| Kenya As
UNSC Prez Refused Pandora Papers Questions
Now Kenyatta to IPI with Zeid Raad
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Oct 11 –
With Kenya taking over
presidency of the UN Security
Council on October 1, on
September 29 Inner City Press
wrote to the Kenyan Mission to
the UN to request access to
its October 1 press conference
by Ambassador Martin Kimani.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission and
to its listed spokesman, James
Ndirangu Waweru.
Five day later,
nothing - inconsistent, to say
the least, with Kenya's duty
as President of the UN
Security Council. No answer
either to this, yet:
"Despite your
Mission's failure to answer in
any way Inner City Press'
formal request in late
September, here for your
comment on deadline is a
question we have also emailed
to UN spokespeople: "On
corruption and Kenya (and
more), what are the comments
and actions of SG Guterres on
that the Kenyattas' offshore
investments include a company
with stocks and bonds worth
$30m (£22m), a foundation
where his mother and the
president are listed as
beneficiaries, and an offshore
company that could not be
traced back to the Kenyatta
family, which was used to buy
an apartment in central London
now valued at $1.3m
(£1m)"
Please explain why you did not
respond, and confirm receipt,
and arrange for access to your
stakeouts this month as UNSC
president."
No answer yet, 11
days into the Presidency. Now
on October 12 Kenyatta will be
"questioned" (?) by Zeid Ra’ad
Al Hussein at IPI. Inner City
Press online asked:
Will
@KenyataOfficial be
asked about the revelations in
the #PandoraPapers, on money
stashed overseas? Because
Inner City Press, banned from
the UN by
@AntonioGuterres
& @MelissaFleming ,
has asked them &
@KenyaMissionUN in
writing, without response.
cc @raad_zeid." No
answer yet.
Here's
more: Kenyatta is linked to a
Panama foundation, while his
mother and siblings set up at
least six other offshore
businesses and foundations to
manage their assets. Most of
the family's companies were
created before Kenyatta was
elected president, and leaked
documents show that some
remained active after he took
office. Those businesses,
which are registered in Panama
and the British Virgin
Islands, hold bank accounts
and real estate worth more
than $30 million. Those assets
are located in the United
Kingdom and Hong Kong.
Some of those at
the Kenya Mission to the UN
which refuses to answer: Amb.
Martin Kimani, Njambi
Kinyungu, Michael Kiboino,
Susan Mwangi, Joseph Musyoka
Masila, John Kyovi Mutua -
there are more, watch this
site.
At the delayed
October 1 Press-less briefing,
after a pitch by Raychelle
Omamo, the Ambassador took
only six questions, all nearly
identical but still in clumps
of three to allow evasions.
Inner City Press live tweeted
it here:
There is no
commitment by the UN
Secretariat to even respond to
a polite law firm letter
seeking access to Inner City
Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Kenyan
Mission and Kenya have a duty
to not collude in censorship,
and to take questions from
media. Inner City Press is
permitted (in fact, invited)
to put WebEx questions to the
IMF briefings, see below, and
is accredited at the SDNY
Federal court here in New
York.
So it remains up
to Kenya and the Kenyan
Mission to provide access. We
will be covering them closely.
For now: "Here
is the UN Security Council program
of "work" for October
under
@KenyaMissionUN
@AmbMKimani : #WesternSahara
13th, 4th #Haiti (cholera),
18th CAR (UN rapes) - no
#Cameroon or #Nigeria, Inner
City Press asked why, no
answer."
Watch this
site.
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