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A Great Leader
The National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) headquarters today cancelled the nominations for the Westlands parliamentary seat. The
cancellation followed battles pitting supporters of the former MP Fred Gumo against those of his arch-rival, Betty Tett.
Gumo's supporters are said to have stormed polling stations as early as 7am, dispersing polling clerks and burning ballot
papers.Gumo later declared himself winner after the Tett group boycotted his preferred election mode of queue voting. The
Narc headquartrs later cancelled the nominations.EA STANDARD Thursday, November 21, 2002
Assistant Minister Fred Gumo's threat to beat journalists who expose corruption is despicable and utterly shameful. It is
the kind of statement that should have elicited a strong response from the government. DN Thursday, February 25, 1999
No, you dont have to go to Kabul, Jalalabad or Kandahar to find terrorism. We have plenty of it right here at home. For terror
is not about what they do to buildings and aeroplanes, it is about what they do to our minds. And government, Mungiki, Kamjesh,
Fred Gumo, David Mwenje and a host of other unworthies have wormed their way into our craniums and lodged fear in our souls.
http://www.africawired.com/kenyaatwar.htm
On June 10, 1999, the police, complemented by a squad of "KANU youth" and the infamous jeshi la mzee (which in Swahili literally
means, old man's militia), violently disrupted a peaceful rally organized by religious and civil society groups to protest
the government's handling of the constitutional review process. A number of people, including the Reverend Timothy Njoya who
has been vocal in criticizing the government, were seriously injured.70 The jeshi la mzee, allegedly sponsored by the Assistant
Minister in the Office of the President, Fred Gumo, again appeared on the scene in May 1997 and was used to violently disrupt
pro-reform rallies.71 Notwithstanding the elections, government was complicit to violence against its citizens who were exercising
their rights of association and expression. African Studies Quarterly http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/130699/News/News1.html
In February David Makali, the editor of Expression Today, a Nairobi-based newspaper, reportedly was kidnaped by a group of
unidentified men who drove him to Karura Forest outside Nairobi and tortured him there. Makali later identified one of his
assailants as a man shown in press photographs engaged in beating the Reverend Timothy Njoya during a protest march on June
10, and asserted credibly that he is a member of the Jeshi la Mzee group of KANU Youth organized and employed by Fred Gumo
of the Office of the President (see Section 2.a.). Makali's assailants allegedly demanded information about the whereabouts
of the author (then in hiding) of an article published in Expression Today that asserted the complicity in drug trafficking
of senior government officials including Gumo. http://www.electionslink.com/hrighttskenya.html
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