was returned to the Kenya Treasury overnight was in fact the same account to which, the paper trail of the purchase payment of the Lavington mansion for Wambui Mwai, led.
This was the reason why keguoya had an overnight change of heart that left Karua stranded. Its also the reason why he darent renege on this peace deal. Unfortunately Kalonzo does not have such info to hand and thats why he has been easily ‘reneged’ in the usual kibaki fashion.
And the Swiss have been very vehement and sure about what their course of action since they have had sight of the original instructions/documentation of the above shenanigans.
The Catholic Hierarchy is culpably silent over this turn of events, as their tacit background support (after Kimunya’s allocations of Rift Valley land to them) was also smashed. By the way where is Njue, has he gone underground like Wumugonda of the Karua ‘private message’ notoriety?
karua’s heaven is in kenya. i really don’t understand why educated people see the west as a paradise? as for me, i have never liked or imagined myself visiting or living in the west. i find these countries cold and boring. i only like some few states and cities in usa but only for a brief visit to these places during their summer time or other non life threatening weather periods like hurricane and tornadoes season . i would never visit these places during their winter time or other dangerous shit weather time. never ever. kenya weather is always perfect. i was forced once to visit uk out of choice.
kenya need to develop its local tourist industry and stop relying on the western tourist. kenya economy and its budget this time round should became completely self reliance. i
jaluo dotcom should cease their new incitement of kenyans. the real bandit mwizi and murderous of innocent kenyan is odinga and odm. all evidence point to this fact e.g langatta, rift valley and nyanza rigged election in the just concluded elections. but any way jaluo dotcom is obviously an odm and odinga propaganda machine. odinga is no hero but a corrupt person, he never will be a hero. the west support him because they are still jelous of kenya achievements. as usual they want some ignorant, corrupt leader like him who mission will be to destroy kenya and africa at large. since when has the west ever had a love for africans? don’t be naive.
odm recent destruction of kenya has endeared them more to their evil western puppet masters. the west will not rest until they impose odinga and odm on kenyans. the west know that this is their best strategy to drown kenya for good.
the punk editor of jaluo dot come should stop harassing that patriotic kenyan who now want to tell kenyans about ouko real killers. what is this punk editor trying to hide from kenyans? this idiot should speak for himself since he has not consulted kenyans on whether they maybe interested in this type of information on ouko murder.
i see the same thought patterns with odm and their western puppets for hiding to the present moment their facts about their unfounded allegation of rigging. lakini they are still ‘payukaring’ and have murdered and maimed innocent kenyans. these people and their western countries supporters should be feared and approached with caution. they should also be made to account.
This should be a lesson to all ruling elites in Kenya and Africa at large that rubbing shoulders with developed countries elites while condenming the rest of the Kenyan/African population to poverty and slum life styles is a losing game for all poor Kenyans/Africans.
Every street of Nairobi and towns in Kenya has turned into slums blanketed with kiosks with open sewage.
The elites can afford very extravagant life styles in which their children get top foreign education not affordable to average youths of the those foreign countries. They jump on planes to get supreme healthcare money can buy abraod whenever they get sick. To protect themselves, they arm themselves to the teeth despite the fact that they are not at war with the neighbouring countries. All these arms are used against the poor citizens who dare to say OUCH to poverty and hunger. These elites are not interested in building roads, schools or healthcare system for their poor citizens. They are not interested in developing their countries. The are merely there as homeguards, guarding the wealth they have accumulated through corruption.
I am not happy that Ms. Kuria is in some trouble with Switzerland, a country that is known for its secret banking system. Most corrupt elites of the world keep their countries’ stolen wealth in Switzerland. It is just sad that the wealth stored in these secret banks is eventually used to settle unpaid secret deals these headless africa elites promised and are unable to deliver. Most of the looted wealth are from these poor countries’ treasury or natural resources. Whichever way Kenyan/African elites choose to look at it, foreign investors know how not to lose.
So, whenever a bribe offered and placed in a foreign country, these elites should understand the bribes insurance policies for the foreign investors that can be liquidated to settle any undeliverables. No issuance of “persona non grata” can ever bring back the looted treasures or foreign kept bribes. THE FOREIGN INVESTORS ARE NOT THERE TO MAKE PERMANENT FRIENDSHIP WITH ANY INDIVIDUALS. THEIR INTEREST IS TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY USING ANY MEANS AVAILABLE. THE AFRICAN ELITES ARE MERELY MEANS TO THAT IMPORTANT INTEREST,THEIR BOTTOM LINE (PROFITS).
This is a game with winners and losers. The biggest losers are African population.
From tha wei U present ua self , I wish to respect da fact UR well learnned. Am kenyan, just like the other 40 tribes exc. mine COULD U Kindly avoid name calling??? UA message is mature BANDIT’S R MY RELATIVES EN YOURS, LETS NOT B I DENIAL.
silly,get your facts right about Karuas suposedly visa ban,she even displayed it to the media to see.Thats i never read The standard as it has lowered itself to writing rubbish.