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06-23-2016, 09:41 AM
NAIROBI: On a wet Thursday night in early May, a well-k**wn businessman and government critic was found dead in his armoured blue Mercedes by a busy road on the outskirts of Nairobi, five bullet holes in his chest, neck and arm.
Kenya’s long history of state violence meant the murder of Jacob Juma, who was in his mid-forties, was quickly viewed as a political assassination.
His death dominated the country’s newspapers as amateur sleuths picked holes in the police narrative of a business deal gone wrong, and opposition politicians cried foul.
It was a tricky case, the country’s senior detective Muhoro Ndegwa told journalists, with ** witnesses and ** ******. He promised his team would do their best, but in the six weeks since his death ** arrests have been made.
The arc of Juma’s life was unusual at first, and then unique: Kenya’s pervasive tribal patronage helped a poor but smart rural kid make the political connections necessary to get rich on ill-gotten government contracts. But after he was cut out of a potentially lucrative mining deal he became a relentless anti-corruption activist and government critic leading many to see politics behind his death.
Juma was “a scoundrel that bitterness turned into an asset for those fighting corruption,” says John Githongo, a re**wned anti-corruption campaigner. “He became a fount of confidential treasury documents, information, history and gossip,” he says. Elections trigger spikes in corruption and the country is already getting set for next year’s vote: there are regular, sometimes deadly, street protests against an election commission the opposition says is biased; MPs on both sides have been investigated for hate speech and inciting violence; and graft is accelerating as politicians seek to fund either their campaigns or their retirements.
Juma’s murder is being seen as the curtain raiser to a potentially violent election season. Diplomats are already muttering about “a repeat of 2007” when more than 1,100 people died in election-related tribal violence.
Juma won a place at a Nairobi polytechnic in 1989 and quickly impressed businessman and politician Cyrus Jirongo, who hails from the same part of the country and became his patron.
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Kenya’s long history of state violence meant the murder of Jacob Juma, who was in his mid-forties, was quickly viewed as a political assassination.
His death dominated the country’s newspapers as amateur sleuths picked holes in the police narrative of a business deal gone wrong, and opposition politicians cried foul.
It was a tricky case, the country’s senior detective Muhoro Ndegwa told journalists, with ** witnesses and ** ******. He promised his team would do their best, but in the six weeks since his death ** arrests have been made.
The arc of Juma’s life was unusual at first, and then unique: Kenya’s pervasive tribal patronage helped a poor but smart rural kid make the political connections necessary to get rich on ill-gotten government contracts. But after he was cut out of a potentially lucrative mining deal he became a relentless anti-corruption activist and government critic leading many to see politics behind his death.
Juma was “a scoundrel that bitterness turned into an asset for those fighting corruption,” says John Githongo, a re**wned anti-corruption campaigner. “He became a fount of confidential treasury documents, information, history and gossip,” he says. Elections trigger spikes in corruption and the country is already getting set for next year’s vote: there are regular, sometimes deadly, street protests against an election commission the opposition says is biased; MPs on both sides have been investigated for hate speech and inciting violence; and graft is accelerating as politicians seek to fund either their campaigns or their retirements.
Juma’s murder is being seen as the curtain raiser to a potentially violent election season. Diplomats are already muttering about “a repeat of 2007” when more than 1,100 people died in election-related tribal violence.
Juma won a place at a Nairobi polytechnic in 1989 and quickly impressed businessman and politician Cyrus Jirongo, who hails from the same part of the country and became his patron.
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