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How CIA, French Intelligence Agency Conspired to Assassinate Thomas Sankara

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On April 6, 2022, Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaorรฉ was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. It  took 35 years for justice to catch up with him for murdering his revolutionary socialist predecessor, Thomas Sankara (the “Che Guevara of Africa”), in a 1987 right-wing military coup.  How  long will justice take to catch up with the CIA and its French intelligence counterpart, the Direction gรฉnรฉrale de la sรฉcuritรฉ extรฉrieure (DGSE), for what appears to have been their part in masterminding or enabling the plot that overthrew and killed Sankara? As young military officers in Burkina Faso during the 1970s and 1980s, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaorรฉ were the best of friends. The two traveled the country playing in a musical band together and Sankara’s parents adopted Compaorรฉ as his parents had died when he was young. In 1983, Sankara and Compaorรฉ launched a coup against Burkina Faso’s military regime by Jean-Baptiste Ouรฉdraog...

Even Stealing Needs Intelligence - Kamanda to Waititu

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Photo: Nominated MP Maina Kamanda (Source/Standard)

Nominated Member of Parliament, Maina Kamanda, delivered an insurmountable revelation on how the former Kiambu Governor, Ferdinand Waititu, failed to pay him Ksh 1 million that he owed him.

The lawmaker charred the reputation of the former county boss, recalling how he had warned Kiambu residents not to vote in Waititu in 2017. He further stated that he had warned Nairobi residents not to elect the impeached Nairobi governor Sonko.

Kamanda got everybody to agree by stating that Waititu approached him during the campaign period, requesting the whopping amount.

Kamanda complained that after Waititu's victory, the former county boss allegedly used proceeds from corruption to amass exclusive properties for himself.

"During the campaigns, that man used to come to me to borrow Ksh1 million, promising he will return it. Even stealing needs intelligence. This man did not have even a little intelligence," he lamented

The Legislature also thanked the county MCAs for initiating impeachment proceedings against Waititu.

"I want to thank the MCAs of Kiambu. You are great, you are like Maina Kamanda. I've met you, especially the group of ten people. We've drunk a lot of tea with that group while planning," Kamanda recalled. 

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