Threat of International Narcotics Trade to Kenya. Serious allegations of drug related offences made by ex-Senior Superintendent of the Kenya Police Force Mohammed Godana Jarssa. Tabled in Parliament by Gitobu Imanyara MP on 24th November 2010
A week ago (Wednesday, 24th November, 2010) Kenya’s Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, rose in Parliament to make a statement on the Threat of International Narcotics Trade to Kenya. The statement came days after the US Ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, announced lifetime travel bans by the US Government against 4 unnamed Kenyans – three of whom are claimed to be Members of Parliament. Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Statement makes disturbing but revealing reading about the extent of narcotics trafficking in Kenya and the impunity enjoyed by organized criminal syndicates. Among the facts presented to Parliament include:-- Close to 1 per cent of the population smoke bhang (cannabis). The highest consumption is recorded in Coast Province at 2.3 per cent followed by Nyanza Province at 1.4 per cent. The lowest consumption is in Western Province with 0.3 per cent.
- Heroin has emerged as a killer drug to many Kenyan youth especially in urban areas, along the Coast and in Nairobi. Nationally, heroine is consumed by 0.1 per cent of the population. The highest consumption is in the Coast Province with 0.4 per cent. Nairobi and Central provinces have 0.2 per cent consumption while the rest of the provinces have less than 0.1 per cent consumption. Kenya has become a significant transit hub for cocaine destined for North America and Europe.
- There is evidence that international drug cartels operate in the country. They operate as loose networks with limited membership. Occasionally, they compete with each other, but often, they co-operate with other criminal networks to carry out their trade. They have links with other drug cartels in other cities of the world. These cartels, although run almost exclusively by foreigners, have recruited Kenyans into their networks as agents. The Kenyan agents tend to be prominent personalities, mostly to provide protection. Some members of our key security and other governance institutions are among the recruits.
- Drug traffickers are endangering our national security by also trafficking in small arms. Since the beginning of the year, there have been several seizures of arms destined for various parts of the country.
The first response to the Prime Minister’s Statement was made by Gitobu Imanyara, MP for Imenti Central, and he too had great revelations to make. Imanyara tabled a dossier of documents and photographs related to a 2005 importation of cocaine into Kenya. Imanyara’s dossier states that about New Year 2005, a cargo of 24 containers of narcotics (suspected to be cocaine) came through the Port of Mombasa disguised as Vietnamese rice. The contraband was interdicted, in warehouses, by a Senior Superintendent of Police, Mohammed Godana Jarssa, but for his trouble, Jarssa was dismissed from the Police Force by the Police Commissioner. The narcotics were removed from the warehouses and their destination remains unknown.
Imanyara informed Parliament that Jarssa approached him in 2009 and told him how, in the course of the investigations, he had compiled a detailed report of how he had arrested and bonded two police officers for their role in abetting the importation of the narcotic containers. Jarssa explained to Imanyara how, after preliminary investigations, he had been ordered by the then Police Commissioner, Major-Gen. Hussein Ali, to immediately stop any further investigations and also to release the two officers he had arrested and return to Nairobi. Jarssa told Imanyara how, on his way from Mombasa to Nairobi, he had been ordered to report to some remote place near the Kenyan border town of Lokitaung, but failed to go after being warned it was a trap to secure his execution. Jarssa went into hiding for fear of his life emerging only recently to renew his written complaint against the former Commissioner of Police for abuse of office and corruption which he had first made to the then Director of KACC, Aaron Ringera, in a letter dated 10th August, 2006 setting out, in a detailed form, the nature of the investigations he had carried out. Incredibly the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission never took any steps to follow up Jarssaa’s report.
Considering the obvious threat that narco-trafficking poses to Kenya, and in support of Gitobu Imanyara’s campaign to end the impunity enjoyed by drug lords, Mars Group Kenya is publishing the Imanyara dossier as tabled in Parliament in its entirety. We hope Imanyara will be able to table the names of cartel members in parliament so that action can be taken against them immediately.
Use the hyperlinks below to read the Complete Mohammed Godana Jarssa Dossier
Complaint by Mohammed Godana Jarssa against Commissioner of Police Major General Hussein Ali for Abuse of Office and Corruption (10th August 2006)
Statement to Police by Albert Wamimi 5 Jan 2005
Statement to Police by Ambrose Ayoyi 11 Jan 2005
Government Liabilities Clearance Certificate
Letter from Jarsso’s Lawyer to Kenya Anti Corruption Commission
Press Statement by Jarssa
Consignment Cheque Deposit Slip
Cotecna Levy calculation slip
Statement to Police by Francis Washe 7 January 2005
Statement to Police by Geoffrey Wekesa
Certificate of Service to Patrick Muguro 5 January 2005
Certificate of Service for Albert Wamimi 6 January 2005
Jarssa Press Statement 12 September 2005
Jarssa Press Release 13 September 2005
Jarssa Letter to Police Commissioner on Transfer 13 April 2006
Jarsso Intelligence Report to Kavila Deputy Director C.I.D.
Jarssa Report on Transit Trucks to Kavila Deputy Director C.I.D. 10 January 2005
Jarssa Transfer Memo – Nyanza 13 April 2005
Occurrence Book Corporal Wafula entries 3-5 January 2005
Robinson Kabogi Arrest Booking Report signed by Inspector Mutie (undated)
Investigation Diary of Cpl Wafula 3-5 January 2005
Jarssa Dismissal Letter received 16 July 2007
Jarssa transfer from Nyanza to Lokitaung
Kenya Ports Authority Invoice to Chibe Freighters 27 May 2003
Kenya Ports Authority Mombasa Release Order 13 May 2003
Kenya Times Newspaper article 14 September 2006
Jarssa Kit Clearance 21 September 2006
Kenya Revenue Authority Computer Print Out – Jarssa dossier
Kenya Revenue Authority Mombasa Kilindini Port Gate Register 2 January 2005
Kenya Revenue Authority Internal Memo 11 January 2005
Kenya Revenue Authority Internal Memo 5 January 2005
Kenya Revenue Authority Miscellaneous Receipt 20 May 2003
Kenya Revenue Authority Warehousing Declaration Form 10 December 2004
Lorry Loading Tally Sheet 2 January 2010
‘Release of Containers Probed’ – Daily Nation Article 26 October 2006
Statement to Police by Patrick Mwangi 6 January 2005
Jarssa Photographs of Packages in Ganjoni Warehouse Mombasa January 2005
Complaint by Jarssa for Non Action of Report to Kenya Anti Corruption Commission on 18 January 2006
Statement to Police by Sarah Hadara Kibera 6 January 2005
Statement to Police by Sophia Ngoka 5 January 2005
‘How Drugs Probe at the Coast Cost Cops their Jobs’ – Sunday Nation – 8 April 2010
‘Police seize 200m Sugar in Mombasa’ – Sunday standard 9 January 2005
Statement to Police by Sylvester Kunda (Kenya Ports Authority) 8 January 2005
‘Police Seize Goods in Customs ‘Racket’’ – The People Daily 9 January 2005
Statement to Police by Walter Musuruma 5 January 2005
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