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Time to get to know who JEBC commissioners are....I wonder why and when this lady changed her name
Time out with Connie Maina
Kairos Volume 24, Issue 12
‘For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. Plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.’
Jeremiah 29:11
Rebecca Comini
CONNIE Maina has endured heartbreaking loss, ostracism, brutality, and the upheaval of leaving her African homeland to live in Australia. But through it all, her faith in God has been unshakeable.
‘I know that in everything I do and everywhere I go, God has planned it for me,’ Connie said.
Connie was born in Kenya, into a family of six children. She completed her first degree, a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology) in Kenya and a Masters in communication in Scotland.
As a young woman, Connie received sponsorship from the Rockefeller Foundation to take part in a development and cultural program in the United States, where she developed skills in fundraising that, at the time, was very new to Kenya.
‘I joined the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a conservation organisation that was then raising funds for wildlife and nature conservation. At that time, Kenya was experiencing a lot of wildlife poaching. We had lost 85 per cent of rhinos, and almost 75 per cent of elephants in a period of 10 years,’ Connie said.
Connie left the WWF to help establish the Kenya Wildlife Service, a state organisation that manages and conserves wildlife, national parks, reserves and marine parks.
‘The then-director, a renowned conservationist, Dr Richard Leakey, requested the WWF regional representative to release me to help in public relations and fundraising. We did many fundraising strategies and events, with the climax being a $143 million funding for the wildlife sector, raised by a consortium of donors, led by the World Bank. This changed the entire sector to date,’ she said.
In 1988, Connie married Maina Keengwe. Maina was the Kenyan regional director for Intermediate Technology Development Group, a UK-based non-profit organisation and a budding politician. They were married for 11 years and had three children, Michael, now 24, Rose, 22, and Stephanie, 15.
In 1999, Connie’s life took a dramatic and heartbreaking turn.
‘My husband was murdered in cold blood in front of me and my children,’ Connie said. ‘Just two weeks before he was murdered, he told me, “Honey, I have a present for us.” I said, “What is it?” He came home with a brand new four-wheel drive. We had just finished educating some of his siblings and he felt he needed to give his family a treat with such a car. I said to him, “You shouldn’t have bought this car. It is going to mean death”.’
Maina and Connie were travelling home in separate cars. When Maina arrived home, the watchman opened the security gate to let him in, but carjackers intercepted him at the gate. He jumped out of the car, but was shot by the carjackers, who stole the vehicle.
Following Maina’s murder, Connie and her children were ostracised by his family.
‘When my husband died, the family threw me out with three children. They didn’t help me. It happens in Africa when you lose your husband,’ Connie said. ‘The only support I had was from my family, especially my father.’
In the aftermath of Maina’s death, Connie had two questions for God.
‘The first thing I asked God was, “where were you?” The second question was, “God, what will I do with these children?” After that, I turned to God entirely. I decided the best thing I could do was just hold on to my God.
‘I would say what I am is because of my God. I’m very strong in my faith. As I say always, my faith can move mountains. I don’t know who people turn to when they don’t have faith in God.’
To this day, Connie is unsure if the carjacking was opportunistic or politically motivated.
‘I hired a private investigator because I really wanted to know if it was just an accident or if it was anything political,’ she said. ‘Unfortunately, just before I got the result, about 20 people came to my house and they ransacked the entire place when I was at home with my children and my nanny. They took away documents, our passports, money and personal belongings.
‘They asked me to cooperate, which I did. I gave them everything that I had, anything valuable in the house they took. At the end, they said they wanted to rape me.
‘I told them there was no way they were going to rape me. I’d rather they killed me than raped me. So I knelt down and started praying. I prayed loud and they told me to keep quiet. They asked me if I was a Christian. I said, “yes, I am a very committed Christian” and they cannot touch my body because it is a temple of the Lord.
‘When I opened my eyes, there was not one person in the room.’
The thugs left Connie alone, but when they finished ransacking the house, they locked her, her children and their nanny in the servants’ quarters and they left.
This traumatic experience spurred Connie to leave Kenya. She applied to RMIT to study for an Master of Business Administration in management and was accepted. She arrived in Melbourne with three children in 2001.
Not wanting to be seen as a victim, Connie did not tell anyone about the ransacking or Maina’s murder.
‘I didn’t seek asylum or any help. Out of my job, I had managed to save some money and that’s what we lived on here,’ Connie said. ‘It surprised me that in the midst of everything that I was going through, I did very well in my MBA because most of my results were high distinctions.’
In 2004, Connie decided to return to Kenya to seek closure over her husband’s death. Her son remained in Melbourne while Connie returned to Kenya with Rose and Stephanie. Rose later returned to Melbourne on her own to attend university, leaving Connie and Stephanie in Nairobi.
In 2010, at the request of Stephanie, Connie reunited with her husband’s family.
‘When I went back to his family, they were very positive. They received me very well and I’m glad I did go back because if I had stayed here, I would still feel that I needed to close up this.’
Connie made the decision to come back to Melbourne to give her children the chance to be together.
‘It was a very difficult decision because I was then working for the National Museums of Kenya. I was the director of development and corporate affairs, which was a key position, managing 46 national museums and heritage sites, travelling all over the world.
‘One thing I knew was that when I came here, I wouldn’t get such a job. For me, it wasn’t about the job. It was about getting my family together.’
Maina was a Rotarian, and Connie joined Rotary after his death as a way of continuing his work in social justice.
‘When I was in Kenya, we had some collaboration with the Rotary Club of Essendon, so I came here knowing people from the Rotary Club of Essendon. They made my comeback very smooth and gave me a lot of support.’
Connie is now a member of the Essendon club and, through Rotary, she has been able to support widowed mothers and children in Kenya who have also been the victims of violence.
‘If I could just do something for one or two children, just to make sure that they are comfortable, that would be wonderful.’
In November 2011, Connie began working at the Archdiocese of Melbourne’s newly formed Development Office on a 12-month position as a coordinator of grants and projects.
In January this year, Connie secured a permanent position with the Development Office as a parish development officer, running stewardship programs (formerly known as thanksgiving).
‘I’ve had really trying times in my life but God has a plan for each one of us. That’s one thing I believe,’ Connie said. ‘I believe sometimes God allows us to go through trials in life to make us strong. Not to destroy us.’
Photo: Fiona Basile
http://melbournecatholic.org.au/Archive/Features/time-out-with-connie-maina (http://melbournecatholic.org.au/Archive/Features/time-out-with-connie-maina)
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First flag Education...
Connie Maina
Connie was born in Meru, on the slopes of Mount Kenya. A member of the Kikuyu tribe.
She received her primary schooling in Meru and then completed her first degree in sociology
at Nairobi university. She followed this up with a masters degree in communication, then in the
United States she completed a degree in culture and development culminating in an MBA in
Australia at RMIT. Her background in Rotary is strong, her husband , who was murdered 12
years ago, was a Rotarian and Connie has been a Rotarian for the last 10 years.
Since her husband’s death Connie has been shunned by all his family and has had to bring up
her three children (Rose, Michael and Stephanie) by herself, Her move to Australia was
prompted by a home invasion by a vicious group of thugs who threatened to kill or rape her,
an incredibly frightening situation for a lone woman with three children to care for. She faced
these thugs down and managed to avoid any harm to herself and family.
Connie has worked in wildlife conservation for many years, first with WWF for 15 years and then
with Richard Leakey with whom she started Kenya Wildlife Service. This organisation has been
instrumental in turning around the depredations that were threatening to extinguish the native
wildlife of Kenya. The last five years Connie has worked in the Nairobi Cultural museum which
houses one of the world’s prime collections of human ancestor fossils.
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bombshell....
2. Connie Nkatha alias Consolata Bucha – nominated IEBC Commissioner
Additional information reaching this writter indicate that Consolata Nkatha Bucha also known as Connie Maina, ranked last by the recruitment panel, she allegdly has a criminal court case in which she is accused defrauding Kshs. 280m from the Museums of Kenya and then going into exile in Australia where she changed her identity to Consolata Nkatha in a bid to conceal her real identity.
Try to google Consolata Nkatha or any of her names, you will find zero results other than links relating to this IEBC job application/selection. No serious proffessional blacks out his or her Linkedin page. She seems to have worked overtime to eliminate all her digital footprints.
Additionally, Nkatha remains a prime suspect in a murder case in the mysterious death of her husband, a man from Ekerenyo, Nyamira county- Kisii. Sources say that after she allegedly masterminded the murder of her husband Maina Keengwa and whose funeral she did not even attend, she eloped with the best man at her wedding – a pilot with whom she robbed his house and chased him away.
Former colleagues at KWS expressed surprise at Consolata Nkatha’s nomination alluding to her criminal past disqualifying her from holdong any public office. One of her former colleague at KWS laughed loudly wondering “how could Kenyans throw away a team of educated IEBC and hire a trainee secretary who could not even write a simple letter?” while another of her former colleague said “surely the religious leaders have been blinded by Nkatha’s witchcrafts” .
While at KWS, Nkatha’s alleged ‘intimacy’ with former Director Richard Leakey is attributed to her rapid and largely unmerited promotion to SRO without any papers at all. She travelled all over the world with Leakey who was alleged to be more than a colleague (boss) and it is believed that it was during those trips abroad that Nkatha is alleged to have met drug barons. Nkatha was forced to leave KWS in disgrace when a new Director Dr Kipngetich joined the agency. She had accumulated sufficient wealth although her sexual tools could no longer work for her.
While at KWS, Nkatha was allegedly involved in land grabbing cases with her late husband with whom they defrauded the Maasai elders to sell to them large acres of land at throw away prices only for them to resell at high prices. In the process of subdividing the parcels of land and processing the title deed, they illegally changed acres to hectares causing the people of Kajiado and Ngong lose large tracts of land.
Nkatha remains a prime suspect in the murder of her husband because he was questioning her links to some drug lord. One of the close friends who initially broke the news to Nkatha about her husbands death is yet to recover from the shock and pain he felt when “she laughed off the news, telling them “it serves him right”. Sources say she was not even at home most of the evenings when her husband’s funeral was planned and she finally did not even attend the funeral in Nyamira. Concerned constituents from Nyamira County have now petitioned legislators from Kisii region to raise this matter during the vetting stage in parliament.
When she worked at the National Museums, Nkatha is alleged to have turned into witchcraft or black magic to manipulate her bosses whenever her sexual tools failed to work. Formercolleagues believe that Nkatha’s black magic may have overpowered the God of the five religious leaders who sat at the IEBC selection panel and this is why some rated her so highly.
Nkatha’s academic certificates are in doubt as she cannot specifically name her former classmates in campus. Those who know her say she started off as a secretarial trainee at the Kenya Wildlife Services and not much known of her professional background. From Australia, she responded to the vacancy announcement when she submitted her application with suspected forged papers and a revised CV which resulted to her coming back to Kenya just to attend the IEBC public interviews.
Investigations done at the university she claims to have attended in England, indicate that she registered but did not attend school. It is believed the panelists were mesmerized by her international non existing titles and certificates all of which have now been confirmed to be forgeries.
https://www.jamiiforums.com/threads/there-is-rigging-afoot-in-kenya-before-august-8.1186602/ (https://www.jamiiforums.com/threads/there-is-rigging-afoot-in-kenya-before-august-8.1186602/)
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Propaganda is vicious. If these shady stories - about sexual impropriety, theft, academic fraud and murder - were true NASA and other Kenyans would have long outed her. Jamiiforum is what Omollo calls an ethnic rag.
I believe what is in the properly edited and published stories - by named authors not veiled monikers - that Connie Bucha is an outstanding globally exposed Kenyan patriot in good repute. She is here to do nothing but ensure credible polls.
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Good greetings Robina, I hope all is well in Bay area.
Back to topic. IEBC is a criminal enterprise stacked with compromised personal to execute a rigging plot. On our vice chairperson i started with a working theory then am slowly putting the pieces together, make few phone calls to double check and soon as info. Check out I will post it here live live. What do we know so far
1. Her husband died under funny circumstances
2. Changed names, actually she has more than 5 names
3. Education is suspect
Etc etc ....I will post more later and yes I agree with you NASA should have done more research on these characters.
Propaganda is vicious. If these shady stories - about sexual impropriety, theft, academic fraud and murder - were true NASA and other Kenyans would have long outed her. Jamiiforum is what Omollo calls an ethnic rag.
I believe what is in the properly edited and published stories - by named authors not veiled monikers - that Connie Bucha is an outstanding globally exposed Kenyan patriot in good repute. She is here to do nothing but ensure credible polls.
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She will be the last one to resign. Jebc collapsing under its own weight. God is great
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She will be the last one to resign. Jebc collapsing under its own weight. God is great
The power hungry electoral fraudsters should cut to the chase and go ahead with the coronation
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sources cannot find a match of this lady name in Nairobi University department of sociology and social work....what is going on here?
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I agree her education is suspicious. I suggest you confirm from proper - IEBC, hansard, etc - records. Legal sources. Don't trust social media, blogs, the press - all these could be fake profiles meant to tarnish her name.
-BA sociology UoN
-MA communication Scotland
-BA culture US
-MBA RMIT, Aussie
Strange mix of qualifications - from far-flung institutions.
sources cannot find a match of this lady name in Nairobi University department of sociology and social work....what is going on here?
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Connie is Consolata.
Nkatha is typical Meru female name.
Bucha is a common Meru male name. Likely her father's.
She married Maina Keengwe in 1988.
Consolata Nkatha Bucha-Maina
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Agreed. I started with UoN because the school and the department is known, digging up on the name of college attended in Scotland and US. will keep you posted
I hope she attended those colleges and this is nothing but a mix up of names because this would be the biggest fraud I have ever seen.
I agree her education is suspicious. I suggest you confirm from proper - IEBC, hansard, etc - records. Legal sources. Don't trust social media, blogs, the press - all these could be fake profiles meant to tarnish her name.
-BA sociology UoN
-MA communication Scotland
-BA culture US
-MBA RMIT, Aussie
Strange mix of qualifications - from far-flung institutions.
sources cannot find a match of this lady name in Nairobi University department of sociology and social work....what is going on here?
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Connie is Consolata.
Nkatha is typical Meru female name.
Bucha is a common Meru male name. Likely her father's.
She married Maina Keengwe in 1988.
Consolata Nkatha Bucha-Maina
Consolata Rose Nkatha Bucha Maina
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First thing confirm this is her correct profile otherwise you could be digging up a fake. Are these degrees listed in her CV on IEBC records?
Agreed. I started with UoN because the school and the department is known, digging up on the name of college attended in Scotland and US. will keep you posted
I hope she attended those colleges and this is nothing but a mix up of names because this would be the biggest fraud I have ever seen.
I agree her education is suspicious. I suggest you confirm from proper - IEBC, hansard, etc - records. Legal sources. Don't trust social media, blogs, the press - all these could be fake profiles meant to tarnish her name.
-BA sociology UoN
-MA communication Scotland
-BA culture US
-MBA RMIT, Aussie
Strange mix of qualifications - from far-flung institutions.
sources cannot find a match of this lady name in Nairobi University department of sociology and social work....what is going on here?
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Connie is Consolata.
Nkatha is typical Meru female name.
Bucha is a common Meru male name. Likely her father's.
She married Maina Keengwe in 1988.
Consolata Nkatha Bucha-Maina
Consolata Rose Nkatha Bucha Maina
I have 5 names too. If you dig up the degrees we can see whether the names have changed over the years. I know women who alternate surnames depending on their feelings for a dead spouse or father.
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I rarely follow Aga Khan media but guess what? this is what showed up a lot of inconsistency......??????
Consolata Nkatha Bucha Maina (vice-chairperson)
Born in 1960 in Meru, she attended primary and secondary schools in Meru and Nairobi counties.
She holds two diplomas from London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), one in public relations and another in business studies.
Consequently, she has a master of business administration degree from University of Melbourne Australia, Master of Science in public relations from University of Stirling in Scotland and diploma in public relations. She worked in Australia until last year when she returned to the country.
When asked why she skipped a basic degree, she told Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that the diplomas she had were equivalent to bachelor’s degree at the time.
Her drive to join the IEBC is to build trust in an organisation that has often been vilified and liked in equal measure.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Know-your-new-IEBC-commissioners/1056-3782820-6931lv/index.html (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Know-your-new-IEBC-commissioners/1056-3782820-6931lv/index.html)
First thing confirm this is her correct profile otherwise you could be digging up a fake. Are these degrees listed in her CV on IEBC records?
Agreed. I started with UoN because the school and the department is known, digging up on the name of college attended in Scotland and US. will keep you posted
I hope she attended those colleges and this is nothing but a mix up of names because this would be the biggest fraud I have ever seen.
I agree her education is suspicious. I suggest you confirm from proper - IEBC, hansard, etc - records. Legal sources. Don't trust social media, blogs, the press - all these could be fake profiles meant to tarnish her name.
-BA sociology UoN
-MA communication Scotland
-BA culture US
-MBA RMIT, Aussie
Strange mix of qualifications - from far-flung institutions.
sources cannot find a match of this lady name in Nairobi University department of sociology and social work....what is going on here?
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A newspaper story is not a formal record. Try IEBC or hansard. What about that BA sociology from UoN??
I rarely follow Aga Khan media but guess what? this is what showed up a lot of inconsistency......??????
Consolata Nkatha Bucha Maina (vice-chairperson)
Born in 1960 in Meru, she attended primary and secondary schools in Meru and Nairobi counties.
She holds two diplomas from London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), one in public relations and another in business studies.
Consequently, she has a master of business administration degree from University of Melbourne Australia, Master of Science in public relations from University of Stirling in Scotland and diploma in public relations. She worked in Australia until last year when she returned to the country.
When asked why she skipped a basic degree, she told Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that the diplomas she had were equivalent to bachelor’s degree at the time.
Her drive to join the IEBC is to build trust in an organisation that has often been vilified and liked in equal measure.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Know-your-new-IEBC-commissioners/1056-3782820-6931lv/index.html (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Know-your-new-IEBC-commissioners/1056-3782820-6931lv/index.html)
First thing confirm this is her correct profile otherwise you could be digging up a fake. Are these degrees listed in her CV on IEBC records?
Agreed. I started with UoN because the school and the department is known, digging up on the name of college attended in Scotland and US. will keep you posted
I hope she attended those colleges and this is nothing but a mix up of names because this would be the biggest fraud I have ever seen.
I agree her education is suspicious. I suggest you confirm from proper - IEBC, hansard, etc - records. Legal sources. Don't trust social media, blogs, the press - all these could be fake profiles meant to tarnish her name.
-BA sociology UoN
-MA communication Scotland
-BA culture US
-MBA RMIT, Aussie
Strange mix of qualifications - from far-flung institutions.
sources cannot find a match of this lady name in Nairobi University department of sociology and social work....what is going on here?
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It appears she got degrees in business, sociology, PR/communications, culture. Uh?
Legal docs are important because people cannot be liable for what media publishes. Say now papers and people are saying Ruto has a PhD in wetlands. If you go to UoN and confirm it's false, you cannot say Ruto is a fraud because he did not print the newspapers. Only formal affidavits, hansard, oaths, or such legal records can be held against him.