Crimes, frauds, corruption

News : Crimes, frauds, corruption

When President Mwai Kibaki summoned embattled Finance Minister Amos Kimunya to State House, Nairobi on Saturday afternoon, there was widespread anticipation that he was going to be asked to step aside to pave away for investigations into the raging Grand Regency Hotel saga. (AllAfrica)

Kenya's chief executive was on Friday shoved to the centre of the irregular sale of Grand Regency Hotel. Lands Minister James Orengo and a government-owned human rights watchdog asked President Kibaki to act on the matter arguing that the buck stops with him. (AllAfrica)

Somalia is not only one of the most dangerous countries in the world due to its long running civil war spanning decades. But to add to this, the waters off the coast of Somalia have become the most treacherous in the world, swarming with well armed pirates searching for prey to hold to ransom. (AllAfrica)

Six management staff of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Corporation (NSPMC) have been arrested and interrogated by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) over their alleged role in the N72 billion scam at the organisation. (AllAfrica)

Three CCM legislators yesterday expressed their deep concern over the growing problem of corruption in the country, calling for thorough investigations against those involved. (AllAfrica)

Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son. Just as her husband was growing older and calmer, her son was getting increasingly violent. (AllAfrica)

Embattled Finance minister Amos Kimunya Thursday said he was still in office as MPs and other Kenyans continued demanding his resignation. (AllAfrica)

A Swiss-based activist group has said it is imploring Swiss authorities to freeze President Paul Biya's account in that country and repatriate the stolen money. (AllAfrica)

The High Court has stopped a Libyan company, the new owners of the Grand Regency hotel, from carrying out dealings on it. (AllAfrica)

Damning evidence continued to pile up like a tonne of bricks against Sackey Namugongo, the Deputy Director in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, as one witness after another confessed to paying large sums of money to him for ostensibly issuing gambling licences, despite a moratorium at the time. (AllAfrica)

The decision by the Defence and National Service and Home Affairs ministries to work together to stamp out rustling in Mara Region is welcome, though belated. (AllAfrica)

Justice Momodou Darboe, a journalist with The Point, a Banjul-based privately-owned independent daily newspaper, was violently attacked by an armed man on July 1, 2008. (AllAfrica)

PROBES have potentials of taking us to parts that we never knew existed. Utterances at these gatherings make headlines and sometimes nudge us to a glimpse of the country. (AllAfrica)

Two foreign charity workers were shot dead by armed gangsters in Nairobi on Wednesday night. (AllAfrica)

A Cabinet sub-committee has approved the investigation report on the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel. (AllAfrica)

Professional associations have asked Finance minister Amos Kimunya to step aside to allow for investigations into the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel. (AllAfrica)

An attempt by University of Nairobi students and members of civil societies to march from Parliament to Finance minister Amos Kimunya's office was thwarted when police fired tear gas and arrested two of the protesters. (AllAfrica)

Finance minister Amos Kimunya's maladroit handling of the Grand Regency Hotel affair seems to have aroused general public anger and opprobrium, and the calls for him to either resign or be sacked are growing. (AllAfrica)

A SOLDIER of the Local Defence Unit (LDU) on Wednesday night shot dead six people and injured eight others during a fight over a woman in a discotheque at Omiya-Nyima IDP camp, 12km east of Kitgum town. (AllAfrica)

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dispatched a team of detectives abroad to track the N19.5 billion Aviation Fund which is now subject of probe in the Senate. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Justice announces that it was constrained to secure from the Monrovia City Court a warrant of arrest for Mr. Roosevelt Quiah for the commission of the crime of forgery committed by him while he was on the soil of the Republic of Liberia. The Ministry says that its action grows out of the fact that Mr. Roosevelt Quiah, purporting to be acting by a corporation formed and operating under the laws of the Republic of Liberia, under the name and style of Liberia Iron Ore Company (Bong Mines), forged the signature of the Minister of Lands, Mines, and Energy, and the seal of the Ministry of Lands, Mines, and Energy, by which, under a purported Mineral Development Agreement and other documents, the Ministry of Lands, Mines, and Energy was stated to have granted a Class A Mining license and concession for twenty-five (25) years to the Liberia Iron Ore Company to prospect, explore and conduct iron ore mining activities in the Bong Mines and Wologisi areas. These representations were false and fraudulent as the documents were forged. (AllAfrica)

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday explained that contrary to reports that his convoy was attacked by armed robbers, his advanced security team rather flushed out the robbers from the highway. (AllAfrica)

A twenty-two-year-old man identified as Prince Borkay of Camp Johnson Road has allegedly raped an eight-year old child. (AllAfrica)

Grand Bassa County Representative Byron Brown has expressed fear for the wave of killings and armed robberies in the country. (AllAfrica)

The US State Department "Crime and Safety Report on Cameroon for 2008," indicates that high unemployment is a major cause of criminality in Yaounde, Douala and other towns in the country. (AllAfrica)

"I was explaining that they could buy diesel from somewhere else as the old woman was not willing to reduce her price when the DO pounced on me. He grabbed my shirt collar and started raining blows on my head." (AllAfrica)

If the expectations of those who rabidly opposed the appointment of Mrs Farida Waziri as the new chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are anything to take seriously, by now, the whole organizational structures of the anti-graft agency should have crashed. (AllAfrica)

The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Ibrahim Dank-wambo, yesterday told the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the Transportation sector that he approved the mandates leading to the alleged N30.9 billion withdrawals by the Transportation Ministry. (AllAfrica)

Police yesterday arrested a plot holder at Brawlands Farm in Glendale, near Bindura for allegedly killing a man he found trespassing on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

A chief in Gutu, Masvingo Province, is lucky to be alive after he was severely assaulted and left for dead by youths aligned to a rival chief in a boundary dispute which has been raging for close 26 years. (AllAfrica)

POLICE have reportedly started arresting members of the Zanu PF militia who terrorised suspected MDC supporters in the countdown to last Friday's presidential election run-off. (AllAfrica)