It is such amazing how Kalonzo Musyoka is usually referred to as a God-fearing man who has an unblemished political career even after serving almost two decades for the corrupt and inept Moi regime, nothing could be further from the truth.
In 1991 Kalonzo's law firm Musyoka and Wambua advocates was involved in a land dispute where the presiding judge at the time, Frank Shields described as a serious and appalling fraud by Musyoka and his parter, Musili Wambua's part. The judge then committed them to civil jail.
The two lawyers had transferred and registered a piece of land that had been the subject of a long standing dispute, despite receiving a court order to surrender the title deeds of the land in question.
Musyoka and Wambua were committed to civil jail for contempt of court and justice Shields rejected a stay of execution pending an appeal. However, the duo did not go to Kamiti prison as their court adversaries, Dedan Murimi and Maina Murage for Matunda estates mysteriously agreed not to press for enforcement of the order hence Kalonzo remained free.
The dispute arose from the Athi river land that Matunda estate owned and had agreed to sell to Access insurance company represented by Musyoka and Wambua advocates. An agreement was reached where Access paid 10% deposit of Ksh 1.5 million and agreed to clear the balance of shs 13.5 million in two months.
Titles and other documents were forwarded to Kalonzo and Wambua advocates prior to the full payment and by November 15 the balance had not been cleared prompting Matunda estates to go to court where Kalonzo was given 10 days to surrender the titles which he did not.
Lawyer Waweru Gatonye went to court to have Kalonzo committed to civil jail for contempt of court while another corrupt Kanu lawyer, appearing for Musyoka was in court on May 20 saying the documents had already been transferred to Access insurance.
It was later learnt that both Wambua and Kalonzo had shares in Access insurance and while the notoriously corrupt Kanu lawyer Mutula Kilonzo returned the documents and presented them to justice Shields, the Attorney general was asked to institute criminal proceedings against Kalonzo. But what saved Kalonzo then was the fact that he was the deputy speaker then, the matter was swiftly swept under the carpet.
A former editor with a leading Kenyan weekly described Kalonzo most appropriately; “Beneath the outward display of sauve urbanity, youthful good looks and professed Christian attitudes, there beats a heart driven by pure and unrelenting ruthlessness and opportunism.”
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why are u concentrating on the opposition characters? we have people leading us, do u want to say they are holy than thou? for ua info, all those in power, including u if u are, have their ways of survival, whether its using government machinery or even that witch craft. For ua info, I am kau, I know witchcraft is real in Kau land, kikuyu land, luo land luhya land, kisii and all over the country even outside. I supports no one in politics, they dont know me anyway..keep the research and be sure u are clean yourself, its to some extend entertaining to read some of your writings anyway. Watch out that in the process you do not perfect tribalism. Sorry
ReplyDeleteKwani u think the leaders who r in government r clean either?
ReplyDeleteKibaki is not clean either. He is the one who introduced the motion to make kenya a 1 party state. when other 2nd liberation heroes (koigi, odinga, rubia,matiba) were fighting the moi government, The FOOL was the vice president. Why did he not resign from government - if he was principled? Another question? how has Kibaki got his wealth?
Why are we just looking at opposition figures yet the very person who heads the government has a questionable past ( as a moi sycophant?)
for those who r dabbling in witchcraft, wake up, we live in a modern world. These are things that are pushing us back, no wonder africans r never going to develop.