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WikiLeaks Exposes Kenya's Former Justice Minister
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Submitted by Stellah on Tue, 08/03/2011 - 2:54pm
With revelations from WikiLeaks causing havok within the government, the leaked diplomatic cables are not sparing former Justice Minister, Martha Karua.
The newly published cables have comments about Karua, by the former USA ambassador, William Bellamy, following the raid on the standard group five years ago.
According to Bellamy, Karua was of the view that Kenya had a rogue press that needed to be tamed. The cables suggest that Karua refused to condemn the infamous 2006 raid on the Standard Group offices at the I & M towers in Nairobi, and that her instinct was to search for ways to justify it and shift the onus of responsibility on the press.
Karua, according to the cables, was not prepared even to admit that the police were responsible for the raid, or if they were, that they had acted outside the law.
In the cables, ambassador Bellamy quotes Karua saying that "perhaps the police had good reasons to act as they did even if their methods were a bit excessive".
Karua is also said to have denied that the government had burnt thousands of papers of the Standard.
The cables say, she suspected that the editors at The Standard had burnt the papers themselves to discredit the police.
The cables which have been released in the last few weeks have given revelations on key personalities such as President Kiibaki and the first lady Lucy Kiibaki, Prime Minister Odinga, the Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister Kinyatta and North MP, William Ruto.
However, most of these leaders have dismissed the leaked documents as mere diplomatic gossip.
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