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About the Author
He moved to the UK from Kenya in 1995 and trained as a biomedicalengineer. He saw the problems of communication within the immigrantcommunity he came from – Eastern Africa. He therefore started andbecame the publisher and editor-in-chief of a community magazine –Eastern Africa Magazine – in the UK in 2000.Very little information was published of this African region apartfrom tourism, a gap he set out to fill. Having traveled extensivelyall over Africa including Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and most of Europeamong other countries his work led him to be a co-editor and founderof the Western Africa Magazine.Gakuru is also a TV broadcaster and producer on Ben TV Sky channel198, has run his own show – East Africa radio on Spectrum, is theKenya Broadcasting Co-operation (KBC) representative in the UK andEurope and is also a commentator on BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera amongother international TV and print media.On the social front he has been in the fore-front in raising theprofile of Africa. In 2005 he organized African open day supported byseveral London High commissions in line with Commission for Africa. In2002 he was part of Her Majesty the Queen’s jubilee celebrations wherehe presented the Queen and Prince Philip with pictures of theTree-Tops hotel, Kenya, where they were staying during their honeymoonon the night she became the Queen in 1952. He has also been very muchinvolved in organizing highly profiled visits by Kenyan politicalelite to the UK. He has been voted by Kenyans as the most outstandingKenyan journalist, publisher, broadcaster and writer in the UK in2009. His publication, The Eastern Africa, won the most outstandingKenyan publication in the UK in 2004.Macharia is married with two daughters.
Hallo Ayub ,
I am UK base publisher writter and broadcaster and i have my firstbook out in print this week. please visit www.mumbibooks.com'Deya and the miracle babies' a Biography about Archbishop GilbertDeya who i publishing his books for over 8 yr even before and during theMiracle babies saga.The book is in 4 chapters and each chapter is accompanied withrelevant photographs at the end of each chapter.The book is 284 pages and a size of H 198 x 128 W and 20 mm in thickness.The book looks critically at Deya from his birth place to his days asa shoe trader in Nairobi before becoming a pastor. In the book hetells of his fights with Bishop and other pastors to dominateChristian communityin Kenya, his relationship with former presidents, the currentPrime Minister and how he had to escape Nairobi to the UK.
Thank
Macharia Gakuru.
An extract from the book .....
By Macharia wa Gakuru
It was Thursday 8th January 2009. I went to see Archbishop GilbertDeya in his offices at Ormside Street, Peckham as previously arranged.He was otherwise engaged and asked me to wait. I waited while readingJeffrey Archer’s book-A Prison Diary. After about 45 minutes hefinally he came out, picked up my computer bag and led me into hisoffice.Once we were inside and seated he started, ‘you have became my enemy,how comes you don’t pick up my phone when I call’. ‘I have been busyfinishing your biography’ I replied and added ‘after four years I cannow say it’s done’. ‘I want to see it. Maybe it can help myextradition case. I hope there is nothing much in it about miraclebabies?’ he enquired. ‘Yes there is a full chapter on it’ I replied.‘Then I need to see it. I need to read every word of this book. Do notprint before I read it or else I will sue you.’ He threatened me.‘That’s what I want’, I joked as we looked at each other and laughed.I reminded him of his vow to me in 2003. ‘You vowed: nitakuosha ******mpaka siku ya mwisho maana ulinipeleka kwa Malikia (I will take careof you to the end even if it means washing your bum as you made itpossible for me to meet Her Majesty the Queen). He was referring tothe Queen’s jubilee celebrations which I had helped organise and thishad somehow formed a bond between us. He had milked the occasion tothe core and......
About the Author
He moved to the UK from Kenya in 1995 and trained as a biomedicalengineer. He saw the problems of communication within the immigrantcommunity he came from – Eastern Africa. He therefore started andbecame the publisher and editor-in-chief of a community magazine –Eastern Africa Magazine – in the UK in 2000.Very little information was published of this African region apartfrom tourism, a gap he set out to fill. Having traveled extensivelyall over Africa including Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and most of Europeamong other countries his work led him to be a co-editor and founderof the Western Africa Magazine.Gakuru is also a TV broadcaster and producer on Ben TV Sky channel198, has run his own show – East Africa radio on Spectrum, is theKenya Broadcasting Co-operation (KBC) representative in the UK andEurope and is also a commentator on BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera amongother international TV and print media.On the social front he has been in the fore-front in raising theprofile of Africa. In 2005 he organized African open day supported byseveral London High commissions in line with Commission for Africa. In2002 he was part of Her Majesty the Queen’s jubilee celebrations wherehe presented the Queen and Prince Philip with pictures of theTree-Tops hotel, Kenya, where they were staying during their honeymoonon the night she became the Queen in 1952. He has also been very muchinvolved in organizing highly profiled visits by Kenyan politicalelite to the UK. He has been voted by Kenyans as the most outstandingKenyan journalist, publisher, broadcaster and writer in the UK in2009. His publication, The Eastern Africa, won the most outstandingKenyan publication in the UK in 2004.Macharia is married with two daughters.
For further details please visit www.mumbibooks.com
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This image showing a portion of the San Andreas Fault along the San Francisco Peninsula was taken by the UAVSAR instrument on NASA's Gulfstream III research aircraft. The narrow body of water running diagonally along the fault from upper left to lower right is the Crystal Springs Reservoir, which provides the primary source of water for San Francisco. Image Credit: NASA
No to secret evidence
By Frances Webber
11 June 2009, 4:00pm
The House of Lords' ruling on control orders is a victory for the campaign against secret evidence, but the ruling has yet to be applied to deportations and other areas.
On 10 June, an extraordinary legal odyssey culminated in nine judges at the House of Lords condemning as illegal the system of secret evidence underpinning control orders. The Lords affirmed that the subject of such orders must be given enough information to be able to respond, in accordance with basic principles of fairness.
The appellants, known by their initials, AE, AF and AN, are three young Muslim men (one British national, one Iraqi, one dual British/Libyan national) who in 2006 and 2007 were suspected by the Home Office of being involved in terrorism on the basis of trips they had made or sought to make to the Middle East. Each was made the subject of a control order. In some cases they were forced to move away from family and friends to a different town. All were made to wear electronic tags, to observe a curfew of up to 16 hours a day and, during their 'free' time, to remain within a clearly demarcated zone. All were subjected to severe reporting conditions, to a ban on the use of mobile phones or computers, and to tight restrictions on visitors and those they could meet outside their homes. Yet none was given details of what it was they were alleged to have done which would justify such draconian measures. They were subjected to the system of secret evidence whereby only a government-appointed Special Advocate saw the 'closed' evidence and could question the security services on it - but could not show it or discuss it with the suspected person. The government has ignored its anti-terrorism overseer Lord Carlile's recommendation that control orders should never last for more than two years, and some men have been under a control order for over three years - including Mahmoud Abu Rideh, the stateless Palestinian refugee who was also held in Belmarsh prison for three years before internment was ruled illegal.
A legal battle against the use of the secret evidence resulted in a ruling by five House of Lords judges, led by Lord Bingham, in 2007, that the men's control order hearings had to be fair. But the judgments disagreed with one another and were unclear about what this meant, and so the men, one of whom, AN, was by this time in Belmarsh prison on an allegation of breaching his control order, had to start the legal process all over again. Fortunately, in February 2009 the European Court of Human Rights denounced the use of secret evidence to justify detention, holding that national security detainees had to know enough of the allegation against them to be able to answer it. When the House of Lords came to hear the men's appeal again, they were forced to follow the European Court's lead. In fact, the Lords did not outlaw secret evidence, but secret allegations which they ruled out of bounds.
The Coalition Against Secret Evidence (CASE), a campaign set up in March 2009, welcomed the judgment, but pointed out that secret evidence is still used to justify deportation, and to refuse or revoke citizenship - situations where the European Court ruling has been held not to apply.
On the same day as the Lords' judgment, the legal group JUSTICE published a major 241-page report describing the ways in which the use of secret evidence has spread over the past decade, and concludes that 'secret evidence is unreliable, unfair, undemocratic, unnecessary and damaging to both national security and the integrity of Britain's courts.'
Diane Abbott MP applauded the Lords' ruling and called on the Prime Minister to begin his programme of democratic renewal 'by reviewing the use of secret evidence and the whole control order regime'.
All Michael Jackson videos
Video: Some of Michael Jackson's most famous songs
Video: Michael Jackson's body taken for autopsy
Video: Michael Jackson's weird and wonderful life
Video: Uri Geller reacts to the news of Michael Jackson's death
Video: Motown founder Berry Gordy remembers Michael Jackson
Video: Michael Jackson's US fans mourn his death
About the Author
He moved to the UK from Kenya in 1995 and trained as a biomedicalengineer. He saw the problems of communication within the immigrantcommunity he came from – Eastern Africa. He therefore started andbecame the publisher and editor-in-chief of a community magazine –Eastern Africa Magazine – in the UK in 2000.Very little information was published of this African region apartfrom tourism, a gap he set out to fill. Having traveled extensivelyall over Africa including Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and most of Europeamong other countries his work led him to be a co-editor and founderof the Western Africa Magazine.Gakuru is also a TV broadcaster and producer on Ben TV Sky channel198, has run his own show – East Africa radio on Spectrum, is theKenya Broadcasting Co-operation (KBC) representative in the UK andEurope and is also a commentator on BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera amongother international TV and print media.On the social front he has been in the fore-front in raising theprofile of Africa. In 2005 he organized African open day supported byseveral London High commissions in line with Commission for Africa. In2002 he was part of Her Majesty the Queen’s jubilee celebrations wherehe presented the Queen and Prince Philip with pictures of theTree-Tops hotel, Kenya, where they were staying during their honeymoonon the night she became the Queen in 1952. He has also been very muchinvolved in organizing highly profiled visits by Kenyan politicalelite to the UK. He has been voted by Kenyans as the most outstandingKenyan journalist, publisher, broadcaster and writer in the UK in2009. His publication, The Eastern Africa, won the most outstandingKenyan publication in the UK in 2004.Macharia is married with two daughters.
Hallo Ayub ,I am UK base publisher writter and broadcaster and i have my firstbook out in print this week. please visit www.mumbibooks.com'Deya and the miracle babies' a Biography about Archbishop GilbertDeya who i publishing his books for over 8 yr even before and during theMiracle babies saga.The book is in 4 chapters and each chapter is accompanied withrelevant photographs at the end of each chapter.The book is 284 pages and a size of H 198 x 128 W and 20 mm in thickness.The book looks critically at Deya from his birth place to his days asa shoe trader in Nairobi before becoming a pastor. In the book hetells of his fights with Bishop and other pastors to dominateChristian communityin Kenya, his relationship with former presidents, the currentPrime Minister and how he had to escape Nairobi to the UK.
Thank
Macharia Gakuru.
An extract from the book .....By Macharia wa Gakuru
It was Thursday 8th January 2009. I went to see Archbishop GilbertDeya in his offices at Ormside Street, Peckham as previously arranged.He was otherwise engaged and asked me to wait. I waited while readingJeffrey Archer’s book-A Prison Diary. After about 45 minutes hefinally he came out, picked up my computer bag and led me into hisoffice.Once we were inside and seated he started, ‘you have became my enemy,how comes you don’t pick up my phone when I call’. ‘I have been busyfinishing your biography’ I replied and added ‘after four years I cannow say it’s done’. ‘I want to see it. Maybe it can help myextradition case. I hope there is nothing much in it about miraclebabies?’ he enquired. ‘Yes there is a full chapter on it’ I replied.‘Then I need to see it. I need to read every word of this book. Do notprint before I read it or else I will sue you.’ He threatened me.‘That’s what I want’, I joked as we looked at each other and laughed.I reminded him of his vow to me in 2003. ‘You vowed: nitakuosha ******mpaka siku ya mwisho maana ulinipeleka kwa Malikia (I will take careof you to the end even if it means washing your bum as you made itpossible for me to meet Her Majesty the Queen). He was referring tothe Queen’s jubilee celebrations which I had helped organise and thishad somehow formed a bond between us. He had milked the occasion tothe core and......
About the AuthorHe moved to the UK from Kenya in 1995 and trained as a biomedicalengineer. He saw the problems of communication within the immigrantcommunity he came from – Eastern Africa. He therefore started andbecame the publisher and editor-in-chief of a community magazine –Eastern Africa Magazine – in the UK in 2000.Very little information was published of this African region apartfrom tourism, a gap he set out to fill. Having traveled extensivelyall over Africa including Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and most of Europeamong other countries his work led him to be a co-editor and founderof the Western Africa Magazine.Gakuru is also a TV broadcaster and producer on Ben TV Sky channel198, has run his own show – East Africa radio on Spectrum, is theKenya Broadcasting Co-operation (KBC) representative in the UK andEurope and is also a commentator on BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera amongother international TV and print media.On the social front he has been in the fore-front in raising theprofile of Africa. In 2005 he organized African open day supported byseveral London High commissions in line with Commission for Africa. In2002 he was part of Her Majesty the Queen’s jubilee celebrations wherehe presented the Queen and Prince Philip with pictures of theTree-Tops hotel, Kenya, where they were staying during their honeymoonon the night she became the Queen in 1952. He has also been very muchinvolved in organizing highly profiled visits by Kenyan politicalelite to the UK. He has been voted by Kenyans as the most outstandingKenyan journalist, publisher, broadcaster and writer in the UK in2009. His publication, The Eastern Africa, won the most outstandingKenyan publication in the UK in 2004.Macharia is married with two daughters.
For further details please visit www.mumbibooks.com
NASA Gives California's San Andreas Fault a 3-D CloseupThis image showing a portion of the San Andreas Fault along the San Francisco Peninsula was taken by the UAVSAR instrument on NASA's Gulfstream III research aircraft. The narrow body of water running diagonally along the fault from upper left to lower right is the Crystal Springs Reservoir, which provides the primary source of water for San Francisco. Image Credit: NASA
No to secret evidence
By Frances Webber
11 June 2009, 4:00pm
The House of Lords' ruling on control orders is a victory for the campaign against secret evidence, but the ruling has yet to be applied to deportations and other areas.
On 10 June, an extraordinary legal odyssey culminated in nine judges at the House of Lords condemning as illegal the system of secret evidence underpinning control orders. The Lords affirmed that the subject of such orders must be given enough information to be able to respond, in accordance with basic principles of fairness.
The appellants, known by their initials, AE, AF and AN, are three young Muslim men (one British national, one Iraqi, one dual British/Libyan national) who in 2006 and 2007 were suspected by the Home Office of being involved in terrorism on the basis of trips they had made or sought to make to the Middle East. Each was made the subject of a control order. In some cases they were forced to move away from family and friends to a different town. All were made to wear electronic tags, to observe a curfew of up to 16 hours a day and, during their 'free' time, to remain within a clearly demarcated zone. All were subjected to severe reporting conditions, to a ban on the use of mobile phones or computers, and to tight restrictions on visitors and those they could meet outside their homes. Yet none was given details of what it was they were alleged to have done which would justify such draconian measures. They were subjected to the system of secret evidence whereby only a government-appointed Special Advocate saw the 'closed' evidence and could question the security services on it - but could not show it or discuss it with the suspected person. The government has ignored its anti-terrorism overseer Lord Carlile's recommendation that control orders should never last for more than two years, and some men have been under a control order for over three years - including Mahmoud Abu Rideh, the stateless Palestinian refugee who was also held in Belmarsh prison for three years before internment was ruled illegal.
A legal battle against the use of the secret evidence resulted in a ruling by five House of Lords judges, led by Lord Bingham, in 2007, that the men's control order hearings had to be fair. But the judgments disagreed with one another and were unclear about what this meant, and so the men, one of whom, AN, was by this time in Belmarsh prison on an allegation of breaching his control order, had to start the legal process all over again. Fortunately, in February 2009 the European Court of Human Rights denounced the use of secret evidence to justify detention, holding that national security detainees had to know enough of the allegation against them to be able to answer it. When the House of Lords came to hear the men's appeal again, they were forced to follow the European Court's lead. In fact, the Lords did not outlaw secret evidence, but secret allegations which they ruled out of bounds.
The Coalition Against Secret Evidence (CASE), a campaign set up in March 2009, welcomed the judgment, but pointed out that secret evidence is still used to justify deportation, and to refuse or revoke citizenship - situations where the European Court ruling has been held not to apply.
On the same day as the Lords' judgment, the legal group JUSTICE published a major 241-page report describing the ways in which the use of secret evidence has spread over the past decade, and concludes that 'secret evidence is unreliable, unfair, undemocratic, unnecessary and damaging to both national security and the integrity of Britain's courts.'
Diane Abbott MP applauded the Lords' ruling and called on the Prime Minister to begin his programme of democratic renewal 'by reviewing the use of secret evidence and the whole control order regime'.
