SHOCKING: The EVILS of RAILA, KALONZO and MUDAVADI

The Kenyan DAILY POSTPolitics23:46

Wednesday August 15, 2012 - Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi will now be required to be cleared by court for them to vie for presidency in the upcoming elections.

This came after a group of activists who had filed a case seeking to block Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto from the State House race, filed accusations against three other presidential aspirants citing questionable integrity hurdles.

Eight petitioners, among them Mr Patrick Njuguna and Augustine Netto want the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to bar permanently the five from running for the presidency.

The activist had earlier filed a case seeking to have Uhuru and Ruto blocked from the presidential contest citing the charges they face at International Criminal Court (ICC) over the 2007/08 post-election violence, but on Tuesday they added Mr Odinga, Mr Musyoka and Mr Mudavadi to the case, raising allegations of fraud, corruption, abuse of office, nepotism and land grabbing.

“They have advocated for and presented themselves to be beyond reproach and totally untainted in their public lives. It is necessary to inquire into their past and present conduct while serving the people of Kenya in order to determine whether they fit the integrity bill,” said the activists.

The activist want Mr Odinga summoned in court to explain why he worked as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi without clear academic credentials, and to clarify his graduate studies at a German university. The petitioners also claims, Raila taught at the University of Nairobi between May 1970 and 1974 as a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering which, they say is not true.

They also claim that Raila Odinga did not complete primary school education and could not have qualified to proceed for secondary school and university studies. They want the Ministry of Education to provide records showing when Maranda Secondary School was started.

They also accuse him of halving planned the mayhem that caused the 2007/08 post-election violence.

The group also alleges that the PM was involved in the attempted military coup of 1982 and he may face treason charges for trying to overthrow the government of former President Moi.

Raila is further accused of collecting funds from the public while excluding them in the running of the Kisumu Molasses plant. He allegedly duped the public into contributing millions of shillings on the promise that they were buying shares in the factory.

Mr Odinga is also accused of nepotism by employing his relatives in public offices as stated in Miguna Miguna book Peeling Back The Mask.

The Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka on his part is accused of using his office to acquire radio frequencies on December 6, 2010, for a company called Athiani Holdings Ltd owned by his wife, Pauline, and son.

The activists also claim Kalonzo was found guilty of contempt of court in 1990 in a    controversial land case ruled by Mr Justice Frank Shields.

He is further accused of serving as a director of Access Insurance Company which collapsed with millions of shillings belonging to policy holders.

Kalonzo who is also Mwingi North MP is also accused of authorising the illegal sale of the embassy of Somalia in Nairobi while serving as the minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

On Mr Mudavadi, the activist accuses him of false swearing during the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry by misleading the commission on his role in the scandal.

Mudavadi is also accused of land grabbing land at Woodley Estate Nairobi and Nairobi cemetery scandal.

The activists say Mudavadi who is also the Sabatia MP, presided over massive loss of funds at Nairobi City Council when he served as the minister for Local Government.

The hearing of the case was set on September 27.

The Kenyan DAILY POST