Kenya Grants Gates Foundation Immunity Amid Bill Gates’ Vaccine Indictment

The Kenyan Government has granted diplomatic privileges and immunity to the staff of the Gates Foundation (formerly Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) operating in Kenya.

As contained in Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 181, issued on October 4, 2024, by Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, who, by Section 11 of the Privileges and Immunity Acts, conferred the special status on the foundation.

Mudavadi explained the foundation as a charitable trust established to fight poverty, disease, and inequality in over 140 countries globally.

According to the legal notice numbered 157, the foundation was granted special status as Kenya had entered an agreement of cooperation with the foundation, hence the declaration that it was a beneficiary of Section 11 of the Privileges and Immunity Acts.

Gates Foundation now has the legal capacity, as a cooperate body, to enter into contracts, institute and defend legal proceedings, and acquire, hold or dispose of movable and immovable property, according to Kenya’s Constitution and extant laws.

In addition, the foundation benefits to privileges and immunities specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.

Also, the director, officials, and staff of the foundation, while residing in Kenya and carrying out their duties in service of the foundation, will receive the privileges and immunities listed in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Part III of the Fourth Schedule to the Act, exempting Kenyan citizens working with the foundation the privileges specified in paragraph 5.

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Meanwhile, Bill Gates, the founder of the foundation, alongside CEO of Pfizer, Albert Boula, is set to stand trial on November 27, 2024, in the Netherlands for lying to the public about the COVID-19 vaccine safety, resulting in the injury of 7 people.

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