From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

Raila is not a REFORMIST as he wants many people to believe. Raila is a selfish self-seeker with special interest ego, who joined politics with a mission to build his wealth empire by hooks and crooks through public wealth and resource illegal maneuvers and deals. Everything Raila acquired, he used public community land with taxpayer irregularly swindled money through political shifts and scheming to build his wealth. Therefore, Raila did not make his riches in a clean business smart enterprising. Many people have a notion that, his political maneuver with Moi granted him the Molasses Plant in Kisumu which many people believed that he under-cut Robert Ouko for the same to be rewarded ownership. Both Molasses and Luo Thrift were initiated and funded by Luo Community contributions for the Community’s Project which later is now wholly and fully owned by Raila & the Odinga family. What Raila has written in the Standard is a lie meant to fool the world.

This media statement by Raila expecting people to believe that he is a REFORMIST is fake. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. A Reformist stay the course to the end and does not engage in scandal practices of the corrupt in stage-managed conspiracies.

Over the years Raila from his corner-corner political schemes and maneuvers clearly show signs of extreme corrupt, illegal and irregular deals. Raila flip-flops and causes scare tactics in instances when he orders people not to speculate and discuss freely about matters of death or those of shoddy deals by whistle blowers. Many people believe that vision 2030 which he participated in marketing and signing deals (MoUs) at the United Nations’ International and Regional Financial Institutions; the World Banks, IMF, IFAD, UNESCO, COMESA, AfDB etc., is a big scum meant to steal public wealth and resources including the taxpayer collectibles to enrich the corrupt Politicians in the Coalition Government. The transparency and accountability of the same, have not been made public according to public mandate for National Reform Accord.

When Raila order Member of Parliaments not to speak to investigators about what they know except for Mr. Kimunya, this was a big blow. It was clear to many that Raila knew more about the helicopter crash of Saitoti and Ojode with the rest of its occupants, and he was obstructing people from discussing or speculating possible reason for the helicopter crash. This made those with information coil back and went underground for fear of being intimidated.

Unless proved otherwise, the truth is that, Raila with those politically corrupt have been engage in a conspiracy to defraud and steal from the Public Wealth Resources; and so, this is how Raila build his wealth. It must go on record that, Raila has all along been making irregular deal of illegal nature scheming through the International Offshore Oil companies making corrupt deals over Public Wealth Resources in Land transfers and Minerals ownership to unscrupulous International Investors for self gain using taxpayer money carelessly and unwisely and have not disclosed to public or made it official; it is a matter known between the two Principal leaders with their network at the Coalition Government. The extreme corruption in Energy, Oil, Land and minerals put in the hands of the Chinese and Iranians etc., under shoddy MoUs and corrupt deals will continue to push the poor and disadvantaged to a point of no return.

This are reasons why the New Constitution is receiving a death blow and has been severed and watered down under their watch in the Coalition Government leadership, so that they are able to escape the legality arm of justice on their misdoings.

The Majimbo/Devolution, Land, Finance and Police Legislation Bill of Rights are not completed. It is simply because the two Principals have Special Interest over the Public Interest and is the reason for the delaying tactics where they both are keeping windows open in the constitution as escape route from facing justice. These are reasons why innocent unsuspecting people are killed carelessly by organized gangs; hit squad and the Police in acts of terrorism actively strategized to kill people like chicken. Others are terminated from organized timed assassinations.

In like manner, we were treated to the same stage-managed acts of terrorism masterminded by some good-for-nothing concubines, using tax-payer money in the organizing the Artur Brothers illegal invasion to Kenya and later, the same woman with her team got rewarded with security guard details paid by taxpayer before the matter is even taken to court to be determined.

These acts of lawlessness of such behaviors cannot be tolerated and are unacceptable. The two Coalition Principals in the Coalition Government must not take people for granted. They both have no business to continue staying in power occupying public offices while heavy casualties and damages are daily in the offing making peoples’ lives miserable.

In an urgent move, both the two Principals in the Coalition Government must be investigated and their corrupt involvement in corrupt cases must be determined and completed thoroughly before they can be allowed to stand in the future politics.

The Triton saga is part of the ongoing oil and oil related corruption deals they decided to shelve and put away from the court so they can pass Chapter 6 and the integrity test. We are not done with him yet from the clearance of “Kazi kwa Vijana” Youth project fund theft in Prime Minister’s Office under Raila’s watch, and the NHIF Saga involving public money which is slowly being pushed aside without proper investigation and reporting delivered. The Saitoti/Ojode and six others in the helicopter crash is another hot issue under speculations why Raila decided to order and silence Ministers from talking to Media over the matter cannot be erased in the minds of many soon. Many people are asking unanswered questions why Raila had to single out Mr. Kimunya to be the only person allowed to be interviewed by Media and where he knows pretty too well how it is public knowledge, Mr. Kimunya cannot be trusted by anyone in Kenya when it comes to corruption and bad things. How can we trust such a corrupt leader and entrust million of disadvantaged public in their deadly conspiracies.

Esther Arunga’s case is now a clock ticking away when fears of such desperate cries from her are in display in public media claiming her life is in danger. This is causing us restlessness. No one in her right mind would make such a claim from no reason. This matter is taking a very tricky and dangerous turn, and we cannot keep quite or take it lightly when her life is continually under threats even after leaving the country. We fear that those who have been after her with Timberlake will not rest until they assassinate them both to silence them.

I am forwarding this matter to the doorstep of The U.S. President Obama under Certificate of Urgency for him to Intervene and act speedily under security and safety for Esther and Timberlake with the rest of Kenyans on humanitarian grounds.

Pressure group for Reform must not relax. They must continue to pressurize and keep pushing for REAL CHANGE in Kenya. They are the True Reformist……..Not those who short-change REFORM ACCORD AGENDA with a purpose to steal from public livelihood and survival and accumulate Public Wealth for Special Interest and for the corrupt political agenda of SELFISH EGO…….

We demand for justice and we demand it now……!!!

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

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Raila: I am best in reforms, protecting new Constitution

Updated Thursday, July 05 2012 at 21:17 GMT+3

BY VITALIS KIMUTAI

Prime Minister Raila Odinga says his opponents’ main agenda is to block him from ascending to the presidency.
Raila said anti-reform agents had ganged up against him and were keen on curtailing full implementation of the Constitution.

“For the first time in our history, blocking one presidential candidate has become an entire election agenda,” Raila said.

He said the next General Election would be a two-horse race between reformers and anti-reformers.

“The horse of reform will run against the horse of reversal and negation, the horse of hope against that of despair,” Raila said.

Raila added: “This election is our best chance to make a clean break with the past. If we don’t then we must go back to the past.”

Raila was speaking in Nairobi when he launched his presidential campaign website on Wednesday night, which will enable him directly engage with voters on issues affecting the country through social media.

Revisionist agenda

The PM said the dreams of majority of Kenyans for a corruption free and democratic society would prevail. “Our dreams must not die. It should not die, it cannot die and it will not die,” Raila said.

He said that anti-reform agents who wanted to ascend to the presidency were telling Kenyans that it did not matter how the new Constitution was achieved and anybody could be trusted with it.

“Lately, we have heard revisionists telling us that it does not matter how much blood was shed, how many families were broken, how many people disappeared and how many young students went to jail and lost their dreams for university degrees so that this Constitution may be born,” Raila stated.

“They are telling us now that the reforms are here, anybody alive and in politics today is a reformer and can be trusted. I disagree. These are issues I want us to stay engaged on,” he added.

He said a significant majority of the people were keen to secure the democratic and governance gains that have come with the new Constitution – but anti-reforms forces were out to block them from achieving that goal.

“The Constitution is written with the blood, sweat and pain of many of citizens,” Raila said.

The PM revisited the incarceration he and many Kenyans who fought for constitutional change during the Kanu regime were subjected to at the Nyayo House torture chambers. With a crack in his voice, Raila said what went on in the torture chambers was “madness and unbelievable”.

“Each person who was taken there believed he or she was going to die. And many died,” Raila stated with dead silence from the crowd.

“We must remember the comrades who were killed, tortured, the children who were orphaned, the women who were widowed in the process.”

The website – Raila for President 2012 (www.raila 2012) – is complete with Twitter, Facebook, You Tube and a blog.

The site also contains the PM’s life history, his agenda for the country, a photo gallery, press releases and people will be able to e-mail him and get feedback.

As a break from similar sites launched by his rivals, Raila’s has a Kiswahili version to enable ordinary people understand his ideals and engage with him.

By mid Thursday, 14,742 people had liked the site which will be streaming live the activities of the PM until the polls. Raila said the website was designed to encourage and facilitate an expanded dialogue with voters and other stakeholders in the society.

“You will tweet and I will tweet back. We need to define the direction our country is taking,” he stated.

“Mine will be a ‘listening’ presidency. I want to hear your views, so that I know what you want, so that I can try to fulfill your needs, as you have expressed them,” Raila said.

He said he was ready to work with everybody in seeking to transform the country for the better.

GOOD COMMUNICATION

“At the same time, I can make you privy to my thinking on the urgent issues that affect us all. We need to reason together to define the country we want and the leadership that will take us to the land of our dreams,” Raila stated. He said ODM would be the party to beat.

“I feel proud to be associated with this movement. We can move together to make Kenya a great country,” he stated.

Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba said the PM will now be able to understand and embody aspirations of all Kenyans irrespective of their class in society. “It has brought down physical space and barriers for people to directly engage and dialogue with Raila,” Namwamba said.

— On Thu, 7/5/12, Lee Makwiny wrote:

From: Lee Makwiny
Subject: Private: Judy (Esther Arunga)
To: “Judy Miriga”
Date: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 8:44 AM

Hello Judy,

I am writting to you this letter. It is not political, but it is born of my desire to help Esther Arunga. I am writting to you because I am aware you posted some things on the blogs about her which might have originated from the source.

From my discussion with my friend (chat copied), i can see the hand of our spy agencies in the case of Esther with the intend of soiling Raila name. She has indicated that Miguna was malicious when he interviewed her.

She will call the friend then I can follow-up with my friend who can help us reach to John Maina.

Thank you

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My friend: I may want to meet you one of these days so that we can chat something that is aching my head in as far as vying is concerned.

Me: he hehe. You want to view? You indicated you are outside the country, where are you

My friend: I am here in Nairobi.

Me: Then we can meet on sato, coz am travelling, but not yet fixed time

My friend: Lee I am not sure whether I am travelling today to Kisumu because I need to do something over there particulary in Bondo.

Me: Ok..on sato i will be in nairobi before joinging reloaded

My friend: Lets see if I will be in Nairobi too incase I don’t travel today.

Me: ok, You want to run for governor.. he hehe

My friend: By the way I have got something that is eating a friend of mine somewhere abroad and the friend believes that it is only Raila who can help her. Do you have connections with anybody who can help out?

Me: What is it?

My friend: I have got a close friend who has always been in the public gallery with controversies touching on Raila also. She shared with me her story sometimes back on the horror she is facing. She wants to come back to Kenya but she fears that some powerful forces are behind her troubles.She wants to vie with ODM in some elective position but fears for her life. Someone very powerful is not letting her stay in peace. Right now she te;ll me that wherever she is security has been enhaced. She wants to meet the PM herself then explain her ordel.

Me: Which country is she. I could connect her to someone who will connect her to Join Maina who handles Diaspora issues at the PMs office

My friend: Well,she is in Austrailia.

Me: Ok. If she is free with you, then i can ask her to contact my friend, explain the ordeal, then the friend will follow-up with Maina and she will be attended to. i hope you are not refering to Esther Arunga and Quincy

My friend: Exactly. She is the one.
She talked to me yesterday and I realized there was a lot of pressure on her back. I listen to her so well and I noticed something very weird which she may only disclose by her self to the people who are able to assist her.

Me: Ok. She dragged Rao name in issues that are not true…
She is a lawyer, and need to know how to address approach some issues. Assuming that she is a threat to Rao was the most wierd thing to ever cross her mind.
Ok. Lets see how she can be helped, but she need to come out and disown some propaganda doing the rounds…

My friend: I asked her about that too and ask her how comfortable is she to face Raila on this then she said Miguna had approached her and interviewed her on certain things which she willingly told Miguna then Miguna went and did a different version that was not the case as it was. She actually confessed to me that Miguna was just being too malicious. She told me that aftyer that she was kidnapped and taken to Ngong forest where she felt what she could not disclose for me. I guess she was raped.
I will contact her about that then we say the headway.

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Raila A. Odinga: Astute Businessman or Corrupt Politician?
Posted on 18 September 2007. Filed under: Politics |

The sudden ostentatious display of wealth by Raila Odinga has left many baffled. Unbeknown to the public, Raila is a fabulously wealthy man in his own right with a personal fortune estimated to be in excess of Kshs. 4 billion. Read how the man who wants to be Kenya’s next president acquired his wealth which includes investments in the lucrative petroleum industry and in manufacturing.

How Raila acquired his billions.

Raila Odinga’s big break came in 2001 soon after he led his party, NDP, into a merger with KANU, the then ruling party. As Energy Minister in Moi’s government he was introduced to the family of Sheikh Abdukeder AlBakari, one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia with interests in petroleum drilling, petroleum exploration and export in the Middle East, Asia, USA and Africa.

Through the Saudi contacts,Raila was initiated into the lucrative world of oil business and soon enough he had joined the league of gig independent oil importers via his firm Pan African Petroleum Limited.

Industry sources say that one of the things that helped Raila make a quick buck in the oil business was a concessionary petroleum deal he struck with the Al Bakri Group where he was not only incorporated as a silent partner in the local arm of Al Bakri International but was also supplied with petroleum products from Saudi Arabia at subsidized prices which his firm would sell in the market at normal prices. That way,Raila was able to deftly beat the competition in oil business by occasional price undercutting.

While still Energy Minister,Raila re-established and nurtured his links with the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi where again he not only did good business in oil importation but also got substantial material support during the 2002 general elections.

Besides supporting Raila’s political causes, the Libyans also played a key role in stabilizing Raila in the oil business in a couple of ways. Industry sources say that between 2001 and 2002 when Raila served as Energy Minister,he received at least three consignments of petroleum products at very low prices which were later sold locally at market prices.

The overall turnover from the three Libyan consignments is reliably said to have been in the region of over half a billion shillings, a tidy sum of money in any language,enough to ensure that one crosses the Rubicon once and for all.

Raila’s enviable international links

Reliable sources say that Libyans bankrolled the NARC campaign with some US$ 3 million (about Kshs 210 million), thanks to Raila’s good contacts in the oil-rich land of Gadaffi. There is no doubt that if Raila becomes the ODM presidential candidate he can count on massive financial support from the Libyans once more.

Besides Libya, Raila enjoys good links with the South African government of Thabo Mbeki while in Nigeria he is known to have strong links with immediate former president Olosegun Obasanjo,who was a close friend of Raila’s late father Jaramogi.

That Libyans, South Africans and Nigerians had enough confidence in Raila to channel campaign funds through him although he himself was not a presidential in 2002 is an indication of how highly regarded he is in some international circles.

Evidently,he could certainly count on even more enthusiastic support from his international contacts should he become the ODM presidential candidate.

For Raila,the linkage between politics and business went much deeper than petroleum business. It is significant that the Odinga family business,Spectre International Ltd,acquired the then state-owned Kisumu Molasses Plant soon after Raila started politically cooperating with Moi.

Raila has consistently argued that the acquisition of the molasses plant was a pure business deal which had nothing to do with politics, but his critics point out at the coincidence between the time his family acquired the parastatal and Raila’s shift of political alliance. It is highly unlikely – indeed one may even say impossible – that the Moi government would have sanctioned the Kisumu Molasses Plant deal at the time if Raila had not become an ally of Moi’s.

Former commissioner of Lands Sammy Mwaita offered to sell the 240 acres on which the Kisumu Molasses Plant is built to Spectre International on January 11,2001 at a price of Kshs 3.6 million at a time when Odinga started working closely with Moi. By June of the same year, Raila was appointed to the cabinet and made Energy Minister.

Significantly, Spectre International had applied for the same land in a letter of February 18,1999 but the request had been rejected by the government at the time.

Titles were prepared in favour of Spectre International on February 3,2002 for a 99-year lease backdated to September 1,2001 and the Odinga family was ready to laugh all the way to the bank.

When the Odinga family started the process that led to the acquisition of the Kisumu Molasses Plant in 2001,Raila had already established good business contacts in South Africa. Energem Resources Incorporated,an international firm quoted at the Toronto Stock Exchange,had been looking for an investment opportunity in Kenya for a long time and the Kisumu Molasses Plant appeared just right.

Soon after taking over the plant from the government, Raila struck a lucrative deal with Energem whereby the Canadian firm bought 55 per cent of the Kisumu Molasses plant. Sources say that the Odinga family was paid over US$ 5 million (about Kshs 420 million) to relinquish the control of the molasses plant. The Odinga family had paid only Kshs 3.6 million for the property.

The Canadians also ploughed in millions of dollars to rehabilitate the plant and it is today one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the country employing hundreds of people and producing at least 60,000 litres of industrial ethanol for local consumption and export.

Ethanol from the Kisumu Molasses Plant is used as a fuel additive in east and Central Africa. Among other products coming out of the plant include yeast, carbon dioxide alcohol and related industrial products.

A valuation of the plant carried out three three years ago placed the Kisumu Molasses Plant at US$100 million (Kshs 7 billion). With the Odinga family owning 40 percent of the plant,putting the family’s stake in the plant in the region of Kshs 7.8 billion. The remaining five per cent shares in the plant are owned by a development trust on behalf of the local community.

Besides Kenya where Energem is in partnership with Raila in the Kisumu molasses plant business, now renamed Kisumu Ethanol Plant, other African countries where Energem’s presence is significant include Sierra Leone, Sao Tome, Congo Brazaville, Angola. Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Chad and Central Africa republic.

Raila’s wealth at a glance

Company/Property

Estimated Worth

Spectre International Limited (the holding company for Kisumu Ethanol Plant)
Kshs 7 billion of which Odinga family owns 40 per cent whose value is approximately Kshs 2.8 billion

East African Spectre (the gas cylinder manufacturing plant founded by Raila’s late father)
Kshs 500 million

Raila’s family home in Karen Nairobi
Kshs 50 million

Runda House
Kshs 15 million

Pan African Petroleum Company (the firm through which the Odinga family imports and distributes petroleum products)
Has had a turnover in excess of Kshs 500 million.