On
Burundi, Mkapa Travel Team
Includes CNDD-FDD Supporter Listed
in UN's DRC Sanctions Report
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Series
UNITED NATIONS,
January 15 -- As Burundi
"facilitator" William Mkapa
reconvenes talks, the
attendees list obtained by
Inner City Press shows not
only Ken
Vitisia, of whom we're
previously written, but
also Francis Mnodolwa.
Inner City Press previously on
December 29 asked the UN's
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric to comment on the
inclusion of an individual
listed in the November 2009 DR
Congo sanctions Group of
Experts report, without
answer. (Dujarric answered
only two and a half of the 22
questions Inner City Press submitted:
and those only
to defend Ban Ki-moon and
himself.)
Now, from
Paragraph 74 of that report:
"The Group has
been informed by several
sources, including a source
close to Mr. Ndagundi, that he
has close links to the ruling
Counseil national pour la
défense de la
démocratie-forces pour la
défense de la démocratie
(CNDD-FDD) party in
Burundi.. Mr. Ndagundi.s
Burundian telephone records
also show 27 communications
from April to September 2009
between himself and the number
used by Francis Ndoluwa, the
ambassador of the United
Republic of Tanzania to
Burundi, a former general in
the Tanzanian military. A
source close to Mr. Ndagundi
informed the Group that he
works closely with the
Ambassador."
So there
is yet another of Mkapa's team
that is close to the CNDD-FDD.
We'll
have more on this.
On January
11, long after the UN Security
Council ostensibly mandated
the deployment to Burundi of
228 UN Police, no progress had
been made. Inner City Press
asked UN Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric, UN
transcript here:
Inner City Press:
Has there been any progress in
deploying the 226 police that
the Security Council also
mandated for Burundi to
Burundi? Do you have any
update on that?
Spokesman: No.
None that I can report.
Go ahead. Last one.
While corpses are found in
Burundi and the government
blocks the deployment of both
the UN Police and UN Conflict
Prevention staff ostensibly
called for by the UN
Secretariat and Security
Council, the government's
supporters try to side with
either UN censors like Under
Secretary General Cristina
Gallach, who evicted and
restricts the Press which
reports on Burundi, or more
generally UN staff.
It is more than a
little ironic. UN staff are
being PNG-ed and having visas
denied from Burundi.
A list of some
recent finds:
On 2 January
2017, two( 2) persons namely
Gilbert Bandika aka Juma and
Nestor Nkeshimana were killed
in Nyamaboko in the District
of Kanyosha;
On 4 January
2017, a dead body of a person
identified as Donatien
Ndereyimana was found at the
edge of Lake Tanganyika;
On 5 January
2017, a teenager was shot dead
and another wounded as police
quarreled with farmers in
Mahwa in the District of
Ryansoro;
On 8 January
2017, a dead body of a 50
year-old Habonimana Cyrille
aka Mujos was found in an
abandoned house in Musaga, 1st
street. Testimonies suggest he
was tortured and several parts
of his body amputated before
his remains were dropped in an
abandoned house.
While the UN says little and
does nothing about this, they
made a point of ordering Inner
City Press to stop
broadcasting on Periscope,
with voice-over, a Town Hall
meeting with new Secretary
General Antonio Guterres,
which was on the UN's public
UN Webcast website. And the
government supporters, saying
Inner City Press entered the
meeting (it didn't) and
picking up on the anti-Press
maze Cristina Gallach of Spain
and DPI has created, piled on.
The UN of Gallach has brought
this on; this is how the UN is
perceived and to this has it
sunk.
There is also a strange
announcement of a 500 Euros
loan being arranged from a
shadowy, seemingly dormant
company “Biz Planners.” We'll
have more on this.
Benjamin
Mkapa as Burundi mediator has
kept his mind on his money,
and his money on his mind,
even as amid assissination of
minister, closing down of
NGOs. Well placed sources
exclusively teold Inner City
Press that Mkapa demanded a
raise -- up to $1500 a day --
and was rejected.
Mkapa then took his demand to
the East African Community
heads of state. Will he get
the payday? By declaring
Pierre Nkurunziza legitimate
because Ambassadors still
present their credential to
him, Mkapa is working for the
money. But $1500 a day?
There are other
of his advisers gunning for up
to $500 a day, including one
who is said to have previously
help arm CNDD-FDD related
groups. Yes, we'll have more
on this.
On January 4, Inner City Press
asked about the Security
Council's (lack of) Follow
through on Burundi, to
Ambassador Delattre of France,
the "penholder" on Burundi. Tweeted
video here.
More
here.
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