{"id":435099,"date":"2011-06-03T04:52:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T04:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/mps-battles-against-narcotics-tag\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T04:52:07","slug":"mps-battles-against-narcotics-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/mps-battles-against-narcotics-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"MP&#8217;s Battles Against Narcotics Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"33.582999692\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kilome MP Harun Mwau&#8217;s battles against drug trafficking allegations go back a long way.<\/p>\n<p>He has gone to court at least twice. First he sued the Nation for defamation after it linked him to Pepe, a company that had been mentioned adversely in a drug trafficking case.<\/p>\n<p>He has also sued former US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger for naming him alongside two other MPs in a report on drug lords.<\/p>\n<p>Also sued is the Attorney General for allowing the ambassador to publish a report that was injurious to him.<\/p>\n<p>The former ambassador filed a criminal complaint with the Minister for Internal Security George Saitoti and Police Commissioner on December 7, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mwau claimed he has never been &#8220;involved, contemplated or even dreamt of being involved in trafficking narcotic drugs and does not know any person who sells, buys or consumes narcotics of any nature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was shocked when he was named in Parliament on December 22, last year, as one of the drug barons in the country.<\/p>\n<p>And as a result of the allegations, Mr Mwau said, he was likely to suffer atrocious international surveillance and behavioural profiling unjustly because of elaborate and continuous media publication of the diplomat&#8217;s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Among the declarations being sought by the Kilome MP is that the dossier by Mr Ranneberger is false.<\/p>\n<p>The MP wants the court to order the state to delete his name from the report and expunge the allegations and his name from the complaint.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106030002.html\" title=\"MP's Battles Against Narcotics Tag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MP&#8217;s Battles Against Narcotics Tag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 2 June 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Kilome MP Harun Mwau&#8217;s battles against drug trafficking allegations go back a long way. 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