Former Kenya police boss linked to graft cartel
A Ugandan woman suspected of drug trafficking at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, June 6, 2010 after she was arrested with cocaine worth Sh85 million wrapped in 10 packets and packed in two plastic boxes bearing UN logos. Photo/FILE
Senior Superintendent Mohammed Godana Jarssa, 28, was assigned on December 31 2004 by the CID to investigate drug trafficking and the diversion of ‘transit goods’ into the country.
The assignment was to net corrupt police officers and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officials suspected of helping these goods leave Mombasa Port.
“This ‘high-level investigation’ was a mere ploy (either from the outset, or it was turned into one mid way),” Mr Jarssa wrote in a report tabled in the House, on Thursday.
A month into his investigations, in January 2005, Mr Jarssa “unearthed evidence of high-level corruption involving sugar-barons, and the then Commissioner of Police Maj-Gen Hussein Ali, and the then deputy director of CID Mr Peter Kavila.”
He intercepted 18 containers of sugar illegally removed or “stolen” from the port and were held at a warehouse in Ganjoni.
Digging further, he found the warehouse, the containers and their contents all belonged to a prominent Mombasa politician and his brother.
On January 5, Mr Jarssa arrested three KRA workers manning the gate when the sugar left the port on grounds of corruption.
Mr Jarssa says, the investigation was put off the rails by Maj-Gen Ali and Michael Waweru, then commissioner-general of KRA.
Days later, Mr Jarssa was removed from the investigation, his firearm withdrawn, and he was transferred to Lokitang, in Rift Valley Province.
