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Voices of Justice for Peace
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BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENYA
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012

Mr Augustino Neto Oyugi is my best friend. I have been with him together with human rights activists Okia Omtatah in this field for long. He is just 35 years, the age I joined the Seminary. He has just won the ODM nominations for the Ndhiwa constituency by-election among other human right activists.

I am not bitter with him the only thing that will make him unpopular is the fact that he wants the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to bar permanently Mr Raila Odinga, Mr Kalonzo Musyoka, Mr Musalia Mudavadi, Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta, and Eldoret North MP William Ruto from the State House race.

This is because like Miguna Miguna, Tony Gachoka among others who are alleged to be paid to spoil for Raila presidency, the time for doing it is not yet ripe. Probably if he was paid the money would have been enough to push him even if he did not win Ndhiwa Constituency on ODM ticket, but he would have lost as human rights activist.

The petitioners want Raila to explain why he worked as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi without clear academic credentials, and to clarify his graduate studies at a German university.

They also want him to explain about Maize scandal saga, Molasses plant land and his participation in 1982 failed coup and indirectly getting involved in events and utterances that caused the 2007/08 post-election violence. Mr Odinga is also accused of nepotism by employing his relatives in public offices.

They also want Mudavadi to defend himself from committing perjury during the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry by misleading the commission on his role in the scandal, cemetery scandals among others.

Kalonzo is to explain how he used his office to acquire radio frequencies on December 6, 2010, for a company called Athiani Holdings Ltd owned by his wife, Pauline, and son Kennedy Kalonzo, and of authorising the illegal sale of the embassy of Somalia in Nairobi while serving as the minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation among others.

This is how some Kenyans responded to the issue: Daily Nation- Alfotula argues-“chickens coming home to roost! This is very exciting. Guys, clear your names. Bw PM, this is your last chance to clear your name from all these issues. If you do, I hope that the haters will now hate you less.

By the way, is it illegal to proceed to high sch and then to uni without a primary sch cert? Did Raila employ himself at UoN? Bw Kalonzo, I see that you have just been a politician like any other. Muda, save us the agony and tell Kenyans what happened wrt Goldenberg. As for the Ocampo 2, your cases are straightforward. This is gonna be hillarious. No wonder Kiyapi is in the race. He suspected that none of the other candidates will pass the test of Chap 6. He might go in unopposed”.

Barak Oyula-“Neto & co,there are also other 22o MPs plus former ones who should be barred. A good example is Kanjwang who it is alleged to have ”EATEN” his clients’ cash. Have anybody ever heard him denying?”

Magunga- “Kweli some people would rather have the country burn than have one single man become president. What is it that they fear so much? This is just one man for heaven’s sake! Truly money can be a portent weapon in the hands of someone who knows how to use it. The only problem so far is that every effort ends up hitting the wall while Kenya remains steadfast in its unfolding new dawn”.

Ndura wa Mwaganu- “These are all serious and if proven true will truelly change the Kenya politics for better. I cannot point a finger at anybody, but knowing kenya, all these are likely to be true. Most of the old gurds need to be removed completely. they are all CORRUPT!! There has been some injustices for such a long time and we keep returning the same old bad people back. Please let this be true. This will remove kenyan from Bondage”.

MMusa2843- “Uhuru’s and Ruto’s are serious allegations. The other three are frivolous arguments – a waste of Court’s time and resources. How trivial and riduculous are these people to think that no one can attain masters degree unless they go through all the stages from baby class -nursery-primary-secondary schools, etc. Their reasoning requires them to go to school, They are very illiterate”.

Rapliege No Komment-“too much freedom now every tom,dick and harry think they can wake up any morning and implicate anyone just because we are democratic.why did the crimes of way way back take them this long to figure out if they themselves made it past primary school? how many elections have above persons taken part in? we are sick of schemes from a given people to stop a bus that’s on it’s way”.

James Getabu- “Kenyans are a wake. These people who some call themselves reformers must be examined and scrutinised. Get records of all those seeking the high office. We need chapter six to be implemented fully and all these guys will never see the inside of the house at the top hill. Now the cat is out of the gunny and that is why the Integrity bill was being watered and one of them is dealing with the government business in parliament.

Hold their horns and they will tell Kenyans the truth and must return all those ill gotten property to the government or to the wanjikus. Hope they are not going to run to their ethnic groups for support. Carry your own cross and Kenya will continue without people of such character. We can only achieve vision 2030 when all the cobwebs have been cleared. Mr Mutunga tighten the rope for these people. Impunity must be burried in order to develop our great country. We need to know the records of other candidates as well. God bless Kenya”.

Ali Mohamud- “These allegations must be dealt with thorough process of legality and not be politicized in order to avoid repeating another civil unrest in Kenya. It will be fair if applied to all African leaders that candidate themselves even after being accused of felony and corruption, misappropriation and so fourth like what is happening in Somalia”.

Sisemi- “Some of the accusations about Raila are nonsensical, The title “Diplom Ingenieur” or in short Dipl. Ing. is the equivalent of a Masters degree in the Anglo-Saxon world. You get it after 5 years of study and it enables someone to proceed directly to doctoral studies to obtain a doctorate degree. There is no PhDs in Germany. With a Dipl. Ing. someone is fully qualified as an ingineer unlike in kenya were one has to still apply for registration. All the hightech. made in Germany are mostly designed and manufactured by Dipl. Ing. Graduates”.

Aminimungu- “Bravo Bravo to the eight petitioners, this guy’s represent modern kenya, they also have realised that kenya is bigger than anyone,the new constitution has allowed old and new issues to be dealt,Non of this petitioners can be accused of tribalist because the accused hail from different tribes, this is the new kenya calling for its own leaders to be accountable, keep it up guys”.

pwaniyetu- “Very strange…. civil society activists with a sense of balance in Kenya’s extremely partial politics. Whether they will succeed is another matter. Obviously, very few leaders would pass the integrity test in this country. But then, we get the leaders we deserve!”

Peter Nguli- “Why is Kenyan politics so charged and adrenaline-fuelled? Kenya is probably the only country in Africa where politicians spent all their time politicking instead of serving their fellow citizens. While I acknowledge that Kenyan judiciary seems to be the only hope for Kenyans apart from the electorate (the ballot), does it mean that there will be a case in the courts every week? On the other side of the coin, it could ideally be a good move if the courts bar all the current tainted characters so that Kenya selects a new crop of blood to push this magnificent nation in the right direction in the years ahead”.

Xallo- “Very few of the politicians can withstand being put under a microscope, especially those who are currently in government. Starting from the ‘reformists’ who have been prancing around the country telling Kenyans how clean they are, to the Party leaders who think the 80s are a distant memory. Let them all be scrutinised carefully so that Kenyans can know who they are voting for. These recycled former KANU stalwarts and failed ‘activists’ need to retire and fresh blood brought in”.

Ernest Odhiambo- “Neto did not sign that affidavit. Njuguna did and of course he feels let down by Neto since Neto is almost assured of the ODM seat. But I am surprised that your reporter is conveniently not supplying these details”.

Zem2011- “Wow!!. This is what we call the new Kenya. The character of a person who wants to lead a nation must be examined by a microscope. This is what is known deconstructing the personal characteristics of a person. Also known as decoding. The time for scratching the surfaces of issues in Kenya is coming to the end. The media has failed us on that area for a long time. All they have done is just report political rallies without considering what is said,who said it,what it means,its effect and how consistent the person is. But,who is this Augostino Neto?An ODM aspirant stabbing the party leader?. ODM has to block him and seek a fresh nomination and candidate. This is by no means trivializing the deconstruction”.

Nabs 101- “If justice is truly to be seen to be done, then Raila Odinga is toast; as are Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Mudavadi, William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta! And it is about time too! Kenya needs a fresh start with new untainted faces! Is it any wonder now that the cabinet sought to diminish and rubbish the Integrity Bill? Mr. Nyachae should not just threaten but should also go to court pronto! Enough of the impunity!”

jdudna1960- “Looks good to me, I could not stop laughing. Just forgive those candidates with petty crimes or offence, but those with grave public and private crimes like crime against humanity, massive/megga corruption and grabbing, Fraud of any kind(electoral) should face the law. I can wait for Wikileaks after this election. WaKenya tutajua zile za ndani, I want to hear a Kibaki-Miguna, Uhuru-Miguna, Ruto-Miguna, Kalonzo-Miguna.Only Kenneth and Kiyapi may be safe”.

Taharka Piankhy- “Maybe….just maybe….Kenya is on the right path. If these thugs are prevented from running for office, I dare say Kenya will have a bright future”.

High Court judge, Justice Isaac Lenaola approved the amendments to the initial suit by Mr Patrick Njuguna, Mr Augustino Netto, Mr Charles Omanga and others and fixed the hearing date for September 27. Justices Lenaola, Mohamed Warsame and Philomena Mwilu will hear the case.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education should also provide the court with a list of international universities and colleges that were recognized in Kenya between 1962 and 1974.

Education PS should also supply the court with information on whether academic institutions in East Germany were recognized in Kenya for purposes of training of students in Kenya. They are also seeking for information on when Maranda Secondary School was started.

The case is filed at the time former Raila Odinga aide Tony Gachoka claims to have 3,00 page dossier linking the PM to post-election violence. Tony Gachoka described himself in a quarter-page advertisement in The Standard on Sunday as a ‘Kenyan Investigative Media Personality’ with ‘a proven track-record as a whistleblower’ and was apparently Prime Minister Odinga’s Chief of Protocol between 2008 and 2009 and before that, he says, ‘a political aide’ from 2005.

The advertisement was a copy of a letter Gachoka sent on August 1st to Ms Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor with the ICC and the woman in charge of handling the trials of Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Henry Kosgey and Francis Muthaura, now scheduled to begin in March 2013.

Gachoka claims his ‘crucial evidence’ is set out in a “comprehensive dossier of 11 documents of more than 3,000 pages” and ‘is extremely prejudicial to some of the most powerful and influential personalities in Kenya today’.

“I have evidence to show that [post-election] violence was premeditated, coordinated, planned, commissioned and executed by order of the PM”, Gachoka told The Star in a telephone interview reported on Monday.

The press coverage of Gachoka’s startling claims was in itself somewhat odd. The Standard on Sunday that carried his advertisement gave the story only a small column of coverage on page 4 of the same issue (‘Another ex-Raila aide seeks ICC eye’). The Star did give it front page billing the next day (‘Gachoka tries to link Raila to chaos’) but The Daily Nation did not mention it at all.

Gachoka told The Star that prior to the 2007 election the ODM followed a policy of “42 against 1” and that the party’s leadership targeted the Kikuyu community but tried to cover up this policy by including Co-operative minister Joseph Nyagah as part of the ‘Pentagon’ group, the party’s main leadership body.

Raila Odinga’s name had been included into a report on post-election violence, claims Gachoka but was subsequently edited out of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights’ (KNCHR) report ‘On the Brink of the Precipice: A Human Rights Account of Kenya’s Post 2007 Election Violence’. Gachoka also claims that he has a tape recording of KNCHR commissioner Hassan Omar Hassan discussing the report with Raila Odinga.

Some questions arise: The Kenya Forum admittedly has doubts about anyone calling themselves a ‘Kenyan Investigative Media Personality’ however Tony Gachoka’s claims do raise some interesting questions that need answering.

First up, why now Mr Gachoka? Why over four years after the event have you now decided to reveal all? Gachoka says he has ‘agonized’ over the decision and had hoped that the ICC’s investigations would have revealed the truth without his intervention but now, despite his ‘great trepidation’, he has been ‘spurred by the desire to deliver justice to the victims of violence and help heal my homeland’. Mmmm….

KNCHR commissioner Hassan Omar Hassan – Gachoka claims to have tape recording of discussion with Raila Odinga. The KNCHR, and perhaps Hassan Omar Hassan in particular, need to confirm or deny whether their original report into post-election violence in any way cited Raila Odinga.

3,000 pages in 11 documents and a tape recording is potentially a lot of evidence but equally, potentially, much ado about nothing. It could just be a would-be ‘media personality’ trying to get publicity to raise his profile but it should be considered and reviewed says the Kenya Forum. Not to look at it, even if it is adjudged to be nonsense, will leave the ICC at risk of appearing to be running a political trial.

According to Zuzzanna (via Facebook), August 9, 2012 at 9:40 am, When you want to hit a dog you will always find a stick…it won’t work and pple are notorious to alter documents…if he knew this was the plan as he alleges why didn’t he blew the whistle immediately and leave..or claim his life is in danger since he is of the same ethnicity? It seems that there was a deliberate to pay someone to stay, likely to alter/forge/make cosmetic changes to documents to damage the credibility of others…justice shall prevail no matter what and God has seen …everything …Interestingly so many documents tabled as evidence even recently coming from a certain camp have been forged on so many occasions.

Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ

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