MPs indict Michuki, say he is unfit for public office

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By Isaac Ongiri

A Parliamentary committee report has recommended Environment Minister John Michuki be barred from holding public office.

It also recommends a similar treatment to former Strategy Advisor to the President Stanley Murage who has since been sacked.

"The roles of the officials cited in the course of the inquiry can be reasonably inferred that they supported and condoned the illegal activities of the two mercenaries and should be prosecuted," the report asserts.

Also indicted are former CID boss Joseph Kamau and former Principal Immigrations Officer Joseph Ndathi.

Others mentioned in the report include Head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura, PNU activist Mary Wangui, her daughter Winnie Wambui Mwai, Kamlesh Pattni and Raju Sanghani.

Recommended Deportations

Says the report: "That the available evidence points fingers at the Hon (John) Michuki Minister of State in the Office the President (now Environment) and Mr Stanley Murage, the Special Advisor to the President on Strategy (now sacked) and Mr John Kamau the then CID director as some of the key people involved in The Standard raid."

Muthaura, according to the report, chaired a National Security Advisory Council meeting on April 26, 2006, in which the National Security Intelligence Service recommended the deportation of the Arturs.

Ignored Summons

The meeting was also attended by NSIS Director General Michael Gichangi, Police Commissioner Maj Gen Hussein Ali, Attorney General Amos Wako, then PS for Internal Security Cyrus Gituai and then Foreign Affairs PS.

The report also recommends the prosecution of Prisons Commandant Isaiya Osugo.

The House committee report says Osugo, who was then Nairobi Provincial Criminal Investigations Officer, former Director of Operations at the police headquarters David Kimaiyio and then Gigiri Police Station OCS Patrick Lumumba disobeyed summons by the committee.

Kimaiyio has since been redeployed to National Heritage ministry as an Under Secretary while Lumumba is head of operations at the Coast Provincial Police headquarters.