BREAKING NEWS: OSEWE’S PASSPORT
ISSUED!!
Just as the signatures hit the 99th mark, I
received news from Mary Musasia, the Public Relations
Officer at the Immigration office in Nairobi that I had been issued with a
brand new Kenyan Passport number 858032. As I write, I have been informed that
the Passport is on its way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for onward
transmission to
The news came as plans by Kenyans in
Once again, I take this opportunity to thank everybody who
has been involved in this campaign. A process that has taken me one and a half
years without results has suddenly been completed in less than 8 working days –
thanks to the campaign. The anger that has been expressed by Kenyans and
friends alike together with the new fronts that were on their way to being
opened over a small issue such as a Passport must have prompted the authorities
in
Politically, the prospect of the issue being raised in Parliament or being picked up by the media could have added an extra and unwanted embarrassment to the government over a petty issue when other bigger issues like the Constitutional crisis, corruption in the government, LDP-NAK crisis, starvation of hundreds of Kenyans across the country and overt tribalism in the government have already deprived Narc of the mass support it enjoyed just before the Moi dictatorship was defeated in December 2002. I wish to thank all those who have shared their tribulations at the Immigration department with me and all those who contacted the Immigration department directly to exert pressure.
I am now happy that I will soon be in
Okoth Osewe
Secretary
Tel: ++46736533068
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So far, 63 signatories have
signed the petition and made lots of good comments. I have been contacted
by the Kenyan Embassy in
Secondly, I have today been contacted by Mary Musasia, the Public Relations Officer at the Immigration
Office in
I have since contacted the Kenyan Embassy in
I have also received several emails from Kenyans and friends attacking the government for frustrating my passport application. Many Kenyans and friends have circulated the petition to their contacts.
A group of Kenyans in
The group also intends to use the Embassy visit to exert
more pressure on the government to streamline work within the Department of
Immigration so that Kenyans can stop going through hell just to get a passport.
The delegation will also seek to establish the exact status of my application
and when the Passport is likely to be issued. I have received many phone calls
from friends in
At least two MPs who have come into contact with my Petition have promised to raise the issue in Parliament and to question what is going on at the corrupt Office of Immigration. One of them has promised that he will follow the issue very closely in the next few days with a view to taking action. Both MPs have promised to take the Vice President to task because the Department of Immigration falls under his docket.
Based on the result so far obtained, the Petition seem to be working quite well and the government is beginning to feel the heat. Bosses at the Immigration are running up and down and after the petition went out, there seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. The government should be ashamed that I had to shout from the roof tops for action to be taken over a petty issue like a Kenyan Passport.
I take this opportunity to thank everybody who is involved in putting pressure on the Kenyan government to act.
Many thanks to Mr. Onyango Oloo in
Okoth Osewe
Secretary
Tel: ++46736533068
website: http://kenyasocialist.org
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