Topic: Explosion in Nairobi

Local TV reports explosion in Kenyan capital Nairobi, cause 'unclear'. Several people injured in the Moi Avenue blast. The explosion took place in a building housing business stalls next to MKU, Nairobi Campus.

By Ab-Titchaz

Sio hio tu mkuu. Hebu jiulize katika hiki kipindi cha takriban miaka mitatu kama kuna mtu keshapelekwa
mahakamani kushatakiwa for any of those bombings. That tells you a lot about the Kenya Police Force
investigating capabilities....or worse still, complicity which is very damning!

*cough* *cough*

A police officer yesterday said the self-confessed al Shabaab member Elgiva Bwire named two of his accomplices leading to their arrest. Giving his evidence before a magistrate, Jackson Chacha said Bwire named Omar Muchiri and Stephen Macharia as his recruits who were to carry out attacks in various parts of Nairobi.

http://www.the-star.co.ke/national/n...mplices-begins

Nairobi- A man has been arrested after a grenade attack killed a woman and wounded several people outside a night club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, police said on Wednesday.

Kenyan grenade attack suspect arrested - Africa | IOL News | IOL.co.za

you were saying?

DIVERTS or COINCIDENCE?
Between March 8th and 9th
2012,
The Kenyan Government
was
facing a major crisis. Parliament
had exposed a major
scandal in
the manipulation of the
shilling,
where a few banks, (and possibly
some well connected
individuals)
made tens of billions. Just as
the
public started absorbing the
news, a major Grenade
attack
takes place in Machakos Bus
Station on March 10.
Attention was diverted from the
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK)...
Shilling Scandal, and
Kenyans
quickly forgot the Shilling
Scandal.

In connection to that, Between May 25 and 27, KTN Tv runs
a series exposing the rot in
the
Kenyan security system,
and deep state house connection. On May
28, a
blast goes off. Attention is
quickly
diverted from the Jicho
Pevu (KTN Tv programme) expose to the blast.

Someone help
me.
Is this a mere
coincidence or
someone is playing games
with Kenyans?'

Concerned Tanzanian!

Source: Wankuru Stephen Mwita

By Kabaridi

unajua vipi ni wasomalia wanaleta hivi vita. Ingawa hakuna waliokufa, kuna wengi wa magaidi kenya, MRC, mungiki wanachukua fursa hii kuleta vurugu. hapa ndipo weakness ya Kibaki katika uongozi inaonekana. Kufanya vitu nusu nusu Hii inaonekana ni vita ya wajaluo na wakikuyu extended. Alshabaab kesha kufa

Poleni sana Mr. Kabaridi na Wakenya wote, mkuu katika mawazo yangu Mungiki na MRC hawana ujuzi wa kutengeneza milipuko ya magnitude kama hiyo mkuu, mimi niliposikia kwamba Al-Shabab wameungana na Al-khaida (I am not sure of the spelling) basi nakajua raia wa Africa Mashariki tumekwisha! Al-Khaida ni watu mahili sana katika utengenezaji wa mabomu ya kutisha, sitashangaa kama wanaweza kuwa wanatumia SEMTEX ambayo ni hatari kweli kweli.

Cha muhimu hapa ni wote kuwa macho sana na jamaa hawa, alafu nilikuwa nataka kuwapa tahadhali Majirani zetu kwamba-ikitokea mlipuko watu wasiende kushudia wachieni ma experts wa milipuko wa-deal na matukio hayo, nalisema hili kwa sababu seasoned terrorists huwa na mbuni za kulipua bomu la kwanza lisilo na nguvu sana, alafu baadae wakati watu wamekusanyika wengi kuangalia tukio pakiwepo viongozi na watu wa usalama - basi terrorist wanatumia mwanya huo kulipua bomu kubwa zaidi lililofichwa within the same area kwa kutumia simu ya mkononi na kuleta madhala makubwa sana - so please be dead careful. Alafu kitu kingine kilicho nishangaza ni pale Laila aliposema wataweka CCTV mji mzima wa Nairobi! Hakupashwa kusema kitu kama hicho hadhalani, Serikali ingepashwa kuweka CCTV kimya kimya bila ya kueleza mtu yeyote for security reasons.

La mwisho nawashauri msianze mambo ya kulaumiana kwa kutaja makabila fulani kwamba ndio wanahusika na milipuko hiyo, kumbuka hili ni janga la Africa Mashariki hakuna ambaye yuko safe, walianza Uganda wamekuja Kenya who will be next? Cha muhimu ni Serikali zetu za Afrika Mashariki ku-marshall effort zetu zote ku-contain kikundi hiki hatari. Poleni sana jamani.

POLICE STATEMENT

ASSANANDS HOUSE EXPLOSION- Police Headquarters would like to inform the public that this afternoon at about 1:15 p.m. (13:15 hours) there was an explosion at Assanands building on Moi Avenue.

Initial investigations have established that 33 persons were injured and rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital, The Nairobi Hospital and Agha Khan Hospital. Five are reported to be in serious condition. Assanands building which was housing an exhibition was extensively damaged and property of unknown value was destroyed. Neighboring buildings were slightly by damaged by the blast.

So far the cause of explosion has not been established. However the investigating team is exploring the possibility that the blast was caused by criminals using an improvised explosive device. Initial examination of the scene indicates that the possibility of a conventional bomb is remote. A police team comprising of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, the Criminal Investigations Department and Nairobi are command are on the ground carrying out investigations.

The Commissioner of Police would wish to assure the public that this incident will be thoroughly investigated and measures stepped up to ensure that such an explosion does not recur in future.

The Commissioner of Police is also appealing to the public to avoid speculation on the motive behind it. Any person with information which can assist in the investigations of this case is requested to provide the same to nearest police officer.

Kiraithe E.K.
For: Commissioner of Police.
May 28, 2012.

By Mende0

Mmarekani alitimua mbio kule Somalia eti wakenya waweze thubutu wao wapo Somalia nawasonjo wapo Kenya wanawatandika chini kwa chini

Please huu si wakati wa kufanya utani! Tujaribu kuwa waungwana kidogo. Hata kama unajua tatizo linatokana na nini just reserve your comment please.

NO POWER FAULT

Kenya Power, the country's sole electricity distributor, says initial investigations have ruled out any electrical malfunction.

In a statement, the company said:

"A rapid response technical team from Kenya Power visited the premises upon learning of the incident and found out the following:

• The affected building has no ground mounted transformer inside it or outside that would explode
• The team found all the electrical connections to the building including the cutouts (fuses) on the Kenya Power side that would otherwise blow in the event of a short circuit inside the building intact
• On the Kenya Power network that supplies the general area, no protective devices operated. Protective devices would switch off power network to prevent a fault in a premises, such as the affected building from coming back into the rest of the network."

It concluded that it was "therefore not possible that the explosion was caused by an electricity fault".

BBC

Witness in Kenya blast blames bearded man

Speaking to The Associated Press from a Nairobi hospital bed, Irene Wachira said a bearded man came to a nearby stall three times and acted as if he were interested in buying something. Wachira said the third time he came with a bag that he left behind. The blast occurred shortly afterward, she said.


Wachira, a vendor in the building, described the man as "Arabic-looking" because of his relatively light skin.

A doctor told AP that another person wounded in the blast said a Somali-looking man left behind the bag. The doctor said he could not be quoted by name.

CNS News

Serikali ya Kenya inatia aibu, mabomu zaidi ya matano katika kipindi cha miezi mitano! Labda 4G ($ 500 millions) internet itasaidia kuwakamata hawa majangili

By Bukyanagandi

Poleni sana Mr. Kabaridi na Wakenya wote, mkuu katika mawazo yangu Mungiki na MRC hawana ujuzi wa kutengeneza milipuko ya magnitude kama hiyo mkuu, mimi niliposikia kwamba Al-Shabab wameungana na Al-khaida (I am not sure of the spelling) basi nakajua raia wa Africa Mashariki tumekwisha! Al-Khaida ni watu mahili sana katika utengenezaji wa mabomu ya kutisha, sitashangaa kama wanaweza kuwa wanatumia SEMTEX ambayo ni hatari kweli kweli.

La mwisho nawashauri msianze mambo ya kulaumiana kwa kutaja makabila fulani kwamba ndio wanahusika na milipuko hiyo, kumbuka hili ni janga la Africa Mashariki hakuna ambaye yuko safe, walianza Uganda wamekuja Kenya who will be next? Cha muhimu ni Serikali zetu za Afrika Mashariki ku-marshall effort zetu zote ku-contain kikundi hiki hatari. Poleni sana jamani.

La msingi nikuwa hapa Kenya, watu wana tamaa ya hundi nono kutoka Uarabuni/gulf states. Utakuta idara za uhamiaji, ndo hawa kwa tamaa za hundi, wanaruhusu watu kutoka ulaya na sehemu zingine kuingia nchini eti wawekezaji, huku mtu ni alqaeda. Tamaa mafisadi zinawala wenyewe bila kukagua mtu alivyo. Kama umefanya uchunguzi kwa kina katika historia jinsi magaidi wa taliban na alqaeda walivobalkanize milima za Afghanistan huku serikali ikishindwa kuwazuia. Waliachwa wakaeneza ugaidi wao huku agenti wa usalama wakichelewa kuwaondoa mapema. Na ugaidi wao Afganistan ukashamiri mpaka irreversible levels na wengine wameingia Nchini Mali. Same case na Afrika Mashariki vita hivi vishaanza. Tulichelewa hata kuchukua hatua mapema. Hakuna cha kurudi nyuma. Lazima state agents wakae macho vita viendelee. Watafute magaidi wanamoishi

Lingine la msingi Polisi kenya hawana njia mwafaka za kuzuia haya milipuko. We have a very strong defence forces lakini Police wing imejawa na incompetent people ambao ndio inazuia reforms. Formations zao zimejaa watu ambao hawana mafunzo bora. Ikiwa wanataka kufaulu lazima waweze ku-tug pamoja. Hilo tatizo la reforms ikitiliwa mkazo ndipo kutakuwa na kupumua la sivyo.

By Rufiji

Serikali ya Kenya inatia aibu, mabomu zaidi ya matano katika kipindi cha miezi mitano! Labda 4G ($ 500 millions) internet itasaidia kuwakamata hawa majangili

Here we go again...the blood is not even dry yet and the schadenfreude is already beginning to manifest itself here. I'd like to say that I am surprised but i'm not really! I'm sure "supermod" won't have anything to say here though!

this are the small issues that make kenya vulnerable to propaganda

By Askari Kanzu

POLICE STATEMENT

ASSANANDS HOUSE EXPLOSION- Police Headquarters would like to inform the public that this afternoon at about 1:15 p.m. (13:15 hours) there was an explosion at Assanands building on Moi Avenue.

Initial investigations have established that 33 persons were injured and rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital, The Nairobi Hospital and Agha Khan Hospital. Five are reported to be in serious condition. Assanands building which was housing an exhibition was extensively damaged and property of unknown value was destroyed. Neighboring buildings were slightly by damaged by the blast.

So far the cause of explosion has not been established. However the investigating team is exploring the possibility that the blast was caused by criminals using an improvised explosive device. Initial examination of the scene indicates that the possibility of a conventional bomb is remote. A police team comprising of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, the Criminal Investigations Department and Nairobi are command are on the ground carrying out investigations.

The Commissioner of Police would wish to assure the public that this incident will be thoroughly investigated and measures stepped up to ensure that such an explosion does not recur in future.

The Commissioner of Police is also appealing to the public to avoid speculation on the motive behind it. Any person with information which can assist in the investigations of this case is requested to provide the same to nearest police officer.

Kiraithe E.K.
For: Commissioner of Police.
May 28, 2012.

Mkuu Askari Kanzu,
Asante kwa kutupatia habari za kina zinazowasibu jirani zetu na pia pole zao wananchi wa Kenya hizo ni kadhia za OPERESHENI LINDA NCHI.

By kshaka

Here we go again...the blood is not even dry yet and the schadenfreude is already beginning to manifest itself here. I'd like to say that I am surprised but i'm not really! I'm sure "supermod" won't have anything to say here though!

Let's put emotion aside for a minute, there is nothing wrong with what I have stipulated. The number one job of any government is to defend and protect its citizens. The government of Kenya has let Wanachi down, and fankly speaking, it has shown abysmal failure and incompetence in performing it's number one duty. Jamani, we are talking about people's properties and lives here! What is the logic behind of having a government then?

By Rufiji

Serikali ya Kenya inatia aibu, mabomu zaidi ya matano katika kipindi cha miezi mitano! Labda 4G ($ 500 millions) internet itasaidia kuwakamata hawa majangili

Mkuu Rufiji, hold your fire please.

Ughaidi tu, hadi tusilimu wote ndo tutakuwa salama ili tubakie na vita ya wasuni na washia. Bahati mbaya nazo zina kujitoa mhanga sasa tufanye nini? Kuwa na sharia si suluhisho maana Iran na Syria zipo, kusilimu wote si suluhisho maana Iraq walikuwa karibu wenyewe tu... uh afadhali kuhamia kwenye sayari ya mars labda itachukua muda huko kabla ya kuanza dini

By livefire

LIVE assuarance....just went off air. No grenade or Bomb blast. ITERE caregorical its an electrical fault, Kenya power fire marshalls at site

Pole sana LIVEFIRE, kuweni macho tafadhali.

Afadhali mbinguni ndugu!

Sasa, they are just arguing! Odinga is saying terrorists are the culprits. On the other hand, Kenya's police chief said electrical fault is to blame. And to make the matter even worse, Kenya power company is asking what electrical fault? These exchanges summarize everything that one needs to know about Majirani zetu. Everyone is salivating for fifteen minutes of fame; instead, of looking on ways to confront this monster.

By Rufiji

Sasa, they are just arguing! Odinga is saying terrorists are the culprits. On the other hand, Kenya's police chief said electrical fault is to blame. And to make the matter even worse, Kenya power company is asking what electrical fault? These exchanges summarize everything that one needs to know about Majirani zetu. Everyone is salivating for fifteen minutes of fame; instead, of looking on ways to confront this monster.

I dony deny that that's the case but don't castigate us unless you've been in the same situation and handled it better.