15 Kenyan suspects shot dead in Tanzania

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15 Kenyan suspects shot dead in Tanzania

By Cyrus Ombati

At least 15 Kenyans were shot dead by police in Moshi, Tanzania today for attempted robbery.

Reports indicate that the 15 were killed by Tanzanian police in an ambush where an AK 47 rifle, five pistols and several bullets were recovered.

Police in Nairobi said they were informed by authorities in Moshi that the men were also planning to rescue six Kenyans already facing robbery charges in the country.

The six had been cleared of the charges on Tuesday but were held in custody to face other charges. Those who police said were to be rescued were named as Wilfred Onyanga, Jimmy Maina Njoroge, Patrick Muthee Murithi, Simon Githinji Kariuki, David Ngugi Mburu and Michael Mbanya Wathigo.

The six were arrested in Mozambique in December 2005 as they planned to commit a robbery in Maputo.They were later charged with robbing a foreign currency exchange bureau of TShs 44 million and taking part in the robbery of TShs 5.3 billion from the National Bank of Commerce in Moshi.

Details of the incident were scanty.

Two Kenyans were arrested a month ago in connection with a US$180,000 (Sh12 million) robbery in Mwanga. One of the suspects is Samuel Gitau Saitoti alias Simo, who is in Kenya police's "Most Wanted" list. The other is Peter Michael Kimani alias Kim.

Police arrested them Arusha's Liro Estate and recovered seven guns, including two AK 47 rifles with three magazines and 85 rounds of ammunition.

They also found a light machine gun, five pistols with 35 rounds of ammunition, two hand grenades, two bullet-proof jackets, several stones of bhang and US$845 (KSh56,000). The hand grenades were wired to the door and the officers had to detonate them.

Detectives from Kenya had travelled to Tanzania to seek their extradition but abandoned the mission when they found there was enough evidence there to convict them.

The Kenyans were part of a seven-man gang that raided the NMB Bank in Mwanga Town, 40km from the Moshi-Dar-es-Salaam highway, on July 11, made away with US$180,000 (KSh12 million) and killed a police officer.

One of their accomplices identified as Peter Mbugua Ndung'u, from Karuri in Kiambu, was shot dead during a gun battle with police and two pistols recovered from him.

Police said most Kenyan criminals are fleeing the country to Tanzania following a sustained crackdown on criminal gangs.

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Police ambush and kill 14 suspected robbers

The Associated Press
Published: September 6, 2007

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: Police have ambushed and killed a gang of 14 suspected robbers, officials said.

The gang was linked to another gang already in police custody and believed to be responsible for robberies in South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya, authorities said.

Acting on a tip that the 14 were planning to rob a bank in the northeastern town of Moshi, police blocked the route to their hideout late Wednesday, said Lucas Ng'hoboko, the regional police chief. When the suspects saw that police had found their hideout, they opened fire on the officers, starting a gunbattle in which they were killed, Ng'hoboko said.

Eleven of the dead suspected robbers — 10 men and one woman — had Kenyan identity cards and entered Tanzania on Tuesday, Ng'hoboko said. The other three are Tanzanian citizens, the chief said.

Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said investigators found plans of a Tanzanian bank as well as those of a Tanzanian prison where 11 Kenyans are in custody as they face charges over a 2004 bank robbery in Tanzania.

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Associated Press writer Tom Odula in Nairobi, Kenya contributed to this report.

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VITA dhidi ya ujambazi nchini ilichukua sura mpya usiku wa kuamkia jana kufuatia hatua ya Jeshi la Polisi mkoani Kilimanjaro kuwaua kwa kuwapiga risasi watu 14, kwa maelezo kuwa walikuwa ni majambazi.

Polisi ilieleza jana kuwa watu hao wote waliuawa katika tukio la kurushiana risasi kati yao na watu hao, ambao wengi wao wametajwa kuwa ni raia wa Kenya.

Kamanda wa Polisi mkoani Kilimanjaro, Lucas Ng'hoboko, alisema kuwa kati ya waliouawa, 11 wametambuliwa kuwa ni raia wa Kenya, akiwemo mwanamke aliyetambuliwa kwa jina la Hannah Kingara, mkazi wa Kiambu, ambaye ni Mkurugenzi wa Kampuni ya ulinzi ya Annkan, aliyekutwa na kitambulisho cha kazi namba 6256476, huku wengine wakikutwa na hati za kusafiria za nchi hiyo.

Waliouawa na kutambuliwa ni Simon Maina Ndabuki, Moses Kuria Kamau, David Njuguna Mbugua, Peter Maina Waweru, William Muiruri Kamau na Phillipo Irungu Wanjiru, wakazi wa maeneo mbalimbali jijini Nairobi. Wengine ambao pia ni wakazi wa Nairobi ni Rudovick Giceru Kariuki, John Gikonyo Buku, Zacharia Mwangi Kamathiro na Jeremiah Macharia.

Tukio la kurushiana risasi kati ya polisi na watuhumiwa hao lilitokea eneo la Weruweru, Maili Sita wilayani Hai, wakati watu hao walipokuwa wakielekea mafichoni, katika maandalizi ya kufanya uporaji kwenye Benki ya EXIM iliyopo Barabara ya Boma mjini Moshi.

Akisimulia mkasa huo kwa waandishi wa habari jana, Kamanda Ng'hoboko alisema kuwa juzi majira ya saa moja usiku, polisi walipata taarifa kutoka kwa raia wema juu ya kuwepo kwa watuhumiwa hao mjini Moshi.

Alisema baada ya kupata taarifa hizo, polisi waliweka mtego eneo la Weruweru na ghafla magari matatu yanayodaiwa kutumiwa na watu hao yalifika eneo la mtego wa polisi yakitokea mjini.

Akifafanua zaidi Kamanda Ng'hoboko, alisema: "Polisi waliweka gari lao dogo aina ya Toyota Hiace kama kizuizi lakini majambazi yale yalibaini kuwa waliowasimamisha ni polisi… walitoka ndani ya magari yao na kuanza kuwarushia risasi polisi."

Alisema polisi walianza kujibu mapigo na kufanikiwa kuwaua 14 na kukamata moja ya magari yaliyokuwa yakitumiwa na majambazi hao huku magari mawili yakitoweka na baadhi ya watuhumiwa.

Katika tukio hilo, gari la polisi lenye namba za usajili T168 AEA aina ya Toyota Hiace GLX, liliharibiwa kwa risasi na majambazi hao, huku polisi nao wakiharibu gari lililotumiwa na majambazi hao lenye namba za usajili T298 AKK aina ya Suzuki Escudo.

Kwa mujibu wa kamanda huyo, baada ya upekuzi ndani ya gari la watuhumiwa hao, polisi walikuta bunduki tatu aina ya AK 47 na risasi zake 152. Aidha, polisi walikuta bastola tatu zenye risasi 55; mabomu mawili ya kutupa kwa mkono na makoti matano yanayozuia risasi.

Vitu vingine vilivyokutwa ndani ya gari la watuhumiwa hao ni fedha taslimu sh 360 za Kenya, sh 100 za Sudan, dala moja ya Marekani na euro 50.

Kwa mujibu wa kamanda huyo, watuhumiwa hao wanadaiwa kuingia nchini kati ya Septemba 3 na 4 mwaka huu na kwamba siku ya tukio walikwenda katika Benki ya Exim kubadili fedha za kigeni, ikiwa ni moja ya mkakati wao wa kusoma mazingira ya benki hiyo.

Hata hivyo, tukio hilo limegubikwa na utata kutokana na mazingira yake, huku baadhi ya taarifa zikidai kuwa, watuhumiwa hao walikamatwa wakiwa hai. Utata huo unatokana na ukweli kuwa, katika kurushiana risasi huko na majambazi hao, hakuna risasi hata moja iliyowapata askari kutoka kwa majambazi hao.

Kamanda Ng'hoboko hakuweza kufafanua zaidi mazingira yaliyosababisha polisi kufahamu maficho ya watuhumiwa hao kwa kuwa kati ya waliouawa hakuna raia wa Tanzania.

Kamanda huyo alisema kwa ufupi kuwa, Jeshi la Polisi mkoani hapa linaendelea kuwasaka watuhumiwa wengine waliotoroka, akiwemo mwenyeji wao ambaye hadi sasa hajafahamika. Alisema miili ya watuhumiwa hao imehifadhiwa katika Hospitali ya Mkoa wa Kilimanjaro ya Mawenzi.

Wakati huo huo, Mkurugenzi wa Upelelezi wa Makosa ya Jinai (DCI), Kamishna Robert Manumba, alisema jana kuwa jeshi hilo litaendeleza mapambano dhidi ya ujambazi bila kuchoka ili wananchi wafanye shughuli zao bila usumbufu.

"Jeshi la Polisi halitakubali wageni kutoka nje wenye tabia za ujambazi kutumia nchi yetu kama kivuli cha ujambazi… tutafanya mapambano na watu hao kulingana na ujio wao, wakija na risasi, tutatumia risasi kukabiliana nao," alisisitiza Manumba.

Aidha, amewatahadharisha Watanzania wanaoshirikiana ama kuwawezesha majambazi kutoka nje ya nchi na kuwaeleza kuwa wanajitengenezea mazingira ya kukamatwa.

Taarifa hii imeandaliwa na Charles Ndagulla, Beatrice Maina kutoka Moshi na Tamali Vullu wa Dar es Salaam.

 

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Sipendi wala sifurahii kifo cha mtu yeyote hata angekuwa ni jambazi (lakini Mwenyezi Mungu unisamehe) hawa wakora wanastahili adhabu kulingana na ujangili waliokusudia kuufanya kwa watu (wa Tanzania) kwa silaha na vifaa vya mauaji walivyokuwa navyo.

Kwa hili pia, Mungu ibariki Tanzania na tuongezee nguvu ya kuushinda uovu!

Tayari tuna shida na matatizo yetu ya kututosha. Tumejawa na msongo wa mawazo na dhuluma iliyokithiri. Tunakazana kupambanua jinsi ya kujiendeleza hii kazi inatutosha kwa sasa, ujambazi uliopo Tanzania unatosha, hatuhitaji wa kigeni!

Washenzi hawa na wafutiliwe mbali. Na wapumbavu wengine waliobakia wenye mawazo na watakaothubutu kujaribu kufanya hivi Mwenyezi Mungu atusaidie tuwashinde.

 

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Kenya police say 12 killed in Tanzania were criminals

Nairobi, Kenya - Police in Kenya have confirmed that 12 out of 14 robbery suspects gunned down in a shootout with Tanzanian law enforcers last Wednesday were most wanted criminals one of whom was on death row.

Police in Kenya Tuesday confirmed the nationalities of at least 12 of the 14, who were said to be Kenyans. Nationalities of the other two were yet to be ascertained.

Kenya Police Spokesman, Eric Kiraithe, said here Tuesday the 12 slain suspects were all Kenyan nationals and six of them were "known criminals" while the other six, who had no criminal ecords, “had strong links with known criminals."

The slain criminals included a prominent proprietor of a driving school in Nairobi, Hannah Nyakanyi Kingara.

Police in the northern Tanzanian town of Moshi gunned down the 14 suspects who they allege were planning to rob the Exim Bank of Tanzania.

"The proprietor of a city driving school was a close confidant of hardcore criminals in Nairobi. Police have known that the business she operated was a front and conduit for crime," Kiraithe said.

Police details show the 12 Kenyans acquired papers to travel to Tanzania on business missions. Police said one of the suspects, Ludovick Kariuki, had a National Identification card showing that he was a female.

Diplomatic tension has heightened between the two countries since the 5 September killing of the 14 suspects, who Police said were in possession of deadly weapons, including grenades, six AK47 rifles and four pistols.

However, Kiraithe said the Kenyan authorities were not aware of souring relations following the shooting of the 12 Kenyans.

"We have cooperation with the Police in Tanzania under the East Africa Community (EAC) frameworks. We do not have any information that the Tanzanians are bitter over increased insecurity from Kenyans," Kiraithe said.

Tanzanian authorities have reportedly expressed deep fears that violent criminals could worsen insecurity in the country, if the five East African countries forge ahead with the plans for a political Federation.

Police in Tanzania have also arrested several family members of the slain suspects who had traveled to Moshi to collect the bodies for burial.

Nairobi - 11/09/2007

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Relations sour as Tanzania gets tough at border

By Kepher Otieno

It is no longer easy for Kenyans to cross into Tanzania. Immigration officials are arresting those found in the country without travel documents.

At the Isebania border point, security had been tightened to control the influx of goods.

Consequently, they have imposed stiff penalties on traders found in the country without valid pass or temporary passports.

Kenyans wonder why they are being harassed yet Tanzanians freely cross into their country.

In the past, local traders would cross to Tarime about 25km from the Isebania without problems.

Today, the story has changed. An official of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) defended the move, saying they were only enforcing the law.

"We have issued a notice to all Kenyans and other visitors that they must have a valid international or temporary passport," he said.

This is beginning to affect the hitherto thriving trade as many businesspeople now fear crossing into Tanzania.

A friendly cross-border policy dating back to the days of Julius Nyerere and Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and carried on by presidents Benjamin Mkapa and Daniel arap Moi, appears doomed with the new regime in Tanzania, even as the East African countries talk about a federation.

"We have been crossing into Tanzania and they (Tanzanians) have been coming to Kenya without problems. Not anymore," a trader at Isebania, Mr John Mwita, said.

While Kenyans are being rounded up in Tanzania, hundreds of Tanzanians live and work in Migori and Kuria districts.

Most hawkers, bar maids and secondhand clothes dealers in the towns are from the neighbouring country.

Tanzania authorities say the crackdown is meant to curb rampant smuggling, but traders accuse Tanzania police and immigration officials of highhandedness. They warn that such overzealousness could deal the spirit of East African Community a blow.

"Relationship between Kenya and Tanzania is headed for extinction unless the governments urgently intervene," Mr Paul Mwita, a former DO, says.

"We are dependent on each other in many, many ways. We even intermarry. What do you do with communities that spread across the border like the Luo and Kuria?"

Recently, Kenyan women fish traders were arraigned in Tarime court and fined TSh 500,000 each.

And one month down the line, the fate of 14 Kenyan fishermen held is still shrouded in mystery.

The fishermen were arrested in Lake Victoria for allegedly trespassing into the foreign territorial waters.

And the Government is apparently unable to help. Migori DC, Mr Njoroge Ndirangu, and OCPD, Mr Edward Mwamburi, said the Tanzanian authorities have not released information of the suspects.

"Tanzanian security officials are highly secretive on the issue. They won't say when they (fishermen) will be arraigned in court," said Mwamburi.

Tanzanian police also confiscated fishing gear, boats and nets worth more than Sh20 million during the night raid. Fisheries and Regional Development ministers, Mt Joseph Munyao and Mr John Koech, recently said they were not aware of the arrests.

Migori fishermen are now accusing the Government of being insensitive.

When Kenyan journalists last month travelled to Tarime court, 25km from Isebania, where it was rumoured that the fishermen were to be charged, they got a rude shock.

Authorities there could not give them access to the Tarime and Musoma police stations, where the fishermen were being held. They could not even let them take pictures.

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Tanzania executed 13 Kenyans, police declare!

By Cyrus Ombati in Moshi

All 13 Kenyans killed by police in Moshi, Tanzania, were shot at close range.

Investigation by Kenyan detectives who are in Tanzania revealed the 12 men and one woman had bullet wounds on their chests and heads.

Tanzanian police have insisted the Kenyans were shot during a botched armed robbery targeting a local bank.

Tanzanian police say they had obtained a CCTV camera recording showing one of the victims, Ms Anna Nyakanyi King’ara entering the targeted bank, Exim Bank along Boma Road, to convert Kenyan currency she was carrying to Sudanese money.

Tanzania Kilimanjaro Regional Police Commander, Mr Luke Nghovoko displays weapons alleged to have been recovered from the Kenyans who were killed in Moshi. Picture by Martin Mukangu
Other reports indicate the suspects were found with maps of the bank and the remand prison.

The suspects were shot both from front and their backs, said the Kenyan police from the small town in Northern Tanzania.

The bodies of the victims are lying at the local mortuary and families have 14 days to either collect them or the Moshi Municipal authorities will dispose them off, police in Tanzania said.

The Kenyans were identified as Jeremiah Macharia, Zachary Kimathiro, John Gikoye Buku of Muranga, Ludovick Gicheru Kariuki of Thika, Philip Irungu Wanjiru, Peter Maina Waweru, David Mbugua, Moses Kuria Kamau, Simon Maina Ndabaki and Anna Nyakanyi King’ara.

The remaining two Kenyans were identified as Wilson Irungu Kiige, 39, from Kangema and Gerishon Karangi of Gitugi in Murang’a District.

Documents also showed that Mr William Muiruri Kamau from Nairobi, who was out on a police bond in Kenya, was killed in the shooting.

Head of the Kenya Special Crimes Prevention Unit Mr Richard Katola, who is among four detectives who are in Moshi, said investigations had shown that a warrant of arrest had been issued by a Machakos court on Kamau for absconding court cases. He had been arrested in Machakos area with firearms and charged.

The officers took the victims' fingerprints to crosscheck with the Registrar of Persons if they had any criminal records.

Witnesses claim the suspects were first subdued before being mowed by a contingent of police officers who had trailed them.

They were all shot dead at the roadside of a police barricade at about 7.30pm. This was after they were stopped at a roadblock at Mawewe, about 10km from Moshi.

Kilimanjaro Police commander Mr Lucas Ngohboko said they had intelligence that the slain suspects were planning to raid a local bank and rescue Kenyan suspects already at the Karanga Remand Prisons.

The scene of the shooting is off the Arusha-Moshi highway.

Neighbours say they heard several gunshots before they were later informed that there was a shooting between police and suspected criminals.

The police boss displayed three AK 47 rifles, three pistols, five bullet proof vests, two hand grenades and 207 bullets that he said they recovered from an Isuzu Vitara that the suspects were using.

Ngohboko said they have not found two other vehicles with six occupants who drove off from the scene of the shooting. He added that 11 of the victims' travelling documents had shown that they were issued on September3, in Kenya while the others' were issued the following day.

One of the victims has not been identified and officials in Moshi suspect he is either a Kenyan or a Ugandan.

Tanzania’s minister for Internal Security, Mr Bakari Mwapachu, visited the scene of the shooting and expressed concern over the rising cases of robbery incidents involving Kenyans.

Earlier, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete had also talked of the shooting, saying he was concerned.

Speaking in Kondoa area, Central Tanzania, Kikwete had said he was concerned by the rising criminal activities involving Kenyans.

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Kenya: Families Want Police to Probe Tanzania Killings

East African Standard (Nairobi)

8 September 2007
Posted to the web 7 September 2007

Cyrus Ombati, Edith Fortunate And Evelyne Ogutu
Nairobi

The family of one of the 15 Kenyan suspects killed in Tanzania now claims their kin was executed despite her innocence.

The late Anne King'ara's family says they had no information the deceased was in Tanzania.

Kingara was among suspects gunned down in Moshi what police described as attempted robbery. They were killed in a police ambush.

An AK47 rifle and five pistols were allegedly recovered from the slain suspects.

Speaking after a meeting with the Police spokesman, Mr Eric Kiraithe, the late Kingara's father, Mr James Njoroge, said her daughter has never engaged in criminal activities.

"My daughter operates two businesses at the City - a driving school and a security firm. There is no reason for her to steal," said Njoroge.

Police in Nairobi said they had been informed from Moshi that the suspects were also planning to rescue six Kenyans facing robbery charges in Tanzanian custody.

The family is asking the police to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Meanwhile, some of the suspected gangsters who were gunned down in Moshi, Tanzania were in the list of police most wanted persons.

Central Provincial Criminal Investigations Officer, Mr Sebastian Ndaru, said most of the gunned down gangsters, were being sought out by police in Kenya.

A team of Kenyan police and CID officers arrived at the Tanzanian town of Moshi last evening where 15 suspected Kenyan criminals were shot dead on Thursday.

The officers immediately went to the local police headquarters on the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro to be briefed by local officers.

Kenyan CID director Mr Karanja Gatiba who spoke on phone from Nairobi said Kenyan police have confirmed at least two of the dead were on police most wanted list.

Some of those killed were out on board after being charged with crimes in Kenyan courts.

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Kenya: Moshi Victims Linked to Crimes

The Nation (Nairobi)

12 September 2007
Posted to the web 11 September 2007

Fred Mukinda
Nairobi

Some of the 14 Kenyans shot dead in Tanzania last week had a criminal past, the police said yesterday.

Records released by police spokesman Eric Kiraithe showed that Moses Kuria Kamau had been sentenced to death by a Nairobi court 10 years ago.


The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment but he was released on parole in June.

Kamau, from Elburgon in Nakuru District, had been charged with robbery with violence on June 9, 1997. "In 1992, he had also been charged at the Nakuru court for assault and causing bodily harm," said Mr Kiraithe.

A year in jail

Fresh details about David Njuguna Mbugua's past were also revealed. He used to be an employee of the Nakuru municipal council until August 1981, when he was sentenced to a year in jail.

He had been convicted of stealing a roll of barbed wire from the council. Mbugua was from Wang'uru, Mwea, in Kirinyaga District.

Zachary Mwangi Kimathiro appeared in a Murang'a court three years ago alongside other suspects accused of robbing a man of Sh89,000 and a mobile phone at gun point on September 27, 2004.

Kimathiro was from Mathioya Division in Murang'a District.

Others in the Tanzania shooting saga, who had also been charged with robbery included Philip Irungu Wanjiru and Peter Maina Waweru. Wanjiru appeared in a Nairobi court on March 17, 1995, while Waweru was charged in a Thika court on October 19, 2004, with robbing a motorist of a vehicle and Sh30,000.

Mr Kiraithe told a Press conference at police headquarters in Nairobi: "The victims were killed in an exchange of fire with the Tanzanian police. We have confidence with what they (Tanzanian authorities) reported to us."

Kenya sent four officers from the Special Crime Prevention Unit to conduct independent investigations in Moshi after the 14 were gunned down by the Tanzanian police. The team comprising of a scene of crime expert, a fingerprints analyst and two investigators is back in Nairobi with the findings.

Investigations were still in progress to establish if the other victims had criminal records, Mr Kiraithe said, adding: "We have also extended the investigations beyond our records, to the courts and prisons to establish how those who had been convicted for capital offences had been freed."

On the other victims whose criminal records had not bee established, Mr Kiraithe said: "They either had brushes with the police or were involved with criminal gangs."

He also urged relatives of the victims to contact the Tanzanian high commission in Nairobi before travelling to claim the bodies.

"Tanzania is a sovereign state and they have their own laws. The police also have no legal mandate to help the relatives there," said Mr Kiraithe.

He praised police officers, the public and the media, saying the war against crime had been won at home.

Others gunned down in Moshi on Wednesday evening were Jeremiah Wachira Macharia, Wilson Irungu Kiige, John Gikonyo Buku and Genson Karuhi, all from Murang'a District. Also shot dead were Hannah Nyakanyi King'ara of Muchatha, Kiambu, Rudovick Giceru Kariuki from Thika, Simon Maina Ndabaki from Kerugoya and William Muiruri Kamau from Nairobi.

Violent robberies

Ms King'ara was the proprietor of City Driving School in Nairobi and also owned Annkan Security Services. Police in Kirinyaga had been looking for Ndabaki and Waweru in connection with a series of violent robberies in the area.

According to other reports, Kiige had been named alongside a Kasarani parliamentary aspirant in connection with assault claims against Narc Kenya activist Orie Rogo Manduli last month.

He had been interviewed by detectives in Nairobi over the outlawed Mungiki sect. He had also been found in possession of a stolen car, KAR 696Q. Last year police found a Toyota RAV4 outside his hotel in Pangani with four bullet-proof vests.

Mr Kiraithe said the Kenyans were in possession of three AK-47 rifles, three pistols and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, two hand grenades and five bullet-proof vests.

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Kenya concern at roadblock deaths
A Kenyan human rights group has condemned the killing of 14 people by Tanzanian police, who claim they were suspected bank robbers.

On Tuesday, 12 of the dead were identified as Kenyan nationals - including one woman.

Tanzanian police said the 14 suspects were killed during a shootout last Wednesday after they defied an order to stop at a police roadblock.

But the Oscar Foundation says some of the bodies bore marks of torture.

"The killings were occasioned by misinformation and lacked any intelligent information to justify them," said the foundation's executive director, Kamau Kingara.

Relatives of the slain Kenyans have raised doubts over the circumstances in which they were shot.

But Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said six of the 12 suspects had previous convictions and he praised the action taken by his Tanzanian counterparts.

"It is apparent that they have been having brushes with the police in offences or violence for quite some time," Mr Kiraithe said.

The Tanzanian authorities claim the suspects were planning a bank robbery in the northern town of Moshi - next to Mt Kilimanjaro - and said they recovered grenades, assault rifles, and bullet-proof vests from the suspects' car.

The bank alleged to have been the target of the planned robbery has given the Tanzanian police force a $4,000 reward.

The Oscar Foundation said it would be taking its case to the Tanzania-based East Africa Court of Justice "to ensure the alleged perpetrators of the killings are brought to justice".

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2007-09-14 08:33:40
Na Cynthia Mwilolezi, PST Arusha

Katika hali inayoonyesha kuwa Wakenya wameendelea kuifanya mikoa ya kaskazini kama ngome yao ya uhalifu, raia wawili kutoka nchi hiyo wamekamatwa na polisi baada ya kukutwa na mashine?ya kutengenezea `master card` za malipo ya benki ya Barclays (ATM)?na kadi za kufungulia milango.

Katika kesi hiyo, yumo pia mwanamke wa Kinyarwanda na Watanzania watatu.

Watuhumiwa hao kutoka Kenya walitajwa kuwa ni Reuben Kirongodhi (33), Mkikuyu na Bernad Kini (30) mkazi wa Nairobi, nchini Kenya.

Wengine ni Moses William (31), Mtanzania alikuwa dereva wa gari namba T 957 AGP aina ya Toyota Corolla, Paulina
Nyimala, raia Rwanda, na mwenyeji wao aliyejulikana kwa jina moja la John ambao walikimbia.

Tukio hilo lilithibitishwa na Kamanda wa Polisi mkoani Arusha, Bw. Basilio Matei.

Alisema lilitokea Septemba 9, mwaka huu, saa 8.30 mchana maeneo ya Shoprite, katika duka la kuuza nguo la Woolworth.

Alisema kuwa watuhumiwa hao walipofika katika eneo hilo waliingia dukani hapo na kununua nguo za thamani ya Dola 700 za Marekani, lakini baada ya kutakiwa kutoa fedha hizo, walitoa master card ya malipo za benki ya Barclays ambazo zilikuwa za kufoji.

Bw. Basilio alisema kuwa baada ya mwenye duka kugundua kadi hiyo sio sahihi alipiga simu benki ya Barclays na kuuliza, ambapo alijibiwa kuwa ni `feki` na mwenye kadi hiyo ni mwingine.

Baada ya mwenye duka hilo kujibiwa hivyo watuhumiwa hao walikimbia.

Alisema mwenye duka alipiga simu polisi haraka, ambapo polisi walipofika eneo la tukio, walifanikiwa kumkamata dereva wa? gari hilo na aliwataja Wakenya hao na sehemu wanayoishi.

Kamanda huyo alisema baada ya kumkamata aliwapeleka mpaka eneo la Florida kwenye nyumba ya kawaida na walipofika hapo, polisi walivamia nyumba hiyo na kufanikiwa kuwakamata wakenya hao wakiwa na mashine hiyo ya kutengenezea `master card` za `kufoji` na kadi za kufungulia milango.

Alisema katika nyumba hiyo pia walifanikiwa kuwakamata wenyeji wao akiwepo mwanamke huyo? raia wa Rwanda, ambaye hakuwa na pasi ya kusafiria na John aliyekimbia.

Kamanda alisema mbali ya kuwakuta na mashine hiyo, walifanikiwa kuwakuta na `master card` za kuchukulia fedha katika benki ya Barclays nchini Uingereza, Marekani na Afrika Kusini.

Jeshi hilo limetoa tahadhari kwa wananchi na wafanyabiashara? mkoani Arusha kuwa makini na `master card` hizo.

Wiki chache zilizopita, majambazi 14, wengi wao wakiwa wanatokea nchini Kenya waliuliwa na polisi baada ya kukurupushwa wakijiandaa kuvamia benki ya Exim ya mjini Moshi.

Vilevile, miezi michache iliyopita, majambazi wengine wanaosemakana kutoka nchini Kenya, walishirikiana na Watanzania kupora mamilioni ya fedha katika benki ya NMB tawi la Mwanga ambapo yaliua askari polisi mmoja.

* SOURCE: Nipashe

 

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