NAZLIN AGITATED FOR POLITICAL CHANGE AND REFORMS TOWARDS A TRUE DEMOCRATIC STATE UPHOLDING MULTI-PARTY RULE in the long tedious movement that eventually culminated in the former president Kibaki’s installation as the president of Kenya and the historical handing over of power by the former retired President Hon. Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi to the Hon. President Emilio Kibaki, albeit in a wheelchair and attended the said occasion, seated on the main podium as one of the many patriots who had struggled in the political force together with the Late Hon. Minister of Labour Alhaj Ahmed Khalif who died in the unfortunate Busia plane Crash soon thereafter, that bore the fruits of the said occasion and indeed witnessed the handing over of power and installation of the president in the most vibrant, emotive, highly-strung, passionate and uncontrollable mass public dynamism and hysteria at Uhuru park in 2002, ever witnessed in the recent history of our Nation. Infact the public was chanting anti Moi slogans throwing stones at him which hit many people including Nazlin and everyone else who included heads of missions, ambassadors and others were feeling panicked as the security was insufficient and unable to control the massive violent crowd that had broken the security barriers and were pushing against the podium. Nazlin found it most distasteful that the Hon. former president had to face such humiliation and violence and no-one was even attempting to calm the crowd, yet he had the courage to face such hostility and massive crowd and did so with dignity, decorum and great show of tolerance and discipline which he could have opted to avoid and host the handover ceremony safe within the state-house grounds instead. Nazlin reached out and tugged at the Hon. Raila Odinga’s shoulder as he was seated two rows ahead and told him that this was not acceptable and must calm the crowd to stop the violence and insults. He sat down contemplating what to do but his colleagues next to him were telling him not to stop the crowd but let the Hon. President suffer the humiliation and pelting of stones alleging that he deserved it. Nazlin could not tolerate that indignity and abuse and reached out for the Hon. Raila Odinga again and told him that he should not listen to his colleagues and must stand up, calm and stop the crowd who would listen to him and if he wasn’t going to do so she would have to risk getting hit by more stones and would go to the front of the podium and do so herself. The hon, Raila Odinga gave heed to her request to him and indeed stood up and calmed the crowd.
Nazlin was heavily captured in the main stream media in mobilizing for change and critiquing the government on various human rights issues, democracy and the role of women.
NAZLIN HAS BEEN IN THE FOREFRONT AND DEEPLY ENTWINED IN THE CONSTITUTION MAKING, DRIVE FOR A NEW PEOPLE SPIRITED, PEOPLE DRIVEN CONSTITUTION PROCESS FROM ABOUT THE YEAR 2000 AND THE CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM 2005 AND AGAIN 2010 AND TO-DATE:
Nazlin has been deeply entwined it its intricacies, political and stakeholders complexities, interests of the nation and passion for good governance which we cannot achieve unless we have in place strong vibrant enabling laws and apolitical class that has goodwill to selflessly implement and execute these laws and such Laws should not have gaps for mischief but to the point, non-nonsensical, tough and dignified which can and will cleanse the entire political system of impunity and failed leadership and forge a clear-cut, strict and straight path for renewed vibrant visionary leadership with integrity, thus creating the necessary enabling environment for its full implementation, opening great doors at last, for the speedy growth, peace, prosperity, development and cohesion of our great Nation, its citizenry and posterity to come. Nazlin found just a few newspaper articles covered on some of her earliest roles in this process of constitution making which initiated the Bomas process and the CKRC and during 2002 general elections.
Nazlin made history and carved her niche in the political, religious and leadership landscape in Kenya in her formidable crucial historical opposition role in the 2005 constitutional referendum in Kenya in which she was the lead female luminary in the forefront with other members of the then opposition Orange movement which was later registered as a party with the President of the Republic of Kenya, his Excellency, Hon Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the Deputy President, Hon William Samoei Ruto, the former Prime Minister, Hon Raila Amollo Odinga, the former Vice President, Hon Kalonzo Musyoka, and other prominent Kenyans and in which she was the founder member number one. In this drive of the Orange movements opposition in the 2005 referendum, Nazlin was the lead speaker and also with the entire press through interviews and talk shows to disseminate the opposition Orange teams issues against the Bill and her acumen and articulacy on the now retired constitution, the unpopular proposed draft constitution, the Bomas draft which was initially a public driven process but hijacked by the then government and an ideal expectation of the peoples constitution and also played a crucial role in the mobilization of the Muslim populace and the mass public in the rejection of the government sponsored and propelled unpopular proposed constitution Bill – which had been propelled after she paid for a full page advertisement in a leading daily newspaper on the ills and dangers of the entire proposed constitution and mobilizing the nation to vote a big NO! in the referendum. SHE WAS PART OF THE LEADING OPPOSITION THAT TRANSCENDED THE ENTIRE NATION WITH MAMOTH RALLIES IN OPPOSITION OF THE UNPOPULAR BILL AND RENDERED IT A LANDSLIDE DEFEAT.
Nazlin has spearheaded- through the NMCK, the Constitutional review process amongst the Muslim community in Kenya, also becoming the Voice of all women in Kenya regardless of religion, representing the grassroots in extensive campaigns through-out Kenya through its NUR network culminating in sensitizing Kenyans on the Constitution making process in Kenya, networking, mobilizing and leading a resounding win by the Kenyan citizens against the governments propelled unpopular constitution Bill in the two referenda held in Kenya in 2005 and 2010 and further strengthen the roles of Muslim women in Kenya who also partook in the mobilization and actual running for elected offices from the location levels all the way to the presidency of the republic of Kenya.
Amidst serious threats to her life and threats facing arrest severally, Nazlin publicly and very vocally supported and spearheaded the historical constitutional debate and referendum campaign throughout Kenya representing the Muslim population that number over 10 million and all the women of Kenya in general, numbering an approximate 16 million, as a luminary in the popular Orange Democratic movement (ODM) that won a resounding win against an unpopular government and unpopular government driven constitution Bill IN 2004-2005. The popular ODM was believed by the majority of Kenyans in being the vehicle that could bring Kenyans to a true political and democratic dispensation order and Nazlin’s tireless and selfless efforts are well enshrined in the history of Kenya. Her journey with the referendum debate in Kenya started as being on of the first leaders to voice a big No, through the media in public, to the unpopular government driven Wako Bill as early as August 2005 followed by a full page supplement she bought in the Local Sunday Nation – the largest selling newspaper in Kenya, where she gave a critical analysis of the unpopular Bill and made her stand on a NO to the Bill – The first Kenyan leader to do so.
In 2004 Nazlin was in the forefront rejecting the said government proposed constitutional draft Bill through mass mobilization of women, the Muslim Community, leaders and the general public through press conferences, a full page paid for supplement on the ills of the said Bill written, published by her through the National Muslim Council of Kenya banner, public fora, demonstrations, rallies and public meetings canvassing Nairobi and coast provinces and which were well highlighted by the Press/media. Her platforms, capacity, accomplishments and plans including her said aggressive campaign against the said draft Bill apparently impressed the Hon. Raila Odinga who was the opposition leader and Minister of Roads and public service at the time and fortified by the supreme roles and mandates he offered me, we decided to pool our energies together to further our ideologies for the Nation which culminated into the well-known popularized public political union that fused the two of us together in a powerful political opposition force to contend with in 2004. Being its sole leading female luminary gained another name from the masses as ‘Mama Orange’ and the founders of the initial core team that pulled in other leaders and the mass public to join our popular ‘orange movement’ as we canvassed the entire nation together and I had the role of speaking for the opposition force in most press/media news interviews and talk shows, our massive public rallies throughout the Nation as one of the leading speakers in opposition to the government and opposing the government’s proposed draft constitution Bill while furthering our cause as the orange team because of her vocalness, popularity with the masses, history as a human rights defender, her willingness to put her head in the lions mouth so to speak for public interest, her articulacy and oratory skills on all public, national and opposition issues, grasp of the unpopular Bill, knowledge and history of the entire constitutional review process for Kenya and what Kenyans needed in a constitution and its leadership. These included our rallies at the Nyayo Stadium and several at Uhuru Park in support of the media houses and press freedom after the infamous government raid on the standard group and her very vocal speech during this rally and earlier with the honorable Raila Odinga outside the Standard offices at the I&M building in the CBD amongst many other throughout the Nation.
KICC NIGHT VIGIL; Nazlin has further traversed the localities bringing calm to hot-spots and the dissenting voices and troubled gathering during the vote count spots literally saving senior police officers from wrath of the public and vice versa saving the public from the wrath of the police including her all-night vigil and tallying of votes at the KICC during the vote count, the winning gathering of thousands of people at the KICC to support us in our landslide victory and the finale celebratory thanksgiving massive public rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi not to forget the full page article written and published by herself through the National Muslim Council of Kenya in the mainstream newspapers to advice Kenya against the said government proposed constitution Bill on its ills, shortfalls and mischief and what this portended for the nation on two occasions during both the constitutional referenda in 2005 and again in 2010.
Thus she played a tremendous leading role as a founding frontline runner and sole female luminary of the opposition force in the rejection of the government proposed daft constitution Bill long prior to and during the 1st Constitutional referenda held in 2005 resounding a landslide humiliating defeat to the government and that gave ride to the entire opposition, save for Nazlin, became part of the Coalition government in the positions of Prime Minister, two deputy Prime Ministers, the vice president, speaker of the National assembly and deputy speaker, top officers of the judiciary, several ministers and assistant ministers and national security organs as well as heads of foreign missions. Nazlin is well known to have vehemently and publicly opposed and riddled what she verily believe to be an illegal coalition imposed upon the people, founded as a result of orchestrated violence, genocide and murder of innocent civilians and bring the Country to its knees just so as to craft a power sharing formula in a so-called ‘National Accord’, which system proved to have failed Kenyans.
KENYA – CONSTITUTIONAL MAKING PROCESS AND REFERENDUM 2010; Nazlin was once again in the forefront of the constitution making this time in 2010, again the sole female leader and sole Muslim leader in the forefront and on a light a candle peaceful mission, transversed the Nation in outreach to leaders and the masses, mobilized the media and published a full page paid for expose on the dangers hidden within this new constitution and what it portended for the Nation urging the masses to vote a big NO! in the referendum which article was titled, the proposed constitution; the hidden truth published in the Sunday Standard on July 18th 2010 which raised great public appreciation at her efforts in highlighting the dangers of the proposed constitution and received overwhelming response from Kenyans and the world over. Save for joining a prayer meeting with other faiths in solidarity at the Uhuru Park Nazlin only joined hands with the former President and not as part of the NO team or secretariat but independent and in the interests of both sides of the political divide and not for any other purpose save that her approach was issue oriented, focused on sensitization, outreach and education with overall tones of tolerance and peaceful dignified non-confrontational process which I felt he too had in common with me. The retired Presidents rally which she joined him in Suswa, rift valley which was heavily covered by the press.
Prior to Nazlin has crisscrossed the entire nation with over 40 rallies and meet the people tours starting with a massive public rally held in her honor in Kisumu at the Jomo Kenyatta sports ground in Kisumu where the public pressed upon her to declare her interest and run for the presidency of Kenya. She has campaigned throughout Nyanza endorsed by all the topmost Muslim leadership as the Candidate for the block Muslim vote which endorsement was quickly adopted throughout the Nation by leading Muslim Clerics and which were heavily captured by the press.
She is very loved by the people of Kenya as well as in Nyanza – a political hot-sport, as she has taken uncountable development projects throughout the grassroots and condensed her projects on HIV/AIDS as Nyanza is the hardest hit of this pandemic and determined to serve the people as their president, which he openly exhibited riled and agitated him to no end. And feeling the irreplaceable vacuum her absence and opposition caused to his campaign he once told her that he would never let Nazlin reach the ballot for presidency nor any elective seat and that she was finished without him. But she couldn’t allow herself to be intimidated as she was carrying a heavy burden on her back of the promises she had made to the people, public trust and confidence in me and her vision, of hailing from a minority community, oppressive gender imbalances suffered by women since creation embedded in negative cultural and social norms delegating the female to humiliating, degrading and inferior lessor roles and having struggled through all these barriers and broken them to improve and create dignified space for women throughout the world with the will of the Almighty God as the one he had chosen to be the role model emulated, celebrated and respected throughout the world she had to brace herself of his intimidation and anger for the sake of womankind, her sisters, daughters and posterity to come and continue soldiering on and clear the un-trodden path of all thorns to ease their journey who would follow behind. So fortified with such weighty responsibilities, spiritual enlightenment and massive public support as the peoples project named “president wa mtaa”, against all the odds he placed in her path and which he did, she made it to the ballot as the sole female candidate in the disputed general election 2007 and the first Muslim woman to vie for presidency in Africa.
NAZLIN HAS ALSO BEEN A MEMBER AND OR RESOURCE PERSON, FOUNDER AND OR EDITOR OF NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH, KENYA NATIONAL COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS, THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, THE GJLOSS PROGRAMME, AN INITIAL PROPONENT OF THE FORMULATION AND MANDATE OF THE TRUTH, JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION IN KENYA, AMONGST OTHERS IN KENYA AND CRITICALLY INVOLVED IN THE FOLLOWING POLICY AGENDAS:
- A founding proponent for the formulation of the truth, justice and reconciliation commission of Kenya
- A founding proponent for the establishment of the National Commission of Human Rights in Kenya
- Key member of the gender and HIV/AIDS sub-committee (TSG); The National AIDS Control Council, Office of the President and member of its editorial task-force
- The Joint Aids Programme review (JAPR) of Kenya, NACC, Office of the President
- Former vice Chair, Steering committee member and a member of the taskforce to establish and Institutionalize the Kenya Inter – religious AIDS consortium (KIRAC), National AIDS control Council, Office of the President
- The Ministry of Health steering committee of collaboration between religious leaders and health
- The National steering committee on VCT, voluntary counseling and testing, National AIDS and STD’s control programme (NASCOP), Ministry of Health
- The National FGM campaigns
- The Ministry of Home Affairs National Committee for children, the policy and Advocacy Committee, under the chairmanship of the late former Vice President of the republic of Kenya, Hon. Prof. George Saitoti, which realized the children’s Bill 2002
- The stakeholders task force established by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) to oversee the implementation of the Truth Justice and reconciliation commission (TJRC) in Kenya.
- The stakeholders Task Force on Police reforms on accountability in Kenya based at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHCR), on the police accountability committee.
- She was a key member of the technical committee and the final editorial team which developed the Mainstreaming Gender into the Kenya National AIDS strategic plan of the Government of Kenya and also the ‘popular version’ and posters of the same, as an expert under the auspices of the National AIDS control council of Kenya representing the Muslim community in Kenya, gender and women.
- She was a key member of the technical committee and the final editorial team which developed the “Gender and HIV/AIDS curriculum for Kenya and a Tool Kit for leaders” as an expert under the auspices of the National AIDS control council of Kenya supported through the policy project – USAID-futures group representing the Muslim community in Kenya and gender and women
- Member of the organizing committee of the 14th ICASA (International conference on AIDS and STD’s in Africa) held in Kenya in 2003, under the auspices of the National Aids control council and the minister Hon. Chris Murungaru.
- The Joint AIDS programme review 1 (JAPR 1)as the Muslim representative and women/gender rights specialist under the auspices of the National AIDS control council
- The Joint AIDS programme review 1 (JAPR 2)as the Muslim representative and women/gender rights specialist under the auspices of the National AIDS control council
- The Joint AIDS programme review 1 (JAPR 3)as the Muslim representative and women/gender rights specialist under the auspices of the National AIDS control council
- Key task-force member of USAID’s PEPFAR (president’s emergency plan for Africa AIDS relief fund) programme- HIV/AIDS strategic priority for action Plan for 05 years.
NAZLIN HAS BEEN KEY IN THE FORMATION OF THE FOLLOWING BILLS IN KENYA AND TO ENSURE THE CRITIQUE OF THE SAME WHERE THERE WAS A CONFLICT OF THE BELIEFS AND RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE SAME
- The Children Bill
- The Domestic Violence Bill
- The Affirmative Action Bill
- The Equality Bill 2000 (opposed until ammendents were made)
- The Sexual offenses Bill 2006 in Kenya (opposed until ammendments were made)
- And worldwide: The Kenyan Women’s property rights report by the Human Rights Watch International, U. S. A.
CONTINUING HER STRUGGLES FOR TRUE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY AND HER WATCHDOS ROLES AGAINST THE STATE, STATE OFFICERS AND IMPUNITY ADVOCATING FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTION DISPENSATION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN KENYA;
Further to her roles in the constitution making process, she has systematically filed constitutional petitions on the above which are as follows.
· Constitution petition number 6 of 2010 before the independent interim constitution dispute resolution courts which was based at the KICC specially created prior to the promulgation any issues arising out of the process of constitution making and her case was heavily covered by the press in public hearing before a bench of five Judges. Unfortunately the proposed constitution was promulgated and state officers swore the wrong oaths, just as she had predicted in her petition no.6 before the IICDRC as aforesaid
· This caused her to file a historical constitutional petition on the entire constitution number 84 of 2010 so that the courts may be opportuned to interpret and address dangerous anomalies, gaps, contradictions and vacuums in the new constitution which is being frustrated from hearing by the present Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, hence filing an amended petition 306 of 2011 ( a whistleblowing expose) against top officers of the state which include the chief justice, the director of criminal investigations, the director of public prosecutions, the former commissioner of police, the former president, the former prime minister Raila Odinga, seeking their removal from office, wjich the Chief justice has also frustrated the hearing of.
NAZLINS WATCHDOG ROLE AGAINST IMPUNITY, ABUSE OF OFFICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, NEPOTISM AND GROSS CORRUPTION AS THE VOICE OF THE MASSES IN KENYA AND THE WORLD ON CRUCIAL MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST AND THE RIGHTS OF THE MAJORITY; IN DEFENCE OF INNOCENT AND OPPRESSED INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES, a few incidences of Nazlin’s interventions are as follows;
- Nazlin with has led several peaceful demonstrations and advocated against the Kenyan governments silence on the Israeli brutality against the Palestinians calling for an end of cruelty and massacre of children, women and civilians and Israeli occupation in support of Palestine.
- Nazlin brought to the fore, breaking the silence on decades of atrocities of rape and abuse of Samburu and Maasai women by British soldiers near their bases in Kenya. Nazlin led the women and the children born out of rape in the forefront on a peaceful demonstration on Nairobi streets ending at the British High commission in Nairobi. The petition was filed in London and the British legal system found that the women shoUld be compensated by the British government.
- Bringing calm and peace in Kenya while at the KICC during the period of curfew in Kenya after the 2007 general election and calling for the ECK chairman not to declare the winner as there was overwhelming evidence that the election had been rigged. This was on live TV and saved the day as the ODM members were highly aggressive and had ambushed the high table and cornered the chairman. Nazlin’s role brought peace, tranquility, sanity and calm into the tallying hall and the nation at large.
- Nazlin supported the present president of the republic of Kenya his Excellency hon Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta together with other opposition colleagues which included the former vice president Kalonzo Musyoka in the fore during a peaceful rally held by them as opposition colleagues at Uhuru park in Nairobi but which was disrupted and broken by armed combat security and GSU personnel when his party KANU was being hijacked while he was chairman and unlawfully registered to others by the then government, the rally at Uhuru park was broken up by armed GSU and army which climaxed into state and police brutality as they were blocked from escape, ambushed and attacked from all sides by armed GSU and army battalions outside parliament and Nazlin was cornered and marked with three tear gas canisters, one hitting her directly on her hip causing her to collapse and black out until she was later rescued and carried away by her daughter while unconscious and had to be resuscitated. She was interviewd by world press and this incident became sensational news.
- The illegal raid on standard group media house by the government and the mamoth opposition orange rally at uhuru park and my speech in supprt of freedomof press and the media houses which had been raided and siezed.
- The all night vigil at kicc and rescue of the police at kamkunji during the night tallying of the votes in the referendum
- In the forefront of defense of innocent musilms arbitrarily and maliciously charged for terrorism, their innocent families up until they were released as having been found not guilty.
- Speaking against the mistreatment of innocent muslim who was beaten and mistreated after a bomb was detonated on him by police officers to frame him of terrorist charges.
- Nazlin visited the Kisumu district hospital mortuary with her colleagues in the opposition being hon. Raila Odinga, hon. Kalonzo Musyoka and others in the incidence of police brutality against Kisumu residents supporting the opposition which incident including a school boy shot at close range in his back while he was fleeing for his life from the police and whose body was dressed in school uniform during protests by the public on the then opposition roles in the constitution making process–during a period of insecurity and police brutality and visited the patients who had suffered serious beatings and survived bullet wounds from the police. While viewing the boy’s body to witness police brutality, Nazlin turned the poor lifeless boy’s body to evidence the entry point of the bullet into his body and how it burst out from his abdomen. Nazlin called for the resignation of the commissioner of police and a result of this brutality and questioned the president Kibaki’s orders to the police force on the use of live bullets to calm peaceful demonstrators and kill innocent children which was heavily captured by the press.
- Another insecurity incident Nazlin was involved in which occurred in Nyanza province in Kisumu where police attacked innocent Muslims in Manyatta Arab slums in Kisumu and threw teargas into a home which was mourning the death of their son and where a funeral was in process and carted away family members and neighbor-hood youth of the deceased whose body was left unattended save for an elderly wailing grandmother who suffered the impact of the tear gas – the local people called Nazlin who was in Kisumu conducting training and workshops on HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination. Nazlin rushed to the call with the press and the public and was informed her the reason as being that a rich man had fenced off part of public property which housed the local youth group offices against court orders so the youth tore-down the fencing but the police were allegedly compromised to oppress the slum Villagers in favor of the rich man. Determined to fight injustice, Nazlin led the people and stormed the local police station which was surrounded by armed combat GSU personnel who had been informed of her visit. Regardless to the risk of serious police beating and arrest, Nazlin faced the armed combat security force and the officer commanding police station came out to meet her and Nazlin called for peace and out of respect for her popular roles he invited her into the police station with community leaders and Nazlin negotiated and won the immediate release of all the innocent prisoners and came out of the police station with them amidst the roar of the frenzied crowd overwhelmed with passion and love for her role in defending public interest and spearheading their cause and ensuring the release of their colleagues and boys.
Ø SPEARHEADING CALLS FOR INVOLVEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS, THE HAGUE: Nazlin has been in the very forefront in support of the International Criminal Courts at the Hague for the main and true perpetrators of the post general elections violence, mayhem and genocide suffered by the nation after the 2007 general elections and have been profiled in many television shows such as on K24’s Capital Talk with Jeff Kionange, news coverage and newspaper Articles authored by herself such as in the standard newspaper and in her petitions sent to the two principles in the country being the prime minister Raila Odinga as the main perpetrators of the crimes of the post-election violence and mayhem that saw levels of genocide and crimes against humanity as the main perpetrators to resign from government and further to be charged at the Hague and not the scape-goats who were charged at the Hague.
Nazlin mobilized world authorities and world leaders on this which include the atrocities and persecution she was suffering in the hands of the state and she verily believes is instigated by the former Prime minister after a fallout in Korea and sought their resignations and that a public tribunal be set up to hear her complaints against them and remove them from office but in vain. She spearheaded this cause, demanding that both these principles must take responsibility for the violence and genocide that rocked our nation and not just their foot soldiers and lieutenants as they were the commanders of the armies that acted in their interests and under their commands and must resign from government, in-fact I called for a dissolution of parliament or a transitional government to be set up as the nation prepared for another election while they headed to the Hague to face the Law and the consequences of their actions and failed leadership. BUT sadly the international criminal courts have opted be advised by the guilty, then in power, to persecute scape-goats while the real perpetrator who brought the country down on its needs to negotiate a power sharing formula was left free. But prior to the general elections march 2013 in Kenya, Nazlin has already petitioned the International criminal courts at the Hague in a broad dimensional process of advocating for the true culprits to be incriminated and the innocent exonerated with the evidence she is willing and ready to adduce.
Nazlin was very vocal on the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US and other forces and was heavily quoted by international press and her roles published.
Nazlin also agitated for the release of Kenyan hostages held in Iraq in august 2004 and represented the family of one Jalal Awadh and other Kenyans when they were taken as hostages and was on the front cover of the Daily Nation and other newspapers and headline news with his wife and children.
Nazlin defended a Kenyan citizen Khalif Abdi Hussein who unlawfully arrested and detained in Malawi on false allegations of terrorist links and who was shuffled between Malawi, Zimbabwe and the Sudan by foreign security forces and because of the media pressure applied by Nazlin, finally released and returned home end of July 2003.
The golden berg saga in Kenya; Nazlin blew the whistle on the state and ensured the chief witness/alleged architect of the mega scandal was brought before the golden berg commission to testify and expose state and public officers involved; exposing the state for pressing false charges of murders upon the alleged chief architect of the mega Goldenberg scandal kamlesh patni so as to keep him incarcerated and as to hide the state officers involved and also spearheaded the release of the main suspect of the golden berg saga and ensured he be brought to the golden berg commission as the chief witness/suspect to testify and start the process for arrests and charges in court of all the players in the mega financial scam.
Defending all innocent Muslims, Islamic clerics and victims of state/police persecution and oppression of Muslims and their wives and families when they are maliciously and wrongfully arrested, detained and taken away to foreign jurisdiction amidst false and trumped up charges of terrorism. Nazlin has represented the families and agitated their release same until all of them have been released as they were found innocent and she has been profiled in headline news on the same on numerous occassions.
NAZLINS PROPER APLICATION BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT AND THE COURTS VIOLATION AND DENIAL OF ACCESS TO JUSTICE TO NAZLIN DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2013 AND WHY NAZLIN WAS MALICIOUSLY BARRED TO HER RIGHT ON THE BALLOT TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, WHY THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE DENIED HER A HEARING OF HER DULY FILED AND LODGED APPLICATION BEFORE COURT ON THE 23RD OF MARCH 2013 AND GIVEN A HEARING DATE BY THE REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE 25TH OF MARCH 2013 ON OPPOSING THE ELECTORAL PETITION BY THE HON RAILA ODINGA (CORD)AND OTHERS AND GIVING GROUNDS ASKING FOR THE CHIEF JUSTICE WILLY MUTUNGA’S RECLUSAL FROM THE SAID MATTER FOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST. THE SAID APPLICATION WAS ACTUALLY A DOSSIER THAT NAZLIN HAD EXPOSED STATE OFFICERS.
The reasons as to why Nazlin was not in the race for the presidential elections was as a result of gross political persecution against her by the illegal imposed coalition government of which Nazlin was a strong opposition to. Nazlin had become a powerful threat to the previous regime between 2007 and 2012 and was denied her constitutional rights to once more vie for the presidency in the 2013 general elections as the state through the now former prime minister Raila Odinga and other state officers which include the chief justice Willy Mutunga, the former commissioner of police, Mathew Iteere, the director of criminal investigations Ndegwa Muhoro, the former Attorney general Amos Wako, the director of public prosecutions Keriako Tobiko, the IEBC (independent electoral and boundaries commission) and others the targeted, persecuted and oppressed her to no end.
The reasons include arresting her, unlawfully detaining her for unlawfully prolonged periods and maliciously charged her with trumped up charges of various thefts against her when she was innocent there were no complainants nor any evidence at all and withdrew the charges against her when the whistle was blown in court, detained her properties in a bid to steal her imported motor vehicles for themselves, targeted her on several occasions for further arrests for unknown crimes, raided her premises and presidential secretariat and carted away everything in four truck loads to unknown destinations including her pet dogs and ejected her from her home rendering her an internally displaced person (IDP) in Kenya, attempted assassinations upon her on many occasions maliciously and for political purposes entered her innocent and honorable names in the register of criminals while she is innocent and has never been convicted of any crime and neither are there any charges pending against her to deny her her constitutional right to be issued with a certificate of good conduct, without which one cannot be cleared for an elective post. None of these facts have been denied by the state and or these state/public officers but have instead been admitted in their responses when she has filed constitutional petitions against them. (Details of these persecution, violations, heinous ordeals and admissions by the state and state officers suffered by Nazlin and her four children and witnesses can be found in Nazlin’s amended constitutional petition no. 306 of 2011, constitution petition no 605 of 2009, petition number 06 of 2010 at the international interim constitutional dispute resolution courts, constitution petition number 84 of 2011 and more lately the application Nazlin had filed at the Supreme court to be enjoined on the presidential election petitions filed by the Hon Raila Odinga and Africog, which challenged the presidential election of the President His Excellency Hon Uhuru Kenyatta seeking a re-run and in which Nazlin filed and lodged her exposing dossier on the 23rd of March 2013 at the supreme court registry and which was given a hearing date for the 25th of March together with the petitions. As the world will recall the supreme court judges abused Nazlin to no end , portrayed her to be an imposter yet she was duly before court, intimidated and threatened her with dire consequences and with arrest from the several police officers they brought into the court room to ejct erif she attempted to be heard and promised her to come to court the next day for hearing knowing very well that the 25th was the only day for pre-trial conference and that in her expose Nazlin was seeking the reclusal of the Chief justice from the bench hearing the petitions against the president Uhuru Kenyatta and exposing the rigging cartel between the Hon Raila Odinga, the Chief Justice, the IEBC and others and their pre-determined agenda to rig the elections and this rulings before the supreme court in Raila Odinga’s favour.
It was clear that the true facts were very well known to the Supreme court as each judge and the chief justice Willy Mutunga had received her application/dossier which had been paid for by Nazlin and duly lodged by the registrar of the supreme court on the 23rd of march 2013. All the petitioners and respondents had also been served with the said application/dossier, being the hon. Raila Odinga the 5th petitioner, the Africog (part of the civil society) the 4th petitioner, the respondents being the Hon President His Excellency Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the Deputy president William Samoei Ruto, the IEBC (independent electoral and boundaries commission) and its chairman Ahmed Isaac and their lawyers on record. As a matter of fact the 4th petitioner Africog’s advocates Kilonzo & Kilonzo advocates had already served Nazlin with their notice of objection to her said application which proves that the application was properly before court and all parties to the presidential election petitions were ready to proceed with its hearing which had been properly slotted for the 25th being that same day;
So, much as Nazlin was not only denied access to justice, abused, harassed, intimidated with dire consequences and portrayed maliciously and wrongfully in very bad light as a lawless rogue, a scoundrel activist improperly imposing herself before court without following due process and an imposter just for the Chief Justice and the supreme court to continue their criminal agenda to use that opportunity to dismiss the election results, allow Raila Odinga and the Africog’s petitions, deny Nazlin a voice to be heard so as to stop by all means possible the evidence she had against them and the IEBC and Raila Odinga, to see the light of day in the live televised court proceedings, to continue their political oppression and persecution against her, to continue intimidating her into silence so that they could ause their powers as the supreme court and president of the supreme court to declare a re-run for the presidential election so that they could try even harder in the re-run to rig Raila Odinga into power. The matter received sensational interest from the press especially the international press who were waiting for Nazlin as she left the supreme court room and interviewed her at length on the truth behind the supreme court denying her right to justice or even a hearing.
However the next day upon coming to the supreme court buildings to plead her application as fraudulently directed by the bench, Nazlin Umar and her children found barricades of armed GSU (very lethal and violent part of the security forces in Kenya the General service unit), armed police officer and hired bouncers who blocked her at the gates of the Supreme court gates and denied her entry and explained that they were under strict instructions not to allow her entry into the building of the supreme courts and that she should leave or lese they were to do all that it takes to ensure the enforcement of that order!! All these violations / occurrences were recorded on video and the press interviews of these incidences can be found on Nazlin Umar’s you tube account. Some of these videos, petitions and affidavits can be found at nazlinumar. bogspot.com and on youtube nazlinumar.
The orders Nazlin is seeking from these two petitions and her application at the Suprme court which as is the norm with the present Chief Justice to continuously persecute her, frustrate the hearings of any of these petitions and deny her access to justice or a right of hearing are annexed at the end of this bio-data which give insight as to why Nazlin has suffered extreme political persecution at the hands of the state and top state officers who are also respondents in her constitution petition number 306 of 2011 which give an insight as to why she has been arreseted, RAISD, ARREST, DEATH THREATS…ETC.
ANOTHER HISTORICAL GROUNDBREAKING PROJECT NAZLIN HAS FOUNDED IS THE ‘OASIS OF HOPE’, GENDER CRISIS CENTERS THAT PROVIDE FREE LEGAL AID, LITIGATION, MEDIATION, ADVOCACY AND REFERRALS. The project articulates Islamic, legal and gender rights and redress to domestic, sexual and all other forms of violence to women and children including counseling and mediation services to victims and all members of families facing turbulence in their relationships. The centers were based in Nairobi for Nairobi province and in Mombasa for Coast province. The ‘Oasis of Hope’ advised and represented or linked to advocates who may provide pro-bono services for referred cases from Oasis of hope for women at the law courts on family matters and personal law, including addressing all forms of violence and abuse to women and children. The centers also provide counseling and mediation to ALL persons, men and women, boys and girls, regardless of age, gender, religion or social status – with a vision to reduce turbulence in family relations. The ‘Oasis of hope’ was to be supported in Nairobi and Mombasa by Her majesty the Queen’s Government through the British Government’s Global Opportunities fund (GOF) which contract has been signed but awaiting disbursement of funds as a result of delay from the British High Commission in Nairobi. The project has a publications component which includes Islamic posters and publication of “The Islamic Shari’ah and the rights of women, VOL 1: Marriage and Divorce – an Interpretation and application of the Shari’ah law worldwide.” This book has been written as a result of the resolutions made by Islamic Scholars and all the Kadhi’s in Kenya and is demand driven for the purpose of empowering the Kadhi’s and the Kadhi’s Courts in Kenya during training and consultative forums held by the NMCK in 2003. All the Kadhis in this forum also appreciated, hailed the project as a role model and critical partner to the judiciary to support the Kadhis courts and propagated for the Judiciary to attach to every Kadhis court in Kenya which was done at Nazlin’s initiated 1st Muslim scholars and Kadhis consultations held at the senate hotel in February 2004, funded by the Canadian CIDA/GESP programme. These can be found at nazlinumar.blogspot.com, nazlinumar youtube and facebook group nazlinumar.
NAZLIN HONORED BY ALL KADHIS OF KENYA TO SPEARHEAD AND WRITE THE FIRST TIME EVER FAMILY LAW BOOK FOR KADHIS COURTS IN KENYA. THE HONORABLE ISLAMIC SCHOLARS AND HONORABLE KADHI’S FROM ALL THE KADHIS COURTS IN KENYA HAVE ALSO RECOGNIZED THAT THEY HAVE NO LOCALIZED REFERENCE BOOKS TO GUIDE THE KADHI’S COURT ON FAMILY LAW AND SUCH MATTERS BEFORE THEM AND FURTHER APPRECIATED NAZLIN’S KNOWLEDGE, PASSION AND ACUMEN OF ISLAMIC LAW AND MANDATED NAZLIN TO WRITE THE SAID REFERRAL BOOK WHICH DRAFT IS READY FOR EDITORIAL PURPOSE BY THE SELECTED EDITORIAL TASK-FORCE AND NAMED BY THE SAID FORUM. The reference book will be given to the Judiciary of Kenya to assist the Kadhi’s Courts on matters of Islamic law and women’s rights. All the Kadhi’s, paralegals and key lawyers in Kenya will be trained on the reference book. The NMCK is also the advisory organ to interested parties on the rights of women, gender and the Islamic Shari’ah in regard to all its programme areas. The Oasis of hope programme has benefited persons from all walks of life in Kenya who have accessed it, from the very top-brass to the ordinary Kenyan.
MORE ON ADVANCEMENT OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, WOMEN’S ACCESS TO COURTS AND JUSTICE UNDER MATRIMONIAL AND PERSONAL LAWS;
Nazlin Umar Rajput – vs- Madatali Saberali Chatur.
Nazlins matrimonial dispute (n which as is her norm ,she represents herself) with her estranged husband was highly sensationalized in the national media as she sought novelle rulings and brought a broad set of complaints to be canvassed by the courts. The courts in the preliminary stage issued groundbreaking precedent setting ruling in her favor that dismissed his preliminary objection and which has now enabled any woman or man for that matter who seeks solace in the corridors of justice to file under the family divisions matrimonial laws to seek a multiplicity of issues to be determined against the respondent which are constitutional, criminal, civil, matrimonial and personal laws in one suit. This ruling meant that a woman can seek determination of her contributions to matrimonial property for the period even prior to marriage under Islamic, civil or personal laws and contributions during marriage, separation and further seek division of matrimonial property without seeking divorce from her spouse. The ruling further meant that a woman can seek ruling on complaints against her husband that are under the criminal laws for example, assault, threatening to kill, unlawful detention, forceful incarceration and bondage, acts of engaging in unlawful illegal sexual offenses prosecutable under Kenyan penal laws in the spouses unfaithfulness in marriage. Nazlin suffers permanent injuries to her right temperomendibular jaw (TMJ) for which she needs reconstructive surgery as a result of severe violence by her husband upon her for which he walks free as a result of her persecution and which she seeks recompense and his arrest in the said case and which the courts have allowed her to do. This ruling now gives the common woman access to seek justice and criminal charges to be preferred on the spouse in incidences where influnce may have changed hands between the perpetrator and the police.
NAZLIN IN ‘THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN RIGHTS SERIES’ PUBLISHED IN 2011 AND LAUNCHED ONLINE IN OCTOBER 2012 FOR USE IN ALL THE UNIVERSITIES IN AMERICA AND ACROSS THE WORLD FOR LAW STUDENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES; NAZLIN HAS ONCE MORE MADE HISTORY AND HER HARD WORK HAS BEEN NOTED AND UNKNOWN TO HER, BEEN PROFILED AS A CASE STUDY ON AN ENTIRE CHAPTER BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, USA, IN THE ‘PENNSYLVANNIA STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS SERIES’ PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANNIA PRESS, IN THE VOLUME TITLED ‘GENDER AND CULTURE AT THE LIMIT OF RIGHTS’ EDITED BY DOROTY L. HOGDEKINSON PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY USA IN CHAPTER NINE TITLED ‘MUSLIM WOMEN, RIGHTS DISCOURSE AND THE MEDIA IN KENYA’ AUTHORED BY PROFESSOR OUSSEINA D. ALIDOU. THE VOLUME IS DESCRIBED IN THE WORDS OF THE EDITOR PROFESSOR DOROTHY L. HODGESON AS FOLLOWS,
“The volume is an inter-disciplinary collection, authored by well known distinguished scholars and examines the potential and limitation of women’s rights as human rights framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice drawing detailed case studies from the USA, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere.
Contributors to the volume explore specific social histories, political struggles, cultural assumptions and gender ideologies in which rights based protocols that have produced certain rights or reframed long-standing debates and perceptions in the language of rights. The essays address gender specific ways in which rights based protocols have been analyzed, deployed and legislated in the past and present and their implications. Contributors speak to central issues on current scholarly and policy debates about gender, culture and human rights from comparative disciplinary, historical and geographical persepectives. This bold agenda is made even more challenging by the focus on gender, particulary on those many interventions that have depicted women as victims and vulnerable to male power. The book provides a timely , well balanced and valuable resource that has been previously missing from the array of text books that could be used in university courses and those interested in human rights sciences consistently focusing on how rights , gender and culture, interact, come into conflict and discursively construct each other while very successfully moving the debate forward, by exploring how rights based interventions presume or transform gender relations.”
IN A NUTSHELL ON NAZLIN, IN THIS UNIVERSITY OF PENSYLVANIA SERIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS VOLUME TITLED ‘GENDER AND CULTURE AT THE LIMIT OF RIGHTS’ EDITED BY DOROTY L. HOGDEKINSON PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY USA IN THE ENTIRE CHAPTER NINE TITLED ‘MUSLIM WOMEN, RIGHTS DISCOURSE AND THE MEDIA IN KENYA’ AUTHORED BY PROFESSOR OUSSEINA D. ALIDOU, STATES THAT, QUOTE,
“Born in 1967, Nazlin is a woman of modest educational accomplishments. She only completed high school because of her family’s decision to marry her off at an early age. Inspite of this background, she is clearly a brilliant person who has continued to read widely in both the western and Islamic traditions. In the process, she has acquired a degree of consciousness and skills that are rare for Muslim women of her level of formal education. With a sophisticated mastery of both Kiswahili and English, she came to see herself as a translator and mediator, with the ability to read critically the implications of both secular laws and Muslim doctrines. As a result Nazlin was able to delineate the areas of the proposed sexual offenses Bill that were technically problematic. The excerpt of her live radio talk show on the Bill in 2006, Radio Rahma, Mombasa, Kenya, demonstrates her sharp awareness of questions of legal definition, evidentiary procedure and the consequences of Law on public resources.
At the time of this radio talk show in 2006 Nazlin was already a very prominent activist in the Orange democratic movement (ODM), a political party that had emerged in the heat of an acrimonious political contestation over the constitutional referendum in 2005. Partly because of leaders Like Nazlin, the ODM accomplished its objective when the majority of Kenyans voted NO in the referendum. The results of the referendum, in turn, gave Nazlin and the other ODM leaders a new political clout in the Nation. In the aftermath of the referendum, Nazlin declared her intrest to run for the presidency of Kenya then scheduled in 2007. Though she probably knew her chances were slim, she saw the elections as window of opportunity to inscribe the voice of the minority, Kenyan Muslims, even as she articulated politico-economic agendas that were both National and transethnic.
Nazlin has brought to the public domain what has been traditionally considered to be in the private domain. It shows Nazlin’s commitment and dedication as an Islamic activist of limited education, to acquire skills in critical literacy to read and deconstruct not only religious texts but secular materials like legal documents of scientific literature on diseases that have a bearing on their lives. Nazlin has also galvanized media technology towards challenging the hegemony of the non-Muslim majority.
Nazlin shows how secular learning and social skills have been mobilized by Muslim women for religious ends on behalf of Muslim women in particular and the Kenyan Muslim community in large, in the political context of the nation in transition. This Islamist Muslim woman’s voice challenges prevailing deeply entrenched orthodoxies that have defined relations not only between men and women in the Muslim communities and between Muslim women and non- Muslims including their non-Muslim ‘sisters’, the dominant non-Muslim majority misrepresented and misunderstood Muslim women’s reality…that when references are made about Kenyan women, the nuanced experience of minority Muslim women are not taken into account, or perceived as “non-indigenous. For Nazlin, reclaiming their citizenship in a Nation-state that discriminates against them as a religious minority becomes a critical mission. Secondly she feels it is urgent to confront their own community about patriarchal interpretation of Islam and its (misconceived) link to Muslim women’s oppression.
Her activism is shaped by an Islamic framework rather than secular reasoning, which they reject as a constituent of western secularism. Nazlin has galvanized the media and enabled Muslim women to reclaim their citizenship within their own communities and the nation at large.
This dynamic is precisely what makes Nazlin both a Muslim leader and a Kenyan leader. In this process of re-claiming Islam and redefining citizenship, Nazlin is not only galvanizing Muslim women to not only ‘multi-culturalize’’ the human rights regime in their country, but also putting to rest the long held view of Muslim women as passive onlookers. Nazlin has left no doubt that Muslim women are bold agents of change within their own communities and well beyond.” End of quote.
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