[lucysmom]

Please provide links to your “plenty of evidence”. Opinions posted by Mik Taerg aka Great Kim don't count. Neither to newspaper stories where reporters routinely misspell names.

Seriously, who is Mik Taerg aka Great Kim?

How about the Surgical Society of Kenya?

http://sskenya.org/?page_id=254

[Seizethecarp]

Great Kim aka Mik Taerg has harassed InspectorSmith both on FR and on his YouTube blog over the spelling of Helton.

Your link is a noteworthy factoid, but not at all determinative to me. One listing in a society database, perhaps in remote Nairobi, subject to possible keypunch error or taken over the phone and spelled phonetically says little to me.

If you Google “Helton Maganga” you get numerous current local Mombasa Kenya news stories with that spelling. I consider numerous newspaper stories confirming this spelling to be more significant than very few alternative spellings elsewhere. When I said newspapers don't count, I meant specifically the few outlier alternative spellings that have been jumped on as proof Smith's document is a hoax.

The burden of proof of a hoax based on a preponderance of evidence seems to me to be on those who claim an alternative spelling of the name Helton. I find it significant that Helton Maganga himself has not been produced to journalists to personally refute Smith's BC. Helton Maganga’s stamp and signature and seal have not been produced to show a different spelling or appearance. That should be the easiest thing to do if Smith's BC were a hoax. This absence of Maganga is most suspicious.

On the other hand, if Helton Maganga did sign/stamp the copy of the CPGH BC Smith has, it is totally understandable that he would clam up and not make himself available to the press or inquiries. Until proper legal discovery and authentication in Kenya is ordered and allowed, subject to credible corruption controls, we may never know the truth about the BC.

[Mik Taerg]

that is a very good find. Two different health directories both spelling Maganga Heltan Mnjama !

http://sskenya.org/?page_id=254
http://www.healthoutsource.co.ke/directory/healthdirectory.php?id=1199

but I wish to remember that however devastating the mispelling of the name is for Lucas the question about who was CA on Feb 19th is maybe even more relevant.

Until April 2009 it was Dr.Jennifer Othigo
http://www.nation.co.ke/InDepth/-/452898/560148/-/tqw6oqz/-/index.html
First articles about Maganga as CA are from June 2009
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/612678/-/ukb32e/-/index.html