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December 10, 2011

Where is Dennis Onsarigo and Ali Mohamed?


I am one of the many Kenyans who watched and loved the investigative series on the six-billion- shilling cocaine haul that was caught in Kenya about seven years ago and the succeeding suspected killing of police officers who were involved in the probe.

A story which I must agree was well researched, developed and documented in bounds and leaps.

After several days of screening of the series on KTN, the police came out with guns blazing, threatening of suing the Standard Group- the parent company of KTN.

And it was not just the Standard Group that was under siege, the two brave investigative reporters’ lives were too.
The two reporters' lives took a whole new turn. Not for the better but for the worse.

For the next days, Ali Mohamed and his colleague Denis Onsarigo could not walk, talk, move, eat or do anything like any ordinary people. Their lives had changed. Literally.

The two became ‘Most Wanted’ in Nairobi. Ali realised that he was being followed while he attended class in the Nairobi Campus of Moi University.

The pair is said to have been trailed by unknown people, strange men, an unidentified men, killers on the loose maybe, assassins we don’t know, but certainly they were not the pairs’ friends.

As we speak, the two journalists from Kenya Television Network, is said to have left the country and most predictably hiding in Europe in fear of their security or life or both.

Sources claim that Ali was either headed to a European nation- Norway or the United States.

And when we thought this was all over, there were claims that an editor with Jackal; news blog who broke this story and has been running subsequent stories on the cocaine haul was attacked by dogs in South B- Nairobi.
The men assaulted the editor and threatened to deport him out of Nairobi, a warning implying to kill him if the website continued publishing reports touching on drugs.

I don’t know what you think but it seems that some people are indeed ‘Untouchables’. And it's not just Ali and Onsarigo but anyone who dares to mention cocaine- either in consciously or subconsciously!