The looted Public funds have to be recovered

Open Letter to
-The President
World Bank.
-The Managing Director
International Monetary Fund.
THE LOOTED KENYA PUBLIC FUNDS MUST BE RECOVERED:
No compromise and no negotiations about the recovery of the looted public funds stolen from the Kenya public coffers. All the looted public funds must be recovered immediately. It will be recalled that very many Kenyans have been killed because of challenging corruption in Kenya. Many others have been left disabled, while millions of innocent Kenyans have been left in abject poverty, emanating from the rampant corruption perpetuated by the corrupt leaders in Kenya.

The hope that the introduction of the multiparty politics and the new constitution would transform the behavior of the corrupt leaders, has dwindled especially after the revelation by the World Bank, that millions of Kenya shillings that was intended to assist the millions of the suffering jobless youth, disappeared from the office of the Prime Minister recently.
In 2009, the Kenya members of Parliament, most of whom, are suspects in many corruption scandals, passed a bill which intended to pardon themselves and all other former leaders who looted the public funds from the Kenya public coffers before the year 2003. That bill was passed before consultation was made with the Kenyan people. It is unacceptable to Kenyans that the members of the Kenya Parliament can pardon themselves and all the other former corrupt leaders, without the knowledge, consent and authority from Kenyan People.

Most of the looted money was from the loans which were given to Kenya by the World Bank, IMF and the Donor Nations. Over a long period, the loans and the grants given to Kenya have been looted and are stil being stolen. Some of the money looted was used to buy properties in foreign nations, while the rest was banked in foreign personal Bank accounts abroad. The looted public funds have placed the Kenya corrupt leaders among the richest individuals in the world today. The World Bank, the IMF and the donor community have to consider the facts that the origin of the loans, the grants and the donations given to Kenya, are from the taxes collected from the citizens of different Nations. Some of the citizens from whom taxes are collected and converted to loans, grants and donations, are relatively very poor people who are trying to make ends meet in vain. It is therefore absolutely sad to see those loans, grants and donations, end up into the pockets of a few corrupt individual leaders in Kenya.

All the billions of Kenya shillings that have been looted and stashed in private personal bank accounts abroad, should be frozen, recovered and returned to Kenya immediately.

No peace for the common Kenyan, no freedom for the common Kenyan and no democracy for the common Kenyan, until all the looted Kenya public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya. No more loans should be given to Kenya, no more grants should be given to Kenya and no more donations should be given to Kenya until all the already looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya. No compromise over the looted public funds in Kenya. All the looted public funds belong to the Kenyan people and should be returned to Kenyans.

It hurts, It annoys and it disappoints to understand that the burden of paying back all those looted loans has been left to the poor suffering Kenyans, who cannot afford two meals a day, leave alone having a balanced diet. Where is freedom, where is democracy and where is peace for the common Kenyans, when they are forced to pay for the looted loans? The high taxes imposed on essential commodities, over the heavily taxed pay, earned by the Kenyan workers, provide enough reasons for quick recovery of all the stolen money. There has to be a national debate for collective bargaining to stop the heavy taxation on the pay given to the Kenyan workers, and the heavy taxes imposed on essential commodities, for the purposes of raising enough money to pay for the already looted public funds. What is the difference in the magnitude of the crime committed by a robber who shoots and kills innocent human beings in order to get money, and the corrupt Kenyan leaders who loot public funds leaving innocent human beings dying from poverty and hunger?.

Already some Nations have indicated their willingness to freeze looted public funds banked in their respective nations. We will not rest until all the looted Kenya public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya. On behalf of all those Kenyans suffering and in abject poverty, the Kenyan women and children with endless tears of agony and pain, I wish to plead with the donor community to assist us in the recovery of the looted public funds. The World Bank, the IMF and the donor community should not continue to give money to Kenya, knowing so well that the money will be looted and banked abroad in foreign personal bank accounts. The poor Kenyans have suffered a lot in the hands of their leaders for too long in paying back for the loans that never benefited them, and which money, is today lying idle in foreign personal Bank accounts owned by the Kenya looters of the Public funds.

The failure to recover the already looted public funds, will be an automatic approval of the current and future leaders in Kenya, to continue looting public funds with impunity, and it is tantamount to an indirect support of the looters of the public funds. Freezing, recovering and hence returning the looted public funds will be an example of the consequences of looting public funds in Kenya, now and in future. It is the only way to stop the endless and uncontrollable corruption in Kenya. This is also one way of building and restoring confidence in the leadership of Kenya, and the only means of improving the living conditions of the suffering Kenyan people.

Everything should be done to recover all the looted public funds in Kenya and we will do all we can and use all possible means to recover and have all the looted public funds returned to Kenya. Nevertheless, a lot of help is necessary from friends of Kenya, in whose nations, the looted funds are hidden and where there are assets and properties worth millions of dollars, which were bought with the looted public funds.
Sincerely
Isaac Newton Kinity
Former Secretary General
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.
PO Box 4365
Hamden, CT 06513
USA.
CC.
-The Donor community
-USA
-Britain
-Chaina
-Canada
-Japan
-Denmark
-Norway
-Sweden
-Finland
-Russia
-Switzerland
-India
-Kenya Anti Corruption Commission.