from Judy Miriga
Folks,
Mt. Kenya Mafia is the beginning of problems in Kenya with Mungiki and Al-shabaab. Uhuru was Moi’s project, the reason for political Civil Conflicts in Kenya……the are the wheeler dealers, the reason Uhuru cannot leave Foreign Department and is the reason now we have problems with Muthaura and Attorney General Githu Muigai,
How will ISOCARP, the global association of professional planners, start their work without proper Devolution with other New Constitution mandate not concluded….??? Whose interest are the coalition government of Kibaki and Raila putting first…..???
We cannot solve 2007/2008 problem while these people still are in control holding the Government public offices.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Narok Arms Cache Investigations
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The number of those being held for interrogation in connection with seizure of illegal arms in Narok has risen to 30, with most of them being security officers. A senior detective in the team constituted to investigate the source and end user of the more than 136 thousand bullets, said they had extracted crucial information from those in custody. Hussein Mohamed with the details.
Who Is Munir Ishmael
Uploaded by kenyacitizentv on Feb 2, 2010
Twice, a large arsenal of military weapons has been unearthed in his Narok properties. Even the countrys police force admits that the cache of arms seized from Munir Ishmaels garage is the largest consignment of weapons ever to be found in civilian hands in Kenyas history. But just who is this Munir Ishmael, who even residents of Narok town speak about in low tones? What is it about him that not even the countrys security agents have been able to crack his involvement in arms dealings? Francis Gachuri reports.
Arms case puts AP in a spot as insecurity soars
Published on 13/12/2009
By Juma Kwayera
Hardly a week after the Cabinet approved police reforms the Administration Police is in the eye of a new storm over an illegal arms haul.
The force, which has been adversely mentioned in various reports that accuse it of gross human rights violations that include murder and rape during and after the 2007 General Election is fending off allegations that its top brass is involved in clandestine movement of arms.
The centre of the new storm is force commandant Kinuthia Mbugua, who last week some MPs wanted grilled.
Focus shifted to Mbugua following a cache of arms allegedly found in Narok. It is believed the incident may be linked to succession battles in the AP hierarchy.
The battle is becoming even more intense as AP Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua’s tenure end on March 30, next year. The circumstances also reflect the lapses and connivance that are a threat to national security. Security experts and sources familiar with force’s register of arms claim the incident was deliberate.
“There was some deal-making between some officers. The seizure of the arms and ammunitions, it appears, was pre-arranged,” the security expert familiar with on-going criminal investigations said.
It is claimed senior officers in the force are on high alert over information that could implicate them because they would most likely take responsibility if the arms originated there.
A member of a Parliamentary Committee on Security told The Standard on Sunday the House team would want to question some of the force’s top command. The member said information his colleagues had gathered over the cache, pointed to a deal gone awry. The claim is corroborated by Internal Security Assistant Minister Orwa Ojode who told The Standard on Sunday the seizure of the weapons was exposed following “a deal gone sour” among the merchants of death, said to include civilians and security officers.
Some senior officers at the Embakasi-based Administration Police Training College (APTC) interviewed point to unresolved political intrigues that relate to the retention of Mbugua who should have retired last year.
Fear of reprisals
An inspector, who cannot be named for fear of reprisals, claims it was unusual for items to leave the armoury without the knowledge of senior officers. Even more intriguing are revelations that the force’s firearms and ammunitions records are updated daily.
“Requisitions from districts and units — APTC, Security of Government Buildings, Rapid Deployment Unit and Rural Border Patrol Unit — are approved by the Force Commandant. He should be the one answering the questions about how arms ended in civilian custody as claimed,” the source said.
Arms acquisition, it also emerged, is steeped in corruption. What raises more questions is that the armoury is under CCTV surveillance and armed guard round the clock.
Asked about how this is feasible, Ojode said, “This is a sensitive matter. I am not privy to information about how the force keeps its records or secures the armoury. From the look of things this is just a deal gone sour.”
Our investigations show that the movement of firearms and ammunition from AP armoury — if indeed that is the origin of the weapons — was done with the knowledge of senior staff at the Embakasi-based training college.
A security expert conversant with operations at the armoury took The Standard on Sunday through the administrative procedures that must be followed before the firearms and ammunitions are released to officers.
“The system is foolproof and what happened is a result of negligence or was deliberate to frustrate transfers or discredit colleagues,” one source said.
Section heads initiate the process of purchase of equipment, especially firearms and ammunition, and the commandant must approve requisitions.
“The consignment from the Eldoret Ordinance Factory is countersigned by the commandant and the force armourer who each keep copies of requisitions and deliveries. An audit of the records can provide foolproof information on how weapons and equipment are handled,” says the source.
Force commandant, chief armourer, and chief of operations undertake the task of procuring arms. These are the officers Parliamentary Committee might investigate if the ongoing inquiries would not resolve the riddle.
It also came to light that two weeks before the discovery of the illegal arsenal, 1,600 AP officers had been training in Ngong, about 60km from Narok, in preparation for security operations in northern Kenya. If that were the case, they said, close to 100 guns are yet to be accounted for.
Our sources did not rule out the possibility of more arms being in the wrong hands or they have been smuggled back to the armoury.
The officers who took part in endurance are currently involved in security operations in Isiolo to quell banditry that has over the past three months claimed more than 120 lives.
“It is not possible such a huge consignment of ammunition and firearms left the armoury without the knowledge of the commandant. In any case, our records are updated daily,” he adds.
In an explosive debate in Parliament on Thursday, MPs questioned the arbitrary arrests of senior officers, with Public Accounts Committee chairman Bonny Khalwale, calling for indictment of the top brass. This became apparent following allegations of attempts to oil the hands of police investigators with Sh3 million, which they rejected.
The Mt Kenya mafia imported arms still at large
Posted in July 19th, 2008
by Editor in Central, Kenya
Poll Violence: Who took illegally imported guns?
By Saturday Standard Team
Security chiefs are tight-lipped over where two containers of firearms smuggled into the country at the height of post-election violence could be.
Not even before the Justice Philip Waki judicial commission on post-election violence is any of them willing to spill the beans. They would also not talk about why there has been no mop-up of the weapons by the security forces given the deadly nature of the cargo.
When contacted about the matter by The Standard On Saturday, Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the police took the investigation seriously and formed a team to investigate. He, however, ruled out the possibility of investigation being made public.
But what is, however, not secret is the militia group behind the smuggling of the arms from war-ravaged and lawless Somalia.
Not very secret, too, are the possible targets of the arms as the country spiralled into an orgy of bloodletting before the Kofi Annan talks bore fruit.
And a report by a United Nations agency on the movement of arms at the time confirms the frightening reports.
Beneath the veneer of the sad tale lies the story of Kenya headed to the dogs as thousands were killed, displaced and dispossessed. It points at how close the country was to civil war, even as the security forces were divided, with orders coming from a select class of politicians and top civil servants.
Top police officers familiar with the consignment concede — on the promise of confidential cover — that their efforts to track down the bearers of the illegal cache of arms have been slowed by powerful personalities in government.
The big question is not how the group managed to order the container-loads of firearms from Somalia, but why the security chiefs — who have taken the witness box before the Waki team — have not spoken of what could undermine national security.
Those who have appeared before the team include the Chief of General Staff, Gen Jeremiah Kianga, Police Commissioner Maj-Gen Hussein Ali, and the Director General of the National Security Intelligence Service Michael Gichangi, Administration Police Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua, and Internal Security Permanent Secretary Francis Kimemia.
The two packed containers were ferried through Isiolo to Nairobi. Police spokesman Kiraithe confirmed investigations were still on, but did not explain why six months later, those who imported the arms have not been arrested, the arms seized, and the veracity of the claims that powerful personalities had frustrated the tracking down of the illegal cache.
Secrecy
Kiraithe would only say the police chief took the investigation seriously and formed a team to investigate.
“The claims were taken very seriously by the force. This is a big thing and investigation is ongoing,” he said.
A member of the investigating team revealed to The Standard on Saturday the hurdles on the path of investigation.
“People who were behind this thing do not want it to be exposed. They are not willing to meet us or to make it public in any manner.”
The official said preliminary investigations had established that there was a shipment of such cargo during post-election period, but they were yet to know the current whereabouts.
The UN Monitoring Group, in a report submitted recently to the Security Council, said it detected a strange movement of firearms from Somalia into Kenya in the middle of the election violence early this year.
The UN reported as systematic the buying of arms from Somalia with some measure of impunity. The period the UN report refers to appear to coincide with the time the US Embassy in Nairobi revoked the visas of 10 MPs, among other prominent people.
The Embassy accused those it blacklisted in early February this year as either having been behind the violence — in which over 1,200 were killed and about 350,000 displaced — or standing in the way of a peace agreement at the time.
US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger said his country “decided to apply our travel restrictions on individuals who we believed to have participated in the instigation of violence, violation of human rights and breaking of democratic practices.”
According to the UN group that monitors activities in Somalia, a consignment of guns was imported between February and mid-March, as the country stood on the brink of war.
A buyer the UN group identifies specifically as “a militia group in Kenya” was among the several underworld groups that ordered firearms into the country in the middle of the violence.
The militia group brought 12 AK-47s and six boxes of ammunition, eight pistols, four boxes of ammunition and six magazines.
The clients also needed four Belgium FAL guns, six boxes of ammunition and eight magazines.
But no explanation has come forward even from security chiefs who have taken the witness box at the Justice Waki Commission.
The UN report aside, interviews with illegal gun traders in the north of the country also confirmed a flurry of arms buying at the height of the violence, with most orders coming from Nairobi.
One dealer said ordinarily, he would have orders for “ordinary crimes” with criminals asking for one or two guns. Things changed in the middle of violence, with orders from Nairobi outstripping usual demand. A dealer who admitted getting orders, however, said his were cancelled after the violence stopped with the signing of the peace deal.
Courtesy of:http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1143990522&cid=4&