Passport of 27-Year-Old ManBorn in the UK to KenyanParents Cancelled

By John Wanjohi  Sat, 02/29/2020 @ 03:46pm 962 views 3 comments
Passport of 27-Year-Old Man Born in the UK to Kenyan Parents Cancelled

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    A 27-year-old man born in the United Kingdom to Kenyan parents has been stripped of his British passport and now faces deportation.
    Unlike in the past when it was thought that people born in the UK were immune from passport cancellation, the British immigration system appears to have taken a different direction, especially for those convicted of violent crime, drugs, and terrorism.
    The man, a resident of South East London, was ordered be to reporting to the police every two weeks, according to misterseed.com.
    The revocation of the man's passport becomes the first case involving a member of the Kenyan community in the UK and comes a few weeks after a 19-year old man from Elephant and Castle, South London and born in the UK to Nigerian parents was deported last month.
    Upon arrival in Nigeria, the teenager was forced to call his parents in the UK requesting contacts and names of their relatives in Nigeria because he had never been to Nigeria before.

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    Police Beef up Security inNairobi After US Terror Warning

    By John Wanjohi  Fri, 02/28/2020 @ 09:40am 344 views 1 comments
    Police Beef up Security in Nairobi After US Terror Warning

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      Police have beefed up security in Nairobi following a terror alert issued by the United States Embassy on Thursday.
      The embassy said it received intelligence showing that terrorist groups were planning to attack a major hotel in Nairobi and urged American citizens to remain vigilant.
      “Terrorist groups may be plotting an attack against a major hotel in Nairobi. The exact hotel has not been identified, but it is believed to be a hotel popular with tourists and business travelers,” the alert stated.
      “If staying at a hotel, be aware of the hotel’s evacuation plan. Plan ahead of time how you would exit the hotel in case of an emergency. Review your personal security plans. Be aware of your surroundings. Monitor local media for updates.” 
      Following the warning, Inspector-General of Police Hillary Mutyambai said more officers have been deployed across the city and urged Kenyans to be extra-vigilant. Security officers have also increased border surveillance.
      “We wish to caution the public to be extra-vigilant even as the police and other security agencies continue to work round the clock to ensure the safety and the security of our country and Kenyans at large,” he said.
      The last terror attack in Nairobi was in January 2019, when al-Shabaab militants stormed Dusit D2 hotel complex in Westlands. 21 people including American and British nationals were killed while over 700 others were evacuated.
      All the four gunmen, including a suicide bomber, were killed.

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      Kenya Airways SuspendsEmployee Who Took Video ofChinese Flight at JKIA

      By John Wanjohi  Fri, 02/28/2020 @ 11:54am 796 views 9 comments
      Kenya Airways Suspends Employee Who Took Video of Chinese Flight at JKIA

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        A Kenya Airways employee who allegedly filmed the arrival of a Southern China Airlines flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) has been suspended.
        Gire Ali took a video of some of the 239 passengers disembarking from the plane at JKIA on Wednesday. 
        Kenyans online were furious after the video went viral on social media, with many bashing the government for doing little to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus to the country.
        A letter sent to Gire by KQ Chief human resource manager Evelyne Munyoki indicated he was suspended to pave way for further investigations into the matter.
        "Following a report of video of China Southern flight arrival at JKIA and circulation of the video clip widely on social media and your alleged involvement in the matter, it has been decided that you be suspended from duty with effect from Feb 27.”
        "This is to pave way for further investigations into the matter. During the period of suspension, you will be required to avail yourself to the investigating team.
        "You are therefore required to remain contactable and within reach during the period. Also, note that the suspension period will be on full salary," the letter read.
        Speaking to Nairobi News on Friday, Gire said: “Yes, it is true, what is trending is true they have suspended me.” 
        The video showed passengers from the Chinese plane wearing face masks but airport officials handling them did not have any protective gear.
        In a tweet, Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., who is also a lawyer, castigated KQ for suspending the staff, saying he should have been promoted and his boss fired.
         “This order will be reversed by any court. Public interest is more important than management interests,” Mutula said on Twitter.
        Lawyer Ekuru Aukot said: “As a platinum member with the SkyTeam that includes Kenya Airways, I have canceled my ticket to Kigali because of KQ‘s conspiracy to endanger lives of 47 million Kenyans. Gire Ali is a patriot who exposed #coronavirusInkenya. He should be rewarded. Not suspended.”
        He added: “Someone get me Gire Ali’s contacts. Once I get to Nairobi, happy to look for him. He needs to be defended by all Kenyans for the dangers of #coronavirusInkenya are dire! They threaten 48 million Kenyans currently relying on a weak health system.”
        Former Kakamega Senator Bonny Khalwale wrote:” Suspend Mr Gire Ali? He is a mere whistleblower. Now our hero. Kenya Airways, yours is wisdom of fools.”
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        84-Year-Old Kenyan ManReturns Home to RousingReception After Living in the USfor 60 Years

        By John Wanjohi  Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 08:58am 9448 views 34 comments
        84-Year-Old Kenyan Man Returns Home to Rousing Reception After Living in the US for 60 Years

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          An 84-year-old Kenyan man returned home this week after living in the United States for 60 years.
          James Mugweru went to the US in 1959 through the educational airlift program organized by the late Tom Mboya and Senator John F. Kennedy, who was later elected as the 35th US president and assassinated in 1963.
          During his six-decade stay in the US, Mugweru visited Kenya only two times in 1962 and 1974, after which he lost communication with his family back in Kenya.
          In March last year, a young Kenyan man approached Christine Muchene alias ‘Madame President’, the Founder and CEO of Shiloh Afrique Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia asking her to help him trace his grandfather, whom he had never seen in his life.
          With the help of the internet, Ms. Christine traced the octogenarian to a facility for Senior Citizens in Union City, Georgia.
          Christine took the old man to the Kenyan American Community Church (KACC) headed by Bishop Dr. GG Gitahi where members contributed money to purchase his flight ticket back to Kenya.
          Mugweru left the US on Wednesday, February 19th and landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on Thursday, February 20th. 
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          At the airport, Mugweru received a rousing reception from family members and villagers who traveled there to welcome back their long-lost son. A homecoming party was also held at the family’s home in Nakuru County.
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          Mugweru has two living siblings aged 100 and 80 who could not hide their joy after the arrival of their lost brother.

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          Seneca
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 09:49am
          Eeeeer...did this guy want to return? Or did you guys force him? Who will care for him in Kenya? He is 84 and was doing fine in the retirement home as seen here.
          Very bad idea.
          How can he be forced when he has all the required needed to stay here. This type of negativity is serious.
          No wonder Kenya is poor. The inability to think critically or otherwise! Godamnit!
          Everything he needs? Alichangiwa ticket to start. He is 84. Hana NSSF, NHIF...will you put him on your budget?
          Actually, he might live better in Kenya on social security which am sure Pays for retirement home. Maybe yoll can float that to him. If he gets like $1000 a month, that is good living in Kenya. Plus the US' greatness is that there will be no delay...like clockwork, money in account every first day of the month. Sasa ni wizi tutaogopa....Kenyans are thieves.
          Find him a good place, connect him with Nairobi Hospital or Gertrudes (hospitals approved for US citizens) and he can live around family, happily.
          Seneca, I have a feeling he already collects checks from the ssa. If he is, as I suspect, a US citizen he can still receive these checks in Kenya. At an average of $1413 per month, he is earning around KES 140000 per month which translates to around 1.7 million shillings. The average wage earner makes less than half that annually. The question I ask is who benefits and will they care for him well. If so then he will live better in Kenya.
          If not then I fear he will never be allowed to die - I can see this scam coming.
          mwacan
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 10:59am
          welcome to Africa mzeeh
          Nina Richardson
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 12:21pm
          I think it's the best thing that happened to him to go back home and to still find his brothers whoa...home is always the best.
          Guest #13
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 01:05pm
          Two way ticket I hope. t\Taking him away from his home of 60yrs. who will pay for hip replacement if he needs one here in Kenya? Back in the US the trump govt would pay.
          Kale
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 01:37pm
          Hakupata msichana wa kuoa huko Marikani!
          May be he was married, serarated,divorced, or just loves single life...
          He lost his wife a few years ago. He was so much affected by her death. May she RIP.
          @yakobo do you know if he had children?
          Halisi
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 01:42pm
          Welcome back home mzee Mugweru. You made a lifetime decision. I just wish you had made that decision earlier. Living in squalor surrounded by uncultured, palatable and the so called retirement-home-to-nursing-home-to-funeral-home-to-closest-cemetery.
          Ushujaa wako wa kukata kauri ya kurudi makwenu ni jambo la kujivunia na la kutia motisha kwa Wakenya wengi ambayo litajwalo swala la kurudi makwao, linaleta kero, zogo, na matusi mengi ilhali maisha yao Marekani fedheha tupu.
          Nitembeleapo jopo, sherehe au kongamano ya Wakenya wengi katika sehemu kadha wa kadha, nawaona wengi wa rika lako na sampuli yako wakijikokota na mikongojo dalili kwamba, kazi waliokuwa wakifanya walipokuwa miaka 20, 30, 40, 50 na kadhalika ndio hio hio wanayofanya wakiwa vidubweshe vikongwe wanaotetemeka kama tinga tinga zee zee iliofika mwisho wa ukiriba.
          Nikiyarusha rusha macho yangu kwingineko, nawaona wengine kadhaa ambao tayari walevi wa kuombewa, wengine wakisemezana kwamba, kwa muda wa miezi kadhaa iliyopita, makao yao ilikuwa mle magarini mwao, au huishi nje kama wanyama huku baridi au joto kali ikiwachuja chuja na kuwasokota sokota bila huruma. Kisa na maana? Kazi kesha wachomoka. Kisa na maana? Maisha kesha kwenda mrama. Inapofika wakati, ndugu zetu hawana chochote mbele na nyuma cha kuwawezesha warudi makwao.
          Sitaki kuwa mnabii wa uwongo lakini ni muhimu kusema hapa bayana kwamba, hata kama mambo yako yote yamo Marekani, fikiria kidogo tu kuhusu makwenu sababu chochote chaweza kutoka.
          Ni jambo la kuchukiza unapowaona wale Wakenya wanaopiga domo eti kwamba Kenya kuna ufisadi, woooo Kenya ni kwa wahuni, woooo Wakenya watakutapeli kwa hili na lile, wao wao au jamaa zao ndio wanasisitiza kwamba wakifa wachangiwe wachangiwe wazikwe Jamhuri. Kicheko na fedheha ya upusi na ushenzi.
          Shiloh Afrique…
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 02:03pm
          Nobody forced him to go home. He is on a 30 days visit.
          I am the organizer of this reunion. Feel free to contact me.
          Good job!
          God bless you for the connection
          Oooh! Now that makes sense. He is visiting. At 84, with no helper, Kenya is rough...na you uchumi. Nani atalipa hip replacement like someone said. And I am from Western where we accommodate our elderly! In some regions...once the American "upya" disappears, wagundue hana pesa...yoh!
          Well done you for organising this great reunion. I believe he has a choice to either stay or leave. Question is, he must have a strong American accent. Can speak his lingual? Did he have children of his own. Did he never miss going back? Was he in touch with his counterparts in kenya. Wow
          Kimenge
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 02:52pm
          Thank you Madam President. We support you all the way. Time to stop the negativity.
          Mswahili
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 03:55pm
          What was he doing for 60 years if he can't afford a plane ticket?? Total failure here not news.
          Mswahili this man has family in the US. He did not ask to visit so why would he pay for the ticket? He will be back in the US before too long. On a different note, do you believe the corrupt Kenyan leaders are a success because they managed to steal so much? Your attitude explains why the doyens of corruption reside at the apex of politics and business in Kenya
          In Kenya we have issues...with a people caught up in infantile emotions and brutes running the show. Heads hurried deep in the sand, busy praying.
          @Mswahili, I know mzee Mùgweru very well and he isn't a destitute as you are trying to paint it. He retired from a well known unionized firm and gets good pension. He has personal reasons as to why he was hesitating to visit Kenya. Pesa ako nazo.
          Mzee Mugweru has a good pension @mswahili. He has his own reasons why he had opted not to visit Kenya. He isn't a destitute since I know him very well.
          Mzee Mugweru has a good pension @mswahili. He has his own reasons why he had opted not to visit Kenya. He isn't a destitute since I know him very well.
          Tom Mosigisi
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 04:36pm
          Reality of the choices we make.Finally we have home regardless of our migration status.Lets keep connections alive
          Ex diasporan
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 09:02pm
          NHIF paid for my surgery in 2019.I paid nothing. It will pay for his hip replacement. Kenya is poor, but somehow things work in their own way.
          Lucky you. I hear it is broke.
          No they do not pay for hip replacement. They say it is old age and old age has no cure. Go check.
          William Omosongo
          Sat, 02/22/2020 @ 09:12pm
          USA can easily make us homeless not only lost son. not a comfortable land for foreigners.
          Ex diasporan
          Sun, 02/23/2020 @ 07:44am
          Current SSA check is $1400?For the first time I see one advantage of aging. At Kwa Njenga slums with such a check, I become a slum lord!!!
          Why @kwanjenga slums? @1400 retirement...you way above redhill squatters... Mhalisi atajinyonga
          Seneca
          Sun, 02/23/2020 @ 09:58am
          SSI depends on how much you made in the last or highest earning of 10 years. Not everyone gets $1400. Let's assume he is at that, plus 401k, and his wife's SSI if she was working. He just did not want to come to shithole Kenya, I speculate coz he could afford to.
          Looks like he was manipulated to come, and being smart, made yolls pay for the ticket and it is you guys making the noise about celebration. I do not see him all giddy. He is not destitute, has a steady retirement income, and here comes Kenyans with their own romantic notions of his family, eti tuchangechange we send him home. He deliberately avoided his kin for 60 years. Pengine walimgonga his investments, who knows? Many are such stories
          Strange how another man who truly was homeless in the same Atlanta, and really wanted to go back, but ended up dying in the very Hotlanta.
          Highest earning 35 years, not 10 years. Do your research boss.
          mkenya halisi
          Sun, 02/23/2020 @ 08:54pm
          Useless Useless yes i uphold that huyu mzee angekaa tu hii united state of gormolla juu @84 anarudi gichagi,he will not leave long coz amezoea maisha ya huko but on other side it's good amepata his brothers/sisters wako alive?For me i had a plan yakurudi gichagi before 40 years so i can grow up hapa sweet home n i cannot regret.

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