I Weep Not For The Ocampo Six But The Spell Of Negative Ethnicity They Have Cast On The Nation
Listen With Ocampo’s issuance of summons to The Hague Six, their followers are shocked and panic stricken. The bravado of Uhuru and Ruto has flopped and will not protect those who perpetrated crimes against humanity during the post election violence. In the eerie silence following the summons, the Ocampo Six seem deflated and off balance, [...]
ICC Ocampo rooting for ODM political side before 2012; Kenyans say
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – A majority of Kenyan’s especially in the rural areas have began to get massively convinced that ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo is probably receiving briefs from PM Raila Odinga’s ODM section. This has been confirmed through demands by Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo that Mr Francis Muthaura steps aside from office immediately. Yesterday Ocampo [...]
Kenya reshuffles 125 senior police officers
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Nairobi Divisional Criminal Investigation Officers are among 125 senior police officers moved in changes announced by police boss Mathew Iteere on Tuesday. The announcement follows recent high-level deliberations between Vigilance House and senior officials in the Ministry of Internal Security. The reshuffle is aimed at reorganising the force ahead of the 2012 [...]
Kenyan ODM party disowns govt decision to challenge ICC cases
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -One arm of Kenya’s Grand Coalition government on Thursday disowned an announcement that the Government will challenge the admissibility of the Kenya cases at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The move by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party came a day after a statement signed by three members of Cabinet stated Kenya [...]
Kenyans told to shun abusive party leaders
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) wants Kenyans to shun presidential aspirants who have no regard for the rule of law. The country has been treated to a barrage of abused sparked by PM Raila’s statements that cabinet colleagues and fellow party leaders were drunkards and thieves. NCIC Chairman Mzalendo Kibunjia [...]
Non ICC member America against Kenya’s bid over trials
Listen New York (Alshahid) -Kenya’s Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka has apparently failed in his mission to the US. Soon after Mr Musyoka met in Washington on Wednesday with Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, a State Department official told the Africa Review that “we do not support a UN Security Council resolution to defer the ICC [...]
Kenya Raila-Ruto war in ODM explodes as dictatorship grows
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wrangles in ODM have now spilled outside the party with plans by about 40 MPs to lodge a dispute against the leadership with the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal. Leading the charge are two MPs, Adan Duale (Dujis) who is also the party’s vice chairman and Isaac Ruto (Chepalungu) whose membership the party [...]
Kenya Raila’s ODM expels two MPs over divergent views
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Two MPs could lose their seats after ODM announced it had expelled them for holding divergent views from those held by party leader and Kenya’s PM Raila Odinga. The party has written to the Registrar of Political Parties, saying Assistant Minister Aden Duale, and Chepalungu MP Isaac Ruto have been expelled. ODM [...]
Kenya, Ethiopia may attack Somalia alshabaab rebels
Listen Isiolo, Kenya (Alshahid) – Kenyan and Ethiopian troops could attack Somali rebel group al Shabaab inside the Horn of Africa nation following the rebels’ latest threat to strike at Kenya, security sources said on Monday. The al Shabaab group, which claims ties to al Qaeda and has been waging a four-year insurgency against Somalia [...]
Kenya PM Raila’s family involved in maize scandal; US cables
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) -Wikileaks claim Prime Minister Raila Odinga attempted to suspend former Agriculture Minister William Ruto to divert attention from his family’s involvement in the Sh2 billion maize scam. Secret cables sent by US Ambassador, Michael Ranneberger, to Washington and now released by WikiLeaks allege Raila wanted to create confusion when he said he [...]