LED by unelected people, the Kimberly Process’ (KP) Civic Society Coalition (CSC) is carrying out oversight on representatives of elected government seconded in KP.
Regrettably however, CSC has mutated to become unreasonably argumentative all for the sake of justifying further existence in KP so that funding from their handlers continues to flow, making noise so that it appears that they have a role to play in KP.
CSC has the audacity to oppose the United Nations report that claims that 99 percent of diamonds today are now under formal supervision. And, acting without a mandate from the communities they purport to represent, they want to appear to be more humanitarian than the messengers of the Almighty God.
It is a no brainer that Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) is fighting Dubai on behalf of Antwerp. They focus their evil work on weaker nations in Africa and do not dare to do the same on stronger countries. PAC cannot carry out a Marange-type rendition in Russia, China, America and European Union for obvious reasons.
It is widely reported that the USA government contracted a third party contractor to do the KP work in its country. Further, the review mission’s initial and undoctored report showed that USA was exporting more diamonds than it was importing despite not having diamond mining activities but PAC/CSC looked the other side.
PAC reports are an aggregate of falsehoods and fabrications that are aimed at eliminating competitors of De Beers. They use illegal and uncouth methods to obtain information in a manner that violets the basic tenets of International law. KP Plenary cannot continue to accept reports that border on espionage. KP must demand proof/evidence that substantiates those claims. KP must refuse to be policed by a gang of six who work under the tutelage of western intelligence services.
Selective application of oversight in KP is rampant. The EU bribe scandal, for example, was swept under the carpet after former Liberian deputy mines minister was not given the balance of his promised “payment” for leading a review mission on Marange whose outcome had been already written before the visit. The money was not per diem but a payment to carry out a hatchet job on Zimbabwe. Mr. Fayia dispatched an angry e-mail to the EU, complaining that the European bloc was now betraying him, yet he had fulfilled his side of the deal by submitting a report on Zimbabwe that was subsequently "certified and sanctioned by the Chairman of KP on Monitoring".
Wrote Mr. Fayia: "I accepted to head a KP Review Mission that everybody was afraid to undertake, especially as it related to Zimbabwe at the time.
"The contract I signed with you was for six thousand euros (6,000 Euros) as was enshrined in the contract and the contract specifically stated that I would receive 60 percent of that amount as my initial payment and then receive the balance of 40 percent upon completion of the mission with a report to be certified and sanctioned by the Chairman of KP on Monitoring."
He added: "All I did was to request for the payment of my balance of 40 percent and nothing more. I was asked to present documents to prove that I undertook the trip to Zimbabwe, which I did. The receipt of those documents was acknowledged by e-mail.
"Moreover, I have a copy of the 2010 KP Review Visit to Zimbabwe which was submitted to the KPCS. After having undergone this very challenging mission, I requested for my balance of 40 percent of the 6,000 euros which was due to me. To my surprise, I received a form to be signed so that I may get 61 euros as what is owed me. This is totally wrong. The contract did not say so."
Mr. Fayia, angered by the EU's refusal to pay him for his hatchet job on Zimbabwe, added: "This is totally racist and biased. This would have never happened to a European or an American, but because I am African, I am being unfairly treated by you, Europeans, for a joke (sic) you asked me to do on your behalf when none of you dared to go and face the Zimbabweans as chairmen of a trip of that nature. I did not ask to go on this mission; you asked me to do so. I have all documentations to that effect..."
Partnership Africa Canada has never coughed a word about this case because the culprits where white. This scenario meets all the essential elements of the crime of corruption and racism. It is apparent that Partnership Africa Canada applies its oversight selectively. In all its reports, no western country is at fault. Defaulting countries are from Africa and Asia. This racist approach to issues must be degraded and eliminate with all the mighty KP has.
KP must reform the Civic Society and allow for many other NGOs to participate. It is an anomaly that one NGO can be entrusted to “observe” the activities of 70-plus members. The so-called other institutions that form the KP-CSC are simply surrogates who are funded by PAC. These are educated by poor black Africans who sell their birth right after getting economy tickets to travel abroad for shoddy seminars.
There is no democracy in the coalition. No elections on who should lead the coalition. It is a relationship of, as stated by Cecil John Rhodes, “rider and horse”. PAC is the perpetual leader/coordinator of the CSC, which ostensibly want to observe the activities of KP, which hold elections every year. Does KP deserve such rot?