Good People of the World,
Connecting
the dots, you will notice very disturbing and stunning relationships that are
extremely worrisome, evil and wicked that are afflicted by the African corrupt
leaders in their network on a mission to task unfinished businesses. Ask yourself why?
You
will notice that:
1)
Trending links the corrupt special interest from Ethiopia down to South
Africa.
2)
Reason why corruption with impunity are connected to private organized Rebel
Groups and Mercenaries and why gangs such like those of Al-shabaab and why they
are smoking in Kenya.
3)
Reason why Museveni asked Uhuru to annex Port of Kismayu to Somalia
unconstitutionally and connect with the deals where Museveni made with Raila to
release Migingo to Uganda Flag upon a colourful lucrative ceremony in Kisumu
where many Kenyan Fishermen as a result were killed and driven out of the
Migingo island and their only means of survival in small business
killed
4)
Ask why Jendayi Frazer engaged in related deals with Zenawi of Ethiopia and what
became of it
5)
Ask yourself why Raila recently took a trip to USA via South Africa abusing
protocol and exposing total disrespect on President
Obama
6)
Ask why Uhuru took a trip to China and to Russia, if the plan for Raila's
unfinished business with China and Russia is not at play ..... going East
instead of the West........
7)
Ask yourself why Winnie Mandela was forced to divorce with Mandela and why Graca
Machel was preferred a suitor instead
8)
Ask and demand to know how Raila got connected and why Raila will never rest
9)
Ask where the money for paying private army, the Rebel group and the Mercenaries
come from if it is not the Taxpayer money
10)
Ask why peoples mandate agenda is not made a
priority
11)
Ask why Teachers, Doctors, with basic needs supply are in total disarray and are
inaccessible......why people have to pay for medicine in Government hospitals
after taxpayer money purchased the same.......why NHIF fund has been diverted to
private clinix and why corruption and theft highlighted no action has been taken
and basic needs for survival has suddenly become too
expensive.
12)
Ask where UN and World Bank funding for project never reach their destination,
who shares in the loot.......
13)
Why drug trafficking, Pirating, currency laundering and trafficking, why
offshore business has turned lucrative, why China has its Chinese central bank
in Kenya, why extra judicial killings are still rampant, why child prostitution
and trafficking has become the order of the day, why African human body organs
and flesh are in big business for sale, why
the Rebel Groups with mercenaries are growing in recruitments, Why Land
Grabbing is a serious problem and why people are being forced out of their
dwelling homes........ask yourself why Top Luo-men Spear skin has fetched a
lucrative business for big money from Chinese Business special
interest.
14)
Ask why Environment Pollution by the Chinese that are causing serious nature
destruction with bad effects on people’s health have not been challenged and
legal action taken
15)
Why Africa’s wealth and Natural Resources are given to Chinese with their
network for free.........where people of Africa are denied rights to live a
honorable and dignified life and why oppression on the people of Africa,
careless killings, extreme poverty with pain and sufferings are made an
acceptable way of life as if Africans are lesser Human Beings, are Africans not
protected under rights of the International Treaty
?????
16) Why has the General Secretary Ban Ki moon not
taken to task for failing to live up to standards of UN protocol mission and
being in compliance to the International Treaty?
17)
Why are people who do wrong with serious injustices left to do more injustices
against Human Rights, Crime, Violation and Abuse public office by allowing
conflict of interest to mess up with the Constitution and destroy Government
function-ability to public service delivery according to public mandate that
require mutual fair sharing of public resources
??
18)
Why are the corrupt politically correct above the law and their aim is to
overtake and control the Government system functionability with a purpose to
suppress the Constitution. Please says
No, that, No One is Above the Law ???
19)
Why do the people of the world accept to be treated in the Jungle Rule that do
not add value to good life shared by all in pursuit for
happiness
20)
How will the Reconciliation for Peace to nurture Unity work if there are no
provisions allowed to thrive to develop conducive environment where all have an
opportunity to improve their lives?
However
good people try to inject goodness for livelihood and survival, forces of doom
suppresses, oppresses, intimidates, sidelines, marginalizes and
destroys.........
Where
there is Hope, there is a way........ Let us all build pillars of goodness by
charging the bad........we can do this by exposing evil and
wickedness........and taking action against those who perpetrate evil and
wickedness on others.......We can do better when we begin to love and share for
goodness sake........
Will
you Good People of the world, connect the dots and begin to task in your own
special ways......believing in Justice, Peace and Unity in pursuit for happiness
???
The
Truth Shall set us free indeed.........Love, Peace and Happiness is ours and we
must fight for it……..
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Photo: Stuart Price/UN Multimedia
Relative peace at Lido Beach in Mogadishu.
The Kenyan government
says it is ready to withdraw troops from Kismayo but the handover of Kismayo
airport and seaport to the Somali federal government should include Somali
regional authorities, Kenya's The People reported Wednesday (August 7th).
"We are ready to exit
Kismayo and this must be done in an orderly manner to avoid compromising
security gains achieved," Defence Principal Secretary Monica Juma said. "The
chief of [the Kenya Defence Forces] will meet soon to discuss on the modalities
of handing over Kismayo to Somalis."
A negotiated handover
between the federal government and regional administrations would prevent
feelings of discrimination and inequality, Juma and Foreign Affairs Principal
Secretary Karanji Kibicho said Tuesday, according to Kenya's Daily Nation.
The two officials
warned that failure to incorporate regional administrations could cause "serious
deterioration of the security situation".
EthiopianReview.com | December 2nd, 2010
U.S. diplomatic dispatched
that are leaked and now posted on Wikileaks.org confirms Ethiopian Review’s
report that Ethiopia’s despot Meles Zenawi was hired by U.S. Government to
invade Somalia in 2006. The proxy war was spearheaded by
U.S. head for African affairs Jendayi Frazer who
conducted the disastrous invasion over the objection of her own colleagues in
the State Department and the Pentagon. The 2006 invasion of Somalia
succeeded in eliminating the benign Islamist group UIC, but it also led to the
birth the al Queda-affiliated al Shabab. In short, al Shabab is the creation
of Jendayi Frazer and Meles Zenawi. Al Shabab is now being financed
by Saudi sheiks and it is purchasing its weapons from Woyanne and Uganda
officers, as reported here by French journalist Alain
Lallemand for LeMonde newspaper. Over 20,000 Somalis were slaughtered and over 2
million were made homeless as a result of Jendayi Frazer’s adventure and Meles
Zenawi’s prostitution. —
Elias Kifle
The following is from Wired.com:
WikiLeaked Cable Confirms U.S.’ Secret Somalia Op
2 December
2010
It was an
off-hand compliment during a January 2007 dinner meeting between Abu Dhabi crown
prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, plus staff, and then-U.S. Central
Commander boss General John Abizaid. But Al Nayhan’s jocular praise, as reported
in WikiLeaks’ trove of leaked diplomatic cables, is a rare admission that the
United States played a central role in the disastrous December 2006
Ethiopian
Woyanne
[the ruling party in Ethiopia] invasion of Somalia, a move that ultimately
emboldened the very Islamic extremists the U.S. and
Ethiopia
Woyanne had
hoped to squash.
“The
Somalia job was fantastic,” Al Nahyan interjected between discussions of Iran,
Saudi Arabia and the prince’s desire to buy Reaper drones for his air force. At
the time of Al Nahyan’s comment, the dust was just settling from Ethiopia’s Blitzkrieg-style assault toward Mogadishu.
Some 50,000
Ethiopian
Woyanne
troops, supported by T-55 tanks, Hind helicopters and Su-27 jet fighters, had
cut a bloody swath through the lightly-armed forces of the Islamic Courts Union,
an alliance of mostly nationalist Islamic fighters that prior to the invasion
had controlled much of Somalia.
The Somali
attack had surprised outside observers.
Ethiopia
Woyanne and
Somalia had been rivals a long time, but no one had expected such brutal
fighting, and so suddenly. It was fairly obvious that Ethiopia had received
significant help — even urging — for its invasion. For one,
Ethiopian
Woyanne air
force did not appear capable of coordinated air strikes in support of
on-the-move ground troops; it seemed likely that the Su-27s were piloted by
Russian or Ukrainian mercenaries — a time-honored tradition in Africa. What’s more,
Ethiopian
Woyanne’s
army didn’t possess the intelligence or logistical skill for long-range
operations. Those, not coincidentally, are particular American strengths.
Washington
certainly had a motive to get involved in Somalia. There was growing concern in
the White House and the Pentagon that Somalia’s Islamists might ally themselves
with Al Qaeda and turn to international terrorism. Already with two escalating
wars on its own plate, the U.S. was in no position to openly lead its own
large-scale attack on Somalia. It’d have been far simpler to simply sponsor
somebody else to do the dirty work. Enter
Ethiopia
Woyanne. [Ethiopia has nothing to do with the
invasion of Somalia.]
In early
January following the invasion, USA Today’s Barbara Slavin reported on
Washington’s extensive behind-the-scenes support for
Ethiopian
Woyanne
troops. “The ties include intelligence sharing, arms aid and training,” Slavin
noted. A couple days later, The Washington Post’s Pauline Jelinek,
citing anonymous sources, described U.S. Special Forces accompanying
Ethiopian
Woyanne
troops. CBS news revealed that U.S. Air Force gunships were active over southern
Somalia during the Ethiopian blitz. Through all the reporting, U.S. officials
remained vague or silent on the subject of Washington’s involvement. All the
same, evidence was mounting that the U.S. had played a leading role in the
Ethiopian
Woyanne
invasion. Journalists only strongly suspected it, but Abu Dhabi prince Al Nayhan
apparently knew it for certain, if his praise of “the Somalia job” was any
indication.
Three years
later, it’s clear the
Ethiopian
Woyanne
invasion was a bad idea. The attack rallied Somalis of all stripes and politics
against the invaders, ultimately boosting support for fringe Islamic groups that
now had a clear enemy in the
Ethiopians
Woyannes
and their suspected American puppet-masters. Violence mounted as the
Ethiopians
Woyannes
settled in for a bloody, two-year occupation.
When the
Ethiopians
Woyannes
withdrew in 2009, the Islamists rushed to fill the vacuum. A year later, the Al
Shabab Islamic group, successor to the Islamic Courts, conducted its first international terror attack. Last month, a
Somali-born American teen plotted to explode a bomb in Portland. Today, U.S.
Special Forces continue to target terrorists in Somalia. There are arguably more
of them than ever, thanks in part to the botched
Ethiopian
Woyanne invasion. “We’ve made a lot of
mistakes and
Ethiopia’s
Woyanne’s
entry in 2006 was not a really good idea,” U.S.
diplomat Donald Yamamoto said in March.
Ethiopia: WikiLeaks Reveals
Details of U.S. Dialogue With
Meles
6 December
2010
document
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told top
visiting American officials before elections in May this year that he would
“crush… with our full force”opposition leaders who “violated the laws of
Ethiopia,” according to a diplomatic cable published by
WikiLeaks.
The cable, sent to Washington from the U.S.
Embassy in Addis Ababa, reported Meles as telling a U.S. delegation in January
that such leaders would suffer the fate of the jailed opposition leader,
Birtukan Midekssa. They would “vegetate like Birtukan in jail forever,” he
reportedly said.
Birtukan, who was jailed in 2005 following
that year’s elections, then jailed again in 2008, was released in October this
year after Meles had been returned to power in an election criticised by the
U.S., European Union and rights groups.
Meles also told the U.S. delegation, which
included Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero and
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, that while
Ethiopia welcomed foreign funding of charities, it would not allow donations
from abroad for political activity.
The cable said Meles had said “those
Ethiopians who want to engage in political activity should organize and fund
themselves.” Civil society organization leaders who received foreign funding
were accountable to the sources of their funding rather than to their
organizations.
Replying, the delegation told Meles the May
elections “would be closely watched in the U.S.” and urged him “to exercise wise
judgment and leadership, give the opposition more political space, and consider
the release of Birtukan Midekssa.”
The cable said Carson “stressed the importance
of putting Ethiopia’s democracy on an upward and positive trajectory, and not
letting it atrophy or slide backward, using the suffrage and civil rights
movements in the U.S. as an illustration of challenges the U.S. has faced as it
improved its own democratic system.”
The full text of the cable, as published by
WikiLeaks, follows:
CONFIDENTIAL
SECTION 01 OF 03 ADDIS ABABA 000163
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958 DECL:
02/01/2020
TAGS
PREL, PGOV, KDEM, MOPS, ECON, KE, ET
SUBJECT: UNDER SECRETARY OTERO’S MEETING WITH
ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER MELES ZENAWI -JANUARY 31,
2010
Classified
By: Under Secretary Maria Otero for reasons 1.4 (B) and
(D).
¶1.
(SBU) January 31, 2010; 4:15 p.m.; Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
¶2. (SBU)
Participants:
U.S.
Under Secretary Otero Assistant Secretary Carson NSC Senior Director for African
Affairs Michelle Gavin PolOff Skye Justice
(notetaker)
Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Special
Assistant Gebretensae Gebremichael
Summary
-------
¶3. (C) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Under
Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero his government placed no
restrictions on its citizens’democratic and civil rights, only the right of
foreign entities to fund them. Foreign funding of civil society organizations
(CSOs) is antithetical to democratization, he said, as it makes civil society
leaders accountable to foreign entities rather than their own members, turning
the concept of democratic accountability on its head. Democracy in Ethiopia must
develop organically, and Ethiopians must organize and fund themselves and defend
their own rights. Meles assured U/S Otero that Ethiopia’s upcoming elections
will be free, fair, transparent, and peaceful, and elaborated steps his
government has taken to ensure this. While opposition groups may resort to
violence in an attempt to discredit the election, the GoE will enforce the
recently enacted Electoral Code of Conduct and its existing election laws
without regard to party affiliation. Meles said he has warned opposition leaders
that the international community will not be able to save them should they
violate Ethiopian law, but rather if they do so they will face the same fate as
opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa, who will “vegetate in jail forever.” The
U.S. delegation noted that Ethiopia’s forthcoming elections would be closely
watched in the U.S., and urged Meles to exercise wise judgment and leadership,
give the opposition more political space, and consider the release of Birtukan
Midekssa.
¶4. (C) Meles said the
GoE is not enthusiastic about Kenya’s Jubaland initiative, but is sharing
intelligence with Kenya and hoping for success. In the event the initiative is
not successful, the GoE has plans in place to limit the destabilizing impacts on
Ethiopia. On climate change, Meles said the GoE fully supports the Copenhagen
accord, but is disappointed with signs the U.S. may not support his proposed
panel to monitor international financial contributions under the accord. Meles
made no substantive comment on inquiries regarding the liberalization of banking
and telecommunications in Ethiopia. End summary.
Foreign Funding of CSOs
Antithetical to Democratization
--------------------------------------------- ----------
--------------------------------------------- ----------
¶5. (C) Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi told U/S Otero the development of a strong democracy and civil
society is the only way Ethiopia can ensure peace and unity among an ethnically
and religiously divided population. He noted that the Government of Ethiopia’s
(GoE) commitment to democracy is directly related to stability, adding that for
Ethiopia, “democratization is a matter of survival.” Responding to U/S Otero’s
concern that Ethiopia’s recently-enacted CSO law threatened the role of civil
society, Meles said while the GoE welcomes foreign funding of charities, those
Ethiopians who want to engage in political activity should organize and fund
themselves. The leaders of CSOs that receive foreign funding are not accountable
to their organizations, he said, but rather to the sources of their funding,
turning the concept of democratic accountability on its head. Meles asserted
that Ethiopians were not too poor to organize themselves and establish their own
democratic traditions, recalling that within his lifetime illiterate peasants
and poor students had overthrown an ancient imperial dynasty.
¶6. (C) Meles said his
country’s inability to develop a strong democracy was not due to insufficient
understanding of democratic principles, but rather because Ethiopians had
not
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OF 003
internalized those
principles. Ethiopia should follow the example of the U.S. and European
countries, he said, where democracy developed organically and citizens had a
stake in its establishment. When people are committed to democracy and forced to
make sacrifices for it, Meles said, “they won’t let any leader take it away from
them.” But “when they are spoon-fed democracy, they will give it up when their
source of funding and encouragement is removed.” Referencing his own struggle
against the Derg regime, Meles said he and his compatriots received no foreign
funding, but were willing to sacrifice and die for their cause, and Ethiopians
today must take ownership of their democratic development, be willing to
sacrifice for it, and defend their own rights.
¶7. (C) Meles drew a
clear distinction between Ethiopians’ democratic and civil rights on the one
hand, and the right of foreign entities to fund those rights on the other. There
is no restriction on Ethiopians’ rights, he asserted, merely on foreign funding,
adding that the U.S. has similar laws. U/S Otero countered that while the U.S.
does not allow foreign funding of political campaigns, there is no restriction
on foreign funding of NGOs. Ms. Gavin noted the examples of foreign support for
the abolitionist movement in the U.S. and for the anti-apartheid movement in
South Africa as positive examples of foreign engagement of civil society, and
expressed that aside from the issue of foreign funding, the ability of local
organizations to legally register, operate, and contribute to democratic
discourse was of tantamount importance.
GoE Will Hold Free and Fair Elections, Despite
Opposition--------------------------------------------- ------------
¶8. (C) Meles assured
U/S Otero that Ethiopia’s upcoming electoral process will be free, fair,
transparent, and peaceful. The GoE has learned from the violence that followed
the 2005 elections, he said, and taken action to ensure that violence is not
repeated. Meles said the recently signed Electoral Code of Conduct (CoC) was not
done for the benefit of political parties, but for the Ethiopian people. The
people will ultimately judge political actors, he said, and they must have
parameters agreed to by the parties by which they will judge those actors. After
the CoC was passed, Meles noted, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary
Democratic Front (EPRDF) gathered over 1,300 of its senior leaders to discuss
party strategy and train all leaders on the CoC. The EPRDF knows violations of
the CoC by its members will hurt the party and provide a rallying cry for the
opposition. This message will flow down to all EPRDF members, he said, so that
they know what is expected of them, and know both the courts and the party will
hold them accountable to the CoC.
¶9. (C) Meles told U/S
Otero he feared a repeat of the 2005 violence, and that many opposition members
were not interested in peaceful elections, but would rather discredit the
electoral process. As such, the EPRDF cannot give them any excuse to resort to
violence. Meles noted that in addition to opposition political parties, the GoE
had intelligence that the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Ogaden National
Liberation Front (ONLF), and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki were all directly
or indirectly involved in plots to discredit the elections. The EPRDF, he said,
would “let them be” to show the population that even though their opponents’
goal is not peace, the EPRDF will abide by the law.
¶10. (C) Meles recalled
that in 2005, he had told opposition leaders in the presence of the diplomatic
corps that they should not believe foreign allies would protect them if they
violated the laws of Ethiopia. Opposition leaders were right to believe the
diplomatic corps would try to protect them, he said, as evidenced by the
statement they issued demanding the release of opposition politicians upon their
arrest in 2005. Today, Meles said, foreign embassies are inadvertently conveying
the same message, that they will protest the jailing of opposition leaders and
potentially take action against Ethiopia to secure their release. However, the
GoE has made clear to both opposition and EPRDF leaders that nothing can protect
them except the laws and constitution of Ethiopia, and the GoE will clamp down
on anyone who violates those laws. “We will crush them with our full force,”
Meles said, and “they will vegetate like Birtukan (Midekssa) in jail
forever.”
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OF 003
¶11. (C) In an extended
discussion in response to Meles’ comments, U/S Otero, A/S Carson, and Ms. Gavin
noted that Ethiopia’s forthcoming elections would be closely watched in the U.S.
and that the GoE’s treatment of the opposition would be subject to public
criticism by the Ethiopian diaspora and U.S. political figures. The U.S.
delegation urged Meles to exercise wise judgment and leadership, give the
opposition more political space, and consider the release of Birtukan Midekssa.
A/S Carson stressed the importance of putting Ethiopia’s democracy on an upward
and positive trajectory, and not letting it atrophy or slide backward, using the
suffrage and civil rights movements in the U.S. as an illustration of challenges
the U.S. has faced as it improved its own democratic system. (Note: Three
quarters of the nearly two-hour meeting focused on democracy. End note.)
Ethiopia Not
Enthusiastic About Jubaland
Initiative
--------------------------------------------- ------
--------------------------------------------- ------
¶12. (C) Meles said he
had been briefed extensively regarding Kenya’s Jubaland initiative. Because
Ethiopia had previously intervened in Somalia without seeking Kenyan approval,
he said, the GoE would not presume to analyze the Kenyans’ chances for success
in their own intervention. The GoE is sharing intelligence with Kenya, but Meles
expressed a lack of confidence in Kenya’s capacity to pull off a tactical
success, which he feared could have negative regional impacts. The GoE is
therefore working to minimize the likelihood of a spillover effect in Ethiopia’s
Somali Regional State. Noting that Ethiopia might have underestimated Kenya,
Meles said, “We are not enthusiastic, but we are hoping for success.”
GoE Prepared to Move
Forward from Copenhagen
--------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------
¶13. (C) U/S Otero
urged Meles to sign the Copenhagen accord on climate change and explained that
it is a point of departure for further discussion and movement forward on the
topic. She noted that while the agreement has its limitations, it has the
international community moving in the right direction. Meles responded that the
GoE supported the accord in Copenhagen and would support it at the AU Summit.
However, he expressed his disappointment that despite President Obama’s personal
assurance to him that finances committed in Copenhagen would be made available,
he had received word from contacts at the UN that the U.S. was not supportive of
Ethiopia’s proposal for a panel to monitor financial pledges regarding climate
change. Ms. Gavin assured the Prime Minister that she would look into his
concerns.
No Promises on
Liberalizing Telecoms,
Banking
---------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------
¶14. (C) U/S Otero and
A/S Carson encouraged Meles to hasten steps to liberalize the telecommunications
and banking industries in Ethiopia, and highlighted both the micro- and
macroeconomic benefits of liberalization. Meles offered no substantive response
to A/S Carson’s query whether any progress had been made toward liberalizing or
otherwise improving telecommunications, joking that Americans’ concept of time
was much faster than Ethiopians’. In response to U/S Otero’s recognition of the
important role of private banks in microfinance projects that directly benefit
the poor, and assurance that private and state-owned banks could thrive
side-by-side, Meles said he would be happy to discuss the issue in the
future.
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Corruption in Mozambique - Wikileaks
American Embassy, Mozambique
15 August 2012
2009 US
embassy cable explains how Frelimo elite controls economy in that country
Cable from the American Embassy Maputo,
Mozambique, to the Secretary of State Washington, July 17 2009
SUBJECT: GROWING CORRUPTION AND WEAK
GOVERNANCE IN THE
MOZAMBICAN STATE
REF: MAPUTO 713
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires Todd Chapman
for reasons 1.4(b+d)
1. (SBU) SUMMARY: Five
years ago, President Guebuza was elected into office on a platform of promoting
human rights and democracy while fighting poverty, corruption, and crime. In the
run-up to the October 28 national elections, a series of reports on Governance
and Corruption in Mozambique from the United Kingdom (DFID), Dutch Embassy, the
Mozambique-based Center for Public Integrity (CIP), NEPAD, and USAID detail
significant donor and civil society concerns about the transparency of President
Guebuza and his government, the ruling FRELIMO party, and elites within the
Government of Mozambique (GRM).
2. (S) Taking advantage
of the absence of a conflict of interest law in Mozambique, political elite are
involved in influence trafficking leading to involvement in corrupt practices.
In recent months, corruption has become a more frequent topic of discussion
among diplomats, Mozambican intellectuals and a few brave journalists,
specifically in the areas of misuse of public funds, misuse of public influence,
conflicts of interest, and narco-trafficking (reftel).
Consensus descriptions
of Mozambique detail a growing trend in generalized and endemic corruption
perpetrated by the highest levels of Mozambican government, and also broad-based
corruption among employees of the state, particularly members of the police and
customs. This environment of widespread corruption, combined with porous
borders, and poorly governed maritime and land borders provides an excellent
opportunity for increased illicit activity and the harboring of undesirable
elements in Mozambique. END SUMMARY.
3. (C) President
Guebuza was elected into office on a platform of promoting human rights and
democracy while fighting poverty, corruption, and crime. In the run-up to the
October 28 national elections, a series of reports on Governance and Corruption
in Mozambique from the United Kingdom (DFID), Dutch Embassy, the
Mozambique-based Center for Public Integrity (CIP), NEPAD, and USAID
(www.usaid.gov/mz/doc/misc/dg assessment 2009.pdf) detail significant donor and
civil society concerns about the transparency of President Guebuza and his
government, the ruling FRELIMO party, and elites within the Government of
Mozambique (GRM).
These reports on
corruption in Mozambique describe weak accountability and ineffective checks of
executive power, political and administrative corruption, and FRELIMO control
over political competition, all of which allow for growth in corrupt
practices.
4. (S) Given FRELIMO's
comfort with exploiting state resources, and the absence of a conflict of
interest law, it has become second nature for Party members, including the
President, a career politician who now ranks as the richest Mozambican, to use
their political influence to dominate business in the country. In June,
Mozambique analyst Joseph Hanlon and CIP Director Marcelo Mosse presented a
paper on corruption in Mozambique's elite to the UNU-WIDER Conference in
Helsinki. (Note: While Hanlon and Mosse provide information about the extent of
the business interests of Guebuza and other senior FRELIMO members, they do not
mention ties to narco-trafficking (reftel) and their conclusion that current
corruption is fostering competition in the business community and therefore
engendering development seems misguided. End Note).
The Hanlon and Moss
paper confirms that FRELIMO has a close relationship with the country's leading
business confederation, CTA, whose President Salimo Abdula, is also the
President of Intelec Holdings Ltd, an investment vehicle for President Guebuza.
Intelec holds shares in a variety of the country's most profitable businesses,
most recently purchasing an undisclosed stake in cellular phone company
Vodacom's Mozambican operations and installing Abdula as the CEO.
5. (C) Guebuza and his
family members also exercise their political influence through other investment
vehicles including Cornelder de Mocambique, Insitec, and Focus 21. A FRELIMO
front company, SPI, holds a minority position in Kudumba Investments Lda, the
company that has a 20-year concession to provide scanning services for all of
Mozambique's land and airports. With mandatory fees charged on all in-bound and
out-bound cargo, the company has become a rent-seeking organization.
Perhaps more
importantly, Customs officers choose which inbound shipments to inspect, and
which to allow to pass through Mozambican ports unchecked, thus allowing control
over growing volumes of illicit trade, especially narcotics (reftel).
Businessmen across the country voice their frustrations over the control that a
"FRELIMO inner circle of oligarchs" holds over investments in Mozambique.
Several reports confirm
that a handful of families linked to FRELIMO elite, including former President
Joaquim Chissano as well as Graca Machel (widow of founder of Mozambique Samora
Machel and current wife of Nelson Mandela), control most major business deals in
the country, resulting in a situation where political and business elites are
synonymous.
CORRUPTION BIG AND SMALL
6. (C) With FRELIMO
controlling all government entities, including the judicial branch, political
will to combat corruption has been lacking. Last year's arrest of former
Interior Minister Almerinho Manhenje on charges of diverting $8.8 million in
state funds appeared to mark the Guebuza Administration's most serious attempt
at prosecuting a senior official.
However, in early 2009,
48 of the 49 counts against Manhenje were dropped, and the arrest seems to be
more the result of intra-FRELIMO squabbling between the camps of President
Guebuza and former President Joaquim Chissano rather the reflection of growing
political will to prosecute corruption at the highest levels.
Despite Guebuza's
statements about a "zero tolerance" stance on corruption, efforts by the GRM to
establish state mechanisms to monitor corrupt practices have been modest. In
June 2007 a law was passed establishing a Financial Intelligence Unit (GIFim),
and in September 2008 the government nominated a GIFim Director.
As of July 2009, he
neither had a staff nor an office. An Anti-Corruption Unit (GCCC) was
established in 2003, but flawed Anti-Corruption laws dating from 2002 limit
proactive investigation tools such as electronic surveillance, and have not been
amended, rendering the GCCC impotent.
7. (C) Pervasive petty
corruption, particularly requests for bribes from public officials, causes
damage to public perceptions of FRELIMO and the state, undermining attempts at
good governance and raising transactional costs. Police roadblocks have simply
become opportunities for revenue generation. As an experiment, Poloff drove a
non-diplomatic plated vehicle and was stopped six times in the course of a
five-mile journey in Maputo and was asked for bribes that totaled in excess of
US$80. Perhaps most troubling is that criminal elements within Mozambique with
international connections have realized that officials, from street cops to
political elites, can be purchased.
COMMENT: GOVERNANCE AFFECTED BY CORRUPTION
8. (C) It is clear that
FRELIMO has further consolidated its already strong grip on power over the past
five years, led by President Guebuza who has personally enriched himself and
ruling party elite as the Mozambican economy continues to grow. One FRELIMO
insider, however, labeled Guebuza's form or corruption as "not the kind that
hurts people, because he is not taking money directly from government coffers.
Rather, he just wants his share of every deal."
Hanlon and Mosse argue
as well that elite involvement in investment continues the country along a
development track. Unfortunately, this atmosphere of widespread and endemic
corruption could generate comparisons between Mozambique and a Zimbabwean-style
of governance led by exploitative political elites that stay in power through
corruption which funds a patronage system (septel).
While President Guebuza
campaigned five years ago on a platform of fighting poverty, corruption, and
crime, it appears that these were simply campaign promises. Most observers
predict Guebuza's reelection, though the appearance of new opposition party
Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) could change the equation somewhat.
Should Guebuza win by a
significant margin, the political will to fight corruption by a second-term
president not (currently) able to run for re-election is unlikely to follow the
October elections. Most troublesome is that Mozambique's environment of
widespread corruption, combined with porous borders, and relatively ungoverned
spaces, raises concerns that international organized crime will continue to
build its platform in the country for illicit activity. AMANI
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