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Fifty years ago, Richard Nixon’s Presidential Daily Brief had a full page on the assassination of Kenya’s Tom Mboya

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Ken
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Here is The President’s Daily Brief from the Central Intelligence Agency for Richard Nixon, July 7, 1969 as published in the CIA Freedom of Information Act on-line reading room.

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Posted in corruption, elections, Justice/Impunity, Kenya, United States | Tagged 1969, assassination, Central Intelligence Agency, elections, Henry Kissinger, Jaramogi Odinga, Jomo Kenyatta, KANU, Kenya, Kenya 1970 election, Kenya People’s Union, Kenyatta, parliament, political parties, Presidential Daily Brief, Richard Nixon, Tom Mboya, tribalism, United States | Leave a reply

Latest “gangland style hit” of opposing voice in Kenya reminds of neglected seventh anniversary of the murder of Oscar Foundation leaders

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Ken
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Here is my remembrance post from last year for the sixth anniversary of the murders of Oscar Kingara and John Paul Oulu.  

The hit last week of Jacob Juma–a combative and controversial businessman who had taken on a public profile as a vocal critic of corruption in the Kenyatta government, and political proponent of the opposition–was clearly intended to send a chilling message.  Care was taken to make sure the killing was unambiguously seen to be an assassination even though it happened overnight without known third party witnesses.  It would have been simple to raise doubts about common robbery as a motive if the killers were worried about being caught as opposed to frightening other potential victims.

Juma had been “vocal” on  most of the hotest contemporary corruption topics, including the multi-faceted looting at the National Youth Service and the “Eurobond” debt.  The day of the hit, May 5, he was focused on the IEBC and “tweeted” a picture of former U.S. Ambassador Smith Hempstone from time of the end of the Cold War and the “second liberation” to the current ambassador.  

Kingara and Oulu will continue to be missed as Kenya is faced with yet another extrajudicial killing–the kind of thing that the Oscar Foundation investigated when its leaders where denounced by the Kenyan Government, then assassinated.

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Posted in corruption, elections, Kenya, Nairobi, United States | Tagged Alfred Mutua, assassination, chickengate, corruption, elections, IEBC, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Jacob Juma, John Paul Oulu, Mwai Kibaki, Oscar Foundation, Oscar Kingara | 1 Reply

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