WHO RAFFI WILL RUN FOR ELECTION WITH
Lragir.am
17 June 06
The Heritage Party led by Raffi Hovannisian views its participation
in the parliamentary election of 2007 from a scientific angle. Vardan
Khachatryan, the secretary of the Heritage Party, told June 17 at
the Azdak Club that the political party is seriously considering to
run for election individually or in alliance.
“So we have seriously considered both options. By saying seriously I
mean a scientific study. I will not hide that the public rating of the
Heritage Party is high. I rely on the survey of the Institute of Gelap
because they guarantee objectivity, it is not an organization where
surveys are conducted on order,” says Vardan Khachatryan. According
to him, the Center of Gelap gave a rating of 74 percent for Raffi
Hovannisian. It should be noted, however, that Gelap may have lied
because several days ago Artashes Geghamyan announced that the same
Gelap had given a rating of 57 percent for him. Whereas this is
impossible in math, even in simple arithmetic.
If Hovannisian has 74 percent, Geghamyan could have only 26, or
if Geghamyan has 57, Raffi could have only 43. It is also possible,
however, that Gelap does not lie, and Raffi and Artashes lie on behalf
of Gelap.
At any rate, the format of participation in the election must be
determined by the will of the public, thinks Vardan Khachatryan,
saying that there must be a public demand to run for election
individually or in alliance. At any rate, if a front is supposed
to form, it must be as comprehensive as possible and including the
forces, which will be accepted by people, says the secretary of
the Heritage Party. Vardan Khachatryan declines to say who their
allies will be, because the survey is not over. He repeated that the
prospect of allying with Orinats Yerkir depends on the activities
of this political party. Vardan Khachatryan says they do not want to
act as a judge, they will simply be following the activities of the
Orinats Yerkir. If they favor public interests, Vardan Khachatryan
says there is no problem. For an alliance with the “old-established”
opposition, Vardan Khachatryan declines to give names. “You see the
range of negotiations is rather wide, and there is nothing definite. We
have not reached the point where we can name definite organizations –
potential allies. In fact, a process is underway, and we are always
ready to consolidate the sphere, not to place our ambitions in pride
of place, but consolidate the sphere to revive hope among pubic.”

NATIONAL SECURITY SPIES INSIDE POLITICAL PARTIES
Lragir.am
17 June 06
“Spies” discovered in political parties in Armenia are not separate
cases, stated Vardan Khachatryan, the secretary of the Heritage Party,
on June 17. The political party he represents is the latest victim of
espionage inside political parties. Several weeks ago a member of the
Heritage Party named Edgar Hakobyan was revealed, and Hakobyan was
dismissed. “When espionage inside political parties is concerned,
when especially the interference of national security services
in the activity of political parties is concerned, it makes a sad
impression. Because the country’s security is, as a rule, based on
the activities of these political parties. If they start settling
accounts with the local political parties, employing spies, efforts
to stop some processes by a primitive interference, who is going to
do their job, to support their sphere?” asks Vardan Khachatryan.

“WE CAN’T OPEN SO MUCH TO LOSE OUR TYPE”
Margaret Yesayan
Aravot.am
16 June 06
The ARF GB representative Armen Rustamian said
– Factually, the ARF controls the spheres which have connection with
various strata of society; social, health protection, agriculture
and education, whether Dashnaktsutiun wanted to control those spheres
for the coming elections?
– When spheres were divided in time, just the opposite logic acted,
people were avoiding of being responsible in those spheres where
there were a lot of problems. But we were understanding very well
if we wanted to be involved in the coalition with just that logic we
can’t avoid of those problems.
Certainly this includes a serious risk in it and it also exists
now. I don’t say we have succeeded to achieve serious changes, but I’m
sure we have been right. We became responsible for that risk and I’m
sure we have created some necessary prerequisites some of which have
given their results. And we will represent to the people just with
that account during the elections. We must undergo that trial and we
seriously prepare for it. It isn’t a secret that there is a way when
you can’t be responsible and keep criticizing. It is very profitable
way and a lot of politicians try to act in that way during the
elections in Armenia. But we are ready to be aware what we have done.
– There are businessmen deputies in the ARF plenipotentiary list;
don’t you have any apprehension that your businessmen will also be
made leave the party? Are you going to participate in the coming
parliamentary elections together with businessmen?
– We participated in the elections in 2003 with an open list relative
to the ARF for the first time because we could hardly imagine some
years ago that so many non-party persons could be involved in the ARF
list. We are known for our traditional nature and in this case it was
also a change in our approaches. We did it but keeping an important
principle. We can’t be opened so much for losing our type. If we
don’t manage to keep our type, we can’t speak of old history of our
party. And that well-formed tradition has directed us for making our
selection in looking before leaping principle. And we don’t need in
those businessmen with whom we have worked for a long time for only
the elections but they have been corresponded to the typical example of
national bourgeoisie. They aren’t only businessmen, owners of serious
business, but they also do their best for making the economy of our
country powerful.
– Are you going to enlarge the list of your mentioned national
bourgeoisie in connection with the coming elections?
– If it is possible to have partners like them in that field,
certainly, we’ll enlarge that field with great pleasure.
– Don’t have any apprehension that they will leave some day?
– Judging from what I said above, no, I don’t have such
apprehension. There have been trials for the ARF, too. I must say
that they have stayed with us because they have adopted our decisions
and we haven’t made them to adopt those decisions, because we have
considered us as the political elite and them as the economic subject.

Deseret News, Utah
June 17 2006
Armenian pianist staying in Utah
By Rebecca C. Howard
Deseret Morning News
Aram Arakelyan left his home in Armenia when he was 17 to compete in
the Young Artists division of the Bachauer. That was five years ago,
and he hasn’t been home since.
Aram Arakelyan
“I do get homesick,” he admitted, adding that he talks with his
parents – whom he hasn’t seen since he left – several times a week.
But for Arakelyan, it’s worth it. “I feel strongly that it’s one of
those things that’s meant to be. I don’t feel that it’s an accident
that this is what I’m doing. This is an enormous part of my life. I
feel that it’s definitely a gift from (God).”
The Arakelyan of today is a far stretch from the boy who, by his own
admission, didn’t practice much. “It was more of a fight between my
mom and I whether I should practice or not for a long time.”
But at the age of 14, Arakelyan found a teacher who lit his enthusiasm
for music. “After seeing that I could do it, that it was possible,
it just kind of started growing on me. It was kind of a life-changing
experience, you might say.”
Now Arakelyan is completing a bachelor’s degree at Utah State
University under the tutelage of Gary Amano. He said Bachauer director
Paul Pollei helped him find his teacher and college after the Young
Artists competition.
Arakelyan says that he plans to continue studying in the United
States, hoping to get I at least one more degree, and “see whatever
life brings after that.”
If you go
What: Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition Where: Rose Wagner
Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South When: Monday-Friday, noon-5
p.m. and 7-10 p.m.
How much: through June 28, $15; June 29 and 30, $22-$42 Phone:
355-2787 or 888-451-2787 Web:
,1 249,640187544,00.html

Today, Azerbaijan
June 17 2006
International Working Group to investigate issue on Azerbaijani
prisoners of war in Armenia
17 June 2006 [09:05] – Today.Az
Pata Zakharashvili, co-chair of the International Working Group to
Search for the Missing, Hostages and Prisoners of War will visit
Armenia to investigate the issue on Azerbaijanis missing during the
military operations in Nagorno Karabakh.
The Working Group coordinator in Azerbaijan Avaz Hasanov stated that
the co-chair Zakarashvili will be accompanied by his counterpart
Bernard Klazen and Hasanov himself on the visit.
The delegation members will meet in Tbilisi tomorrow and will visit
Armenia from June 18 till 22.
Hasanov also said they will investigate the reports submitted by the
State Commission for prisoners of war, hostages and missing persons
on Azerbaijani prisoners of war and hostages held in Armenia as well
as appeals of individuals. The Working Group has received 20 appeals
from individuals for investigating the issue in Armenia, APA reports.
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Man gets three years for scam
By Tania Chatila, The Leader
Burbank Leader, CA
June 17 2006
GLENDALE — A United States District judge sentenced a 43-year-old
Van Nuys man to 37 months in prison Wednesday for an investment scam
that bilked about $20 million from about 200 people, many of whom
are from Glendale and Burbank, said officials with the United States
Attorney’s Office.
Melkon Gharakhanian, whose alias was Mike Garian, pleaded guilty
in January to one count of felony federal mail fraud, United States
Attorney’s Office spokesman Thom Mrozek said.
“The court imposed an appropriate sentence,” Assistant United States
Atty. Michael R. Wilner said. “Mr. Gharakhanian will not be able to
defraud other victims for a long time, and it’s an appropriate ending
to this case.”
Gharakhanian used his Glendale-based company, National Investment
Enterprises Inc., to collect $20 million from 1999 to 2001 from
investors — mostly Armenian-Americans — who thought their money
was going toward the purchase of technological security systems,
Mrozek said.
Gharakhanian, who was arrested at a Pasadena post office in October,
mailed investors false monthly statements about the company and its
purchases of shares, he said.
National Investment Enterprises Inc. went under in 2001 after
Gharakhanian used investor funds for personal use and to pay for the
company’s operating expenses, Mrozek said.
Gharakhanian admitted that investors lost anywhere from $2.5 million
to $10 million when the company collapsed, Mrozek said.
“Investment fraud continues to be a very pressing problem throughout
Southern California for reasons we can’t fully explain,” Mrozek said.

The Scotsman, UK
June 17 2006
Intolerable cruelty
COLIN DONALD
The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred
by Niall Ferguson
Penguin, 816pp, £25
IN WOODY ALLEN’S 1986 MOVIE Hannah and her Sisters Frederick, the
comically grim Euro-intellectual played by Max Von Sydow, rails
against a TV discussion of Auschwitz: “The reason why they could
never answer the question ‘How could it possibly happen?’ is that
it’s the wrong question. Given what people are, the question is ‘Why
doesn’t it happen more often?’ ”
Niall Ferguson’s tumultuous catalogue of 20th-century nightmares is a
reply of sorts to the pessimist’s rant. Focused though it is on the
“turning point” years 1939-1945, it sets out to destroy the sense of
exceptionality surrounding the Nazis’ acts, merging them with the
less-efficient barbarities staining every decade of the “global 100
years’ war”.
A non-comprehensive list of these lowlights would include: the
Armenian massacres in the First World War, the Russian civil war, the
Stalinist Terror, the Japanese war on China, the Second World War,
the Korean War, the Cultural Revolution, the frenzies of the Khmer
Rouge, the Balkan wars, and the Rwandan massacres. Like Macbeth, we
humans have “supp’d full with horrors” and it is only in the last
decade or so that historians have been able to digest the
implications of this chaos.
Professor Ferguson’s big beast of a book, accompanied by a TV series,
sucks up and synthesises a vast range of state-of-the-art research
(the bibliography is 48 pages long), filters it through his own
economic history specialism, and adds a dash of Dawkins-esque
evolutionary theory. The result is a provocative and urgently
readable study that avoids scholarly pussyfooting to ask the biggest
questions of modernity. Some may object that Ferguson’s snappy,
paradox-happy prose style is exactly the meretricious sort sent up in
Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning hit play The History Boys. No doubt his
love of clever inversions (“Appeasement did not lead to war. It was
war that led to appeasement” etc) will irritate some, especially
coming from a telegenic 41-year-old Scot with one of the juiciest
posts in academia (a Harvard chair in history).
But even those who sniff at his readability must admire the scale of
the work involved in shaping so much material and expressing it with
such panache. The questions he asks are these. Given that human
nature did not change at the end of the 19th century, why did the
globalised and technocratic world of 1900 dissolve into a Hieronymus
Bosch vision of hell? Why so often, and on such a scale?
Ferguson’s thesis is that the death camp innovation – inter-ethnic
savagery, dressed up as “hygienic” new-fangled nationalism – lay
behind a self-perpetuating cycle of violence, either between states
or between communities within states. Terror as state policy was not
new, but Ferguson blames Lenin and his heirs for modernising the
concept and putting technological and bureaucratic muscle behind it.
He also shows how their task was made easier by western journalists
and intellectuals – including LSE founders Beatrice and Sidney Webb,
and the writer George Bernard Shaw and more dimly remembered figures
such as Walter Duranty of the New York Times.
Shaw wrote with disgusting flippancy about the Moscow show trials,
while praising Stalin as a modern messiah. And it was Duranty, not
Hitler, who coined the phrase “you can’t make an omelette without
breaking eggs” – in relation to Stalin’s Ukrainian famine – which
sums up the intellectuals’ contribution to halting the 20th-century
moral meltdown.
The force of this book has two main sources. The first is its ability
to illustrate in Technicolor the often unbearable consequences of
political and military decisions. The second is to suggest a more
persuasive framework for this appalling narrative than any one-volume
history to date. In Ferguson’s version, the bones of the story are
these: Ethnic hatreds stirred as rickety multi-ethnic empires are
reformed into aggressive “empire states”. The traumatic effects of
ultra-rapid economic change – upwards or downwards – helped people to
brand each other as vermin. These tides would cause humans to behave
in ways inconceivable at the dawn of the 20th century, when nothing
but improvement seemed likely.
To pick some random unnoticed ironies that Ferguson has thought
through: That the decline of the hereditary principle in office and
ownership coincided with the rise in the political significance of
inherited race. That vicious ethnic conflict (from Germany to Rwanda)
follows periods of intense intermarriage and integration. That what
was necessary to stop the war in 1939 was a pre-emptive war in 1938.
That the 20th-century story, usually seen as the triumph of the West,
is really its descent, from the Japanese defeat of Russia in 1905, to
the rise of China in the 1980s and ’90s.
So here we are, on the brink of an ominous new age, whose Franz
Ferdinand-in-Sarajevo moment came in New York five years ago this
September. As Ferguson constantly hints by drawing parallels between
suicide bombers, ethnic cleansers and useless international
peacekeepers then and now, the worth of his book stands or falls by
what it tells us about the 21st century and what traps we must avoid.
Ultimately, it is not Ferguson’s knack of turning received opinions
on their head that distinguishes the book. Its value is in spotting
material that needs a wider readership and letting it speak for
itself. Thus, the appropriate response to this book is not
philosophising or hand-wringing but astonishment at how much folk
memory has been able to shrug off, and to forget.
Take the account of a 15-year-old Korean girl, Kim Buson, removed by
the Japanese to the Philippines, where “she received 30 to 40
soldiers every day”. This is cited as an example of “the imperialism
of sexual domination”, a major theme of the century. Or that of
Rudolf Reder, one of the few from the gas chamber clearing detail to
survive Belzec, haunted by the cries: “Mummy, but I’ve been good!
It’s dark! It’s dark!”
In his 1898 sci-fi novel, HG Wells imagined Martian invaders
indiscriminately blowing up ant-like civilians – a feat of
prescience, says Ferguson, that anticipates “Brest-Litovsk, Belgrade
and Berlin, Smyrna, Shanghai and Seoul”.
These survivors’ stories, which no-one was ever meant to hear,
suggest that the 20th century’s legacy – and its warning to the 21st
– is knowledge of a cruelty of a more intimate kind, far beyond the
capabilities of aliens.
~U Niall Ferguson’s television series, The War of the World, starts on
Channel 4, Monday at 8pm.
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The Nation, Kenya
June 17 2006
58 passes are cancelled in Armenians row
Story by PATRICK NZIOKA and BERNARD NAMUNANE
Publication Date: 6/17/2006
All the 58 airport security passes that were irregularly issued in
the Armenian brothers’ saga have been cancelled.
“Disciplinary action will be taken against all those who violated
the rules in issuing the passes,” Transport assistant minister Cecily
Mbarire said yesterday.
A committee appointed by President Kibaki to investigate an incident
in which the Artur brothers breached security measures at the Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport is expected to point out those involved.
The assistant minister, who is in charge of civil aviation at the
ministry, said more people would be affected once the committee
completes its work.
She defended the Government against claims that only junior officers
were punished.
“The committee will be able to come up with recommendations on who
is responsible for disciplinary action to be taken,” she said after
a tour of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority premises at the airport.
Initial investigations had revealed that a senior Kenya Airports
Authority official issued 41 security passes, including those held by
the Armenian brothers – Mr Artur Margaryan and Mr Artur Sargasyan –
and their accomplices. The two have since been deported.
A list obtained by the Nation last week indicated that Mr Margaryan
was among 184 people, including politicians and directors of companies,
who had unrestricted access to all the airports in Kenya.
The assistant minister denied claims that the British high commission
had protested to the Kenyan Government following the security breach
at country’s main airport.
She added that such a protest note had not reached her ministry
“if indeed it was delivered to any arm of the Government”.
Ideally, a protest note of that nature would reach her ministry as
it was the parent ministry in charge of airports, said Ms Mbarire.
The two controversial Armenian brothers were deported following an
attack on a customs officer at the airport as they resisted attempts
to inspect bags of an accomplice, who had arrived from Dubai.
Guns were drawn inside the airport’s arrivals hall, where the customs
officer was assaulted.
But Ms Mbarire said the incident took place at the airport’s parking
lot. She further assured users of the airport that it was secure.
—————————————– —————————————
Two parliamentary committees will jointly seek to unravel the story
behind the deported Armenians.
The national security and administration of justice and legal affairs
committees ended their tussle yesterday and agreed to work as a unit –
in public interest.
There was a stand-off between the two committees early in the week
over which had the right to investigate the saga surrounding the entry,
stay and deportation of the Armenians.
They met at County Hall in Nairobi yesterday and resolved to launch
the investigations – which touch on senior members of the Government –
as a unit.
Said Mr Paul Muite, the chairman of the committee on justice: “The
issues relating to the two Armenians are cross-cutting the mandates
of the two committees. We have agreed that the best way forward is
to act as a team in carrying out the investigations.”

The Nation, Kenya
June 17 2006
Row over Armenians’ container
Story by PATRICK MAYOYO
Publication Date: 6/17/2006
A tug of war erupted yesterday over the verification of goods in a
container belonging to the Artur brothers, which is still awaiting
clearance at Mombasa port.
The row pitted Trade ministry officials against the Customs department,
as the latter was accused of failing to follow procedures and
overstepping its mandate.
A police officer, with assistance of a sniffer dog, examines goods
in the container belonging to the two Armenian brothers during the
verification at the port of Mombasa yesterday.
Trade ministry officials said their department, which is responsible
for authenticating weights and measures, were locked out during the
verification.
Standard procedures for examining goods under dispute required that
all the items in a container had to be displayed and verified before
being cleared.
But this was not done for the goods belonging to the Artur Margaryan
and Artur Sargasyan.
During the verification all the goods were removed but they were not
checked item by item or a stock taken before they were re-packed into
the container. “A 100 per cent verification requires that goods being
subjected to such an exercise should all be removed from a container
and a stock taken before being returned in the container but this is
not what happened,” said one of the Trade ministry officials.
The officials, who did not want to be named, also said cases of false
imports declarations were handled by Trade ministry and not Customs.
The latter was responsible for cases of under-valuation of goods.
“All matters related to false entries on Import Declaration Form
(IDF) are dealt with under the Trade Descriptions Act and this was
the case with the Artur brothers’ container,” the officials said.
But the Kenya Revenue Authority officials defended their action,
saying it was not compulsory that all the items in the container be
inspected and their inventory done.
The senior deputy commissioner in charge of Southern region, Mr
Ntogaiti Muronga, confirmed that the goods found in the Armenian
brothers container were not what they had declared.
“The declaration form indicated that the goods were colour televisions
but we have found in the container generators, gas cookers, DVDs,
music systems and mobile phones,” he said.
Three mattresses were also among the imported goods, raising questions
why the Artur brothers had to import mattresses yet they could buy
them locally.
Questions were also raised over the failure to check the bottom of
the container as there was suspicion that it had a false compartment.
But a senior police officer said the search by the sniffer dog cleared
doubts of contraband goods being in the container.
Mr Muronga said KRA had also launched investigations into reports
that there were 29 containers linked to the Artur brothers which
had entered the country but which are suspected to be still waiting
clearance or could have been cleared without correct duties being paid.
He said that out of the 29 containers said to have been brought into
the country by the Artur brothers, KRA had located three and was
still looking for more.
“Upon verifying one the three containers in our custody, we have
established that the Government could have lost more than Sh3 million
in taxes,” he said.
Mr Muronga confirmed that the three containers belonged to Kensington
International Ltd in which the Artur brothers are directors.
Immediately after their deportation last week, one of the Artur
brothers refuted reports that the container was carrying contract
band goods, saying it had generators he wanted to donate to Mama Ngina
Children’s Home. Before the verification, there was an attempt to bar
journalists from the place. They were only allowed to stay on after
they protested.
The verification started shortly after 9am when all the goods were
removed from the container before and randomly checked. It ended
at 1.30pm.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Uproar in House over Armenians
BY EDWIN MUTAI
Kenya Times, Kenya
June 17 2006
PARLIAMENT early this week was in uproar, accusing the government
of attempting to cover up the true circumstances surrounding the
stay and deportation of Brothers Artur arising from the mayhem the
Armenians had caused at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
In a motion of adjournment, legislators from both sides of the House
accused trying to cover up real issues by going for “small fish”
instead going for the big ones implicated in the fiasco. They also
trashed the commission of inquiry set up by President Kibaki to look
into the matter.
Agitated MPs also faulted the deportation of the duo whose activities
in the country remain shrouded in a mystery even as it emerged that
they jetted out of the country in a business class flight headed for
the United Arab Emirates contrary to legal procedure. Parliament also
heard that their passports were never stamped.
The debate under the motion of adjournment saw Leader of the Official
Opposition Uhuru Kenyatta rally legislators to lash out at the
government’s failure to protect the integrity, security and dignity
of the sovereign republic.
Internal security John Michuki’s bid to exonerate the government from
any dealings or protection of the controversial aliens was met with
outright rejection even as a section of MPs booed him. Efforts by
Ministers Martha Karua (Justice and Internal Affairs) and her Trade
counterpart Mukhisa Kituyi to absolve the State from alleged cover
fizzled in rejection from legislators who accused the President of
allowing the country to be “governed by foreigners as the Police
force remained divided down m the middle.”
Kenyatta in moving the motion charged that the security , integrity,
dignity, honour and sovereignty of an independent self governing
nation is at great stake and scorn among the community of nations. He
put questions which were unanswered by Michuki as he hit out at the
government for allowing the foreigners to access unrestricted security
passes at the airport, brandish weapons and secure the release of
unchecked luggage.
He asked Michuki to tell Kenyans the relationship between the
Standard/KTN raid which he owned up to have ordered carried out and
the Artur brothers possession of the Quick Response Unit uniforms,
caps and hoods which were recovered from their Runda residence.
The Gatundu South MP demanded to be told why guns belonging to
security forces, Identity Cards identifying the Armenians as assistant
commissioners of police, Kenyan passports, government, diplomatic and
civilian car plate numbers among others, were giving to them and who
gave them and for what reasons.
“We must ventilate the anger of Kenyans on this Armenians issue who
have insulted us. We as a House have a responsibility to restore the
integrity, dignity, honour and sovereignty of our people is this
government has failed. We are not a banana republic,” charged an
emotional Kenyatta.
Michuki in his ministerial statement narrated the Armenian fiasco that
has been raging on since March this year, saying that the attention
of government was attracted to them when questions were raised on
their motives after being alleged to be mercenaries whose mission
was to assassinate political leaders.
He said investigation was launched by the police during which several
leaders and the Armenians were interrogated and statements recorded
and with the assistance of Interpol, the foreigners were found to be
in the country legally as businessmen.
The Minister said the two Armenians were arrested on Friday last week
on his instructions after they wrecked havoc at JKIA the previous
evening. But which MPs were not convinced.
In the search undertaken by police, Michuki said two forged passports
and other identification cards, 13 vehicles, three vehicle plate
numbers for GK, Diplomatic and civilian, three bullet proof vests
and facial masks were recovered.
After the find, the government reached a conclusion that Margaryan and
Sargasyan were a threat to national security and therefore should be
expelled from Kenya and that the immigration minister moved to deport
and declare the duo persona non grata.
Legislators Anyang’ Nyong’o (Kisumu Rural), Joseph Nkaissery (Kajiado
Central), Billow Kerrow (Mandera Central), Paul Muite (Kabete),
Orwa Ojode (Ndhiwa), Moses Wetangula (Sirisia), David Musila (Mwingi
South), Charles Kilonzo (Yatta), Kirugi M’Mukindia (Imenti Central),
William Ole Ntimama (Narok South) and nominated MP Amina Abdallah
accused the State of cover up and demanded the sacking of government
officials involved in the controversy.
“Mr Speaker, the highest echelons of this country is compromised
and it can not, therefore, be its own judge. We demand independent
investigations and the President must come out and sack these
ministers,” charged Nyong’o. Nkaissery termed it an act of terrorism
and that “a government that defends defilement of national security
has no place governing.”
Said M’Mukindia; “I am ashamed that the respectable and well known
John Michuki would cower in front of foreigners. That somebody coming
from Kangema in Murang’a would crawl in front of foreigners is a big
shame and the whole country has been let down by this government.”
Muite accused the government of protecting the deported due and
dismissed the inquiry set by the State as escapist and elusive since
“who doesn’t know that the proposed chair Kiruki, a former Police
Commissioner has no face before Kenyans. He was himself sacked as a
Police Commissioner and there cannot be any impartiality.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress