<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">What I can say for sure is that the government could have, and more importantly now, could do much to end the suffering of these families.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The least they can do is to compel the Ethiopian authorities to formally charge all the suspects (others such as Maxwell Ochieng and Oscar Otindo have been there for much longer than Jedrick Mugo and the Late Zak Muriuki. It was Zak who found a way to communicate to their families of their whereabouts and shared the funds and food channeled to him by the company and family, plus many others from other African countries. He also took on the role of their 'protector' while in prison).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">It is a great injustice to be continuously kept in remand on some of the flimsiest reasons ever given in a court of law. Zak's last straw was when the Judges indicated that the ruling was ready but it was in a handwritten format and needed to be typed. This was on Oct 27th and the new ruling date was set to January. He came from very high spirits and quickly went into depression. This has always been the narrative with the court. I was there during the August hearing and they said that they needed to go on leave thus pushing it to the Oct date. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">All this time wives and children and families were without their loved ones - and with no officially permitted visits.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Finally, Zak was my colleague of many years. As for the company I will ask you to listen very carefully on what these families themselves are saying. What I know is that these two companies have spent MILLIONS of shillings going back and forth to Addis and everywhere else they can to find a solution, legal fees, school and family upkeep fees aside to the salaries being paid as usual. There has been a team of lawyers both in Ethiopia and Kenya.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Tomorrow the 19th is Zak's memorial service at the Lutheran Church on Nyerere Rd, starting at 10 AM (see attached map for directions). Afterwards we have also planned a peaceful march to light candles at the Ethiopian embassy - as many as the days that they held him without any charge. (PS: The police have been duly notified).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Anyone that has a means to facilitate that the rest in prison are given a fair trial, please side bar.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">RIP brother Zak. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><img src="cid:ii_iwvxtjsx1_159169f26669faac" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="544" height="408"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_-546285344380681029gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Kevin</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 December 2016 at 08:09, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Tony</div><div id="gmail-m_-546285344380681029m_359545426312261207AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-546285344380681029m_359545426312261207AppleMailSignature">Very good point. Infact I wonder how in the first place did this company or companies accept to do work in a country like Ethiopia without ensuring they have ALL the relevant licenses and government approvals. We all know Ethiopia is one of the most oppressive countries in the world right now. Chasing dollars without enduring you are on the right side of the law is simply criminal. They ought to be charged for reckless endangerment of their employees' lives.</div><span><div id="gmail-m_-546285344380681029m_359545426312261207AppleMailSignature"><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.c<wbr>om/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></span><div><div class="gmail-m_-546285344380681029h5"><div><br>On 18 Dec 2016, at 7:27 AM, Tony White via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><br></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div class="gmail-m_-546285344380681029h5"><span>What I find most disgusting in this case is that they appear to have</span><br><span>been totally abandoned by their employer! It is easy to blame</span><br><span>'serikali', but the employer should have been on the ground with</span><br><span>competent lawyers etc. to resolve this - *not* "we couldn't find the</span><br><span>ambassador" for 2 years!!</span><br><span></span><br><span>RIP Zak.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 17/12/2016, Barrack Otieno via kictanet</span><br><span><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi Ali,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I read the same and i must say it is terrible, the worst bit is that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the Kenyan Ambassador could not be reached to help resolve the problem</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>if this is true somebody needs to go home, we cannot have public</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>servants who cannot help the Kenyan public , it is the epitome of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>arrogance if there is truth in it. It is bad in this day and age for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>public servants to ignore requests from the public, anyone who know</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>this issue well should enlighten us but as an ICT community we must</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>say no to the way this issue appears to be handled in a pedestrian</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>manner with the same breath that we opposed the ICT bill.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We need to join hands and petition the government on this matter.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Justice be our shield and defender May we dwell in unity, Peace and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>liberty, Plenty be found within our borders</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Regards</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12/17/16, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Listers</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Saddest news. It also appears that there are three more Kenyan ICT</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Practitioners who are still languishing in prison in Ethiopia. The main</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>charge is that they are accused of installing communication equipment</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>without a license. Mugo, was arrested with Zak (may the almighty rest his</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>soul in peace) over a year ago and Osborne Otinda with his colleague</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Maxwell</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Odhiambo (according to today's Nation, Page 3) were arrested in October</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>2014</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and are still in jail.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Excerpts:-</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>(Addis Standard) – The body of a Kenyan engineer who died while in an</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ethiopian prison has arrived home on Thursday Dec. 11th.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Zak Muriuki, a father of two girls (pictured) and a tech engineer by</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>profession, arrived in Ethiopia nearly two years ago on January 9, 2015,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>according to information obtained by Addis Standard. He was arrested on</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>January 10 along with another Kenyan, Jadrick Mugo, who is still in</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>prison.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Read on:-</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.ayyaantuu.net/kenyan-tech-engineer-zak-muriuki/" target="_blank">http://www.ayyaantuu.net/kenya<wbr>n-tech-engineer-zak-muriuki/</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>It also appears that the government is doing what it can to get the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Kenyans</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>released.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ali Hussein</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Principal</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hussein & Associates</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>+254 0713 601113</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alih<wbr>kassim</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>what</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from my iPad</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>--</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Barrack O. 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