Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Jul 28th, 2010
Mars Group Budget Findings Vindicated and Confirmed by Parliamentary Budget Office Experts Report
Mars Group has been raising concerns over the accuracy of budget documents tabled in Parliament by the Treasury since the March 2010 Budget Policy Statement and even with the June 2010 National Budget Estimates. Our concerns have been met with abuse by the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2010
Bribery and corruption are receiving an unexpectedly high degree of attention at present. The relevance of aid to fostering or solving the problem is getting some attention. I hope to use my own experience to illustrate the damage corruption does to countries like Kenya and how serious the problem is there; how the problem carries [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Jul 12th, 2010
WHAT IS THE REAL SIZE OF THE BUDGET DEFICIT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2010/2011: KENYANS MUST DEMAND BE TOLD THE TRUTH – Part 1
Kenyan Citizens should be very concerned to read about how some Members of Parliament are claiming to have read the budget and [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Mar 11th, 2010
Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Kenyans do not want IMF medicine. It is time to kick the IMF out of Kenya.
“ while corruption is a problem we all share, here in Kenya it is a crisis – a crisis that’s robbing an honest people of the opportunities they have fought for – the opportunity they deserve.” US [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Mar 2nd, 2010
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF KENYA – WHY OMISSION OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER?
Access to Justice for All Kenyans is a fundamental human right. For the poor Kenyans only the office of the public defender can help them access justice when they need to.
kituo Cha Sheria
28TH FEBRUARY 2010
Kituo Cha Sheria, the oldest legal aid and human rights [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Jan 19th, 2010
Cabinet to commit Kenyans to pay for Anglo Leasing Navy Ship Contracts for loans that were never received and for the supply of a navy ship that has never been delivered to Kenya.
Mars Group Kenya invites Kenyans to carefully scrutinize this report. It reveals documents that have never been in [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Oct 6th, 2009
Mars Group Applauds U.S. for Pressuring Kenya to Clean-Up
October 5, 2009
Author: Rachel Brown
Rachel Brown is a contributor to the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development blog and a senior International Relations major at Tufts University. She has spent much time in Kenya and Guatemala extensively researching corruption.
A statement released by [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Sep 28th, 2009
STATEMENT BY THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHANGE ON THE LETTER FROM KENYAN PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA issued at Nairobi 28th September 2009.
The Kibaki administration is ruffled by the United States Government latest actions on Kenya and it has nothing to do with travel bans. Money is at stake [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Sep 9th, 2009
Member of Parliament for Kimilili Hon. Eseli Simiyu to move a further amendment to the Appropriation Bill to impound the salaries and expenses of the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission’s Directors – Kenya Shillings 45.24 Million
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Sep 8th, 2009
Although widely derided as a toothless expensive bulldog – and even as a fig leaf for the corrupt – the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) is Kenya’s premiere statutory anti-corruption agency recognized as such by the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the African Union. It has been in operation since 2004 and has investigated among many other pending mega corruption Scandals; Goldenberg, Pending Bills, Land and public resource grabbing including Mau forest and Woodley estates, Anglo Leasing, Triton, the 2008-9 Kenya Maize Scandal, the Global Fund, NSSF, Euro Bank, Charterhouse Bank, the National Hospital Insurance Fund, the international tracing of assets of Moi regime figures a.k.a. Kroll, fraud in local authorities and false expense claims by scores of Public Officers including Members of Parliament.
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