September 27, 1993: Mr. Robert Shaw (left) resigns his posts in FORD Kenya becoming the fourth senior official to do so in slightly over a week. He blamed what he said was an attempt by the chairman Jaramogi Oginga Odinga to muzzle the party investigation into the Goldenberg affair. Mr. Shaw, who was FORD-K’s assistant secretary for public policy and economic affairs and secretary of the finance committee, said: “I am only quitting my party posts at the moment, not FORD Kenya. “One has to seriously think and do groundwork before forming another opposition party.” Mr. Shaw made the allegations concerning the Goldenberg probe in his letter of resignation to Mr. Odinga. He described the scandal, as “undoubtedly the largest fraud that has ever been perpetrated in Kenya,” and said he was stunned, on June 18, when Mr. Odinga telephoned him and told him to “stop pursuing the Goldenberg issue. Goldenberg International is said to have received millions of shillings from the Government as export compensation for gold and diamonds shipments which did not exist. The firm’s chairman was Mr Kamlesh Pattni. Seen here with a policy analyst Mr. Sam Mwale in October 1997.

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