GOVT TO BAN ARTUR MARGARYAN WEDDING IN KENYA
By Mwnangi Maina, Edwin Mutai

Kenya Times, Kenya
April 19 2007

THE Government yesterday maintained that it would under no
circumstances allow the two deported Armenian brothers back into
the country, as Parliament adjourns this afternoon to debate the
dou’s saga.

Immigration Minister Gideon Konchella said Margaryan and his alleged
brother Artur Sargasyan had not been cleared of criminal charges
levelled against them, and for this reason remained personal non-grata.

He said Margaryan will not be allowed to hold his intended wedding
to Narc activist Mary Wambui’s daughter Winnie Wangui here in Kenya.

This came as Deputy Speaker David Musila issued a communication from
the chair allowing Ndhiwa MP Orwa Ojode to move a motion of adjournment
to debate reasons as to why the Kiruki Commission on the activities
of the exiled Armenians cannot be released."I have considered the
matter and have acceded to the request. I will therefore call on the
Member to move the motion of adjournment at the time of interruption
of business tomorrow," Musila said.

The duo, the Minister on his part said, would only be allowed back if
internal security Minister John Michuki and other relevant authorities
cleared them of all wrong doing and the same was gazetted accordingly.

"The two were deported for being here illegally. They will not
be allowed to enter the country or hold the said wedding here,"
Konchella said.

He was speaking after opening an immigration seminar organised by
the Kenya Association of Manufacturers at a Nairobi hotel.

Margaryan, who is at the centre of media reports of a plot to
assassinate opposition leaders including Baringo Central MP Gideon
Moi, was quoted in one of the local dailies on Tuesday as saying
that nothing would bar him from entering the country to wed the Narc
activist Mary Wambui’s daughter.

"Neither the security minister nor the police commissioner will stop
me form coming to Kenya, ," he was quoted in a telephone conversation
from Sri Lanka.