Showing posts with label investigative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investigative. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Monday, November 4, 2013
NTV KENYA INVESTIGATES: SEEDS OF SIN
Religion has and will always be an emotive subject to many Kenyans. The
constitution guarantees freedom of worship, but some are taking
advantage of the gullibility of thousands who flock to churches with
faith in their hearts and hope in their eyes. The faithful look up to
their spiritual leaders for guidance, but this comes at a price. NTV
Investigates will take you through the treacherous journey of fake
preachers who use the pulpit to reap millions of shillings from
unsuspecting members of their congregations. Our senior investigative
reporter Dennis Okari reveals how easy and fast it is to become that man
or woman of God.
http://www.ntv.co.ke/news2/topheadlines/ntv-investigates-seeds-of-sin/
Friday, October 25, 2013
KTN UNMASKS THE WESTAGATE TERROR ATTACK/ HOW TERRORIST ATTACK WAS EXECUTED
MERCHANTS
OF DEATH
Last week, Friday October , 18th 2013;
like the rest of my fellow Kenyan citizens looking forward to quench my thirst
on what really happened at Westgate, I (the writer) joined KTN investigation
team of Mohammed Ali and John Allan Namu. I watched as they premiered the
startling details of what the public has never known about the Westgate Mall
attack.
Kenyans took to the social Medias after watching the
exclusive footage, which in itself contradicts almost everything that the Government
has been telling the public.
The facts unveiled how the Westgate terror plot was
developing fast far away in Somalia and in the Kakuma Refugee Camp; the biggest
one in the world and one established in 1992 to serve Sudanese refugees.
The iconic Westgate Mall was the centerpiece of
their plan. The mall insured through UK’s Lloyd’s for about sh 6.6. Billion,
was constructed several wall thick with the ability to withstand heavy bombardment.
The clip shows Kenyan Alakene; one of the terrorists
who gave a child a chocolate bar after the young boy told him that “ he is a very bad man” and who is
captured by CCTV cameras escorting children out of the mall.
The CCTV cameras go ahead to reveal
misunderstandings between different security agencies. The Recce Squad was
being led by Inspector James Maamri. When KDF shot at them, the G.S.U men
scampered for safety and then an exchange of words and pointing of guns between
members of the Police forces most elite unit, Recce Squad, and its equal in the
military, Rangers Strike Force, took place. The following is a transcribed
excerpt from the ugly exchange between the military and police:
“Stop
talking too much (keep your mouth shut);” one soldiers shouts
at a GSU man who replies with the abuse, “your mother.” In the footage, an
angry GSU officer curses, “the military shot us! F**** them.”
It’s apparently during this confrontation that
constable Martin Kithinji was shot dead and another GSU man shot on the leg.
The footage goes ahead to show the terrorists in
calm and relaxed mood; and even took time to pray in the back room of the
Nakumatt store. It looks like a waiting game situation, with the real drama
unfolding on the outside.
The clips go ahead to contradict the Government that
had maintained the terrorists were hiding hostages. The four men brandishing
AK-47 guns go on a firing spree-firing anyone on sight and panic engulfs the
mall.
Then the big question of who was looting and who
drank beer at the joints gets complicated. Soldiers are caught picking snacks
and walking into Nakumatt, guns hanging by their sides, and then leaving with
handful of paper bags.
With the dust setting on Westgate, the KTN
investigations have revealed so many questions yet very few answers; poor
response to terror attack and disharmony in the security agencies’’ fight to
recapture Westgate.
By
Embukane Vincent Libosso
#KTN’S EXPOSEE ON WESTGATE MALL ATTACK DEPICTS A GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN’T TRUST US WITH THE TRUTH
MERCHANTS OF DEATH
I
watched as our Shujaas; KTN’S Mohammed Ali (Jicho Pevu) and John Allan Namu
(Inside Story) gave us a recount of how the terrorists struck Westgate on that
fateful day-over midday coffes, cooking competitions and immunization drives- indiscriminate
bullets ripped through more than flesh, they cut to the core of an already
troubled Kenyan psyche.
What followed was a siege of our collective
conscience by misinformation and divisiveness among our forces and the
government charged with protecting us.
That stake in the heart for me was what I watched on
Jicho pevu and The Inside Story: military looting, boozing it up in Art Caffe,
divided security agents and mass theories of conspiracy.
I must hear their part of the story before I condemn
them. Yet again, were all these the deep-rooted seed of corruptions coming into
the full bloom for the world to see.
How secure are we is the big question? Even if all
parties are eventually cleared of any wrong doing, our confidence remains
shaken to its core without a doubt. The insinuation caught on the CCTV Cameras,
in this case, was enough to cast a doubt.
Meanwhile, deep down we all know this cycle
continue. I am fairly convinced and agree with Mohammed Ali that we will never
know the full story; not because the information is not there; but because the
government doesn’t trust us with it.
And this is what, to be honest, scares me more than
the terrorists. What we should be doing is taking a clinical look at this
matter; asking what we should do to avoid a repeat.
A supposed democratic government that exists under a
constant cycle of cover-up and lies means we are left trusting those who
pupport to be the servants of the people. This where the real fear really
breeds.
Make no mistake. We are at war! Our intelligence and
disciplined forces have their job well cut out. Watch the clips again from KTN.
Learn from mistakes, yes and avoid killing the messenger. But rise up and fight
on without turning anger inwards.
As far as making sense of tragedy goes; it comes
down to choice. In the end; we don’t really know why “Cain iced his brother
Abel”. We can only imagine evil was brought into the world to show us the
fragility of life and the duality of our existence- in the way that you need
dark to know light. Love does win in the end, if you make room for it.
WE
ARE AT WAR AGAINST ONE COMMON ENEMY. # WE ARE ONE ARMY.
By
Embukane Vincent Libosso
Friday, September 6, 2013
THE POWER OF BLOGGING: NAIROBI’Z BLOGAZINE FEATURES IN A MEDIA AND ART RESEARCH IN AFRICA PROJECT…
Thursday
15th august, 2013 saw something go down in the history of our blog
that was a blessing to us. I have written on this platform; so many times that,
we are more than a blessed and a favored blog!
A
couple of days before this day, I received an email from a friend; Ms Bettina
Ng’weno; whose story we have featured in this blog (http://bukhungubukhanga.blogspot.com/2013/08/city-park-peoples-park-saved-through.html).
She
asked me to help her her colleague professor who wa flying into the country;
doing a research on media and arts in Africa The email read:
Hi Vincent,
I have a visitor in town who would love to meet you. She is an academic,
originally from Nigeria and is a colleague of mine at the University of
California, Davis in the USA. She studies popular culture, literature, youth
and media and the arts in Africa and is visiting for 2 weeks. She is super
interested in your blogazine and the whole blog, twitter scene here in Kenya.
Would you have time to meet up? Perhaps we could catch lunch or tea or
something? Let me know if you have time this week
Thanks
Bettina
It
was a great honor then to meet professor Moradewun Adejunmobi; all the way from
the University of California Davis; where she heads African American and Afrcan
studies.
We
met at PAWA254; which was appropriate and convenient since they mentor creative
on fusing art and media. We then did a research tour of Nairobi’s Silicon
Valley- The I-Hub centre on Ngong Road.
The
talks did shed light that; in many ways, technology is making us better, faster
and stronger.
We
have more information; more communication ; more art being produced-reaching-an
ever-increasing number of people.
A
big part of the challenge for media today is to harness and interpret the
floods of information washing in on our shores, picking what's most relevant for
the reader; audience and listener.
When
the whole world is trying to tell you something at the same time, you need
someone to help you find te significant voices, or everything becomes noise.
In
this world of arts and culture, this is more relevant than ever. Every writer has an a outlet on his/ her blog- the audience of millions just being only a
mouse- click away.
To
date; ‘gatekeepers’ of “quality” are more relevant than ever. Traditional media
needs to rise to this challenge, focusing on quality content that has the power
to enhance the lives of its readers. As a blog, we strive to be one of those
gatekeepers; to the best of our abilities, and each day keep shining the
spotlight on the best and brightest of what Nairobi has to offer.
And
, while the world keeps moving faster, we treasure the moments where you can
lose yourself with your mouse clicks in the blog pages.
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