Business Daily (Nairobi)
16 June 2008
editorial
Nairobi — The recent police circus over a possible arrest of Rwanda's most wanted genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga, is unfortunate. This is because his continued freedom - like that of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - is a big indictment of the global law enforcement machinery.
One cannot imagine that Kenya's security machinery, backed by the muscle of Interpol, has not brought to book such a highly wanted suspect nearly 15 years after he is suspected to have committed crimes against humanity.
The latest verdict that the man police arrested in a Nairobi suburb is not the wanted Kabuga leaves a number of questions in the air - including the very critical matter of whether Mr Kabuga is indeed still alive and hiding somewhere within Kenyan borders.
There is no doubt that given the importance of this matter, a lot of information is being churned out, including that which led to the arrest of a university don last week.
Besides, there can be no doubt that given the systemic corruption that has permeated all facets of our society, there can be no denying that Mr Kabuga has at no time taken refuge in Kenya.
This is a man of means who is said to be in business with the Kenyan elite, especially in the prime property market, some of which were frozen through a court order early this year.
Last weekend's happenings on the botched arrest of a former colleague of Mr Kabuga and his subsequent release, brought the issue of the fugitive back in the limelight, but it also raised the question of why it is proving so hard to capture one of the most wanted suspects in Africa.
Capturing Mr Kabuga or knowing the truth about his whereabouts should not be seen as a fruitless pursuit, it should be seen as an act of safeguarding Kenya, and indeed Africa, against the kind of atrocities that Kabuga is suspected of having committed in Rwanda.
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