[wanabidii] OOoops its a Tech Hitch: Internal Security: President Kibaki has failed us!....Kibaki Must Go !!!

Friday, November 23, 2012


His Exellency President Obama,
 
 
I humbly bring to your attention, the following plea that concerns serious risk
to human dignity and survival in Kenya. The State of Affair in Kenya is falling
apart by the minute and things may get out of control because it is a talk in
every corner of Kenya that people fear for their lives and that fear and insecurity
can be felt everywhere you go in Kenya..........that, there is no safety........
 
 
 
Kenya cannot continue to live in fear and degenerate like it has in Congo today.
 
 
 
Signs are clear that President Kibaki has failed and he has put spanner at work
to push Kenya down to its knees and it is the reason why he engineered to kill
the stronghold of the Constitutional Policy Legislation to comply with the Reform
Accord for which he took Oath to uphold. Kibaki now realizes his term of Office
is comming to an end and has started offensive to throw Kenya out of balance.
 
 
 
As Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Kenya, President Kibaki has
time and agin failed misserably. He failed to protect the Citizens and provide
peoples mandate as required in the Reform Accord Agreement. Kibaki therefore
has not honored or respected the dignity of Human Rights from the moment he
took Office in the Coalition Government. It is widely known that he is the genesis
of all problems in Kenya starting from Kenya's Things fall apart in 2007/8. He too
have failed to comply and uphold the Oath he took as the President of Kenya.
 
 
 
Kibaki has compromised livelihood and survival of the people of Kenya and put the
Kenya's Constitutional Reform at serious dissadvantage of collapse by engineering
coup to defeat and derail the Constitutional Policy Legislation tactfully.
 
 
 
Because of these reasons, Kibaki cannot be trusted and the acts of violence and
careless killings has been condemned from all quarters by people and sympathizers
in the Country and in Diaspora. His ways to dissentagrate the country through back
doors so he can extend his stay in power are unacceptable and must be put to an
immidiate stop.
 
 
 
The following attachments are confirmation of the same appeal thatKibaki Must Go
Now and not any time later...!!!!....He should be requested to step down immediately
or face the wrath of people to pressure him out of Office.
 
 
 
I hope this matter put before you, will present urgent attention to demand Kibaki's
immediate resignation and step-down from Office without any further hasitation.
 
 
 
Sincerely,
 

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
 
 
 
 
Political will lacking for Kenya prosecutions
Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Jan 2, 2012

In arguably the most significant general election since the country's independence, Kenyans will test a new constitution adopted in 2010, after widespread violence and near civil war following the last ballot four years ago.

A bloody struggle for political power between tribes killed over a thousand people and a hundred thousand more were forced from their homes.

But not a single person implicated in the crimes has been convicted. And while the country's justice minister agrees on the urgency of ending impunity before the vote, there appears to be no political will for prosecutions.

Al Jazeera's Peter Greste reports from Eldoret, in western Kenya.

 
 
 
Internal Security: President Kibaki has failed us!
The coalition government is in its sunset years of governance. For the past four years, it has wobbled from one crisis to another leaving Kenyans to wonder as to who is in-charge. The third President of Kenya, Mr. Stanley Emilio Mwai Kibaki, with his trademark of hands-off style of leadership has greatly contributed to the mess we are in today. This is the second or third time I am writing about it and I grieve as I do it again today.
While other nations give security the first priority, the Kenyan government gives none. The security agencies have either gone to sleep or clandestinely support activities of criminal gangs leaving a sorry state where insecurity is the order of the day. Kenya is the only stable nation in the region where people butcher one another like animals. It is in this land where security personnel remain perpetually susceptible to fatal harm by criminals and even warring communities. In Kenya, under the custody of President Kibaki, either communities simply take weapons and attack one another or seek cessation. It is only in Kenya where neighbouring countries have even claimed parts of the territory read Migingo Island. That is a nation in the hands of a sleeping man, sandwiched by glories of blind satisfactions.
Kibaki's neglect of his country may be lodged in the artificial lens formed by selfish persons around him. Initially, the first lady was the vocal voice in the House, seeking family identity from all and sundry, including the nation; and protecting it to the extent of chastising perceived spoilers of the same. People thought she mastered Kibaki's decisions, but not before she subsided and left a horde of money makers also keen on owning the nation. Ever since, Kibaki has never made a sound security decision for the nation, not on time!

The legacy

Prior to 2007, it took personal decision of the late Hon. John Michuki to deal with Mungiki in action dubbed "Operation Wipe Out". The clandestine warriors had become "an economical" risk when they targeted businessmen in Central province, Nairobi and parts of Rift Valley in bloody murders. Using his position as a Minister for Internal Security, Michuki ordered 'execution on arrest'. This effectively reduced, scared and scattered the group. If Kibaki knew any detail, it was reported to him.

In early 2008, hell broke loose after Kibaki and his handlers forced their way back to power. Kenyans brusquely massacred one another in a horrible two weeks' animosity. Kibaki, having assumed power and a Commander-In-Chief, was missing in action as rumours blew by winds that he would be holed up in places including Uganda. Since then, Kenya has never become the same. In fact, Kenya has never known peace. We have become a regional laughing stock as neighbours have sought to share up the nation. Even internal regions are seeking to pull out. That is what Kibaki want to bequeath to Kenyans as a legacy! Thinking about money making and economy is not a bad thing, Mr. President; it is good, but is it everything? … A stitch in time saves nine!
 
 
Only last week communities living in Tana River delta slaughtered one another right in the face of a sleeping security machinery under the leadership of President Kibaki. He is not looking at it at all. A week before, the police in South Africa had opened fire to striking mine workers an incident that led to the killing of 34 workers. This act led to the South African President to cut short a Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit in Mozambique to attend to the crisis. This isn't something that will neither make Kibaki get out of the House on the Hill nor appoint a substantive Minister of Internal Security. He rather looks at money makers than the lives of poor Kenyans. Like he asked of Migingo Island; 'what are poor people to Kenya's economy?' The Makerere Economist would rather sit for a short while and read a statement promising actions than work out security details in order to forestall further careless loss of lives to such aggressions.
 
 
Before he masters a blink of his eyes, vengeance has thawed the land and everybody is lost of words.

Stitch in time

Today, a few hundred youths are threatening lives in Mombasa. No Church! No market! No road! No home! Walking, bathing, eating, sleeping, etc, are luxuries to the residents for the past almost three days. Kenyans run for their dear lives. If innocent Kenyans are not being butchered in the streets in broad daylight, security personnel are exploded by grenades! That is here in Kenya.
 
 
Kibaki is preparing to go and open Agricultural Show in the same city. With his security beefed, the head of State House has prepared a speech to deliver on the matter.
 
 
Speeches! Mere speeches and statements! Over the years as future leaders die careless deaths! Mr. President, don't you have a heart?! Don't you have an idea?!
 

Thinking about money making and economy is not a bad thing, Mr. President; it is good, but is it everything? If you ever got my past message, Sir; insecurity can reduce your hard work to zilch. Remember what a week's unrest caused to Kenya's GDP you worked hard to build in your first five years' term-it has failed to get back even to half! A stitch in time saves nine!
 
 

Kibaki's Economic and Anti-Corruption Policies have Failed Catastrophically in Kenya: Part 1

Kibaki's corruption has stagnated the country

Many Kenyans remain pessimistic about the economy in 2012. According to an end of the year poll by Ipsos-Synovate, whose results were released on December 30, 2011: "the poor economic conditions experienced in 2011, evidenced by soaring fuel prices and ever increasing prices of consumer commodities, have made Kenyans pessimistic about the economic prospects in 2012." The high cost of living and rising prices of basic consumer commodities are unbearable for the ordinary Mwananchi.
President Kibaki's economic policies have sunk majority of Kenyans into deeper poverty, as they continue to bear the brunt of skyrocketing food and fuel prices. Although Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta reduced excise duty on kerosene and diesel by 30 and 20 per cent (KSh2.16 and Ksh2.06) respectively in April 2011, petrol prices were increased by KSh9 and ranged from KSh111-113 per liter, countrywide. As usual, Kenyans ended up paying more for increased public transportation costs. In addition, government taxes on fuel ran between 45 and 55 per cent of pump prices, so the government reductions were meaningless. To make it worse, official corruption rocked the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (Nock), scandals which led to huge financial losses for the government, yet Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi failed to offer solutions. Eventually, it was the poor and helpless consumers who were highly taxed to compensate for the grand theft.
As an economist and the longest serving Member of Parliament, Kibaki knows virtually everything pertaining to the country's economy, having served as the Permanent Secretary for the Treasury in 1963, then Assistant Minister for Finance and Chairman of the Economic Planning Commission the same year. Kibaki later served as Commerce and Industry Minister in 1966. From 1969 to 1982, he held the Finance and Economic Planning docket and in 2002, he was elected president on the platform of reforms to turn around the economy, which had been mismanaged by then-Dictator Daniel arap Moi, for 24 years.
Although Kibaki is lauded for the country's improved economic growth, there is little to show by way of social capital among the majority of Kenyans. Revenue collection is at its best, yet most of the public institutions remain poorly managed and still offer low quality services. There is also a serious disconnect between the government's investment priorities and that of the citizenry. For instance, the budget for expanding Thika Road is KSh27 billion and counting, yet many roads in other parts of the country are not being improved. Such a strategy adds up to the inequality of service delivery, since good roads are necessary for all Kenyans. Property developers are already attracted to Thika town because of the road infrastructure. In the long run, this will only amount to the cyclical one-sided economic prosperity within one region — a fact that has prevailed in Kenya's history since Independence and which is fueled with tribalism and "it's our turn to eat" politics.
Kibaki era billionaires
Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi's op-ed titled: "Voodoo economics and development corruption" (Saturday Nation, October 15, 2011), criticized Kibaki's skewed infrastructural development that favors certain counties. He wrote: "For instance, the billions spent on the Nairobi-Thika super highway could have given us a dual carriageway from Mombasa to Nairobi or even beyond. Look at Nairobi itself. The northern parts of the city are undergoing massive infrastructure developments that open to central Kenya. The other parts are frozen in an underdevelopment capsule."
His opinion on Kibaki's economic policies was equally harsh. "With the shilling in a free fall, basic commodities out of reach for ordinary Kenyans, millions starving year after year, the poor getting poorer and the few privileged stealing more from the coffers of the State, Mr Kibaki's disastrous economic policies will leave an indelible imprint on Kenya's history far beyond his term."
He also felt that, "the typical new billionaire is a man who was on financial death row in 2002. In 2003, he was appointed to head an important state organ. From 2003 to 2011, he has been benefiting through kickbacks in tenders and procurement." In reality, there is nothing being done by President Kibaki to stop public funds from being siphoned into private hands, despite his repeated directives against corruption. It means that he has accepted and encouraged corrupt means of generating private wealth through State coffers. Ahmednasir fears that, "these billionaires, with their ill-gotten wealth, pose the greatest threat to stability in the next administration. They will probably try to destabilise it using their wealth." Further, he asserted that by allowing wealth to be created illegally, Kibaki is deliberately promoting "communal empowerment" within a certain ethnic group.
Another piece published in the Nairobi Law Monthly titled: "Kibaki era billionaire flex their muscles" (May, 2011), suggested that Kibaki's leadership has seen the emergence of more billionaires than the previous regimes. It also gave a historical perspective of how such billionaires "from one part of the country" were created. "The emergence of a new class of wealth owners is a tectonic shift never witnessed since the 1960s when then-Minister for Commerce, the late Dr Gikonyo Kiano, handed over enterprises owned mostly by Kenyan Asians to a select elite and motley Murang'a business operatives. Since then, the only changeover in business would involve unsophisticated speculative grabbing of property by Moi operatives and a group of newly rich Kenyans of Asian origin who took advantage of the arbitrage of Rift Valley power brokers." Murang'a County in Central province has 12 billionaires who emerged during the era of President Kibaki.
Is Vision 2030 realistic?
On October 30th 2006, President Kibaki launched the process of Vision 2030, which is the blueprint for transforming Kenya into a middle-income economy, covering the period 2008-2030. If implemented successfully, all Kenyans will have a high quality of life by 2030. However, in a Wikileaks cable released in September 2011, the Vision was criticized for being just another of the many sugar-coated government dreams. Former American Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger, noted in 2007 that: "Vision 2030 often reads like a naive call for a perfect society, smacking a bit of old-fashioned socialist central planning." The cable claimed that the Kenyan government is good at charting development plans but does not implement them. "But with the right leadership and a little bit of luck, Vision 2030, even if only partially successful, could help frame a reform agenda that puts Kenya on a higher growth path," he wrote.
How does the Kenyan government expect to join the middle-income category if say, it cannot invest heavily in research and development? With grand cash theft in the free primary education (FPE) program, what kind of skills-base is it building among public school children? The 2011 results of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) were an indictment of the poorly-run program, especially without adequate teachers to impart basic literacy skills.
Kibaki's administration keeps shocking Kenyans. Last year, the Education Permanent Secretary Professor James ole Kiyiapi, said that trained teachers were allowed to seek employment outside the country, since they had no local opportunity on a permanent basis. It is ironic that the education system lacks teachers, yet those trained using taxpayers money are jobless. This is a typical sign that the whole system is in crisis.
What can the government learn from Cape Verde that became a middle-income country in 2007? Its country brief by the World Bank states: "In December 2007, Cape Verde achieved middle-income country status. Good governance, sound macroeconomic management, including strong fiscal discipline and credible monetary and exchange-rate policies, trade openness and increasing integration into the global economy, a responsible use of donor support, and the adoption of effective social development policies have produced impressive results throughout the Cape Verdean archipelago. Growth in real income per capita reached more than 5 percent during 2005-08, well above the average for Sub-Saharan Africa and for Small-Island States."
Further, what can Kenya learn from the former Asian Tigers that invested heavily in higher education, research and technology, to leapfrog the Western models of economic development? Final part to be continued on Thursday this week.
Jared Odero
  1. Comment by Kubaya Kenya | January 4, 2012
  2. Hassan Omar told the truth about Kibaki planting GEMA people in all top jobs:
    "You scar and bleed a nation when you willfully negate its sensitivities. To pass the microphone from one Njoroge to another, then to Nyoike and Murungi while addressing the soaring costs of energy. Or when Ndung'u passes the microphone to Kinyua then to Kenyatta to tell us why the shilling is losing ground. Or when the leadership of the country's security apparatus is almost exclusively from Kibaki's ethnic Kikuyu. You then wonder why there's ethnicity in Kenya when the Government is working 'tirelessly' to patch your roads and build you new ones with flyovers. Kenyans are not idiots. We are a people endowed with sufficient talent, intellect and reason, alhamdulillah (Thank God)!"

    Comment by mama mtoi | January 4, 2012

    Moi's pay more than doubles
    By MUNA WAHOME
    Tuesday, June 14 2011
    The cost to the taxpayer of keeping retired president Daniel arap Moi in comfortable retirement more than doubled last year, putting him firmly among the best paid public servants in Kenya.
    Treasury documents show that Mr Moi, who has largely kept to non-official duties and political campaigns, pocketed Sh58.4 million in allowances, reflecting a major jump in the cost of his retirement package.
    Mr Moi had received an average of Sh12 million in personal allowances since 2006, before the sudden and unexplained rise in his retirement pay. The payment means Mr Moi has cost the taxpayer more than Sh100 million in allowances alone since 2006.
    In the fiscal year starting July, nevertheless, Mr Moi will have to live within the modest pay of Sh18 million in personal allowances.
    Treasury plans to keep the payout at that level in the next three years at the expiry of which he will be joined in retirement by President Mwai Kibaki as per the stipulations of the new Constitution. Treasury officials on Monday declined to comment on the sudden rise in the retired president's take-home and Mr Moi's personal secretary Lee Njiru referred our inquiries to the head of the civil service, Francis Muthaura.
    Mr Moi retired in 2002 after serving as Kenya's President for 24 years, which has entitled him to regular payments, the first ever for a former head of State in Kenya. The first president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, died in office. The numbers published by Treasury indicate the State at the same time provided a reimbursable medical expenditure cover for inpatient services amounting to Sh8 million to Mr Moi.
    This figure, also set to remain constant, was first factored in the 2006/07 estimates. In terms of personal allowances, Mr Moi took home more money than President Kibaki who earns Sh16.1 million in personal allowances annually. The President was also paid Sh8.4 million in basic salary meaning he took home Sh24.5 million in the current year. President Kibaki constitutionally vacates office in 2012/13 and his successor will inherit the same payments, according to projections carried in the recurrent estimates.
    Details of Mr Moi and his successors' pay are contained in the recurrent expenditure estimates under the Consolidated Funds Services. This is the account under which constitutional office holders and debt services are paid from. In terms of payment, the Teachers Service Commission, employer of all government teachers, takes most of the cake with the chairman, deputy and members allocated Sh200.9 million.
    It is equalled by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, which is in the process of being set up. Like TSC, the Civil Service salary determiner will have its budget scaled up to Sh211.7 million by 2013/14. A number of constitutional commissions are winding up and will not cost the taxpayer any money in the coming financial year.
    They include the Interim independent Electoral Commission, the Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review and Interim Independent Constitution Dispute Resolution Commission.
    But the pay burden on taxpayers will not ease because the Constitution has created even more commissions and constitutional offices that are set to push up the salaries and allowances bill. Top in the list of new commissions is the National Land Commission, where office holders will take home a total of Sh125 million in the coming year.
    Parliamentary Service Commission members will take home a similar amount of money while the Controller of Budget office, where the aborted selection of Mr William Kirwa sparked controversy, has been allocated Sh11.5 million. National Police Service Commission gets Sh125.4 million while Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission get Sh211 million.

    Comment by nyakinywa | January 4, 2012

    Impunity reigns high in Kenya. Now Deputy Chief Justice who was an activist for many years and claimed to fight for the poor has joined the group of arrogant Kenyans. To threaten a security guard with a pistol shows how so much power has got into her head. Shame!
    DEPUTY CJ IN GUN DRAMA
    Wednesday, 04 January 2012 00:09 BY DOMINIC WABALA
    A security guard searching clients entering the Village Market shopping mall in Nairobi has lodged a complaint with police over the behaviour of the Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza. Security guard Rebecca Kerubo Morara claims she was intimidated with a pistol by Baraza when she sought to frisk her on New Year's Eve. Baraza accepts there was a dispute but denies threatening the guard with a gun. Morara recorded a statement at Gigiri Police Station in the Occurrence Book reference OB 14/1/1/2012.
    According to the report, Baraza drove into the shopping mall after 5pm and parked her car about 50 metres from the point where shoppers are frisked before entering the mall. She then walked past the desk clearly marked Security Check where other customers were queueing.
    The police are reviewing CCTV footage of the incident. On the footage a female guard follows Baraza into the mall and speaks to her before she enters a pharmacy about 30 metres from the entrance. Thirty minutes later Baraza reportedly walks back to the security desk where she pauses briefly before walking back to her car. She comes back holding "something" in her hand and is seen confronting the female guard who goes on her knees at around 6.18pm on the CCTV.
    Yesterday, Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said he was aware of the incident and had instructed his officers to investigate. "I cannot give any more details as the officers are yet to brief me," he said. Yesterday, the Deputy CJ denied drawing a gun but described the incident as "unfortunate". "I walked into the chemist in a hurry and I did not realise that this lady was conducting security checks. But instead of talking to me with a little courtesy, she was shouting insults at me even as I tried to calm her down. I explained to her that I was a law-abiding citizen but with armed security detail. I said that if she continued to shout at me, my security detail would intervene and indeed my security intervened. My security had a gun and no one flashed or pointed a gun at her," Baraza said.
    "This was a very unfortunate incident and maybe I should have just stuck to my usual security arrangements which demand that I never walk alone. But you know we are all human and sometimes you just want to be ordinary. I have shopped in that chemist for many years," Baraza said. "I was not defying the security arrangements put in place at that place but the lady could not listen to me and was instead shouting and embarrassing me. The allegation that I pinched her nose is wrong. I only touched her face as she tried to grab me," explained Baraza.
    Shopping malls and commercial buildings in Nairobi tightened up their security checks last year after al Shabaab threatened revenge attacks for the KDF incursion into southern Somalia. The initial report indicated that the female guard was manning the Village Market entrance with her male colleague when the Deputy CJ and her bodyguard drove in. The female guard was frisking customers when a woman walked quickly past the queue. The guard requested that the woman complies with the search and claimed that she did not recognise Baraza.
    According to Morara's statement, the Deputy CJ pinched her nose and told her to "know people" before she walked past her to the pharmacy. On her way back, the Deputy CJ warned that she could order her bodyguard to shoot Morara. Morara claims that Baraza then went to her car and came back brandishing a pistol. She says that she (Morara) went on her knees pleading for her life.
    The shaken guard reported the incident to her supervisor after Baraza left. She then reported to Gigiri Police station and was summoned back on Monday afternoon. Gigiri OCS Hassan Bwego yesterday spent the day at Village Market with security officers watching the CCTV footage. He was joined in the afternoon by the OCPD Josek Nasio.
    Morara told the Star, "I was frisking customers who were queueing when I noticed a woman walk past without being searched. I followed her to request that she comply with the mandatory search. I did not recognise her and pleaded with her telling her it was mandatory that all clients are searched because of the security situation. She pinched my nose hard and told me to know people and then walked into the pharmacy." Morara said the woman later informed her she was the Deputy Chief Justice.
    Morara added, "The lady walked to her car and came back brandishing a pistol threatening to kill me. I went on my knees and pleaded with her to spare my life. I was very scared because my father was shot dead in a similar situation. I don't think I want to work as a guard after that experience".

    Comment by menora | January 4, 2012

    Kibaki Vodoo economy has benefited only his privilaged rich and wealth Kenyans /Asians /wasungus and some Arabs .The majority of Kenyan people are extremely wretched of the earth.Kibaki should be taken to court after his retirement.
    We should also blame the common wananchi who has not learned a lesson apart from murmuring ,gossiping and yapping.Something drastic should be put in place like forming vanguards who should be taking laws in their hands like punishing these class of rulers.

    Comment by Philip Mugendi | January 4, 2012

    Kenyan women were raped in turns by Mungiki thugs sponsored by none than Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta,. In places like Kisumu Luo men were masacred in thousands ,the mogue in Kisumu was overflowing with dead Luos young teens in their 2oth and above.Luo as a tribe has paid a lot of high price since Uhuru-days,. Jomo Kenyatta murdered many of Luo youth when he went to Kisumu to open a Russian Financed Hospital ,and when Kenyatta was shouted down and booed by Luo youth who started throwing stones ,the Jomo Kenyatta guards shot dead many luos and nothing happened .The government business went as usual hence the lives of these Luos was/is nothing .Kibaki hates luos with passion he is the worst tribalist kenya has ever had and he will be remembered as a ruler who invaded somali ,and a defender and protector od drug-warlords ,money-launderers, pyramid schemes, and human trafficking etc.

    Comment by Dr Warthog Warthog | January 4, 2012

    GUARD ASKED TO DROP GUN COMPLAINT .
    Thursday, 05 January 2012
    PRESSURE was yesterday being put on Village Market guard Rebecca Kerubo Morara to withdraw her complaint against Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza. She had complained to the police that she had been threatened with a pistol by Baraza on New Year's Eve.
    In a brief statement to media houses yesterday, Baraza described the incident at Village Market as "unfortunate" and said it would be prejudicial to comment further since the police were still investigating. Baraza did not deny that there had been an altercation but said her actions were provoked by "genuine security apprehension." "In the last few months, a number of security incidents have occurred in and outside of my office. As such threats of violence have been directed at me, I have had to request increased security measures for my office as well as my own personal security," the statement declared. "It is important the police are allowed to finish their investigations without any interference," she said.
    Yesterday Morara claimed that she had been summoned by a senior police officer to Gigiri Police station and later visited by the same officer at Village Market to request her to withdraw the complaint. "I have been requested to withdraw the case by a police officer who came to see me. I did not go to Gigiri Police station when they summoned me because I and my witness with whom we were on duty recorded our statements there. However, my employer has told me that only I can make the decision to withdraw the complaint and nobody should compel me to do so," said the mother of two children.
    Morara said the police officer called her to his office three times where she met a judicial officer who sought to cut a deal with her. Morara said that in the first meeting the judicial officer apologised on behalf of the judge but the subsequent meeting ended in disarray. The newly posted Officer Commanding Gigiri Police Division Patrick Mwakio was unavailable for comment yesterday. "They are still debating on what to do since they do not want to antagonise the judiciary by recalling her gun and asking her to record a statement," stated a police source.
    Yesterday Nairobi police chief Antony Kibuchi said police have no mandate to ask Morara to withdraw her complaint. He added that Nairobi CID boss Peter Muinde has been directed to lead investigations into Morara's claims that Baraza pointed a gun at her and pinched her nose. Muinde has been directed to obtain the CCTV footage from Village Market and to review the witness statements.
    Anthony Makhanu, who was on duty with Morara, said they did not recognise the Deputy Chief Justice when she walked past them. "The person involved walked past our desk and Rebecca followed her requesting to search her because she was supposed to frisk female clients while I was checking the men. She claimed that Rebecca had shouted at her yet she was a senior person in government. We only noticed later that she had a bodyguard who informed us that she was the Deputy Chief Justice. It was not malicious at all," Makhanu said.
    For the third day in a row, senior police officers visited the Village Market security office to review the CCTV clips. Coincidentally Morara's father Thadeus Bundi was a security guard who was murdered on duty in Karen in June 2000. No-one was ever arrested for his killing. "These stringent security measures apply to all persons visiting the Village Market without exception and they include the use of metal detectors and a search on all motor vehicles and persons entering the premises to ensure their safety. The management appreciates the fact the security measures in place are comfort to visitors who are being subjected to the search as it is for their own protection," stated Village Market management yesterday.
    The Law Society of Kenya chairman Kenneth Akide yesterday defended the character of Baraza but called for thorough police investigations. "It very unlike Nancy Baraza. In fact, I don't believe the story myself. She is a very calm and a very gracious lady," said Akide in a telephone interview. Civilians who misbehave have had their guns recalled and been taken to court in the past.
    Recently PNU political activist Stanley Livondo who brandished a gun at a meeting at Nyayo Stadium in November was charged in a Kibera court and had his gun withdrawn. Prof Arthur Obel, who shot at a matatu driver in a road rage in 2003, and Tom Cholmondley, who shot stonemason Samson Ole Sisina at the Delamere Ranch in Naivasha in 2007, also had their guns withdrawn. Any Kenyan can apply for a firearm at the police station with a copy of your identity card and a certificate of good conduct.
    The District Security Committee meeting will then consider the application before forwarding it to the Provincial Security meeting and the Police commissioner for approval after which a firearm is issued. The owner of the firearm is required to carry a firearm certificate. In the event of misuse, the local police chief should demand that the owner surrender the firearm.
     
     
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