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		<title>Save Kenya Now:</title>
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<p>KENYANS.</p>
<p>SIGNS OF WAR AND CHAOS IN KENYA ARE HERE:</p>
<p>The Kenya Standard Newspaper of the 25th. Of July 2010 quoted retired President Moi saying that the Government is creating unnecessary tension in Rift Valley by deploying Security officers to the region in anticipation of clashes after the August 4th. referendum. He said the region is not [...]]]></description>
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<p>KENYANS.</p>
<p>SIGNS OF WAR AND CHAOS IN KENYA ARE HERE:</p>
<p>The Kenya Standard Newspaper of the 25th. Of July 2010 quoted retired President Moi saying that the Government is creating unnecessary tension in Rift Valley by deploying Security officers to the region in anticipation of clashes after the August 4th. referendum. He said the region is not volatile to warrant sending security personnel ahead of next months vote. “ The Government has been misadvised to deploy security personnel in Rift Valley Province to maintain peace yet the residents are peaceful and do not intend to cause chaos. I have been going round urging people to live in harmony even after the referendum and I am going to intensify the campaign”. the retired President said. What is perplexing to every sane Kenyan, is that in President Daniel Toroitich Arap Mois reign of 24 years, he totally failed not only to stop the senseless and heinous killings of defenseless, helpless and innocent women and children, for 14 years consecutively, but he also failed to urge Kenyans to live in Harmony. What makes him think he is capable of bringing peace and harmony to Kenyans now he is out of power and too old? What does he have now that he missed in the 14 years of senseless killing of women and children during his reign?</p>
<p>For a period of 14 years, from 1991 to 1998, innocent Kenyans continued to be killed year after year in Eldoret, Kitale, Njoro and molo. The best action the retired President Moi is known to have taken, was to urge both the elders from both sides of the attackers and the victims, to meet and talk peace. This was President Mois message every time innocent women and children were attacked and killed in the period of 14 years of total darkness and uncertainty to some communities in Kenya, who were targeted for attack, killing and eviction from the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is unimaginable for the retired President Moi to think he would succeed to do what he failed to do in the 14 years of continuous killings of innocent Kenyans during his reign. President Moi was unable to stop the killings when he had powers to do so. It is a mockery that the retired President would come out open to tell Kenyans that as powerless and as old as he is today, he is capable of maintaining peace and harmony in Kenya, unlike before when he was in power and younger. </p>
<p>On 18th. Of October 2009, retired President Moi was quoted by the Kenya Media saying that the debate on the Draft constitution would bring catastrophe in Kenya. On the 9th. Of December 2009, the Kenya media released information that a discovery had been made in Narok, Kenya by the Kenya Police, of dangerous weapons which included 100,000 bullet, Army Uniforms, Plane Batteries, Army food Rations and other weapons. On 2nd. Of February 2010, the Kenya Media reported that 31,121 bullets, 20,000 liters of petrol, trucks, government Land Rovers, Land Rover Spare parts and others dangerous weapons were also discovered in Narok, Kenya. A few weeks ago, bombs and bomb detonators were discovered in two different places at different intervals of time. Already leaflets have been circulated in various parts of Rift Valley, warning communities to leave Rift Valley or risk being attacked and killed. What is the cover-up when retired President Moi says Rift Valley is calm and does not need security beef up? Retired President Mois utterances before the 1991 killings, on the 18th. Of October 2009 and on the 25th. Of July 2010, leaves a lot to be desired.</p>
<p>On the 22nd of July 2010, the Kenya Standard newspapers reported that 10,000 elite Security officers were deployed in hotspots in Rift Valley. The aim is to prevent the recurrence of bloodletting in the Provinces’ traditional cosmopolitan trouble spots. The sources revealed the security Machinery was under orders to do everything possible to ensure there would be no recurrence of cases of violence as happened after the release of disputed Presidential results in 2007. The status analysis has identified these hotspots areas as Kitale, Eldoret, Kapsabet, Nandi Hills and Burnt Forest. The paper further said that in some of these areas, the security personnel have reported early warning signs of rising tension through threatening leaflets targeting certain communities. A subheading in the Daily Nation of the 25th. Of July 2010, read; “ FEAR, TENTION IN KENYA VIOLENCE HOTSPOTS”. The Daily Nation newspaper of Kenya, provided information that the Kenya Government is rolling out a massive Security Operation to ensure peace before and after the referendum on August 4. 15,000 officers will be deployed where some residents have started moving back to camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The daily Nation wrote that tension is rising in the volatile Province, following the now familiar pattern of intimidation and the distribution of leaflets threatening eviction of certain communities. According to the Paper, the Security forces have identified the areas most likely to experience violence, the so called hotspots and directed their resources there. The paper further reported that the Kenya Government will gazette more than 39,000 officers from Prisons, Kenya Wildlife Services and Forest Services and send them by the end of the week. The officers to be deployed are from the General Service Unit, Regular and Administration Police. </p>
<p>Kenyans in Diaspora, those in Kenya and the entire International community should applaud and support the Kenya Government in its efforts to prevent the recurrence of the senseless and heinous killings of the helpless and defenseless women and children. For the first time in 2 decades the Kenya Government has shown commitments to prevent the Killings of women and children who have suffered most from the Politically instigated attacks and killings in 14 years. </p>
<p>Today evidence indicate there are very many dangerous sophisticated weapons hidden in various parts of Kenya, especially in the Rift Valley. The security forces deployed in those hotspots should seek orderly instructions from those in leadership positions. It will be completely out of order to order the security forces in those areas to fire in the air when attacked with deadly weapons. We should remember such instructions cost the administration policemen who were killed a short while before the last general elections on their way to Kisumu to deliver Ballot Boxes. The Security forces should be allowed to shoot at those who come out to kill innocent Kenyans, and not to short in the air when their lives are threatened and in circumstances when they encounter a militia that has previously succeeded in numerous attacks and killings of thousands of people. The Kenya Government should understand it will be harder to deal with the militia that has terrorized Kenyans for many years, now that there is already an influx of dangerous weapons in their possession. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, those in Diaspora are ready to do anything to help prevent the inhumane actions of those who intend to cause war, chaos or killing of innocent women and children in Kenya. They are ready to leave their jobs to go back home to stop the killing of children and their mothers as has happened before. By copy of this letter I urge Ugandans, Ethiopians, Rwandese, Burundians, Tanzanians to build similar concerns because instability in Kenya would affect the entire East and Central African Region. </p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity</p>
<p>Former Secretary General</p>
<p>Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman</p>
<p>Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.</p>
<p>7/25/2010　</p>
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		<title>The Yes or No to the draft</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>To Kenyans
                   RE:   WHERE WLL BE THE CONSTITUTION  AFTER THE “NO”
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Kenyans<br />
                   RE:   WHERE WLL BE THE CONSTITUTION  AFTER THE “NO”<br />
                              AFTER THE REFERUNDUM?</p>
<p>When the Orange group and the Banana group  went for a referendum a few years ago, where  the Orange went  for a NO , the Banana went for a YES,  the NO for the Orange won.   After the NO group won, the then draft constitution  was dismissed  and everything about it went to square one.   It was after  intensive pressures, a committee of experts was formed to  draft a new constitution.  </p>
<p>If the NO vote wins on the 4th of  August,  the debate on the constitution will go to square one.  New pressures will be needed to drive the draft once again.  No one knows how long it will take to put the issue in motion again.  What is certain is that Kenyans will go into the next elections without a new constitution, if the NO vote wins the day on 4th.  Today, most Kenyans think that once the No vote wins ,  the controversial clauses of the Kadhi Court and Abortion will be amended and the constitution will be adopted.</p>
<p>This is not the case.  The referendum is about YES or NO to the Draft Constitution and not about YES or NO to the Kadhi Court or YES or NO to Abortion.  A YES will mean the constitution.</p>
<p>Draft has been accepted, whereas a No will mean the draft constitution has been rejected. So, if it will be a YES to the Draft Constitution, then the Constitution will be adopted.  If it will be a NO to the Draft Constitution, then the entire Draft Constitution will be considered a waste.  It may only be useful if a new group of Committee of experts  or a group of people  appointed afresh to look into drafting a new constitution will deem it fit to adopt certain clauses in the current draft.   The choice is for Kenyans. It is Kenyans to choose their destiny.  Nevertheless, please vote wisely.</p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity<br />
Former Secretary General<br />
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman<br />
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.<br />
7/2/2010.</p>
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		<title>The Proposed Constitution</title>
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RE: THE CONTROVERSIAL ABORTION AND THE KADHI COURT:</p>
<p>Below is the Abortion and the Kadhi Court as they appear in the proposed Constitution for Kenyans who have access to the media to read. Reading these Articles will enable Kenyans to make independent Judgments about the proposed constitution. </p>
<p>CHAPTER FOUR </p>
<p>THE BILL OF RIGHTS</p>
<p>Part 2 &#8211; Rights [...]]]></description>
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RE: THE CONTROVERSIAL ABORTION AND THE KADHI COURT:</p>
<p>Below is the Abortion and the Kadhi Court as they appear in the proposed Constitution for Kenyans who have access to the media to read. Reading these Articles will enable Kenyans to make independent Judgments about the proposed constitution. </p>
<p>CHAPTER FOUR </p>
<p>THE BILL OF RIGHTS</p>
<p>Part 2 &#8211; Rights and fundamental freedoms</p>
<p>Right to life </p>
<p>26 [1] Every person has the right to life.</p>
<p>[2] Life of a person begins at conception.</p>
<p>[3] A person shall not be deprived of life intentionally, except to the extent authorized by this</p>
<p>Constitution or other written law.</p>
<p>[4] Abortion is not permitted unless, in the opinion of a trained health professional, there is need for </p>
<p>Emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger, or if permitted by any other</p>
<p>Written law.</p>
<p>　</p>
<p>CHAPTER TEN</p>
<p>JUDICIARY </p>
<p>Part 3 &#8211; Subordinate Courts</p>
<p>Kadhis’ Court</p>
<p>170 [1] There shall be a chief Kadhi and such number, being not fewer than three of other Kadhis as may</p>
<p>be prescribed under an act of Parliament.</p>
<p>[2] A person shall not be qualified to be appointed to hold or act in the office of Kadhi unless the </p>
<p>Person&#8211;</p>
<p>A] Professes the Muslim religion; and </p>
<p>B] Possesses such knowledge of the Muslim law applicable to any sects of Muslims as qualifies </p>
<p>the person in the opinion of the Judicial Service Commission, to hold a Kadhis Court.</p>
<p>[3] Parliament shall establish Kadhis Courts each of which shall have the jurisdiction and powers</p>
<p>Conferred on it by legislation, subject to clause [5]</p>
<p>[4] The Chief Kadhi and the other Kadhis, or the Chief Kadhi and such of the other Kadhis [not </p>
<p>Being fewer than three in number] as may be prescribed under an act of Parliament, shall each </p>
<p>Be empowered to hold a Kadhis Court having jurisdiction written Kenya.</p>
<p>[5] The jurisdiction of a Kadhi’ Court shall be limited to the determination of questions of Muslim </p>
<p>law </p>
<p>Relating to personal status, marriage, divorce or inheritance in proceedings in which all the</p>
<p>Parties profess the Muslim religion and submit to the jurisdiction of the Kadhis’ Court. </p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity</p>
<p>Former Secretary General</p>
<p>Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman</p>
<p>Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.</p>
<p>7/9/2010 </p>
<p> 7/9/2010<br />
Add to Calendar </p>
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		<title>A conman on the loose</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p> By ISAAC NEWTON KINITY
Published July 2, 2010                                   </p>
<p>Mr. John Mbugua Mwangi  now residing in Indianapolis in Indiana, USA, has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">By ISAAC NEWTON KINITY</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic;">Published July 2, 2010</span>                                   </p>
<p>Mr. John Mbugua Mwangi  now residing in Indianapolis in Indiana, USA, has received thousands of US dollars from several Kenyan women living in different parts of USA,  in the pretext of  incorporating them in his registered businesses.  He has been targeting women without proper documents to live in USA, possibly because they cannot expose themselves to the US courts of law for the fear of being identified and hence deported back to Kenya.  Mr. Mbugua has the following business names which he is using to convince his victims to give him money;<br />
1]  The Amazing care Center.<br />
2]  The Special Care.<br />
3]  One Special  Care.</p>
<p>He has received money from women living in California, Indianapolis and Massachusetts among others.  One lady from California has lost $ 75,000 to this man while the other one from  Massachusetts has lost $ 50,000 to the same man.  Mr. John Mbugua Mwangi  who changed his name from Mr. John  Maina Mwangi  to his current name before flying to USA,  had conned  many Kenyans millions of Kshs.  He had been  arrested in Kenya and put in custody in 2001  but soon he disappeared  from custody under mysterious circumstances.  In his ruling on the 14th. Of October 2003, Chief  Magistrate  Mr. Muchelule  withdrew  case following a request by the Prosecutor, under section 87 [a] C.P.C  on the grounds that the state had failed to trace Mr. John Maina Mwangi after his disappearance from  Prison.</p>
<p>Meanwhile efforts are being made to apprehend  this Fugitive turned conman in USA, all Kenyans living in USA should be extremely careful or else they fall victims and loose money to this man.  No doubts the US Government in collaboration with the Kenya Government,  will definitely end this menace.</p>
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<div style="display: block; height: 100%; padding: 10px;"><em>Reach Isaac Newton Kinity at <a href="mailto:ink38@yahoo.com">ink38@yahoo.com</a></em></div>
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		<title>Reveal the investigation into the hidden Weapons.</title>
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From: Newton Kin 
To: Kenya President 
Cc: ink38@yahoo.com
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 12:45:27 AM
Subject: Who is responsible for the discovered weapons?</p>
<p>PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI
PRESIDENT OF KENYA.
RE: KENYANS WANT INFORMATION ON THE DISCOVERED  WEAPONS IN
IN NAROK, KENYA, IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY:
On behalf of all Kenyans in Diaspora and all others back home in Kenya, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8212;&#8211; Forwarded Message &#8212;-<br />
From: Newton Kin <ink38@yahoo.com><br />
To: Kenya President <President@statehousekenya.go.ke><br />
Cc: ink38@yahoo.com<br />
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 12:45:27 AM<br />
Subject: Who is responsible for the discovered weapons?</p>
<p>PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI<br />
PRESIDENT OF KENYA.<br />
RE: KENYANS WANT INFORMATION ON THE DISCOVERED  WEAPONS IN<br />
IN NAROK, KENYA, IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY:<br />
On behalf of all Kenyans in Diaspora and all others back home in Kenya, we demand to be told how far the investigations into the deadly weapons discovered and reported in Narok, Kenya on the 9th. Of December 2009 and on the 2nd of February 2010 respectively in the Kenya Media, have reached. It is now over six months since the first discovery of the hidden weapons was made on the 9th. Of December 2009, yet no reports of arrest or prosecution have been provided to the Kenyan People by the Kenya Government. In the past 14 years, thousands of Kenyans have been killed in the politically instigated killings. Kenyan leaders have continued to instigate killings of innocent women and children. Whereas it is the duty of every government in the World to inform its Citizens about the progress of such important sensitive issues from time to time, the Kenya Government failed totally in 1991 to build the slightest concern about the imported killer arrows from South Korea and now has kept silent over the recent discoveries of thousands of weapons hidden in Narok.<br />
The Kenya Government should explain to Kenyans the following:<br />
1] The number of people in custody over the thousands of weapons discovered in Narok.<br />
2] The number of people who have appeared in court over those weapons.<br />
3] The number of other weapons discovered in other areas of Kenya, after those two discoveries<br />
4] The intended purpose of those weapons by those who hid them.<br />
 It is still fresh in our minds that the arrows imported by the Kenya Government in 1991, found their way into the bodies of the innocent Kenyan women and children a very short moment after they were intercepted. The Kenya Government has to tell us the entire scenario that surround the discovered weapons and the investigations which may have followed those discoveries if any. If the Kenya Government fails to provide us with the information regarding those weapons and others hidden in different parts of Kenya, Kenyans all over the World, including those in Kenya will demonstrate against the hidden weapons, the unresolved importation of arrows in 1991 and against the politically instigated killings which has left many Kenyans dead. We will not wait for a massacre in 2012. We will not allow senseless, brutal and merciless Kenyan leaders to instigate any further killings of innocent mothers and children in the name of politics any time in future. By a copy of this letter, I sincerely plead with our comrades in Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and Rwanda, to support our efforts to demand to know from the Kenya Government, what it has done so far about the thousands of bullets, Plane Batteries, Army Uniforms, Army food rations, Trucks, Army Land Rovers, Land Rover spare parts, thousands of liters of gas [Petrol] and other types of weapons discovered in Narok Kenya. The Citizens of those Nations have reasons to join us because they are always the victims of every chaos in Kenya.<br />
 Kenyans from all over the World and all those in Kenya are ready to demonstrate against those who have been hiding weapons to kill others, and are also against the silence of the Kenya Government over such sensitive matters, the same way it did in 1991 during the importation of thousands of arrows, which were latter used to kill innocent children and women in Sondu, Muhoroni, Kericho, Molo, Njoro and many other parts of the Rift Valley. The Kenya Government has a very short time to explain it to Kenyans otherwise we will act to save our Nation.</p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity<br />
Former Secretary General<br />
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman<br />
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.<br />
PO Box 4365<br />
Hamden, CT 06514Tel: 1203 675 9354</p>
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		<title>Reform: History and trajectory of struggle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>BY ODHIAMBO T OKETCH 
Published June 10, 2010</p>
<p>Seven in 10 Kenyans have made up their minds about voting “Yes” on Aug. 4. Two in 10 will vote “No”, whereas one in 10 remains undecided, while three in 100 registered voters will abstain during the referendum.</p>
<p>Positions taken by politicians and the wealthy are informed by hopes [...]]]></description>
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<span style="font-size: 10PX; font-style: italic;">Published June 10, 2010</span></p>
<p>Seven in 10 Kenyans have made up their minds about voting “Yes” on Aug. 4. Two in 10 will vote “No”, whereas one in 10 remains undecided, while three in 100 registered voters will abstain during the referendum.</p>
<p>Positions taken by politicians and the wealthy are informed by hopes and aspirations as well as fear from their pasts. It appears the “Yes” brigade has things under wraps. But even as we take the final bend, we must keep our eyes on the ball, and convert as many naysayers as we can. Educators should also work hard on clearing the fog that clouds the minds of the undecided.</p>
<p>As for the clergy, it is time to come back and follow the flock. Many of us Christians will be voting “Yes” in August.</p>
<p>We have come a long way, and we should take a look at the history of this struggle and make a concise decision.</p>
<p>President Mwai Kibaki decamped from KANU in December 1991 and founded DP. He therefore joined the struggle after the multi-party battle had been won. He joined the masses and went on to contest the presidency on a different party, twice at a time Kalonzo Musyoka and William Ruto were still under the President Daniel Arap Moi’s wings; helping the latter bludgeon Kenya to near oblivion. In 2002, either driven by political survival instinct, or rude awakening, Musyoka joined Raila Odinga’s <em>Kibaki Tosha</em> bandwagon in reform struggle. Ruto remained steadfast with <em>Baba na Mama</em>- firmly propping project Uhuru Kenyatta.</p>
<p>Odinga chronicles the people&#8217;s stuggle against bad governance, corruption and impunity. He has been detained and tortured for standing up to Moi ills. For most of his life, Odinga has fought for a new constitution envisioned to increase opportunities and guarantees human rights.</p>
<p>What should worry the “Yes” team is the undecided lot. Even though the undecided number is insignificant, it is worthwhile of conversion. They should be patiently taken through the history of our struggle; and show them who messed Kenya and how the new constitution fixes this problem.</p>
<p>In opposing the review, Moi is protecting self-interest. During his tenure in office, impunity reached its highest point; corruption became a way of life; education standards were reduced to questionable status; roads were tar marked on paper and money looted with a great deal of insensitivity; and tribalism got entrenched in the public service.</p>
<p>Moi was, and still is, injustice itself; the epitome of bad governance and intolerance. It took brave Kenyans such as Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia and the younger Odinga among others to dramatize the deep desire for emancipation that engulfed the nation. It is no wonder that Moi is oiling the “No” machine, assisted by his YK92 ragtag gang of plunderers, exemplified in Ruto and Cyrus Jirongo.</p>
<p>This team is very afraid; very afraid of a new constitutional dispensation that will separate powers- they would rather have the current system where the executive controls the judiciary and the legislature. They are beneficiaries of the long years of misrule by Moi, and they cannot imagine a new constitution that levels the playing ground.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge to the passage of this draft is the “watermelon” type- as described by the hardly-ever disappointing Emmanuel Juma in his legendary “Bull’s Eye” of NTV. The watermelon is euphemism for KKK. They are so focused on 2012, that the road to the very election is invisible to them.</p>
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		<title>The Uganda meeting is a disaster.</title>
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<p>　THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL</p>
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<p>RE : KENYANS IN DIASPORA SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IMMEDIATE PROSECUTION OF THE 2008 PERPETRATORS OF POST ELECTION VIOLENCE IN KENYA &#8211; DISAPPROVES THE MEETING IN UGANDA FROM 30th.TO [...]]]></description>
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Cc: ink38@yahoo.com; Newton <newtonkinity@yahoo.com><br />
Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 10:27:22 AM<br />
Subject: The Uganda Meeting.</p>
<p>　THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL</p>
<p>　UNO  HQ</p>
<p>   USA.</p>
<p>RE : KENYANS IN DIASPORA SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IMMEDIATE PROSECUTION OF THE 2008 PERPETRATORS OF POST ELECTION VIOLENCE IN KENYA &#8211; DISAPPROVES THE MEETING IN UGANDA FROM 30th.TO 11th.JUNE:</p>
<p>Kenyans in USA and in other parts of the World are totally in support of the Prosecution of the planners and financiers of the post Election Violence in 2008 by the ICC. We oppose with the strongest terms the plans of the 60 African lobbyists, Sudan, Kenya, Libya, Ethiopia, , Somalia, Eritrea, Uganda, South Africa, DRC, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mozambique, Chad, USSR, Czechoslovakia Satellite States, Witness Africa and African World Media who have planned to meet in Uganda from May 31 to June 11, to stop the ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo from pursuing the post election violence suspects. We oppose the African Union efforts to push for a revision of Article 15 of the Rome Statute that bestows unlimited powers on the chief prosecutor to pursue leaders accused of genocide and crimes against humanity because of the timely manner and approach of the issue, especially now that very powerful corrupt Kenyan Politicians may be among the suspects. </p>
<p>Since Kenya’s Independence in 1963 there had never been any mass killings of innocent Kenyans as started in 1991. Before 1991 the common Kenyans lived peacefully amongst themselves. From 1991 the Kenya largest tribes, the Kikuyu, the Luo, the Luhya and the Kissii were targeted by the Kalenjin community for attack and killing as a punishment because of supporting and exerting pressures for the introduction of the multi-party system of Governance. The Luo in Sondu were the first to be attacked and killed in 1991. Many others were driven away from their homes and never returned. The Luhyas in Kitale were the second. Many were killed and others were driven away from their homes. The Kissii who lived near Kericho were the third to be killed and driven away from their homes and never returned. The fourth were the Kikuyus who lived in the Rift Valley. A total of more than 800 Kenyans were killed in a period of one month in 1991. The killings continued year after year from 1991 to 1998, taking away an unknown number of innocent Kenyans. The killings stopped from 1999 to 2002. They resumed in 2003 to 2008.</p>
<p>Since 1991 the attackers and killers have been the Kalenjins, President Mois Tribe. The killings have always been effected to disapprove the introduction of the multiparty system of governance in Kenya, which President Moi opposed from the beginning of its crusade, with a prediction that once introduced in Kenya, there would be war and chaos. For the entire period of 14 years, during which period the killings of innocent women and children has continued to take place in Kenya, no one was ever arrested and no Kenyan leader ever condemned the Kalenjins for their senseless and heinous actions of attacks and killings of those innocent women and children. The African Union, which is currently spearheading the crusade to stop the ICC Prosecutor from pursuing the Perpetrators of the post election violence in Kenya, has never addressed those senseless killings in Kenya since 1991. It has never addressed the poverty and corruption which have caused deaths of thousands of Kenyans. The African Union has left Kenyans to suffer in the hands of their corrupt leaders who have continued to instigate killings from 1991 to 1998 with impunity. The African Union has continued to protect African leaders who have continued to loot loans, Grants and the revenue earned from the natural resources. In addition to poverty and suffering emanating from the rampant corruption, perpetuated by the Kenyan leaders, the common Kenyans have continued to be killed for no reason at all in the politically instigated killings. </p>
<p>Today, plans are at a very advanced stage, to effect similar killings of very many innocent Kenyans in 2012, before, during or soon after the elections, as happened in 2008. On 9th December 2009, the Kenya media reported the discovery of 100,000 bullets, Army Uniform, Plane Batteries, Army food rations and other weapons. On 2nd. Of February 2010, the Kenya media also reported another discovery of 31,121 bullets, 20,000 litres of gas, Trucks, Government Land Rovers and other types of weapons at a place in Narok, Kenya. It is suspected that there are a lot more weapons hidden in the Rift valley in Kenya. The Government has kept silent over those discoveries. In 1991, thousands of arrows labeled “made from South Korea” were intercepted at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The South Korean Ambassador to Kenya admitted that the arrows had been imported into Kenya by the Kenya Government. Soon the arrows disappeared. Later in the same year, the arrows resurfaced in the bodies of the 800 innocent Kenyans who were killed during the first attacks in 1991, and also in the bodies of those who laid wounded in the hospitals. Those in leadership at the time, kept silent over the interception of the imported arrows from South Korea up to this day, and no one followed those leads including the then Organization of African Unity. Today, the Kenya Government has kept silent over the deadly and sophiscated ammunition discovered late last year and early this year in Narok. The possibility of those same weapons discovered recently, resurfacing in the bodies of innocent women and children soon if action is not taken, cannot be ruled out.</p>
<p>With what happened in Rwanda in 1994, in DRC, in Somalia, in Burundi and in Sudan in the eyes of the African Union, still fresh in the minds of most Kenyans, we Kenyans abroad will not sit and watch our fellow Kenyans die again in the hands of the ruthless leaders. All those planning to meet in Uganda are not planning to do so on behalf of Kenyans. The 40,000,000 Kenyans want Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to charge the Perpetrators of the post election violence. When the issue of a Tribunal in Kenya or the ICC were debated in the Kenya Parliament in 2008 and 2009, the entire Kenya Parliament resolved 3 times to adopt the ICC. The intended meeting in Uganda has no substance for the Kenyan people and no slightest support of Kenyans and therefore no one should pretend to represent Kenyans at such a meeting.</p>
<p>If Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo does not prosecute the perpetrators, Kenya will be ungovernable after 2012. Those same people who financed and planned the 2008 post election violence will certainly once again repeat similar killings by 2012. They are the same people who have been financing and planning the killings of innocent Kenyans since 1991. We Kenyans in the Diaspora dismiss the intended meeting in Uganda and we will continue to support the planned prosecution of the perpetrators of the post election violence by the ICC. We also plead with all our friends in the whole world and all those who value human lives to disapprove the intended meeting in Uganda scheduled between 30th of May 2010 to 11th. Of June 2010. We are ready to do anything to make sure that Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo helps bring Justice to the helpless Internally Displaced People [IDP], all the victims of the violence and the several orphans left behind by their parents who were killed in the violence.</p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity</p>
<p>Former Secretary General</p>
<p>Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman</p>
<p>Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.</p>
<p>PO Box 4365</p>
<p>Hamden, CT 06514</p>
<p>5 / 10 / 2010</p>
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<p>-The ICC Prosecutor</p>
<p>- The Chairman African Union</p>
<p>- The G8</p>
<p>- The Human Rights Fraternity</p>
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		<title>The Ambassadors&#8217; Connecticut meeting.</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE DEPARTURE OF THE PATRIOTIC KENYAN AMBASSADOR PETER N.R.O OGEGO AND HIS RECENT VISIT TO CONNECTICUT, USA:<br />
From 9th. April to 11th. April 2010 His Excellency the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, was a visitor of the Kenyans living in Connecticut. Mr. Ben Mbugua, the son of Mr. Isaac Newton Kinity picked the Ambassador from his hotel, [the Marriot] in Hartford, at 1pm. On arrival in New Haven town at 2.30 pm, the Ambassador met with the senior administrators of the Yale prestigious University, where they deliberated on a program which would benefit the High school leavers in Kenya, who fail to get places at the Kenyan Universities. At 4pm, the Ambassador talked to both the Kenyan students at the Yale University, the staff and students from other parts of the world, from different faculties in the University. When the talk ended at 5.30pm, the Ambassador joined many Kenyans and American friends for Dinner hosted in his honor. At the Dinner party, the Ambassador was able to interact with among others, the host Mr. Isaac Newton Kinity, Engineer Charles Kodi, the President of the Kenya American Society, Professor John Kiarie Wanjogu, a department Director at the African Studies in Yale University, Dr. Hezel Mugo, an immigration Lawyer, Rev. Bonk, the Executive Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, Mr. Chris George, the Executive Director of the Interfaith Refugees Services and many others.</p>
<p>At 10am On the 10th. 0f April 2010, the Ambassador visited the Overseas Ministries Study Center Offices in New Haven Connecticut, where he met with the senior staff of the center. At the coffee table, the Ambassador discussed a variety of issues related to theology and the interaction between Kenya and the center on such matters. At 12pm, the Ambassador left the Center for the main function at the Yale University to address Kenyans, some of who had come from as far as Missouri, Baltimore, Lowell, Springfield, Delaware, New York and other adjacent areas.</p>
<p>There were many speakers at the function who talked about different issues ranging from immigration matters, help for the disadvantaged Kenyans especially young girls who turn to prostitution and those with HIV, Investment in Kenya and the passport renewal. But one speaker impressed the audience when he rose up to send the Ambassador with sensitive messages to the Kenya Government. He began his speech by congratulating the Kenya Government by what it is doing to improve the infrastructure by building roads. He thanked the Government for the freedom of expression now enjoyed by Kenyans, but he did not hesitate to tell the Ambassador that the freedom of the press was still far from realization. He said that following the invasion if the Standard Newspaper offices a few years ago, and the subsequent theft of the equipments, the press in Kenya, the Press has been working in fear. He also requested the Ambassador to advice the Kenya Government to tap the academic potential from those in the Diaspora who can replace the expatriates earning a lot of money in Kenya, doing Jobs which can be done by Kenyans who currently are working in different parts of the World. He also requested the Ambassador to ask the Kenya Government to provide incentives to Kenyans in the Diaspora so that they would invest heavily back home. But his talk became more entertaining when he told the Ambassador, “ we in the Diaspora send you with the message to the Government back home, we are tired and unhappy to continue sending large sums of money to our relatives and friends because of the suffering and poverty subjected to them by the Kenyan leaders who not only have failed to address past corruption but continue to loot public funds. Our message from the Diaspora is that they not only stop looting public funds and increasing their salaries but should also address past crimes such as corruption”. He also told the Ambassador that, on behalf of the Diaspora, I send you with the message that the perpetrators of the post election violence should be prosecuted by the ICC because in the 14 years of the continued killings of the innocent women and children the Kenya Government has failed to arrest anybody in connection with the killings. The Kenya Government should not at all protect the perpetrators of those killings” he said. On compensation of those being evicted from the Mau Forest, that speaker told the Ambassador, “Mr. Ambassador, those being evicted from the Mau Forest were not the original owners of the land allocated to Kenyans initially. Those who were initially allocated the Mau Forest were not landless but had large farms where they had their permanent homes. The Mau Forest was filled with Government commercial trees which had been planted there for the purpose of earning money for public utility, but after all those who were employed to look after those trees were dismissed from service and evicted from the forest in 1985, the entire Forest with all the trees in it was allocated to one community by the then administration. They cut down all the trees and sold them. It was after clearing all that land off all the trees, that they sold the land to the new settlers who are now being evicted. We in the Diaspora recommend that all those being evicted today, except President Moi and his sons relatives, friends and those who were in the system of governance at the time, be compensated. Meanwhile we ask the Kenya Government to recover all the money earned through the sale of the trees and all the money earned through the sale of the land by those initially allocated the Mau Forest”.</p>
<p>The Controversial speaker went further and told the Ambassador, “Your Excellency, on the 9th. On December 2009, the Kenya media reported that 100,000 bullets, Army Uniforms, Plane Batteries, Army food rations and other weapons were found hidden at a place in Narok. On the 2nd of February 2010, over 31,000 bullets, trucks, Government Land Rovers, Land Rover Spare parts, 20,000 liters of gas [petrol] and other kinds of weapons were discovered in Narok. Today the issue about those discoveries has gone silent. In 1991, thousands of arrows made from South Korea were intercepted at the Jommo Kenyatta International Airport on arrival from South Korea. The then South Korean Ambassador to Kenya admitted that the arrows had been imported by the Kenya Government. Soon later the issue about the interception of the arrows went silent. But a few months latter the same arrows with the same labels, resurfaced in the bodies of the killed in 1991 and in the bodies of those wounded in the attacks. Your Excellency Mr. Ambassador, what are the possibilities that those bullets discovered in Narok will not resurface in the bodies of innocent women and children come 2012? Mr. Ambassador how can we rule out the possibility that there may be many more weapons being hidden in different places especially in the Rift Valley? The current silence of the Kenya Government over the discovery of the weapons is similar to that experienced in 1991 before the arrows imported from South Korea were used to kill innocent Kenyans. I, on behalf of the entire Diaspora, send your Excellence with a message. We want to be briefed on weekly or on Monthly basis the efforts the Kenya Government is making in its investigations on hidden weapons”.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, unlike what we all expected from the Ambassador when he woke up to address Kenyans, an arrogant, brutal and a derogative response in defense of the Kenya Government as is common with most Kenyan leaders, the well composed ambassador said, “I thank the speaker for his passionate emotional message, we do not like corruption, no one likes it and I will take your message home as it is without distortion”. He then delivered a wonderful speech to all Kenyans who had assembled at the Yale University.<br />
The Ambassador’s answer to the tough message from the courageous Kenyan reminded me of the Ambassadors Patriotism when he was jailed for seven years by the Moi regime. It was that day most of us knew exactly who Ambassador Peter N.R.O Ogego is. He is one of the few Patriotic Kenyans who love their Nation and the Kenya People at heart.</p>
<p>After the address at the University the Ambassador was hosted to an entertainment where Kenyan DJ played Kenyan music all the night long. Many Kenyans and their friends danced all the night. They all had a wonderful time. I would see a jovial ambassador watch the happy Kenyan crowd dance to their best.<br />
On 11th. Of April 2010, the host Mr. Isaac Newton Kinity drove the Ambassador to Tumaini Community church in Springfield Massachusetts. They were joined by Professor John Kiarie, Engineer Charles Kodi and Dr. Mugo of the Kenyatta University. Rev. Joseph Kimatu and his congregation gave us a very warm welcome. The Ambassador, a lover of children spent over half an hour talking to children of the ages 3 to seven years, who had come forward to entertain us. After church service we were treated with delicious meal boosted with roasted goat meat. At 4pm the same day the Ambassador left for Washington DC.</p>
<p>Kenyans from all over New England remember the Ambassador for his good speech to Kenyans. He made the occasion worth to remember and he let Kenyans know him more. He created an everlasting bond. Kenyans who attended the occasion were disappointed to read in the Standard newspaper later. Mr. Chris Wamalwa, the Standard Correspondent in USA, who covered the visit from Friday the 9th. Of April 2010 to 11th.of April was quoted by the Standard Newspaper as having said the Ambassadors visit in Connecticut was to challenge President Obama. He quoted a statement released by the Ambassador three or four years ago when President Obama, then a Senator visited Mathare slums in Kenya and advised the Kenyan leaders to build some concerns on those who languished in poverty there. It is sad that corruption has permeated all areas of different systems in Kenya. The Editors of Newspapers in Kenya are as corrupt as Kenya leaders are. Every time a statement is released by any Kenyan on a subject of a crime, atrocity, corruption or poor governance, the editors often call those involved and inform them about the consequences of releasing the comments in the press. Because of fear of being exposed the Kenyan leaders and many others in authority by such information with large sums of money. The information is thereafter destroyed instead of being published. Kenyan Editors of different newspapers make a lot of money out of that. Sometimes they make more than half a million from one single article depending on how sensitive the article or the information is. Some journalists and correspondents do the same. They ran very fast to collect sensitive information in order to sell it to the authorities or to those concerned or mentioned in those articles at high prizes. Many Kenyans back home and those in the Diaspora have been providing very important information about secrets of misdeeds by some Kenyans in authority, but when the editors receive the information, they first test whether it can fetch money. Any information that does fetch money before publicity it does not get to the Newspapers, instead it is sold and destroyed. Whether what transpired during the Ambassadors visit to Connecticut was sold by the Standard Editors in Nairobi or by Mr. Chris Wamalwa himself it remains a puzzle. All we know in Connecticut is that something shoddy happened somewhere because Mr. Wamalwa’s team had video cameras and took notes of everything that happened. The Standard Newspaper cannot convince any sane Kenyan or foreigner that the Kenyan Ambassador to USA would travel all the way from Washington DC to Connecticut [a five hours journey] to lecture on Kenyans about President Obama’s visit to Kenya four years ago. That was very open corruption. Our Newsmen should try to hide such open corruption  from the eyes of Kenyans and foreigners who also read the Kenyan Newspapers.<br />
Isaac Newton Kinity<br />
Former Secretary General<br />
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman<br />
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.<br />
5/23/2010</p>
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<p>RE  :  THE MEETING TO DISOWN THE ICC PROSECUTOR:<br />
Several African countries are due to meet in Uganda from 30th. Of May 2010 to 11th. June 2010.  According to the Kenya media, the meeting will discus among other issues the  reduction of the powers of the ICC  Prosecutor   and the postponing of the prosecutions of the perpetrators of the Post election violence untill after the 2012 elections.  Sudan whose President has already been indicted over the crimes against humanity, is leading other nations in the meeting.  It is now certain that either the perpetrators of the post election violence have managed to bribe other African leaders for the support to dismiss the ICC or  most of the African leaders fear to follow the Kenyan leaders after the ICC succeeds in Kenya.  </p>
<p>Either way it is a big crime to protect the perpetrators.  The African countries are contemplating to commit the worst crime by protecting the perpetrators of the post election violence in Kenya. The Kenya Parliament, which represents the Kenyan people said “NO” to a tribunal in Kenya and adopted the ICC for the prosecution of the perpetrators.  Kenyans in Kenya and all those in  the Diaspora have said in one voice that they want the perpetrators of those killings prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.  The meeting due to take place in Uganda will not represent the views and the will of Kenyans, but  are out to represent the  will and the interest of the perpetrators of the post election violence  in 2008 in Kenya.</p>
<p>The entire world should know that All Kenyans in every part of this world, disapprove the intended meeting in Uganda.  The African Union which is spearheading that meeting and which  has also continued to fail Africans in every nation in the African Continent, should understand that Kenyans are in total support of the ICC prosecutor and hence the prosecution of the perpetrators of the post election violence at the ICC. If those who planned and financed the 2008 killings are not apprehended, the possibilities of  killings of a larger magnitude by 2012, will  be ruled out.  Already the signs of a planned war or chaos have been witnessed through  the discovery recently, of thousands of bullets, plane batteries, Army Uniforms, thousands of liters of gas, trucks, Government Land Rovers, Land Rover spare parts and other types of weapons hidden in Narok, Kenya.  Those trying to dismiss the ICC failed to act to stop killings in Kenya for the last 14 years.  They have also failed to stop the rampant corruption which has caused many deaths of innocent Kenyans and left millions of others in abject poverty.</p>
<p>We cannot wait to see the  killings of innocent mothers and children again. We are going to protest against the intended meeting in every corner of this world. We are at an advanced stage to convince our Ugandan counterparts to demonstrate on the streets of Kampala and other cities in solidarity with the Kenyan people. Here in USA we will  do all we can to communicate to all Kenyans abroad  to come out in one voice of condemnation of the intended meeting and to support the ICC.  We will also woe the support of  different organizations in the entire world.  All Kenyans everywhere in the world should come out to challenge that meeting.  Let us all in one voice say “NO” to the meeting and “YES” to the International Criminal Court and Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo.</p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity<br />
Former Secretary General<br />
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman<br />
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.<br />
PO Box 4365<br />
Hamden, CT 06514<br />
USA.<br />
Tel: 1 203 675 9354.  </p>
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From: Newton Kin View Contact
To: Kenya Parliament
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Kenya Parliament
General Assembly
Kenya.
Dear Sirs/Madams,
RE : TRIMMING THE ICC POWERS IS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mon, April 19, 2010 12:36:39 AMRespect the ICC.<br />
From: Newton Kin View Contact<br />
To: Kenya Parliament<br />
Cc: Prosecutor ; Spokesman &#8211; AU ; secretary general ; UNO ; ink38@yahoo.com</p>
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<p>PO Box 4365<br />
Hamden, CT 06514<br />
4/19/2010</p>
<p>Tel :12036759354<br />
Kenya Parliament<br />
General Assembly<br />
Kenya.<br />
Dear Sirs/Madams,<br />
RE : TRIMMING THE ICC POWERS IS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE:<br />
On 14th. of April this year, Kenya was quoted by the media of being in a spot over push to trim ICC powers. At the AU meeting held in January 2010, President Muammar Ghadaffi of Libya, who was the Chairman of the AU, was said to have vowed to lobby for the support of the African states to stop their membership with the ICC. There is evidence that the Au Office is in support of dismissing the ICC from its endeavor to help the African People who are currently suffering in the hands of their ruthless leaders. In defense and protection of the African leaders, the then OAU turned AU, passed a resolution in 1999 at an OAU meeting in Algiers, not to recognize undemocratic power grabs and military coups in Africa in future. The AU has never discussed the rampant corruption in Africa which has left many Africans dead and many others in abject poverty. So far the Au has never seriously addressed the chaotic situation in Somalia. In 1994, the Au failed to help the situation in Rwanda leave alone the problems in the Southern Sudan.<br />
In 1991/92, 800 innocent children and women were killed in Kenya. From 1993 to 1998 innocent Kenyans continued to be killed without any words of the slightest concern from the AU. From 2003 to 2007 innocent Kenyans continued to be killed and no one from the AU office showed concern. On 9th. December 2009, 100,000 bullets, Army Uniforms, guns, Plane Batteries military gear, and other weapons were discovered hidden in a place in Narok Kenya. On the 2nd. of February 2010, 31,121 bullets, 20,000 lit res of gas, 20 gallons of military oil, several land rover spare parts, Trucks and Government Land Rovers were reported to have been discovered in the same area. Early this year the BBC interviewed young men in Eldoret Kenya on the influx and accumulation of weapons. The young men admitted that they were heaping weapons in readiness for an anticipated war in 2012. These are signs of a chaotic situation in Kenya.<br />
Instead of the Kenya leaders and the AU discussing how to prevent an uncontrollable situation in Kenya, they are discussing how to trim the powers of the ICC so that the perpetrators, financiers and the planners of the post election violence may not be prosecuted. Why has the Kenya leaders and the Au not arrested any single person since the senseless killings of the innocent children and women in Kenya which started more than 14 years ago? Why have they not yet prosecuted those who killed women and children at the Kiambaa church? Why has the rampant corruption persisted in Kenya for so many years without any tangible action? The Kenyan leaders and the AU may succeed to trim the ICC off its Powers in Africa. Thereafter the Kenya leaders will continue to loot public funds and instigate chaos and killings with impunity. But let me warn the Au and the Kenya Leaders. The ICC may eventually be disabled and may be unable to prosecute the planners and the financiers of the post election Killings. But the continued oppression of the common person, rampant corruption and the politically instigated killings will force Kenya to give birth to a Jerry Lawlings of the 1979, a Samuel Do of the 1980, an Ayatollar Ruhollah Khomeini of the 1979 or a Corazon Aquino of the 1986. Let us all prevent this from happening. The Kenyan leaders should be honest and Transparent.<br />
Sincerely</p>
<p>Isaac Newton Kinity<br />
Former Secretary General<br />
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman,<br />
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.<br />
CC.<br />
-The Prosecutor-ICC<br />
-The Secretary General-UNO<br />
-The Secretary General-AU</p>
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