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Kenya: Police Accused of Killings |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 15:49 |
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A Kenyan policeman saw other police officers kill 58 suspects in one year rather than arrest them, he said in a video released Tuesday. In the recording, made in July by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Constable Bernard Kiriinya described the killings and said that some had been ordered by the country’s police commissioner. Four months after making the recording, Mr. Kiriinya was killed, the commission’s vice chairman, Hassan Omar Hassan, said. He said the commission “strongly believes that the police are behind the execution of the whistle-blower” and demanded the police commissioner’s resignation. A police spokesman called the claims “callous and irresponsible.” Source: New York Times |
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Why Kenya needs watertight laws to combat money laundering |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009 22:41 |
 The process of “cleaning” up “dirty money” and redirecting it back into the econonomy as bona fide funds is what is known as money laundering. Written by Anne Kiunuhe
February 24, 2009: The cost of corruption to Kenya is difficult to quantify – but it no doubt runs into billions of shillings annually. This, coupled with monies lost through drug-trafficking, fraudulent public procurement processes and other forms of criminal activity is a cost that Kenya can ill-afford.
Monies obtained through illegal activities must eventually find their way back into the economy. The process of “cleaning” up “dirty money” and redirecting it back into the economy as bona fide funds is what is known as money laundering. These are monies that should have been directed towards public projects, building roads or even feeding the starving populace.
And yet to date, Kenya lacks a comprehensive law to deal with the proceeds of money from criminal activity. The lack of such laws only serves to abet crime and ensure that monies obtained from criminal activity easily end up in the pockets of the persons responsible for the criminal activities as “clean money”.
If our Legislature is as committed as it claims to be about combating fiscal criminal activities, then it is about time that water-tight laws were enacted to combat money laundering and proper systems to enforce the laws were put in place. MORE>>> |
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Valentine: The Gospel according to John |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Friday, 13 February 2009 00:00 |
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"For God so loVed the world
That He gAve
His onLy
BegottEn
SoN
That whosoever
Believeth In Him
Should Not perish,
But have Everlasting life."
John 3:16 Happy Valentine to all our visitors. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:53 )
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Kenya court deadline 'extended' |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 14:01 |
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Kenya's prime minister says the country has two more months to establish a special court to try those implicated in post-election clashes. Raila Odinga said Kofi Annan had agreed to extend the deadline. Mr Annan brokered a power-sharing deal a year ago to end the violence in which some 1,500 people were killed. Last week, MPs rejected a bill to establish the court by March despite intense lobbying by President Mwai Kibaki and his former rival, Mr Odinga. Opponents of the bill said they had no faith in Kenya's justice system and that the suspects should be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. MORE>>> |
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Irish government to beat recession by denying work-permits |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:51 |
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THE Irish Government is reviewing work permits in a move which could bring the shutters down on immigrants from certain countries moving to Ireland, according to a report in the Irish Independent. With unemployment now at a 13-year high, the review is an early indication that the Government is now putting on its boxing gloves to fight for Irish jobs. The number of people on the dole hit a record high of 327,860 last month, and that number could hit at least 400,000 by the end of the year. Last week, telecoms giant Ericsson joined the growing list of companies laying off staff in Ireland -- about 300 staff in Ericsson's Clonskeagh offices are set to lose their jobs. When asked by the Sunday Independent last week if there were plans to tighten up the rules for work permits, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment said certain parts of the employment permit schemes "are currently being examined". MORE>>> |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:56 )
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