Why would the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, associate the Kenyans in the Diaspora who have lived peacefully outside their homeland for many years, with the problems and the chaos which have been witnessed in Kenya since 1992? [...]]]> THE EFFECTS OF THE AMBASSADORS’ STATEMENTS TO KENYANS IN THE DIASPORA:

Why would the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, associate the Kenyans in the Diaspora who have lived peacefully outside their homeland for many years, with the problems and the chaos which have been witnessed in Kenya since 1992? http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000055751&cid=4 . It is really difficult to understand why anyone, regardless of position or status, would be do anything to antagonize the lives of Kenyans living abroad and jeopardize the future of the Kenyan Nation. How on earth would any individual Kenyan in the Diaspora fail to understand the effects of such a statement and the dangers of associating the Kenyans in the Diaspora with the 2008 post election violence or any other problems facing Kenya today?.

Every Kenyan in the Diaspora knows very clearly the problems facing the Somali people in the Diaspora. They cannot send any money to their sick and hungry relatives in Somalia. They cannot invest in their home country Somalia, because the US does not allow them to send money freely to their country. The US authorities believe that when the Somalis send money to Somalia, they are sending it to the different clans and the war lords who are fighting there.

Here comes the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, His Excellency Elkanah Odembo, saying that he and his team will soon board buses and travel all over USA and Canada to collect signatures from Kenyans, for the purposes of trying to keep peace here in USA and in Kenya. Thanks to our foresighted patriotic Kenyan brothers who wrote a letter to His Excellency, the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, expressing their concerns on the dangers posed by those allegations. What will prevent the US authorities from exercising the same measures to the Kenyans in the Diaspora, as it has already been done to the Somalis?. Kenyans in the Diaspora may soon start encountering difficulties and major problems when sending money to Kenya as a result of this statement.

The Kenyans in the Diaspora are known to be a hard working community doing two to three jobs. They are known to be a peaceful community living in harmony here in America and in other Nations in the World, all along. Why lie about them? The Ambassador is fully aware of the ICC involvement with the handling of the cases related to the 2008 post election violence. Why doesn’t he forward the names of those he knows were involved with the troubles here and in Kenya, to both the US authorities, the Kenyan authorities and to the ICC, instead of creating trouble for so many innocent Kenyans living abroad?

I am sure the US Government, through the US Ambassador to Kenya is aware of the Ambassadors statement. This is a very serious matter and Kenyans should not make any jokes about it. This is an issue that should be handled with the seriousness it deserves. The alleged involvement of the Kenyans in the Diaspora in the chaos and/or problems in Kenya, is a lie. Kenyans in the Diaspora are not required to sign any peace agreement as planned by His Excellency Ambassador Elkanah Odembo, because they have never been engaged in any fight or chaos whatsoever, here or in Kenya. There is therefore no need of buses going round USA and Canada to collect signatures in the name of keeping peace. The US security forces are capable of maintaining peace in America. The statement associating Kenyans in the Diaspora with the problems and chaos in Kenya, and an earlier statement in which the Ambassador recommended for a special program for all Kenyans leaving Kenya for the US and to other Nations before they are approved and allowed to fly out of the country, http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/archives/politics/InsidePage.php?id=2000038770&cid=4 leaves a lot to be desired, and all these, points to a possibility of a hidden agenda.

Nevertheless, we will not sit back and watch the lives of our people antagonized and jeopardized. We will continue to voice the concerns of our people no matter what threats comes our way. We will be called names, we will be insulted and we will be threatened, but I promise all Kenyans that we will never compromise our conscience. I stand by all what I wrote in my previous articles because it is the truth and the pure truth. No threats will scare me from voicing the concerns of the masses, and I will continue to condemn whatever is wrong and whatever would hurt our people.

Isaac Newton Kinity.

New revelation of questionable deals has emerged at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC. After the release of the resent article “ No war in the Diaspora” http://www.mwakilishi.com/content/blogs/2012/04/23/no-war-in-the-diaspora.html and the subsequent reply from a Lady called Ms Regina Njogu, ttp://www.mwakilishi.com/content/blogs/2012/04/27/divisive-rhetoric-hurting-cause-for-positive-kenyan-diaspora-agenda.html [...]]]> COULD THE NEW REVELATION AT THE KENYA EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON DC, MEAN ANOTHER WHITE ELEPHANT?

New revelation of questionable deals has emerged at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC. After the release of the resent article “ No war in the Diaspora” http://www.mwakilishi.com/content/blogs/2012/04/23/no-war-in-the-diaspora.html and the subsequent reply from a Lady called Ms Regina Njogu, ttp://www.mwakilishi.com/content/blogs/2012/04/27/divisive-rhetoric-hurting-cause-for-positive-kenyan-diaspora-agenda.html

disturbing, annoying and disappointing information has surfaced regarding suspected high level corruption during the 2011 Diaspora Conference held in Washington DC last year. An event which required less than $ 5,000 to prepare, had thousands of dollars collected in its name.

The amount of money alleged to have been used for the conference, indicate that there may have been one other hidden agenda behind the whole idea of a Diaspora conference, “looting of Public Funds” . There was a total of 12 sponsors of the event, including the heavy funding of the same event by the Kenya Government. Five of the sponsors, namely, CIC insurance group ltd., Kenya Post Office Savings Bank, Equity Bank and General Electric Africa, were categorized as “PLATINUM” sponsors. BAE Systems inc., and Kenya ICT Board were categorized as “GOLD” sponsors. EBIX inc., was categorized as a Silver sponsor, while the Kenya Airways, University of West Virginia, Ivory Chevrolet and Eberly College of Arts and Science were categorized as Bronze sponsors. http://kenyaembassy.com/pdfs/conferencepacket.pdf. Although the correct figures of the total amount of money sponsored to the event is not clearly known, it is estimated that each of the platinum sponsors contributed about $5,000 each, the Gold sponsors about $4,000 each, the silver sponsors about $3,000 each and the Bronze sponsors about $2,000 each. Going by this estimate alone, the total amount of money that was received by the Embassy from the private sponsors was about $46,000.

The Kenya Government alone, is alleged to have given the Kenya Embassy in Washington DC, a total of $40,000 for the preparation of the conference. The embassy charged $60 from every Kenyan who attended the conference. About 250 Kenyans attended the conference, raising a total of $15,000 from the registration alone. Therefore, the total amount of money received by the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC in the name of the 2011 Diaspora Conference, was $101,000 for only two days.

According to Ms Regina Njogu, all those who assisted in the preparations for the conference, were all volunteers, and I quote, “By the way, no one was paid to organize the October 2011 Conference. We were all volunteers”. The expenses the Embassy may have incurred in the preparation and in the running of the Conference, would not exceeded $5,000. Then where did all the rest of the money go? In view of the above figures, the Embassy should not have charged Kenyans any fee for the registration for the conference because there was more than enough money from the Kenya Government and from the private sponsors. The attendance by all Kenyans to the conference should have been free, and I believe that was the reason why the Kenya Government chose to fund the conference, whose agenda was very clear and very important for our Nation and for our sisters and brothers back home in Kenya.

Because of the suspicion of what may have happened in the 2011 Diaspora Conference, some Kenyans in the Diaspora have increasingly become very scared that both the next Diaspora Conference scheduled to take place latter this year, and the scheduled Bus – Signature collection project in USA and in Canada, http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000055751&cid=4, may be corruption schemes aimed at looting money from Kenyans and from the private sponsors. At this critical moment of transformation in Kenya, when every Kenyan has to abandon the culture of impunity and corruption, the office of the Kenyan Embassy in USA, should not be left behind.

The Kenyan Ambassador to the US may have committed very serious offences as outlined in the previous articles, namely, his failure to receive the two important senior Government representatives at the Diaspora Summit held in Marlboro, Massachusetts recently, and also his failure to attend to the concerns of 45 Kenyan clergy women and men from six states in the USA, who sought an audience with him. But what is most disturbing and disappointing is the new revelation of the lack of transparency and accountability regarding the 2011 Diaspora Conference, which may affect all Ambassador Odembos’ future projects as a public servant abroad. I just hope and pray that the allegations, if true, are not an extension of the notorious corruption scandals commonly witnessed in some Kenya missions abroad.

In order for the Kenyan Ambassador, His Excellency ElKanah Odembo to build some confidence in Kenyans in the Diaspora, he has to release the accounts of income and expenditure for the October 2011 Diaspora Conference for Kenyans to see. If he fails to provide this report, Kenyans may recommend for the services of the Anti- Corruption Commission at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, His Excellency Ambassador Elkanah Odembo should clarify the following:

1] The fact that the 45 Kenya clergy men and women, from the six states in USA, who contacted his office in September 2010 with a view to meet him, had not registered their respective Churches with the “Ambassador Diaspora Council”, may not have been a good reason for his Excellency to ignore them. Would his Excellency the Ambassador mind to apologize to them?

2] Very many projects have in the past 3 decades been faked in Kenya for the purposes of looting public funds. Can his Excellency the Kenyan Ambassador to USA, prove to Kenyans in Diaspora, that the purchase of the buses and hence collection of the signatures from the Kenyans in the Diaspora living in USA and in Canada, in the name of stopping war in the Diaspora, is neither a scheme to loot public funds nor an ODM campaign as we get closer to the elections?. Read Mr. John Maina’s article on Partisanship of Kenyan Ambassadors and High commissioners http://www.ajabuafrica.com/ajabublog/?p=811&cpage=1#comment-15914

3] Since it can now be assumed that the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC collected more than $ 100,000 in the name of the 2011 Diaspora Conference, can his Excellency the Ambassador provide an account of income and expenditure for the conference in order to clear any doubts of embezzlement of funds in this regard?

4] It is an open fact that the office of the Kenyan Ambassador is really a very busy office. Nevertheless, can the Ambassador, His Excellency Elkanah Odembo explain to Kenyans in Diaspora, especially those who attended the Diaspora Summit in Massachusetts, why he did not send any embassy official to meet Hon. Richard Onyonka, the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and Ms Lillian Mahiri Zaja, the Vice Chair person of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, who had come all the way from Kenya on an official mission to attend and to address the Summit in their capacities as Kenya Government representatives?

Isaac Newton Kinity.

A Kenyan fugitive has evaded the US law and has been hiding from prosecution. The Kenyan who escaped from custody in Kenya after stealing millions of Kenya shillings from Kenyans, has escaped prosecution in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA., where he was [...]]]> A KENYAN FUGITIVE EVADES THE US LAW AND HIDES FROM PROSECUTION:

A Kenyan fugitive has evaded the US law and has been hiding from prosecution. The Kenyan who escaped from custody in Kenya after stealing millions of Kenya shillings from Kenyans, has escaped prosecution in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA., where he was accused of theft and intimidation. Mr. John Mbugua Mwangi was to appear for sentencing at an Indianapolis court on 3rd. Of April 2012 but he did not show up. Soon the court issued a warrant of arrest and he is being sought up to this day.

A few months before this incident he was masquerading a business consultant in Massachusetts. While there, he received large sums of money from many Kenyans who hoped to gain from his perceived knowledge in business consultancy.

In Kenya where his real name was John Maina Mwangi, he left many Kenyans crying, as they wondered how he was able to escape from custody, after he was accused of robbing them money in the guise of buying then vehicles. http://politics.eafricainfocus.com/2010/08/act-on-the-fugitive/ .It was after his escape from custody in Kenya, he changed his name to John Mbugua Mwangi, to enable him to fly out to the United States of America undetected.

In USA he has subjected many women into agony and frustration after defrauding them money pretending he would sell them shares in his home care company. He has been targeting women who did not have proper documents to live in USA to avoid prosecution. John Maina Mwangi Aka John Mbugua Mwangi is trying to evade justice and is believed to be hiding in Massachusetts. The Kenya Government should cooperate with the US government so that he would answer for all the crimes he has committed. At the same time Kenyans living in Massachusetts and elsewhere in USA, should be on the look out for this man who has destroyed the lives of many Kenyans both in Kenya and in USA. They should report him to the US authorities on sight.
Isaac Newton Kinity.

The Kenya Diaspora Summit held over the weekend, organized and managed by Mrs. Comfort Munoru Mwangi of Florida, USA and Mr. Tegi Obanda of Ontario Canada, was a total success for all Kenyans in the Diaspora, [...]]]> April 15, 2012.
THE KENYA DIASPORA SUMMIT IN MASSACHUASETTS AND ITS ACHIEVEMENTS – A COLOURFUL EVENT:

The Kenya Diaspora Summit held over the weekend, organized and managed by Mrs. Comfort Munoru Mwangi of Florida, USA and Mr. Tegi Obanda of Ontario Canada, was a total success for all Kenyans in the Diaspora, it is a pride and an achievement for all Kenyans living abroad. The wonderful and colorful meeting was attended by among others, Hon. Dr. Richard Onyonka the assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Chairlady IEBC Ms. Lillian Mahiri Zaja, Constitutional Lawyer Njonjo Mue and Dr. Richard Leakey. For the first time since the adoption of the new constitution, the Deputy Chairlady of the IEBC Ms. Lillian Mahiri Zaja, confirmed to the audience who came from all the corners of the USA, that there were no more doubts that Kenyans in the Diaspora will vote during the next elections. She said that the Kenya Government was now working on the modalities to ensure that those goals were achieved. It was a relief to many Kenyans living abroad who were worried they would not participate in the next elections. When she was asked which candidates Kenyans in the Diaspora will be legible to vote for, she said that only the Presidential position will be available for vote in the Diaspora.
In answer to where the voting will take place and who will be involved with the tallying and counting of the votes, she amused the audience when she said that the Kenya Government will make sure that there will be enough polling stations in the Diaspora for all the Kenyans willing to vote and at the same time the Kenya Government will request all the registered political parties willing to participate in the Diaspora Voting, to send their agents on time to different polling stations in the Diaspora to make sure they witness the voting and the counting of votes during the voting process.
Dr. Richard Onyonka surprised the audience with information that the Kenya Government was contemplating to introduce a new Ministry for Kenyans living abroad. He said that the current remittances of Kenyans in the Diaspora to Kenya, superseded that of three or more ministries combined, and therefore necessitating the formation of the new Ministry. All Kenyans in attended were in agreement and in total support of the new idea.
Dr. Leakey emphasized on the urgent need for the Kenyans in the Diaspora, to shun tribalism so that the Nation of Kenya can benefit politically and economically from the intellect and skills they have already acquired abroad.
What made the meeting even more lively, was the transparency depicted by the team from Kenya. Everyone in the meeting looked jovial and confident. Kenyans had come from as far as Florida, Canada, New Jersey, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Europe and many other areas.
But what disappointed everyone who attended the meeting was the absence of the Kenya Ambassador to the USA or a representative from the Embassy at the summit. Those in attendance challenged the organizers of the Summit to provide an explanation to the audience why the Ambassador was not in the meeting or why there was no representative from the Kenyan Embassy present at the meeting. The organizers explained to the audience that they had written a letter to the Ambassador two months earlier and had also called the office of the Ambassador to inform the office that important Kenyans who included the Assistant Minister and the deputy Chairlady of the IEBC had confirmed their attendance. Unless the Ambassador provides to Kenyans in the Diaspora a convincing reason, why he would not attend the Summit and why he would not send a representative from the Embassy to such an important Summit intended to discuss important issues concerning our Nation, those who attended the Summit will seek for an explanation from the Kenya Government back home why we warrant such a behavior from the Kenya Ambassador. Such behavior may be construed to mean an insult to both the offices of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the IEBC and lack of concern of what affects Kenyans in the Diaspora.
Isaac Newton Kinity
Former Secretary General
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.

THE HUNGER REVOLUTION IN KENYA, WHO WILL STOP IT?: Who will stop the hunger driven revolution which is slowly crimping into Kenya? Today, the prize of one kilogram of sugar in Kenya costs Sh. 41.80 more than one kilogram of sugar in the USA. One kilogram of sugar in USA costs $1.10, [...]]]> Feb. 10, 2012.

THE HUNGER REVOLUTION IN KENYA, WHO WILL STOP IT?:
Who will stop the hunger driven revolution which is slowly crimping into Kenya? Today, the prize of one kilogram of sugar in Kenya costs Sh. 41.80 more than one kilogram of sugar in the USA. One kilogram of sugar in USA costs $1.10, an equivalent of Ksh. 88.20, while one kilogram of sugar in Kenya costs Ksh. 130. In USA, one loaf of bread costs 99c. an equivalent of Ksh. 79.35, while a loaf of bread in Kenya costs Ksh. 50. In USA, one kilogram of baking flour costs $1.10, an equivalent of Ksh. 88.20 and one kilogram of baking four in Kenya costs Ksh 59. The prizes of most of the essential commodities in Kenya are almost the same prize as those similar items in USA. The salaries of the legislatures in both countries are almost the same.

The minimum wage in USA is $7/hour, an equivalent of Ksh. 560/hour, while the minimum wage in Kenya is about Ksh. 50/hour an equivalent of $0.625/hour. The economic situation in Kenya is not comparable to that of USA. or to any other nation in the western world. Really Do Kenyans deserve this suffering? What have Kenyans done to warrant this kind of agony? Who will help Kenyans? Who will help the situation and who will stop the hunger revolution? The prizes of the essential commodities in Kenya, continue to climb up despite the unbearable situation on the ground. The common Kenyan has continued to suffer and die from poverty emanating from corruption perpetuated by their own leaders. Loans and grants have all ended in the pockets of a few Kenyans, hence overburdening the poor Kenyans with the repayment of those looted loans.

Presidential aspirants in Kenya, have set aside billions of Kshs. for campaign while the Kenyans in the IDP camps continue to die day by day and the unemployment continue to rise. An end to the suffering and agony of Kenyans is around the corner and about to end. No one will stop this end, not even the wealthy or the politically experienced. The HUNGER DRIVEN REVOLUTION will be unstoppable, when the poor hungry Kenyan say, “enough is enough to man made suffering in Kenya“.
By Isaac Newton Kinity.

All the billions of Kenya Shillings looted and stashed out into private personal foreign Bank accounts should be frozen and returned to Kenya immediately.

All those looted funds used to buy properties in foreign Nations should be recovered and returned to Kenya.

No more loans for Kenya until all [...]]]> Vo,Vo,Voo. [Voice of the Voiceless, Voice of the Oppressed]

All the billions of Kenya Shillings looted and stashed out into private personal foreign Bank accounts should be frozen and returned to Kenya immediately.

All those looted funds used to buy properties in foreign Nations should be recovered and returned to Kenya.

No more loans for Kenya until all the looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya, no more grants for Kenya until all the looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya and no more donations for Kenya until all the looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya.

No freedom is foreseeable for the common Kenyan until all the looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya, no democracy is foreseeable for the common Kenyan until all the looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya and no peace is foreseeable for the common Kenyan until all the looted public funds are recovered and returned to Kenya. Corruption has caused inflation, unemployment, poverty and suffering.

All Kenyans should rise up to demand for the recovery of their looted money. The looted public funds belong to the Kenyan people and should be returned to them.

All Kenyans should rise up and demand for the recovery and return of billions of the looted public funds.

All Kenyans should rise up to challenge the Government over inflation caused by corruption.

All Kenyans should rise up to challenge the Government over unemployment caused by corruption.

All Kenyans should rise up to challenge the government over poverty and suffering caused by corruption.
Ninyi wakenya munaohangaika bila Kazi||!!!
Ninyi wakenya munaolala njaa!!!
Ninyi wakenya munaolia umaskini!!!
Kwa nini munalalia masikio?
Musipo amuka ili kwa pamoja wakenya waokolewe kutoka mikononi mwa viongozi wafisadi, ili wakenya wakombolewe kutoka umaskini, ili wasio na kazi wasaidiwe na wapate kazi ya kufanya pia , hakika umaskini na mahangaiko makuu yataendelea kuwakumba wakenya.
Mabilioni ya pesa za uma zilizoibiwa na kufichwa nchi za nje , nilazima zirudishwe nyumbani Kenya mara moja.

Isaac Newton Kinity. viagra

THE GRABBING OF THE UFUNDI SACCO HOUSE – Going THE NATURE HOUSE STYLE: The Ufundi Sacco House in Nairobi, Kenya, may likely go the Nature House style if nothing is done to save it. Recent developments indicate that, the Ministry of works employees who bought the Ufundi House through their Cooperative Society, may loose [...]]]> 10/27/2011

THE GRABBING OF THE UFUNDI SACCO HOUSE – Going THE NATURE HOUSE STYLE:
The Ufundi Sacco House in Nairobi, Kenya, may likely go the Nature House style if nothing is done to save it. Recent developments indicate that, the Ministry of works employees who bought the Ufundi House through their Cooperative Society, may loose their house to six individual Kenyans, who are in the process of selling the house without the consent and/or authority of the owners.

In 1998, the then Ufundi house owned by the employees of the Ministry of Works was destroyed by a Bomb. The American Government replaced it with the new house called the Ufundi Sacco in Nairobi. According to Mr. Nelson Ngoo, a member of the Cooperative Society which bought that house on their behalf, six officials of the Cooperative Society, are in the process of selling the house. Efforts by a few members of the society to plead with the Government to intervene and stop the sale of the house, has been unsuccessful.

Without any immediate help, it is very likely that the owners of the Ufundi Sacco house will loose that house to those officials, the same way the Kenya Civil Servants lost Khs. 60 billion worth of Assets, properties and money that was in various Banks in 1980, to a few Kenya politicians. In 1980, soon after the invalidation of the then Union for the Kenya Civil Servants, through a dictatorial decree by President Moi, assets, properties and the money owned by the Kenya Civil Servants which was in various Banks, was grabbed by the Kenya politicians. Those properties included the Nature House situated at the center of the capital City, Nairobi. Today, 31 years latter, history is repeating itself. A few individuals are corruptly grabbing the property of innocent defenseless Kenya Civil Servants. The Kenya Government has adopted the similar silence it adopted 31 years ago, when it let go the properties of its workers [the Civil Servants], to a few disgruntled corrupt Kenya politicians. Every Kenyan is wondering who will stop this kind of corruption.
Isaac Newton Kinity

Former Secretary General
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.