By Rose Wangui

Kenyan police have made a major breakthrough after finally capturing internationally wanted Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga in Nairobi.
Kabuga, who has a shs 400 million bounty on his head was nabbed by Kenyan detectives from the Special Crime Preventention Unit after staging a three- hour stake-out outside his hideout between the sub-urban Hurlingham area and the sprawling Kawangware estate on Friday night.
The director of criminal investigations depertment Karanga Gatiba told said yesterday afternoon that indeed his officers were holding a Rwandese suspect who but could not categorically state who it was as he still had to undergo forensic tests to ascertain the real identity of the suspect.
However, later in the evening, impeccable police sources divulged that the suspect in question was indeed Kabuga who by the time of going to press was being interrogated by senior sleuths from the crime prevention unit headed by Asistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gideon Kimilu who heads the unit.
The sources revealed that the Kenyan security agents were awating their counterparts from Kigali, Rwanda, to confirm Kabuga’s identity before handing him the sue to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), a United Nations body formed to tooth-comb the 1994 genocide in the tiny central African nation where over 800,000 people were butchered.
It was also established that deportation documents for the fugitive were as of yesterday evening being finalised so that the suspect is immediately handed over the moment all the relavant procedures are finalised.
Kabuga has been on the run for the last 14 years following the 1994 massacre in Rwanda where he is alleged to have suppled machetes to militias who slaughtered the nearly 1 million victims, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group.
For more than 10 years now, various global investigating agencies have been pointing fingers to the Kenya government with accusations that Nairobi has been harbouring the fugitive in spite of a pledge to co-operate in the search for the man who is among the top Rawandese being sought by an international court based in Arusha Tanzania, to answer a multiplicty of charages related to the genocide.
However, Nairobi has consistently denied knowing the whereabouts of the 73-year old Kabuga and that Kenya was fully co-operating to the best of its ability in helping trace the billionaire runaway tycoon.
Only last week, the Kenya government was accused at the United Nations of allegedly draggings its feet in the hunt for the Rwandese fugitive Felicien Kabuga who is said to have been living in the country for the past 10 years.
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Hassan Jallow, told the UN Security Council that while Kenya had recently frozen some of Kabuga’s properties, nothing else appeared to have been done, stating that the East African nation need to step up its search for the fugitive who has been cited severaly in the country.
Jallow urged the Council to press Kenya to “urgently fulfil” its international obligations to co-operate in the hunt for Kabuga.
His statements came on the heels of similar concerns by the United Sates ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad who told the Council two days earlier that he was deeply “troubled” by reports that Kenya was not co-operating adequately in the search for Kabuga.
Yesterday, no senior Kenya government official was making any statement regarding the arrest. Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetangula who only two months ago rubished Jallow’s claims of Kabuga being in Kenya was reported to be out of the country after he accompanied president Mwai Kibaki to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where they are attending an Inter-Governmental Authority of Development (IGAD) heads of states summit.
No word was forthcoming from Internal Security Minister Professor George Saitoti while Police Commisioner Maj-General Hussein Mohammed Ali is also out of the country where he is spending a two-week official holiday.