NGO Coordination Board Executive Director Fazul Mahamed. [Photo/ nation.co.ke]
NGOs that have been put on the spot for breaking the law in being illegally funded to overthrow the government and for doing activities that they are not registered to engage in have confirmed fears that they were part of the secret regime change team, popularly known as "Wakora Network" . The NGOs Coordination Board has exposed the over Sh36 million the NGOs received from global regime change financier George Soros. Unable to explain why they contravened the law in getting the funds, the leaders of the NGOs have started engaging in sideshows. They have ignored summons to appear before the State regulator to account for the non-disclosure of their financial returns. Although the NGOs are registered to do humanitarian work, their main work has been challenging the government, holding brief for the opposition and filing petitions at the court to try and remove the Uhuru Kenyatta administration from power. The non-governmental organisations, which include Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), We the People, Katiba Institute, Muslim for Human Rights, Africog among others have been reading from the same script with Raila Odinga’s NASA coalition, which has been transformed into the National Resistance Movement (NRM). For example, when some NGOs’ plans to file a petition to challenge the August 8 election of President Uhuru Kenyatta failed, Raila said the opposition was challenging the election results on behalf of the NGOs, which has been found to operate illegally. Apart from the NGOs, the other suspected members of the secret network that has been accused of plotting to install Raila as president through the backdoor include: Supreme Court registrar Esther Nyaigaki, Chief Justice David Maraga and some of his colleagues, former IEBC commissioner Roselyn Akombe among others.