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Ugandans be warned; The Artur Brothers are on their way to Kampala!

By: Jerry Okungu

[ Posted On: 2006-06-25 ]

A close Ugandan friend who works in Kenya confirmed the rumour the other day that the Artur brothers were actually in Uganda in May 2006 when President Kaguta Museveni was being sworn in to office. Whether their presence in Uganda coincided with the ceremony is another matter altogether. But one thing my source was sure of was that the 8pm Kenya Airways flight from Entebbe was full to capacity and security at the Entebbe Airport was extraordinary. One more thing, he actually spotted them entering the plane from the front and quickly occupied seats in the Business Class Section.

Since their deportation from Kenya after their stage-managed airport debacle, a lot of rumour has been doing the rounds concerning the Artur brothers. One such rumour was that they had accompanied President Kibaki to the Kampala feat which the Nairobi State House has swiftly rubbished as a figment of political imagination. However, now that it is emerging that they left Entebbe aboard a scheduled flight for Nairobi, it must be a reprieve for government officials in Nairobi that they after all did not accompany President Kibaki in his private jet.

However, hours after their deportation from Nairobi, one of the brothers called several newsrooms in Nairobi to inform Kenyans that the Artur brothers had decided to locate their “investments” to Uganda since Kenya had become too tribal for international business investors!

I don’t know about Uganda but one thing is for sure; the Artur brothers may not find it rosy in the streets of Kampala the way they did in Nairobi. Their bling bling mentality may not wash with Ugandans. Another thing; in Uganda owning a gun was demystified decades ago. Every body who needs to carry a gun carries one including street watchmen. More importantly because of years of civil strife, almost every able bodied Ugandan can handle a gun.

The Artur brothers are claiming that they are moving their investments from Kenya to Uganda. Let me tell my brothers in Uganda the type of investments they left behind in Kenya.

They left two unidentified girl friends in Kenya, a shamba boy, two Tanzanian bouncers who have since been deported, six dogs they imported from Dubai, a fleet of close to thirteen stolen vehicles, some of which were robbed from their owners at gunpoint, an unspecified assortment of stolen arms and ammunitions, Ksh. 1 million worth of unpaid rent, imaginary real estate, several containers of undeclared goods now impounded at the Mombasa Port, thousands of US dollars buried in their compound and tens of stolen GK and Diplomatic number plates. These are the assets that the Artur brothers invested in Kenya and left behind.

Before Ugandans accept them into the country, they may want to think about the kind of embarrassment these two brothers have bequeathed to Kenyans.

In a matter of six months when they lived in Kenya, they infiltrated our political system, had a good idea of our security system through their connections in the Police Force, acquired Kenya citizenship, had unlimited access to our security areas including the VIP Lounge at our international airport. They raided one media house and left destruction and mayhem in their wake. They had unlimited access to some of the most powerful political leaders in the land. Sadly enough it is difficult to quantify what our political leaders got from these thugs in return.

When they finally left Kenyan soil, the CID Chief, Deputy M D, Kenya Airports Authority and a number of security officials were out of their jobs. Now Kenya’s Parliament and a presidential commission are concurrently investigating their activities in Kenya, their associates and the level of damage they might have inflicted on Kenya locally and internationally. Does Uganda want to go this route?

Before Ugandans accept their “investments” they may well contact the CIA and the Interpol to tell them more about the two brothers. Trickling information may link them to gun-running assignment, drug- trafficking, mercenary and hit squads operations in Turkey, Armenia, Russia and Sri Lanka. If this turns out to be true, then Ugandans may as well inherit more dangerous criminals than rebel Kony in the North.

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Jerry Okungu is a freelance political analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. Jerry also serves as a Board Director at The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. Jerry has written extensively on issues affecting Kenya and the rest of Africa over the years. Other articles written by Jerry Okungu are available at this location

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