from Judy Miriga
Folks,
I am concerned, how then did the Government decide to give Harun Mwau beefed-up protection yet he is supposed to have been handed over to authorities to face charges………what is going on??????
Harun Mwau seems to be enjoying the two Principles security protection against the public security……
Why is the security of people being put in a muzzle by this coalition Government by allowing fear and threats to inflict the public…..?
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Mwau’s driver, bodyguard faked shooting
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Police Wants Mwau’s Driver, Pa Prosecuted
Cornelius Mwau
29 June 2011
Kilome Mp Haroun Mwau’s driver and body guard are likely to prosecuted for giving false information to police on the shooting of the MPs car last week.
Police commissioner Mathew Iteere says investigations have revealed that Mwau’s vehicle was not shot along City hall way as reported by the two and that the shots were fired at the vehicle while it was stationary.
Iteere says the two could have been dead or badly injured if they were in the car during the shooting.
Mystery Surrounds Attack On Mwau Car
25 June 2011
Was it stage-managed? Why was the driver not injured even though his side of the car was sprayed with bullets by unknown gunmen? Those are the questions Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere was asking last night as he investigated reports that Kilome MP Haroun Mwau was targeted in a car shooting incident on Thursday night.
Unknown gunmen sprayed Mwau’s vehicle with bullets on City Hall Way on Thursday night, ten days after Mwau claimed his life was in danger. The MP was not in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Yesterday Iteere personally inspected the MP’s grey Range Rover 4.0 HSE twice at the Central Police station. He said that it was inexplicable that gunmen could have fired six bullets at the moving car; hit the driver’s door shattering the window; ripped the handbrake lever cover; and hit the front passenger side without injuring either the driver or the bodyguard who were in the vehicle.
The MP and assistant Transport minister has claimed that his life is in danger ever since President Barrack Obama named Mwau and a Kenyan businesswoman Naima Nyakiniywa aka Mama Lela among the seven top drug kingpins in the world earlier this month.
“It defies all laws we know about shooting that the driver or the escort were not injured during the incident as reported. From what we have seen, it must be a great stroke of luck how anyone could have been shot at like that and escape without injury,” police boss Iteere said at Central Police Station. The police tested the scenario by making the driver sit in the vehicle to demonstrate how it happened.
Police ballistic experts doubted that two bullets from the same gun could have struck the door handle both at the top and bottom of a moving vehicle. XXX “It is not possible that the bullets would have struck the spots they have if the vehicle was moving and if they did, then the driver would have definitely been injured,” said one police officer who viewed the car.
Before the shooting, Mwau’s driver and bodyguard had dropped off the MP at Parliament Buildings and then drove to his offices on Moi Avenue. As they were driving back to pick up Mwau, according to the driver’s statement, unknown men overtook them near the Garden Square restaurant and sprayed their vehicle with bullets at 10.15pm.
The driver’s door had three bullet holes while the rear right door had one bullet hole. The driver’s window was completely shattered by bullets while one bullet exited through the passenger door, leaving a huge hole.
Though at least six rounds were fired in the incident, only one 9mm cartridge was recovered at the scene. The rounds were most likely fired from a Ceska pistol. The bodyguard, a police officer, did not discharge any bullet from his firearm.
The bodyguard and driver have recorded statements with the police but Mwau was yet to do so so by the time we went to press. Police want to speak to anyone including security guards who might have heard the gun shots or seen the alleged gunmen.
Yesterday Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere was still doubtful about the attack. He said a team of investigators were dispatched to comb the area on Thursday night but by morning, no cartridges had been recovered.
Iteere said Mwau visited him in his office a week ago to lodge a complaint about suspicious vehicles that he believed were trailing him. Iteere gave the MP extra security after Mwau sent a request for specific officers he wanted to be included on his security detail.”The seriousness of this matter is that from June 3, I have been seeing some weird characters both white and black near my office and House and I think that my life is in danger and I would like to know what guarantee there is for my security because it seems there is an agenda that is being played here,” the MP stated in Parliament ten days ago.
Meanwhile the Criminal Investigation Department has dismissed the US dossier on Kenya drug lords as ‘rumours.’ Stephen Ndaru, the CID Anti-Narcotic Unit chief, yesterday said the police could not make any arrests on those because the allegations were not concrete. “This is not a civil matter which is based on probabilities, but a criminal justice issue that cannot dwell on mere accusations as the US report highlighted. The report failed to give information on the barons beyond reasonable doubt. It is easy to accuse but very hard to prosecute,” Ndaru said.
He admitted it was not easy to crack down on drug barons in Kenya as they have strong networks and no direct contact with dealers. “We require tangible evidence as the suspects will be acquitted if taken to court when it is lacking,” Ndaru said, adding that some people fear going to court to testify making it difficult to prosecute.
However, he said the police have arrested 1227 people suspected of peddling drugs in the last six months. Police seized 103 kilograms of heroin; 12 kilograms of cocaine; 1182 kilograms of hashish and cannabis; and 122 tablets of psychotropic substances. Ndaru said the police were working various international bodies with a view of arresting the drug barons.
Iteere recommends prosecution of Mwau’s aides
By CYRUS OMBATI
Two aides of Kilome MP Harun Mwau are likely to be arrested to face charges of giving false information to the police.
Commissioner of Police Mathew Iteere revealed on Thursday they have recommended the two to be charged with giving false information regarding the gun attack on Mwau’s car in the city last Thursday night.
The alleged attack took place along City Hall Way near Garden Square at about 10 pm.
Iteere said it was clear the vehicle was not shot at the said place because there were no empty cartridges at the scene of the purported shooting.
He added that the impressions made by the bullets on the body of the MP’s car were “consistent with those made on a stationary vehicle and not a moving one”.
“It is impossible for the occupants of the motor vehicle to have escaped without injuries if at all they were inside the motor vehicle at the time,” said the police boss.
The legislator’s guard and driver had called police and claimed that the vehicle was shot at by unknown gunmen on the City Hall Way as they drove to pick up Mr Mwau at the Intercontinental Hotel.
They said a car overtook the MPs’ Range Rover near Garden Square restaurant and its occupants fired six shots shattering the driver’s side window but they escaped unhurt.
Iteere told journalists at Vigilance House the issue rests with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko, who will decide whether to prosecute.
The police boss is understood to have met Tobiko in his office Thursday morning shortly before the press conference. A team of counsels at the DPP’s office is now reviewing the file.
“In view of the above, I have directed that the file be forwarded to the DPP with a recommendation that the two individuals be charged in court for the offence of giving false information,” added Iteere.
The two aides were grilled for hours after the shooting incident. Mwau has also been questioned regarding the incident and told police he was not at the said place at the time of the shooting.
Iteere said a team of detectives from Flying Squad has taken over investigations into the attack to find out the gun used in the attack.
He said it is possible the shooting did not take place at the scene as alleged by the two aides.
Police had sought an opinion of a ballistic expert on the attack on the car to know the trajectory angle and penetration of the bullets that were fired.
According to police, claims on the attack defy all the laws known about fired ammunition