Warembo na Kibaki,
Wanawake na Kibaki,
Makanga na Kibaki,
Wezi na Kibaki (Anglo-Leasing),
Moi na Kibaki,
Uhuru na Kibaki,
na Kadhalika na Kibaki.
Sasa watu wote na Kibaki.
Kibaki akibaki atamaliza mali yote iliyobakishwa na AngloLeasing!
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23:55
WATU WOTE NA KIBAKI
» assidous Vijana na Kibaki,
Warembo na Kibaki,
Wanawake na Kibaki,
Makanga na Kibaki,
Wezi na Kibaki (Anglo-Leasing),
Moi na Kibaki,
Uhuru na Kibaki,
na Kadhalika na Kibaki.
Sasa watu wote na Kibaki.
Kibaki akibaki atamaliza mali yote iliyobakishwa na AngloLeasing!
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23:20
the run from qoaling to grootvlei by ...
» Black Looks the run from qoaling to grootvlei by lantern light we snuffed out when sound leapt at us (or seemed to leap as it does when the wind heaves forth) we left, travelling the terrain wintered with contempt, ears tuned for the sound of foot, boot, the snap of dog on our tail. beasts are oblivious to this, to things that knot us, questing always for [...]
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21:23
Blog Action Day: October 15th
» White African 
Blog Action Day is an initiative started by a bunch of international bloggers who want to see what will happen if we all write about the same general topic on one given day. In this case, that day is right around the corner on October 15th. The topic for this year is to write something about the environment.
I’ve decided to commit AfriGadget to the task of writing one story about the environment. If you have a story of African ingenuity as it relates to the environment, I’d love to hear it. Leave a comment here, or send me an email through the contact form.
Of course, you can participate yourself by committing to write a piece about the environment on October 15th as well. Let’s see if we can get some good African representation.
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20:26 Art From Recycled Materials
» Afromusing 6 photos with descriptions of a few pieces i have gathered/seen so far, mostly metallic. Click on the wire motorcycle image.
PS:
Annansi Chronicles is back
Afrotechie - A website with a banging name by Andrew Heavens
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17:55
Defection Watch: Ngilu Goes Oranges
» You Missed This The soaring political heat this week has climaxed with Hon Charity Ngilu endorsing Raila Odinga’s presidential bid on ODM ticket. Her timing and manner or deliver reflected everything characteristic of Kenya’s first woman presidential candidate. She was scathing, direct, confrontational and daring.
Hear her speak: "The ghost of the Moi era has returned to haunt us. This is contrary to the expectations and mandate we were given in 2002.’’ But defection was all coming to pass. The news however rests in the perceived coup to the incumbent. She may not be bringing substantial numerical (read voters) to ODM but the effect of having a cabinet minister defect to the opposition is a massive psychological dent or boost depending on which horse you ride.
Ngilu gave ODM more ammunition by repeating the often-denied line that the Narc Government has not achieved its dream of good governance. Instead it is characterised by all negative sms: tribalism, nepotism and cronyism. In painting Kibaki’s regime as opaque, Ngilu dives into her own defence in reminding all and sundry that she remained the only member of the Narc dream still standing and adding that apart from the natural departures, most of the other players have abandoned ship.
Give it to her. Whoever crafted Ngilu's speech must have had Narc's (and by extension Kenyans dream) eulogy in mind. In reminding us that of the theme song of Yote Yawezekana was a call to national renewal and hope that turned to be a hope betrayed and a dream deferred, no epitaph would have been any better.
So by mama Rainbow choosing to abandon reigning ship to take refuge in a rescue boat, are we poised to witness more high drama these coming weeks after parliament is dissolved? I have no answer except to train my eyes singularly on the unfolding drama and enjoy every bit of it. The truth is like her hate her Ngilu has in her what many Kenyan women don’t have. To deny her that fact benefit is to engage in self deception. Na bado as the political temperature soars to shame Sahara.
Raila Odinga secretly met John Githongo in London last month
Guess what John Githongo's nickname was when he worked at State House
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Brother, I’m Dying
» Black Looks A Memoir by Edwidge Danticat Brother, I’m Dying” is above all the story of Danticat’s uncle. As unrest intensified with each regime change, Mira urged Joseph to leave Haiti and the church he had built. It was only in 2004, when gangs including members of his own flock turned on him, that he was forced [...]
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Raila's Meeting With John Githongo
» You Missed This 
Sources close to former Ethics PS confirm that the meeting took place recently
As the country hurtles towards the general elections in a couple of weeks, Kumekucha can now authoritatively report that high drama has been unfolding behind the scenes.
My trail of this amazing story started with a hot tip from a trusted source in London that ODM presidential candidate Raila Odinga had a meeting with former ethics PS John Githongo in that British capital very recently. Impeccable sources close to Githongo not only confirmed that such a meeting actually took place, but they added a number of sizzling riders;
- That the former ethics PS is intrigued by the seven point governance agenda...
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Why Exactly Did Kibaki Government Officials Nickname Githongo, Mujaruo?
» You Missed This
Another piece of interesting information that emerged in the course of research for my other post, from my impeccable sources close to former ethics PS John Githongo is the nickname that he earned from colleagues deep in the Kibaki administration from April 2004.
They called him Mujaruo which is an obnoxious reference terming him a member of the Luo tribe. Githongo is actually a pure Kikuyu but it is clear what irritated and provoked his colleagues to give him such a nickname was the fact that he was more Kenyan than Kikuyu at heart. In other words instead of "eating" with his fellow tribesmate and enriching himself, Githongo chose to question and probe and generally do his job as a true Kenya patriot. In this case this appears to have been seen as extreme betrayal by his fellow tribesmen hence the sarcastic nickname; Mujaruo.
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Kenya Betrayed Book Special - Nicholas Biwott
» You Missed This Chapter 1 - Part 5 - Nicholas Biwott enters...
So for me this subject was finished………. especially since soon after this I met Dr. Njoroge Mungai and with him started to feel ‘safe’.
But I should have been warned that a man like Kivuvani and with him also Nicholas Biwott, did not give up that easily - and definitely would not forget.
I should have taken into consideration their strong relationship especially since they had gone together into a very profitable ‘venture’, i.e. organizing the trafficking of Ugandan prostitutes to fulfill the ‘needs’ of the American Navy Personnel coming by the thousands to Kenya to spend some days or even weeks off from their duty in the Gulf Region. They had even forced the hotel managements to accept that these girls could enter the premises since especially the Officers used to stay in Hotels (until then this had been strictly forbidden). They also gave the gambling license to certain hotels (of course against a nice amount of money and shares also in this business.
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(* see details of all this in my London Declaration given by me to the Sunguh-Committee in February 2005).
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My problems started after I had rented a house on a permanent basis in Mombasa which belonged to Mrs. Joan Canham...
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9:36
The Springboks will win it.
» Mentalacrobatics We, the good people at Mentalacrobatics Towers, never shy away from making big calls in our sporting predictions. We are not soothsayers-in-reverse who wait until the games are finished to boldly start saying, “si I told you so” acting all smug!
Now that the rugby world cup has reached the business end side of things here is the Mentalacrobatics blueprint. If you support the All Blacks or England you won’t like it much.
Quarter Finals
QF1: Australia v England: Australia
QF2: New Zealand v France: France
QF3: South Africa v Fiji: South Africa
QF4: Argentina v Scotland: ArgentinaSemi Finals
SF1: W QF1 v W QF2 = Australia –v- France: Australia
SF2: W QF3 v W QF4 = South Africa –v- Argentina: South Africa3rd place play-off: France –v- Argentina: France
Final: Australia – South Africa: South Africa
- South Africa
- Australia
- France
Why?
The All Blacks should be on a liquid diet because they always choke. And they are the overwhelming favourites and I never go for the overwhelming favourites (World Cup 2006 Brazil fans where are you now? Champions’ League 2005 final AC Milan fans where are you now?) So the All Blacks will not win. But who can stop them?
The big three of the southern hemisphere know each other inside out. The All Blacks know too much about the Springboks and the Wallabies to be surprised by them. So they would beat those two teams. It would take a team of irritatingly inconsistent players to have the game of their lives to knock the All Blacks out of the tournament. Step forward France. They’ve done it before and I think they will do it again. They are due one superior performance in this world cup, unfortunately the All Blacks will be on the receiving end. Then people will start talking about the “French Jinx”, remember where you heard it first.
The rest is obvious really.
Hash et al. I’ll be expecting your wise predictions soon! All of a sudden this post has become popular again. I should move those downloads to YouTube or something!
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8:22
Confessions Of A Reckless Driver
» For Love and Money Confessions Of A Reckless Driver
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7:36
U.C.L.A and other things........
» My part of the world....... I took Monday to Wednesday off work and it was paradise I tell you! Not having to get up early, get clothes ready, fight with traffic and deal with idiots at work. It reminded me of the good old days of bum squad. What is bum squad aka U.C.L.A? Bum Squad and U.C.L.A (United College of Lounging Africa) are colloquial terms for when you finished High School or College and have nothing to do but become a piece of furniture at home.
I remember those days clearly. Those were the days when I knew the line up for Cartoon Network off head. I also recall listening to all the FM morning shows and knowing which ones rocked and which ones sucked big time. During this point in time I also built up a steady network with my fellow Bum Squad members, I would meet them chilling outside the Estate at the designated jobless corner where they would tell each other tall tales, share veve, talk to the touts and harass girls passing by. But there were also the Bum Squad members who spent more time indoors and those were more of my crew, it also didn't help that we all had dvd players and playstation 2s, so alot of stuff changed hands even though at times there was always a bastard who would get careless and lose something.
The other thing I admired about Bum Squad is the unity that most of us had. We could all be verging on brokeness but come Saturday night money would be found to fuel the car and buy cheap pints and the local or venture out if the hustling went well. I recall that was also the time when I was growing my own local imitation on an Osama goatee. The Bum Squad also served as a good information network, when people are hanging out they manage to see and hear alot, and it was amazing what tidbits would fall your way ie which estate chic is the easiest to sleep with.
But as the fates would have it, I gained paid employment so my days with the Bum Squad ended. My life moved on as I moved from job to job and eventually here. The ironic thing is that there was this dude I left on the Bum Squad who was older than me and I hear he is still there representing, I guess some people live and die Bum Squad? Please feel free to share your Bum Squad tales!
In other news, all I can say is that this mama must have had some killer boobies to earn such treatment.
If divorce can lead to me having to take loans, then let me stay single is what I say!
Oh and before I leave, I have this wonderful widget thingie that I put on my blog that lets me know what pages got people to me. And it is amazing what some people think I have on my blog!
No, I don't have Kenyan porn, naked pictures of Nini Wacera, the Lilianne Muli sex tape, Kenyan strippers or teach you the meaning of Dini Ya Msambwa on my blog! I love Google but at times you do me so wrong!
Nice Weekend All..................
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6:15
a quickie....
» stranded in me alot has been happening of late, mr. boo n i have hit the 1 yr mark!!! big deal for me considering i havent been in a relationship thats this tight, fulfilling since the millenium everything ended before it begun with guys wanting to change me and all he embraces me as i do him, we're still running alot about each other, and ironing out stuff. 1 year down 99 to go!(99 is infinity to me)
i filmed Garden of eden, directed by john irvibn(if u dont know him google u'll be surprised, i was!) the role was of an african whore in 1910, it was interesting to see john's interpretation of an african(u know the big black conticountry) whore!! i was topless!! didnt know i had such guts seriously took my acting to another level!! we had a tyre burst on our to amboseli which was the location of the shoot. about a km to the gate of the park the tyre burst we skidded off the road and rolled twice. the other actress in the car broke her ankle, i wasnt injured atleast nothing shows..It was her birthday n my mom's which made the thot of dying worse.
i had submitted a script to mnet and it was shortlisted. the pitch/ script defending went really well!! i must say my hopes are high will know next week...Say a prayer for me its every writers dream to have their work produced, creating a tv series and watching it go on air to a pan african audience will be a great achievement especially since it has been along time coming....
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5:13
Crappy Feeling
» My Life is...Mochalicious! Its Friday and I feel like shyte….. I hope kesho’s game between NZ and France will cheer me up. Phone off……. when I get home, lock-in mpaka Monday!!! I hope you, you and you, have a better day and weekend ahead! I am out!!! p.s. Kip….before you say anything…si PMS!!!
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Is the Anglo-Leasing Scam Dead and Buried?
» You Missed This ‘The scale of the public outrage that has been created is so great I don’t think it will die,’ John Githongo – December 2006, referring to the Anglo-Leasing Scam
President Mwai Kibaki, currently campaigning for a second five-year term, won an election five years ago by a landslide on the basis of an anti-corruption ticket. He made the bold move of appointing the country’s head of Transparency International as his anti-corruption tsar and included him as part of the Government. His name – John Githongo.A journalist by profession, John Githongo was first introduced to anti-corruption work by his father who was one of the founders of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International.
But in his high-prestige post in the new Kibaki government Githongo junior committed the ultimate sin: he was just too good at his job. He uncovered a $200 million scam that ultimately led to the heart of government itself.
It began when John Githongo received information that prompted him to investigate a contract with a company called Anglo Leasing and Finance to provide the Immigration Department with a new tamper-proof passport system. A commitment fee had been paid but no work appeared to have been done. Furthermore, no one who should have known seemed to know exactly what Anglo Leasing was.
He investigated further and, almost miraculously, the money paid out to Anglo Leasing started coming back. Not just a trickle either – it poured. Obese cheques – one for 4.7 million dollars – arrived at the Kenya Central Bank.
‘I have to admit, I got carried away. I thought: wow... here is somebody returning all this cash and not suing us. If someone is forced to pay back half a billion shillings on a contract, they have to be out of pocket in a big way and should go to court. Now this is the real business... this is the real fight against corruption... this is half a billion which can now perhaps be spent on something more worthwhile. Recovery of money on this scale had never happened before.’
But, he recalls with a wry smile, ‘my colleagues did not share my enthusiasm. No celebratory atmosphere developed. No champagne bottles were popped. There was something odd...’
Senior officials told him to back off now. The Anglo Leasing sandal was not a scandal, he was told, as the money had been repaid.
But he did not follow their advice. He carried on and found that there were other Anglo Leasing type companies and contracts for various projects – a forensic laboratory for the police, ships for the navy, a telecommunications system.
The pressure on him to ‘take a back seat’ from the investigation became more intense.
He was determined to find out who was behind this massive network of scams so that they could be prosecuted. A combination of naivety and optimism kept him going, says Githongo. ‘I had no idea my inquiries would reach so high.’
Githongo kept his boss, the President, informed at each stage of his investigation. Finally, though, his position became impossible. He received warnings from friends. People in high office wanted him dead. He escaped to Britain in early 2005 and has been here since. But he has not kept quiet.
In January 2006 he issued a damning dossier which implicated and named four high-ranking Kenyan government officials in corruption on a massive scale: David Mwiraria, finance minister; Kiraitu Murungi, energy minister; Vice-President Moody Awori; and Chris Murungaru, former national security minister. The main purpose of the corruption, the dossier alleged, was to raise party funds with which to fight elections by siphoning off government money into non-existent companies.
Since the report was published three of the ministers concerned were fired from the cabinet and Kibaki’s fragile Rainbow Coalition has collapsed. Two of the fired ministers have since been re-appointed but interestingly there have been no high-level prosecutions to date and the accused ministers continue to deny wrong-doing.
John Githongo thinks there are some people in government who still support him and his anti-corruption drive but they are ‘not a critical mass’. As he says: ‘The fact that I am here [in Britain] speaks volumes.’
The Government has made other attempts to put the lid on the scandal. The lead investigator in the Anglo Leasing Affair has been fired. Meanwhile Justice Aaron Ringera, head of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, has been accused by Githongo and others of ‘shielding the culprits’ until after the 2008 general election.
Thousands of demonstrators have been taking to the streets of Nairobi to protest against the Government’s corruption and Ringera’s complicity.‘The scale of the public outrage that has been created is so great I don’t think it will die,’ Githongo comments. ‘If the Government thought this was going to go away it got it wrong. The press is really at the forefront of public accountability in Kenya these days. There have been some setbacks, like the government raid on The Standard [a Nairobi daily] in 2006. But the press came together and has remained steadfast on this issue of anti-corruption. It’s a very positive development – one of the key institutions in the structure of our democracy.’
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John Githongo - ‘I KNEW TOO MUCH’
» You Missed This In a 91-page dossier addressed to his employer, His Excellency the President of Kenya, former Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics John Githongo provides a rather sinister insight into corruption in high places. Here are some extracts:
On 3 March 2004, my department was provided with information that suggested that a non-existent company called Anglo Leasing and Finance had been awarded a contract by the Immigration Department in the Ministry of Home Affairs and a three per cent down-payment of around $1.2 million had been paid.
On a trip to Britain, Githongo finds that there is no such entity as Anglo Leasing and Finance registered there. He informs President Kibaki that several senior Kenyan government officials may be implicated in a corruption plot and names them. Kenya Anti Corruption Commission investigators confirm that everything points to a ‘gigantic attempted fraud’. In addition to the $1.2 million commitment fee, a payment of $4.6 million is being processed for payment to Anglo Leasing on the same project. Interior Minister Chris Murungaru announces the cancellation of the Anglo Leasing contract pending the completion of investigations.
14 May – Once I arrived home I received a telephone call from Ambassador Francis Muthaura. He informed me that Anglo Leasing had contacted him and assured him that they were going to repay the money, which he described as a great success.
17 May – Hon Kiraitu Murungi stepped into my office unannounced. He expressed concern about the way the Anglo Leasing investigation was going. He told me people were concerned whether I appreciated the political costs of my work. He told me it was hoped once Anglo Leasing paid back the money the investigation would stop.
Githongo receives a visit from an old friend of his father’s who also has friends in the cabinet:
His advice to me was to be particularly careful; there was no way senior ministers were not involved in the Anglo Leasing affair. He warned me that ‘Murungaru [the Interior Minister] would not let you destroy them, they will kill you first’. He also warned me quite logically that if the stability of the regime was threatened then the President would stop backing me.
25 May – Ambassador Francis Muthaura called me to question the legal authority of the KACC [Kenya Anti Corruption Commission] to conduct the investigation; he even queried if the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act was a reasonable piece of legislation at all.
A couple of days later it is disclosed that Anglo Leasing has been paid for another project – a contract for a police forensic laboratory. Though no work has actually been done roughly $5 million has been paid, ministers having taken advantage of US terrorism-related fears to expand what was a small project into a ‘cash cow’. A letter is delivered to Githongo which confirms that the Central Bank of Kenya has received $4.7 million from Shroeder and Co Bank AG Zurich on behalf of its client Anglo Leasing and Finance Company and an additional $6.5 million has been paid back by Infotalent, another bogus company.
I found this unsettling. We acknowledged, your Excellency, who the key players in the scams were. At that time, Sir, you advised me not to hand over... files to the Attorney General for prosecution just yet and to delay sending the Infotalent file to the KACC.
Meanwhile the press is calling for ministers to be sacked. Ambassador Muthaura makes an obfuscating statement in a press release that goes into bureaucratic detail of the forensic laboratories project. An angry Githongo goes to the President:
23 June – Your Excellency, you will remember I rushed down to your office in what I shall admit was an ill-advisedly emotional mood and warned that... this was actually lying to the Kenyan people.
There are other developments – and revelations:
29 June – I met with Hon Kiraitu [Murungi] at his office. Essentially he said that Anglo Leasing was ‘us’ – our people. He said that no matter what, he did not have what it took to countenance the arrest of Chris Murungara for corruption because they had ‘too much history’. He was blunt and emotional. He admitted that people like Murungara were key to the transactions of Anglo Leasing and even though he personally did not have the details the reason given to him was that the money was needed for political fundraising.
By this time the Anglo Leasing Affair has become a national and international scandal:
The diplomatic community led by British High Commissioner Edward Clay visited the President and spent two hours with him. The overwhelming donor support for me and my office caused me tremendous discomfort but I had to live with it. At this time, interestingly, I came under renewed pressure to issue a statement on Anglo Leasing – essentially one that would say ‘all was OK’. I refused – it was too ridiculous and I was convinced that Kenyans would laugh in my face.
Another mysterious payment is made to the Central Bank by one of the non-existent companies involved in security procurement for $910,000. It comes from Silverson Forensic, drawn on a bank in Liechenstein, Landsbank AG.
By 20 October the list of suspect contracts by fictitious companies grew by the day and the cast of characters was the same. In my estimation we were sitting on roughly $700 million worth of contracts – some of them highly dubious. If one brought in the even murkier and more secret military ones, then the figure was over $1 billion. From what I had been told by some of the perpetrators themselves and as His Excellency the President acknowledged to me on several occasions – we had a major graft problem and it was being perpetrated by characters within our administration... I met with Simeon Nyachae and he explained that Hon Murungaru was involved in raising five billion shillings for the next election through these schemes.
Githongo meets with Justice Aaron Ringera, head of the KACC:
8 November – His analysis was grim and he admitted that once graft reaches the President he won’t touch it. He observed that I was now a prisoner in my job because I knew too much. I was surprised when he told me that if I tried to leave ‘they’ could even try to kill me.
Evan Mwai, a government auditor, tells Githongo he fears for his own personal safety because of the information he is uncovering about the ‘security financing companies’ . Githongo concludes that:
The modus was clear: the Government of Kenya would enter a contract with a number of the financing entities that did not exist which mean the Government had no legal recourse. In most contracts the Government started debt repayments before substantive implementation of the projects had begun... The bogus financing companies... then proceeded to charge interest on what are in truth fictitious loans by the Government to itself...
The reports and findings by the Controller and Auditor General conclude that there are several Anglo Leasing type deals in excess of $200 million. But still ministers are pressurizing the auditor to authorize dubious payments. Githongo urges him not to.
14 January – Hon Kiraitu Murungi came to my office and pointed to me and said that party elections were around the corner and I was the one holding up the financing of these elections.
Bizarre and disturbing conversations take place with Kiraitu Murungi and Chris Murungaru during which they openly admit to Githongo that the suspect contracts were all along schemes to raise political finance. They infer that he is undermining the Party.
I played possum saying I was keen not to undermine the Party. But it was a final call – after this I calculated they had few or no options left. They have bared their souls to me. By coming to me knowing full well I had direct access to the President meant they were not at all worried that I would report them to the President. Hon Murungara pointed out that the President had once been Minister of Finance and he understood how these things are done.
At that point Githongo realized he had to get out of Kenya. He tendered his resignation on 24 January 2005 while on a trip to Britain, where he has been since.
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