Dispatch from Mombasa

The Kenyan Government has deported four people of Arabian descent who were arrested at the Moi International airport shortly after arrival from Dubai yesterday. The four men were arrested shortly after disembarking from an Ethiopian airline that had flown from Dubai. Sources say that the four were questioned by the dreaded anti-terror police unit for much of Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning before Government officials decided to deport them. Sources told Mombasa Dispatch that the four had first been taken to the Regional Immigration offices under tight security where they were interrogated before being locked up at the Coast provincial police headquarters. The arrest and subsequent deportation of the four comes in the wake of Kenya heightened war against terrorism. The suspects lawyer Hamza Adam said that the suspects were innocent and were merely tourists who wanted to enjoy the coast environment. He said that he would file a suit against the state for the illegal deportation of...

So I hear that the Captain Raila Amollo Odinga has declared that its Hassan Mwanyoha for Matuga. That Mwanyoha has been crying too much for that seat and now its pay back time. Addressing delegates from Matuga in a nocturnal meeting held at a Mombasa Hotel the Captain Raila Amollo Odinga said that the seat was Mwanyoha’s for the taking. Dispatch has it that the move to endorse Mwanyoha was precipitated by the fact that the former immediate MP and Minister Dzipapa Dzipapa Ali Chirau Mwakwere was sponsoring candidates to oppose him, a move that would see ODM’s vote weakened. The Captain who was in Mombasa to open a Group of African Member Associations International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) meeting also touched base with the Matuga parliamentary seat contest. How likely is it that ODM will win the seat? Well, ODM still enjoys majority support in the province and especially given that the province overwhelmingly voted for ODM in the 2005 referendum and during the controve...

I am told that people who ate the grave are covenening at a Mombasa hotel to discuss ways of keeping vision 2030 alive. While I am not sure how they did it, Dispatch has it that the Major grave santcher who also goes by the name of Musalia Mudavadi will be opening the forum. Dispatch has also gathered that the City Undertaker one Geoffrey Ma-jiwa will also be attending to at least give tips to Mayors and other town council chairmen on how to eat from the grave. But what Dispatch has established is that eating from the grave is not as easy as eating maize and drinking Triton oil as one William Ruto and Kiraitu Murungi will attest. The contents of the grave stink to high heavens and Musalia will tell you that he has been stinking since he was mentioned by KACC without much of a reference. But, Geoffrey Majiwa the undertaker of Nairobi City Council says although he was found with the loot in his mouth, he had done nothing wrong. He argues that his non-existent name was soiled and he wan...

Hurray. Welcome to dispatches from Mombasa. Here we will dispatch to you what is happening particularly in Mombasa and the whole country in general, but more so, we will be focussing on issues and problems that affect the town and how how we can improve the town. Karibu sana. Dispatcher