THE US Embassy in Nairobi wanted travel bans issued against former Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission boss Aaron
Ringera and Tinderet MP Henry Kosgey along with Attorney General Amos Wako. According to fresh Wikileaks cables, former ambassador Michael Ranneberger wrote to Washington in 2009 seeking security advisory opinions on whether the three could be barred from entering
America.
While US
government issued a visa ban on Wako on November ...
THE American Embassy believed in March 2007 that President Kibaki’s government planned to arrest opposition leader Raila Odinga over the controversial Artur Brothers, according to Wikileaks. “Post (the embassy) has various pieces of evidence suggesting that the men are associated with either State House or one of the 'first families' and Kamlesh Pattni, the man behind the Goldenberg scandal,” said the cable from ambassador Mi...
President Kibaki told the United States Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Fraser at the height of post election violence that he won the disputed 2007 elections squarely.Kibaki maintained he had won the December 2007 elections fairly and since the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya had declared him winner of the presidential elections, only the courts could make him relinquish power in case they ruled otherwise.According to a diplomatic ...
Seven months before the 2007 elections, the ODM partners Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka held a poor view about President Kibaki’s health. In May 2007 with both still ODM-K leaders, they told US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger that Kibaki had to be medicated before he appeared in public and would “shut down” whenever the drugs wore off.Kalonzo told the envoy Kibaki was “suffering from memory loss”. “Assessme...
Prime Minister Raila Odinga accused intelligence service boss Michael Gichangi in November 2009 of misleading President Kibaki and and "poisoning" his ears with anti-US and anti-reform information.In a meeting with US envoy Michael Ranneberger, Raila said the NSIS director had been withholding information which Kibaki “might not want to hear.” “He (Raila) claimed that National Security and Intelligence Service Director Gichan...