David

Realistic and natural.

[David @David33940191]

@CAF_Online Congratulations Senegal, thank you Sadio Mane for using sense and overcoming your coach decision of pulling out of the match due to some setbacks in officiating. The comeback was amazing.
Now, here is the thing, the quality of commenting requires improvement. This Nigerian comme

[David @David33940191]

@ElonMuskZAB 5+5+1.5= 12.5

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Women and girls from Loreng Village in Turkana West receive sanitary towels and personal items from Plan International Kenya during World Menstrual Hygiene Day. Over 80 women and girls from the pastoral community were trained on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) as part of efforts to end menstrual stigma. Plan International aims to end teenage pregnancies and support girls in achieving their full potential.
Photos by Mike Ekutan

[David @David33940191]

@kingFahad_17 The power belongs to the people.

[David @David33940191]

@omwambaKE 124 and still counting.. this country is special

[David @David33940191]

@PoojaMedia God remains our saviour through Jesus Christ.

[Kenya Data & Stats @Stats_Kenya]

A husband is justified in beating his wife if she argues with him. Percentage of men in each county who agree.

1. Marsabit 49.6
2. Isiolo 47.6
3. Samburu 41.7
4. Migori 41.5
5. Narok 35.8
6. Kilifi 30.1
7. Makueni 29.9
8. Homa Bay 28.3
9. Kwale 27.7
10. Meru 27.6
11. Busia 27.3
12. Bungoma 25.9
13. Elgeyo-Marakwet 24.2
14. Nyamira 22.6
15. Murang'a 21.3
16. Wajir 19.9
17. West Pokot 19.9
18. Kisii 18.8
19. Vihiga 18.7
20. Tharaka-Nithi 18.5
21. Mandera 18.2
22. Machakos 17.8
23. Turkana 16
24. Lamu 15.6
25. Kajiado 14.8
26. Nyeri 13.8
27. Laikipia 13
28. Nyandarua 12.6
29. Garissa 12.3
30. Tana River 12.2
31. Baringo 12.1
32. Embu 12
33. Uasin Gishu 11.6
34. Mombasa 11.4
35. Kiambu 10.1
36. Nandi 10.1
37. Nairobi 9.7
38. Siaya 9.4
39. Taita Taveta 9
40. Bomet 9
41. Nakuru 8.5
42. Trans Nzoia 5.1
43. Kisumu 2.6
44. Kitui 2.4
45. Kericho 2.4
46. Kakamega 2.2
47. Kirinyaga 0

[David @David33940191]

@WilliamsRuto Gen z seems to be busy elswhere

[David @David33940191]

@MutahiNgunyi How about the upcoming rich? Ama hustlers abaki kuwa hustler!

[David @David33940191]

Heist all over Kenya.. money, good scams, oil, US reserves and now as had been bullets.. and you wonder what's the role of police in security.. selling bullets that later end up killing you? GSU

[AfrikaOSINT @AssegaiConsult]

KILLER SQUAD TARGETS ROGUE GANG OF GSU OFFICERS SELLING GOVERNMENT BULLETS

Nation Media Group
People Daily
September 2021

Had Inspector David Opiyo driven a little longer on the day he was arrested, the General Service Unit (GSU) senior officer who was charged on Thursday for unauthorised possession of government ammunition may not have been alive for his trial.

The inspector, who last Tuesday reported at the Ruai Police Station that he had been abducted before being placed under arrest, had just left the GSU Training School in Utawala, Nairobi at 12pm, before he suddenly realised that he was being followed.

On the back seat of his car – a brown Mitsubishi Lancer registration number KAT 887G that he had borrowed from a friend to use for an errand – were 2,040 7.62×39 millimetre bullets, which are mostly used by high calibre rifles like AK 47s packed in 34 carton boxes.

Whether someone tipped Inspector Opiyo or his instincts told him he was being followed will be known in the coming days as investigators go for the people he was talking to after a forensic analysis of his two phones is completed.

For now what is clear is that someone was after his life. After driving for about 3km, the inspector abandoned the car at a garage along the road, boarded another vehicle and immediately escaped from the scene.

A few moments later, another white car arrived at the garage and an armed man stepped out and sprayed bullets on the driver’s side.

Glass windows shattered

“Crime personnel visited the scene and established that the motor vehicle KAT 887G had 20 bullet holes on the right rear door with glass windows shattered with some bullets having exited through the windscreen,” a police report would later say.

Although the Nation cannot discuss the merits and demerits of Inspector Opiyo’s case since he has already been charged, the events preceding his attempted assassination have lifted the lid on an underground ammunition sales racket involving rogue officers in one of Kenya’s most elite security force.

GSU OFFICERS IN BULLET SMUGGLING RING

The racket, which has been smuggling thousands of bullets out of GSU training camps and into the hands of criminals, is now believed by those in security circles to be fuelling the insecurity currently being witnessed in Laikipia, Baringo and West Pokot.

Hot on the heels of these rogue officers is a clandestine squad whose job is to hunt down, detain arbitrarily or execute whoever is discovered to be involved in the mass stealing and sale of government bullets to bandits.

And at the centre of this racket are a number of politicians from the troubled northern regions who are buying the bullets in large quantities and passing them to their communities so that they can arm themselves for self-defence, carrying out cattle raids or to simply perpetuate violence.

ISIOLO MP

While we are not at liberty to give names of the specific politicians since they are still being investigated for their roles in this deadly scandal, an MP from Isiolo who intelligence sources say was the customer of the 2,040 bullets seized last week in Utawala and a former MP from Laikipia are being probed.

GSU LIVE AMMUNITION TRAINING

Ironically, the GSU, a paramilitary wing of the National Police Service, is usually the last resort whenever there is a serious security issue like a protest, a terror attack, cattle rustling or clashes between communities due to the high-level training its officers go through.

These trainings, which include spending several days in shooting ranges, involve shooting thousands of rounds of live ammunition.

The AK47, which is the standard infantry weapon for Kenya’s security agencies, carries a maximum of 30 bullets in its magazine but insiders say one officer can be given up to 300 rounds per training session.

“Officers are supposed to account for all bullets spent at the end of each training session and they sign a sheet stating the number of rounds that they received and how many are remaining,” an insider told us.

“These records are then forwarded to those in-charge of armouries for recordkeeping and to help in future planning,” said the insider.

However, because of the bureaucracy involved when requesting for new ammunition which could affect training plans, some of the officers in-charge of the training ranges hold on to some of the bullets left after the sessions.

In order to achieve this, officers are told to overstate the number of bullets that they have spent during a particular session so that the balance can remain for the next team to use in case there is a delay in getting a new cache of ammunition.

While this practice has been there for a long time and has never raised any eyebrows in the past, some of these unaccounted for bullets are finding their way to gangs, robbers and bandits who are causing havoc.

Additionally, the armouries of GSU camps across the country are heavily stocked with ammunition due to the nature of the work the officers do that require them to have several rounds of bullets with them whenever they are sent on assignment.

These armouries are strictly controlled and have senior officers who are in-charge of them. How bullets still manage to get out of such a system and in large numbers before being sold to third parties without anyone noticing is the big question.

LARGE AMMUNITION CACHES

Since January, police have found 12,094 bullets in large caches while in the wrong hands. Three weeks ago, a group of rangers from the West Gate Conservancy in Laikipia recovered a cache of 2,640 bullets from two herders.

On June 2, eight guns and 177 rounds of ammunition were recovered by the police in Kitale from the house of a police officer attached to the Judiciary.

Two weeks after the stunning recovery, a Chinese national, Dang Pengfei, was arrested in Mwingi, Nairobi. He had in his possession five guns and 205 bullets. Among the recovered firearms was one rifle.

A month before the arrest of Mr Pengfei, a caretaker in Nairobi’s Lucky Summer estate was shocked on May 4, when he stumbled upon an abandoned sack stashed with 478 bullets.

Francis Baraza, the caretaker of rental houses owned by Hojan Investments, said he was routinely clearing the backyard at around 4pm when he saw the sack. Police said the items in the sack were 18 rounds of .38 special bullets, seven rounds of 9mm tracer bullets, 414 rounds of 97.62mm blanks, one expended round of 7.62 blanks, nine rounds of live 7.62 special bullets and 30 rounds of live 9mm bullets.

On April 14, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) raided a house in Dagoretti where they recovered powerful firearms including an M4 sniper, four pistols and a close quarter Uzi automatic sub machine gun, capable of firing over 600 rounds per minute. Also in the cache were 3,700 rounds of ammunition.

Two weeks before this shocking discovery, three suspects were arrested in Garrisa transporting eight rifles and 2,104 bullets after a four hour chase by the police.

KILLER SQUAD TRACKING GSU OFFICERS

What is equally worrying is that the same GSU which is accused of supplying ammunition to bandits is also experiencing a surge in murders of officers who work in its armouries.

Three GSU officers, two in active service and one former servicemen, have been killed in a span of two months in unclear circumstances.

An extra two officers have been abducted and are yet to be found.

Corporal Joseph Maghanga

On August 21, security officers recovered 2,640 rounds of ammunition, believed to be from Embakasi Training School, from a group of herders in the ongoing Laikipia operations.

Two days later, an instructor based at the school was killed in unclear circumstances

The body of Corporal Joseph Maghanga was found at a quarry opposite Triple O’s Restaurant.

The body had a deep cut on the forehead. Police also recovered two mobile phones; one had several missed calls.

Inspector Ibrahim Bonaya

On July 30, another long serving GSU training school officer, Inspector Ibrahim Bonaya, was shot dead by gunmen on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway at Kyumbi.

The officer had been transferred to Masii police station in Mwala sub-county.

He was killed together with a friend he was travelling with, according to Machakos County Commissioner John Ondego.

“It is said our officer and two other men whom we have not identified were coming from Kyumbi where it is said they had gone for lunch.

On their way back, a vehicle which seemed to have been trailing them overtook and a man emerged from it and started shooting at them,” Ondego said.

Sergeant Osman Ahmed Omar Godana

In another incident, Sergeant Osman Ahmed Omar Godana, a former GSU officer, was abducted at around 9pm near Blue Posts Hotel in Thika.

Sgt Godana was driving in the company of his friend Abdi Todi, Todi’s sister in law, and a mother carrying her young child when a black Toyota Wish blocked him with four armed male occupants wearing bullet proof vests.

The matter was reported at Thika police station but his family members were later referred to Gatanga police station in Muranga County, OB No.27/14/9/2021.

Ironically, both the missing officer’s father and friend did not know where he was based. From the GSU, he served at Laisamis police station before he was transferred to another station.

Inspector Joseph Otieno

Inspector Joseph Otieno attached to the GSU headquarters in Ruaraka, Nairobi went missing on Friday, July 9.

Speaking to Standard on phone, Kasarani OCPD Peter Mwanzo said a multi-agency team comprising detectives drawn from DCI, and the GSU have been dispatched to conduct a search for the missing officer.

“Mwanzo said so far they have not been successful but will return to Mwiki area and its surroundings on Tuesday to continue the search.

“We conducted the search around Gituamba farm, Mwiki where the last car track signal was traced,” the lead Mwanzo said.

He said the officers also visited all nearby morgues on Monday, but still, they haven’t been able to locate Otieno.

“We started our search on Friday and went to mortuaries around in case of the death but still we cannot trace him,” said the OCPD.

His wife Caroline Adhiambo and children also joined the search team nearby quarry after detectives said they traced the car to the quarry before being abandoned in Mwiki.
According to a police report, Otieno was last seen on Friday, July 9 when he left home in a hired car never to return.

Adhiambo told the police that her 36-year-old husband’s phone was on until 11:13 pm on Friday.

“His phone signals were last located around Naivas Supermarket in Ruaraka before being switched off,” Adhiambo said in a police report recorded in Kasarani Police Station.
Adhiambo made a missing person report after the car Otieno hired on the fateful day was found abandoned in Mwiki, Kasarani.

“His whereabouts unknown and the car he was using officer was found abandoned in Mwiki, Kasarani,” the occurrence book (OB) report read.
The car was towed to Mwiki Police Station after being found abandoned by the roadside on Friday night

Joseph Nyakaor Chagem

And in January, a GSU officer was arrested in Kikuyu after he alighted at Gitaru from a matatu he had boarded at Afya Centre in Nairobi and told the driver to call him when they arrived in Kitale.

The rest of the passengers immediately discovered that the officer, who was later identified as Joseph Nyakaor Chagem attached to the GSU training school, had left a black bag.

“Other passengers suspected the behavior of the said passenger thereby advising the driver to hand over the bag to the nearby Nderi Police Post,” said a police report about the incident.

At the station, police officers who opened the bag found it had a sealed metal box which upon opening was found carrying 750 rounds of ammunition.

[David @David33940191]

@Shadaya_Knight But then, sperms die within three days of discharge in the body of a woman? It's main aim is to fertilize the ovum failure to which it dies. It's chemical or DNA composition can only be re-actiactivated during fertilization..

[David @David33940191]

@RobertAlai So, our soldiers because of additional benefits they get from the company other than the NPS. Accepted to be colonized and abused in their home country by Chinese?.. it's pathetic.. those guys seems comfortable..

[David @David33940191]

@omwambaKE 592... Though hujasema tutafute.

[David @David33940191]

My county, my pride.

[Lokwang Patrick @LokwangPatrick]

Breathtaking! Kapedo Water Falls in Turkana East Sub-County. A tourist destination site that has been ignored due to the volatile nature of the area.

[David @David33940191]

@GakonyoGideon @MRSMuruguu Not just ASALS... Kenya in it's entirety is a hub of corruption.. who will investigate who? Who will prosecute who .. laws applies to those with no muscles

[David @David33940191]

@RiggyGKe2 @MRSMuruguu Not in kenya

[David @David33940191]

@SayioreJack @MRSMuruguu @WilliamsRuto What he did projected him to that post.

[David @David33940191]

@AndyKe_ @MRSMuruguu Hiyo ndio ilimfikisha statehouse

[David @David33940191]

@GvnLomorukai Atleast for once we have a governor who has stepped on the soils of Kapedo and Suguta valley . That piece of neglected land has plentful resources and will become the future of Turkana if it will be secured and explored by soil-blings.