Mwiraria Continues to be a Douche even in Retirement {Video}

Well folks, David Mwiraria continues to demonstrate an exemplary amount of douchbaggery. The senile Meru elder is still  doubling down on the half truths and lies that have served him so well during his checkered political career.

In an appearance before the TJRC, the disgraced former minister lied and lied and then lied some more. Classic Davie Boy! He wants to be taken as a serious politician but when he is backed into the corner and proven to liar and a genocidaire, he just reverts to the famous, " I am too old to remember anything" line.

Here is the video evidence

Genocidaires Associated with Wagalla Massacre summoned by TJRC

Let us stop for a minute and give a deserved applause to the men and women of the TJRC. Despite court battles and significant resistance from the masterminds of the Wagalla Massacre all aimed at stopping the commission from doing its work, these guys have stuck to their guns. And now comes the good news that we all wanted to hear: the genocidaires who refused to show up before the panel in its Wajir tour have now been summoned to appear before it in Nairobi.

Those summoned to appear before the TJRC include the who is who of murderous villainy.These high profile war criminals total 27 and include, Bethuel Kiplagat, Mwiraria, Joseph Kibwana, Jospeh Kaguthi, Benson Kaaria, among others.

All of these men have been adversely implicated in the massacre of 5 000 Somalis in Wajir. In their many different capacities, these men (and they are all men) have been the prototype for a mini-hitlerian plan to decimate Somali Kenyans. Lets hope justice catches up with them in this world because surely what awaits in the here after is far worse.

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Billow Kerrow on the lack of Social Justice for Somali Kenyans

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Social justice for the people of northern Kenya is still a mirage

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By BILLOW KERROW

Posted  Wednesday, April 27 2011 at 18:46

In the past one week, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) has been in North-Eastern Kenya getting a first-hand account of over 45 years of official neglect, deprivation and social injustice visited upon the residents by successive regimes.

The emotional outpouring by the residents has largely been unnoticed nationally, save for the media focus on the monstrous atrocities such as the Wagalla Massacre.

Brutal security operations continue unabated, and even as the Commission was being set up in 2008, security forces tortured and maimed several hundreds in Mandera.

Section 27(6) of the Constitution requires the State to take affirmative measures and policies to “redress any disadvantage suffered by individuals or groups because of past discrimination”.

However, the Commission should pay greater attention to the prevailing social injustice rather than being fixated on historical injustices.

This week, they will be in Mandera County that is reeling from the effects of the worst drought this decade.

Hundreds face death as a result of extreme hunger and thirst, while their economic livelihoods, namely livestock, continue to perish.

The government has a constitutional obligation to provide adequate food and water to all its citizens, without discrimination, among other socio-economic rights outlined in Section 46.

For the marginalised, Section 56 further mandates the government to provide infrastructure, such as boreholes, schools and health facilities as fundamental human rights.

As Indian writer and activist, Arundhati Roy argues, the assault on social justice has eroded its definition, made us lower our sights and curtail our expectations.

The notion of equality has undergone a process of attrition and eased out of equation.

He argues that these human rights violations are increasingly portrayed as unfortunate fallouts from an otherwise acceptable political and economic system.

The TJRC members’ mandate includes investigating the marginalisation of communities, and providing redress where necessary.

Will they order the government to immediately declare the ravaging famine in the region a national disaster and help halt the region’s march to devastation?

They are aware that the region’s youth cannot obtain identity cards due to official

The Kenya Human Rights Commission, in its 2009 publication titled “Foreigners at home – the dilemma of citizenship in Northern Kenya”, accuses the government of institutionalised discrimination on the itizenship of the residents through arbitrary denial.

Can TJRC urgently address this? Section 10 of the Constitution deems that social justice, equity and protection of the marginalised are national values that must be applied whenever State organs implement public policy decisions. Will the up-coming recruitment of 7,000 policemen be done equitably?

Section 232 on public service jobs demands that the State affords ‘‘adequate and equal opportunities and representation of diverse communities’’ in appointments, training and advancement.

Representation is best reflected through the regional, county or constituency population, which roughly mirrors our ethnic diversity.

Based on the 2009 census, and without the affirmative action “privilege” for minorities as proposed by Mr Orwa Ojodeh in Parliament, Nairobi would take 569 jobs, Central 795 Rift Valley 1,814 and North-Eastern 419 jobs.

This is arrived at by dividing the region or county’s population by the national population, and multiplying by the 7,000 jobs.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Bill 2011 is also in violation of Section 250 of the Constitution as regards the composition of the commissioners.

The section stipulates unequivocally that appointments to constitutional commissions and independent offices “shall reflect regional and ethnic diversity of the people of Kenya”.

The Bill suggests that five commissioners be appointed now, and four others in a year’s time.

Which region will play second fiddle to the other? Not North-Eastern, please!

Mr Kerrow, a former Mandera Central MP, is a political economist.

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Malkamarre Massacre in Mandera

  More details of the Moi regime's gross human rights violation in NEP are emerging. Survivors of the Malkamarre Massacre in Mandera described the horrific ordeal they went through at the hands of the Paleolithic tyrant [Moi] and his goons in1982.

 In scenes reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Moi's henchmen put victims in incarceration camps, murdered 332 innocent civilians, mutilated the bodies of the dead and the living, raped women and children and confiscated livestock worth millions of Shillings.

 If I remember correctly, 1982 is the year the glumpy faced pig of a leader, Daniel Moi, was saved from the guillotine by a Nepian by the name General Mahmoud. How dare he reward us with such tyranny?
Also, and I say this with no hint of 'qabaliya' or malevolence, weren't General Mahmoud and Moi  the Batman and Robin of the 80s? And why didn't the former stand up for his people?

Here is an excerpt from The Daily Nation's report;

More than 330 people were killed during the 1982 Malkamarre Massacre in Mandera, the Truth commission has been told.
Survivors, testifying before the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission at its hearings in Mandera Town, on Tuesday, said scores of people were also raped and maimed during the 1982 security operation.
Mr Issack Adow Abdi, 80, said they were rounded up by security officers hunting down bandits, beaten and some shot dead as they attempted to escape.
“I have not sired a child due to the painful torture I underwent as the officers mutilated my private organs,” Mr Abdi said.
The victims, he said, never sought legal redress, since the nearest law court was located some 400km from Mandera Town.
The commission heard that many, who witnessed the heinous acts, fled to Ethiopia and Somalia and decided not to return to Kenya.
Ms Dunia Abdullahi said many women were raped in Lulis, Banisa and Elmole in Mandera West District.
“Women in this area silently share the stories of how they were raped, some say they cannot hold back urine to date,” Ms Abdullahi said.
She said some of her relatives were killed while others fled to Ethiopia.
Asked by Commissioner Gertrude Chawatama if they could recall the officers who headed the operation, they said they only remembered a Major Halkano of the Kenya Army.
Victims of the Shifta war also recounted their ordeal before security officers put them in concentration camps.
“It was hell. We were pressed between two rocks — the shiftas killed, maimed and looted our property since we refused to join them while the Kenyan forces did worse instead of pursuing our tormentors,” Mr Guliye Mohamed said.

Video of TJRC Hearings in Garissa

Law Designed to Keep Somali Kenyans Poor

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Archaic law linked to poverty in Garissa

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By ISSA HUSSEIN, ihussein@ke.nationmedia.com

Posted  Thursday, April 14 2011 at 20:06

The emergency law creating poverty in Garissa County, the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission has been told.

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The team heard that more than 9,000 cattle were confiscated by the state through an archaic law.

The law reportedly created concentration camps known as villages to curtail the movement of pastoralists and livestock found outside the camps were taken away.

Mr Dubat Ali Amey, a witness who spoke before the commission, said five camps known as ‘kijijis’ were created in Modogashe, Garissa, Balambala, Bura and Ijara between 1965-66 under the leadership of then PC J. J. Mburu.

“Anyone found outside the camps was declared a shifta, and was shot dead while his herd was taken to Kenya Meat Commission to make canned meat that was served to the security forces that conducted the deadly operation,” Mr Dubat said.

The witness said camels were shot dead since the security officers did not like the meat.

He said the move by the state resulted in widespread poverty in Garissa county.

A notorious concentration camp known as Jaribu was cited as one of the worst. There, nine officers also known as the Nine Brothers, reportedly used brutal acts to extract information from locals.

Officers from the Special Branch, Criminal Investigation Department and Kenya Wildlife Service, acting on the orders of then PC Mburu, allegedly tortured and killed anyone who did not cooperate.

The commission sitting at Garissa National Library heard that the officers working with Somalia bandits were involved in wildlife poaching.

“It is known to all the residents of Garissa Town that the 300 people killed in Garissa Gubay in 1980 was because of a bandit called Abdi Madowe who was a notorious poacher and a close friend of the security officers,” Mr Dubat said.

The commission was asked to refer to a 1980 Sunday Nation paper where then PC Benson Karia was quoted saying that for the death of one security officer, 100 Kenyan Somalis would die.

“Police officers killed with impunity,” Mr Dubat said in a lengthy testimony.

Horrifying Testimonies from TJRC Hearing

 Former PC and gutless war criminal, Francis Sigei , perpetrated horrific crimes upon the residents of Galmagalla in 1989,  TJRC was told. Several victims of the former fascistic Moi government told commissioners about the trauma they went through at the hands of security officers.

Mr Yakub Adow Abdi, who was a councillor at the time, accused Mr Sigei of assaulting him when he arrived at Galmagala trading centre in a helicopter where four police officers taking salaries to Holugho Police Station were ambushed and killed by bandits.

Mr Abdi told the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission during its hearings at the Garissa Public Library that when Mr Sigei arrived at the scene of the attack, he ordered the police to round up residents.

“We thought his arrival will end our torture at the hands of the security officers sent to pursue the bandits, but we were shocked when he asked us to give him the names of the culprits who had killed his officers,” Mr Abdi said.

The former councillor said he told the DC the bandits were from across the border, but in response the official attacked him.

“He kicked me in the ribs. Other well-built officers descended on me with kicks and gun-butts until I fell down unconscious,” he said amid sobs.

Mr Abdi said 20 people died in the 1989 Galmagala operation and many women were gang-raped by security officers.

Mr. Farah Waju's also gave a moving testimony about the brutal death of his wife and the post traumatic effect it had on his children. It was a teary and emotional testimony on the kind of injustice that humans are capable of inflicting on others when there is no equality or accountability. Mr. Farah Waju was the chairman of KFF-Garissa branch and head of PTA Garissa primary school.

   Mr Hussein Farah Waju, whose wife was also allegedly killed by a police officer whom he said was still serving in the force, sobbed uncontrollably and said his has been a long journey to seek justice. “I wrote to then provincial commissioner Maurice Makhanu and a former police commissioner asking for justice but all in vain,” said Mr Waju.He said one of his daughters was so traumatised by the shooting of her mother that she suffered a mental breakdown.
“I am witnessing a truly remarkable turnaround in northern Kenya with this commission. I hope justice will come soon,” said Mr Waju.

I cannot do the story any justice by trying to summarize it, therefore, I'll refer you to the full stories on The Daily Nation and The Standard.

Here is the link to the daily nation version and here is the Standard version

The face of the devil  --->

Aden Barre Dualle: Bad MP, Worse Politician

 Behold the hard-hitting, principled, tell-it-as-it-is politico representing the great people of Dujis for the past 3 years. The man seems to be (mis)guided by an inner compass that has the accuracy of a Chinese Rolex watch, assembled in the sweatshops  of Tianjin.

 Just as the people he is representing were retelling the horrors visited upon them by the Moi & Kenyatta regimes, the psychopath was in Uhuru Park drumming support for the son of  the murderous villain who killed his ancestors. To his credit, the man never pretended to care about Dujis and its people. He was elected in a moment of revulsion against Hussein Maendeleo and his preferred heir. His platonic ideals were bereft of substance and now the rookie is almost as washed-up as the man he replaced (maendeleo).

   In any case, since the man's greatest dream seems to be getting a sound-byte into the news cycles, he is doing a great a job at that. Now all our sweaty unintelligent MPs, who have an expiration date on their public service tenure know what to do. Make crazy statement in front of crowds, get in the news cycle as often as possible and wait your last days out.

 Here is a video of him welcoming the Ocampo Six.  The sad part is that we will be hearing this utter crap for almost another year and half depending on when elections take place in 2012.

Details and Evidence from Garissa Gubay Massacre brought before TJRC

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Truth team receives evidence on killings

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By  Issa Hussein newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com

Posted  Tuesday, April 12 2011 at 22:00

IN SUMMARY

• Witnesses accuse security officers of shooting, raping and detaining Garissa residents

One of the first witnesses before the truth commission now sitting in Garissa on Tuesday recalled the massacre of 300 people in 1980.

Mr Hamud Sheikh Mohamed, a retired public health officer, told the hearing at the Garissa Public Library that security personnel rounded up residents of Garissa Town, shot at people indiscriminately, raped others and torched houses.

A total of 300 people were killed in the Garissa Gubay massacre.

The witnesses were selected to testify in some cases from among 870 registered with the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission in the region.

Many of the cases are connected to the Garissa Gubay, Bulla Karatasi, Balamballa and shifta war massacres, which affected hundreds of local residents.

Mr Mohamed said people were detained for more than 48 hours with no food or water and left in the scorching sun.

He said the residents suffered for cases where bandits from Somalia killed police officers leading to deaths, destruction and confiscation of livestock.

“At Dujis Dam, 100 camels were killed after security officers pursuing bandits sprayed bullets on the herd as it drank water,” he told the commission.

Other massacres mentioned at the hearing were Galamagala, Liboi and Madogashe, all linked to security personnel flushing out bandits from the region.

Cases of discrimination in the issuance of identity cards, birth certificates and passports were also mentioned. Mr Hassan Osman, a retired civil servant, said that he lost a scholarship after he was denied a passport.

“Some 340 Form Four leavers from Garissa County had their applications for identity cards cancelled by the provincial administration despite going through a labyrinth vetting process,” Mr Osman said.

Lack of ID cards had curtailed freedom of movement, he said, because they are required at police check points on the roads.

Among those who have been summoned to give their side of the story on the past atrocities are the Kenyan ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Francis Sigei, who once served as a district commissioner in Garissa.

Witnesses asked for protection from harassment, saying some of their evidence was against serving officers. However, commissioner Ahmed Farah assured them that there would be no intimidation from State agencies.

The hearing continues until Thursday.

Daily Nation: - News |Tears flow as truth team told of 1980 atrocities

Tears flow as truth team told of 1980 atrocities

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By ISSA HUSSEIN and HASSAN BARISA newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com

Posted  Monday, April 11 2011 at 22:00

IN SUMMARY

• Garissa residents say previous probes on military’s rights abuses have been left to gather dust by past regimes

Emotions ran high in Garissa Town as the truth team opened its first public hearing at a school where hundreds of residents were detained and tortured by security forces 30 years ago.

Tears flowed as residents thronged the school on Monday, performing poems, songs and traditional dances depicting the injustices.

The military is accused of committing the atrocities against residents of Northern Kenya under the guise of fighting banditry and cattle-rustling.

Mr Dubat Amey, an elder who has served as Garissa council chairman, told the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission that the abuses were still fresh in the residents’ minds.

He said they were angry because various regimes had let recommendations by past commissions gather dust.

Pointing at the school’s playground where hundreds of residents were assembled in 1980 after a notorious bandit called Abdi Mathobe raided Garissa Town, killing security personnel and a district officer, Mr Amey said: “Because of an offence by one notorious bandit, we were detained here for 72 hours.

“When they told us the women would be freed, we thought it was out of sympathy, but we were shocked to hear they had been raped at gunpoint.”

Garissa mayor Mohamed Gabow told the commission that it would be a big mistake to invoke memories of the injustices and then do nothing.

“You must show that you are equal to the task. If not, we would rather you leave as it hurts to talk about the inhuman treatment,” he said.

He said some dates are associated with the horror like Silig Galay (when the residents were locked in meshed wire), Garissa Guway (when Garissa burnt) and Imigancy (when emergency law was introduced).

He also urged the commission to address current issues like identity cards and security checkpoints, which, he said, still discriminated against Northern Kenya residents.

Acting TJRC chairperson Tecla Namachanja said the hearings are based on 30,000 statements and 600 memoranda recorded from September 2010.

She said Northern submitted the highest number of statements, with 6,000 statements of extrajudicial killings, rape and other violations.

Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo said in a statement read on his behalf that the commission will record historical human rights violations and identify and recommend prosecution of those responsible of the abuses.