Finally Kilome MP Harun Mwau has won the battle against allegations that he is a drug baron.This is after years of trying to set the record straight.
All along Mr Mwau has maintained his innocence and declared that his wealth is clean despite what some people within and without Kenya want to believe.
On Wednesday Kenya’s Parliament publicly cleared Mr Mwau and another MP of the allegations of drug trafficking made in a US dossier early this year. The duo were cleared the heinous crime that is responsible for several deaths in Kenya and agony among youths, especially in the Kenyan coast.
Just as Mr Mwau has in the past painstakingly tried to explain, Internal Security assistant minister Orwa Ojodeh told Parliament police had failed to find evidence linking the Kilome MP and his Juja counterpart William Kabogo to the drug trade.
Mr Ojodeh told the August House that after months of investigations, “no evidence” had been found linking Mr Mwau to “contract killings, controlling shipments, human trafficking, corrupt involvement in government contracts and gun-running”.
That despite official inquiries, Kenya had not received any information that pointed to Mr Mwau as a drug dealer.
President Obama signed an executive order under the US Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act in June naming the two Kenyans, among others.
Mr Ojodeh made the statement as he cleared the two MPs of allegations made against them in the dossier given to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority by former US ambassador Michael Ranneberger.
The dossier sought investigations against five MPs and Ms Nyakinyua.
Mr Mwau sought the statement from the government, describing the claims as “very grave because drug trafficking is a heinous accusation”.
The Kilome MP asked Mr Ojodeh to make sure that the Drug Enforcement Administration in the US hands over details of the real drug barons in Kenya.
Ms Martha Karua said the government should tell the country who the real drug barons were because as they were investigating, they ought to have discovered who was pulling the strings.
At a past interview, Mr Mwau told Soft Kenya that he has earned his wealth legitimately and allegation in the US dossier is nothing but fabrications.
The hard working MP said he reports to work at around 6am and leaves well past 8pm, and he has developed a strict saving habit that has seen him prosper.
“Seemingly it is a mistake to be born poor…people do not believe that with my background I can succeed hence their only logical explanation about my wealth is that I am a drug peddler,” decried Mr Mwau.
So if Kilome MP is clean, who are the real culprits. From the recent KTN feature, Police bosses must come out clean and nail down the culprits…at whatever cost…or maybe these police bosses are the barons? !
Who sponsors, encourages and perpetuates opium [for heroin] plantation-farming in Afghanistan[not to mention the factories]? Who channels hard drugs particularly to our predominantly muslim youth at the coast? Who, praythee, stands to gain most if these naive, innocent mortals end up as docile vegetables? Using narcotics as a counter-terrorism weapon is as low as it can ever get. Blaming it on an innocent, hard-working Kenyan is a thinly veiled smockscreen that will hardly fool those of us who have a whiff of how this world functions. How urgently this globe needs a second superpower! God speed China!
true…a lot needs to be told