This article is the work of guest author GRACE. Thank you, Grace.

Once again, I will be re-examine parts Sammy’s self-composed “humble” biography, since Sammy repeatedly encourages me to write with his life-long motto, “sometimes bad publicity is good publicity.” Furthermore, I have been forgiven so many times by Sammy, I personally feel I owe him at least one more article. Yes, Sammy indeed a “gracious” person who have in the past black-mailing Dagbladet reporters with prostituting charge and lawsuit, after they reported about his shady past in June, October and November of this year. I was personally threatened by “merciful” Sammy numerous times from lawsuit to physical harms. Please understand those who still believe, Sammy is not one bit bitter nor has sleepless night according to his biography and recent article. I hope this article will help you to determine if Sammy is really living a guilt free life and has attained sainthood in Norway.

According to Dagbladet, Sammy, a Kenyan man, first stepped on Norwegian soil in 1975 to attend District College of Molde. Unlike many predicted that Sammy lives in a dungeon with no family members, Sammy does have family members. Dagbladet also stated that during this time, Sammy married a native Norwegian woman but ended divorcing her. I suspect Sammy obtained his Norwegian citizenship through this marriage, this fact is yet to be determined.

http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001080059079&tag=item&words=sammy%3Bkorir

From all the information I have gathered, Sammy perhaps remarried again in the mid 80s, and have at least 4 children from both of his marriages. Most of them are grown adults now and some with established career/family. His youngest is in her teens. Sammy’s current marital status is unknown. Since his family members are not part of Rainbow Foundation/API scam, I will leave their names out unless proven otherwise in the future. Therefore, I will not be enclosing my source about his family members.

According to Adult Education to Samis, “the Sami Conference in 1971 expressed that folk high schools, voluntary education and adult education for Samis should be promoted” (http://home.online.no/~sveilund/skole/adeden3.htm). The Samis live in Karasjok County in Northern Norway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karasjok) . According to Sammy, he started to work for Karasjok County as a teacher from August 1978 until June 1979. From July 1979 to March 1981, Sammy was promoted to be the district adult education officer for Karasjok County. It was recorded by BBC on August 29, 1987,

“In 1980-81 Mr Korir was charged with grand embezzlement but the case was dropped when evidence got burnt in the office. Mr Korir reported that the cause of fire was a copying machine which had exploded. County official, Mr Sverre Oppdahl, in Karasjok reports that there were other reports against Mr Korir concerning money frauds.”

The full clipping can be found on http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/10/31/apis-chief-editor-sammy-korirs-shady-past-and-present-2-2/#more-1601 Sammy left Norway very quickly, and went back to Kenya for his high Kenyan government positions from June 1981 to September 1985. Five years later, Sammy faced the same charges by Kenyan Government in 1985-86. In the same article,

“He was arrested and charged in a court of law for stealing 3,000 shillings belonging to the students. He jumped bail and fled to Oslo, Norway. The government would like to state quite clearly that whatever Mr Korir is doing in Norway has nothing to do with the Kenya government. Mr Korir knows pretty well that he is a wanted criminal in Kenya to answer fraud charges. The people of Norway must be very careful in dealing with him.”

In January 1986, Sammy moved back to Norway to start his new life and hoped everyone has long forgotten his deed in Karasjok County. And Sammy also thought most probably no one will ever find out about his criminal background in Kenya. While waiting for his political career to surge, Sammy humbly working at a school as an English teacher from 1986 to 1987, and post office from 1987-1990. Sammy learned very quickly “sometimes bad publicity is not necessarily good publicity”. His troublesome background has caused him an opportunity working for President Moi in 1987. President Moi publicly denounced his relationship with Sammy after international news media mocked and shamed Moi for using a con man as his envoy in Norway. In 1990, Sammy made another attempt to win Moi’s favor by publicly supporting Moi’s decision of shutting down Norwegian Embassy in Nairobi. Sammy was brushed aside by Moi once again. You can read more about it from my older articles –

http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/12/03/sammy-a-mois-faithful-supporter-part-1-by-guest-author-grace/

http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/12/04/sammy-a-moi%e2%80%99s-faithful-supporter-part-2-by-grace/

http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/12/05/sammy-a-moi%e2%80%99s-faithful-supporter-part-3-by-grace/

Sammy did not post any jobs between 1990-1996 in his resume. In 1992, Sammy became infamous in Norway when he was declared a “sjarlatan” by Supreme Court. In 1996, Sammy resurfaced from 6 years of hiatus. From supporting Moi’s violating human rights, Sammy switched gear and formed a humanitarian organization, Rainbow Foundation, in 1996. Sammy was and still is a classic case of an opportunist. Sammy gained some attention by publicly condemning the Norwegian Health Department not doing enough for the African residents in Norway. It is the same tactic he used for condemning all local and international media for boycotting Moi in 1987.

Sammy said in his biography, “The Norwegian State has poured a lot of Money to the organization and we have done our job.” Not so according to Norwegian board of Health. In the early stage of Rainbow Foundation, “the organization had used a hundred thousand dollars in violation of the conditions”. Against their better judgement, Norwegian board of Health gave Rainbow Foundation 1.5 million worth of state fund to organize workshops pertaining AIDS education between 1996-2000. All the workshops supposed to be held in Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsoe did not happen. The fund was distributed to himself as income, and the rest as entertaining fee—dining in fine restaurant and drinking in pubs.

Despite of Sammy’s claim in his biography, “there was no truth in the accusation. If there was, I would have been punished.” Norwegian news media, NRK, reported Rainbow Foundation was investigated. When Rainbow Foundation being investigated in 2000, Sammy’s computer conveniently crashed and lost all the account information. As the result, Norwegian board of Health immediately stopped their funding to Rainbow Foundation. Sammy did try to appeal, but to no avail. Sammy applied for state fund in 2001 and was rejected again. In 1996, Aftenpost reported Rainbow Foundation was not registered with NGO. All NGO non-profit organizations can be found on NGO Norway, except Sammy’s Rainbow Foundation. Sammy claimed he was unjustly reported by his “enemies”, the Norwegian media—in this case Aftenpost, NRK and Dagbladet, due to their jealousy of him; however, Sammy failed to disclose the reasons of such immense jealousy.

Please read Sage’s coverage of Rainbow Foundation for further information.

http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/11/12/the-real-rainbow-foundation

http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/11/13/the-claim-that-rainbow-foundation-is-an-ngo-is-not-trueanother-sammy-korir-falsehood/

http://mountainsageblog.com/2008/12/21/the-rainbow-foundation/#comment-12912

Poor Sammy, he is the most unlucky man in this Universe. So far, Sammy claimed he has been wrongly accused and charged for grand embezzlement twice in the 80s, declared a Charlatan and his Rainbow Foundation was investigated a few times in the 90s. All Norwegian media is very jealous of him for no good reason. OR is Sammy refused to take responsibilities for his own actions? Is Sammy’s lifelong motto, “sometimes bad publicity is good publicity” pending out for him so far? Shouldn’t Sammy be thanking the media for giving him bad publicity all these years? Why would he black-mailing Dagbladet reporters November this year, if he truly measure his success by bad publicity? If so, Sammy should not be complaining for being “abused” when the media uncovered the truth about Sammy, a fraud.

More to come in Part 2.