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  • Nairobi: Deportation Of Arturs Was A Conspiracy

    DEPORTATION OF ARTURS WAS A CONSPIRACY
    By David Ochami

    The Standard
    http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php? id=1144007879&cid=4
    March 2 2009
    Kenya

    Arturs deportation was 'conspiracy' to defeat justice

    The deportation of the Artur brothers was a hurried ploy by the police
    and Immigration Department to protect them from criminal charges.

    The move was meant to conceal their suspect arrival and mission in
    Kenya, according to a two-year-old parliamentary report whose contents
    we can reveal.

    The Artur brothers at JKIA. A report by MPs says they were deported
    in unclear circumstances. Photo: File/Standard

    The report suggests that Police Commissioner Hussein Ali instigated
    the Arturs' deportation to Dubai, UAE.

    The report by Parliament's Justice and National Security committees in
    2007 shows that the Arturs' gun drama at Jomo Kenyatta International
    Airport in early June 2006 was not the reason for their deportation.

    This was because the Government had refused to deport them when the
    NSIS made a recommendation to that effect on April 26, that year.

    Airport drama

    Apparently, those who purported to deport the brothers after the
    airport drama of June 8, 2006, were present or represented at the
    NSIS briefing of April 26.

    They included the Police Commissioner, who ordered the eventual
    deportation on June 9.

    Others in the NSIS briefing were Head of Civil Service Francis
    Muthaura, Attorney-General Amos Wako, NSIS Director Michael Gichangi,
    former Internal Security PS Cyrus Gituai and an unnamed former Foreign
    Affairs PS.

    According to minutes of the briefing cited by the joint report,
    the NSIS urged the Government to deport the foreigners, described as
    international drug dealers on the run because "their continued stay
    in Kenya would malign the good name of the country".

    It is not clear why the Government delegation failed "to take any
    action against the Artur brothers, who continued with impunity,
    to breach security".

    But the report suggests the alleged Armenians continued to hang around
    because they enjoyed high-level protection.

    "It showed the level of protection the two brothers were enjoying
    wherever they went, including such an important place as an
    international airport," says the report, referring to the JKIA
    gun affair.

    The report said the Artur brothers were escorted by police out of the
    airport despite drawing guns on and beating Customs officials and a
    CID officer.

    The report suggests further that the two stayed in Kenya after the
    NSIS briefing to engage in suspect activities, which the deportation
    was orchestrated to conceal.

    The two committees could not discover some of these activities,
    apart from former police Director of Operations David Kimaiyo, who
    was recalled from the committees' inquest as he prepared to testify
    on the June 9, 2006 discovery of guns at the Arturs' Runda residence.

    Sent from police

    The officer, who stopped Kimaiyo from testifying to the committees,
    "had been dispatched from the Police Commissioner's office".

    The report claims that the foreigners' arrival late 2005 and stay in
    Kenya was tainted with criminality, ranging from false passports,
    through to criminal registration of trade companies and their
    incorporation into the police force as Deputy Commissioners of Police
    and suggests that the embarrassment caused by the alleged Armenians
    spurred Kenyan authorities to deport them to stem an escalation the
    regime wanted to hide.

    "It clearly emerged that the alleged deportation of the Artur brothers
    was well orchestrated, and it was intended to defeat the rule of law
    and to act as a cover up for these two individuals and what their
    activities in Kenya were."
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