Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:28:38 +0000 [03:28:38 PM CST]
From: Kennedy Oduor
Subject: Something Sinister is Going on With Raila’s Security

Raila security team undergoes restructuring

By Isaac Ongiri

East African Standard:

Questions have emerged over a move by the Government to dismantle a VIP police unit guarding the Prime Minister. All the 46 officers, who were last year deployed to the Prime Minister’s Escort Unit, have now been asked to take orders from their unit commanders, not a central unit. The officers were initially under the command of a senior superintendent of police based at Vigilance House while an inspector of police had been posted as field commander. The new order has been followed by another move to withdraw privileged allowances for the officers.

Though all the officers are still undertaking their duties, confusion looms over the multiple commands they are now exposed to. Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe who spoke to The Standard on Sunday said, “It is not good to discuss VIP security in the media but I want to challenge anyone to go to the PM’s office to confirm that the officers are there.” Asked about the dismantled unit, Kiraithe referred The Standard on Sunday to the Police Commissioner Maj-General Hussein Ali denying knowledge.

“It is only the Police Commissioner, who may know about police units, when they are created and when they are dismantled, please talk to him,” Kiraithe said.But he confirmed that Vigilance House had withdrawn allowances paid to the officers to harmonise treatment of police officers. “Some of the officers there are only lamenting over the allowances we withdrew, and this is because we want all policemen treated equally. They face the same challenges anyway,” Kiraithe said. He further said all policemen would now be entitled to uniform allowances depending on their ranks, which those who have been working as VIP guards may not be happy about. The 46 officers working at the PM’s office have had their allowances such as suit, risk and plain-clothe allowances scrapped. “This is causing confusion. We have a feeling it is aimed at discouraging some of us, because our colleagues who do ordinary jobs make more money than us,” said one of the disgruntled officers.

Initially the officers were entitled to a VIP allowance of Sh3,000 a month. Officers working under the Presidential Escort Unit, from where the President and the Vice-President draw their guards, we learnt is still drawing all their allowance including Sh5,000 VIP monthly allowances. Raila’s guards have also had their per diem allowances of Sh5,000 a night, down graded to Sh1,200 beginning last month. Provincial Administration and Internal Security Secretary Kenneth Lusaka told The Standard on Sunday the matter was sensitive and referred us to police spokesman. “Those are issues under the police command, I prefer you speak directly to the police spokesman, he may be of help,” he said. Moments after the National Accord was signed, Raila was pampered with a team of high profile officers drawn from the Presidential Escort Unit deployed to reinforce his private guards. The team equipped with all arms together with police outriders left barely two weeks after Raila officially took over office.

“When you have a special unit commander like the one which was formed by the Commissioner of Police, all officers take command from a central unit base,” said a top security officer, who did not want to be named.

“Attempts to water down the unit is something I find funny, but this will now give bosses to whom the officers would be answerable to an opportunity to change them and redeploy others at will,” he said. Adding all the officers from the unit that has been silently watered down, will now be working at the mercy of their commands.

“Those who came from the Recee Company will revert, terms of taking orders to that company. Those from Administration Police, regular police and any other force will do the same,” the security officer explained. Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka enjoys the services of highly trained guards from the Presidential Escort team. He is also free to be accompanied by up to five of the guards while on foreign trips. International Protocols stand in the way of the Prime Minister to travel with any of the 46 officers deployed to guard him. Sources privy to the restructuring say the squad, like previous ones, had a timeline.

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:40:16 +0000 [02/13/2009 02:40:16 PM CST]
From: katex john
Subject: Re: Kenya’s next election

Thanks for your advise. I will surely float my agenda soon..

— On Fri, 13/2/09, Andy Amadi wrote:

From: Andy Amadi
Subject: Re: Kenya’s next election
Date: Friday, 13 February, 2009, 8:01 AM

Katex,
You are very high on ambition, which is good. Now you need to apply strategy. Are you ready to quit what you are doing or change what you do in order to match your intentions? I believe that if you put will behind intention then the universe will re-arrange to make possible that which you have declared.
We have way too many arm-chair analysts and pundits and change-seekers who will tell you how impossible it is. Not very many ready to walk the talk. I really think we need to get very many young people actually and actively involved in public affairs.
Your declaration, however, (especially, because it appears) far fetched is an excellent starting point. Now you need to marry your intentions with your actions to give integrity to your ambition.
when I say “you” I am also talking to myself and to others who want a place in the management of public affairs.
My challenge to you, myself and everybody else; join a political party (or movement), have an agenda, stick to the script, hold the party accountable, retain integrity, remain “on song:, do this at all opportunity as a way of being, enroll other people, do not be constrained by time or money and then see what happens. It may take a year, it may take ten years. Change will not be as easy as flipping the channels on TV. But it is not impossible.
Sincerely,

Andy

2009/2/13 monicah

Katex,

I admire your courage and confidence in knowing that you can make a leader and rehabilitate our ill fallen and dying nation; but on the contrary,
You should know that by now (Like yesterday) you are already disqualified from running for the presidential seat.
What Kenyans want is a person who barely has a tribal thought in, on, within or near him/her!!!!
Irregardless of how small your tribe is you should know that that is immaterial in this context!!!!
Wanabidii can prove me wrong that we are all one…………. Our tribe is Kenyan the rest is what you choose to become!
More to it……….. We don’t need cute women (don’t market yourself that way coz by now I know that u know beauty is in the eyes of the beholder) all what Kenyans are asking for is a functional, “cute” (if u insist) selfless brain that is focused on the development and welfare of the country and her people.
You’ve got this you have my support and many others who wish to have a lady for a president!

Monic

From: henry ouma
Sent: 13 February 2009 08:39

Subject: Re: Kenya’s next election

Katex,

Please hurry up.

Please give us a detailed agenda on how you’d transform Kenya upon your election as president .

Based on your agenda, we should start hitting the road.

— On Thu, 2/12/09, katex john wrote:

From: katex john
Subject: Kenya’s next election
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 1:34 PM

You guys can vote me for the fourth president of Kenya. I am a lady, from a small tribe and a youth (between 30 and 40).

I have all it takes so other than voting me on the basis of minority I will have all the required qualifications. I am a strategic management major, International business minor, ICT compliant (both engineering and IT) and above all I’m cute. Who wouldn’t want such a President for 2012 to 2017? Women on this forum, popularise me..

— On Thu, 12/2/09, David Kilonzi wrote:

From: David Kilonzi
Subject: Re: Americans Proved Me Wrong for Electing Barry Hussein Obama
Date: Thursday, 12 February, 2009, 11:50 AM
I am seconding Job,

Let the soo “minority” rise up and be counted. We can not just go to the streeet and pick up a physically challenged person or a woman and elect them to the presidency. They must, like Ngilu, stand up and be counted amongst the political elite

On 11/02/2009, Job Kazi wrote:

Amenya,
If youcan remove the drama from the logic, and I know it is hard because of the sensation of Obama’s election, then we can have a chat. Americans did not go out to elect Obama because he is black!!
Asking that we emulate Americans and elect a person because they are a minority is just as discriminatory as not electing them because of what makes them a minority.
Positive discrimination has no Integrity and is in itself a contradiction in terms.
Perhaps what we could try on is what I think the Americans did which was elect the person who mist inspired them, in spite (not because) of his name, race, parentage, profession, marital status, religion, preference in sports teams.
I truly believe that there are Obama’s amongst us and they are so because they are good and not because of the label we attach to describe them.
I would not mind voting in a person who is Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Muindi, Muslim, Jew, Mzungu, Jang’o, Njemp, Man, Woman,fat thin, even gay (yes I said that); if they display the qualities of an Obama.
Lets focus on the intrinsic qualities and allow someone to inspire, rather than think that the magic is in the packaging. We will, as sure as death and taxes, end up with more of the same if we continue to think that one’s skin colour, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, height, weight or other external attributes will bring the leadership we crave.
Sincerely,
J

2009/2/11 amenya gibson

n my life time as I head towards 30s

I had I never felt that a black person would ever become the president of America but I was proved wrong by Americans

Truly and forthrightly, if I was quizzed on this I would say it singly “It is NOT possible” for such a thing to happen in the USA
Maybe over my dead body heheheheheeeee

Beyond any shadows of doubts, America has proven that she is really the pace setter of democracy. In fact, America has the most advanced democracy.

With the election of Barry Hussy Obamash- into the oval office, Americans saw no colour, no race, no divide, no hatred, no handicap, no discrimination
He inspired Americans and the world especially with hope and change; he made us all to expunge fear, defeat, and weakness.
For many across Africa and the world at large.
Obama’s election demonstrates The America’s reputation as a country of interminable opportunities.

But for the world’s poorest continent, the rise of a man of African heritage to America’s highest office is a source of colossal pride and hope.
As Nelosn Mandela remarked
“Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place”.

My humblest Question to kenyans
Are we willing to emulate Americans
1-By Voting someone physically challenged to be our next President?
2-Are ready to chose a president or a leader who comes from Minorities
3-Are we ready and willing to elect a leader who is A Female we have had 3 Males so far

Over to you Kenyans

bye
Gibson Amenya.
Global Greens