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  • Kenyan Families Of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Victims Agrees To Take The Sh10B Offer From Boeing But To Continue Suing

    Kenyan Families Of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Victims Agrees To Take The Sh10B Offer From Boeing But To Continue Suing

    Kenyan families of crash victims of the Ethiopian airline have accepted Boeing’s Sh10 billion compensation.

    Boeing revealed on Tuesday that they were setting aside the money to assist families of the victims as well as the communities affected during the tragedies of October (Indonesia) and March (Ethiopia) where 346 people died.

    On March 10 this year, a Boeing 737 MAX jet operated by Ethiopian crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board among them 32 Kenyans.

    The plane maker said they will channel the money through governments and undisclosed charity organisations.

    In a statement, Boeing said the families affected did not have to abandon the right to sue the company even if they will accept the money.

    But the Kenyan families who lost their kin have issued a rejoinder, saying they will not be hoodwinked into “public relation stunts” by Boeing.

    The 32 Kenyan families have accepted the money despite their stand that Boeing will used this tactic to make the company look remorseful in order to sway the minds of the jury in the US where the cases have been filed.

    “They have tried to whip emotions of families. They are apologising in a colourful manner yet they know their plane was faulty,” said lawyers Irungu Kang’ata and Stephen Gachie.

    The Kenyan families have also told Boeing that the channels used by the company are against their wishes.

    The say the channels used have no guarantee that the funds will rich them directly.

  • The Sh460,000 Mzinga That Bob Collymore Had Promised Uhuru

    The Sh460,000 Mzinga That Bob Collymore Had Promised Uhuru

    During the memorial service of the late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore held at At All Saints Cathedral on Thursday, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he was disappointed he did not get time to return to Collymore’s house to collect his ‘special gift’.
    President Johnie Walker

    Directors Blend Whisky is the gift the late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore was to give President Uhuru Kenyatta.

    Uhuru told former presidential aspirant Peter Kenneth and the rest of the Boys Club that they will have to pay for the gift given by Collymore because it wasn’t theirs.

    “I was supposed to have gone back to collect my gift reserved for a special friend from Bob and so Peter Kenneth, Oigara and crew, you will pay. That did not belong to you.” Said the President.

    According to the Directors blend whiskey marker website, Diageo, the whiskey edition was released in 2010 and was exclusively for Diageo directors.

    The special drink is bottled with six different labels, and pairs are printed the same.

    Uhuru’s whiskey bottle was labeled number 138.

    According to the marker, The Johnie walker Directors  Blend is best served directly from the freezer and has notes of caramelised sugar and vanilla, fresh red berries with a touch of orchard fruit .

    “When you sip it ,you will feel  a fruity, creamy palate  taste ,then as you swallow a creamy notes of caramel, manuka honey and a hint of very refined wood smoke.” reads part of Diageo’s review statement.

    A shot sip of Directors Blend ends with allspice and nutmeg taste.

    Directors Blend whiskey is packaged in 750 ml bottle that  retails at Ksh460,000.

    It has an alcoholic content volume 46 per cent.

    Former Gatanga MP Peter Kenneth revealed in his tribute during Bob’s memorial service that Collymore went into his Whiskey Cabinet and opened a very special reserved blended whiskey that he had saved many years for a ‘Very Special guest’.

    The late Bob requested Kenneth and his friends from the boys club be his Special guests since
    the special guest (President Kenyatta) didn’t turn up for the gift.

    Bob’s Boys’ Club consists of his close friends and Business partners.

    Bob Collymore’s Club members

    Jeff Koinange- Media Personality

    Joshua Oigara – Group CEO KCB

    Peter Kenneth – Businessman/ Politician

    Bharat Thakrar -CEO, Scan Group

    Lamin Manjang – MD, Standard Chartered Bank, Lagos.

    Patrick Waqo – CEO of Radio Africa

    Dr Mukhisa Kituyi- UNCTAD Secretary-General

    Dr. SK Macharia- Owner, Royal Media

    Francis Atwoli- Secretary General COTU

    Chris Kirubi- Businessman

    Ramah Chandaria- Businessman

    Nic Hailey – UK High Commissioner

    Patric Njoroge- Governor Central Bank of Kenya.

  • Video: Khaligraph Storms Empty Mpasho Newsroom

    Video: Khaligraph Storms Empty Mpasho Newsroom

    Brian Omollo alias Khaligraph Jones stormed Radio Africa offices yesternight.

    The angry OG shared a video of him in an empty newsroom he believes it belongs to Mpasho group on his Instagram page.

    Papa Jones seemed disappointed as he’s heard throwing insults at the empty desks.

    “Majamaa wa mpasho, imebidi wamekimbia juu wamesikia OG anakuja hapa, kwendeni uko, matako,”

    Classic FM presenter Maina Kageni replied on the Award winning rapper post calling OG clout chaser throwing his rants at the wrong time and on the wrong floor.

    “Hahahaaaa!!! umechocha sana @khaligraph_jones …but you’re on the wrong floor my brother. Kuwa tu OG, nenda 3rd floor, ask for them before 9.00PM. Otherwise leave me alone, I am waiting for results from Lagos!!! ” reads Maina’s reply.

    On his defense, Khaligraph said he was denied access to the said 3rd floor newsroom and the elevator closed.

    Mpasho is an online gossip platform interested in controversial stories in the entertainment industry.

    Papa Jones didn’t say why he stormed Radio Africa in the video.

    But our checks have revealed why he might have stormed Mpasho.

    On his recently released Song “Leave me Alone”, Khaligraph disparaged Mpasho for slurring him since his art went commercial.

    “Mnabambika na vako, zile nyi husoma mpasho
    Ile idhaa niko hustle, mi nikipanguza jasho
    Mnaeneza udaku, ndio muongezwe za macho
    Lakini na kula kichapo, kofi, soki na kahasho
    Tangu niende commercial, nimekuwa controversial
    Ngori zile niko nazo, zimeniletea vikwazo
    Mahater wanakaza matako, but OG anakazanga muscle”

    Here is the video Khaligraph Shared
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgBrkxB10l/?igshid=bz4yut7yav50

  • A Bungoma Mad Man Found With Sh275K In Cash During A Raid By Nema

    A Bungoma Mad Man Found With Sh275K In Cash During A Raid By Nema

    NEMA officials have arrested a middle aged mad man in Bungoma with 275,000 in cash.

    The man was arrested last Friday in Kimilili Bungoma county.

    Nema Officials have confirmed to this site that the alleged mad man was also in possession of more than 1, 500 banned plastic bags.

    The ‘rich mad man’ was arrested in a banned plastics raid planned by NEMA officials and Police.

    NEMA officials in Bungoma county told us they are still hunting people who are currently engaging in the banned plastic bags trade.

    Joyce Onguso who is the Kimilili Sub-County Deputy Commissioner confirmed the arrest of the ‘rich mad man’ saying that he will be arraigned once investigations into the incident are concluded.

    The Police will also investigate how the mentally ill man acquired the money and where he was to take the plastic bags.

    The Police are currently holding the suspect at a Bungoma police post.

    Rob Kipkoech, the Bungoma County lead environment officer
    told this writer that a group of youthful street urchins tried to attack NEMA officials, when they were arresting the rich alleged mad man.

    The Government of Kenya On February 28, 2017, banned the production, distribution and use of plastic bags in an international move to curb environmental pollution.

  • Sh30B Lost As Cyber Attacks Rises To 11M In The First Quarter In Kenya

    Sh30B Lost As Cyber Attacks Rises To 11M In The First Quarter In Kenya

    Kenyan organizations have recorded an increase in viscous cyber attacks.

    According to Communications Authority of Kenya, local organizations were hit by 11.2 million cyber threats.

    This records a 10.1 percent increase in the number of incidences in the first quarter of 2019 when compared to the previous quarter.

    According to Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) data, its incident response centre detected growing cases of malware, web application attacks, system misconfiguration and mostly online abuse.

    In past 3 months, CA’s cyber sleuth team issued 14,078 cyber threat advisories to the affected organisations.

    Late quarter of 2018, the cyber security team from CA issue 12,138.

    A cyber fraud report conducted by Serianu Cyber security tech consultancy reveals that cyber attacks costed Kenya’s economy Sh29.5 billion.

    Increased Cyber threats has forced firms, especially in the financial sector that is affected the most, to be vigilant and created businesses opportunities for others.

    For instance, Safaricom #ticker:SCOM in January launched a cybersecurity solution targeted at Kenyan firms looking to protect their ICT systems.

    Microsoft are also interest in partnering with local companies to assist in securing their infrastructure.

    Microsoft Corp is set to launch a $100 million technology development center in Nairobi, Kenya .

    Microsoft’s independent report indicated that ransomware, a malicious software that blocks a user’s access to gadgets until a payment is made, is the popular method used by cyber criminals this year.

    “As local organisations increase investments in cyber security, it is becoming vital for them to also create awareness about these threats among their employees to ensure that they are able to notice some them,” reads part of Sebuh Haileleul report.

    Sebuh Haileleul is Kenya’s General Manager for Microsoft, East Africa.

    Polish cyber security firm, OnNet tech Services had warned Barclay’s Kenya and other financial institutions via a tweet published on 17th of April, stating that ‘SILENTCARDS’ group of hackers were planning to hack into their ATMs.

    OnNet services had also published on their blog a fortnight ago that they believe the hacking malware threat from SilentCards is still active in many other institutions.

  • Uhuru Declines Ruto’s Call Widening Rift

    Uhuru Declines Ruto’s Call Widening Rift

    Deputy President William Ruto and his allies call to President Kenyatta to convene a Jubilee party meeting have fallen into deaf ears.

    Kanze Dena, the State house spokesperson on Tuesday said President Kenyatta is only focused on the development agenda of his administration and not politics.

    “The question on Jubilee meeting is political. And like my boss has said before, we are not going to delve into political issues,” said Kanze Dena during Tuesday’s press briefing.

    “If, at all, the party calls a meeting, then it will happen,” said the head of Presidential Strategic Communication Unit (PSCU).

    This has thrown DP Ruto’s led Tanga tanga movement into confusion, with members saying time was running out for Jubilee that is almost collapsing.

    Tanga tanga movement is worried about the Uhuru’s union with Raila and his party, ODM.

    On Sunday, Dr Ruto added his voice to his movements distress calls for the Jubilee party to put its house in order.

    Tangatanga movement have been pressuring Uhuru to convene a meeting to discuss a host of issues affecting the Party and specifically Ruto.

    Tanga tanga allied legislators have accused Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju, of taking sides and working with Dr Ruto’s ‘enemies’.

    Ruto led Tanga tanga movement was made to counter the March 2018 handshake between Mr Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga and strategize Ruto’s 2022 succession plans.

  • A Kenyan Researcher In Team That Has Discovered A New Drug That Can Cure HIV

    A Kenyan Researcher In Team That Has Discovered A New Drug That Can Cure HIV

    Yes, HIV can be cured. A team of scientists have discovered a new drug can can cure the almost immortal virus.

    Big win for the country it has been revealed that a Kenyan scientist, Dr. Benson Edagwa, was amongst the team of researchers who have discovered the new HIV drug.

    The collaborative effort of the researchers has for the first time inched closer to finding a cure for HIV after successfully eliminating the virus in living mice.

    Dr Benson Edagwa, an assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre (UNMC) and researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, used a combination of a modified ARV treatment to keep the virus at low activity levels, along with a powerful gene-editing technique that snipped out HIV genes from infected cells.

    WHO estimated that 19.6 million people in East and Southern Africa are living with HIV.

    According to WHO, 2.5 million Kenyans are living with HIV with about 380,000 recorded deaths.

    If HIV is not treated, it can turn into Aids, a disease in which the virus badly damages the immune system.

    In a study involving 29 mice, in some of the animals the team used a combination of gene-editing technology (CRISPR) and a therapeutic treatment called LASER ART to erase HIV DNA from the genomes of animals in what they termed as unprecedented study.

    The team published their research yesterday, Tuesday, in the journal Nature Communications.

    The scientists found no trace of the virus in 30 per cent of the animals used in the tests.

    “This observation is the first step toward showing for the first time, to my knowledge, that HIV is a curable disease,” said Kamel Khalili,

    Kamel Khalili is the director of the Neurovirology and the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Centre at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

    LASER ART has been proven to be effective when released slowly over a long period of time.

    With Laser medication, traditional anti-HIV drugs are tweaked so they develop a crystal structure, and are then encased in fat-soluble particles.

    Laser art enables drugs to slip through the membranes of cells in places where HIV hides like the liver, lymph tissue, and spleen where the cells’ enzymes start to release the drug.

    This not only targets viral sanctuaries but also maintains HIV replication at low levels for extended periods of time, reducing the frequency of ART administration.

    The crystal structure releases the drugs more slowly, allowing them to continue killing dormant viruses as they start to emerge and replicate for months.

    According to Dr. Adagwa, Laser art medication works continuously rather than days or weeks like conventional forms of the medicines.

    It is half a century since the first known HIV-related death and two patients appear to have been cured of the virus.

    Even though ARV treatment can suppress HIV to the point that it has no impact on life expectancy, and even make it untransmittable, the “London patient”, announced earlier this year to have been cured of HIV offers a medical hope of freedom from a virus that over 37 million people worldwide are living with.

    Early last month, Kenya launched a clinical human trial of a vaccine that has the potential to stop HIV infecting cells.

    Scientists involved in the trial, Dr. Edagwa amongst them, said on Friday during final preparatory meetings that recruitment for the trial will begin in the next three weeks.

    The new vaccine being tested will apply a ‘block approach’ in stopping HIV from attaching itself onto cells.

    HIV is a virus that attacks CD4 cells. It is spread through certain body fluids.

    The clinical trial, code-named ‘IAVI W001 trial. 664gp140. W001’, will test the vaccine candidate dubbed BG505 SOSIP — a molecule cloned to look exactly as the HIV one — on Kenyan volunteers to check for safety.

    “We are going to the root cause. We are going after the virus that’s already integrated in the genome of the host cell,” said co-author of the report,Dr Howard Gendelman.

    Dr Howard Gendelman is the chairman of UNMC’s pharmacology and experimental neuroscience department and director of the Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases.

    “We are at the cusp of a scientific revolution in human genomes that can change the course, quality and longevity of life,” reads part of Dr Howard conclusion.

  • Lawyers Moves To Block Bernard Chunga’s Appointment

    Lawyers Moves To Block Bernard Chunga’s Appointment

    Chama Cha Mawakili has threatened to moved to court to block the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji’s Taskforce Chair.

    Noordin had appointed former Chief Justice Bernard Chunga as a Chairman of a taskforce on establishing a DPP Inspectorate.

    Before this suit, Chunga was ,supposed, to lead the one month long Taskforce deputized by Rita Wambui Kuria.

    Other appointed Members are Abdirahman Abdillahi, Lawrence Nyalle and Louis Franceschi

    Well who is this Justice Chunga?

    For those who don’t know him, the notorious Chunga served as the inspectorate Taskforce Chair before he was elevated to head the Bench.

    As Deputy Public Prosecutor, Chunga led a Counsel in the commission that Inquired into Robert Ouko’s murder.

    Under Justice Evans Gicheru, Chunga led as the main prosecutor at the trial of the former DC Jonah Anguka, who was implicated in the Murder of Robert Ouko.

    Chunga was the DPP responsible for prosecuting hundreds of Kenyans first subjected to NIS unspeakable torture by Nyayo Torture House operatives.

    Nyayo House tortures remains the darkest chapter in the history of the Kenyan justice system.

    Chunga resigned immediately after the newly elected President Mwai Kibaki established a tribunal to investigate the misconduct.

    Chunga must under very fortunate cover that made sure he was not called to account.

    Here is the legal notice from CMM to DPP Noordin Haji, explaining why bringing Chunga back provokes bitter memories for those who suffered.

    Our Ref: LK/GEN/02/19 Your Ref: T.B. A. Date: 20 July, 2019

    The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution

    NSSF Buikding, 19th Floor
    Bishops Road
    P.O. Box 30701-00100
    NAIROBI 2019

    Attn: Mr, Nordin Haji

    Dear Sir,

    RE: APPOINTMENT OF MR. BER CH A

    We have been retained by Chama Cha Mawakili Company Limited, on whose
    instructions we write to you as below

    Corruption and human rights violations are the most egregious concerns for the people of Kenya. As a result, the Constitution places the rule of law, respect and protection of
    human rights at the center

    Our Client has, however, noted with shock Gazette Notice No 5718 of 2019 and the accompanying press release on your appointment of Bernard Chunga as chairperson to
    a taskforce on prosecution operations. The taskforce is underpinned by section 32 of the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions Act, 2013 and is meant to ensure that your
    conduct is in accordance with Article 157 of the Constitution, The choice of Bernard Chunga to head such a Taskforce is an insult to Kenyans and a plain violation of the Constitution

    We wish to rekindle your memory as to Bernard Chunga’s tenure as Deputy Public
    Prosecutor and Chief Justice. We remind you of the circumstances under which he
    resigned from public office:

    a. Bernard Chunga planned, condoned and executed a programme of torture, and
    cruel and degrading treatment including night-time trials and detention-without-trials of political dissidents under the KANU dictatorship. A number of his victims were advocates of the High Court of Kenya

    b. Later as the Chief Justice, Bernard Chunga opted to resign rather than face a Tribunal to investigate his conduct in office for allegations that he had, before and after his appointment as Chief Justice, conducted himself in a manner that does not befit the office of the Chief Justice

    c. According to the Ndung’u Report, Bernard Chunga was illegally allocated two pieces of public lands being Upper Hill, LR No. 209/11965 and Kisumu LR. No. BL/12/336.

    We are further instructed that Mr. Chunga has never been prosecuted for these illegal
    allocations of public land or for his crimes in office. Instead, you have rewarded him with an appointment to chair a Taskforce meant to ensure that prosecution and trial of the kind Bernard Chunga undertook never occur again

    Our instructions are therefore to DEMAND, as we HEREBY DO, that you immediately
    and within 24 hours of service of this letter

    1. Revoke the appointment of Bernard Chunga to the Taskforce

    2. Apologize to the people of Kenya and to the victims of Bernard Chunga’s

    torture programme;

    Commence investigations to determine the culpability of Bernard Chunga for the
    torture, cruel and degrading treatment during his tenure and for the illegal
    acquisition of public property

    In default, we will have no option, but to move court for appropriate reliefs and
    declarations against you, including the recovery of any public funds spent on this
    appointment.

    We will also seek that you personally indemnify the public from the costs
    of this unnecessary litigation.

    Yours Sincerely,
    LKips s Company Advocates

  • The Order Of Service Of The Late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore

    The Order Of Service Of The Late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore

    A memorial service for the late Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore, will be today at the All Saints Cathedral Church in Nairobi.

    According to Family sources, All Guests are expected to be seated by 10:30am.

    The memorial ceremony will be attended by Bob’s family, friends, colleagues, government and industry leaders.

    Safaricom shops will be closed countrywide for four hours until 2:30pm in honour of the late CEO.

    Jeff Koinange, who is family friend of the late Collymore will be the Master of Ceremony.

    Joshua Oigara, Kenya Commercial Bank CEO is expected to kick off the ceremony by reading the eulogy.

    The interim Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph will then read Bob’s tribute and a poem.

    Here’s the full ORDER OF SERVICE of The Late Bob Collymore:

    9:00am Cathedral Opens 10:30am All Guests are Seated

    Music by Safaricom Youth Orchestra and Ghetto Classics

    11:00am Service Starts – Jazz Processional (“Smile” by Nat ‘King’ Cole)

    11:05am Prayer – Provost the Right Rev. Canon Sammy Wainaina

    11.10am Bob’s Journey – Joshua Oigara, Group CEO, KCB

    11:20am Michael Joseph – Poem Reading and Tribute

    11:30am Tributes:

    Ashley Chepkorir – Student, M-PESA Foundation Academy

    Charles Musandu – Safaricom Staff

    Nick Read – CEO, Vodafone Group

    Esther Muchemi – Chairlady, Safaricom Dealers Association

    Joshua Chepkwony – Telecommunications Community Representative

    Patrick Quarcoo – Business Community Representative

    Nic Hailey – Diplomatic Corps Representative • Nicholas Nganga – Chairman, Safaricom

    Peter Kenneth – Friends of Bob Collymore

    Esther Koimett – Government Representative • Wambui Collymore

    12:30pm Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber

    12:40pm Readings:

    • 1st Reading: Matthew 5: 13-16 (NIV) by Jessica Odede • 2nd Reading: Ephesians 5: 11-16 (The Message Bible) by Jacob Asiyo

    12:50pm Video

    12:55pm Sermon – Provost the Right Rev. Canon Sammy Wainaina

    1:15pm Offertory for the Church / Safaricom Choir

    1:20pm Prayer for the Family

    1:25pm Address by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, the President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-in-Chief of the

    Armed Forces

    1:40pm Vote of thanks – Joe Ogutu, Safaricom

    1:45pm Final Prayers and Benediction

    1:55pm Second Line / Jazz Recessional by Ghetto Classics and Safaricom Youth Orchestra (“My Way” by Frank Sinatra)

  • Retired Commissioner Isiah Osugo In Trouble Over Sh1.8B Theft At The Prison

    Retired Commissioner Isiah Osugo In Trouble Over Sh1.8B Theft At The Prison

    Auditor General Edward Ouko has exposed sh 1.8billion scam by Kenya Prisons department.

    Auditor General’s report exposes how Kenya Prisons paid phoney suppliers, made double payments for goods and services, procured fake bulletproof vests and jackets.

    Last month, EACC unearthed attempts to steal Sh4.8 billion through fictitious security contracts by top prison officials and the Matiangi led Interior ministry.

    This questionable payouts were dispatched during the tenure of Isaiah Osugo, The now retired Commissioner General of Kenya Prisons.

    Osugo has been holding the position for more than a decade.

    According to Ouko’s report,304.4 million paid at Prison headquarters ,on behalf of various prisons, for food rations could not be traced or accounted for.

    Ouko report has also exposed two suppliers who were paid Sh2.4 million by prison headquarters, on behalf of Kibos Medium Prison did not deliver the food.

    “Indications are that the payments were irregularly made to recipients who did not supply food to the prison,” reads part of Ouko’s report.

    Auditor General’s report revealed that Osugo swindled Sh12.4 million using forged pending bills for Kisumu Main Prison.

    Ouko also discovered cases of double payments totalling Sh22.5 million in connection with

    According to auditor general’s report, Usugo led department double paid non existing suppliers of Naivasha, Eldoret and Kakamega Prisons and Shikusa Borstal.

    “However, verification at the prisons revealed massive irregularities as the purported suppliers had never been contracted to supply food and there were no deliveries or receipts at the three prisons,” reads part of the Auditors report.

    Osugo and other senior prison bosses have been clearing multimillion fake pending bills.

    The report reveals that bills totalling to 288.6million reflected in the headquarters’ records could not be traced to the records of the prisons where food rations were allegedly delivered.

    Osugo also left cooked pending bill records worth 18.6 million for food rations. Auditor general’s report indicates the had already been paid before.

    Usugo led Prisons department is also on spot for procuring 300 substandard bulletproof and 300 bulletproof vests for Sh22.2 million and Sh20.9 million respectively.

    “Audit inspection carried out revealed that the body armour received do not have ballistic panels and cannot be used to protect staff against rifle fire, ammunition, knife stabs and sharp or pointed instruments,” reads part of Ouko’s report.

    In mid March this year, EACC  unearthed a Sh4.8 billion scandal executed via fictitious security contracts.

    The Audit also reveals that the Osugo led department double paid bills worth Sh2 million to the officer-in-charge of Naivasha Maximum Prison for construction of staff houses.

    Prisons also used 128.6 million to pay firewood suppliers countrywide without proof of delivery notes.

    Ouko report also raises a red flag on the award of a tender for construction of a perimeter wall at the Eldoret Prisons for 24.8 million.

    Auditor generals reveals that prisoners were engaged to construct the same wall despite Osugo dispatching additional Sh7.5 million on the project.

    Osugo’s department also oversaw the loss of 1.7 million on a tender for the installation of CCTV surveillance cameras at the Naivasha GK prison.

    Prisons headquarters paid 12 million for 190 five megapixels cameras, but the audit report revealed that only 158 cameras were accounted.

    “The audit further established that 52 cameras costing Sh 4.5 million installed at the reception and hospital blocks are defective and, therefore, not functioning,” reads part of Ouko’s Audit report.

    The audit report also revealed that the contractor supplied eight Power Distribution Boards instead of 30, resulting in a loss of 22 others costing Sh 550,000.

  • DCI Launches Investigations Into Postpaid Billing Fraud At KPLC

    DCI Launches Investigations Into Postpaid Billing Fraud At KPLC

    DCI sleuths have officially started investigations into an alleged postpaid billing fraud at Kenya Power.

    On 27th of June, DCI had summoned 200 Kenya Power staff and customers summoned to record their statements at its headquarters.

    According to DCI director George Kinoti, millions of monies were lost through a collusion between the staff, brokers and over 5,000 customers.

    Those directors at KPLC and private companies implicated will report to the DCI headquarters on diverse dates in July for further questioning.

    A source at DCI headquarters told this site that Tens of the suspects have already recorded their statements with DCI detectives.

    Fraud cases have hit most of state-owned parastatal.

    This is not the first time senior managers at KPLC are being arrested and questioned.

    July last year, KPLC managing board was arrested over the procurement of defective transformers and the irregularities in pre-qualifying 525 companies.

    18 Kenya Power staffs were dismissed after an audit report revealed that 350 out 500 contractors did not meet the set criteria.

    Government auditors recommended investigation of 19 Kenya Power employees that had shortlisted companies registered by their cronies and relatives.

    Kenya Power has been at the center of corruption for ages, last year, KPLC spent 15 times more to buy power from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) compared to Kengen.

    Kenya Power’s electricity purchase costs summary for 2018 seen by this site records that KPLC spent a total of Sh64.8 billion to buy 10.7 billion kilowatts of power from 19 producers up from Sh60.4 billion in 2017.

    Kengen was the biggest beneficiary of which they sold 7.9 billion kilowatts at Sh37.02 billion.

    Our checks reveals that Kenya Power bought a kilowatt of power from Triumph Power Generating Company at a cost of Sh69.26 compared to Sh4.63 from Kengen.

    Other IPPs including Gulf Power Limited sold a kilowatt at sh26.34, Iberafrica Power at 16.96, Power Tecnology Solution at sh14.70 and Tsavo Power sold a kilowatt at Sh11.77.

    Also Orpower 4 Inc, a subsidiary of Israel owned, OrmatTechnology, a firm listed on New York Securities Exchange sold 1.18 billion kilowatts to Kenya Power which earned them Sh11.4 billion.

    This means Orpower 4 inc sold a kilowatt at Sh9.68, more than double that of Kengen.

    Ethiopia sold 18.3 million kilowatts to Kenya at Sh27 per unit and Uganda 1.26 billion kilowatts at Sh6.54 per unit.

    This is, amongst other irregularities that the DCI are investigating, is what saw KPLC Managing Director Ken Tarus suspended.

    Our investigators checks reveals a list of the most notorious companies on the DCI’s radar;

    Moi University Campus (North Rift), Safaricom Investments Co-op Society Ltd, Nairobi Womens Hospital, Uchumi Supermarkets (North Rift), Holy Cross Fathers (Nairobi North) and Dandora Catholic.

    Detectives will also question the involvement of Sasini Coffee House Limited, Turbo Highway Eldoret, Eldoret Polytechnic, Franscisca Sisters of Anna (Western Kenya) and Seventh Day Adventist Church, South Nyanza on the billing fraud.

    Here is the full list of those summoned by the DCI

  • Auditor General Edward Ouko Reveals How Corrupt State Corporations Looted 823.7 Billions.

    Auditor General Edward Ouko Reveals How Corrupt State Corporations Looted 823.7 Billions.

    Auditor General Edward Ouko, has once again unearthed a multimillion State corporations fraud.

    According to Auditor general, the government risks losing Sh823.7 billion worth of outstanding loans advanced to 72 State corporations.

    From the documents seen by this site, Sh47.52 billion of these loans are dormant and have fallen due on various dates over the years.

    Auditor-General Edward Ouko’s Annual National Treasury report on government investment and public enterprises
    {outstanding loans} reveals that most of the loans were issued out by the National Treasury without the required procedure and documentation.

    “Failure to redeem the loans precipitate a high likelihood of defaulting and eventual loss of public funds because of continued write-offs of bad debts,” reads part of Auditor general’s report.

    The National Assembly has said that the management of the state corporations did not forward over their respective annual work plans, cashbooks, ledgers, quarterly reports, monitoring and evaluation reports for the loans.

    And just like any other State masterminded fraud, the loans did not have documentation determining the beneficiaries, terms of the loans and the authorisation of the disbursements.

    “This determination appears to be outside the department’s control, thus the department implements decisions that are made elsewhere. This is exhibited by the continued growth of the outstanding loans,” reads part of Ouko’s report.

    The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chaired by Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi is set to review Auditor Generals report and table their recommendations to the House.

    Another revelation in Ouko’s report is how the already defaulting institutions continue to receive funding from The National Treasury.

    This casts doubts on the backdoor criteria is being used by the Treasury to advance new loans to the Institutions.

    The heads of the 72 States have hidden their budgets, annual plans and, are also sitting on assessment, evaluation and performance reports of the loaning portfolios.

    This is how public funds are swindled by corrupt public servants.

    According to Ouko, without those budgets, annual plans and, assessment, evaluation and performance reports it’s difficult to determine whether public funds had been used properly.

    Here are some of the notorious parastatals with dormant loans in billions of shillings:

    Rural Electrification Authority 13.65 Million, Coast Water Service Board 7 million, Northern Water Services Board 5.39 million and Tanathi Water Services Board has Sh4.4 million.

    Also on the list of shame is Lake Victoria South Water Services Board with 3 million, Lake Victoria North Water Services Board 2.8million, the collapsing Mumias Sugar Company has 2.5 Billion, the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation 2.46million.

    According Auditor general’s report, SONY Sugar Company limited books indicated that they have a loan of Sh770.28 million but Treasury says the have outstanding loans of Sh199.02 million.

    The already crippled Mumias Sugar Company limited has Sh3 billion as per its financial records but Treasury records have Sh2.5 billion.

    Also, Agro Chemicals owes the public Sh9.07 billion but National Treasury records only captured Sh1.11 billion.

    Tanathi Water Services Board has Sh5.20 billion in debt but Treasury records have 5.05 billion.

    Another swindle according to Ouko’s report is where Moi University owes the coffers 257.77 million but the Treasury has only listed 31.25 million.

    Kenya Meat Commission has 300million but Treasury has 90.24 million in its records.

    Utalii College has pending debts of 140.13 million but Treasury lists zero balance.

    Faulu Kenya owes the public 176.68 million but Treasury records shows 141.31 million only.

    IDB Capital limited alleges to have zero balance but Treasury records indicate they still owe the public 1.56 billion.

    Coffee Board of Kenya owes the public 976 million.

    Pyrethrum Board of Kenya 863 million, Kenya Industrial Estates 758 million.

    Funny enough, Co-operative Bank of Kenya also owes the government Sh476 million despite making billions of shillings in profit every year.

    These agencies managements do not pay the loans intentionally so that the government ends up writing off their debts.

    This is how government is splashing public money on the tables of greedy parastatals heads.

  • Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu Closed Irregular Property Deals Worth Sh315M On The Back Of Imperial Bank’s Collapse

    Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu Closed Irregular Property Deals Worth Sh315M On The Back Of Imperial Bank’s Collapse

    There are new mega revelations in a petition to sack Kenya’s second senior most Judge.

    Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu closed irregular property deals worth Sh315 million with the collapsed Imperial Bank.

    Justice Mwilu secured all these multimillion loan dealings just 3 months before Imperial Bank was put on receivership.

    Imperial Bank was placed under receivership in October 2015, after its board alerted Capital Markets Authorities of suspected malpractices.

    She acquired Properties through backdoor deals that have now been linked to tax evasion by DPP’s prosecution team.

    The embattled DCJ, Mwilu, sold the three parcels of land for Sh315 million, in fictitious deal made between March 2016 and July 2016.

    According to DPP, Justice Mwilu backdoor property deals doubled her returns from Sh155 loan from Imperial Bank to sh 315million.

    Our sources working under DPP revealed to us that Justice Mwilu did not pay capital gains tax on the return of the land.

    She also failed to pay stamp duty of four per cent on value of the land she had bought via Imperial Bank between December 2014 and March 2016 for Sh160 million.

    According to DPP investigators, Justice Mwilu’s Sh132 million loans were granted interest free without written applications.

    Justice Mwilu did not appraise her creditworthiness for interest free loans that were granted using letters with Judiciary letters head.

    According to evidence in DPP’s possession, Justice Mwilu also fraudulent recovered securities of the said loans and sold them at a profit that directly led to losses of Sh60 million at the collapsed Imperial Bank.

    This is has been proven without doubt that Mwilu used her position at the Judicial office to improperly enrich herself.

    Justice Mwilu bought two plots in Nairobi for Sh80 million in December 2014.

    1. Plot ref number 3734/202

    2. Plot ref number 3734/209

    Mwilu later on used the two properties as security for a Sh60 million long-term loan.

    It has also been revealed that Justice Mwilu took another short-term loan of Sh60 million for purchase of half-acre property registered under 3734/1129.

    She successfully used it as substitution of the earlier loan security, leading to release of her two plots.

    According to DPP, Justice Mwilu sold all the properties for Sh315 million. She only cleared the Sh65 million and failed to offer Imperial Bank property 3734/1129 as security.

    “The respondent clearly had no intention of charging the said property to Imperial and thus obtained said securities by making false representations,” reads DPP’s statement.

    This is coming at a time when three appellate Judges had just overturned a decision of the High Court barring the CMA from investigating circumstances under which Imperial Bank proceeded with a bond despite insider knowledge it was at the collapsing edge.

    Justices Erastus Githinji, Daniel Musinga and Otieno Odek ruled that CMA is empowered to investigate and take enforcement actions against liable Imperial Bank Directors.

    Imperial Bank directors in question and now being pursued are Alnashir Popat, Omurembe Iyadi, Jinit Shah, Anwar Hajee, Hanif Somji and three others junior members.

  • How Airtel Employees Conspired To Steal Sh670M From The Teleco

    How Airtel Employees Conspired To Steal Sh670M From The Teleco

    Airtel Kenya has recorded a massive insider corporate theft that has seen Sh670 million lost through its mobile money transfer platform.

    Airtel Kenya, one of the brands under Indian owned Bharti Airtel, has to reveal more of its financial details because they are preparing for a listing in the London Stock Exchange.

    Airtel Kenya is under Airtel Africa a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel from India.

    Airtel Africa was established after Bharti Airtel bought Zain Africa’s mobile operations in June 2010.

    Airtel Africa is currently operating in 15 countries; Chad, DRC, Gabon, Ghana, Zambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

    The Economist ranked Airtel Africa the 2nd on the markets after MTN. The Economist records indicated that it had 89.3 million as of March 2018.

    Our sources at the Financial Times have told us that Airtel Africa is targeting a valuation of £3.6bn as they push for an IPO listing in London.

    According to our sources, Airtel Africa IPO’s Price ranges between 80p and 100p.

    They will have a market capitalization of between  ksh384 billion to Ksh463 billion.

    Currently, Safaricom is leading in Kenya with a market capitalization is Ksh1.91 trillion.

    With that out and aside, documents submitted by Airtel Kenya in London Stock Exchange reveals that it lost Ksh670 million through insider mobile money fraud.

    Airtel Money chiefs have faulted the massive loss to its employees.

    This fraud was revealed by Airtel Kenya’s parent firm Airtel Africa, which indicated that only Sh86 million of the sh670 was recovered through insurance.

    “In 2018, incidents of cash control frauds were identified in the group’s Airtel Money operations in Kenya which involved circumvention of the group’s controls by Airtel Money employees and resulted in losses of $6.7 million (Sh670 million)” Airtel Africa company said.

    Airtel Kenya has admitted that despite the introduction of what they called ‘stringent controls’ to check on fraud, risks posed by their employees could not be completely eliminated.

    “Additionally, technical or administrative errors could result in customer losses for which the group could be responsible, and the group may be liable for fraud and problems related to inadequately securing group payment systems,” Reads part of the Airtel Africa statement.

    Telco insider fraud is on the rise in Kenya, Two weeks ago, two Safaricom senior employees were arraigned in court for unlawfully copying and transferring private consumer data.

    Brian Wamatu, head of Safaricom’s regional expansion for mobile money, and Simon Billy Kinuthia denied charges of copying the private data between May and June this year.

    They are also separately charged for attempting to extort Sh300 million from Safari company.

    Safaricom has also sued Benedict Ndung’u for allegedly obtaining and possessing the stolen data from the two employees.

    The duo appeared before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi and denied the charges of computer fraud and demanding money by threats.

    Magistrate Andanyi ordered the duo to deposit Sh1 million cash bail each to secure their freedom.

    Airtel Money has been dangling their growth cut in a market where customers rely on efficient services and money transfer.

    Even though proven to be profitable, Mobile money services is without doubt the riskiest investment on the current market.

    And with such stakes at hand, revelations like this makes Airtel money not only a risk for the markets but also unsafe for customers, who not unless, they are protected, will leave rendering them insignificant.

  • US President Donald Trump To Sue Twitter, Facebook And Google

    US President Donald Trump To Sue Twitter, Facebook And Google

    Donald Trump has said his administration will sue technology companies that are unfairly suppressing his message.

    Trump says that Facebook, Google and Twitter will be sued for their misinformation about the of end extremist content being spread online.

    While speaking to Fox News, Trump claimed that Twitter is “totally biased”.

    Trump says that Twitter has been deliberately limiting his number of followers.

    Currently, President Trump’s account is the most closely watched Twitter handle in the world.

    “Twitter is just terrible, what they do. They don’t let you get the word out. I’ll tell you what, they should be sued because of what’s happening with the bias,” Trump said on Fox News interview.

    Twitter and Google have been receiving global attacks for their alleged biasness.

    Their only defense has been that the academic studies have not backed up the massive attacks towards them.

    According to The Economist, independent fact-checking organisations are rewarded with higher search rankings by Google.

    This is not the first time US tech companies are being threatened by a lawsuit,

    Earlier last month EU Competition Commissioner, Margarethe Vestagher, brought actions against Google, Facebook and Twitter for exploiting dominant market positions.

    Margarethe Vestagher petitions and lawsuits saw Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple investigated by US House.

    Google, Facebook and Twitter executives were forced to appear before the House Committee on Homeland Security.

    The Executives said they will be testify before the Security committee about their individual efforts to counter terror content and misinformation on social media.

    Mike Rogers, Homeland’s top Republican committee member that he has “serious questions” about Google’s ability to be fair.

    This is after undercover filming posted by the right-wing group Project Veritas went viral.

    Mr Rogers said that “We are in trouble” if the views in the video represented Google company policy.

    Roger’s sentiment were in reference of the edited video Jen Gennai, discussing the company’s efforts to tackle potential foreign interference in the 2020 US presidential elections.

    This comes at a time when Russia has been found to have attempted to influence the 2016 Presidential vote.

    In the video Ms Gennai was recorded saying that breaking up Google was a bad idea because it would result in smaller companies being charged with “preventing the next Trump situation”.

    Project Veritas had claimed that the video demonstrated Google’s efforts to prevent reelection of Trump.

    A claim that Ms Gennai said in a blog post was “absolute, unadulterated nonsense”.

    Google and Facebook have been accused by many if not all African governments for snooping in their independence and affecting democracy.

    Derek Slater, Google’s global director of information policy,
    testified to the House committee that no employee could skew search results based on their own political beliefs.

    Twitter on the other side has been suspending a good number of the most influential Africans from their site.

    Most affected countries by this twitter surge was Kenya and South Africa.

    The surge has seen accounts of Cyprian Nyakundi, Sir Alexas, South Africa based Kenyan Trapa Fasa and many others influential Africans permanently suspended.

    Twitter also reduced Africa’s most influential social media personality, Xtiandela’s, followers by half. As if that is not enough, his online content has be suppressed limiting his wide influence.

    In South Africa, Daniel Marven has been most vocal personality but Twitter have denied him verification through their biasness.

    These frequent Twitter surges are a backdoor target to silently silence all influential Africans from the site.

  • Raila Hits Out At Monopoly At KTDA And Calls For An Audit

    Raila Hits Out At Monopoly At KTDA And Calls For An Audit

    Former Prime Minister and ODM leader Raila Odinga has requested the Parliament to legislate the end of KTDA monopoly.

    AU’s envoy Spoke this at his Capitol Hill offices after meeting directors from Kiru tea factory.

    Raila has also said to sent his request to the courts to play their role and help farmers.

    Kiru directors accused the current KTDA board of running down the sector.

    AU appointed the ODM leader, Raila Odinga as High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa.

    AU Chairperson Moussa Mahamat said the move to appoint Raila Odinga is expected to bolster economic growth in Africa.

    Raila called for an urgent forensic audit at the KTDA board.

    The current KTDA board has been to power since the year 2000 despite them mismanaging the industry.

    “There is a shocking story that requires urgent intervention. We are losing tea to corruption and mismanagement,” Raila told a local media house.

    The mismanagement in KTDA has seen farmers opt for uprooting their crops.

    The financial instability of coffee farmers left the sector collapsed and KTDA seems to be heading that way.

    KTDA board has led many farmer into financial instability with some of the farmers threatened by drowning debts.

    “We risk losing the country’s top foreign income earner unless urgent action is taken at the top leadership of KTDA,” Raila said.

    The current outsmarted KTDA board has lost touch with farmers setting them on the path of hopelessness.

    KTDA board auctions tea at Sh80 per kilo but they pay farmers Sh18 per kilo.

    This hurts much when the same cartels in KTDA imports the same tea into Kenyans market using their expensive crony brands.

    According to Raila, Kenya loses at least 100 million kilograms of tea to hawking each year through KTDA’s created loopholes.

    This is not the first time the monopoly at the collapsing KTDA has been on the national limelight;

    Earlier this year, Nyeri Senator Ephraim Maina petitioned the Government to radically change management of the KTDA subsector so that farmers can escape penury and make a decent and honest living from tea farming.

    Senator Ephraim petition to Parliament aims to give farmers not only subsidies but also a level playing field with a strong voice in making decisions on tea farming and selling.

    Kenyainsights.com also calls upon the DCI to investigate the KTDA bosses who run or has bigger shares in Shylocks and microfinance institutions that are harassing and defrauding tea farmers.

    Non suspecting tea farmers were lured into taking unmanageable loans from this Shylocks and microfinance institutions.

    The sleeping cabinet for Agriculture also has to wake up or forced to institute reforms at KTDA to save farmers.

    The DCI as the public protector should also take interest of farmers and safeguard their interests at the KTDA.

    If this audit is not conducted as soon as possible, the tea sector and tea farming at large will terribly collapse just like coffe and sugarcane farming did.

  • Awendo: Mob Lynches A Class Six Pupil In A Foiled Robbery

    Awendo: Mob Lynches A Class Six Pupil In A Foiled Robbery

    A class six pupil was lynched by mob in Awendo sub county.

    The residents have told the Police in Awendo Sub County that the kid has been terrorising
    them for a while now.

    Confirming the incident, Awendo OCPD Mary Musyoka identified the lynched kid as Paul.

    OCPD Mary told this writer that they have launched investigations into the death of the then Class six pupil.

    Paul was lynched by a mob after an allegedly foiled robbery attempt at Komolorume village in Awendo Sub County on night of Monday.

    According to the OCPD, the preliminary investigations revealed that the deceased pupil was in the company of three other adults individuals who managed to escape.

    Locals who spoke to this site on anonymity, claimed that Paul had been part of a gang that has been terrorizing residents for the last couple of months.

    This is coming at a time when Children’s Department in Migori had raised alarm saying that children are no longer safe with their parents and caregivers.

    Migori County Coordinator of Children Services, John Odinya said that many parents have left their kids to feed and take care of themselves.

    Some of the parents and caregivers have also defiled their own Children.

    Mothers on the other side continue taking the blame for remaining mum about this incidents leaving children with nowhere to run for help.

    The County Coordinator urged members of the public to be on the lookout and speak out whenever they witness parents violating the rights of their own children.

    With that out, the Police said they discovered the body of Paul on Tuesday afternoon and moved it to Rapcom Hospital morgue where it awaits to undergo further checks to help in the case.

    Also Read:John Muhoho The Son To Uhuru’s Uncle George Muhoho Was Involved In The Murder Of Monica Kimani As New Details Emerge In Jowie And Maribe Case

    OCPD Mary Musyoka say they are still pursuing the three other suspects who are on the run.

  • Safaricom Breached The Privacy Of 11.5M Customers By Exposing Their Sports Betting History, Biodata And Now Sued For Sh115 Trillion

    Safaricom Breached The Privacy Of 11.5M Customers By Exposing Their Sports Betting History, Biodata And Now Sued For Sh115 Trillion

    Kenya’s giant telecommunication company Safaricom has been sued for violation of private data of over 11.5M customers.

    The Sh115 trillion lawsuit is now the biggest consumer suit after that of Coca-Cola.

    Coca-Cola was sued by Busia, Funyula area residents after one of their distributor sold them contaminated drinks that left 5 people dead.

    With that out and aside, High Court received a petition last week from Benedict Kabugi, one of the Safaricom subscribers who has accused the telco of breaching the privacy of 11.5 million of its customers.

    Kabugi says in a petition that Safaricom has exposed him and other of the company’s customers data details to sports betting history and biodata.

    Benedict Kabugi says an individual who had in his possession the personal data of more than 11.5 million Safaricom subscribers, including his approached him last week.

    “The data, which the petitioner herein viewed personally, was specific to gamblers who had used their Safaricom mobile numbers to gamble on various betting platforms registered in Kenya,” reads part of Benedict’s petition.

    This high magnitude Lawsuit is the first of its kind to be leveled against a mobile service provider in Kenya.

    Kenya’s data protection law Bill has been shelved by Jubilee administration in the August house for almost a decade.

    Sources speaking to this site says there are two duplicate bills currently set for debate by the National Assembly Before being forwarded to the Senate.

    This lawsuit represents a violation of Article 31 of the Constitution which protects the privacy of communication.

    Benedict says the data he saw contained specific identifying details of subscribers, including full names, their mobile phone numbers, gender, age, identity numbers, passport numbers as well as the total amounts gambled.

    Kabugi also reveals that the data had the make and type of devices used by the subscribers as well as their location.

    Benedict told this site that he was arrested and detained by the Police when he went to report the breach at Safaricom offices.

    This is not the first time for Safaricom to be directly involved in data breach dealings.

    Last week, two senior Safaricom employees were arrested and charged in court for trying to obtain Sh300 million from Safaricom’s database.

    Sources speaking to this site say they were arrested after successfully transferring priviledged information on a subscriber from Safaricom’s database.

    This lawsuit will expose more breaches in Safaricom and other telcos like Airtel, Telkom, Faiba, Equitel…

    State’s involvement in Safaricom makes them the most targeted telco by backdoor dealers and hackers.

    If the lawsuit goes through and the Court finds Safaricom liable, this will definitely make them the most unsafe place anyone could ever trust their data and privacy.

  • Abdel-Adheem Hassan The Only Person With Internet Access In Sudan

    Abdel-Adheem Hassan The Only Person With Internet Access In Sudan

    Abdel-Adheem Hassan has emerged victorious in Sudan’s social media and internet blackout suit that he had filed.

    On the ruling made on Sunday, the lawyer won a lawsuit against Zain Sudan over the blackout that was ordered by Sudan’s military heads.

    Adheem’s victory has seen he be the only living person in the entire Sudan that has his internet connected back and his personal social media accounts activated.

    Sudan’s internet was cut off after security forces violently dispersed protesters camping in central Khartoum.

    Sudan’s citizen protesters want to end the military rule after their successful coup against longest serving ruler Omar al-Bashir in April this year.

    Hassan told this site that he is currently the only civilian in Sudan able to access the internet free from military hacks.

    Talking to this writer, Hassan assured our investigators that he will be back in Court today, 25th of June, to win the right for more Sudanese.

    “Today we have a court session and another one tomorrow. It’s my hope that one million civilians will gain internet access by the end of this week,” Hassan statement to this site reads.

    Our sources in Khartoum have ground confirmation that the internet is still blocked to everyone.

    Everybody in Sudan’s military has avoided being responsible for the blackout.

    This Internet and social media blackout is an international crime against humanity and violation of human rights that can see any liable person being charged at The International Criminal Court.

    United Nations had requested Sudanese authorities to allow human rights monitors access the country and end military “repression” against civilian protesters.

    Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva,
    Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations human rights chief urged Sudan’s military rulers to end the internet shutdown.

    For those who don’t know what led to all these Military menace In Sudan; The Sudanese military ejected their Commander in Chief, the then President Omar Al- Bashir from office in April after months of Civil protests.

    The military Chiefs then appointment a council of 7 generals that assumed power on 11 April this year.

    The seven-member Transitional Military Council (TMC) is led by Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan.

    They, the military council insists that they need to be in charge to ensure order and security a decision the civilian protestors strongly oppose.

    That has resulted to a military and civilian struggle to return normality to the country that the protesters want a civilian rule.

    On the 3rd of June this year, the military violently attacked protestors in Khartoum that left at least 30 Sudanese dead.

    Earlier this month, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed flew to Sudan to try and broker an agreement between the TMC and the civilian protesters.

    On Sunday, the council rejected Ethiopia’s proposal which the protesters had agreed to on Saturday.

    TMC said that they had not studied the Ethiopian initiative, which they described as unilateral.

    Our Sudanese source on the ground says that there is real fear the current situation in Sudan could turn terribly bad very quickly anytime.

  • Video :Starehe MP Jaguar Threatens To Storm, Beat And Eject Chinese Traders From Gikomba Market

    Video :Starehe MP Jaguar Threatens To Storm, Beat And Eject Chinese Traders From Gikomba Market

    Jubilee’s crying Starehe MP Charles Njagua alias Jaguar, has given Matiang’i and the government only 24 hours to deport all Chinese traders from Gikomba.

    Jaguar who was captured by a civilian threatened to order his constituents to forcefully beat And eject the Chinese if the Interior Secretary Fred Matiang’i and the Immigration department fails to act in 24 hours.

    Jaguar’s speech was captured on Monday after he led traders and other leaders in a demonstration against the Chinese invaders in Gikomba market.

    “The other day we saw Matiang’i claiming he had only deported six Chinese nationals yet we have hundreds in here. We are giving the government 24-hour ultimatum to deport them failure to which I will lead the locals in storming their shops and ejecting them and beating them to the airport ,” Jaguar said in a video.

    City traders have complaining to the government about the increased influx of Chinese traders in Local markets.

    Chinese do not only deal with fake cheap supplies but also have strong financial muscle and governments protection.

    One even wonders why the same government through Communication authority of Kenya that banned and blocked the use and sell of Chinese communication gadgets is offering shadow protection to the Chinese.

    We as kenyainsights.com strongly believe any person legally in Kenya, whether a foreigner or not, is duly and constitutionally allowed to set up and run businesses as far as they are legal and legitimate.

    It’s also the duty of the government to ensure that all the residents from this and other foreign countries are protected.

    This however doesn’t justify why the government allows the Chinese to have strategic control of the supply chain from importation of goods, to wholesale distribution and even further down to the first hand direct retail level.

    Gikomba traders and other Nairobi trading centers and sites like Luthuli Avenue, River Road, Nyamakima and Kamukunji have been urging the government to protect them from Chinese traders who have cheaper options of the same products on the market.

    Local fisher industry traders had also sent their grievances about the increased Chinese plastic fish on the markets.

    As a law marker Jaguar should be at the forefront of encouraging his Starehe constituents in abiding by the law accordingly.

    By the powers vested in him, he should be in the Parliament debating bills that will protect traders in his constituency.

    Him giving the government that he is deeply involved in by being a member of the ruling party an ultimatum to act clearly indicates that either he is sure that the very government is not working or his has no clue what he is supposed to do as an MP.

    Here’s the full video.