Standard Raid: Big Battle behind The Scenes That Kenyans Don’t Know About

Security of the state is such a sensitive subject in any country that it is usually dealt with by only one person – the highest authority in the land.

In other words if the Minister of Internal security John Michuki is telling the truth that the brutal Standard raid was a matter of internal security, then only one person would have authorized it – the president of the republic of Kenya. If Michuki is not telling the truth then that is another matter. If it was authorized without the president’s knowledge, then that is even worse news. It means that this power delegation thing has gone so far that there are some people capable of authorizing raids on even… State House.

That is how serious this whole issue of the Standard and KTN police raid is so serious.

But my recent investigation has gathered something even more serious and sinister in the whole gruesome operation. There is increasing evidence that behind the scenes, there is a very serious battle for supremacy going on. This battle began proper during last November’s constitutional review referendum. Kenyans were simply used as pawns in a battle involving two major forces, with President Kibaki’s administration on one side and the dark mysterious opponent on the other. We love ODM and they are probably our only hope at the moment, but Kenyans must ask themselves this question, “Who financed the ODM referendum campaign?” The answer to that question will bring Kenyans very close to the answer as to who this enemy the government is gighting in the name of state security is.

My investigations seem to answer the deep mystery as to why the government should be so sensitive about every comma published in the Standard newspapers and yet fail to see any danger in much more damaging Anglo leasing reports published in the Daily Nation (no policemen have been sent there to harass journalists and shut it down).

Who is this big enemy that the Kibaki government is fighting with the use of foreign mercenaries who use the words like “nigger” on Kenyan soil?

It really all started with the arrest of some Kenya Times journalists in September 2005


The Kenya Times is a newspaper that hardly sells 10,000 copies a day. In short hardly anybody reads it. Why all the sensitivity about an obscure commentary that very few would have read before the arrest of the journalists in 2005?

Again the government acted strangely by arresting Weekly Citizen staff over a story they carried on President Kibaki that also touched on his health. (Citizen weekly circulation countrywide is estimated at about 20,000 copies). About 10% of what the Daily Nation does on a good day.

Yet again the government showed extreme sensitivity when The Sunday Standard (circulation is about 45,000 when compared to the Sunday Nation’s 200,000) published a story about Kalonzo Musyoka, a leading opposition politician meeting with President Kibaki. Two journalists were arrested and their case is pending. Interestingly the charge was the same as that the Kenya Times journalists and also Weekly Citizen staff faced, publishing an alarming report. This is an old colonial law that was originally designed to intimidate any ambitious newspapers in the colonial days.

Is the threat real from this other guys the government are fighting, or is this a case of some overzealous guy trying to use a hammer to swat a fly near all their glassware?

I’ll spill all the beans on Thursday. There is a little info I’m waiting for. Don’t miss this blog, late Thursday.