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Kimemia

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2010-06-18
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  1. “It underscores Kenya's commitment to and seriousness in the apprehension of all perpetrators of the various crimes covered by the treaty and their extradition to Rwanda to face justice. The Kenyan investigators, together with the Rwandan security agencies, the United States of America, the ICTR and other partners continue to collaborate in the search for Felicien Kabuga. It is therefore premature for the Prosecutor to request the President of the ICTR to notify the Security Council of Kenya's alleged failure to cooperate with the Tribunal. Let me conclude by reassuring the Council of Kenya's unwavering commitment to fully cooperating with the Tribunal and the Council in support of international criminal justice.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  2. “The Prosecutor and his team are welcome to visit Kenya on the shortest notice, including at the time we leave this meeting or this place. If the Prosecutor would like a date to visit us, he is welcome: he is free to come and conduct his work in Kenya any time. I want to assure him of the full cooperation of the Government of Kenya so that this matter can be wiped out of the process, so that justice can be seen to be done, and so that there can be an end to these allegations. As part of its continued and unreserved support for the work of the ICTR, Kenya concluded an extradition treaty with the Republic of Rwanda in September 2009, which provides, inter alia, for the extradition of Rwandan genocide suspects. The treaty has already been ratified and is fully operational.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  3. “As I mentioned, the full particulars related to the investigations and actions undertaken by the Kenyan Government are within the full knowledge of the Tribunal. The joint investigation team continues to carry out its mandate with the full support of the Kenyan Government. In View of what I have said, Kenya finds the incessant accusations of complacency in arresting Felicien Kabuga misleading, malicious and lacking in merit. In this regard, we urge the ICTR and the international investigative agencies to widen the search for Felicien Kabuga to other jurisdictions beyond Kenya. We also want to refute the assertion that requests for the ICTR to visit Kenya have been made to us and been denied. We have not denied any such requests.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  4. “Among the team's findings was that Felicien Kabuga's wife had invested in real estate and that the rent collected was being submitted to a local financial institution. Further investigations revealed that these funds were transferred and credited to the wife's bank account in Belgium, where Kabuga's wife and children reside and hold Belgian passports. Kenya's Attorney-General promptly obtained orders from the High Court to freeze the bank account in Kenya. And as we speak now, the wife has disputed the freezing of the bank account; the matter is still ongoing in court. The Kenyan and ICTR investigators have jointly continued to follow up information on alleged sightings of the fugitive in various parts of Kenya. Prompt investigations have been carried out and have yielded no fruit.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  5. “The Government of Kenya has also played a key role in the relocation, protection and facilitation of movement of witnesses for the Tribunal in a bid to ensure that the ends of justice are met expeditiously. In doing so, the Government has utilized immense resources in the form of material, equipment and personnel. Indeed, we have a police wing that remains dedicated to this issue. In 2007, the Government of Kenya formed a joint investigation team to search for and apprehend Felicien Kabuga, as well as to trace his assets and bank accounts, including those of his associates in Kenya. This team has discharged its mandate and has submitted periodic reports of its findings both to the Kenya Government and the Tribunal.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  6. “It is disappointing to note that the Prosecutor has not updated his report on this matter accordingly. I wish to reiterate our previous presentations to the Council and wish further to state that Kenya has given full support and assistance to the ICTR since its inception on the issue of referrals, including in the search for Felicien Kabuga. Kenya has always cooperated and worked closely with the ICTR with a view to tracing, arresting and surrendering genocide suspects to the Tribunal to face justice. As I said, indeed, 14 suspects have already been arrested and handed over for prosecution. That is the largest number of indictees to be apprehended and handed over to the ICTR by any single jurisdiction.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  7. “And, possibly, he could report to the Security Council on his positive results so that we do not engage in blame games that, ultimately, do not help the region or the process of justice for our country. We believe that impunity must be eliminated in its entirety. Indeed, the Kenyan and Rwandan security services and other security organs are collaborating and cooperating on this matter, including through inspection of premises and perusal of documents that are deemed to be relevant. A lot of work has been carried out by the Government of Kenya in collaboration with other relevant investigation agencies, including the ICTR itself and Rwandan and United States security agencies. The findings of these collaborative investigations have regularly been communicated to the ICTR.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  8. “We have left no stone unturned. We have invited international security organs to assist Kenya in the search, and there have been no results to date. All we get are allegations and accusations that we are harbouring this fugitive, Kabuga, who, as I said, is of no socio-economic, political or ideological value to the country. References by the Prosecutor in his report presented this morning are similar in scope and content to what has become a recurrent ritual of presentations to the Security Council. It is mentioned in the report that the last mission of the Prosecutor to Kenya was in March 2009. As members know, Kenya is just about 100 kilometres away from where my colleague the Prosecutor lives. I would encourage him to make more visits to Kenya so that this matter can be disposed of expeditiously.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  9. “It is impossible that this man could be walking around Nairobi and not be arrested by anybody in spite of the $5 million reward on his head, which is still active to date. In fact, we have arrested several persons purported to be Mr. Felicien Kabuga, only to find that these allegations were premeditated hoaxes by con men who imagined that they could get all or part of the $5 million. Our security services, led by none other than the Commissioner of Police himself, in collaboration with other international security agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other forces that are working with us, have spent vast resources going to distant districts of Kenya in search of these fraudulent Felicien Kabuga, only to return, having discovered that this was just phantom information and that their searches had been wasted.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  10. “In a similar vein, it also appears to be a figment of the imagination to allege that Kabuga has been sighted in Kenya and that there is copious evidence of Kabuga's presence in Kenya. Again, it would be impossible that Kenyans, the majority of whom are poor people, would ignore the $5 million reward; that is true also of outsiders and the joint international security forces operating in Kenya. In the search for Kabuga, the local and international community and our own parliament have been on our Ministry's back to make sure that this matter with the ICTR is concluded. There is media pressure too, as we have the largest concentration of civil society media in the region: Nairobi has the highest concentration.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  11. “I assume that this would have been expected, possibly, from the Department of Immigration. However, I believe that, because Kabuga has been declared a fugitive - and, as the Council knows, the United States Government immediately placed a reward of $5 million on Kabuga's head for anybody who either arrested him personally or gave evidence that led to his arrest - it would be almost foolish for anybody to really expect that Kabuga would walk up and present himself to an immigration officer, saying "I am Mr. Kabuga, and I want to leave" and go either to Brazil or to whichever country he might want to go to. It is very likely that he would run away through our porous borders and disappear like other fugitives who are on the run.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  12. “However, the Government of Kenya wishes to comment with great concern on the persistent allegations that the Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga is hiding in Kenya and that the Kenyan Government has refused to fully discharge its obligations with respect to his arrest. Kenya takes strong exception to these baseless and persistent imputations of complicity in this matter. No evidence has been adduced to the effect that Kenya is harbouring Mr. Kabuga. In any case, the Republic of Kenya has nothing to gain morally, socio-politically or economically by harbouring the said fugitive, especially when Kenya and Rwanda are enjoying very excellent relations. I have listened to the allegations of the Prosecutor that Kenya has not provided evidence of the departure of Kabuga.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  13. “However, we as a Government have always demanded that the refugees act within the rule of law - of course their human rights are observed - and where criminal elements have been discovered, we have responded within the tenets of international law. That accounts for the arrest of 14 persons who have already been handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for prosecution. I would have expected Mr. Jallow to have commended Kenya, at least for this initiative. In this regard, we appreciate the work of the Presidents of both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the ICTR, and we commend them for the manner in which they have conducted the affairs of their respective Tribunals.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source

  14. “Let me begin, Mr. President, by thanking you and the other members of the Security Council for inviting Kenya to participate in the proceedings of the Council today. By way of introduction, I am Francis Kimemia, Permanent Secretary for Provincial Administration and Internal Security of the Republic of Kenya. At the outset, I wish to reiterate that Kenya is a strong supporter of and active player in the international criminal justice system. It is also important, in view of the context of this discussion, to highlight the role historically played by Kenya in the region, especially in providing a safe haven for refugees from destabilized neighbour States, from the 1970s to date. Today, we host more than 600,000 refugees from Somalia, the Sudan and other lands who have yet to return to their countries.”

    2010-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6342 (2010) · source