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Corruption, politics, murder: anatomy of a Kenyan killing
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. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Corruption, politics, murder: anatomy of a Kenyan killing || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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