Who said an old mongel can ever learn new tricks? Wako is back at his old games. Now we know that somebody plans to replace the Electoral commissioners alone without the PM.
The question is once they have been filled, how do "they" hope to get the positions vacant again? That is when I start thinking of "Scientific Exorcism"
Wako's Tricks
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Fraud case: Ruto gave job to key potential witness
This just came up:
Suspended Higher Education minister William Ruto gave a parastatal job to a potential key witness in a fraud case against him.
Suspended Higher Education minister William Ruto gave a parastatal job to a potential key witness in a fraud case against him.
Mr Ruto appointed Hellen Chege Njue to the board of trustees of the Coffee Development Fund in July 2009. The Eldoret North MP then was the minister for Agriculture under which the parastatal falls.
Ms Njue was the finance manager at the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) when Sh272 million was paid out for plots in Nairobi’s Ngong Forest, a case which landed Mr Ruto, former President Moi’s aide Joshua Kulei and former Lands Commissioner and current Baringo Central MP Sammy Mwaita in court.
In acquitting Mr Ruto and his co-accused on Tuesday last week, Nairobi chief magistrate Gilbert Mutembei made it clear that Ms Njue was the missing link in the prosecution’s case.
“The prosecution failed to produce in court the then finance manager Hellen Njue to give her evidence on how she paid out the money. It is, therefore, clear that none of the accused ever received any money from KPC. The prosecution has failed to prove its case thus all the accused persons have no case to answer,” Mr Mutembei ruled.
Mr Ruto’s appointment of Ms Njue to a parastatal under his ministry at a time when he was facing fraud charges will be seen as curious, considering she was one of the witnesses the prosecution would have relied on in its case.
Ms Njue could have testified against the minister had the prosecution sought her statement or called her as a witness, an omission which has been pointed out by lawyers. No explanation was given as to why Ms Njue was not called as a witness.
“Corporate bodies can only act through human beings and no evidence was placed before the court on identity of persons representing the corporate bodies who made false representations to Hellen Njue,” defence lawyers argued.
At the time of the appointment Mr Ruto was facing a charge of fraudulently receiving money from Ms Njue, acting on behalf of KPC, by pretending he could sell to the corporation 1.75 hectares of land in Ngong Forest. The offence is said to have been committed on September 6, 2001.
Ms Njue’s appointment to the parastatal was published in a Kenya Gazette notice (No. 5262) of May 21, 2009 which stated: “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Coffee Act, 2001, the Minister for Agriculture appoints …Hellen Chege Njue (Ms), to be member of the Board of Trustees for the Coffee Development Fund, for a period of three (3) years, with effect from 29th April, 2009.”
The notice was signed by Mr Ruto. Ms Njue’s tenure at the board ends in April 2012.
The Coffee Development Fund was established in 2001 to provide credit and advances to coffee farmers.
False pretences
The charge sheet of July 27, 2004 did not list Ms Njue among the 10 witnesses in the case despite the investigating team asserting that Mr Ruto obtained Sh96 million from her by false pretences. This means that she was a complainant alongside KPC, and therefore would have been a prosecution witness
For more: http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Fraud+case+Ruto+gave+job+to+key+potential+witness+/-/1064/1145926/-/t8qmt6z/-/index.html
Compaore Soon Getting his Due
It is said that whenever you (a man) see another fella being shaved with a broken bottle, you had better start applying saliva to your own beard. That is because experience shows you will most likely be next!
There are tribes in West Africa that end their prayers with "As it was in the beginning so will it be in the End".
On October 15, 1987 Blaise Compaore invited Thomas Sankara to a meeting where they should sort out their differences. They had been at logger heads for a while. Much as Sankara was warned that this was most unwise and that he would be exposed to mortal danger, he was such an idealist that he agreed to go without conditions. He never made it fully out of the car; He was murdered along with 12 other senior officials that he had brought along by an armed gang led by his pal and revolutionary colleague, Blaise Compaoré.
Who was Thomas Sankara? Thomas Sankara is the leader you are all looking for in Kenya and indeed Africa. He is the leader who got rid of the curse of the limousine and other trappings of power. He dispensed with both the full and half carpet. He ordered the presidential toilet removed from the dais. In fact he found the whole idea of a grown up standing up in the midst of a meeting to go just behind the curtain and begin the usual anal bursts and explosions followed by a foul tincture rather embarrassing for an adult. He reasoned that if the citizens who come to the meeting were to each bring a toilet, the entire country would stink to Kingdom Come. So he decided to use the same toilet as other citizens. I can only imagine that since as of today - 23 years later only 6% of population have access to improved sanitation facilities in rural areas and a mere 33% in urban areas (UNICEF), then the majority of the citizens depend on the "bush". So it follows that President Thomas Sankara also used the "bush" when relieving himself!
Sankara got rid of extravagance. He was so determined that when Guinea attacked, he sued for peace and in fact suggested that the President of Guinea share some of his military arsenal. He surrendered and then told his people to their faces that they had been DEFEATED! No spin; No lies just the plain truth! He told them the reason is none other than their poverty. They are not able to buy weapons without money and they will not use their hard earned cash on weapons. What a man! The people loved hearing the truth from a leader for once!
He was equally frank with the man whose army had humiliated his country. He admitted defeat. No ceasirefires; No euphemism; Plain surrender! During his first post war meeting with President Conte of Guinea he informed him that in future if he fancied anything in Burkina Faso, he should just ask and he will be given. He need not send an army as they will not resist and prayed that he won't make too hard demands on the Burkinabe. In short the man unnerved all the neighbors and annoyed every opulence loving dictator!
With him making sacrifices, the people were only ready to make their own sacrifices. He thus rejected the IMF imposed SAPs and went along with his own. His own were more stringent than what the IMF imposed. It was not long before Rawlings played the same game (minus the demands on opulence).
So when the citizens work up to hear of the death of what Compaore called a "tyrant", they thought they were having a nightmare! Several weeks in to his dictatorship, Compaore changed tact and embraced Thomas Sankara but by way of monuments and Streets' names. He soon took off the Lieutenant's uniform and adorned a "French" Suit with "made in Paris" on it (in reality the Frenchman has them made in a sweatshop in Thailand).
It is therefore with pleasure that I see the citizens finally take to the streets in a Tunisia-like revolt that started within the army ranks. I pray that they overthrow the man but keep the army out of power.
There are tribes in West Africa that end their prayers with "As it was in the beginning so will it be in the End".
On October 15, 1987 Blaise Compaore invited Thomas Sankara to a meeting where they should sort out their differences. They had been at logger heads for a while. Much as Sankara was warned that this was most unwise and that he would be exposed to mortal danger, he was such an idealist that he agreed to go without conditions. He never made it fully out of the car; He was murdered along with 12 other senior officials that he had brought along by an armed gang led by his pal and revolutionary colleague, Blaise Compaoré.
Who was Thomas Sankara? Thomas Sankara is the leader you are all looking for in Kenya and indeed Africa. He is the leader who got rid of the curse of the limousine and other trappings of power. He dispensed with both the full and half carpet. He ordered the presidential toilet removed from the dais. In fact he found the whole idea of a grown up standing up in the midst of a meeting to go just behind the curtain and begin the usual anal bursts and explosions followed by a foul tincture rather embarrassing for an adult. He reasoned that if the citizens who come to the meeting were to each bring a toilet, the entire country would stink to Kingdom Come. So he decided to use the same toilet as other citizens. I can only imagine that since as of today - 23 years later only 6% of population have access to improved sanitation facilities in rural areas and a mere 33% in urban areas (UNICEF), then the majority of the citizens depend on the "bush". So it follows that President Thomas Sankara also used the "bush" when relieving himself!
Sankara got rid of extravagance. He was so determined that when Guinea attacked, he sued for peace and in fact suggested that the President of Guinea share some of his military arsenal. He surrendered and then told his people to their faces that they had been DEFEATED! No spin; No lies just the plain truth! He told them the reason is none other than their poverty. They are not able to buy weapons without money and they will not use their hard earned cash on weapons. What a man! The people loved hearing the truth from a leader for once!
He was equally frank with the man whose army had humiliated his country. He admitted defeat. No ceasirefires; No euphemism; Plain surrender! During his first post war meeting with President Conte of Guinea he informed him that in future if he fancied anything in Burkina Faso, he should just ask and he will be given. He need not send an army as they will not resist and prayed that he won't make too hard demands on the Burkinabe. In short the man unnerved all the neighbors and annoyed every opulence loving dictator!
With him making sacrifices, the people were only ready to make their own sacrifices. He thus rejected the IMF imposed SAPs and went along with his own. His own were more stringent than what the IMF imposed. It was not long before Rawlings played the same game (minus the demands on opulence).
So when the citizens work up to hear of the death of what Compaore called a "tyrant", they thought they were having a nightmare! Several weeks in to his dictatorship, Compaore changed tact and embraced Thomas Sankara but by way of monuments and Streets' names. He soon took off the Lieutenant's uniform and adorned a "French" Suit with "made in Paris" on it (in reality the Frenchman has them made in a sweatshop in Thailand).
It is therefore with pleasure that I see the citizens finally take to the streets in a Tunisia-like revolt that started within the army ranks. I pray that they overthrow the man but keep the army out of power.
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