Kenya officials step down amid corruption inquiries

BBC ^ | 22:36 GMT, Saturday, 13 February 2010 | By Will Ross

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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki has asked eight senior officials to step down pending inquiries into two corruption scandals.

One involves the reported loss of $26m in a subsidised maize scam.

The other centres on the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the education ministry.

President Kibaki has asked the officials to vacate their offices for three months to allow for inquiries into the allocation of public funds.

Four of the officials are permanent secretaries.

Just hours before Mr Kibaki's move, two of the officials - both senior aides of Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga - had announced they would step down to allow investigations into the maize scandal.

Last week, an independent report by auditors from the company Price Waterhouse Coopers revealed that more than $26m had been lost in a scam as money intended to give struggling Kenyans access to subsidized maize was diverted.

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"Just hours before Mr Kibaki's move, two of the officials - both senior aides of Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga - had announced they would step down to allow investigations into the maize scandal."

So two of Obama's Luo tribal "cousin" Odinga's senior aides are implicated in a $26 million scandal and forced out by Kibaki, Odinga's rival.

Things are heating up in Kenya right after CIA Chief Panetta's visit. If either Kibaki or Odinga have control of a certain birth certificate and are backed into a corner, they might be tempted to use it!

[Seizethecarp]

ping

[Question Liberal Authority]

Destroying a birth certificate?

[grey_whiskers]

...oh. THAT Kenyan. /sarc>

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Some things never change -- from Kenya to Chicago.

Notice it was the EDUCATION ministry which was involved with the missing money...

Cheers!

[chainsaw]

Kenya officials step down amid corruption inquiries

Damn, At first I thought we were talking about our Kenyan.

[Iron Munro]

Darn it!!

I thought this was bringing us good news about Obama's resignation.

[screaminsunshine]

Kibaki probably has it. Odinga is an Obamunist.

[LucyT]

Some things never change -- from Kenya to Chicago.

Notice it was the EDUCATION ministry which was involved with the missing money...

Thanks grey_whiskers and SeizetheCarp.]

[Cicero]

The only thing that surprises me about this is that these Muslim interlopers agreed to step down.

Odinga lost the election, and was only admitted into the government after he orchestrated riots and violence against Kibaki, who won, and his Christian supporters. Odinga was installed through pressure from outside the country, coming from Obama and others. Now it turns out that these people forced into the Kenyan government by Obama and his pals are corrupt, as well as being Communist-Muslim terrorists. How nice!

Anyone who hasn’t seen that powerful video on Obama and Odinga should certainly watch it:

http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/barack_obama_raila_odinga/

[hoosiermama]

violence against Kibaki, who won, and his Christian supporters

Remember it was the missionaries that educated SR. They prepared him to take the examinations at the American Embassy that got him into the University of HI. They are also the people that Berg went to to substantiate Obamba's birth in BC. If Obama was born in Mombasa the missionaries knew the details. They may be the secret to the entire mystery.

[bitt]

fabulous pic at #7

[Quix]

YEAH.

I love that one, too.

Thx.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bitt!

[bitt]

wishful thinking! #7

[null and void]

Indeed. But he wouldn’t be the first president to quit.

[Impy]

Funny.

Though President Insano Biden wouldn’t exactly be any improvement.