23rd May 2006
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MOI SHOULD BE IN PRISON, NOT PLAYING DIRTY POLITICS OF
DIVIDE AND RULE
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"KESDEMO believes that Moi should be tried in a court of law because
there is massive evidence that could sustain a case against him so that
he can spend the rest of his life in prison instead of loitering around
Kenya delivering bogus political summons after running down the country
during his 24 years reign of unmitigated terror".
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The Kenya Scandinavia Democratic Movement (KESDEMO) is deeply concerned
that former Dictator Daniel arap Moi, a ruthless man who converted
Kenya into a one Party dictatorship thereby triggering the 1982 coup,
murdered thousands of innocent Kenyans in cold blood, looted billions of tax
payer's money through corruption, promoted tribalism, encouraged
nepotism, cemented inter-ethnic hatred, instigated bloody ethnic cleansing
during the 90s for his political survival, massacred thousands of Kenyan
citizens in the marginalized North Eastern Province (Wagalla massacre,
Kibish massacre etc) and served Western Imperialism with zeal for 24
years, is now attempting to make a political come back using dirty
politics he perfected during his long reign of darkness and death.
From Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President who laid the grounds for
neo-colonialism in our country, Moi inherited a well tested and
iron-fisted method of totalitarianism which he used with abandon to crash his
opponents at every opportunity and to assassinate his political rivals to
maintain his grip on power. Jomo Kenyatta, the fake "founding father of
the Kenyan Nation" is famous for his betrayal of the Mau Mau and his
forgiveness of tainted home-guards like John Michuki (the Internal
Security Minister) now terrorizing the media with terror gangs and harassing
Kenyans in North Eastern Province with heavily armed military
personnel.
POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
In his irritating public utterances, Moi has wondered aloud the crimes
he committed that should precipitate a national outcry that he should
stop meddling in politics by shutting his mouth while in retirement. The
courage with which Moi continues with his defiance is a direct
consequence of the failure of the Kibaki dictatorship to arrest the ex-despot
after Narc came to power and the failure of the regime to set up a
structure to investigate "Moi's crimes against humanity". Due to the huge
volume of these crimes, KESDEMO wishes to give some headlines that could
for ever confine Moi behind bars if they are investigated. Bringing Moi
to face justice could put to a permanent end what is increasingly
becoming "The Daniel arap Moi menace" fuelled by the ex-dictator's arrogant
and unwelcome public outbursts.
The Assassination of Owiti Ongili ( former MP), Robert Ouko (former
Minister of International cooperation), Bishop Alexander Kipsang Muge, Ben
Gethi (former Police Commissioner and General Service Unit - GSU -
commandant), Mbuthia Gatoto (Gethi's second in command) among others are
just but few examples of Kenyans who lost their lives as a result of
Moi's policy of systematic assassination "Kenyatta style" of real or
imagined opponents.
After Dr. Robert Ouko's assassination, more than 15 witnesses linked to
the Ouko murder case were either killed or made to disappear
mysteriously under Moi's brutal and evil empire. As capitalist newspapers
looking
for sensation continue to give Moi coverage, all cases of bloody
political assassinations under Moi remain unresolved.
During the assassination of Pio Gama Pinto, Kungu Karumba, Joseph Tom
Mboya, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki and others, Moi was in government thus the
former dictator is a living witness to every major political
assassination in Kenya's recent history. In the case of J.M. Kariuki, former Mau
Mau detainee and MP for Nyandarua North, the mutilated body was found
dumped in Manyatta Rochumbo by a Massai herdsman called Mosaitwa ole
Tunda. JM's family is still crying for justice in an assassination in
which Moi must have been in the know because he was Vice resident under
Kenyatta who later sat on a Report by a Parliamentary Committee that was
set up to investigate the assassination.
POLITICAL EXECUTIONS, DETENTIONS AND MASSACRES
Hezekia Ochuka, leader of Kenya People's Redemption Council (KPRC),
Charles Oriwa Hongo, Robert Odhiambo Ndege, Blamwell Injeni Njeremani,
Fenwicks Chesoli Obuon, Joseph Ogidi Obuon, Charles Mirasi Odawa, Walter
Odira Ojode, Pancras Oteyo Okumu, Edward Adel Omolo, James Odemba Otieno
and George Akoth Otila (all members of KPRC) were executed by Moi in
July 1985 for political reasons, executions that Moi should be brought to
answer for in a court of law instead of being allowed to issue hopeless
political statements across the country.
Kenyans (like former student leader, Titus Adungosi) who escaped direct
execution were simply sent to rot in prison where they were eventually
eliminated in a top conspiracy that was masterminded by Moi's lethal
Special Branch. As Moi continues to open his mouth to promote dirty
politics of hatred and division in Kenya, KESDEMO wishes to remind the
former dictator that he is directly responsible for the illegal arrest and
imprisonment of former students like Francis Amaye, Onyango Oloo,
Franklin Ottawa, Martin Keya, Maurice Muthania, Joseph Onono and hundreds of
other Kenyans, some of whom have never been traced to date.
The long list of Kenyans Moi sent to prison arbitrarily includes more
than 2,000 Kenya Air Force soldiers who were sent to rot in prison for
as long as 22 years without reason and whose relatives are still crying
for justice. Even as we write, the fate of those who were jailed by Moi
is not clear. We have in mind Kenyans like Cpl N.I. Abwenje (jailed for
22 years), S. Pvt S.K. Boor (22 years), Cpt P.B. Chesoni (18 years),
Cpt Kagoromo (20 years), Sgt M. Kisilu (20 years), Cpl C. Makana (20
years) among others. Definitely, Moi has a case to answer against these
illustrious sons of Kenya some of who lost their lives in the "death
chambers" that Kenyan prisons are known to be.
As part of a wider and dirty strategy to maintain his one Party
dictatorship, Moi detained several opposition politicians, academics,
students, workers and human rights activists as he, at the same time, brutally
tortured, crippled, maimed, forced into exile or killed members of
progressive and anti-imperialist Movements and organizations like the
December 12th Movement, Mwakenya uprising, FERA among others. Most
importantly, Moi was mainly keen on eliminating Kenyans who had clearly
understood the need for both the overthrow of capitalism in Kenya and the
defeat of Moi's vicious capitalist class rule which ravaged Kenya for 24
years. Does Moi now think that Kenyans have forgotten his heinous crimes
against the Kenyan people?
Further, Moi is responsible for the killing of more than 5,000 Kenyans
who perished during his bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing in the 90s.
In 1980, 400 Kenyans perished in state-instigated massacres in Garissa,
in 1982, more than 2,000 Kenyans were murdered after the coup while in
1984, more than 2,000 Kenyans were slaughtered by Moi's agents in both
Wajir and West Pokot. Does Moi have any moral authority to dictate
through the media how the fourth coming by-elections in North Eastern
province should be conducted or should he be arrested and brought to face
justice? Moi's crimes, which have been well documented, do not just cover
assassinations, illegal arrests, detentions, human rights violations,
disappearances or unspeakable massacres.
POLITICS OF BETRAYAL AND COLLABORATION WITH IMPERIALISM
The former dictator is responsible for the looting and plunder of more
than 300 billion Kenyan shillings from state coffers during his reign
of terror, privatization of profitable state enterprises which resulted
in thousands of job losses, piling foreign debts which never benefited
Kenyans, supervising land grabbing by the rich, destroying domestic
industry, opening of the Kenyan economy for massive foreign
super-exploitation, running down Kenya's infrastructure, grinding the health and
education systems to a halt, creating huge slums all over Kenya especially
in urban areas, abandoning the youth, promoting poverty and suffering
on a mass scale, starving millions of Kenyans to death, selling Kenya to
imperialism among other unforgivable crimes that are too numerous to be
narrated here.
Unlike countries like Tanzania and Zambia which supported liberation
movements in Africa, Moi constructed a pro-imperialist foreign policy
which was anti-African liberation Movements especially in Southern African
countries. For example, Moi sided with the West during the struggle
against apartheid in South Africa and allowed Kenya to be used by
imperialism as a satellite station to destabilize countries like Angola,
Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe etc.
Every conscious Kenyan knows that during Moi's dictatorial and ruthless
leadership which mainly served the interest of imperialism, Kenya
became the headquarters of all Western spy and intelligence agencies, a
legacy which was inherited by Kibaki. It was also during Moi's reign that
Kenya became a center of arms smuggling, money laundering and drug
trafficking in East and Central Africa, illegal activities that Kibaki's
regime continues to promote.
When Moi was the Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU),
he was constantly used by Western imperialism to work against African
unity, a betrayal which culminated in Moi being used to deny Colonel
Mohammed Gadaffi to take over the Chairmanship of OAU in Libya. At each
and every stage, Moi has been anti-Kenyan people, anti-African people,
anti-Kenyan liberation Movements but pro-imperialists and pro-wealth
grabbers who are milking Kenya dry.
Needless to say, former dictator Moi is directly responsible for the
arrest of Abdulla Ocalan, the Chairman of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)
who was arrested in Kenya and handed over to the Turkish authorities
who continue to incarcerate him. Although the whole conspiracy was master
minded by the CIA in conjunction with the Turkish regime, Moi was used
to facilitate the operation in his capacity as a loyal puppet of
imperialism. In handing over the PKK leader, the Kurdish liberation Movement
suffered a major set back because of Moi's lack of common sense and
tendency to boot-lick America. Throughout his 24 years of dictatorship
corrupt Asian businessmen have been thinking for Moi, the last having been
Kamlesh Pattni who masterminded the Goldenberg scandal Kibaki has been
unable to address.
During Kenyatta and Moi's dictatorship, Kenya became a playground of
Western military operations where the American marines (6th Fleet) and
other NATO pact war ships were given a military base in Mombasa to
counter the so called "Communist threat" under the Warsaw pact Treaty. By
unashamedly accommodating foreign soldiers who were mainly "sex tourists"
prying on young Kenyan girls especially at the coastal city of Mombasa,
many young girls suffered brutal sexual molestation at the hands of
adventurist sex tourists while some gilrs lost their lives.
We have in mind girls like Kabura who was strangled to death by an
American Marine called Sandstrom during the 80s, a crime which forced the
former Attoney General James Karugu to resign after Sandstrom was set
free. British soldiers on military operations in North Eastern province
routinely raped women and impregnated young girls, leaving numerous
bastards behind, all in the name of Moi's hospitality. Numerous Kenyans
have been killed or crippled by unexploded bombs, land mines and other
ammunition left behind by British soldiers. Some bomb and rape victims
have only recently taken their cases to court to demand redress using
their injuries and bastards left behind by British soldiers. How can
Kenyans now forget and allow Moi to continue spilling dirty politics in
retirement when the ex-dictator has very serious pending cases to answer?
MOI, THE LAND GRABBER PROTECTED BY PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI
By haphazardly making provocative political statements, Moi is, in
reality, trying to sanitize himself through puerile KANU style politics
which he mastered and which makes opportunists and idiots in Kenya to
refer to him as "Professor of politics". For KESDEMO, this is rubbish. From
the days of colonialism, Moi has been an agent of white settlers who
stole thousands of acres of land in Kenya. Although he is in the news
"addressing issues", Moi failed to address the question of land during his
reign, a trend which Kibaki continues to follow as Moi tells Kenyans to
respect Kibaki. The former dictator is himself one of the most well
known land grabber being protected by Kibaki's administration. President
Kibaki is currently blocking and protecting land grabbers through his
failure to release and take action on the so called "Ndung'u Land Report"
which details land grabbing in Kenya.
Although Moi is now issuing useless political statements, he has never
issued a single statement when it comes to the eviction by force of
landless squatters especially those in Mau forest and in the Rift Valley.
In these regions, Moi's former Vice President and now President, Mwai
Kibaki, together with the ex-dictator's former British colonial home
guard, John Njoroge Michuki (Kimendeero), have repeatedly been evicting
people using scotched-earth policies like burning houses, torching
Churches, burning schools and destroying food stores to deprive people of
their means of survival.
As these serious crimes continue to be committed, government agents are
also murdering and raping poor squatters who cannot afford lawyers to
defend them. Why has three regimes failed to resettle the landless in
Kenya more that 40 years after fake Uhuru and why is both Moi and Kibaki
not talking about the issue of landlessness which is more urgent?
Although he is openly campaigning for KANU, Moi has not said a word
about the hundreds of Kenyans who are under attack by the government in
the name of "disarmament". Today there is a vicious and brutal military
campaign going on in Western Pokot, other parts of Rift Valley and
North Eastern Provinces. In these areas, the Kenyan army is committing
terrible human rights violations by burning houses, raping women, mass
arresting old men and children thereby causing massive suffering of
marginalized and neglected Kenyans. Why has Moi been silent in the face of
fascism carried by military and Para-military forces and where military
helicopters, tanks, armed personnel carriers, automatic guns, mortars etc
are beings used unscrupulously to kill and disperse the marginalized
Kenyans into Uganda and other neighboring countries?
In these marginalized areas, there are no roads, hospitals, clinics,
schools, universities, running water and industries while life expectancy
is below 40 years. What is available is the Catholic church trying to
convert Muslims into Christianity. The child mortality rate is high
while malnutrition of children and deaths out of treatable diseases is the
norm. Life styles of populations in these areas of Kenya are still
similar to those of the days when white pioneers of colonialism arrived in
Kenya to pave the way for land grabbing and exploitation of the
country's human and natural resources.
MOI SHOULD BE LOCKED AT KAMITI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON
Instead of being allowed to deceive Kenyans with politics of
opportunism and boot licking, Moi should be in Kamiti maximum security prison
together with his former cohorts. KESDEMO is appealing to Kenyans to
demand the bringing to justice of Moi and all those who committed human
rights violations, economic crimes, murder, torture, ethnic cleansing and
other crimes against humanity, just like Chilean people who have been
demanding the execution of former dictator Agustino Pinochet.
Former Argentinian military dictators are being hunted for crimes
committed during their reign of terror and there is no reason why Moi should
be allowed to walk free in Kenya where he continues to spit rubbish
thinking Kenyans are still living in darkness. Israelis continue to hunt
Nazi war criminals who committed acts of murder more than 60 years ago
so why should Kenyans "forgive and forget" about Moi's crimes and
atrocities just as Kenyatta forgave home guards who killed and maimed Mau Mau
freedom fighters?
Moi is irritating Kenyans today and undermining the Orange Democratic
Movement (ODM) because ODM failed to heed KESDEMO's advice that they
mobilize Kenyans for snap elections after they won the referendum.
Immediately after the referendum victory, ODM had the opportunity to remove
Kibaki from power and prevent him from protecting his class ally - Moi -
who is now being used by the same Kibaki to divide and strangulate ODM
because ODM has lost political initiative.
Members of KESDEMO believe that, ODM is paying the price of political
short-sightedness and allowing well known traitors, political
prostitutes, opportunists, thugs, human rights violators, tax evaders, land
grabbers and economic criminals who have never sided with the exploited
Kenyan people to penetrate and sabotage the Movement from within.
Moi's re-entry into politics is a confirmation that the privileged
capitalist ruling class will always protect themselves regardless of the
crimes committed in office unless the masses are ready to rise and say
"No". Kibaki has not brought to justice a single thief (Anglo-leasing,
Goldenberg etc) and this is why he continues to allow Moi, one of the
most corrupt former dictators, to roam around the country sowing seeds of
discord to marginalized communities who suffered under him and who
continue to suffer marginalization under Kibaki.
Kenyans must reject fake leaders like Kibaki and Moi whose history is
well known and documented since the days of fake independence. KESDEMO
is appealing to North Eastern people and elsewhere in Kenya to ignore,
reject and boycott Moi's hopeless political meetings and messages which
are being promoted by the capitalist media to divide Kenyans and to
spread useless sensation.
If forces behind KESDEMO were in power in Kenya today, Moi and all
those who have committed political murders, economic crimes and human
rights violations would be in prison. Those who have grabbed land, protected
foreigners who have committed murder, sold the country to imperialism
and converted the country into a haven for money laundering, human and
drug trafficking would also be rotting in prison.
Further, those who have promoted wanton exploitation of workers, stolen
tax payer's money through corruption, killed justice and promoted
economic and mental slavery of millions of Kenyans would all be rotting in
special prisons after facing justice. KESDEMO believes that Moi should
be tried in a court of law because there is massive evidence that could
sustain a case against him so that he can spend the rest of his life in
prison instead of loitering around Kenya delivering bogus political
summons after running down the country during his 24 years reign of
terror.
Martin Ngatia:
ngatia_martin@hotmail.com
Okoth Osewe:
osewe@hotmail.com
KESDEMO Central committee