Member wa JF, Robert Alai, arrested and released in Kenya.....(Updates).

Member wa JF, Robert Alai, arrested and released in Kenya.....(Updates).

Robert Alai ni Mkenya! Amekamatwa kwa sababu ya tweet aliyoandika karibuni ambayo inamtuhumu msemaji mkuu wa serikali ya Kenya kuandaa mipango ya kutaka kumuwa.
Maxence Melo ZeMarcopolo, ndetichia, Mwali, omujubi, Idimi, KakaKiiza na wengineo,

Hizi ndizo tweets alizoandika Alai katika tweeter account yake hapo tarehe 16/08/12 na zimemtia taabani.

Robert Alai Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

The foolish government spokesman called Alfred Mutua now threatens me and tell me that he will deal with me. #Justice4Karen #WomenLeadership

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

Alfred Mutua and Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere need to act and arrest Allassane Ba ASAP. #Justice4Karen #WomenLeadership

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

You cannot have a foreigner rape a Kenyan then assault her then nobody can do anything. #Justice4Karen #WomenLeadership


Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai


I have just told Alfred Mutua that one day he will leave that power he is misusing. #Justice4Karen

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

0721240443 is Alfred Mutua's number he is using to threaten me.
FOOLISH PIG is drunk with power. #Justice4Karen

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai


@owokopollyne The order by RailaOdinga was disobeyed and Iteere ordered the guy be released through Kibuchi. #Justice4Karen
 
Maxence Melo ZeMarcopolo, ndetichia, Mwali, omujubi, Idimi, KakaKiiza na wengineo,

Hizi ndizo tweets alizoandika Alai katika tweeter account yake hapo tarehe 16/08/12 na zimetia taabani.

Robert Alai Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

The foolish government spokesman called Alfred Mutua now threatens me and tell me that he will deal with me. #Justice4Karen #WomenLeadership

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

Alfred Mutua and Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere need to act and arrest Allassane Ba ASAP. #Justice4Karen #WomenLeadership

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

You cannot have a foreigner rape a Kenyan then assault her then nobody can do anything. #Justice4Karen #WomenLeadership

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

I have just told Alfred Mutua that one day he will leave that power he is misusing. #Justice4Karen

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

0721240443 is Alfred Mutua's number he is using to threaten me. FOOLISH PIG is drunk with power. #Justice4Karen

Robert Alai ‏@RobertAlai

@owokopollyne The order by RailaOdinga was disobeyed and Iteere ordered the guy be released through Kibuchi. #Justice4Karen

Sasa police kwanini wanamkamata yeye badala ya Mutua. Mtu ukitoa taarifa kuwa maisha yako yametishiwa, wewe ndio unakamatwa au sheria za Kenya zikoje? Au Mutua ameenda kushtaki kwa defemation?
Inabidi mdau aje atupe details akiwa free...
 
Sasa police kwanini wanamkamata yeye badala ya Mutua. Mtu ukitoa taarifa kuwa maisha yako yametishiwa, wewe ndio unakamatwa au sheria za Kenya zikoje? Au Mutua ameenda kushtaki kwa defemation?
Inabidi mdau aje atupe details akiwa free...

Mutua ni serikali!!!!
 
jf!how safe are we?wengi wanapenda kujua hili.kwa mimi najua siko safe but im protected by the....
 
Kwa mbali naona wakubwa Kenya wanaanza kutafuta namna ya kufinyanga katiba mpya. Wamegundua just how 'unfriendly' this katiba mpya is, sasa wanaleta sababu.
 
Pole member kwa misukosuko hila huku kwetu tunawachana tu kwenye mablog,ma twitter na ma feisbuku!
 
Ngoja nikugeuzie kibao, Mwali wangu. Sasa na wewe umefanya nini katika hili sakata la mdau Alai?
Binafsi sikutumia maneno makubwa kama "revolution".
Ila if I had in mind that this could spring a revolution
(like you seem to think), nadhani ningeanza kukusanya watu
then ningewaambia kua this is not right: nobody should
be jailed for expressing his opinion on something (hata bila ushahidi).
Kila mtu ana takiwa kuwa huru kuesema mawazo yake!
then kama mmoja wetu (great thinkers) akipata shida,
ninge anza thread ya kutafuta ukweli, tujue alisema nini hasa.
then, petition ya kuomba haki zake ziheshimiwe na serikali ya kenya.
 
Wanalipiza kisasi cha mkenya wao kukamatwa Tanzania?!!!

huyo ni mkenya kakamatwa kwao kwa tweet inayowahusu wao ila ni member wa JF, sasa sijui kisasi gani umeona hapo

View his profile, anatumia Alai na ana bendera ya Kenya
 
Nimeongea nae, yupo salama. Nadhani ataingia JF kueleza kilichotokea na kinachoendelea kutokea.

This thing is getting dirty!!!:

The Miserable Twat, Troll and Deperate Cyber ***** is Erik Hershman Not Alai


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There is a gene in myself which does not and will never allow for fraudulent people and ideas to rule my life. I will stand up and tell you there and then that you are wrong when I feel that you are wrong. I have told my dad, siblings, teacher, bosses and even friends. That is the mantra which I live by.

So it really does not surprise me that twats and conniving ****** really see me as a troll. Lets start from where this is coming from. I was summoned by the Kenyan Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over tweets I supposedly sent regarding Alfred Mutua. I obeyed the summon and the CID decided to detain me until then next day when I was sent to court, charged and then released on bail.

While away, like the proverbial cat, the neocoloniat twats who have forever expected me to get desperate and really need their ressurection decided to try to gain some attention whil I was away. And the twat was doing it with a not so convincing excuse that they disagreed with some "Kenya Censorship Laws."

Erik Hersman decided to say how I am a troll and so have been banned by iHub, Skunkworks, Nokia and Google (someone tell me what sets the four listed entities uniquely apart). The sad reality is that Google Kenya, Nokia Kenya, iHub Ngong Road and Skunworks nowhere are not unique. The same few 50 or so people operate and run the entities.

The four have no ideals which anyone with futuristic thought can boast of apart from that they are all Manambas hoping that by clutching the tails of the torn coat of Erik Hersman, they will spur any meaningful innovation.

Erik Hersman on the other hand passionately hate independent mindset. You will not survive at iHub, Ushahidi or any of the loudly celebrated but rarely accepted entities if you have a mindset which will challenge and prove that Erik Hersman's mindset is shallow, narrow, neocolonial and conniving.

At the launch of mLab East Africa, one of the managers at the Bishop Magua based facilities warned me as much. Again just 2 weeks ago, I came to know of the supposed iHub ban which is nothing but Erik's personal declaration of persona-non-grata.
While talking to one of the iHub managers about the same, he was bluntly honest, "Erik Hersman hates you. We have really told him that we see nothing wrong with you but he is insisting that he threatened not to work with anyone who thinks that you should be allowed to freely visit or attend events at iHub." That is Erik Hersman.

I have met developers doing great work outside the iHub and even those still are inside the iHUB. Majority of them say that Erik Hersman is such an attention ***** who will do anything to remain the centre of attraction. The same crimes Erik is accusing me of committing.

So let me tell Erik Hersman about myself and
@Korruptsoul, @arabari and @robert_rabari can all attest to as they are my closest relatives on Twitter.

I am a person who will never get to be a selfish opportunist. I will never stop to tell Nokia that they are losing the market when they are doing so. I will never fail to remind Google time and time again that they are behaving like colonialists by luring Kenyan entities into ideas which will lock them and make sure that they earn no meaningful return from the same.

When Nokia or any vendor or tech company does not want to hear, they will always try to hide their inadequacies by locking out the sane voices and sticking with praise singers and ass-lickers. The result is that Nokia is preparing to even close its much touted research lab which it so much advertised as revolutionary in this side of Sahara.

With Google, no Kenyan developer is making money from its Android platform or any of the initiatives it has started apart from few prizes here and there which are just bribes packaged as reward for "great ideas." If Google was serious in changing the tech landscape in Kenya and Africa as a whole, it would listen and engage especially when we disagree.

Secondly, Erik should know that I never get to disagree, correct and even take people and ideas head-on for any virtual traffic gain as he has stupidly alleged. Ask the three I mentioned above and they will tell you that I have very strong views which even my teachers, family and even bosses have found hard to accommodate one time or the other. I told off my Headmaster in Onjiko High School, my boss at the UN Mission in DRC, my dad and even my MPs.

My strong views earned me a beating as a kid or student and has not stopped into my adulthood. I was assaulted in in Kisumu in August 2011 and left for dead. Just because of my tweets disagreeing with what Minister Anyang' Nyong'o was doing at the medical services ministry.

Disagreeing and holding divergent opinions from the people Erik would have wished that I ass-licked does nnot bring me any meaningful traffic nor Adsense earnings. I live on other things. I will never be reduced to begging for handouts and space from Erik Hersman. I have better ideas of making money my own way.

And on the very desperate blog post, Erik Hersman claimed how "a lot of Kenyans on Twitter" laughed at my incarceration. Who is a lot to Erik? The usual barking mongrels he feed coffee and few beers at iHub to attack me? Before Erik who is an American and not a Kenyan ask us to defined who define our laws, let us ask him who defines his statements. Kenyan laws will be defined by Kenyans not some jobless American who few corrupt Kenyan government officials have saved from being irrelevant.

Erik then goes on to say how I am guilty of libel and defamation while marketing the blog post as a fair analysis of the going-ons.
The same mindset which Erik holds declared both Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela as terrorists. There is nothing unique or inspiring in the thought. It is shallow, patronising and colonial to say the least.

Erik Hersman would wish that I constantly cleaned his rear opening. Others can find it tasteful and do it however much they want, the truth is that I will never or simply I WON'T.


The Miserable Twat, Troll and Deperate Cyber ***** is Erik Hershman Not Alai – Techmtaa
 
Binafsi sikutumia maneno makubwa kama "revolution".
Ila if I had in mind that this could spring a revolution
(like you seem to think), nadhani ningeanza kukusanya watu
then ningewaambia kua this is not right: nobody should
be jailed for expressing his opinion on something (hata bila ushahidi).
Kila mtu ana takiwa kuwa huru kuesema mawazo yake!
then kama mmoja wetu (great thinkers) akipata shida,
ninge anza thread ya kutafuta ukweli, tujue alisema nini hasa.
then, petition ya kuomba haki zake ziheshimiwe na serikali ya kenya.
Haya, sawa!
 
More about Alai>>>>

After responding to the twats calling others trolls, let us deal with the issues and say what happened.

So it has been an eventful weekend for me. I got to go through some experience which I really wish that no one will go thrrough. Everybody is talking about it but few of those who support or oppose my ordeal know what really happened.

So what happened? Apart from being a tech blogger in Kenya, I also comment on issues of social justice and governance. I am so passionately Kenyan that some of my friends whom I worked with outside the country used to call me as the leader of the Kenyan mafia. I follow every issue in this country with a keen eye. I don't develop a class attitude and say that because something happened to someone in Kibera, Mukuru or K'Obong'o village then I cannot comment about it because it is just below my class. That is just me and I am not looking to change it anytime soon.

Just as other issues I follow closely,
I have been following the case of the Shelter Afrique boss, Allassane Ba, and Mrs Karen Kandie. Allassane Ba happen to be a Mauritanian national head of the Shelter Afrique. He is alleged to had assaulted Mrs Karen Kandie who is married to the CCK Director of HR, Mr Juma Kandie. After the alleged assault, Mrs Kandie tried so hard to have Mr Ba arrested and arraigned in court. After trying for several days without much success, they one time managed to have Mr Ba arrested and locked up at Capital Hill police station in Naiobi. Before arresting Mr Ba, Mrs Kandie had to get herself checked by the only police doctor in Nairobi province who is based at Nairobi Area. The search for the authentication of the Police doctor did not come easily. It was a struggle which only those who have gone through get to fully understand.

More information about the Allassane Ba and Karen Kandie's story.

So to cut the long story short, Mrs Kandie got the government doctor's approval that she had a serious case which could sustain an assault case against Mr Ba. She proceeded to have Mr Ba arrested. The arrest saw the Western African staff members of Shelter Afrique drive in a convoy of 5 cars to Capital Hill Police station where they started to protest at the gate of the facility. They camped at the facility and with connections with the Kenyan government officials, they managed to get through to the commissioner of police, Mr Mathew Iteere, and the government spokesman, Dr Alfred Mutua, who both talked and got to issue orders to the OCPD Kilimani through Nairobi PPO, Anthony Kibuchi, that Mr Allassane Ba be immediately released.
The Occurence Book (OB) recording at the Capital Police station is marked as Number 24/28/6/2012.

Immediately they realised that Mr Ba had been released, Mrs Kandie's family reached out to all top Kenyan government officials they could reach to protest the release. In that course to you heard the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sometime say that Mr Allassane Ba has no diplomatic immunity before later changing the story. The family then reached to the Prime Minister who then ordered that Mr Allassane Ba be either arrested or deported. The order has never been effected.
The people blocking the arrest are said to be the Foreign Affairs Ministry's PS, Thuita Mwangi, Mr Iteere and Dr Alfred Mutua together with other Kenyan officials in the diplomatic community circles. It is a deep cover-up which you can only understand when you get full details and proof of the cover-up.

So with this information and backed by documents, I got to call Dr Alfred Mutua to ask him what really happened and if it was true that he is part of the group of top government officials who have been blocking the arrest of Mr Ba. I made the call at around 13:30 hours on Thursday August 16th. On receiving my call and after hearing my question,
Dr Mutua told me, "Alai, we know that you are some activists and we don't appreciate activism. We will deal with you." I told Alfred to answer my question if he may because my call was not to diisplay activism but to get to the bottom of an issue. He said he does not deal with activists. I then asked him if he can remember that the last time he threatened some people that he would deal with them, they were found dead the next day (GPO Oulu and Oscar King'ara). Alfred got mad, said, "STUPID" then ended the call abruptly. I was surprised and after few minutes decided to inform the Police Spokesman and the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Within a few hours, I received a call from a Mr Rutere who said he is from the Provincial CID headquarters. He informed me that I need to report to his office immediately. I told him that the earliest I could go to his office is on Tuesday or Wednesday 21st and 22nd respectively. Mr Rutere told me that he will use other methods to get to me and have me arrested. I told him that I really don't take threats kindly and I can only go to his office after the IDD celebrations. I knew that the police are looking for me because of the altercation with Alfred Mutua. If I went to see them on Friday, I would have stayed till Tuesday 21st in custody. Immediately after the call, I got two phone calls from people who did not speak to me. I used other means to get to know who they are and called them back to ask them if they work with the CID. They both said yes they work at the CID but the call was just a mistake. I then realised that someone was tracking my movements using my phone. I have gone through the tracking of suspects with the CID while investigating for my phone recovery story with the CID.

So I switched off my phones and stayed off radar the whole weekend but I continued to tweet and intermittently switch on my phone. I then went to see the CID on Tuesday at around mid-day with my lawyer. We found other officers but not Mr Rutere. So I got other officers who were assigned to the case. The most surprising confession from different officers who worked on the case is that they knew where I was, who I was talking to and what I was saying. They told me, "didn't you tell ……….I got to realise that though
it is known that the Kenya Police has been using its powers to track individuals through mobile phones, they are now even listening to conversations. The saddest part off all these is that they are doing it without a single legal backing or order.

I first got worried about the police surveillance when one junior CID officer who is a great friend to me and works in Nairobi called me sometime in 2011. We were to meet and I was busy elsewhere to I decided to say I am in shags (the village). After few minutes of the end of the call, the CID officer SMSed me to tell me that I am in such-and-such a place.
I really got worried because here we were friends and I did not have a police case but someone was able to get to know very private details about my phone.



Part One: Why Was RobertAlai Summoned by the CID then Locked-Up? – Techmtaa
 
Part Two: The Court Appearance and How My Communications Were Monitored.



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Before presenting myself to the CID, I called friends who are senior government officials. The friends confirmed that I was summoned because of the altercation with Dr Mutua. The very unfortunate bit is that the CID Director, Ndegwa Muhoro was not aware of the case. So it seemed that Dr Mutua made a direct call to Nicholas Kamwende to arrest me for crimes he perceived that I had commited.

The case between me and Dr Mutua should be a civil case. Mutua is using his position to prefer criminal charges on me. Anyone narrowly arguing on the basis of section 29(b) of the Kenya Information and Communications Act of 2009 is being blind to the Kenyan constitution which is more superior than any other law on this land. You cannot read an act of parliament like the encyclopedia. Legal analysis is not that simple.

So after reporting to the police, I got to be told what I was being charged with. The officers were very friendly, even offering me food. I loved the hospitality of the individuals investigating my case. They treated me with care despite the fact that we did not know each other. Most of the members of the investigation team have accounts on Twitter and Facebook. They know all that are happening on Twitter. I realised that we really don't know how much our police force if prepared for cyber crime. Kenyans on Twitter and Facebook should know that the police have proper infrastructure in place to monitor and handle cyber crime.

The problem is that they don't have a strong legal backing to do so and they have to rely on American and European institutions to handle some of the incidences.

But don't be deceived.
The CID and NSIS are in-charge. Just get it to that extent.It is something which I will write about much later.

The CID officers asked me questions about my tweets, what I use to tweet and how often I tweet. I was asked who I work for and who pay me for all which I do. The policemen and woman were very cordial but incisive. They are a smart breed. They were very suspicious that I might have been recording the conversations so they thoroughly checked my wristwatch, pens and even phone. They pretended to take a keen interest on the same but they feared that I might have been spying on them. They know all about the Miguna book and even found one of them reading the book (physical copy) in the office. The officer revealed to me the seriousness of my case and what I was up against. They told me about the complainant who is Dr Alfred Mutua.

The CID officers told me that I was being charged with two counts, the first being
"sending abusive text messages contrary to section 29(b) of the Kenya Communications Act of 2 of 1998″ The second count is for "sending annoying message contrary to section 29(b) of the Kenya Communications Act 2 of 1998."

The charges attract a
maximum sentence of 3 months or fine of Ksh 50,000.

At around 4pm, my lawyer realised that the officers were just passing time and doing nothing serious to take up my statement and prepare for the assured court case the next day morning. The CID officers were also playing cat and mouse game with the media which was camping at the gate of the CID headquaters.

They were buying time to stop me from engaging the media and to keep me until the next day. The officers decided to push and so they said they could not do much without listening to Nairobi CID boss, Nicholas Kamwende who was present in his office. One of the officers went up to see him. He said that the CID boss said that he "had instructions" to detain me till the court appearance. My lawyer went to see Mr Kamwende who insisted on the same.

In fact Mr Kamwende told one of the people present in his office that he had instructions to make sure that I was released on a cash bail of not less than Ksh 300,000. Legal analysts were surprised that I was released on a cash bail of Ksh 100,000 while the maximum fine for the same offence is Ksh 50,000. The higher cash bail came about as part of the recommendations of the CID officers investigating the case on orders of the Nairobi PCIO Mr Nicholas Kamwende.

Somebody top in the government, let me just say that Dr Alfred Mutua is using his position to try to make sure that I am not free again. I told my lawyer not to worry about me from then. I told him that I would go to the police cell if Dr Mutua thought that I would fear going inside. It was not the first time I was spending in the police cell. In fact it was the second time in the year 2012, the first being when Erik Hersman and his sluts at Nokia and Google made sure that I spent at Kilimani police station in February.


Google has never been known to play by any sane rule. You heard the crazy data theft story where Google employed an Indian company now branded as Kuza Biashara to basically steal content from a Mocality Kenya. The same Dorothy Ooko who knows that I criticised her market strategy at Nokia is using her position at Google for the same. That is why Erik Hersman who has no unique offering for Kenyans but just that he get favours from the Ministry oof Information and communications officials who suffer from inferiority complex that they don't easily embrace indigenous Kenyans as they embrace these corrupt foreign lay-abouts.

So my statement was taken and I was driven to Kilimani Police station where I spent the night. The station had over 26 suspects in a holding cell measuring only 5m x 7m. I enjoyed the company though. It was a nice time we had there. The morning arrived so fast, we were served breakfast and by 7am, the CID officers were there to pick me for court appearances. I was driven to the CID headquarters then to the Kilimani Courts' basement cells where I stayed till after 9.30am. Together with other suspects, I was handcuffed and then led to court 7 to appear before Chief Magistrate P.S. Biwott.

It was a long wait for the magistrate. He arrived around 10am and went through the case mentions until my turn when the charges were read and I was released on a cash bail of Ksh 100,000 with an alternative bond of the same.

So I was taken back to the cells together with other suspects. While processing my bail through the registry, a woman named Ruth who I was later told that is very corrupt and will always be stubborn to suspects being released, inflated the cash bail amount from Ksh 100,000 to 200,000. She was adamant that I was not going to be free until I paid that amount. She insisted so much so that my lawyer got angry and reprimanded her. She argued but even her colleagues saw her stupidity and urged her to process my release.
Sources later revealed to us that the "lady was getting instructions from someone high above."

Eventually I was released and so headed home.

So later I talked to different lawyers some of who have represented clients on terror related cases. I got a confirmation that the Kenyan CID and NSIS have special desks at all telephone operators in the country. The moment you are a target, you will be listened. I got curious to ask this since the CID revealed to me not only my rendezvous but also who I was on phone with and what I was saying. Imagine being asked "so and so who is your girlfriend takes all your time boss." When spying on you, the CID and NSIS are not limiting the operation to only the incidences related to their investigations. They are getting petty and indulging on some very stupid acts where even a very close conversation to your granny is not safe.

Another former senior employee of a mobile operator who is now in Uganda revealed to me that after the Post-Eelections Violence, NSIS control all call termination points and so it is very easy for them to act on calls without looking for any authorisation from the operators. In fact the CID and NSIS have not put up a structure on how the calls are intercepted and who can do that leaving access to the system to virtually anybody who can prove that he works with the NSIS or the CID.

My case is basically a defamation case so I was surprised that even very private conversations were being recorded and used to torture me during the investigations. The torture through the revelation of my private calls and even a print-out of all my tweets was to silence me from ever tweeting or Facebooking again. So apart from the media psychologicall warfare where Nicholas Kamwende was summoning and intimidating me through the media, another angle where private communications details were being revealed to me to freak me out was also planned.

Anybody as foolish as Erik hersman arguing on the basis of a single section of an act of parliament without looking on to the constitution, which is supreme, need to go back to school and get to understand legal arguments.

From all this experience, I have realised that our mobile operators are selling our information to the security agencies in return for protection from the government as they exploit the consumers and none of them will ever be penalised and if they will be then it will be like the recent Ksh 500,000. The controversial NIS bill is just a formality but there is nothing on that bill which this government is not doing. It is doing worse and there is no hierachy.
Even Alfred Mutua can access very confidential information about you to fight very personal battles.

Part Two: The Court Appearance and How My Communications Were Monitored – Techmtaa
 
Sasa police kwanini wanamkamata yeye badala ya Mutua. Mtu ukitoa taarifa kuwa maisha yako yametishiwa, wewe ndio unakamatwa au sheria za Kenya zikoje? Au Mutua ameenda kushtaki kwa defemation?
Inabidi mdau aje atupe details akiwa free...
kama tunavyoambiwa hapa kila siku kuwa "peleka ushahidi Polisi"!
Ndio maana ni wazi kuwa muda sio mrefu social media zitakuwa zinafanya kazi kubwa sana zaidi ya ilivyowahi kudhaniwa hapo awali
 
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