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From: Lori Pottinger <lori@irn.org>
Subject: Turkwell Corruption Reporter Goes Underground/LS
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The following is about the arrest of a reporter who helped uncover
corruption on Kenya's Turkwell Gorge Dam, built in the early 1990s.
This dam was the subject of a 1986 internal memo at the European
Commission, which accused the French gov't of signing an agreement
with Kenya to finance the dam for more than twice the price it should
have cost, acccording to the book Silenced RIvers. The book states
"According to the EC memo, the Kenyan officials involved were 'fully
aware of the disadvantages of the French deal...but they nevertheless
accepted because of high personal advantages.'"
Journalist Wanted By Police for Having Denounced Police Extortion
Reporters sans Fronti?res (New York)
PRESS RELEASE
April 22, 2002
Posted to the web April 22, 2002
Paris
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to Alex Rono, head of the
North-Eastern Provincial Police calling on him to reverse an order
for the arrest of Victore Obure, the Garissa correspondent of the
East African Standard. "He is a journalist who is simply carrying out
his work. There can be no justification for ordering his arrest,"
said RSF Secretary General Robert M?nard. "The fact that he has gone
underground is a very alarming sign of the treatment meted out to
journalists detained by the police. The Head of the police said in
December 2000, however, that measures would be taken to 'harmonise
the relationship between the police and journalists'."
RSF has learned that Victor Obure, the Garissa correspondent of the
East African Standard, has decided to go underground because of fears
for his safety. According to police sources, the Criminal
Investigation Department - CID - called for his arrest a week ago
following an article which reported the extortion of thousands of
shillings from the inhabitants of Garissa by police, during a
crackdown on illegal immigrants in the city.
RSF also gave a reminder that on 22 March 2002, The People Daily
newspaper and its Chief Editor George Mbugguss, were ordered to pay
20 million Kenyan shillings (about 300,000 Euros), to Nicholas
Biwott, Minister for Trade and the Interior, for "libel". "The secret
history of Moi-Nyache, an article published on 10 March 1999, claimed
that Mr. Biwott, then Minister for the Eastern African Community, was
involved in the controversial awarding of a tender for the
construction of a hydro-electricity dam. The newspaper claimed that
the "Turkwell Gorge" project had been awarded to a French company
under dubious circumstances.
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Lori Pottinger, Director, Africa Program,
and Editor, World Rivers Review
International Rivers Network <'})))>><
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
Tel. (510) 848 1155 Fax (510) 848 1008
http://www.irn.org
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