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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on December 11, 2015, 09:02:35 AM
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The decision to walk in to Raila's trap at noon has me wondering whether there is any brains left in State House. Pundit calculated that 19 months stand between us and the elections. I would take 3 months off for campaigns.
Raila announced that he would decide whether to honour the summonses or not. That was a clear message that he would milk it for every political point he could score. He has as expected (by all but State House) expanded his fishing grounds to the Chicken Gate Scandal - which is really his target. Raila has no intention of having Isaack Chickens Hassan presiding over the next elections. Uhuru has given him the opportunity to bring back the issue with damning force.
“I have reasons to believe that you, Raila, have information that may assist me in my investigations,” Mwangi said.
He directed that Raila should be at the EACC on Monday at 10am, failing which he will be liable for prosecution.
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/policemen-surround-raila-office#sthash.8NFIeXEe.dpuf
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But Omollo good to have you back. I don't understand politicks. It seems the president's men have it all together. With elections this close MPs are being arrested. Now we have journalists arrested, threatened and gagged. Raila is icing on the cake. I'm not sure though what the cake is made of and who is really eating it here.
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I agree. Dumb move. Raila is a liberty to make any accusation. That is part of free speech. And more than that...those are issue to be dealt with politically. After all we are a democracy.
I think the police right now is under siege from Gen Nkaissery. The good thing...political impunity has waned...but Gen Nkaissery has to work a very fine line here.
It always good to arrest politicians..but going for Raila..you better have a really watertight case..and here they've got nothing.
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Remember our AG said at the ICC that the Kenyan constitution does not have a provision to force a witness to share his evidence. What has changed here?
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Remember our AG said at the ICC that the Kenyan constitution does not have a provision to force a witness to share his evidence. What has changed here?
the perpetrators of suspected crime
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Remember our AG said at the ICC that the Kenyan constitution does not have a provision to force a witness to share his evidence. What has changed here?
Is the usual jubilidiot double standard. You will notice that the zombie supporters are not asking the government to produce a list of funded infrastructure. They're busy odinga odingaring.
Very poor..
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Omollo, you were "killed" again this week... Nice to see you've risen from the "dead"
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I am not a lawyer. But even I can easily see that this is abuse of office. Is there really a law that permits a policeman to arrest anyone in Kenya without probable cause?
In a statement later, EACC chief executive officer Halakhe Waqo said Raila would be arrested if he fails to appear before the commission on Monday.
Waqo said the EACC is gazetted as a police station and can therefore issue such summons against any person who fails to honour its request to offer information.
Politically, arresting Raila is inviting chaos. EACC is obviously not independent. Is kamwana being advised by Itumbi and other assorted jokers by his side?
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This seems to be the trend. Preemption is the goal here. Make people afraid to say anything that negatively affects the Uhuru govt. if the jubilee govt doesn't kill you they will harass you to death. He mob has taken over the government and their law is the law. Kenyatta doesn't even have control anymore.
To be fair I also see the same Trend with ODM. they don't value leadership, so chaos at elections is the trend. MOB JUSTICE !!
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Via Facebook: Mutahi Ngunyi
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Mutahi Ngunyi:
I want to proffer my brother Uhuru with some free but paramount pieces advice and caution him that arresting Raila will not be as easy as he and his loyal apparatchiks may think.
Raila is a prodigious talented politician. Raila Odinga is an internationally acclaimed political cognoscente with roots running deep into every nook and cranny of the world. He is not an ordinary politician, he is preternatural.
Anyone in his compos mentis will never dream of arresting him must be living in a cloud-cuckoo-land because it’ll attract a very costly price to pay!
Raila Amollo Odinga is a gigantic institution and a Goliath of modern day politics. Here, we are talking of a man with over 6,000,000 ardent followers behind him.
The unstinting and untenable support afforded by this tyranny of humans cannot be underestimated whatsoever.
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If Uhuru had left institutions do their job, he wouldn't have problems we are experiencing now. Cronies took over and he can't even control these cronies.
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The decision to walk in to Raila's trap at noon has me wondering whether there is any brains left in State House.
Two words: Panic and frustration at Statehouse over the Eurobond consequences.
Kenya is starting to count the cost of a dispute over what happened to the proceeds of the nation’s $2.75 billion Eurobond sale last year.
The African nation’s dollar securities have lost investors more money than the debt of any other emerging market since the end of October, when the finance ministry first responded to opposition leader Raila Odinga’s allegation that more than 140 billion shillings ($1.4 billion) has gone missing. The government says the former prime minister’s Coalition for Reforms and Democracy, known as CORD, is misreading the Treasury’s accounts and all the money is accounted for.
“A significant portion of the increase in yield that we’ve seen recently has been due to the ongoing controversy regarding the management of the bonds,” John Ashbourne, an Africa economist at Capital Economics in London, said on Tuesday. “Investors would want to see both a proper investigation into what happened to the money -- which might result in a totally innocent explanation, I should stress that -- and then also evidence that the government is improving oversight and management of expenditure.”
The altercation risks undermining President Uhuru Kenyatta’s efforts to reverse Kenya’s image as one of the world’s most corrupt countries as his government invests in infrastructure such as energy, roads, rail and ports to boost growth in East Africa’s largest economy. The Treasury is now reviewing foreign-borrowing plans because the issue has been politicized, according to Kamau Thugge, principal secretary of the department.
Yields on the country’s $2 billion of notes due June 2024 have climbed 107 basis points in the past month to 921 percent in London as of 12:32 p.m. in London on Thursday, after reaching an all-time high of 9.23 percent on Tuesday. The nation’s debt has lost 4.9 percent since the end of October, the biggest decline among 61 emerging markets tracked by Bloomberg.
‘Good Story’
Investors are also selling African foreign-currency debt in anticipation of an increase in U.S. interest rates and as currencies from Kenya to Ghana plummet against the dollar. A Bloomberg index of dollar debt of African nations is down 2.3 percent since the beginning of November.
“Kenya is still a good story, but when you get these types of headlines out there, at times it can weigh on the credit, and it has this time,” Kevin Daly, a money manager at Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, said by phone from London. “It’s also part of a broader sell-off.”
Kenya’s public prosecutor last week ordered police and anti-graft investigators to probe the opposition’s allegation that funds have gone missing. CORD leader Odinga was summoned by the anti-corruption agency to discuss his allegations, his party said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday. He had previously turned down an invitation from the Treasury to scrutinize documents on the Eurobond and asked officials instead to make the paperwork public.
Graft Crackdown
Thugge said the Treasury collected the equivalent of 250 billion shillings from the sale of the Eurobonds, from which it spent 53.3 billion shillings to repay a syndicated loan. The remaining funds were disbursed to ministries to finance projects over two financial years, he said. The opposition party on Thursday called on the government to present a list of projects financed by the bonds.
Last month, Kenyatta fired five cabinet secretaries who were suspended this year after being caught up in graft investigations. The cabinet shuffle took place the day after Kenyatta deemed corruption a threat to national security. Kenya ranked 145 out of 177 nations on Berlin-based Transparency International’s 2014 Corruption Perception Index, which measures perceived corruption around the world.
“It won’t have escaped people’s attention that Kenya has seen a string of scandals this year,” Ashbourne said. “It adds to the impression that corruption is a really serious issue throughout the country. President Kenyatta does seem to be committed, rhetorically, to doing something about this but investors -- and Kenyans, I’d imagine -- will want to see some concrete action.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-10/who-took-the-money-spat-roils-kenya-as-bonds-lose-most-in-world
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We are starting from false premise that uhuru had it together from the word get go .....on eurobond I believe this could be a turning point on war on corruption if handled carefully and dealt with to conclusion. The people are with Raila they want tangible evidence on projects that were funded with eurobond money. Which leads me to ask if Rotich had eurobond money why did they have to take 39 billions loan to lease diagnostic medical equipment?
The best thing about Eurobond is the international components in the whole deal. It's time for kenyans to start writing to CEO of the involved banks and the embassy in kenya demanding answers. We cannot ambassadors lecturing kenyans on corruption while banks from their country are robbing kenyans.
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Omollo, you were "killed" again this week... Nice to see you've risen from the "dead"
The Bozos of .choo think they can "provoke" me in to returning there to stop its slow but sure move to the death. Of course RVHH will pump in the money he gets from faking travel allowances (him and his wife*) and run it well in to 2018. But it will collapse after that especially when Masinde will leave.
Ofcourse i read about my constant death (and unpublished resurrections). It's amusing at times.
The Bozo should demand substantiation here
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Patel
You're right. Uhuru never really had it together.