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DEPORTATION OF ARTURS WAS A CONSPIRACY
By David Ochami
The Standard
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php? id=1144007879&cid=4
March 2 2009
Kenya
Arturs deportation was 'conspiracy' to defeat justice
The deportation of the Artur brothers was a hurried ploy by the police
and Immigration Department to protect them from criminal charges.
The move was meant to conceal their suspect arrival and mission in
Kenya, according to a two-year-old parliamentary report whose contents
we can reveal.
The Artur brothers at JKIA. A report by MPs says they were deported
in unclear circumstances. Photo: File/Standard
The report suggests that Police Commissioner Hussein Ali instigated
the Arturs' deportation to Dubai, UAE.
The report by Parliament's Justice and National Security committees in
2007 shows that the Arturs' gun drama at Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport in early June 2006 was not the reason for their deportation.
This was because the Government had refused to deport them when the
NSIS made a recommendation to that effect on April 26, that year.
Airport drama
Apparently, those who purported to deport the brothers after the
airport drama of June 8, 2006, were present or represented at the
NSIS briefing of April 26.
They included the Police Commissioner, who ordered the eventual
deportation on June 9.
Others in the NSIS briefing were Head of Civil Service Francis
Muthaura, Attorney-General Amos Wako, NSIS Director Michael Gichangi,
former Internal Security PS Cyrus Gituai and an unnamed former Foreign
Affairs PS.
According to minutes of the briefing cited by the joint report,
the NSIS urged the Government to deport the foreigners, described as
international drug dealers on the run because "their continued stay
in Kenya would malign the good name of the country".
It is not clear why the Government delegation failed "to take any
action against the Artur brothers, who continued with impunity,
to breach security".
But the report suggests the alleged Armenians continued to hang around
because they enjoyed high-level protection.
"It showed the level of protection the two brothers were enjoying
wherever they went, including such an important place as an
international airport," says the report, referring to the JKIA
gun affair.
The report said the Artur brothers were escorted by police out of the
airport despite drawing guns on and beating Customs officials and a
CID officer.
The report suggests further that the two stayed in Kenya after the
NSIS briefing to engage in suspect activities, which the deportation
was orchestrated to conceal.
The two committees could not discover some of these activities,
apart from former police Director of Operations David Kimaiyo, who
was recalled from the committees' inquest as he prepared to testify
on the June 9, 2006 discovery of guns at the Arturs' Runda residence.
Sent from police
The officer, who stopped Kimaiyo from testifying to the committees,
"had been dispatched from the Police Commissioner's office".
The report claims that the foreigners' arrival late 2005 and stay in
Kenya was tainted with criminality, ranging from false passports,
through to criminal registration of trade companies and their
incorporation into the police force as Deputy Commissioners of Police
and suggests that the embarrassment caused by the alleged Armenians
spurred Kenyan authorities to deport them to stem an escalation the
regime wanted to hide.
"It clearly emerged that the alleged deportation of the Artur brothers
was well orchestrated, and it was intended to defeat the rule of law
and to act as a cover up for these two individuals and what their
activities in Kenya were."
By David Ochami
The Standard
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php? id=1144007879&cid=4
March 2 2009
Kenya
Arturs deportation was 'conspiracy' to defeat justice
The deportation of the Artur brothers was a hurried ploy by the police
and Immigration Department to protect them from criminal charges.
The move was meant to conceal their suspect arrival and mission in
Kenya, according to a two-year-old parliamentary report whose contents
we can reveal.
The Artur brothers at JKIA. A report by MPs says they were deported
in unclear circumstances. Photo: File/Standard
The report suggests that Police Commissioner Hussein Ali instigated
the Arturs' deportation to Dubai, UAE.
The report by Parliament's Justice and National Security committees in
2007 shows that the Arturs' gun drama at Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport in early June 2006 was not the reason for their deportation.
This was because the Government had refused to deport them when the
NSIS made a recommendation to that effect on April 26, that year.
Airport drama
Apparently, those who purported to deport the brothers after the
airport drama of June 8, 2006, were present or represented at the
NSIS briefing of April 26.
They included the Police Commissioner, who ordered the eventual
deportation on June 9.
Others in the NSIS briefing were Head of Civil Service Francis
Muthaura, Attorney-General Amos Wako, NSIS Director Michael Gichangi,
former Internal Security PS Cyrus Gituai and an unnamed former Foreign
Affairs PS.
According to minutes of the briefing cited by the joint report,
the NSIS urged the Government to deport the foreigners, described as
international drug dealers on the run because "their continued stay
in Kenya would malign the good name of the country".
It is not clear why the Government delegation failed "to take any
action against the Artur brothers, who continued with impunity,
to breach security".
But the report suggests the alleged Armenians continued to hang around
because they enjoyed high-level protection.
"It showed the level of protection the two brothers were enjoying
wherever they went, including such an important place as an
international airport," says the report, referring to the JKIA
gun affair.
The report said the Artur brothers were escorted by police out of the
airport despite drawing guns on and beating Customs officials and a
CID officer.
The report suggests further that the two stayed in Kenya after the
NSIS briefing to engage in suspect activities, which the deportation
was orchestrated to conceal.
The two committees could not discover some of these activities,
apart from former police Director of Operations David Kimaiyo, who
was recalled from the committees' inquest as he prepared to testify
on the June 9, 2006 discovery of guns at the Arturs' Runda residence.
Sent from police
The officer, who stopped Kimaiyo from testifying to the committees,
"had been dispatched from the Police Commissioner's office".
The report claims that the foreigners' arrival late 2005 and stay in
Kenya was tainted with criminality, ranging from false passports,
through to criminal registration of trade companies and their
incorporation into the police force as Deputy Commissioners of Police
and suggests that the embarrassment caused by the alleged Armenians
spurred Kenyan authorities to deport them to stem an escalation the
regime wanted to hide.
"It clearly emerged that the alleged deportation of the Artur brothers
was well orchestrated, and it was intended to defeat the rule of law
and to act as a cover up for these two individuals and what their
activities in Kenya were."