Category Archives: Prisoners

KENYA: NYANDO RESIDENTS REFUSE PRISON CONSTRUCTION

2 Replies

By Our Reporter

Across n section of residents from Nyando Constituency within Nyando District have vowed to resist attempts by their area Member of Parliament Fred Outa and Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka’s office to construct Prison jail house within KOchoggo area.

Led by Ahero Town Council Chairman Councillor Joel Oron and his Vice Chairman Cllr.Onyango Weather, they leaders dar5ed the Ministry to send its officers for surveillance within the area with a view of commencing the construction of the said prison.

“There is a maximum prison within Kodiaga area and there is Kisii and Siaya Prisons, why is the area MP founding it prudent to agitate for the construction of Prisons within Nyando and trying to induce land owners with compensations?“ Oron wondered.

He vowed that they as grassroots leaders will resist at all costs the construction of the said Prison saying the crime rate within the area does not warrant such.

“I know very soon the Prime Minister Raila Odinga will be here with a view of convincing the area residents to allow the said construction to go on after being misled by the area MP, when he comes we will make our stand known even if it means loosing our seats, we will defend our people to the hilt” the angered Oron added.

We have authoritatively established that the area MP has bought some section of the land where the prison is to be constructed with a view of re-selling it back to the state again.

Nyanza Provincial Prisons boss P.Kamau when contacted said the whole project has been stopped till all the pertinent issues are addressed

Kenya: torture and killing of a youth in kamukunji constituency

Leave a reply

From: Tom Makisa

In deed it sounds like a story narrated not in kenya, but we wonder how many more young souls shall be lost in such a brutal manner. Where is justice? The innocent blood shed is crying 4 help & God is watchin, may the Almighty God rest that soul in eternal peace, Every life is precious

——————————

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 09:41 PDT george omondi wrote:

Yesterday night at about 8:00pm-8:30pm a youth man lost his life at the hands of 3 diplomatic police officers at eastleigh south ward/madiwa next to suncity cinema.

According to eye witnesses the 3 policemen who were said to be drunk at the time took the wallet of the young man at the suncity stage where the youth used to work as matatu route 4 operator, and entered the pub then the youth decided to follow the officers at the pub to demand for his wallet, what happened next was a thorough beating by the officers who closed the doors of the bars according to the eye witnesses and what they could hear was the loud voice of the youth crying for help and bottles and glasses being broken inside, after about 8 minutes the officers opened the door of the pub and dragged the young man outside the pub by pulling his legs since the young man could not stand due to pain and was sleeping at the floor the young man then walked up and struggled his way home but was
overwhelmed by his pain and decided to rest at a nearby plot the officers then decided to follow the young man and woke him up and dragged his to a nearby police post so that he can be booked and detained but the officer incharge of the station refused to book the young man and asked the officers to take the young man first to hospital, the officers then left with the young man to later abandon him outside the station the station commander then followed the officers to the pub they were drinking and the officers from diplomatic police unit and the regular police officers starded quarreling since the diplomatic police officers refused to take the young man to hospital, the young man was then rescued by another youth who knew him and took him to a clinic where he received first aid treatment and took him to his house.

the young man could not sleep due to the pain he was undergoing and was rushed to kenyatta national hospital the following morning and he
was urinating blood and vomiting blood as well the young man succumed to the pains as he was being taken to hospital by his pregnant wife and other volunteers, the young man is no more with us he is dead leaving behind a pregnant wife and some small kids, the incidence has been recorded at shaurimoyo police station and eastleigh south police post. The postmortem result will be out next week tuesday we will keep you informed, may his soul rest in peace.

KENYA: ODM CALLS FOR CIVIC CULTURE AMONG POLITICIANS

1 Reply

from Lee Makwiny

ODM Secretary General Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o has warned politicians against using foul language when campaigning for elective positions.

Prof. Nyong’o says, use of derogatory language by politicians defeats the real purpose of democracy especially at this time when Kenyans are preparing for the General Election.

Addressing a Media Conference at ODM Headquarters – Orange House today on tomorrow’s ODM Leaders Strategic Conference scheduled for KCB Leadership Centre in Karen, Nairobi, Prof. Nyong’o said ODM was in the process of ensuring ‘civic culture’ among its members to avoid flouting the relevant laws.

He said the civic culture was necessary for politicians adding that use of civilized language during campaigns was important. Prof. Nyong’o said that the theme of tomorrow’s leaders meeting is ‘A Winning Strategy for ODM’.

He said the meeting which brings together a section of elected officials from all the branches in the country namely Chairman, Secretary, Youth Leader and Women Leader will be used to put in place mechanisms that will help ODM win this year’s general election.

Oduya et al,

This is the statement by our Secretary General.
**************

He said, being the most popular party in Kenya and with the largest following across the country, ODM will embark on a countrywide exercise of voter education particularly on the need for acquiring Identity Cards and registering as voters.He urged the Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons to ensure youths who are 18 years and above acquire ID’s to help them register as voters and take part in the general election.

Prof. Nyong’o said ODM stands for equality, truth and democracy adding that the Kenya of today needs a political party that can unify all Kenyans. “We would like to set an example to people that politics must have some form of civic culture to ensure that the country is not ruined” said the Medical Services Minister.

Said he “each one of us has a right and nobody is should be seen to be more equal than the other”.

On calls by some party members to have ‘repeat party elections’ in some areas, Prof. Nyong’o said the party’s activities will not be stalled by poll petitions saying that such can be handled as the party continues with its activities and programmes. He said the National Elections Board of the party will continue addressing the issues raised by party members regarding irregularities in some areas during the party grassroots elections and will soon be making a statement on the same.

Prof. Nyong’o said tomorrow’s meeting in Nairobi will be used as a bonding session for the newly elected party officials from across the country saying that as we head towards the electioneering period, there was need for party officials from all Counties to know each other for harmony.
“Soon the High Court will make a ruling on the date for the General Election and we want all our party officials from across Kenya to be familiar with each other so that we all can speak with harmony” said the Kisumu Rural Member of Parliament.

Present during the press conference were the ODM Executive Director Ms. Janet Ong’era, Dr. Joseph Misoi, the Secretary to the National Elections Board, Mrs. Judy Pareno, a Member of the National Elections Board, Mrs. Zainabu Chizugha from Kwale who recently defected to ODM from KADDU, Mr. David Sonkok from Eldoret North in Uasin Gishu County among others.

ODM Party Leader Mr. Raila Odinga and his Deputy Mr. Musalia Mudavadi will grace the occasion.

Syria: Detainees Hidden From International Monitors

Leave a reply

From: Yona Maro

(New York) – Syrian authorities have transferred perhaps hundreds of detainees to off-limits military sites to hide them from Arab League monitors now in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The Arab League should insist on full access to all Syrian sites used for detention, consistent with its agreement with the Syrian government.

The Syrian foreign minister, Walid Moallem, was quoted in the Independent on December 21, 2011, saying that the international monitors would be free to move around the country “under the protection” of the government but would not be permitted to visit certain “sensitive” military sites.

“Syria has shown it will stop at nothing to undermine independent monitoring of its crackdown,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Syria’s subterfuge makes it essential for the Arab League to draw clear lines regarding access to detainees, and be willing to speak out when those lines are crossed.”

A Syrian security officer in Homs told Human Rights Watch that after the government signed the Arab League protocol on December 19 he received orders from his prison director to assist with an irregular detainee transfer. He estimated that on December 21 and 22 approximately 400 to 600 detainees were moved out of his detention facility to other places of detention.

“The transfers happened in installments,” the official said. “Some detainees were moved in civilian jeeps and some in cargo trucks. My role was inside the prison, gathering the detainees and putting them in the cars. My orders from the prison director were to move the important detainees out.”

He said that officials who accompanied the detainees out of the facility told him they were being taken to a military missile factory in Zaidal, just outside of Homs.

The security officer’s account was corroborated by other witnesses. Human Rights Watch spoke with a detainee who said that a transfer of other detainees took place from the Military Security detention facility in Homs on the night of December 19.

The detainee told Human Rights Watch, “There were about 150 [detainees]. They took them out around 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. These guys were in detention the longest. Not criminals, but people who worked with journalists, or were defectors, or involved in protests.”

A Homs resident told Human Rights Watch that he saw heavily guarded cargo trucks leaving the Central Prison and the Military Security detention facility in Homs on December 20. The level of security led him to believe that detainees were being transported out of the facilities, he said.

Another Homs resident told Human Rights Watch that heavily guarded buses were going into the military barracks for Division 18 and a section of Division 4 in the al-Wa’aer al-Qadeem neighborhood of Homs from December 20 through December 22. The high level of security surrounding the buses’ movement led him to believe that they were transporting detainees into the barracks, he said.

The terms of the protocol signed by the Syrian government and the Arab League make clear that the monitors should have full access to places detainees are being held. On the basis of the protocol, the Arab League monitors should have access to the military missile factory and all other sites where detainees might be held, Human Rights Watch said.

The Syrian security officer interviewed by Human Rights Watch also said that the government is issuing police identification cards to military officials. Human Rights Watch is in possession of a document that appears to be from the Syrian Defense Ministry ordering the transfer of personnel from the Defense Ministry to the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, and deploying them to areas where the military currently serves “to avoid disorder.”

Providing police IDs to military personnel violates the Arab League initiative, which calls on the Syrian government to withdraw armed forces from cities and residential areas, Human Rights Watch said.

“Dressing soldiers in police uniforms does not meet the Arab League call to withdraw the army,” Whitson said. “The Arab League needs to cut through Syrian government deception by pushing for full access to anywhere Syria is holding detainees.”

—
Kuchangia Wahanga wa Mvua DSM +255786 806028 Kwa Airtel Money na +255767806028 kwa Mpesa

Egypt: Free Blogger Held in Maspero Case

Leave a reply

from Yona Maro

(New York) – Egypt’s military prosecutor should immediately release an award-winning blogger charged in connection with the demonstration by Christian Copts on October 9, 2011, which turned deadly, Human Rights Watch said today. Alaa Abdel Fattah was detained and later charged with incitement and theft of a military weapon, even though the prosecutor had presented no evidence to support the charges. His detention came as military prosecutors started questioning activists and priests about their alleged involvement in publicly encouraging Copts to demonstrate on that day.

During the protest in the Maspero area, military vehicles ran over demonstrators and the military used excessive force to disperse protesters, resulting in the deaths of 27 civilians and one military officer. A November 2 report by the National Council for Human Rights, Egypt’s government-appointed human rights commission, said members of the military were responsible for killing demonstrators. Investigations related to this demonstration remain solely in the hands of military prosecutors, who have called in activists and priests for questioning but have refused to reveal any information about whether they are investigating any military officers for their roles in killing Coptic protesters.

“Instead of identifying which members of the military were driving the military vehicles that crushed 13 Coptic protesters, the military prosecutor is going after the activists who organized the march,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Abdel Fattah’s detention is a blatant effort to target one of the most vocal critics of the military. The prosecutor’s acts further entrench military impunity by failing to build public confidence that there will be a transparent investigation of those responsible for the deaths.”

On October 30 Abdel Fattah and Bahaa Saber, another political activist, appeared before the military prosecutor in response to an official summons. Prosecutors questioned them about their political affiliations and involvement in the protests at Maspero, but the two men refused to answer, saying they did not recognize the military’s authority to try civilians before military courts.

Abdel Fattah’s father, Ahmed Saif al-Islam, who is also serving as one of his defense lawyers, told Human Rights Watch that he and the team of defense lawyers contended during the interrogation that the military court was not competent to question civilians with regard to the Maspero violence because the military itself was party to the violence and the head of the military police was responsible for the deaths of protesters.

In response, the military prosecutor ordered Abdel Fattah’s detention for 15 days. The prosecutor released Saber pending further investigation.

On November 3 the head of the military justice system released a statement saying the military prosecutor had charged Abdel Fattah with “theft of a military weapon, the destruction of military property, incitement to the assault of military officers, illegally demonstrating and use of force against members of the armed forces.” At no point in the proceedings has the prosecutor presented any evidence against Abdel Fattah. Given the absence of evidence, Human Rights Watch believes it is highly likely that the charges were trumped up and are politically motivated, related to Abdel Fattah’s activism. On November 3 his lawyers filed an appeal against his detention, which the prosecutor rejected and on November 14, the prosecutor renewed Abdel Fattah’s detention for a further 15 days.

Abdel Fattah is an award-winning blogger and activist who has been one of the most vocal critics of abuses by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the interim governing authority in Egypt. Abdel Fattah has written regular columns in the independent daily Al Shorouk and appeared on private satellite TV stations such as ON TV. The Mubarak government imprisoned him in 2006 for 45 days for participating in protests calling for judicial independence. The Egyptian daily Al Shorouk and The Guardian published a letter written by Abdel Fattah on November 1 in which he wrote, “I never expected to repeat the experience of five years ago: after a revolution that deposed the tyrant, I go back to his jails?”

“The military government has no business prosecuting Abdel Fattah, or any other civilian, in a military court, much less in a case involving the military’s own unlawful violence against protesters,” Whitson said. “These charges presented without evidence against one of the country’s best known activists are further reflection of the military’s desire to silence its critics.”

Investigation of Protest Organizers on Charges of Incitement

Military prosecutors have summoned at least seven people – five activists and two priests – to question them about allegations that they incited the demonstration and attacked the military, based on an October 17 police report by the Interior Ministry’s criminal investigations department. The report claimed to identify 12 individuals and seven political activist groups, including the April 6 Youth Movement, the Maspero Youth Movement, and Copts Without Chains, as responsible for inciting the events at Maspero.

Based on this report, military prosecutors opened an investigation, case number 855 of 2011, at the East Cairo Military Criminal Court, and started summoning people for questioning. Defense lawyers who saw the report during the interrogation of their clients told Human Rights Watch that it contained a list of generalized charges against all 12 people named without providing any evidence or even narrating specific facts to link any of the accused to the charges. The charges include illegally demonstrating in front of the TV building to harm public order, inciting to violence against the armed forces, inciting and participating in the destruction of military property and vehicles, and membership in an organization that seeks to harm public order.

“The military is relying on Mubarak’s old playbook, charging activists with absurdly vague offenses such as ‘illegally demonstrating,’” Whitson said. “These laws have no place in an Egypt that respects the rights of its citizens to organize, assemble, and protest.”

Those listed in the Interior Ministry’s report as prime suspects in the incitement investigation are:

Mina Daniel, activist, shot dead on October 9 during the Maspero protest
Ramy Kamel, member of the Maspero Youth Union, interrogated on October 27
Hany Geziri, has not received a summons yet
Joseph Nasrallah, lives in the United States
Father Filopeter Gamil Aziz, interrogated on October 26
Father Mitias Nasr, interrogated on October 20
Sherif Ramzy Aziz, member of Copts without Chains, interrogated on October 26
Ibram Louis, member of the April 6 Youth Movement and of Copts without Chains, interrogated on Oct 27
Sarwat Kamal
Sabry Zachary
Bahaa Saber, activist, interrogated on October 30
Alaa Abdel Fattah, blogger and activist, interrogated on October 30

Daniel was shot dead with a live bullet during the violence at Maspero. The autopsy stated that a bullet had entered the top of his back and exited through his stomach in the front, indicating that it must have been fired from a height. His sister Mary Daniel spoke at a news conference on November 3 organized by the campaign group No To Military Trials, saying, “I was stunned, didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I heard [that he was a suspect], after they killed him they now want to ruin his reputation. They may have silenced Mina but there will be a hundred Minas who come after him.”

Said Fawzy, defense lawyer for Ramzy, a member of Copts without Chains, and Louis, a member of Copts without Chains and the April 6 Youth Movement, told Human Rights Watch that the military had questioned them on the basis of their memberships in those activist groups. Hany Ramsis, defense lawyer for Kamel, an active member of the Maspero Youth Union, told Human Rights Watch that the military prosecutor had asked Kamel about his involvement in the group and the October 9 demonstration.

The April 6 Youth Movement leader, Mohamed Adel, who is serving in the army as a conscript, was summoned to the military prosecutor on October 27 on allegations of having incited the Maspero protest. His lawyer Gamal Eid told Human Rights Watch that the charges against him were dropped when his presiding officer confirmed that Adel had not left the military base that day.

Two priests, Father Mitias Nasr and Father Filopeter Gamil Aziz, were among those the prosecutor summoned for questioning about incitement allegations, on October 20 and 26 respectively. Mitias told Human Rights Watch that he had thought the prosecutor was summoning him to take his testimony about a complaint Mitias had submitted against Gen. Ibrahim El Maty, deputy head of the military police, accusing military police officers of attacking peaceful protesters on October 6. The military prosecutor interrogated Aziz, priest of the Virgin and Maryohanna Church in Giza, on allegations of incitement and abusing religion to cause sectarian violence and the destruction of military property and assaulting members of the military.

No Transparency About Whether Military Officers Being Investigated

The civilian Office of the Public Prosecutor has referred all complaints filed by the families of victims killed or injured at Maspero to the military prosecutor, who is exercising sole jurisdiction over the Maspero investigation. Military prosecutors are investigating 31 people, mostly Copts, arrested on the evening of October 9 and charged with assaulting military officers.

Prosecutors are refusing to tell the lawyers whether anyone is being investigated for the killing of protesters through live gunfire and crushing by military vehicles. A human rights lawyer, Taher Abul Nasr, confirmed to Human Rights Watch that lawyers representing victims have been unable to view any of the prosecutor’s reports to determine whether prosecutors are interviewing any military officers driving the armored personnel carriers (APC) or otherwise deployed that evening.

Said Fayez, the lawyer for the Daniel family, told Human Rights Watch that despite the fact that he is representing one of the victims, he has not been able to obtain any information about whether military prosecutors are interrogating any military officers for their role in the violence and therefore whether there is any genuine investigation of military responsibility. Fayez said that the Office of the Public Prosecutor sent all the complaints submitted by the families of victims to the military prosecutors under one case number.

Vivian Magdy, who was with her fiancé, Michael Mus’ad, when he was crushed by an APC on the evening of October 9, said at a news conference organized by the No To Military Trials Groupon November 2 that she went to the military prosecutor to give her testimony but the prosecutor only asked her about whether she saw “thugs” attacking the military.

“The military justice system is not going to bring justice for Michael’s killing,” she said. “Only civilians can do this. The time for silence is over, this massacre cannot happen again, it can’t happen again.”

Egypt’s military has tried at least 12,000 people before military courts this year. Despite the military’s vague promises to limit the use of military courts, there are at least four ongoing investigations before the military prosecutor, including the cases of the 28 Copts arrested on the night of Maspero and charged with assaulting military officers. Human Rights Watch has previously set out thereasons that only a civilian judicial body can conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the events at Maspero, since the military is directly implicated in the violence at the demonstration.

Military Responsibility for the Maspero Massacre

From its first reactions in response to the violence at Maspero, the military has blamed external forces for the deaths. In an October 12 news conference, Gen. Adel Emara blamed “foreign elements” and “incitement and threats by political personalities and religious men to gather in front of the TV building at Maspero” for the violence. He went on to say that, “There has not been a case of rolling over people with vehicles,” and instead that the people controlling the armored military vehicles at the demonstration were “trying to avoid running into protesters, not rolling over them.”

Human Rights Watchinterviewed 20 participants in the demonstration who consistently said that between 6 and 7 p.m. on October 9, at least two APCs were driven recklessly through crowds of demonstrators, in some cases appearing to pursue the demonstrators intentionally. The evidence overwhelmingly suggested that the protest of thousands of Copts had been peaceful until the point that the APCs were driven through the crowds, and that the military’s subsequent response to violence by some of the demonstrators was disproportionate. The large, heavy vehicles crushed and killed at least 10 demonstrators, as autopsies later showed.

On November 2 the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Egypt’s national human rights commission, released the report of its fact-finding committee on Maspero. It concluded that three APCs “moved one after another, at great speed along the Corniche toward the October Bridge … the movement of the first two APCs in the midst of demonstrators was fast and circular, they changed their direction from the October bridge to the opposite direction toward Maspero. As a result of the extreme speed at which the first and second APCs were driving, they ran over a number of demonstrators, killing at least 12.” The NCHR said that the military had violated the right to life but was less categorical on whether the military had used live ammunition, saying that some statements confirmed they had but others had said they had only used sound bullets and that the military had denied the use of live gunfire.

The report also stated that the group had little faith in a government fact-finding committee. On October 10 the cabinet established a six-member government fact-finding committee headed by Assistant Justice Minister Amr Marwan to “investigate the causes of the Maspero events, the instigators and all those responsible… in addition to investigating the truth of what happened in the village of Marinab, including reviewing the results of the investigations conducted by the public prosecution.”

The committee has thus far visited Marinab on October 12 to investigate the destruction of the church there, one of the reasons for the October 9 demonstration, but has yet to make public its findings and it does not formally have the power to question any members of the military or to access any of the investigations conducted by military prosecutors. An earlier Justice Ministry-led fact-finding committee set up to investigate the excessive use of force by the military in breaking up a demonstration in Tahrir square on April 9 has yet to make public any of its findings.

In the draft principles on military justice adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Commission, principle no. 9 states: “In all circumstances, the jurisdiction of military courts should be set aside in favor of the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts to conduct inquiries into serious human rights violations such as extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and torture, and to prosecute and try persons accused of such crimes.” In the European Court of Human Rights Case Al-Skeini and others v UK, the court found that:
For an investigation into alleged unlawful killing by State agents to be effective, it is necessary for the persons responsible for and carrying out the investigation to be independent from those implicated in the events… a prompt response by the authorities in investigating a use of lethal force may generally be regarded as essential in maintaining public confidence in their adherence to the rule of law and in preventing any appearance of collusion in or tolerance of unlawful acts. For the same reasons, there must be a sufficient element of public scrutiny of the investigation or its results to secure accountability in practice as well as in theory.

—
East Africa Jobs www.kazibongo.blogspot.com

Tender and Consultancy http://mytenderzone.blogspot.com/

Tears as Kenyans suffer in slavery in Saudi Arabia

1 Reply

From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

I appeal to the United Nations, Leaders of the world, World Media, friends and sympathizers to look into this sad-state-of-affair and intervene to save the life of this young girl together with other millions of children suffering out there through Human Trafficking.

I will personally try to make phone calls and follow-up on this matter. I also request for special prayers as we have lots of such cases of human trafficking all over the world. Like Mohameweli has put it, it is because of bad political leadership the have such pathetic inhuman situations…….

We must keep praying for these children and God will see us through……Very sad indeed……..As a mother, I am totally torn apart………

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

– – – – – – – – – – –

— On Sat, 9/10/11, MOHAMEDWELI ABDI wrote

The Kenyan Government is into deal[ing with those who] enslave Kenyans. This really angers me. Indonesia 3 months ago repatriated hundred of thousand sof their citizens from Saudi Arabia after many murders of their people happen in the hands of this idiots. Why is our Government not doing anything to help this helpless citizens. Are kenyan lifes worth anything?

All this shaddy recruitment office should locked and jailed till they bring back Kenyan they sent to Middle East. This is modern day slavery.

Down with our PM and the President.

-Mohamed –

Tears as Kenyans suffer in slavery in Saudi Arabia.
By Joe Kiarie

A fortnight ago, Asha Ali from Likoni, Mombasa, sent an SoS to her parents claiming something terrible was about to happen to her in Saudi Arabia.

The 22-year-old, who left for The Gulf in March, said she has been extremely starved, forced to work for up to six households, and that she was about to be sold out to a slave master in Dubai.

“Mama huyu baba jana aliniuliza nataka kununuliwa wala la, naogopa ataniuwa. Kama Mungu ameandika nitakufa Saudia sina cha kufanya. Mama bye,” (Mum, yesterday my boss asked me if I want to be sold or not. I fear he might kill me

If it is God’s plan that I die in Saudi Arabia, there is nothing I can do. Bye mum) read one of three messages sent to her mother, Mwanaisha Mohamed. Ms Asha has not communicated since, and her fate remains unknown. When contacted by The Standard On Sunday, Yusuf Ibrahim, the Mombasa branch manager of the agency that recruited Asha, could neither explain her whereabouts nor her condition.

Inhuman treatment

This is a plain illustration of the untold misery thousands of Kenyan migrant workers are facing in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other parts of the Persian Gulf under circumstances that exemplify utter modern-day slavery.

It comes amid damning revelations of how deceitful recruitment agents have been helping promote this servitude.

With about 40, 000 Kenyan migrants working in Saudi Arabia, and over 400 of them deported in the last four months, the personal accounts of girls still in captivity abroad are disquieting. They paint a picture of a kingdom where upon entry; most workers have no choice but to surrender their travel documents along with their human rights and dignity to employers.

The most common violations include sexual assault; overwork with no pay, torture, lack of privacy and starvation. Chilling murders sum it all, with the recent discovery of a body of a Kenyan girl locked up in a freezer adding to statistics of unexplained murders of migrants in The Gulf. Fatuma Masoud, a mother of four from Kisauni, also sent an SoS to Mombasa last weekend. She recently fell off a ladder while cleaning her boss’s home at Al Khudar, Saudi Arabia and suffered a fracture to her back. But she continues to be overworked and cannot access any medical help.

“I am always locked in; eat smelly food or leftovers, one meal a day. I am a Kenyan, please help me get out of here, alert my embassy. You are my last hope,” she wrote. When contacted, her employer, Hussein al Doussary, claimed to be unaware of the situation. Ms Fatuma is yet to receive any help. Most survivors make it back to Kenya with broken limbs. And although their accounts mirror scripts akin to gruesome movies, they are the reality.

Devious recruitment agents

“My boss’ family locked me in at all times and forced me to work while stark naked to ensure I neither escaped nor stole anything in the house,” notes a lady who recently fled Saudi Arabia, but who seeks anonymity. As this unfolds, the Government has been busy echoing human rights activists in decrying the form of slavery and admitting its helplessness in seeking a solution, raising questions regarding whom these innocent Kenyans should turn to.

This maze of servitude starts with devious job recruitment agents, who have established complex international networks via which they rake in millions of shillings for shipping out unsuspecting workers. With average profits of between Sh300,000 and Sh400,000 per every person delivered, the agents have stood at nothing to entrap as many Kenyans as possible, whether voluntarily or by force.

To enhance efficiency, they subcontract the recruitment phase to local brokers across the country. Salma Bakari, a seasoned negotiator for various Saudi agents in Mombasa, terms the business irresistible. “I have been receiving Sh10,000 in cash for every employee delivered while others get up to Sh20,000. At some point, the girls were so many I could get 30 of them monthly,” she reveals.

Ms Salma says they traverse villages countrywide to lure girls into taking up jobs abroad. “They just give us their national identity cards and those of their parents. The agents help process passports and visas. The girls are then taken to Nairobi for a medical examination before flying out, with the agents footing the bills,” she notes. She divulges that a group of 20 girls departed for The Gulf last Wednesday night while another leaves on Monday.

Contrary to popular belief, majority of job-seekers who migrate to The Gulf are from middle-class income families, possess some tertiary training and do so voluntarily. Ironically, most of them play an active role, and even incur debts, trying to finance their migration.

Khalid Hussein, the Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) executive director, says about 80 per cent of the migrant workers are Muslim girls aged between 22 and 35 years. The girls are usually promised lucrative jobs as saleswomen, housekeepers, hotel attendants, drivers, waiters, and chefs.

“Most of them are usually employed and doing similar jobs locally, earning an average of Sh10,000 per month. But they find promises of jobs that fetch up to Sh80,000 irresistible, sign contracts and depart, oblivious of what awaits them,” Khalid explains.

He says reality dawns on the migrants once they reach Dammam in Riyadh and are packed into a warehouse that serves as a ‘slave’ market.

“At this point, you must surrender your passport. You can stay here for weeks and all you get is food. The locals usually visit this warehouse to choose the persons they like and force them to serve as cleaners, nannies, cooks or gardeners. Protests of being shortchanged are futile since one has already officially agreed to be owned,” Mr Khalid states.

Warehouse auction

Salma confides that while some agents usually take the girls directly to new employers, others take the girls to the warehouse and auction them for up to a month.

Once enslaved, Khalid says majority of the women are susceptible to extreme human rights violation. But with no friends, relatives of law enforcers to help them, desperate efforts to force their own deportation always prove futile.

“In a day, we receive two to three cases of enslaved Kenyans who want to return back home due to exploitation. Currently, we have 17 cases of sick women detained in Dammam awaiting deportation,” notes the director, whose organisation has now opened a hotline to specifically deal with the crisis in Saudi Arabia.

With slavery outlawed, it is believed the locals subtly use contracts to legitimise and camouflage this custom. For a migrant to work in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, she must first secure a visa via a sponsorship system called kafala. This is a routine practice among Gulf Cooperation Council states used to regulate residency and employment of foreign workers. Under it, expatriate workers can only enter, work, and leave member countries with the consent of their sponsor or a local employer. A worker’s salary, stay, meals, ability to work elsewhere, and even ability to return home are thus entirely at the mercy of employers.

Khalid notes that although both the sponsor and the employee can break the contract, this apparent equality is a mere veil considering that if the worker breaks her contract; she must pay the cost of her return ticket (a fee that the employer would have otherwise paid). She may also be fined or forced to pay debts to the recruitment agency, thus forcing her to continue working.

Once at their workplaces, and without official documents in foreign land, migrants fall under the charge of female employers. Most Middle Eastern households often consist of extended families and this translates to gruelling work that normally includes tasks like cleaning, washing, cooking, tailoring, and taking care of children and the aged.

Working hours range between 11 and 18 hours a day, with the maid obliged to work day and night.

As Asha reveals, she has alongside a Philippine colleague, been working day and night for several households daily. Saudi Arabia officially banned slave trade as recently as 1962, followed by the United Arab Emirates in 1963.

The victims’ plight

The following is a list of some Kenyan girls who have faced servitude in the Gulf.

Carol Wangui

After just three weeks of torture in Saudi Arabia, Wangui forced her deportation last Monday. She is nursing serious back injuries and has stitches following abuse by her employer.

Mariam Zuberi

Has complained of working under very harsh conditions and general mistreatment since flying to Saudi Arabia eight months ago. She has also never been paid and efforts by her family to bring her back home have failed.

Makuu Morocha

Her family has lost touch with her ever since she left Kenya. Even the agent who helped her secure employment claims not to know of her contacts and whereabouts.

Bahati Ramadhan

Bahati has not received a salary for the past one and a half years and neither has she been allowed to return home. She has reported being subjected to severe physical abuse.

Amina Jundo

Has been complaining that she is unwell and not receiving any medical treatment as well as a salary for the past six months.

Binti Saidi

Ceased communicating upon arrival in Saudi Arabia over a year ago. Efforts to have her agent intervene have been futile.

Ushi Hussein

Has complained of being very sick and extremely overworked since October last year. Her pleas to be deported have failed.

Rosemay Wanjiku

Has been held incommunicado in Tabouk, Jeddah ince June this year.

KENYA: COURT ORDERS ANTI-CORRUPTION PROTESTORS DETAINED WHILE ONGERI ROAMS FREE

Leave a reply

from George Nyongesa

Dear Kenyans and friends of Kenya,

It is unfortunate that while Prof Sam Ongeri and his cohorts remain in office and roam free, the courts of the land would choose to detain those seeking to obtain justice. The protestors arrested for attempting to petition the President over the FPE funds scam, were produced before the Magistrate’s Court at Milimani this morning on charges of allegedly creating a disturbance at State House. The Magistrate has ordered that the group remains in custody at Kilimani police station until 25th July, 2011. For no apparent reason, the protestors were not offered the option of bond or bail.

This latest twist in events is once again in blatant contravention of the protestors’ constitutional rights. Under Article 49 every arrested person is entitled to be released on bond or bail, on reasonable conditions, pending trial. The protestors were not made aware of any compelling reasons for their continued detention and why they could not be released. We demand to be informed of the compelling reasons for keeping us in custody and further that we be released immediately in line with our constitutional rights.

In the meantime, the high court petition regarding the infringement of a dozen of our constitutional rights is being made on behalf of the protestors by advocate Anthony Oluoch. We understand that he will be joined in representing the petitioners by advocates Paul Muite and Yash Pal Ghai.

We are most grateful for all the support that we have received this far. We issue the clarion call on all Kenyans to remain uncompromising on upholding the Constitution that we overwhelmingly endorsed in August last year. We must not allow corruption and impunity to maintain chokeholds on our destiny as a country. We must remain vigilant and in this regard, we call upon each of you to do what you can. Do something. Call or text your area MP, write a letter to the editor, petition the President, the Prime Minister, the Minister for Justice and the Chief Justice, call upon the Minister of Education and all other corrupt officials to own up to having failed Kenyans, show solidarity with us by visiting us and by spreading the gospel of anti-corruption and zero tolerance for impunity – but do what you can do.

We are grateful to the media for continuing to spotlight this cause.

For the determined protestors and the voiceless Kenyans,George Nyongesa | National Coordinator | Bunge la Mwananchi | www.bungelamwananchi.org | +254 720 451 235 | 733 827 859

from odhiambo okecth

In solidarity with our Friends who are keeping watch and mounting pressure on Hon Sam Ongeri and Prof Ole Kiyiapi to take responsibility over the missing FPE Funds and misusing the privilege of their offices by resigning, I am sending to Mr. George Nyongesa Kshs 1,000.00 in support.

May I also invite all People of Goodwill who believe that we can win this war to join in and help in as much as they can.

Those who are willing to support the Nyongesa/Omtatah Team, kindly send your financial support to them via; 0720 451 235 – Mr. George Nyongesa and help stop impunity and theft of public funds.

Keep up the fight.

Oto

from Tebiti Oisaboke

OTO;

I thought that Kenyans have since been liberated from the colonial oppressive laws and the freedom of speech and expression is adhered for. Since independence, concerned and dedicated citizen warriors have fought a long war to liberate us from tribalism, cronyism, corruption, impunity, clanism or regionalism and when our civil society brigades are trying to push the war to the finishing line, they end up in detention cells!!!! Why would they be locked up or smeared with fresh human waste by hired Mungiki’s parking boys for asking genuine questions and defending Wanjiku’s tax contributions? Its unbelievable that stuff which used to happen during the Kenyatta Sr. and Nyayo’s days are still taking place today even though we are in a new Kenya with new constitutional laws. Its a given fact that those behind the anti-corruption protesters are covering something up. However, time will catch up with them pretty soon as their days are numbered. Keep up the motivation against corruption and do not be swayed by any soul.

FORWARD WE STAND, BACKWARDS WE FAIL!!!

TOI

Kenya: Prison authorities urged to issued ex-convicts with certificates of good conduct once they are released at the completion of their convictions

Leave a reply

Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Homa-Bay Town.

Prison authorities have been requested to issue the ex-convicts,especially those whose characters have gone through total reformation with certificate of good conduct to enable them secure jobs and get rehabilitated fully back to the society.

The Prison authorities has also been asked to issue the ex-convicts who have trained in the prison industry and qualified as apprentices and artisans with certificate of proficiency.

This will help the ex-convicts in access to job markets once they are freed.

These appeals were made by a Homa-Bay politician Hilary Ocheng Alila when he addressed and hundreds of inmate and prison officials during the open-day prison visits at the weekend.

Alila who is the ODM youth regional coordinator in Nyanza and also an aspirant for the Hoa-Bay County Senate seat was accompanied by religious leaders pastors and civic leaders.

He said people should not view prison in the context of as place where punishment is mated out to the inmates, but an important institution where bad elements within the society can have have their characters changed and fully rehabilitated for the better.

Alila told the Wananchi in the rural areas to accept the former inmates once they are released and accord them all sorts of generosities so that they could be fully rehabilitated and actively participate in the real task of nation building.

Alila appeals to residents of Homa-Bay County and those lving in other parts of Luo-Nyanza town out in their number and register as voters when the execise is open. His way, he added, they will be able to vote for the party supremo Raila Amnolo Odinga to realize his presidential ambition during the impending general elections next year.

He reminded the residents of Nyanza to turn out in their thousands and elect new party officials during the ODM grass toot election exercise slated for May 27.

He issued a stern warning to unnamed characters said to be collaborating with the party enemies from other region who are allegedly sending agents into Luo-Nyanza with their pocket lined up for the purpose of sabotaging the party. The party would soon go public and name the political turn coats said to be in the pockets of leaders of other parties to sabotage the operation of the ODM in Nyanza.

Ends

KENYA: OVER 10 SUSPECTS ESCAPE FROM POLICE CELLS IN BONDO AND SIAYA

Leave a reply

From: Dickens Wasonga

Police in Siaya county woke up to a rude shock when over 10 remand prisoners made a dramatic escape from Bondo and Ukwala police stations in the wee hours of Friday morning.

According to Bondo district police boss Patrick Mangoli, at least five suspects who were remanded at the police station and were due to appear before the local law courts to answer various charges that morning scaled a perimeter wall after braking the doors to the holding area in an incident that threw the police into confusion.

The OCPD said the five suspects reportedly broke lose after they allegedly cut the padlock used in locking the cells by a hark-saw before they made the daring escape at 4.00 am.

It is not clear how many police officers were at the sentry or at the report desk at the time of the incident.

It is also a puzzle just how the tool they used to brake the doors leading to the cells found its way into the holding area which is usually under guard throughout by the police.

Amongst those who escaped includes four hardcore criminals who were being held by the authorities to answer robbery with violence charges.The fifth was a suspected burglar.

We were not able to confirm how many suspects were being remanded at the cells by the time the incident took place. The police said they have launched a man hunt for the escapees but none had been rearrested by the time we went to press.

In Ukwala there was conflicting reports about the actual number of the suspects who fled from the police cells.

Independent sources claimed all remand prisoners who were being held at the station had escaped but according to the Ugenya DC Carolyne Onchoka, 11 suspected criminals went missing.

The DC however asked for more time to get the fine details of the police station escape incident that sent the local provincial security team into panic.

The daring escape at Ukwala police station reportedly took place in the morning at around 6.00 am and it is not clear how 11 suspects could successfully flee with the high number of police officers normally at work at any police station.

Efforts to have the Nyanza PPO Njue Njagi to comment on the matter was futile. His cell phone went on ringing unanswered. He was said to have rushed to Ukwala as unconfirmed reports indicated his deputy Larry Kieng was dispatched to Bondo where a similar escape was reported.

Kenya: Museveni comes face to face with a “heckler” in Nairobi

Leave a reply

Reports Leo Odera Omolo

Kenya was last Saturday sucked into the escalating crisis over rising food prices in Uganda after the two main players arrived in Nairobi within hours of each other.

There were fears that the visit to the country by both President Museveni and the Opposition leader Dr Kizza Basigye would trigger a diplomatic incident after one you brave Kenyan unhappy with the Uganda leaders treatment of protesters in Kampala threatened to mobilise anti Museveni protests.

A ring of security was thrown around the posh Hotel Intercontinental where the Uganda leader addressed business leaders under the auspices of Mindspeak forum. One young man braved the security and shouted at Museveni saying,” We can’t have you speak to us whereas back at home you are brutalising the Ugandan citizens. Then the young man was thrown out by Museveni detailed security who handed him to the Kenyan police.

But addressing a mammoth crowd of people, who attended the Labour Day at the Nyayo National Stadium, the COTU{K} secretary-General, Francis Atwoli, demanded that the young Kenyan who had attempted to shout Museveni down should be released immediately, because he has done nothing wrong to warrant his continued detention by the police. “We can’t have dictators here and can’t tolerate the rule of gun under dictatorship”shouted Atwoli.

So far there was not much news about the whereabouts of the Nairobi “hecklers”. The visit of the two leaders,one for business forum and the other for medical treatment would have acquired more political overtones had Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga visited Dr Basigye at the Nairobi Hospital where he is lying critically ill after the last Thursday beating by the combined Ugandan regular and military police during his arrest for the fourth time within one week.

The planned hospital visit by Odinga was called off at the eleven hours, after the authoritis at the Nairobi Hospital said the patient was too ill and not ready to receive any visitors. Basigye is believed to have undergone eye surgery to clean his eye lenses following the attack on him with policemen using pepper laced papers. He is also said to have sustained injuries on his both sides of the ribs as he was thrown forcefully onto an open pick-truck during the arrest.

President Mwai Kibaki on Saturday held talks with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni who paid him a courtesy call at State House Nairobi.

President Museveni, who arrived on Saturday morning, is in the country to attend the Social Economic Transformation and the East African Political Federation Forum.

During their meeting, President Kibaki and President Museveni discussed ways of developing and improving cross-border infrastructure including the proposed construction of a new standard gauge railway line and the Kenya-Uganda petroleum pipeline.

In this regard, President Kibaki expressed Kenya’s commitment to continue improving sections of the Northern Corridor to ease the movement of goods and services between the two countries and the region in general.

The two leaders further discussed the East African integration and agreed that the process should move with speed so that the citizens of member states can fully enjoy the fruits of the regional economic bloc.

The two leaders also underscored the need for peace and stability as the cornerstone of development of the East African Community.

Kenya: Kenyatta / Ruto political marriage of convenience is bound to fail even long before the next general elections

1 Reply

Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

INTER-tribal political deals, peace and reconciliations built for political motives for the purpose of helping those individuals nursing presidential ambition, and for undercutting their perceived political enemies, will not last, but are bound to fail.

It is an alliance based on malicious intention to undercut Raila Odinga, the Prime Minister, the man who is truly the darling of every Kenyans with exception of those who have succeeded in enriching themselves from ill-gotten wealth after vandalizing the country’s resources with impunity in the past.

The modern political history of Kenya explains it explicitly clear that any inter-tribal political alliance formed between the Kikuyu politicians and leaders from other communities will always collapse before achieving its objectives and goals. Therefore the much highlighted political alliance between the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and the MP for Eldoret North William Samoei Arap Ruto is just a temporary political marriage of convenience.

People should be bothered by such amorphous alliances, because it is just born out of panicking about the impending trials by the ICC at The Hague.

Dishonesty and non-commitment to any inter-tribal political alliances between the leaders from the Mount Kenya region and politicians from non-Kikuyu community could be well chronicled back from the days of the State of Emergency following its declaration by the then colonial governor Sir Evelyn Baring on the night of October 20th,1952.

The Kikuyu leaders hatched heinous schemes of killing individual personalities, particularly non-Kikuyus they then perceived to be the collaborator of the colonialists. This was the time when the likes of the late Tom Mbotela, the late Ambrose Ofafa were shot and killed by Mau Mau agents in Nairobi.

In 1958 the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was then the Colonial Legislative Member for Central Nyanza and chairman of the African Elected Members Organization {AEMO}. He was believed to have been nursing presidential ambition himself. But had realized that his way up to the ladder, was being blocked by the presence of the much enlightened and urbanized Tom Mboya and Ronald Gideon Ngala. He shocked everyone by declaring that Jomo Kenyatta was the leader of this country.

Jaramogi did so in the same fashion as the Environmental Minister, John Michuki, who recently went public declaring that Uhuru Kenyatta, according to his opinion, would be the leader of the Kikuyu people {Not Kenya}.

Jaramoigi in a later statement referred Kenyatta as the second God of all Kenyan people, a statement that embarrassed and irked religious leaders in this country.

Those who knew Jaramogi well could still testify that Oginga Odinga was not genuine in his pronouncements, but all were due to guarded jealousy that Tom Mboya was increasingly becoming more popular and recognized both locally and internationally as the most suitable and preferable leader of Kenya at the material time. Jaramog’s objective was to undercut Mboya’s rising political star at the time.

The political difference at the time between Jaramogi and Mboya was based on the following factors. Mboya was more urbanized and had the upper hand in communication skills, whereas Jaramogi represented Central Nyanza, a rural constituency whose constituents were mainly Luos, and was not exposed to national and international political intricacies.

Mboya had won the Nairobi area seat reserved for an African on Kikuyu majority votes, a fete which he repeated in 1961 when Jaramogi ganged behind Dr. Munyua Wayaki and made the frantic effort to unseat him.

Following his outburst about the then still incarcerated Kenyatta, Jaramogi become an instant hero, and the darling of the Kikuyu people. to the chagrins of some Kikuyu up-coming leaders like the late Dr. Julius Gikonyo Kiano and others who had distanced themselves to his pronouncements.

Jaramogi’s outbursts temporarily endeared him to a close nit friendship with Kenyatta immediately when the latter came out of detention camp in the northern Kenya in 1961and this temporary friendship of convenience lasted between 1961 and 1964. The two leaders became so close that they even went into joint ventures in several businesses enterprises, both in Nairobi and Mombasa, before independence in 1963.

Kenyatta had taken over the mantle of KANU leadership as its President, a position which was previously been held by the late James Samuel Gichuru. Jaramogi remained the Vice President of KANU since the party’s inception at Kiambu in June 1960 and Kenyatta appointed him the Minister for home Affairs for only one year.

But it was not long before the matter took a dramatic change in December 1964 when Kenya attained her republican status and the Queen of England ceased to be the head of state replaced by President Jomo Kenyatta. Jaramogi was shocking and surprisingly relegated to the empty cell of Vice President and Minister without Portfolio.

Mboya, who had served in a powerful ministerial slot of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, was equally relegated to the hitherto unheard of Ministry of Planning and Development where he had to start from scratch. A cabal of close Kiambu advisers, from what was known as “Gatundu Parliament” acting on the advice of the former Director o the Security Intelligence, James Kanyotu, from Ndia, had launched a well orchestrated and elaborate plan to sideline both Odinga and Mboya. Their close friends among the Kikuyus who were in the cabinet were summarily summoned to Gatundu, home of Kenyatta, and reprimanded with a stern warning to keep away from the two who became virtually isolated, though they were still serving in the cabinet secret meetings, were switched from State House to Gatundu where important government decision were made.

Rumors and insinuations of all kinds rent the air, about the threat of the Kenyatta government being toppled, by either Jaramogi using the Communist forces from abroad or Mboya using American and British forces. And suspicion became the order the day forcing Jaramogi’s premature resignation after Kenyatta had used Mboya, a fellow Luo, to kick out of both government and KANU party, his hitherto friend Jaramogi and his supporters following the infamous Limuru Conference.

Immediately after this the political scenario in Kenya had changed drastically with the cabal of Kenyatta’s advisers now trained their guns and focus on Mboya’s elimination, which they did on July 5,1969.

At this point in time Daniel Ara Moi had become the closest political associate of Kenyatta. The alliance thrived and was aimed primarily and strategically to have no dissenting views from the Kalenjin leaders about Kenyatta scheme to settle thousands of his Kukuyu tribesmen to the former White Highland farms previously owned by the white settlers who had left the country for fear of chaos at the independence.

The only Kalenjin leader who voiced concern about unfolding event was the late Tinderet MP, Marie John Seroney, who reportedly and bravely launched what was known as Hand Hills Declaration, was immediately consigned to the detention camp. His supporter, the Eldoret North MP Saina, was arraigned in court and earned long term prison sentence on framed up and flimsy criminal charges.

But when it come to the turn of Moi to succeed Kenyatta, the same cabal of Kiambu politicians led by Kihika Kimani, Njoroge Mungai, james Gichuru,Julius Gikonyo Kiano, Mbiyu Koinange with the help of the colorless Kamba politician, Paul Joseph Ngei, ganged up and came up with chorus call for constitutional change which was meant to bar Moi from succeeding the ageing Kenyatta.

It was the then powerful Attorney General Charles Mugane Njonjo who saved Moi’s neck. Njonjo came out with a stern warning that the group action bordered on treason offence of plotting against the President, and the issue was abruptly abandoned. Its proponents beat the hasty retreat. This timely action by Njonjo paved the way for Daniel Moi’s accession to power following the death of Kenyatta on August 22,1978.

But Njonjo’s closeness to Moi did not last long. The same cabal of Kenyatta’s advisers, after realizing that Njonjo’s rising political star was growing much faster, moved at top speed and secretly advised Moi against Njonjo, under the pretext that the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs was involved in the conspiracy to have his government overthrown with the assistance of foreign mercenaries from South Africa and other Western countries.

The serious allegation led to Moi and Njonjo parting company. These people had not forgiven Njonjo for having stood firm against their heinous and futile plan, to block Moi from succeeding Kenyatta, and made it sure that they crate friction between Njonjo and his boss Moi.

Again the MOU reached between President Kibaki and Raila Odinga in 2002, under the auspices of Narc-Kenya, after Raila had vigorously campaigned for Kibaki to be elected the President despite of his ill-health following a fatal road accident, did not materialize for long forcing Raila out of the government following the first referendum victory over Kibaki in November 2005.

It would therefore be a miracle if the alliance between Ruto and Kenyatta will survive and sustain the heat of advices from the same Kikuyu cabals of advisers, particularly if Kenyatta wins and becames the president. Ruto could easily find himself in Kamiti Maximum Security prison for his alleged parts in mass eviction of Kiukuyu from their acquired farms in Molo, Elburgon, Uasin Gishu, Kuresoi, Londiani, Burn Forest, Likia, Subukia, Rongai and other places in the Central and South, North and South of the Rift Valley.

The history as told in the foregoing has told us that any MOU between the leaders fro Mt. Kenya region with those from other parts of Kenya is unworkable due to self-seated egoists. But if it could materialize and work if Ruto become the President, and not under Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency. This is a hard fact which any level minded Kenyan must know.

It is indeed very interesting that anyone who wants to gain political fame in our Kenya today must open his ambition by invoking the Name of Raila Odinga, not as a hero, but as a villain. The Prime Minister has become the punching bag for amateurish political novices who at times openly display their political naivety by making irresponsible public pronouncements.

It is question of wait and see, if a party that is formed in the premises of numerous criminal cases, will stand the test of the day, and propel its leaders to the presidency!! In my view this is a big joke and my fellow Kenyans, I am sure, have been following the events very keenly. And I am sure they will make intelligent guesswork and arrive at a decision that would bring to an end all the hullaballoo and politics of deceits.

Ends

leooderaomolo@yahoo.com

KENYA: INMATES TAKE COVER IN REFORMS TO TEACH WARDERS LESSONS.

Leave a reply

BY BENJAMIN OCHIENG

WHEN warders went on strike in 2007 demanding risk allowances that had been awarded to police and improve living standards, the first threat they made was to set free death row inmates.

It is norm knowledge that correctional centers are designed homes for capital offenders such as rapists, violent robbers, bank robbers, murderers and similar related crime doers caught and prosecuted against the penal code. However, civil cases some times handcuff culprits to jail facilities but that inst an alarm to the peaceful society.

With many criminal gangs in records, minds ran fast after the threat and frozen all the confidence bestrode to the noise makers who call press conferences whenever thorough search in jail is conducted and evaporated in a moment.

But never ask why, the so called watchdogs, cats or humans who frequently wrong- rights will have no atmosphere to sleep or work with people like Onyancha’s of the serial killer gang or people who kill wives and children and go underground like the Nyalenda estate incident in Kisumu of last year who have been let loose by the warders in a “threat de mission”.

For comrades who think that the search in prison is the normal like massage therapy are misled. Here inmates are stripped naked as others keep aerial view from the towers of Babel commonly referred in prisons as Kisuguu as their officer in charge instructs “ruka chura kumbafu”(frog jump you fool) as they enjoy the free movie naked men desperately. Any hesitation leads to proper beatings even in this new era of new constitution dispensation and reforms. A similar orgy image was evident to Kenyans at Kamiti Maximum Security prisons in 2008 when a warder secretly captured his colleagues in a search operation and sneaked to citizen T.V then to all media houses but of course at a price.

The Kamiti screening assignment got complete after an inmate paid with his dear life sparkling protest and debate even in parliament. The human rights bulldogs were not let behind the critics but the big question they are asked by the warders, how do they want a criminal thug to be handled? Do they think criminals understand the language of pestering? “Please inmate accept to work today”. This terminology would be new and strange to warders even if it means replacing the whole force with fresh blood of recruits.

The binocular eye of the human rights into our correctional centers has placed the facilities management and its brigade in a catch 22 situation. In the process inmates who are always matter with times took the advantage of the pressure of the Human Right Commission into jails to teach warders lessons of their life times and should even expect the worse prison breaks than the one that rocked Korinda facility in 2010 when 38 inmates ran to freedom in Busia county at night.

I would wish to remind Omar Hassan and company that these bad- boys in prison posses all the qualities of what they are, rude, arrogant, dangerous who sometimes even kill the law enforcers assigned to them and never waste any loophole to freedom.

Blood sprinkled by bullets from warders at Nakuru main prison have not even dried up when the inmates broke the perimeter fence and ran to freedom from the London based facility. The prison break temporarily turned the area to a gun shooting range. As if the lessons to the warders wasn’t enough tailed another Naivasha Annexe prison break which left 28 inmates to freedom in 2008.the inmates scaled a 24 meters wall to freedom.

Warders have not come to terms with the haunts of three colleagues killed by inmates in Naivasha facility in 1979. The inmates killed the officers on duty, gorged their brains and ate like wild beasts. Angry warders pounced on inmates killing 87 in a revenge mission after the alarm “king’ora” was triggered in a weeks long operation.

Kodiaga facility in Kisumu is also another hot spot for escape escapades. Warders frequent the chase of escapees through Korando village trying out their Kiswahili ya jela “Afande hiyo mtu iko wapi kipande hii” ask a warder as the search intensifies towards Atingli hills behind the facility.

Crimes of these inmates have technologically gone hi-tech to an extent of using mobile phones to con unsuspecting public. Criminal investigations department led links to Kamiti Maximum as inmates prove smarter with time.

It is true a daunting task to make the reforms in their facilities a “come true dream” but we accept having realized a good transportation services given with the new vehicles, improved housing units, sanitation, improved salaries and allowances and armed with sophisticated weaponry but for inmates “kaba, kaba, mbili, mbili” will never be a thing of the past in our jails or risk letting the dogs out.

ENDS

The writer is a freelance scribe based in Kisumu and can be reached on 0720 767447,or box 9117-40141 Kisumu.

Kenya & Uganda: Kibaki censured over Uganda extraditions

Leave a reply

From: abu Ayman

BY ROB JILLO

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 28 – President Mwai Kibaki on Monday came under a scathing attack from a High Court judge over the rendition of Kenyans to other countries on suspicion of terrorism.

Justice Mohammed Warsame questioned why President Kibaki – who recently swore oath of allegiance to the new Constitution – allowed State agents to infringe on the rights of Kenyans contrary to the new Bill of Rights.

“That kind of behaviour, act or omission is likely to have far and serious ramifications on the citizens of this country and the rulers. It also raises basic issue of whether a President who has just sworn and agreed to be guided by the provisions of the Constitution can allow his agents to breach with a remarkable arrogance or ignorance,” ruled Justice Warsame in a case in which Mohammed Aktar Kana, moved to court to block his arrest and transfer to Uganda over suspicion of involvement in the July 11 Kampala terror attacks where 70 people were killed.

“Prima facie the allegation contained in this application is a serious indictment on the institution of the President and whether he is protecting, preserving and safeguarding the interests, rights and obligations of all citizens as contained in the new Constitution.”

Already thirteen Kenyans are facing terror related charges before a Ugandan Court. Mr Kana says in his affidavit that six of those Kenyans are personally known to him as they worship with him at Jamia Mosque and elsewhere in Nairobi where they socialise in coffee houses.

“Invariably I have interacted with some of the victims in the course of my business as aforesaid. An affinity has therefore evolved in the course of time particularly through religious worship. This interaction is therefore a fertile ground by the said officers for inference of ‘guilty by association’,” he said in his affidavit.

Mr Kana through his lawyer Muturi Kigano has told the court that Ugandan authorities have variously sought to ‘abduct’ him and at one time had even arrested his cousin in a case of mistaken identity.

In blocking Mr Kana’s extradition from the country, Justice Warsame said the action by the Kenyan authorities showed “yesteryears’ impunity is still thriving in our Executive arm of the government.”

He then ordered: “I direct the Attorney General, Police Commissioner and Internal Security Minister to ensure that the applicant is not surrendered, handed over, transported and or transferred to Uganda or any other country without further orders from this court.”

“If the applicant is arrested, he shall be brought to this court without fail or subjected to the due process as enshrined in our Constitution.”

Mr Kana says that lawyer Mbugua Mureithi who was arrested and later released as he went to represent the Kenyans in Ugandan custody had told him that he and Muslim human right activists Al Amin Kimathi who is also in custody were interrogated about him generally.

In his affidavit Mr Kana also claims that he is a frequent visitor to Yemen.

“I occasionally travel to Yemen where my first wife Salima Antonio Fernandes and five of my children reside, work and study respectively. Yemen is categorised by American Government as a terrorist/ Al-Qaeda main cell.”

The court has directed that its orders be also served on the office of the President through Francis Muthaura who is the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President and Secretary to the Cabinet.

The matter is due in court on Thursday for a hearing of all parties.

Read more: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Kibaki-censured-over-Uganda-extraditions-9975.html#ixzz10q3BylZl

—
Follow Me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/robertalai

NETHERLADS: CONTROVERSY PERSIST OVER THE DEATH OF A KENYAN

Leave a reply

By Dickens Wasonga.

The family of a 29 -year -old man who died mysteriously while reportedly in the custody of immigration police in the Hague-Netherlands now accuse the Kenyan authorities of turning a blind eye into the incident .

Addressing journalists who converged at his Kisumu residence, the father of the late Franklin Otieno Othieno who died on Sunday last week while allegedly being held by the immigration authorities in the Hague said he had officially written a letter to Kenya’s ministry of foreign affairs through the Permanent Secretary to help in probing the matter but so far he is yet to receive any response.

The father of the deceased said he suspected there could have been a foul play over the death of his first born son who had gone to study pharmacy in the United States of America eight years ago and was due to return home when the family received the shocking news on Monday last week.

Mr. Lucas Othieno said it was curious that the Kenyan authorities were not keen to get involved in investigating circumstances surrounding the death of his son who was through with his studies in June this year at the Houston College in the US.

The family insisted to be told by the authorities in the Netherlands why their son was being held and how he died.

They said information they were receiving from the Dutch authorities in the Hague and that from their Kenyan counterparts were conflicting and has left room for speculation as to what realy took place.

Earlier the authorities in the Netherlands had reportedly gone ahead with plans to fly the body back to Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city which is approximately 500 kilometers away from Kisumu where the parents of the deceased reside.

Indeed according to the family,plans were complete and the body was due in Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by tomorrow,Tuesday but they had to shelve the plan when the family threatened not to travel to Nairobi to collect it.

”If they dare bring the body to Nairobi and not here in Kisumu then they must know where to take it because we will not go to collect it”He said.

Yesterday the deceased’s parents demanded that an independent autopsy be carried out on the body and the procedure be witnessed by a family lawyer or a representative of the Kenyan government so that the cause of death can be established.

”How can they be in a hurry to bring back the body of my son without allowing somebody from his family to witness the autopsy?.This is unacceptable given that the country where my son died is known to champion human rights. Even if he was being held for whatever reason, why do they lock out the family in the whole incident.We need to know why he was being held and what killed him”? Said the father.

But a source from the Kenya’s ministry of foreign affairs said the government was not ready to bear the cost of carrying out another postmortem on the body as demanded by the family insisting that all extra costs in relation to the incident must be met by the family.

The late Othieno who hails from Siaya Alego,the little village known for the roots of the USA president Barak Obama, was reportedly in touch with his girlfriend, also a Kenyan living in the US before he died.

The news of his death was broken to the family on Monday last week by the same girlfriend who is reported to have been rung by the authorities at the Hague but the deceased father disclosed that she had very scanty information regarding the incident that is likely to spark off a bitter international row between the two states.

The Hague is known to be center where those who commit crimes against humanities and other atrocities are tried at the International Criminal Court where even a section of the Kenyan political leaders suspected to have masterminded and financed the post poll chaos in the East African nation are to be tried upon conclusion of investigations by the ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo.

ENDS.

Kenya’s TJRC must be disbanded and a new credible commission formed

Leave a reply

rom Salah Sheikh

The Truth Justice and Reconcilitiation Commission has now turned into an organization that depends on massive PR campaigns and strong arm tactics for its survival. The credibility crisis bedeviling Bethuel Kiplagat, the Chairman and the conflict of interest facing some of the Commissioners has convinced the public to have little faith in the commission’s work. To counteract this scenario the Commission’s PR guru, Ms Openda has organized a charming campaign on the erstwhile hostile media with luncheons, per diems and transport rebates. The commission has also contracted politicians in a bid to calm the very hostile reception awaiting them in many parts of the country. In Wajir, the scene of genocide at Wagalla, politicians from the region have been given jobs for their supporters. This was a tactic used by the Moi regime to silence the survivors of Wagalla and to get them to destroy evidence. The commission has also hired statement takers from the clans in the area; TJRC pays ksh. 2500 per day for a twenty day exercise. The TJRC has also hired hecklers in regions perceived to be hostile to its work. This hecklers drown out the voices of survivors of past crimes who may oppose the commission. The commission has also awarded plum jobs to some survivors of torture; a clear bribe to get their support. All this bulldozing will not change one fact, that this TJRC lacks credibility and is part of the past regimes’ efforts to cleanse their past. It is a perpetrator tool, it is committing impunity and causing pain to the survivors of torture and genocide. It is a fraud “in every sense of the word” being played on the people of this country. The only way to redeem the process of truth-seeking is to disband this group and constitute another more credible commission after 2012 elections. This commission is fallacious, its findings will be biased and it will cause disappointment to the survivors of torture and genocide. It must go.

Uganda: Bomb blast suspect in court to answer criminal charges

Leave a reply

Writes Leo odera Omolo In Kisumu City

Dozens of suspects accused of involvement in the July 11 twin bombings in Kampala appearing before the Nakawa Court in Kampala yesterday

Dozens of suspects accused of involvement in the July 11 twin bombings in Kampala appearing before the Nakawa Court in Kampala yesterday

ANOTHER 32 suspects were yesterday charged with terrorism, murder and attempted murder, following the July 11 bomb blasts which killed at least 79 people in Kampala. Four Kenyans had earlier been charged over the same offences.

Each of the suspects who appeared in court yesterday faces 78 capital offences. Among the accused were Ugandans, Kenyans, Somalis and a Pakistani.

They appeared before Nakawa Chief Magistrate Deo Sejjemba in a heavily guarded courtroom. About 60 armed security officers surrounded the court premises.

Edward Ochom, the head of criminal investigations, was in charge of security at the court.

The suspects arrived at the court in two batches, handcuffed and under heavy guard. Some walked with difficulty.

Some came aboard a passenger omni-bus taxi and saloon cars with tinted windows.

The prosecutor said each of the accused were responsible for the murder of the 60 people who died at Kyadondo Rugby Club and 15 at the Ethiopian Village Restaurant in Kabalagala, where the bombs exploded. They also face three offences of terrorism and 10 of attempted murder.

Immediately after the accused were charged, the prosecutor applied to have them remanded in police cells for two weeks as opposed to taking them to Luzira Prison.

He explained that this would allow the Police easy access to the suspects for further investigation.

A big crowd gathered at the court but security refused them entry into the courtroom, except journalists and lawyers.

After the court proceedings, Police officers whisked the suspects away in 10 pick-up trucks to various Kampala police stations for further detention.

Ends

USA: Man arrested after wife writes to Obama asking for help

Leave a reply

From: Okiya Omtatah Okoiti

New York (CNN) — Not everyone expects a response when they write a letter to the president of the United States. But Caroline Jamieson got much more than she expected when her husband ended up in jail and afraid he would be deported. read on….

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/21/new.york.obama.letter.immigration/?iref=obinsite

Uganda: Al-Shabaab Somali terrorist trains more in Uganda as suspect bombers confesses

Leave a reply

Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

FOUR key suspects who confessed to involvement in the bomb blasts were paraded before journalists yesterday.

TOP LEFT TO RIGHT: Idris Nsubuga, Mohamood Mugisha, Haruna Hassan Luyima and Issa Ahmed Luyima

Two of them, Edris Nsubuga and Haruna Hassan Luyima, cried over the pain their actions caused. Issa Luyima and Haruna Hassan Luyima are brothers, while Nsubuga is their friend. The fourth suspect was identified as Mohamood Mugisha.

“I am very sorry for the loss of life. I was hesitant to pick on Ugandans. My target was the Americans, who I think are responsible for the suffering in the world. I am very sorry to the people, who knew me,” Issa Luyima, described as the mastermind of the blasts, said without emotion.

“I am a peace-loving person but that is the nature of war. It has got many dimensions,” he asserted.

Nsubuga’s eyes welled with tears and his voice cracked as he spoke.
“I was used. Issa was so calculative in using me. To you all, I am a monster but I had emotional problems and this is what they capitalised on,” he said.

Handcuffed and dressed in jeans, T-shirts and jackets, the healthy-looking men aged between 24-33 years, narrated their role in the attacks, which killed 79 people, the Police said.

Ironically, Nsubuga’s auntie Margaret Nabankema, was also killed in the attack in Kyaddondo Rugby Club grounds in Lugogo, Kampala as revelers watched the World Cup final.

Haruna, who sobbed before the news conference began, and Mohamood Mugisha, said they were sorry for not reporting the crime.

They said they were not paid any money, except a reward in heaven.
The suspects were produced by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence boss, Brig. James Mugira.

They said they were speaking voluntarily. Mugira said this reflected how professional the probe had been.
Security, Mugira stressed, was on high alert, adding that another attack was “very unlikely”. “If people think that they can attack Ugandans and get away with it, they are wrong because we have the capacity to hunt them down,” he said.

“We promised the public that we would hunt down the perpetrators of this cowardly and barbaric act and bring them to justice,” Mugira stated. “We have kept our promise.”

The hunt for more accomplices was still on, according to Mugira. He was flanked by army spokesperson Felix Kulayigye.

“If your children are getting involved in such activities, getting radicalized, inform us immediately,” Mugira stated. He hailed Kenyan and other countries’ security agencies for assisting Uganda to arrest suspects.

Haruna Hassan Luyima, 27
He is a businessman based at Majestic Plaza in Kampala. Speaking in Luganda, he said he took the Kenyan suicide bomber to Kabalagala and a bomb to Makindye House in Kampala. On July 9, Issa Luyima called me and said he wanted to show me where I would put a bag he had showed me earlier. He came with Edrisa Nsubuga (the other suspect).

On July 10, he took me to his home in Namasuba and I met a Somali and a Kenyan. Issa showed me a bag that I was to take to Makindye House. On July 11, along with the Kenyan suicide bomber, we took a boda boda to Kabalagala.

The bomber proceeded to the Ethiopian Village Restaurant. I went with the other bomb to Makindye but I did not detonate it. I dumped it in a shrub and left.

Edrisa Nsubuga, 30, businessman at Pioneer Mall in Kampala and a Bachelor of Commerce student of Makerere University:
Speaking in English, he said he took the Somali bomber to Lugogo and detonated the second bomb and studied the scenes. On July 11, we took a boda boda to Lugogo. I put a laptop bag that contained one of the bombs on a stool under a table. When a scuffle ensued over a phone, we used the opportunity to get in. Before the Somali joined other revellers, he showed me his clock, which had the time 11:15pm when the bombs were to go off.

I got out and later, a blast went off. I used the phone I had to set off the second bomb. Asked why he did such a thing, he said: “I was unemployed. I was emotionally distressed. I had problems. A lot of misunderstandings with my wife.”

Issa Luyima, 33, the key suspect and “foot soldier” in al-Shabaab fought with the militants in Somalia.
He studied at Brilliant and Kawempe High School in Kawempe before working at Kampala International University.
Speaking in English, he said he recruited his brother (Haruna Hassan) as well as the Somali and Kenyan bombers and he examined the target places. My rage was against the Americans whom I deemed were responsible for all the sufferings of Muslims around the world. Our aim was to kill Americans.

I did not want to work with my brother but recruiting other people was very risky, so I manipulated him.

Mohammed Mugisha, 24
The man, who looks older, is alleged to have links with al-Shabaab. Speaking in Luganda, he said: “I joined al-Shabaab in 2008, they were coordinating with al-Qaeda. I was sent here to rent a house in which the bombs were to be planned. I got a house in Nakulabye (a city suburb).

However, when an al-Shabaab team inspected it, they did not like it because they saw soldiers nearby.
I went back to Kenya where I was reprimanded for the mistake as we could easily be arrested.

The order to kill was from Abu Zubair, the al-Shabaab boss in Somalia

Ends

Uganda: 3 brothers are in police custody in connection to the Kampala terrorist bomb attacks

Leave a reply

Reports LeoOdera Omolo

THREE Ugandan brothers are among six fresh suspects netted in connection with the July 11 bombings in Kampala in which over 76 people perished and at least 50 were injured.

Among them is the mastermind of the twin suicide attacks identified as Issa Luyima. He was picked up from the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, where he fled on July 10, a day before the blasts.

“This is a turning point in the investigations. We now have the exact person behind the attacks,” a source said.

Luyima and the other suspects were flown to Uganda over the weekend after interrogation by Kenya’s anti-terror squad.

Sources said Luyima hired the two male suicide bombers and ferried them to the Kabalagala Ethiopian Village Restaurant and Lugogo grounds where they blew themselves up, killing and injuring dozens of revellers who were watching the final of the soccer World Cup.

The bombers were identified as Kenyan and Somali nationals. The third bomb at Ice Link Discotheque in Makindye, also a Kampala suburb, did not go off. A cell phone and a suicide vest were recovered from the bar.

Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the blast, which they described as retaliatory for the presence of Ugandan peace-keepers in Somalia.
The Kenyan and Somali reportedly rented a three-room house in Paraa zone, Namasuba, a Kampala suburb, where they hatched the attack.

Luyima “coordinated” the plot and asked one of his brothers to detonate the bomb at Ice Link discotheque. However, the bomber developed cold feet when he saw the huge crowd of revellers at the bar.

“He said there were very many people and feared that a big number would die,” the source stated.

Investigators also said the bomb could not explode since the other phone attached to the device had not been turned into vibration mode.

The suspect later dumped the phone, which was to activate the bomb, into a pit-latrine in Namasuba, the investigators said. The phone and another believed to have set off the second bomb at Kyadondo have been recovered.

Luyima’s brothers have confessed to involvement in the attacks, but said it was his idea. Luyima’s livelihood is unknown.

Up until now, detectives believed the Kyadondo attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber, but it has emerged that another person, also in custody, was in the crowd on the fateful day.
The man walked a few metres away before setting off the device using a cell phone.

The latest arrests brings the number of suspects to about 77. The detainees include Pakistanis, Somalis, a Yemeni national and Ugandans.

Three suspects, Idris Magondu, 42, Hussein Hassan Agade, 27, and Mohammed Aden Abdow, were a week ago charged with 89 offences which included terrorism, murder and attempted murder.

US foreign office on Thursday reported that 12 men accused of aiding the al- Shabaab are on the run. The Federal Bureau for Investigation has placed huge sums on their heads.

They are Abdikadir Ali Abdi, 19, Abdislan Hussein Ali, 21, Cabdulaaahi Ahmed Faraax, 33, Farah Mohamed Beledi, 26, and Abdiweli Yassin Isse, 26, all American citizens of Somali origin.

Others are Ahmed Ali Omar, 27, Khalid Mohammad Abshir, 27, Zakaria Maruf, 31, Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, 22, and Mustapha Ali Salat, 20.

The 12 men plus two women Amina Farah Ali, 33, and Hawo Mohammed Hassan, 63, are accused of soliciting donations for al-Shabaab activities.

Ends

Islam or Christianity; which Religion is the Black mans religion????

Leave a reply

From: Jagem K’Onyiego

To all Walalahoi,

This is in response to those people in this forum who are nearly exploding with anger and posting articles that show fallacious anger to a question one Harry mumia is trying to ask here

In my mind, for brothers like Abu and Sallah Sheikh, I think only blind believers will dismiss what Harry is saying. But sooner or later the “Revelation of Truth” is coming to fore. In year 326 AD. history has it that part of the The laws given to Moses were changed and in their place, a few teachings that favored the Gentiles, were sneaked into the Bible. Abu I do not expect you to come to understand this because you are a Believer in Mohamedan Religion.

Now, there was a meeting in 326 AD, called Nicean Meeting for it was held in the City of Nice in France. At that meeting, Major changes were done in the Holy book. Previously, the teachings of one Traitor to the Hebrews, called Saul, never existed in the Bible. But at this meeting, all his teachings, which were meant for the Gentiles, were all sneaked into the Bible. They even declared him as an Apostle. How can this be when Saul, got his authority from Titus Caesar and the High Priest in Rome? He then used this authority to campaign for the murder of Hebrews, his own people. He threw them into prison, just because they were black, and had many of them beheaded while he watched. His teachings encouraged slavery; “that slaves must always obey the masters.” Paul himself gives testimony to this.

Around mid 1400, one Gentile ruler, Constantine Caesar, ordered all the portraits Of Messiah Nabii (Rabii) Isa (Yehsuwah), to be destroyed and be replaced by that of a painting he ordered Michaelangelo to do. Unfortunately they did not destroy all the Messiah’s paintings. They hid some paintings in a volt, away from public viewing at the office of the papacy in Rome. For Centuries these paintings have remained hidden, until recently when researchers dug deep in the Vaults of Vatican and came across the true paintings of Christ. The Messiah Nabii Isa, was not a Caucasian as portrayed in the images we see today. This therefore goes to show that, there has been a lot of deception in the Christian Church. In short A lot of Falsehoods have been peddled and included in their teachings to portray something different from Gods Laws. This synchronizes well with Saul’s teachings

Abu, it is these Saul’s teachings that the so called “Christians” used to enslave the Hebrews and then to subject them to the most heinous treatment that no other human race have ever gone through. One Slave Master called Willy Lynch while torturing his slaves swore that he was doing it because he Was a Christian and loved God. You may want to Google Willy Lynch to find what he did to the Black people.

Further Questions; “How did Lynch receive his slaves? Answer; From “Slave traders.”

Question: Who were the Slave Traders? Answer, Muslims from the North, specifically; Maghreb (Morocco), Tunis, Yemen, Arabia etc.

Question: How did they get the Slaves? Answer They Raided the Hebrew Villages all over Africa, burned them to the ground, killed men, raped women and captured those they considered strong to be sold to the Christians, who in turn transported them through Goree, Senegal, to Baltimore, in the land of Big Uncle Sam. Others were sold at Bagamoyo, Pemba, Gede and Zanzibar by Said Sayyed and Sayyed Bargash to be transported to Arabia, and Muscat for other Muslim Slave Owners.

How then do you tell Mumia to shut up when he is telling the truth? Some of us do not harbor hard feelings about Islam or Christianity, But adherents to those two religions, in the past, are responsible for the Destruction of the Cultural Fabric that existed in Africa. Written History is testimony to what Mumia is saying.

You can choose to be fooled to believe blindly, while some of us, will and are still struggling to find the truth and nothing but the truth. And so, we march on in the Abrahamic religion, the true religion of God, meant for all Black people of the world. I am as Black as they come, and I find very little connection to these two religions,Christianity and Islam. These are religions for Slave Masters.

Have a learned day

Jagem