Kitabu kitakachombwaga Waziri Mkuu Raila Odinga!

Ndahani said:
Why fleeing in the middle of the battle? Has his spear broken into pieces?
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Wananchi have been subjected to drama in the past few days . it is true miguna acts narcissistic but there are some allegations few of them that are alarming and seeks to dent the reputation of Raila. But what strikes the most is ordinary citizens have been reduced to spectators and cheerleaders of incessant fighting btn both sides of the coallition. Sorry I am nor pacifist but in my position wouldn't. trust anyone
 
Ab-Titchaz said:
The mention of the fact that he knows ODM planned the violence during the '07 elections is
very damning. Kwanza kabisa he has to back his claim. If he doesn't then credibility yake suffers a
major blow....ni mropokaji!
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Hapo kwenye red ndipo panagomba. Yaani the guy knew plans za violence but still kept his mouth shut, enjoyed his salary and then 2012 anakumbuka .."..oh mwaka 2007 watu walipanga kuleta fujo but if you want to hear my story - nunua kitabu changu"!

Kama kweli alijua hizo plans na ushahidi anao, kwani nini hakusaidiana na team ya ICC? Kwanini ameficha habari ambazo 'potentially' zinatishia usalama wa raia wa Kenya and still anageuza hizi habari kuwa personal business? I would have taken him seriously kama angesimama mbele ya umma right after Mr Occampo went public na kutaja majina ya washukiwa 6 (sasa wako 4). Hapo ningesema pengine ametaja baada ya kuona watu aliukuwa anajuwa wameshiriki kupanga fujo wameachwa. But he didnt, sasa anataka kupata pesa kwa kuuza umbea!
 
PART TWO:


FRIENDSHIPS DESTROYED TO SETTLE SCORES

Journalist SARAH ELDERKIN who serves as a media consultant for the Orange Democractic Movement and has been close to Prime Minister Raila Odinga responds to Miguna Miguna's controversial book Peeling Back The Mask in the second of a three-part series which started yesterday.

In writing Peeling the Mask, Miguna Miguna has ensured that his place in society will never be the same again. Raila Odinga, the target of his book will easily weather the storm of unsupported allegations, speculation and prattle.

Miguna may not. He has nailed his colours to the most and exposed himself in a way that he feels, in his determined wrong-headedness, will enhance his reputation and endear him to people. Unfortunately he is like to find the opposite is true.

The public unraveling of someone who, in other circumstances, we could admire, is not a pleasant spectacle. And in the process of trying to destroy Raila Odinga, Miguna has also destroyed many valuable friendships. In the final chapter of his book, Miguna lauds himself and his integrity and says, "My word is my bond." Miguna has brutally gone back on his word to an number of friends who offered him outstanding support.

One of these is Patrick Quarcoo, CEO of the Radio Africa Group, who is revealed in Miguna's book as the "third man" in the discussion Miguna had Raila Odinga, when the latter attempted to offer an olive branch after Miguna's suspension from his office.

The identity of the "third man" was for months the subject of intense speculation and wild conjecture, especially in internet forums. Nobody guessed right. Quarcoo's identity was unknown for a reason. In trying to intercede in Miguna's case, he had been acting for a friend in a private capacity. He was trying to mediate in a difficult situation, for the benefit of everyone, but particularly for the benefit of Miguna. The last thing Quarcoo was seeking was personal publicity, and he expected confidentiality. That was the agreement. But hey ho, what do you know. Miguna strikes again!

The meeting between Prime Minister and Miguna at the Nairobi Serena Hotel on December 27 last year came as a result of appeals by Quarcoo on Miguna's behalf to the Prime Minister in the preceding days. These appeals were, in fact, the culmination of similar appeals from other people.

I am myself (now) on record as having sent the PM a sharply worded memo criticising the mode of Miguna's suspension. I haven't changed my mind on that. It was clumsily handled and my concern primarily the negative publicity it would generate for the PM's office. But I also had much concern for Miguna as a family man with expenses to meet and children to care for. Fair treatment for everyone is what we aim for. Other people had appealed to the PM on similar humanitarian grounds. Much as we could understand the total frustration surrounding Miguna's uncontrollable behaviour in office, we felt there were better ways of going about this.

Quarcoo hated to see what was happening and decided to do what he could about it. But as he told me this week, the impression Miguna has given in his book that the PM was pursuing Miguna and virtually begging him to return is completely wrong. Quarcoo himself says the PM responded to his own appeals that the PM meet Miguna, and that it was never the case that the PM initiated the discussion.

Magnanimous Attitude

The impetus cam from Quarcoo's appeal on Miguna's behalf, as Miguna's friend, that the PM reconsider his decision. The PM eventually agreed to do what he felt he could do in the circumstances. Quarcoo says Miguna "makes out the PM was chasing him for settlement" and says there was nothing of the kind. Quarcoo describes the PM's attitude as "magnanimous". That is the key thing, he says: "The PM was being decent and loyal by listening."

Miguna in the book paints the meeting as adversarial, with an uncomfortable PM behaving in what can only be inferred from Miguna's description as a furtive manner. Quarcoo says that he himself has a completely different perspective of what transpired. He say the PM was very open, very polite, very considerate and treated Miguna with much respect.

The PM was also frank. He said there were significant issues surrounding Miguna's record in service and his relations with his colleagues. As such, returning Miguna to the same job would probably not be the wisest course. However, he was prepared to offer Miguna alternative employment.

The PM suggested a post that Miguna calls in his book ‘Prime Minister's Adviser for Strategic Research, Speech-writing, new media, public policy and rapid response.' It sounds right up Miguna's street (though I must say I shudder when I envisage what the reality reality might have been).

Miguna was not (contrary to his claim in the book) on a "three-year contract". Miguna had refused to sign his contract. He had been on a month-to-month arrangement and therefore had no contract. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister was prepared to bend over backwards to try to accommodate him.

But Miguna took the PM's offer as nothing less than an insult, and Miguna's description of the meeting sheds light on why. He had something quite different in mind for himself. On page 538, he reveals his desire for a "significant position" for which he feels he is "impeccably qualified" (he doesn't specify how).

"Why didn't [Raila] consider my candidature for the attorney-general, director of public prosecutions, anti-corruption commission or any of the newly established constitutional implementations organs? he asks. He goes on to laud his own "credentials, training, tested skills, integrity, passion and commitment" as superior to the characteristics of other people appointed by the PM. This perhaps ties in with Miguna's expressed belief that he was firmly in line to succeed Raila Odinga as leader of the Luo community.

Miguna also thought, apparently, that he had Raila Odinga in a corner. Indeed, of all Raila Odinga's problems, writes Miguna, "I strongly believe that he realised that I ranked higher than Ruto and Uhuru."

Unable to play an appropriate part in a two-way meeting that required a step back and compromise on both sides, Miguna read intrigue and conspiracy in practically every word the PM uttered (even if it was only "Hmmm"). It was a no win situation and, in Miguna's eye, the Pm left the meeting without even a handshake. Quarcoo describes this as "simply ridiculous". He says the meeting began, proceeded and ended extremely cordially on the PM's part, and he himself was very grateful to him for making time to try and find a way forward.

Miguna tries to cast further aspersions on the PM over the cost of the private room Quarcoo had arranged for the meeting. "When the waiter came in with the bill", he writes, "I suddenly realised Raila had left us with an [sic] Sh11,000 debt, without even caring that I hadn't been paid since July 26, 2011." This is also "ridiculous" says Quarcoo, and highly embarrassing himself. It was Quarcoo who had arranged the meeting and who had asked the PM to come. He was the host.

It was his place to pay for the room, he says, and, regarding Miguna, it was quite simply "none of his business."

Miguna has made it his business to twist every single scrap of information he can think of to cast the PM in bad light. As far as Miguna is concerned, it is no holds barred, no quarter given and no even unexploited for exaggeration, aspersion, detraction, distortion, fiction, hyperbole and myth.

It might be Miguna's undoing.

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PART THREE:


Blow by blow reply to maize graft claims in Miguna book


By SARAH ELDERKIN
Posted Wednesday, July 18 2012 at 22:30


In Summary

In this final part of a three-part series that started on Tuesday, journalist SARAH ELDERKIN, who serves as a media consultant for the Orange Democratic Movement and is close to Prime Minister Raila Odinga, responds to Miguna Miguna's controversial book Peeling Back The Mask


Among other fallacious claims and far-fetched stories in his book Peeling Back the Mask, Miguna Miguna seeks to show that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his office staff were involved in a maize scam, whose details became public in January 2009.

This followed the 2008 lifting of the ban on the importation of maize, in order to plug the local shortfall. Read (Peel back the mask Miguna wears, and get a man with delusions of grandeur)

There were, in fact, two concurrent areas of contention. In brief, one was that various people, including parliamentarians in the pay of certain others, had allegedly been given blank allocation letters signed by officials in the ministries of agriculture, finance and special programmes, allowing them to collect large quantities of maize from the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR). Under regulations, only millers are allowed to do so.

The favoured politicians and others never collected the maize – they were, after all, not millers – but they allegedly sold the letters of allocation to millers, who filled in their own names and then collected the maize.

This they retailed at an inflated price, covering the cost of what they had been forced to pay in acquiring the allocation letters, on average Sh500 per bag. Since tens of thousands of bags were involved, various persons were awash with money.

Because of these allegations, the Prime Minister suspended the minister for agriculture at the time, William Ruto. Ruto was promptly reinstated by President Mwai Kibaki. There was no probe.

The second area of contention was that the PM's chief of staff, Caroli Omondi, had allegedly personally issued instructions to the SGR to order maize into the country, and had also told the managing director of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to release contaminated maize on to the market and enhance its price.

On the Prime Minister's instructions, Omondi, together with the PM's PS, Dr Mohammed Isahakia, who was also accused in related matters, stepped aside on February 13, 2009, for three months, while investigations took place.

In other words, the Prime Minister took appropriate action on both fronts. He suspended Ruto and he suspended Omondi and Isahakia.

What else was he supposed to do? Kibaki removed the matter from any investigatory hands on one front.

On the other, Omondi and Isahakia remained suspended until the evidence for the accusations against them had been examined.

The NCPB had a 2008-2009 programme for the importation of more than 161,000 metric tonnes of white maize, some 1.5 million bags of it from Tanzania.

Ruto was in discussion with Tanzania at the time of a meeting on July 30, 2008, attended by the PM, minister of state for special programmes Dr Naomi Shabaan, then minister for finance John Michuki, several PSs, representatives of the NCPB, Omondi, Isahakia and a number of others.

The meeting noted that "the unit price [of the bags of maize] will be known when the minister for agriculture reports back".

A committee was established, consisting of the PSs in the ministries of finance and agriculture, the NCPB MD and Omondi, to negotiate the "favourable import of maize" from a number of potential suppliers in different countries.

The next meeting, with the same attendees as that of July 30, was held on August 19, 2008.

The meeting accepted the proposals presented by the negotiating committee for maize imports from various suppliers, including Afgri Trading (Pty) Ltd in SA. It was not Caroli Omondi personally, as wildly alleged by Miguna, who ordered the maize.

The SA maize arrived at the port of Mombasa and was inspected by the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (Kephis), whose November 28, 2008, certificate of inspection declared the maize "passed for discharge".


Discoloured layer

Kephis detailed the checks made, and noted that the maize had arrived in four separate hatches.

The maize in hatches 1, 2 and 4 was found to be fine. The top of the maize in hatch 3 had been damaged when the hatch cover had opened to the elements as the ship sailed to Mombasa.

Kephis advised the ship agents "to remove the top discoloured layer and only discharge the clean bottom layer".

Then a letter from the NCPB, dated December 19, 2008, informed Grain Bulk Handlers in Mombasa that the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KBS) had cleared the rest of the consignment to be discharged – but that the maize in hatch 3 would only be used for animal feed processing.

Beth Mugo, the minister for public health and sanitation, now came into the picture.

In a letter dated February 18, 2009, she informed John Mutotho, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, that her ministry was directing that the maize in hatch 3 be shipped back to its country of origin.

The matter became the subject of a court case, after the NCPB lodged a claim for the damage with their insurers, and the ship owner challenged the KBS analysis.

After some time, the contaminated maize was re-exported, under the supervision of then Kenya Revenue Authority commissioner-general Michael Waweru.

A letter of confirmation from him was tabled in parliament by the Prime Minister. The contaminated maize was not released into the local market.

Much later, in May 2010, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission and the Inspectorate of State Corporations presented the report of their subsequent investigations.

Concerning the release of maize from the SGR, they criticised the PSs in the ministries of finance, agriculture and special programmes, who were responsible for management of SGR maize stocks, for "lack of clear policy guidelines", in the absence of which "the Cabinet clearly directed that the imported maize be sold to ‘millers'."

It is interesting to note that the report placed the word ‘millers' in inverted commas.

It goes on to say that the three PSs had "primary responsibility for the Subsidized Maize Scheme but they failed to monitor the implementation of the scheme".

The report found that there was no formally registered group who comprised ‘millers' and said, "This created a major loophole in which unscrupulous traders connived with NCPB managers (Prof [Gideon] Misoi, Mr [James] Boit and Mr [Robert] Langat) to allocate SGR subsidised maize."

The report recommended disciplinary action against Dr Romano M Kiome, PS agriculture, Ali D Mohammed, PS special programmes, and Joseph Kinyua, PS finance.

On several counts, it recommended administrative disciplinary action variously against the PSs and several of their officers for "negligence of duty and misuse of office", and similar action against Misoi, Boit and Langat.

Regarding Isahakia, the investigators found that he was not involved in maize distribution, as accused, and had not influenced the allocation of maize, nor benefited from any "facilitation fee" It recommended review of the administrative action taken against him (ie, lifting his suspension from office).

Suspension lifted

With regard to Omondi, the report recommended that his suspension also be lifted, in view of the fact that he had been part of the properly established negotiating committee that had recommended various maize imports from different countries at a price in the range approved by the larger committee and from an approved list of potential suppliers. There was no malpractice.

The report concluded that "the importation of maize was done above board and in the best interest of the country.

However, the distribution of both the imported maize and the SGR maize was marred with irregularities and the directive of the Cabinet that the maize be sold to millers was ignored. Consequently the subsidised maize ended up enriching a few unscrupulous businessmen."

Not Caroli Omondi. And not Mohammed Isahakia. Questions remain, and have never been investigated, about how maize stocks left the SGR.

Throughout his book, Miguna attempts to capitalise in this way on any known anti- Raila Odinga propaganda topic.

One allegation is that Raila Odinga has used his official position to make money for himself and enhance his business interests.

Mr Odinga established his first company, EA Spectre, in 1970.

He and his father before him struggled against tremendous odds and government malfeasance and interference to establish their family businesses.

Notwithstanding that, Mr Odinga would be a pretty poor businessman if he had failed to increase his portfolio of companies or expand their operations in the 42 years since.

But that has never involved corrupt practice. Raila Odinga has NEVER been involved in taking advantage of his office for personal gain.

All the things mentioned by Miguna in his book, such as the involvement of a South African partner in EA Spectre and affiliated companies (and there is no law against this), happened long before Mr Odinga ever became prime minister.

What is more, NONE of Mr Odinga's companies actually deals with the government.

Since he has been prime minister, Mr Odinga has worked tremendously hard to ensure up-and-coming businessmen and women in the private sector have an easier time than he ever did in establishing and running their companies.

In addition, when he travels out of the country, the Prime Minister usually takes with him a battery of businessmen and women, so that they have the opportunity to meet their opposite numbers in the US, South Africa, Singapore, Korea, India, China and so on, and progress Kenya's trade and investment programme.

One of the most successful of Mr Odinga's initiatives has been the Prime Minister's Round Table.

Under this initiative, the private sector, led by Vimal Shah of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, has been able to meet with PSs and ministers and remove many of the roadblocks to business operations.

These include matters concerning bureaucracy and red tape, taxation, work permits, police roadblocks, infrastructure and security and so on.

Mr Shah told me this week that there was no doubt that this had had a tremendous impact on the climate for doing business.

"It is the very first time we have ever been able to meet with heads of state," he said. "This has never happened before. It has led to productive alignment of thought processes between government and the private sector."

He added that the business community was very pleased with the progress so far attained and was thinking about where they wanted to go to take the country forward to realisation of the Vision 2030 goals.

"We want to make Vision 2030 a reality," he said, "and to do that we need leaders and decision-makers who recognise the importance of consulting and listening, not dictating."

There is no doubt that the consultative initiatives and the focus both in and outside the country on trade and investment mark Raila Odinga out as such a leader.

Finally, another of Miguna's charges is that Raila Odinga practises nepotism.

Once again sitting on The Bench this week prior to his sudden departure from the country, Miguna told his host, Capital Talk host Jeff Koinange (who was suitably "outraged" – Jeff, please, take my advice and get some acting lessons!) that Raila, since he became PM, had appointed to public positions a number of his relatives.

This is a cheap shot, and it is a cheap shot not mainly against Raila Odinga but against people who have made their mark in Kenyan life and who have worked very hard and in a committed and focused way for the positions they have achieved.

Let us take, for example, Raila's sister, Wenwa, currently the consul-general at the Kenya consulate in Los Angeles.

Prior to her appointment, the highly intelligent Wenwa was professor of organic chemistry at the University of Nairobi.

She had been in line for a diplomatic appointment for a long time, and had been passed over on several previous occasions when less qualified people from – what shall we say? – another community had been appointed in her stead.

Wenwa, who appears in the Kenya Book of Records as the first Kenyan woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry, has long experience in the public sector.

She joined the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya as senior chemist in charge of research and development and was later promoted to the post of chief chemist, becoming the first woman to head a department there.

She worked with the Commission for Higher Education, in charge of curriculum development for private universities in Kenya.

She has been secretary of Maendeleo Ya Wanawake and sits on the boards of governors of several schools.

She has many other appointments under her belt and is a member of many professional bodies, including the Natural Products Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa and the National Steering Committee for the Development of Science and Technology Parks.

Now, is such an accomplished woman, someone who has patiently waited her turn for appointment and has been passed over for questionable reasons, supposed to disappear into the village because her brother holds a senior public position?

Miguna also mentioned Jakoyo Midiwo, MP for Gem, ODM chief whip in parliament and Raila's cousin. According to Miguna, Raila appointed Midiwo to his post.

Understand Parliament

Perhaps Miguna does not understand how parliament works. The chief whip is elected by the parliamentary group.

The Prime Minister and ODM party leader had nothing to do with Midiwo's appointment.

If members of parliament of their own volition decide to elect a certain individual as their whip, or, indeed, to any other position, what would happen if the PM interfered?

Apparently, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. That's very convenient for a character assassin such as Miguna.

Then we come to Raila's brother, Dr Oburu Oginga. Oburu has been an MP for three terms.

During the first two terms, he was never appointed to any ministry. Raila never appointed him when he had the opportunity. Oburu was a backbencher throughout.

Does somebody who has been returned to parliament three times deserve consideration for appointment? Many people might reasonably think so.

Leave alone that. Oburu has a doctorate in economics. He was senior economist and planning officer in government for 20 years.

He has given outstanding service in the public sector. Would that experience be useful in government, do we think?

Oburu was chosen to understudy a minister who had no experience or background whatsoever in finance or planning.

A reasonable response might be, thank God Oburu was there. There is nothing reasonable about Miguna's response.

Likewise unreasonable is Miguna's claim that "Raila made sure there was only one assistant minister in that ministry".

What nonsense! Many ministries have only one assistant minister. How many are there in trade, public health and others?

Finance and planning originally had two but the portfolio was a joint one, later separated into two separate ministries, finance, and planning.

It is a total non-issue, but Miguna will pass up nothing he can use to cast aspersions, however ridiculous.

Scraping the barrel, he even has to pick on Midiwo's brother-in-law. That is, Raila's cousin's wife's brother. This is Elkanah Odembo, Kenya's ambassador to the US.

Odembo, another accomplished individual highly respected internationally, was chairman of the Kenya National Council of Non-Governmental Organisations and the founding director of the Ufadhili Trust, the Centre for Philanthropy and Social Responsibility, which seeks to promote the spirit of giving, philanthropy and the use of local resources to improve people's lives through corporate social responsibility, cross-sector partnership, technical assistance and policy research.

He was previously a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the East Africa Representative for World Neighbours, chairman of the Kenya Community Development Foundation, lead facilitator for the Kenya Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Consultation Process, and a member of the selection committee for the UNDP Africa 2000 Project.

He was a founding member of the NGO Coalition for East Africa, a member of the National Advisory Committee for Health Research, of the NGO Co-ordination Board of Kenya, and of the National Committee for Social Dimensions of Development. He is a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative.

Extremely professional

Odembo is extremely professionally distinguished. And all of this was achieved long before Raila Odinga ever became Prime Minister.

Odembo has spent his life passionately committed to bringing development to the rural and underprivileged in society.

His quiet, elegant, composed and focused demeanour (the absolute antithesis of Someone We Know), together with his vast experience and respected intellect, make him the perfect choice for a senior diplomatic position.

Is Odembo supposed to be denied this because his sister made the "mistake" of getting married to Raila's cousin?

Are we, as a nation, for the same reason supposed to be denied the outstanding contribution such a person can make to public life?

The question is, should anyone be forced to languish in the wilderness, unable to receive due recognition for their work, their careers stagnating for years on end, simply because one of their relatives happens to be in office?

Is only one person per family allowed to be successful and play a role in Kenya?

These appointees are intelligent, highly trained, committed people. There are many such people in Kenya.

And among everyone appointed, only a few can claim some kind of kinship with Raila Odinga.

As the PM himself has pointed out, hundreds of Luos have been appointed to different public positions.

He himself is not the relative of all Luos. Did he not appoint Miguna? Is Miguna his relative?

Miguna has also complained that some Luos have been relieved of their appointments for various reasons, and sometimes replaced by people of different tribes. So what?

Is the Prime Minister PM for Luos alone? Once again, the PM is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

The whole issue is nothing less than a straw man, built by Miguna for the sole purpose of tearing it down and attempting to destroy a man's reputation with it.

To all those calling for the PM to respond to the "charges" in Miguna's book, I say, what "charges"?

These are not "charges" but the ravings of a man disordered by his personal sense of revenge. Just as Miguna unleashed more than 20 speculative, futile and ultimately dismissed cases against the Queen of England and the Canadian authorities after his trial in 2003, so he has now unleashed his fury against Raila Odinga.

It is a pattern of behaviour for Miguna. It says nothing about the objects of his fury and everything about himself.


‘Answer charges'

It is amusing but unsurprising to see how some opportunistic politicians have jumped on the bandwagon, also calling for the PM to "answer charges".

They have no shame, just like Miguna. Did Barack Obama answer the "charges" contained in the books, The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command by Miguna's friend, the infamous Jerome Corsi? You bet he didn't. He didn't lower himself.

Does anyone really think a whole Prime Minister is going to debase himself by personally responding to the rantings, innuendo, gross inaccuracies, false claims and insults of a man like Miguna?

If they do, they expect the unreasonable. If anyone wants to take the PM to a court of law, that is when he will answer "charges".

Until then, this is as good as it gets, folks. Now, at the end of a nearly a week filled with gleeful hysteria and ranting, perhaps we can all calm down, get back to normal life and concentrate on the things that matter to this country.


http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Blow+by+blo....z/-/inde x.html
 
How are threads started in JF, there are like 5 threads dealing with Miguna Miguna subject, would it not make more sense if they were all merged? just my two cents
 
Fire-spitting Miguna Miguna, whose new book, Peeling Back The Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya rattled Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his allies, left the country overnight, headed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to brief the prosecutors on his claims linking the premier to war crimes and seek protection, sources told the Jackal News, revelations that might recast events at the first permanent international tribunal.

Others sources said he might then proceed to his global tour for an international launch of the crimson-red book that has stirred a firestorm in the east African nation, notably by spilling open the intimate secrets within Odinga's side of the coalition government.

"He is headed to the Hague to brief prosecutors and seek protection," a source explained. It is said that he boarded a KLM flight at JKIA, which would make a stop over in the Netherlands, from where he would proceed to Canada, where he lived in exile for several years after fleeing the regime of retired president Daniel arap Moi.

In Canada, where he has been planning a vacation after launching the book in Kenya, Miguna will launch the book with many Kenyans and friends who live in the North American nation. "For a very long time, he has been planning a vocation in Canada after launching the book," a source said, dispelling fears that he had fled the country.

This comes a day after Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko ordered police chief Matthew Iteere to record a statement from the former senior advisor to Odinga, after claiming that he had enough evidence that could indict the premier at the International Criminal Court for his role in the 2007/08 post-elections violence that claimed at least 1,500 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.

In addition, his explosive book accused Odinga and several of his aides of massive corruption.

At the same time, Odinga's office issued a hard-hitting rejoinder, daring the Canada-trained lawyer to reveal the alleged evidence, warning that withholding such information amounted to impunity.

Miguna, on his part, rubbished both Odinga's rejoinder and Tobiko's order, hinting that he could be an ICC witness and thus deserves protection instead of threats. "If Tobiko says I have evidence to give to the ICC, that makes me a potential ICC witness. Now, under the witness protection act, my identity and the nature of evidence I have cannot be disclosed."

"Tobiko's and Iteere job would be to PROTECT me, not THREATEN me. Any responsible prosecutor worth his salt would never threaten a witness. He would never release the name of such an important witness to the media and demand that he gives a statement to the police. A threatened witness cannot be helpful to any prosecutor."

"Moreover, they cannot force me to give them evidence. Instead of approaching discreetly and professionally like a competent prosecutor, he's playing politics to the gallery. And he's at the behest of Raila. That's despicable," said Miguna, who wile launching his book on Saturday, claimed he had evidence to fix many politicians at the ICC. At subsequent TV interviews, he claimed the he had evidence that if accepted at the ICC, would indict Odinga.

So far, the ICC has successfully indicted Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, ex-civil service chief Francis Muthaura, lawmaker William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang. Their trials are scheduled to start in April next year; months after Kenya hold its presidential elections, the first under the new constitution. Interestingly, if Odinga is indicted, he would join Kenyatta and Ruto as the presidential candidates facing the international tribunal.

On Monday, he claimed that his life was in danger., hinting that the threats came from Odinga's allies.

Odinga's personal assistant Caroli Omondi, portrayed as a corrupt dog who allegedly bought Nairobi's Heron Court Hotel using funds of dubious sources, instructed his lawyer, the litigious George Oraro, to institute criminal libel proceedings against Miguna and the Nation Media Group that serialized the book.

Over the weekend, Capital FM reported that Miguna was scheduled to start an international tour to market his book, the most explosive memoir since John Githongo, the former anti-graft advisor in President Mwai Kibaki's office, unleashed his chronicles, It's Our Time To Eat, exposing how ministers and Kibaki allies swam in a sea of graft. He fled to the United Kingdom, where he was admitted as a fellow in the St Antony's College, part of the prestigious Oxford University, where most dissidents seek asylum.
 
Ab-Titchaz said:
PART THREE:


The NCPB had a 2008-2009 programme for the importation of more than 161,000 metric tonnes of white maize, some 1.5 million bags of it from Tanzania.

Ruto was in discussion with Tanzania at the time of a meeting on July 30, 2008, attended by the PM, minister of state for special programmes Dr Naomi Shabaan, then minister for finance John Michuki, several PSs, representatives of the NCPB, Omondi, Isahakia and a number of others.
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Odinga's camp is committing strategic errors by answering the allegations this way...:hat:
 
Thanks Ab-Titchaz for the book. Nimekipata kwa urahisi na kuanza kukisoma. Kumbe jamaa hajui hata amezaliwa tarehe na mwaka gani!
 
Having gone through Mr. Miguna’s tome it really saddens me that after so any years of excruciatingly painful struggle, false dawns and disillusionments, his offering just might polarize Kenya along inter and intra-ethnic lines.
 
If what Miguna has written in the book is true, then he has helped Raila with his credentials as an astute politician who puts his country first and his party second!! He is the type of leader that Kenya needs badly.
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Ndinani are you serious when Raila is depicted as a cold calculating graft guzzling individual......... you still regard it is promoting his political aura?
 
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