From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

This matter should not be taken lightly. Maina Njenga needs to be given real security. His cry for threats are real and he truely need protection, otherwise, the powerful killers are in the offing …. woe unto the victims of poverty and the middle class whose lives are made miserable from lack of progressive opportunities for meaningful and responsible livelihood, as their lives are at risk in danger of execution, assassination and extermination. If Maina Njenga is left to be killed, we will never know the truth and justice will have flown through the window. We will never know or catch the real wicked brutal killers amongst us, those evil minded who

have schemed to reduce and wipe out our lives at the mercy of their blood sucking accumulative stolen public wealth……

The culture of use and dump, divide and rule must stop and we are the ones to put a stop to it. We must refuse to be used as door mat. We must stand together and protect each other and weed out the cancer in our midst for peace and unity’s sake.

Let the law be respected. No one is above the law…….we will be grooming snakes under our own beds, and it is us the snake will bite……and so, we are the loosers if we cannot apply wisdom for survival…… We must therefore, unite and protect our lives people…….for it is our future we are preserving…….

We must stand together for justice……….The Truth Must Be Told, so that the poor and middle class can begin to have hope for the future through loving one another united under Peace. We need to progress and prosper…….and for this to success, we must create conducive environment that which will make this happen under security of Mutual Partnership for common good of all. ……..It is Teamwork people………we will remain to be controlled by thievers who stole our public wealth to control and rule us…….Yes, this must not happen………..Thievers must face justice and pay and compensate for their sins……….We must not give them opportunity to escape,………. if they do, it is us they are going to wipe out…..

Thank you all,

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

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— On Sat, 11/26/11, Eric W. Mburi wrote:

People,

Sometimes we forget serious issues affecting us and matters that while we say they are for so and so will catch up with us.

Maina Njega has complained that his life is in danger.

Njenga also alleged that a vehicle with Government registration numbers had visited his Karen home on Sunday, with five occupants who were looking for him.

He gave the registration numbers as GK903U. Some of the occupants, according to Njenga were white men.

“Some claimed they were officers from Kwekwe squad and they wanted to talk to me. Another Nissan van visited my Kitengela residence and told my workers they want Sh2 million to pardon me over crimes I do not know,” he said.

I have serious issues with the Kenyan police force.It has become a dumping site for some (not all)failures and people who do not appreciate professionalism in carrying out their duties.I would suggest in future anyone who wants to be a police man to sign the contract with the government at form 1 then by the time they graduate they automatically take to training at Kiganjo.We have ended up with a crap force because all the big bellied and foolish politicians call senior officers during recruitment to take their nieces,sons,daughters and nephews who in the first place never passed well at forth form.

Maina Njenga on his part is forgetting that immediately Njuguna,the late Mungiki spokesperson talked of his life being in danger they killed him in broad day light at the junction of Luthuli and Tom Mboya.What followed was Prof.Saitoti telling us that they will investigate,while Ali said that it was a disagreement within the ranks and file of Mungiki leadership.The same police who was to investigate ended up making conclusions.They can as well come for me But I put this straight,I hate the police force we have,its a bunch of foolish whitewashed shenanigans.

We are quick to forget that even as women in Kirinyaga wept and cried that their sons were being killed in broad daylight,the police were aloof.The Killings in Kirinyaga of young men disguised as mungiki killing fellow mungiki for betrayal has never convinced me at all.I read more to the killing of those young men even as Ali the former police boss watched with his men,then the government sent a security team to the area,,,,,,for what people? for what? this government can not mitigate maters of security or what.

They will kill Maina Njenga trust me.He has done himself s disservice by complaining to the police who are the ones likely to be sent to do the killing–am sorry but this is Kenya–the land of all ills

Ja’kamburi

Nairobi Star (Nairobi)

Kenya: Politician Wants to Kills Me, Says Maina
25 November 2011

FORMER Mungiki leader Maina Njenga has claimed a politician linked to an ICC suspect wants to kill him. Njenga was yesterday clarifying allegations that he made at a press conference at Karen shopping centre on Wednesday.

Njenga claimed the politician believes that he (Njenga) sent a prosecution witness to the Hague with information about the retaliatory attacks in Naivasha during the 2007-08 post-election violence.

Njenga, now a born-again Christian preacher, said he fears for his life after strangers claiming to be officers from a dreaded anti-Mungiki police unit visited his two homes over the weekend.

He said a vehicle with government registration numbers came to his Karen home last Sunday with five occupants. “They claimed they were officers from the Kwekwe Squad and they wanted to talk to me. Another Nissan van visited my Kitengela residence and told my workers they want Sh2 million to pardon me over crimes I do not know,” Njenga said. “Some people are asking why I sent former Mungiki people to testify for Ocampo. I can truthfully tell you I do not know who is at the ICC as a witness,” Njenga told reporters.

Njenga believes that the politician from Central Kenya became angry with him after he demanded that he honour his pledge to offset an outstanding mortuary bill for Njenga’s wife Virginia Nyakio and her two bodyguards who were murdered in 2008, according to an inside source. The politician had pledged to give Sh7 million and initially paid Sh4 million.

The politician then allegedly told Njenga that he would not pay the Sh3 million balance at the Umash Funeral home. The bodies of Nyakio and her bodyguards remained there for two years because Mungiki said they would not bury them until Njenga was released from prison. The politician refused to pay the balance and told Njenga to find ways of raising the funds, according to the inside source.

Njenga felt threatened because the politician said that he would not see the ICC suspect being locked up at the Hague because the Mungiki had implicated him in crimes against humanity.

The Mungiki informer is now in hiding in Europe. He is expected to give testimony at The Hague against Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Civil Service Head Francis Muthaura and former police boss Maj Gen Hussein Ali who are accused of organising the Mungiki attacks in Naivasha and Nakuru. The politician close to the suspect apparently believes that the Ocampo witness was sent to the Hague by Njenga.

Njenga told journalists that suspicious cars have been tailing him since the exchange with the politician. Njenga said an assistant minister called to threaten him with dire consequences over his decision to support former Defence minister Njenga Karume as the spokesman of the Kikuyu community. He said he had recorded a statement with the Karen and Athi River police stations over the threats.

Njenga claimed the strangers had been calling him on his cell phone. “Some people are asking why I sent former Mungiki people to testify for Ocampo,” Njenga said. Police spokesman Erick Kiraithe said police had received complaints by Njenga and they are investigating.

Virginia Nyakio was buried with three others in January 2010 at Njenga’s home in Kitengela. Virginia was murdered with her driver and bodyguard in April 2008 in Ngong Forest, possibly by Kwekwe squad.

Njenga Karume and Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu were among the ranking individuals who contributed towards the Sh9 million burial expenses for Nyakio.

During the funeral, Njenga told mourners that Starehe MP Bishop Margaret Wanjiru and businessman Irshad Sumra had also contributed to the mortuary fee along with other people who paid through M-Pesa. The receipts were deposited in Njenga’s Equity Bank account in Ongata Rongai branch.

Njenga Karume told the Star that he had helped Njenga. “It is normal African practice to help friends and relatives when they are bereaved. My friends and I helped Maina bury his wife and those other people,” said Karume.

A group calling themselves “Nakuru businessmen” gave Sh900,000 while Mungiki coordinators from across Kenya gave 627,000. Lawyer Paul Muite confirmed donating Sh20,000. “My friends and I went to support Njenga in every way we could including financially. He needed money and other forms of help,” Waititu told the Star by telephone.

Bishop Wanjiru of Jesus is Alive Ministries yesterday did not confirm or deny that she contributed Sh700,000 towards the funeral as recorded on the list. “That is a lot of money. Are you asking if I contributed that personally?” said Wanjiru without elaborating.

Africa: Digital Revolution Will Help Continent to Join Global Players in the Marketplace
James Shikwati

23 November 2011

opinion

The predicament of sub-Saharan Africa has hinged on global revolutionary episodes.

The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries commoditised African people for export to drive up productivity on sugar and cotton plantations.

The onset of the Digital Revolution (information age) in the latter part of the 20th century offers Africans an opportunity to join global players at the market-place.

Broadly speaking, a revolution is a fundamental change in power or organisational structure that occurs in a relatively short time.

The Digital Revolution is also generally viewed as the revolution of the Information Age.

For the first time in human history, colossal amounts of information are available at the touch of the button. Will the Digital Revolution free Africa?

A glimpse at the African persona reveals an individual (hardware) with a corrupted political system (operating system) and thought process (software).

Other civilisations are falling over themselves to access the continent’s wealth such as the sub-surface mineral resources and the 60 per cent uncultivated farmland.

The continent’s political systems with its supporting cast see only poverty and push for beggar-aid as opposed to funds to drive up productivity.

Developed and emerging economies put a premium on their people and salivate at the news that close to 330 million Africans spend $2-$20 a day.

The African thought process views the one billion people on the continent as a burden.

The continent’s competitors yearn for a youthful population. Africa, on the other hand, runs scared of its 65 per cent population aged below 30 years — they are referred to as a “time-bomb!”

Instead of scaling up youthful activities to be competitive at the global stage, Kenya, and by extension Africa, is keen to mimic youth.

African leaders are keen to sustain youth in ignorance by adopting their mannerisms (speaking sheng; rap music and dressing in sagging trousers).

The tension generated by the ongoing Digital Revolution between individual Africans and traditional “gate-keepers” such as political elites, the media, non-governmental organisations and “experts” on African affairs offer hope to the continent.

The political elite watch in dismay as their citizen transform into “Netizens” free from the controls of space sovereigns.

The media which for a long time has “sanitised” and kept the status quo in place (be it at national or international level) is awed at the rate information crawls out on outlets such as short text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, Ushahidi, and WikiLeaks.

The role of NGOs as citadels of the suffering has been taken up by corporate bodies utilising data to drive up sales as they engage in corporate social responsibility initiatives.

On the political front, digitised information has driven masses onto the streets and yanked presidents from their thrones in North Africa at a speed never encountered before.

On the economic front, over half a billion Africans have been connected to the global system through cell phones and Internet.

Mobile telephony has increased access to banking services that were initially a preserve of few urbanised populations. Kenya, for example, boasts of 14 million M-Pesa users.

Distance learning has been made efficient away from postal mail correspondence.

The world of the arts (music and film production) has gained through low-budget movie productions as exhibited by the surge in “Nollywood”.

Judiciously used as a tool, the Digital Revolution will free Africa.

Mzee Maruge Kimani Ng’ang’a, who has since died, offers a vital lesson.

He stunned the world when he joined lower primary school aged 87 as a pupil. His personal drive to kick out the “gatekeepers” and read the Bible for himself turned him into a celebrity.

The Digital Revolution has no intrinsic, autonomous power to free the African people.

Rather, it is the African people who must urgently and proactively use it as a strategic tool to free themselves socially, economically and politically.

Mr Shikwati is director, Inter-Region Economic Network (james@irenkenya.org)