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Orange team alleges death
threats
Standard
Sunday October 16, 2005
By Standard Team
Claims that spies are trailing
rivals of the Wako Draft and threatening some with death emerged
yesterday.
The claims come a week after former
President Daniel arap Moi alleged that he was being spied on.
Police Spokesman Jasper Ombati said
in Nairobi yesterday they are investigating such claims.
In Kibwezi, the man who organised
the No campaign known as the Orange Caravan, which ended in
Mombasa yesterday, is on the run.
Shadrack Sila Muli, a brother to
former Kibwezi MP Grace Mwewa, claimed he had been hiding for
three days after strange men and women camped outside his two
businesses in the outskirts of Makindu for two days looking for
him.
He told The Sunday Standard
yesterday men and women in a grey saloon car whose registration
numbers he gave out have been camping in a local bar asking the
bar maids when he is likely to appear.
He claimed Kibwezi MP Kalembe Ndile
was behind the scheme to kill him but Kalembe denied such
allegations.
"I was not in Kibwezi during
the Orange Caravan plans. I was at State House with other leaders.
Muli must be a criminal seeking protection by pretending to be
targeted for death," Kalembe said.
Speaking on phone, Kalembe said he
has been busy attending Banana rallies around the country and has
not been to Kibwezi.
In Nairobi, lawyer Mutula Kilonzo,
who is also a Kanu Nominated MP, said key Orange leaders are on a
"strange 24-hour surveillance".
"It is not the normal
surveillance being conducted by the NSIS or CID, who merely
monitor what is happening. It is the sinister type," Kilonzo
said.
"The NSIS does not come armed.
The people trailing the Orange leaders are armed. It has
intensified over the last six weeks," he said.
Kilonzo claimed people have come to
him with information on who is being trailed and towards what end
they suspected the surveillance would lead to.
At the same time, the ongoing
referendum campaigns did little to cool the political temperatures
with Energy Minister Simon Nyachae claiming in Kiambu that the
Kikuyu community has failed to protect the Kibaki Presidency.
The President himself was handing
out title deeds to members of the Ogiek community assuring them
that the Yes vote would prevail at the November 21 referendum and
that all districts will remain intact afterwards.
But in Kilifi, Environment Minister
Kalonzo Musyoka said all new districts will be scrapped if the
proposed constitution is adopted. The paper is silent on the
number and names of districts.
It was the second day of an Orange
campaign trail in the Coast that will culminate today with a rally
at Changamwe in Mombasa.
And Leader of Official Opposition
Uhuru Kenyatta raided two Kiambu constituencies yesterday and said
he wondered why Central Province residents termed Raila a true
Kenyan "warrior" in 2002 but were now besmirching him as
"uncircumcised".
Raila himself was in the Rift
Valley Province where he said Parliament was unfit to amend the
proposed constitution once enacted.
And Planning Minister Anyang’
Nyong’o, said he was ready to be taken to court on reports
attributed to him about the Anglo Leasing scandal.
The Planning Minister asked the
Chief Justice to prepare a special court of 21 judges to try him.
Nyong’o said he was fighting for
the rights of Kenyans, adding that he wanted to see a Government
and State House that reflected the face of Kenya.
Shadow National Security Minister
Major General Joseph Nkaissery asked the Government to take action
and safeguard the national good.
"There is a lot of dangerous
talk," Nkaissery said. "I watched an MP from Ukambani
saying on TV that people like Raila and Kalonzo can disappear.
Nobody should talk like that, unless he is setting the stage for
something we don’t know. Disappear to where?"
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