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  • Inside The Akasha Mafia And Drug Lord That Wants Cyprian Nyakundi Silenced

    Inside The Akasha Mafia And Drug Lord That Wants Cyprian Nyakundi Silenced

    Yesterday at around noon, DCI detectives nabbed blogger Cyprian Nyakundi in the company of Emmanuel Ong’era on an allegation that the duo had received a Sh1 Million bribe to pull down alleged defamatory articles on the bloggers’ site— cnyakundi.com.

    What exactly is the importance moreso the need of having Freedom of speech and others in our Constitution when an ordinary Mwananchi can’t enjoy nor be protects by it!? Why do we have Constitutional Freedom yet we ain’t Free?

    The arrest has since attracted huge reactions from Netizens. Under hashtag, #NyakundiSetUp Netizens are expressing their mixed opinions about the blogger. The biggest questions amongst thousands being asked on the trending tag are how did the DCI determine that the posts were false without investigations? Why is the DCI setting up whistleblowers instead of picking from where they have exposed? Why is the institution being controlled by Narcotic Lords—who the same agency should be mobbing out?

    It was not clear why the police would arrest Nyakundi yet the allegations of money laundering by Victoria Commercial Bank were not investigated.

    Kenya Insights had highlighted the whistleblowers exposes about the insider scam and money laundering dealings at the Indian-owned Victoria Commercial Bank. Here is why Cyprian Nyakundi was Set up and arrested.

    According to Blogger Robert Alai, the drug dealer paid a few cops from DCI who then lured Nyakundi into the trap where he was arrested and allegations of extortion dumped on him.

     

    Earlier on, Lawyer Miguna Miguna stated that both the bank executives and the purported extortionists should’ve been arrested.

    So, Who is this Nurdin Tinta Akasha that wants Senior blogger Cyprian Nyakundi silenced?

    The Akasha’s first Kin Baktash Akasha, who has been jailed in the US over Narcotics trafficking and first married as a teenager, had lured his younger brother, Ibrahim Abdalla Akasha, into his notorious ways. Both controlled the empire that survived their father’s death and the violent family feuds over wealth that followed. Baktash and Ibrahim are sons of Fatuma, the late patriarch’s third wife.

    Before his murder, there was an  in the Akasha family, and Baktash and Kamaldin — his slain brother from an unidentified woman but raised by Karima (one of the late Akasha’s wives) — were close and acted as bodyguards for their father.

    But hell broke loose after their father’s death, apparently over control of the spoils. Kamaldin was killed at the height of the squabbles, sparking a new wave of blame and violent clashes.

    Baktash and his half-brother Hassan (son of Karima) publicly accused their other brother, Nurdin Akasha “Tinta”, for Kamaldin’s murder, which remains unsolved to date.

    Baktash inherited most of his father’s wealth and took in Kamaldin’s children and the children of a deceased sister.

    The slain baron had three wives and also had a child with a fourth woman. Karima was the first wife. Her firstborn was Habab Noordin. Her other children were Hassan and twin daughters.

    Kamaldin was born out of a relation between the late Akasha and an unnamed woman he divorced before marrying Karima.

    The third wife was Hayat whose children are daughter Najma Bazuna, son Nurdin ‘Tinta’, Durzia, Feisal and Abdalla.

    Fatuma was the fourth woman in the late Akasha’s life and is the mother of Baktash, Warda and Ibrahim.

    Habab was jailed for 10 years by a Tanzanian court after he was found guilty of being in possession of Mandrax in 1997. He was later freed after the conviction was quashed.

    Habab, who lives a low profile life in Mombasa said while speaking to local media that, while declining to say much about his clan, that the family came to Kenya during colonial times when his grandfather, Abdalla Ibrahim, came from Sudan after years in Iraq.

    He said his father, whose date of birth he did not disclose, established a transport firm and formed the Kenya National Transport Company before selling it to the Government after independence.

    Tinta, the alleged mafia behind Cyprian Nyakundi’s arrests lives and operates mining and jewellery businesses in Sudan where Habab’s twin sisters are married.

    The Akashas have vast interests in real estate in Mombasa and Nairobi besides owning properties in Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique and Sudan. There were also extensive investments in real estate and the transport sector in Kenya, Switzerland, Sudan and Lebanon.

    Although some reports suggest the senior Akasha introduced the narcotics trade to his arsenal of businesses in the 1970s and 1980s, the family has always denied any association and until now, two have been successfully prosecuted and one convicted.

    Significantly, many of Akasha sons and their wives were licensed to carry firearms, which they were accused of misusing.

    Recently, it was revealed that police had always been aware that the late Akasha’s licensed gun was never recovered after his death and is still being used by one of his sons without a licence.

    There is still a suspicion that the Akasha’s drug trade had been allegedly revived. Local media had reported that the Narcotics trade had expanded with the arrival in Kenya of Vijaygiri Goswami in Mombasa on November 22, 2012.

    In November 2014, Mr Goswami, with whom Baktash and Ibrahim have been shipped to the US, admitted he knew the family patriarch in the early 1980s, in Zambia and other nations of southern Africa.

    Goswami, who entered Kenya on a business visa through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after leaving a Dubai jail a week earlier, appeared to have been resuming an old friendship.

  • CRYPTOCURRENCY: Of Isaac Muthui’s Nurucoin Sh2.7 Billion Scam

    CRYPTOCURRENCY: Of Isaac Muthui’s Nurucoin Sh2.7 Billion Scam

    Back in 2018, ‘Isaac Muthui defied odds by becoming one of the few Africans to introduce a cryptocurrency that primarily targeted Africans‘ Local media reported that the computer science graduate had invested Sh15 million in developing Nuru Incorporated which has introduced the first African cryptocurrency, Nuru coin. Kenya Insights has established the ‘highly volatile cryptocurrency’ that went for as low as Sh10, Nurucoin, never existed.

    Kenyans rushed to invest in the coin of the future which was being heavily marketed on social media platforms, over 11,000 kenyans bought into the internet-based medium of exchange that promised huge returns as the world embraced digital currency, Isaac Muthui Mwenda, CEO at ChurchBlaze Group Ltd had other plans.

    Investors had by July 2018 poured about Sh2.7 billion, according to The Standard through PayPal and direct cash deposits into ChurchBlaze’s accounts held in a local bank. The investors hailed from all over the country with most being residents of Murang’a, Kitengela, Machakos, Nyeri, Meru, Nakuru and Kericho.

    Investors paid a registration fee of Sh1,250 towards becoming members of the ChurchBlaze Group family after which they were allowed to purchase shares in four categories, Series A to D, with the latter being the most expensive at Sh60 apiece. Series A sold for Sh6, B for Sh30 and C for Sh40.

    Unknown to them, that would be the last time they see their money, soon Isaac would disappear without trace as calls to his office went unanswered and the office premises were deserted.

    Amos Kisilu and Douglas Munga, victims of the heist told the Directorate of Criminal Investigations they had been duped and even given ranks as directors but they later resigned in 2017 and remained as silent shareholders. “I resigned when I realised he was running the company without our involvement,” Kisilu told journalists. Munga is reported to have invested Sh4.8 million in seed capital.

    Soon enough, Isaac’s lifestyle would start changing, he bought a new home in New Muthaiga, a Toyota Land Cruiser VX, gifted his wife with a high-end Mercedes Benz and started making trips overseas, which he defended as business trips to find investors. The man became a frequent visitor to high end five star hotels all this while poor Kenyans waited to start seeing profits from their investment.

    As per usual, experts had warned against the investments, Isaac’s scheme was a ‘fraud’, hatched on capturing the emotions of unsuspecting Kenyans. He opined that the firm’s name, ChurchBlaze was picked to draw the majority of Kenyans who are Christians even going as far as calling himself ‘pastor’.

    Isaac claims that none of the investors was coerced to entrust him with their money and even then, he saw nothing wrong in raising funds from the public. He has also refuted the amount of money he allegedly stole.

    Investigators from the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) this week confirmed they were looking for Muthui to answer to charges of irregularly collecting funds from investors.

  • GDC CEO Johnson Ole Nchoe Implicated In Sh20 Million Insider Mortgage Scam

    GDC CEO Johnson Ole Nchoe Implicated In Sh20 Million Insider Mortgage Scam

    An audit report has soaked Geothermal Development Company (GDC) managing director and embattled CEO Johnson ole Nchoe in an insider fraud after it emerged that he irregularly approved a Sh20 million mortgage scheme for an employee who did not qualify.

    According to documents in DCI’s possession, Nchoe allowed Simon Cheruiyot, GDC’s Human Resources and Administration General Manager to access the mortgage facility against the set public service policy and guidelines.

    According to the public service policy and regulations, mortgage facilities, where available, are only accessible to permanent and pensionable employees and not to contracted government employees.

    According to the documents, Cheruiyot applied for the mortgage in November 2017 and by that time the agency did not have such a facility in place for its employees.

    It is also important to note that GDC doesn’t have the facility, nonetheless, if it ever existed, Cheruiyot who is on a four-year contract would not have qualified.

    Ole Nchoe, has on top of that made commitments to have the GDC repay the bank loan using public funds without deducting the amount from the employee’s monthly salary.

    Documents filed at the DCI by a section of the GDC board members show that Mr Cheruiyot procured the mortgage from Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) while using his position to tamper with the internal administrative structures at GDC.

    “This transaction reveals a pattern of fraud and abuse of office within the high chain of command in the GDC where senior officers create ad hoc administrative systems and procedures to confer financial advantages on selected people. This constitutes acts of corruption that your esteemed office should investigate,” one of the documents filed at the DCI reads.

    In what looks like a well-crafted looting scheme, Cheruiyot applied for the mortgage on November 30,2017, and the documents indicate that his application was approved a day later on December 1, 2017. The speed and urgency of the approval is my opinion— way faster than Kenya Redcross Response.

    DCI has launched probe on how the loan sailed through despite the General Manager in charge of Finance not approving the request and why the then Human Resources Manager in charge of payroll endorsed the application as eligible.

    When the GDC board of directors, which former Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner-General John Njiraini chairs, discovered the matter, Mr Nchoe tried to sanitise the suspect transaction.

    The GDC Managing Director instructed KCB, through a letter ref GDC/MD/02/4a/RM/rm of September 2018, to convert the loan to a non-existent staff mortgage scheme. In layman’s terms—GDC was committing to use public funds to reimburse Cheruiyot’s loan without indication to have the funds recovered from his monthly salary through a check-off system.

    “We advise that we have acted on your instructions. However, as discussed, harmonise the scheme agreement on clause 3.1 (iii) to include a letter in a manner that will expressly confirm that the loan is approved under the GDC mortgage scheme,” the letter from KCB read.

    The lender, KCB also requested that the limit approved for Mr Cheruiyot and the persons authorised to sign the instructions from GDC (CEO) be included as well.

    “He should be held to account for abuse of office by accessing the GDC staff mortgage scheme before it was operationalised in contravention to the laid-down regulations and guidelines for staff house mortgage scheme,” Godfrey Shitsama, GDC Audit, Risk and Compliance manager, said in an audit report of September 14, 2018.

     

  • Nigerian Women Trafficking Mafia Exposed

    Nigerian Women Trafficking Mafia Exposed

    Nigerian women made up the largest share of African trafficking victims at 61 percent with most forced into prostitution.

    Last year 41 suspected Nigerian traffickers were also caught, roughly twice as many as in 2017, according to the Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office. Numerous secret societies run the smuggling and authorities say they’re increasingly violent.

    One of Germany’s largest red-light districts is Vulkan Street in Duisburg, a northwest German city and former industrial stronghold. A growing number of Nigerian women are ending up here, and Nigerian human traffickers are responsible for smuggling in most of them, says Barbara Wellner of Solidarity with Women in Distress (Solwodi).

    The organization helps victims of human trafficking and forced prostitution. Wellner says many of these women are disadvantaged, young, have received barely any schooling, and have just a single parent or no parents.

    Such vulnerable women often fall into the hands of traffickers in Africa and get passed along a far-reaching network until they eventually land in Germany. There, they often end up with so-called “madams,” women who pimp them out. Before heading to Europe, these women are told that their journey will be costly, but that this won’t be a problem, since they’ll make good money in Europe.

    To place more pressure on the young women to pay up once they’re in Europe, a juju spell from the West African magical tradition is often cast upon them. This can often be accompanied by ritualistic animal slaughter and the drinking of its blood. The women are then forcefully and repeatedly told that their relatives will die or become ill if they fail to repay their debt or tell anyone of this arrangement. Once on European soil, these women often find that prostitution under the “madams” is the only way for them to earn the money that they owe.

    In 2018 German police registered 68 women who were the victims of Nigerian human traffickers — a significant rise on the previous year.

    In 2012 Germany joined the EU’s ETUTU project, which in cooperation with Nigerian authorities aims to crack down on Nigerian criminals trafficking humans around the world. A transnational approach to fighting these criminal is absolutely essential, as most Nigerian women arrive in Europe via Italy.

    A new ‘Nigerian mafia’

    Over the past three years, over 20,000 Nigerian women, many of them minors, have come to Italy via the Mediterranean. The UN estimates that some 80% are victims of human trafficking or are at great risk of becoming a victim.

    Helen Okoro was once a victim of human traffickers. She arrived in Italy 20 years ago and lives there today. She works for Casa Agata, a Catholic women’s shelter, in the Sicilian city of Catania. So many women ask the shelter for help that its workers can barely keep up. Okoro has seen human trafficking change over the past years. She says she is alarmed by how brutal and professional human traffickers have become.

    Once a victim of human trafficking herself, Okoro now works to help others in a similar position

    Some Sicilians are starting to refer a new “Nigerian mafia.” Yet unlike the Italian mafia, both perpetrators and victims are from abroad and often live on the fringes of society. Some Sicilian journalists accuse Italian authorities of not cracking down hard enough on these trafficking organizations.

    However, public prosecutor Lina Trovato rejects this accusation. She says authorities have been monitoring the activities of Nigerian organized crime networks for a while. She explains that Nigeria’s so-called “new mafia” is not a single coherent unit but is instead compromised of numerous secret societies and criminal gangs, such as the so-called Black Axe, Vikings or Supreme Eiye Fraternity.

    In Casa Agata, the women learn how to make pasta

    In Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is out to catch human traffickers, too. Daniel Atokolo, who heads the NAPTIP branch in the metropolis Lagos, says the traffickers are increasingly brutal.

    According to Atokolo, efforts to dispel juju superstition among West Africans mean the madams in Europe now mainly resort to violence, instead of the psychological pressure of spells, to control the young women forced into prostitution.

    Atokolo says that the secret societies active in Europe today, commonly referred to as the Nigerian mafia,

    “Are no longer out to psychologically condition their victims with magic spells. They now use sheer terror. There is a clear relationship between the decrease in juju spells and the stronger presence of these gangs, who demand total obedience from their victims.”

    Catania, in Sicily, Italy, is where some Nigerian women who have been trafficked end up seeking help from shelters

    More than 50 secret societies now operate in Nigeria, with influential lawmakers and businessmen supposedly among their members. Little is known about their organizational structure.

    John Omoruan is a former high-ranking Black Axe member. He says he’s repented and he regrets his past actions.

    However, he accuses Europe of being a large part of the problem behind human trafficking. Omoruan says it’s Europe that wants cheaper, younger prostitutes:

    “At the end of the day, it’s a question of money. Europe is hungry for prohibited things like drugs, underage prostitutes, everything that’s forbidden. As long as this demand persists, secret groups like Black Axe and others will continue to be successful and make lots of money.”

     
     
     
    Via DW By Jan-Philipp Scholz and Andrea Lueg
  • Exposed: The Men Who Fell Sameer Africa And The Loot They Made Away With

    Exposed: The Men Who Fell Sameer Africa And The Loot They Made Away With

    Details about persons who milked Sameer Africa (owned by business magnate Naushad Merali) dry have emerged. The firm has been recording losses and even depleted reserves significantly as was shown in the released HY June 2019.

    Exclusive intelligence documents seen by Kenya Insights has revealed the faces behind the 2018 loss making company and the amount they looted in the year Sameer posted a loss of Ksh 686.4 million for the year ended 31 December 2018

    Pocketing an alleged Sh21.5 million and at the top of the list is Simon Ngigi Gachomo. Simon was appointed as Managing Director in October 2018 where he allegedly siphoned the funds up until August 2019 when he resigned ‘to pursue personal interests.’

    Coming in second, looting about Sh3.25 million was Engineer Erastus Mwongera. The chairman at Sameer Africa and  Kenya National Highways Authority also took part in the massive loot practice that drove the company to its knees. In 2018 the engineer was paid Sh545,000 in sitting allowances a 78.7% increase from Sh305,000 the previous year

    Also listed are;

    1. Ms Mary Ngatia, director and member of the audit, risk and corporate governance committee of the board, she allegedly stole Sh960,000.
    2. Peter M. Gitonga, who was appointed acting Managing Director following the departure of Simon Ngigi Gachomo, at the time he was a member of the nominations and remuneration and the finance and investment committee of the board, he allegedly made away with Sh940,000.
    3. Dr. Winnie Iminza Nyamute, chair of the audit, risk and corporate governance committee of the board with Sh880,000.
    4. Akif H. Butt, member of the finance and investments committee of the board with some alleged Sh860,000, his sitting allowance rose from Sh160,000 to Sh380,000 a 137.5 spike.
    5. Sameer N. Merali member of the finance and investments committee of the board allegedly pocketing Sh800,000, In 2018 Merali took homeSh800,000 in sitting allowances a whooping 300% increase from Sh80,000 in 2017.
    6. Dr. Lydia Muthoni Mbuthia, the chair of the finance and investments committee of the board pocketing the least at Sh480,000.

    Overall in 2018, the company paid out Sh3,065,000 in Sitting allowances up 79% from Sh1,715,000 the previous year.

  • How KTDA Cartels Have Been Stealing Billions From Farmers

    How KTDA Cartels Have Been Stealing Billions From Farmers

    KTDA handles between 160 million and 200 million kilos of processed tea annually. About 60% of that processed tea is sold at Mombasa Tea Auction on Tuesdays all year round, where crooked,opaque and corrupt ‘price discovery’ is done.

    The other 40% is handled through private arrangements where certain players are given wealth on a silver platter. The 40% private arrangement is handled by the marketing department. They give tea to a Mombasa subsidiary of KTDA called Chai Trading Limited and some international players like Lipton which buys around 100 million kgs annually from KTDA. Chai trading Company even has an Office in Dubai. It is treated as a non-KTDA entity which is just fraud.

    The Auction is the first instance where the subsistence Tea farmer is conned. Big multinationals and Chai Trading suppress the auction prices by bidding rock bottom prices. So brokers are unable to sell them the tea below reserve prices.

    Therefore when the multinationals and Chai Trading fail to get tea at rock-bottom extortion prices, they go to Marketing Department on Wednesdays where they are offered the tea at rock bottom prices.

    Chai Trading Limited deals mostly in premium tea grown in the region known as east of Rift Valley which is Kiambu,Muranga, Nyeri, Kirinyaga,Embu and Meru. No guessing what happens behind the curtain and who in KTDA personally benefits.

    Sri Lanka had the same problem. To sort out the mess similar to what is happening today in Mombasa, they decreed that all tea must pass through the auction. The result? Farmers in Sri lanka today earn double those of Kenya despite our Tea being of better quality.

    Tea farming in Kenya is on its death bed because the Farmer is not benefiting from his sweat and is uprooting the crop. This is a consequence of corruption at KTDA. Most factories do not even do proper Audits and lose a lot of money from this thuggish Chai Trading Limited outfit.

    To stop the Kenyan Tea Farmer from uprooting tea in his farm, the following measures must be put in place quickly.

    1. In our Constitution, Agriculture is a devolved function. Therefore KTDA (Kenya Tea Development Agency LTD ) should be disbanded. The National Government and County Governments must have control of a new and transparent KTDA (Kenya Tea Development Corporation) where in the board would seat members directly answerable to farmers who sit in the Senate, County Assemblies.Farmers can also Sell KTDA on the secuitity exchange like Safaricom or Kenya Airways.The resulting transparancy will make it more efficient
    The same to Kenya Pipeline Company and other parastatals.

    2. The side kick company called KTDA Holdings must sell all assets belonging to farmers and distribute the money among all farmers on pro rata basis. Assets include Real estate in Nairobi and Mombasa,speculation land etc and close down the Dubai Office.

    3. All Tea grown in Kenya must go through the Auction, including from Private Kericho farms where Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) must be losing scores of billions in transfer Pricing by Lipton (100 million kgs of Tea exports from Kericho).

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    4. Factory boards must be overhauled for acting against the wishes of farmers. For example, the boards have allowed KTDA head Office to force them to pay salaries of KTDA staff posted from Nairobi. They have also agreed to pay all taxes incurred by KTDA head office in Nairobi.

    5. KTDA must be opened up for competition. At the least, 3 firms should be acting for farmers so that prices can go up.

    6. Tea at the auction is paid after 9 days. However the tea from Chai Trading is mostly paid for after 2 or 3 months. Sometimes even after half an year. So it is possible to buy premium Kenyan tea at Chai Trading, sell it, then buy oil from Iran, sell the oil and buy wheat to sell from Khazakstan before paying the farmer for his produce. Chai Trading must be abolished and corruption investigated.

    7. The management fees that KTDA charges farmers is too high at 2.5% of turnover. It should be reduced to 1% because the core business of KTDA is to manage tea of 650,000 farmers who have 5 million dependents. This 2.5% is wastage where each of the 12 directors are paid 2 million per month.

    8. Tea at the auction is paid for after 9 days. So the farmer can be paid weekly. KTDA keeps the money to pay bonus after 1 year so that the bosses can earn kickbacks from banks to deposit the money in fixed deposit accounts.

    9. Tea auctions should be done at Sagana Railway Junction so that importers make their own arrangements on how to transport their cargo. Today, KTDA transports the Tea all the way to Mombasa at the cost of farmers. This is fraudulent because kickbacks are given by truck owners to KTDA staff.The CS for Agriculture knows that he needs to implement two Tea Task Force reports but has avoided this eventuality. Why?

    10. KTDA controls over Ksh 60 billion of farmers money and must be regulated like banks. An international Audit firm must look at the books of KTDA since year 2000 to ascertain the amount of money farmers have lost to fraudsters – who should refund such money.

    In summary, KTDA is a very badly run cartel. For example Ksh 4 billion of farmers money has been lost in collapsed banks. Corruption is entrenched at Chai Trading. And insider trading. Tenders are won by insiders. KTDA elections are also shambolic and opaque.

    By Kariuki Muiri.
  • Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa and his wife Stelia Nasike Cyprus Citizenship Revoked Over Massive Corruption

    Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa and his wife Stelia Nasike Cyprus Citizenship Revoked Over Massive Corruption

    THE GREEK language daily Politis revealed the names of the 26 investors who will lose their citizenship and passports if the government succeeds in its efforts to revoke them as it stated earlier this month.

    Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa and his wife Stelia Nasike W is amongst 26 marked investors whose citizenship has been revoked.

    Humphrey Kariuki is wanted by the Kenyan authorities on allegations of evading taxes of more than $30 million and smuggling substandard ethanol products into the country.

    When the Kenyan authorities raided the Thika-based offices of Africa Spirits Limited, a company owned by the Humphrey Kariuki, they found smuggled ethanol, 312,000 litres of illicit liquor and 21 million fake Kenya Revenue Authority stamps. The factory has since been shut down.

    The nine Russians

    Vladimir Stolyarenko, his wife and daughter and Aleksander Bondarenko his wife and two sons.

    Both Stolyarenko and Stolyarenko were arrested in absentia by the Moscow Garrison Military Court in July and placed on the international wanted list; Stolyarenko is charged with swindling on an especially large scale and Bondarenko is charged with complicity in it.

    Stolyarenko and Bondarenko are named in a case of the theft amounting to 490 million rubles from businessman Sergey Glyadelkin in 2011. The case also involves the Head of the 2nd Division of the Directorate K of FSB SEB, Colonel Kirill Cherkalin.

    Both are associated with Darth Vader Enterprises Limited, a Cyprus offshore company.

    Oleg Deripaska, his son and daughter.

    In 2018 Deripaska was put on the U.S. Treasury sanctions blacklist along with the largest companies in his portfolio for Russia’s “malign activities.” Earlier this year, he sued the United States, claiming he was made a victim of the U.S. investigation into Russia’s alleged election interference.

    (In January this year the Guardian reported that Deripaska could be the missing link in the Trump-Russia investigation.)

    The eight Cambodian investors

    All of whom are officials and relatives of the country’s regime, which have been subject to sanctions for corruption and human rights abuses.

    Im Paulika and her husband Aun Pornmoniroth, Minister of Finance.

    Choeung Sopheap, better known as Yeay Phu, and her husband Lao Meng Khin, MP

    Hun Kimleng and her husband Neth Savoeun, Cambodian Police Chief and their two daughters.

    The five Chinese investors

    Zhang Shumin, his wife and three children.

    Zhang is the suspect in a fraud case involving loans on adulterated gold, which caused total losses of more than €2.4 billion in several banks in north-west China.

    His brother, Zhang Qingmin, (who is also implicated in the fraud) reportedly fled to Portugal via Cyprus in May 2016.

    Police shut down the Lingbao Boyuan Mining Industry refinery, established by Zhang Shumin and his brother Zhang Qingmin in 2007. It was one of the major refineries in the city of Lingbao and an official supplier of standard gold bars to the Shanghai Gold Exchange.

    Police found the hidden facilities in the factory complex where the tungsten adulterated gold bars were manufactured.

    The Malaysian investor

    Jho Taek Low, popularly referred to as Jho Low.

    Jho Low is possibly Malaysia’s most-wanted man. He faces criminal indictments from the United States Department of Justice for crimes in connection with the scandal-ridden 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, specifically conspiring to launder billions of dollars from the fund and bribing officials to turn a blind eye to misappropriations.

    Educated at the Harrow public school for boys in London, he is also wanted by the authorities in Malaysia, Singapore.

    Earlier this month the Malaysian authorities said that he still trying to buy purchase properties in Cyprus, but under another name.

    The Iranian investor has not been named.

  • Underaged Girls Busted At Echesa’s Sex Den In Ruaka

    Underaged Girls Busted At Echesa’s Sex Den In Ruaka

    Police raided an apartment in Ruaka on Tuesday busting underage girls brothel in a 3 bedroom house by the proprietors. The brothel is linked to ousted CS, Rashid Echesa.

    Police said among the teenagers rescued was a student who had disappeared from a secondary school two months ago.

    According to police investigations, a Form Two student at a school in Kiambu, was recruited to the trade by a friend who lured her with the promise of making money. The girl escaped from school last month and was led to the apartment where she was promised Sh10,000 every day.

    Police says she was taken to the apartment in Ruaka where she was greeted to prostitution with Sh5,000 and Sh10,000 a day for her services.

    The girl told the cops that her contract was revised and she was to receive 25 per cent of the payment while 75 per cent be pocketed by the operators.

    According to the girl, she would entertain close to 10 men a day. At times she visited the homes of her clients for a night of pleasure filled with lots of food and alcoholic drinks of their choice.

    The Police has been investigating the disappearance of children from secondary schools in Kiambu, this bust comes as a win for the State. In the raid, the cops recovered sex toys imported illegally into the country and for use in the sex parties by minors.

    Karuri DCI officers found 10 girls locked in the house with some in bed with clients. The investigators, who posed as clients, were informed that another group of 20 girls had been relocated from the house to a brothel in Mombasa.

    The apartment goes for 60K per month and amongst other things confiscated by Police were unused condoms and sex toys.

    Police rescued the girls and arrested three suspects including a 44-year-old man believed to be the brothel manager. Patrons who were found at the brothel were also arrested but later released on a Sh 1 Million cash bail.

    The investigations into the child prostitution in the crib allegedly owned by the fired former CS Rashid Echesa—who has also been linked to Mumia 42 brothers killing— are ongoing. Those arrests face a huge jail term from the 10 sexual offences before them.

     

  • Israeli-Owned Road Construction Firm SBI Holdings On KRA Radar Over Sh1 Billion Tax Evasion

    Israeli-Owned Road Construction Firm SBI Holdings On KRA Radar Over Sh1 Billion Tax Evasion

    While local firms and companies are closing down because of a tax burden under Jubilee administration, Solel Boneh International (SBI) Holdings, a road construction company and a subsidiary of Shikun & Binui based in Israel have been cleared of bribing Kenyan officials in September 2018 to get the tender to construct Mau Summit-Kericho-Kisumu Highway.

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    The taxman has SBI on their radar after a former employee, Shay Skief, exposed the hood that kept the secrets of the multinational firm that has evaded close to Ksh1 billion in taxes.

    A report authored by Partnership for African Social& Governance Research dubbed Illicit Financial Flows in Kenya: Mapping of The Literature and Synthesis of the Evidence,a Non Governmental Organisation, it was revealed that SBI, in a case that was first mentioned on December 5, 2012, sought interim orders prohibiting its former finance manager from disclosing its trade secrets and other confidential information that would have exposed it to scrutiny and charged for defrauding the Kenya Revenue Authority.

    In the case, it emerged that the SBI had not been deducting or remitting the compulsory income tax from the Finance Manger’s pay perks. The Court was also told that his pay perks were cleverly divided into two to avoid KRA’s suspicion.

    According to documents presented in court, SBI paid the former finance manager a net monthly salary of Ksh994,117 and a gross monthly local salary of Ksh383,000. The court was also informed that “were it not for the contractual fall out between the firm and former finance manager, it would have been difficult to detect SBI’s tax evasion schemes.”

    This comes days after the same SBI has been cleared by Israeli Authorities on their bribery case. SBI had been accused of bribing 20 senior government officials including a former roads minister to win the Ksh14 billion Mau Summit- Kericho- Kisumu tender in 2010.

    “According to the evidence collected, in Kenya alone where the investigation focused … bribes totaling tens of millions of shekels were transferred, generating projects and benefits worth hundreds of millions of shekels,” Police and the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) were quoted Reuters saying at the time.

    Previously, the company has been probed by the World Bank Integrity department over projects in Guatemala, although a report has not been issued since 2016, according to Shikun & Binui.

    In February last year, the World Bank opened investigations into the tender, including visits to the Kenyan offices.

    “The audit procedure has begun, including the collection of evidence by the World Bank, inter alia, by way of a number of visits to the branch in Kenya to review materials and request additional materials,” Shikun & Binui said in its annual report.

     

  • SCANDAL: Prem Kumar Gokul, Accused Kidney Scammer From India’s Continental Hospital Is Now Kenya’s Mediheal Vice President International Business Development

    SCANDAL: Prem Kumar Gokul, Accused Kidney Scammer From India’s Continental Hospital Is Now Kenya’s Mediheal Vice President International Business Development

    Investigation into the kidney racket involving staff members of the Continental Hospital, Nanakramguda, revealed the startling fact that the gang leader of the kidney trade in Bangladesh had struck a “facilitation” agreement with Continental Hospital to expand its patient base.

    Tareque Azam Choudhary of Choto Hossainpur Rajganj in Begumganj Upazila of Noakhali district in Bangladesh, was arrested in September 2011, in Dhaka, and charged with collecting kidneys from 30 poor Bangladeshi persons and selling them to patients in Singapore, Chennai and Vellore.

    In July 2016, Continental Hospitals Limited signed an agreement with “health care facilitator” Tareque Azam to pay him 20 per cent of the treatment bill as a “facilitation fee”.

    The agreement said that Mr Azam is in the medical tourism industry and provides a diverse range of health care facilitation services, including sending patients to medical institutions, aiding travel and accommodation arrangements, organising payments of treatment and diagnosis. In the agreement, the hospital agreed to indemnify and hold Mr Azam harmless against any claims or suits brought by any third party against Continental Hospital arising out of the obligations under the agreement. The agreement was signed by Gokul Prem Kumar, the GM of International Marketing of Continental Hospital. The agreement came under the scrutiny of the police and Directorate of Medical Education and the Gachibowli police issued an FIR under the Human Organ Transplantation Act, accusing three staffers of Continental Hospital, including Gokul Prem Kumar, of cheating and forgery.

    Kidney scamster placed ads to lure donors
    Asked to comment on the matter, Gokul Prem Kumar, the general manager of International Marketing of Continental Hospital, said that at the time of signing the agreement he was not aware of Mr Azam’s background in selling kidneys. This case is still in courts.

    According to investigations, Tareque Azam alias Bablu Chowdhury has been a key figure in the illegal kidney business in Dhaka and Joypurhat district in Bangladesh since 2006. He had arranged transplants for around 30 persons, receiving Rs 3-4 lakh taka per transplant, while the kidney donor was paid only a paltry sum.

    He was arrested by the Dhaka police on September 8, 2011, and a case was booked against him by the Kalaiupazila police in Joypurhat.

    It was alleged that he had inserted an advertisement stating that his cousin needed a kidney donor and then lured those who came forward into selling their kidneys.

    Professional sources speaking to Kenya Insights and who noted this with concern are asking how authorities cleared Gokul Kumar to operate in Kenya. Currently, Prem kumar Gokul is serving as the Vice President International Business Development – Mediheal Group of Hospitals in Kenya which is owned by Dr. Swarup Ranjan Mishra, MP Kesses(we have his scandals set for our series). He’s allied to the most corrupt Kenyan politician the DP William Ruto.

    Dr. Swarup Ranjan Mishra, MP Kesses.

    Integrity and issues amounting to patient safety issues are being raised on Gokul who prides himself as a medical tourism expert. It’s not surprising that Dr. Mishra who happens to be the vice chairman at the National Assembly’s Health Committee has been presenting bills purported to be in favor of public but to himself and his cartels and that he’s been doing business with the government contrary to the laws, we shall revisit this in the next feature.

    Whats worrying is how can kenyans trust an accused kidney scammer like Gokul not to play his old school tricks on Kenyans? Was he vetted? Our sources further goes to say that mediheal is notorious for importing Indian medics with questionable credentials something that only a deep scrutiny by medical board can answer, for us it remains an allegation.

    Kenya Insights is determined to poke holes into the myths of medical tourism and the bigger scam that is PPP which Mediheal is a beneficiary. We must protect the public healthcare system and call out fraudsters like Mishra who’re rapidly expanding at the cost of poor Kenyans. We shall open your eyes with facts. It starts.

  • DCI Forwards Dan Manduku’s And Other Corrupt KPA Officials Investigation Files To ODPP

    DCI Forwards Dan Manduku’s And Other Corrupt KPA Officials Investigation Files To ODPP

    DP Ruto’s ally and KPA MD Daniel Manduku whose phone remains switched off most of the time is a panicked man who knows his days are numbered as DCI hands over three investigations files to ODPP.

    Embattled Daniel Manduku reported to the office over a year and four months ago as Acting Managing Director. For the few months he has been at the top, Manduku has engaged in massive fraud and impunity, just like his buddy—number two.

    Yesterday, Yusuf Hajji led Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions confirmed to have received and scrutinised three investigation files against top KPA managers, whose arrests are imminent over Sh2.7 billion tender fraud, from George Kinoti led Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

    DCI handed over three files that covered a probe report about the Makongeni Goodshed Project, Construction of concrete barriers and the revitalization of the Kisumu port that the President is set to launch.

    “The file was handed over to me yesterday…we are looking at it and if satisfied as ODPP we will proceed,” DPP Noordin Haji told said.

    Embattled KPA Managing Director Daniel Manduku is at the centre of all the investigations. The soft-spoken cartel who is now facing over 30 lawsuits of corruption and abuse of offices is alleged to have authorised irregular expenditure amounting to Sh2.7 Billion for the three projects. Why is he a free man in the first place when everything has been laid out that he’s a competent looter?

    DCI’s anti-graft radar has also picked KPA General Manager in charge of Operations William Rutto, Senior Works Officer Anthony Muhanji, Works Officer Juma Chigulu and Principal Works Officer Bernard Nyobange as confederates.

    According to DCI’s report, Manduku masterminded alongside the said officials the division of 2100 square meters yard belonging to Kenya Railways into 9 zones and fraudulently awarded 8 contractors the concrete works that costed the taxpayer Sh506 million.

    DCI probe also revealed that all 8 companies, believe to be runned by Manduku and cronies, were paid in full without completing tender. Also, the sleuths note that no job was done on the ground as Kenya Railways reclaimed its land and demolished the few concrete they had laid to bluff the public.

    The KPA management whose arrests warrants might soon if not already by now has, in their rebuttal, rubbished DCI’s investigations stating that no land was reclaimed and they gazetted the acquisition of the property from Kenya Railways.

    MD Manduku.

    A few days ago, Manduku and Former KPA MD Catherine Mturi-Wairi banks accounts were frozen after requests by the office of DPP Noordin Haji. This is after suspicious monies were traced to their accounts.

    Manduku, who is DP Ruto’s proxy has been attempting to bribe detectives to go slow on him but as it has to be, the fall of everyone linked to DP Ruto is inevitable.

    A few weeks ago, the arrogant KPA boss told a journalist to write what they wished after the journalist sought for comment about some scams at the scandal-ridden authority. Now, the trembling Manduku is begging media not to expose the scams further after he felt the heat and stupidity of his reckless remarks.

     

  • Paul Manyasi The KQ’s London Stowaway And Is KAA Involved In A Cover Up To Save Face

    Paul Manyasi The KQ’s London Stowaway And Is KAA Involved In A Cover Up To Save Face

    The KQ100 plane was flying from the JKIA to Heathrow when a body fell into a London garden.

    The man most probably had legal access to the airport, Kenya’s Civil Aviation Authority chief told the reporters.

    A post-mortem examination would be carried out and the death was not being treated as suspicious, UK police said.

    The body fell a metre away from a resident who had been sunbathing in the garden in south London’s Clapham suburb, a neighbour said.

    The neighbour, who would later talk to the Sky News investigative team said he heard a “whomp” so he looked out of an upstairs window and saw the body and “blood all over the walls of the garden”.

    “So I went outside, and it was just then the neighbour came out and he was very shaken,” he said.

    The neighbour said a plane spotter, who had been following the flight on an plane tracking app from Clapham Common, had seen the body fall.

    The plane spotter had arrived almost at the same time as the police and told them the body had fallen from a Kenya Airways flight.

    Describing the victim, he said: “One of the reasons his body was so intact was because his body was an ice block.”

    The identity of the individual was yet to be established then.

    Police believed the victim fell from the landing gear compartment of the plane – where a bag, water and some food were found when it landed.

    The director general of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, Gilbert Kibe, told BBC Africa that there was tight security at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

    It was unlikely that an outsider would have crossed the runway, and climbed into the plane without being noticed, he added.

    “They do check every part of the airplane, including the undercarriage, the wheels, the brakes, the tyre condition, the wheel well that is above there. They inspect everything. So when those checks were being done, it is not likely that person was there, otherwise he would have been seen.

    “So at which point the person gained access, that is the mystery,” Mr Kibe said.

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    Security concerns at Nairobi airport

    The discovery of the stowaway who started his journey from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi has raised questions about the effectiveness of security checks in place there.

    The airport is already under a state of heightened security largely responding to the threat posed by the militant group al-Shabab, based in neighbouring Somalia.

    A similar incident took place in 1997 when the body of a young man was found hanging in the nose-wheel bay of a British Airways flight from Nairobi after it landed at Gatwick Airport.

    The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) says a team has been assembled to investigate how the stowaway got on board the plane.

    The KAA carries out security drills at the airport – most recently in November 2018.

    It is not the first death of this kind on the Heathrow flight path.

    In June 2015, one man was found dead on the roof of notonthehighstreet.com’s headquarters in Richmond, west London, while another was found in a critical condition after they both clung on to a British Airways flight from Johannesburg.

    In August 2012, a man’s body was found in the undercarriage bay of a plane at Heathrow after a flight from Cape Town.

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    Months later and following an extensive investigations by UK’s Sky News, it was established that the stowaway was or Paul Manyasi who happen to be an employer of Colnet, a cleaning agent based in JKIA.
    While they had earlier turned down a right of reply when the journalists had requested for an interview, Colnet distanced themselves to Manyasi denying him being an employee and that his details were neither on their employees database.

    https://twitter.com/colnetlimited5/status/1194487896780218368?s=20

    The drama didn’t end there. Sky News team talked to a group of interested people in the case including Munyasi’s girlfriend, roommate and even his parents. They were also tipped by a racy driver ‘Kamau’ who gave a breakthrough on the missing of Colnet employee just the same time he had gone missing.
    Immediately after the Sky News investigative piece went on air, KAA came out as well to deny Manyasi saying he was neither an employee of the said company. In this admission, they basically said unauthorized person gained access to the airside which poses great security threat. For an airport like JKIA where terrorists threat is always alive, what message was KAA sending by admitting that an unauthorized person successfully got into an airplane without the clearance? Is JKIA having a porous security system? What then would this mean to international treaties as that of NBO-NYC direct flights?
    Its interesting that the father to Manyasi months after admitting to the Sky News journalist that he recognized the efit of the man who fell down from the KQ plane as his son Manyasi, he turned against his statement saying it wasn’t him.
    He now says he’s son is not Manyasi but Cedric Shivonje whom he apparently not talked to since 2017 and someone supposedly told him he’s being held in industrial area. This doesn’t corroborate with what he had told the Sky News reporter earlier.
    https://twitter.com/KTNNewsKE/status/1194500760152743936?s=20
    Interestingly, sources at Industrial Area Prison don’t have records of Cedric Shivonje as alleged by the dad. What’s really going on? Suddenly, KAA and Colnet that we’re given a right of reply by Sky News are talking and denying everything uncovered in the piece, the father of Manyasi who had previously approved his son as the stowaway now denying his own son. What happened in the way? Who was compromised if at all and why? JKIA is a strategic airport in the region with serious linkages to the world.
    As we look for answers, we need authorities to get out of ostrich shade, they have the answers, there’s no need to cosmetic investigations. There must an existing CCTV footage of the day, there’s no way a stranger could gain an entry into a secured place in the airport without detection. If this probably happened given their denial statements then the security of JKIA is compromised raising serious security issues of international and local passengers using the airport. Truth will solve the crisis, lies will only escalate it.
    Additional reporting by BBC.
  • Corruption And Ethnic Imbalance At University of Kabianga

    Corruption And Ethnic Imbalance At University of Kabianga

    Tender wars, tribalism and corruption have crippled the academic standards as well as infrastructural development at the University of Kabianga.

    Last week, one of the poorly managed Higher learning institution located in Kabianga Division in Kericho County celebrated its 7th graduation ceremony. The University’s council members and head of deans leadership is almost 90 per cent Kalenjin dominated.

    According to Weekly Citizen, in the worrying trend of alarming tribalism right from the management board, deans to the director, it’s the names of the Kalinjins which have prominently featured.

    Prof Wilson Kipngeno is Kabiangas  Vice-Chancellor under a management board that also boats of a host of his tribesmen including Prof Eric Koech, CPA Willy Koech, Ms Janet Nankui (Librarian), Dr. Cecillia Sang (Academic), Mr Kipkoech Kimalel (Admin), Dr Rev Edwin Too (PR and D) and Mr. Geoffrey Sowek (ICT director).

    The ethnic imbalance is clearly laid out, from the 8 management board members, there are only three individuals from other regions, Prof Elijah Omwenga(DVC A and SA), Prof Maurice Oduor (DVC, PRD) and Ms Ayuma Robai (Legal Officer).

    The pattern continues as—Dr. Peter Cheruiyot is the Dean of school of Business and economics, Dr Harrison Bii (Dean, School of Information Science and knowledge management) and Dr Joyce Kiplimo (Dean, Science and Technology).

    Worst hit is the directors section which has Dr. Janet Kombich (Director, Kericho town campus), Mr. Kipkirui Rono (Director, Sotik Campus), Dr. Erick Mibei (Director Kapkatet campus), Dr. Hellen Sang (Director, Gender Development), Dr. Andrew Kipkosgey (Director, Quality Assurance), Prof Joash Kibett (Director, board of graduate studies) and Mr. Geoffrey Sowek (ICT director).

    Kabianga University is tussling with a range of dubious deals and the masterminds of the dirty deals are folks speaking the same language— vernacular to be specific.

    An audit report by the outgoing Auditor General Edward Ouko revealed a widespread financial mismanagement. Ouko pointed to a possible escalation of the sh1, 075,100 Pineapple plant project that is now haunting the masterminds.

    On their 7th graduation ceremony, council chairperson Dr Florence Nyamu managed to sneak her defence inside her graduation day message in a handsomely paid Newspaper advertisement. Kenya Insights could independently establish whether Nyamu directly benefited from the loot but she was tasked to defend the controversial project.

    According to Dr Nyamu, the University is implementing the fruit juice processing plant to process pineapple juice and other fruits towards ththe the pillar on food security.

    There are myriads of similar issues that have turned the university into a laughing stock. In a most recent case, the grammatical error in communication targeting fourth-year students drew the wrath of students who faulted the institution for its ineptitude. Students from other universities now refer to Kabianga as a localized university and should, therefore, be forgiven for such errors seemingly driven by vernacular influence.

    The Weekly Citizen also published that Gatundu MP Moses Kuria is intertwined in the controversial sh1.2 billion construction tender at the University. Irate group of professionals from the Rift Valley region alleged that Kuria is associated with the company that was awarded the lucrative tender at the expense of all the qualified Bomet County contractors to revamp and construct the university.

     

  • Investigations Reveal How Social Media Apps Are Used To Buy Domestic Workers

    Investigations Reveal How Social Media Apps Are Used To Buy Domestic Workers

    A BBC Africa Eye report has revealed how maids are being sold in a booming black market through some apps on the Google and Apple stores. The Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market alleges that Google and Apple have been approving and providing apps used to promote human trafficking and modern slavery.

    “What they are doing is promoting an online slave market,” Urmila Bhoola, the UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery stated. “If Google, Apple, Facebook or any other companies are hosting apps like these, they have to be held accountable.”

    Some of the trade is being carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private Direct Messages. The hashtags used to popularize the slave apps include ‘#maidsfortransfer‘

    Through the undercover investigation, the team found that children as young as 16 years old were being offered for sale in Kuwait on a popular commodity app called 4Sale. The cost of buying the girl was about Ksh.392,502; according to the BBC, she was being sold alongside things like second hand cars, lawnmowers and TVs. The BBC undercover team spoke to upto 57 app users and visited more than a dozen people who were trying to sell them their domestic worker via the app.

    The sellers almost all advised the undercover agents to confiscate the women’s passports, confine them to the house, deny them any time off and give them little or no access to a phone. “The team spoke to 57 app users and were invited to meet women being offered for sale by more than 15 Kuwaitis on apps available on Google Play and the Apple App Store, and through adverts posted via Instagram, and they were encouraged by sellers to keep wages low, confiscate the workers’ passports, deny them the right to a day off or holiday, and restrict the movement and communication of the domestic worker outside the household,” BBC reports.

    The 4Sale app allowed you to filter by race, with different price brackets clearly on offer, according to category. “African worker, clean and smiley,” said one listing. The BBC team learned how domestic workers were used as a commodity. “You will find someone buying a maid for 600 KD (Sh200,000), and selling her on for 1,000 KD (Sh330,000),” a seller told them.

    The report further alludes that the online slave market is not just happening in Kuwait. “In Saudi Arabia, the investigation found hundreds of women being sold on Haraj, another popular commodity app. There were hundreds more on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.”

    After being alerted to the issue, Facebook said it had banned one of the hashtags involved. Google and Apple said they were working with app developers to prevent illegal activity. Google told the BBC that they are deeply troubled by the allegations, as this type of activity had no place on Google Play while Apple said that they strictly prohibit the solicitation or promotion of illegal behavior, including human trafficking and child exploitation in the App Store and across every part of their business.“We take any accusations or claims around this behavior very seriously,” they stated.

    Kuwaiti authorities say they have officially summoned the owners of several social media accounts used to sell domestic workers as slaves.

    A spot check by Kenya Insights shows an app going by the same name based in Kuwait is still up in the Google and Apple stores.

    Watch the full investigation here.

  • The Fraudulent Transfer Of Integrity Centre To Land Grabbers With A Cartel Inside EACC

    The Fraudulent Transfer Of Integrity Centre To Land Grabbers With A Cartel Inside EACC

    PART TWO:

    MY PERSONAL STATEMENT ON WHY THE EACC DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS, MR. ABDI A. MOHAMUD, IS FIGHTING ME OVER MY STAND AGAINST LAND GRABBING IN NAIROBI

    Fellow Kenyans, as promised, here is the second and last part of the statement I issued earlier.

    CASE N0.2: THE FRAUDULENT TRANSFER OF INTEGRITY CENTRE TO LAND GRABBERS WITH HELP OF A CARTEL INSIDE EACC

    On 3rd June 2019, I saw a story on NTV 9PM News with the headline “EACC at pains to explain purchase of Integrity Centre at Ksh. 1.5B. I could not believe my eyes because, just the other day, the story had been in the news, after the property had grabbed by what the media called “shadowy persons.” The statement of EACC Commissioner Paul Gachoka that, as a procurement expert, he had queries on how the Commission undertook the sale without valuation also caught my attention.

    Of course, as Governor of Nairobi County, my interest immediately shifted to whether the owners of Integrity Centre had been paying or had paid land rates prior to the sale. I discovered that they had not, but had used a fake Rates Statement of City Council of Nairobi (which was at the time of payment defunct) No. 069290 dated 20th May 2013 with receipt No. 0011692013051064.

    On 13th August, 2018, the day DPP arraigned former National Land Commission Chairman Mohammed Swazuri on charges touching on SGR leveled by EACC, former Kiambu Governor Kabogo tweeted: Government should not buy Integrity Centre building. It stands on wet land. Again why pay 1.5B for something bought 2 years ago for Ksh. 450M.

    Clearly, something was amiss but little did I know that digging this matter will bring me shocking revelations that would put me at loggerheads with the EACC Cartel led by Abdi A. Mohamed, Director of Investigations, who within no time, I was able to gather that he was the mastermind behind the grabbing and sale of Integrity Centre right while EACC was basking in its cool and glassy shade.

    On 15th August 2018, National Land Commission Vice Chairperson Abigael Mukolwe replaced Mohammed Swazuri in acting capacity after he was charged on evidence collected by EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud. I also noticed that Swazuri’s attempt to return back to office was vehemently resisted, and he was only able to make it back to office for a short duration, only for fresh allegations.

    On 14th September 2018, even before Vice Chair Abigael Mukolwe could celebrate her first month in office, she gazetted the compulsory acquisition of Integrity Centre, which was in essence Government land after it reverted back on 1st July, 2012. My investigations, which were interrupted by EACC summons, soon established that the beneficiaries of this deal were EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud and his friends Mohamud Ahmed, CEO of Kenya Deposit Insurance Company and Ahmed Adan of Wetangula, Adan, Makokha & Company Advocates. I also noticed that there was an effort by journalists sympathetic to the EACC Cartel to exonerate the Vice Chair and accuse Swazuri of approving the compulsory acquisition of Integrity Centre.

    On 17th April 2019, I noticed that Swazuri was arrested again and charged with 23 others on allegations and investigations by EACC and forced to leave office in 17th April 2019 before the issue of EACC was set to come up before Parliamentary Accounts Committee starting May 2019. I can’t say anything about the innocence or guilt of Mohammed Swazuri, that is for the courts to decide, but there are just too many curious coincidences.

    On 17th September, 2018 Donald B. Kipkorir tweeted: Integrity Centre with 3 Floors was built at no costs to the owners (I mean for Kshs. 0)…Prism Tower, 28 Floors is modern & built for only Kshs. 1.2B & for sale. EACC thro’ National Treasury decides to buy Integrity Centre, a 40 year old buiding for Kshs. 1.5B…And we wonder.

    On 25th March 1994, Revack Limited was established by the firm of Esmail and Esmail Advocates with directors as Kassam Esmail and his mother Shirin Esmail holding trust for unknown client to purchase the property known as Trade Bank Centre (today’s Integrity Centre) from the Deposit Protection Fund Board (DPFB), at the time the liquidator of Trade Bank Limited.

    On 1st November 1994, Revack was given a loan of Ksh.152 million by Trade Finance Limited, a subsidiary of Trust Bank Ltd using as security land parcel Number Land Reference Number 209/1069 on which the Integrity Centre sits, the Headquarters of EACC, even before the Revack had bought the same property (clearly a case banking fraud).

    On 10th November 1994, Revack partnered with Mr. Ajay Shah (one of executive directors of Trust Bank) who contributed an additional Ksh.65 million, transferred from Trust Bank Ltd to its subsidiary Trade Finance Ltd (insider unsecured loan). Trade Finance Ltd gave Revack Ltd a further loan of Ksh. 152.5 Million which the company used to pay DPFB Ksh. 217.5 Million for the property that is Integrity Centre today, which was transferred on same day to Revack Ltd.

    On 11th July 1995, Shirin Esmail and Kassam Esmail purportedly resigned as directors of Revack Ltd and Messrs. Mukesh Jamnadas Gohil and Jassa Singh Videe were appointed directors. On 16th August 1995, Revack obtained another facility from Trade Finance Ltd of Ksh. 156,486,301.

    On 18th September 1998 when Trust Bank was placed under statutory management, the outstanding debt owed by Revack Ltd, whose only asset was Integrity Centre, was Ksh. 484,888,000.00 excluding the Ksh. 65 Million Ajay Shah had illegally transferred to it from Trust Bank. By the time Trust Bank was put on liquidation on 15th August 2001, the amount outstanding was higher because of accrued interest.

    On 12th October 1998, DPFB for reasons known to them purported to go to court to and obtained orders in HCCC No. 568 of 1998 charging Integrity Centre Land for Ksh. 152.5 Million only, instead of the Ksh. 488,888,000 outstanding at the time, plus the Ksh. 65 Million contributed by Ajay illegally from Trust Bank. This fraudulent charge was registered on 14th May 1999.

    On 24th March 2010, with the expiry of Integrity Centre Land coming on 1st July 2010, Oraro & Advocates wrote on behalf of the Deposit Protection Fund letter reference GOO/6448 to send executed surrender of lease and title of the property, seeking extension of the lease and issuance of a new title in favour of DPFB. Revack had negotiated with Government to transfer the land to DPFB on behalf of Government to settle the depositors who lost their money to Trust Bank.

    On 16th August 2010 (after Integrity Centre Land Lease had expired on 1st July, 2010 and the land automatically reverted to National Government), Trust Finance Bank (in liquidation) purported to execute a discharge in favour of Revack Ltd drawn by Oraro & Co Advocates on “condition that replacement charge shall be created over the property in favour of the lender to secure the Debt in replacement of the Existing Charge.”

    On 2nd May 2012, the Land Act, 2012 commenced with express provisions in section 13(1) that where land reverts back to national or county government after expiry of leasehold tenure, the land shall NOT be offered for allocation to the immediate past holder of the leasehold if the land “is required by the national or the county government for public purposes.” At this time, the Integrity Centre Land was required for use by National Government, being the EACC Headquarters.

    On 21st September 2012, the appointment of EACC Chairperson Mumo Matemu was annulled by three-judge High Court Bench after petition by little-known Trusted Society of Human Alliance and by the time he was reinstated on July 26, 2013 it was too late to save Integrity Centre as it had changed hands on 4th June 2013.

    On 6th December 2012, without public participation as required by Land Act, one Mr. Peter K. Kahuho on behalf of Commissioner of Lands purported to issue Letter of Allotment Reference No. 24512/386 for Integrity Centre Land to Revack Ltd despite the fact that the Integrity Centre Land was required by the national government for public purposes, namely, as office of EACC.

    On 13th March, 2013 Tegus Ltd registration number CPR/2013/96498 was registered with equal shareholders being WATUWATU LTD of P.O. Box 10902-00400 Nairobi and SUNNEX ENTERPRISES LTD of P.O. Box 82271-080100 Mombasa, with Directors listed as Rachel Wanjugu Muthui and Anish Doshi. Directors of WATUWATU LTD are AHMED ADAN and his wife ASMA AHMED ADAN.

    On August 10, 2007, the same postal address P.O. BOX 10902-00400 used by the 2 companies, Adan, his wife Asma and Rachel Muthui was used by Ahmed Mohamed Amaer and Mohamed Shtewi Maawal to register LAICO [Kenya] Ltd to which GRAND REGENCY HOTEL was eventually transferred on 5th May, 2008 with obvious help of EACC (story for another day).

    On 4th April 2013, Oraro & Co. Advocates wrote to Mrs. Olando, Assistant Commissioner of Lands letter reference GOO/6448/POA seeking to withdraw the documents released to her on 24th March 2010 stating that, “the same are urgently required by our client (DPFB) for another transaction.”

    On 23rd April 2013, DPFB Director Rose Detho purported to write to the Commissioner of Lands RE: LR NO. 209/1069 NAIROBI- INTEGRITY CENTRE requesting him “to process a new Title Deed of the Subject property and allow for collection of the same by ourselves” curiously without indicating in whose favour the title is to be issued raising suspicion it was a forgery.

    On 25th April 2013 at 4:38PM Kipsanai L.K send an email to the office email of Mohamud Ahmed, [email protected], then Assistant Director, Liquidations at DPFB (current CEO of Kenya Deposit Insurance Company, KDIC) confirming payment of conveyancing fees of Ksh. 21,592.00 by Central Bank on behalf of DPFB to Commissioner of Domestic Taxes.

    On 6th May 2013, the stamp duty of Ksh. 122,020 (inclusive of penalty) for the conditional discharge drawn by Oraro & Co. Advocates to allow for renewal of lease in favour of DPFB was purportedly registered as Land Registrar No. 278 (name not clear) as evidence of discharge of Revack Ltd by DPFB, which was not the true position.

    On 30th April 2013, a new grant IR 144208 (LR No. 209/1069) was issued in favour of Revack Ltd. The same was registered on 2nd May 2013 by Lands Registrar No. 213, one W. Kamuyu, attached to Deed Plan No. 251939 prepared by one J.K. Kibiru for Director of Surveys on 22nd April 2013.

    On 7th May 2013, the new grant to Land LR 209/1069 is signed for and collected by Mohamud Ahmed, Ass. Director of DPFB ID. No. 5289157 (a known mutual friend of EACC Director of Investigations and Ahmed Adan Advocate of Wetangula, Adan Makokha & Co. Advocates).

    On 10th May 2013, DPFB Director Rose Detho writes to EACC Director (not CEO) asking for investigations on the matter surrounding the Integrity Centre property and curiously notes that in 3 days only, lawyers for Revack Ltd “M/S Kipkenda & Co. Advocates recently negotiated and settled the debt owed with DPFB. DPFB in turn discharged and released title documents of the above property (Integrity Centre) to the Lawyers for Revack Ltd).

    On 15th May 2013, one Anthony Ongondi responded for EACC to DPFB vide letter reference EACC.1/1/ Vol. II (40) acknowledging receipt of the 10th May 2013 letter with enclosures and promised to contact them shortly for more information, but EACC did nothing for a month, during which period Integrity Centre Land was transferred to a company owned by Ahmed Adan, friend of EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud.

    On 23rd May 2013, the firm of Wetangula, Adan, Makokha & Co. Advocates made an application for consent Ref. Wam/c/Gen/2013 to transfer and charge Integrity Centre Land. On May 24, 2013 consent to transfer this property, Ref. 24512/TC/14, was given by Mrs. E.S.L. Olando (the same Assistant Lands Commissioner written to by Oraro & Co. Advocates).

    On 24th May 2013, a transfer drawn by Wetangula, Adan & Makokha & Co. Advocates for the Integrity Centre Land was purportedly executed between REVACK LTD and TEGUS LTD with directors of REVACK declared as GIDEON MUNYAO MWONGA (then a Messenger of Adan Ahmed) and MOHAMED THEBET TUWEI (Brother-in-law to the same Adan Ahmed).

    As at May 2014, GIDEON MUNYAO MWONGA who hailed from Embu had died mysteriously, less than a year after purportedly signing the Transfer, after he offered to testify to EACC. Mohamed Tuwei was found in Kakamega by EACC investigators selling bread and “he indicated lack of knowledge of the firm known as Revack Ltd leave alone the property on which Integrity Centre sits.”

    On 31st May 2013, the Chief Registrar Lands Mr. Ngau raised the value of the land from the purchase price of Ksh. 400,000 Million to Ksh. 450,000,000 for purposes of stamp duty. There is no evidence of payment of stamp duty or clearance of Land Rates with Nairobi County.

    On 4th June 2013 at 12:00 Noon, the Integrity Centre property lease was purportedly transferred to TEGUS LTD under unclear circumstances by C.K. Ngetich Lands Registrar No. 212 for Ksh. 400,000,000. There is no evidence that such money was paid and EACC Investigator in charge of the case wrote to EACC Chairman on 27th February 2015 stating “It is strongly suspected that not a cent or only a nominal fee was paid by Revack Limited to redeem the debt.”

    On 13th June 2013, EACC and DPFB officials pretended to do a meeting to follow up the case, and one wonders why for a whole month EACC Director of Investigations Abdi Mohammed did nothing as the property lease was grabbed and transferred by cartels. However, for the next 4 months nothing was done.

    On 3rd October 2013, after much pressure from Commissioners to act on the case, finally EACC Director of Investigations Abdi Mohamed wrote to DPFB vide letter reference EACC. 6/2/2 vol II (27) asking for documents and information touching on use of property comprising Land Registration Number 209/1069 (Integrity Centre). He appointed officers Kipsang Sambai and Tabu Lwanga to collect the information. Inquiry file No. EACC/AT/INQ/10/2013 was opened for the Integrity Centre Land Case but was never concluded.

    On 14th February, 2014, in a letter that should have raised suspicions at EACC, DPFB Director Rose Detho (who it is suspected her signature was being forged at behest of KDIC CEO Mohamud Ahmed as all he letters were without reference number) purportedly wrote to EACC stating “this matter now stands resolved and we, therefore, request you to close your file.”

    On 19th February 2014, Abdi A. Mohamud wrote to the Lands Secretary Reference No. EACC 6/16/1 Vol. XXXIV (56) making a strange request for ORIGINAL documents and information relating to land reference (IR) number 209/1069 IR No. 3653. In the letter, he stated “The documents included may include but not limited to original or certified copies of correspondence file, deed/parcel file, and any other documents.” All indications are they had agreed with his cartel members at lands that in response to the request they forward the originals for his safe keeping.

    On 29th August 2018, Humphrey Mahiva, Deputy Director, Investigations wrote to The Chief Land Registrar vide Reference EACC.6/16/1 Vol LXV (76) RE: REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS IN RESPECT OF L.R. NO. 103/793 stating in paragraph 2 “To facilitate our investigations, kindly but urgently provide us with CERTIFIED COPIES of the following documents (1) Official Search of the said parcel (2) Parcel file/Deed File (3) Any other relevant documents.” The standard procedure is asking for CERTIFIED DOCUMENTS, and not ORIGINALS, so why was ABDI MOHAMUD asking for ORIGINALS in the Integrity Centre Land.

    On 27th February 2015, in an EACC Internal Memo written to the Chairman of EACC by Kipsang Sambai, he states “Sometime in May 2014, the Director-Investigations (Abdi Mohamud) asked me to cease investigating the matter until further notice. Up to now, I have not received any instructions to proceed. Sometimes after the instructions, the EACC CEO called me to his office and showed me a complaint letter against me from Kipkenda and Company Advocates. It was complaining against me for carrying out arbitrary investigations outside the mandate of EACC. I indicated that I was ready to defend myself if an inquiry is instituted to address the same. I further informed him that the case was officially allocated to me and was registered as EACC/AT/INQ/10/2013 and that I had been briefing the DCEO regularly. When I had showed the DCEO the possible forgeries represented by the indication of the stated directors of Revack Limited in the Integrity Centre property transfer, he asked me to surrender all the documents to Mr. Abdi, Director Investigations.”

    HOW EACC DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS ABDI A. MOHAMUD HAS FRAMED WHISTLE BLOWERS IN THE INTEGRITY CENTRE CASE

    On 20th March 2014, Kipkenda & Company Advocates wrote to EACC CEO letter Ref. No. SK/12/CON/2412 making a complaint against Kipsang Sambai and Commissioner Irene Keino, stating thus: “phony investigations were initiated from EACC by Mr. Sambai and Irene Keino purportedly collecting information on the property and the owner Tegus Limited (Our Client)…Mr. Sambai was in frequent visits to Ardhi House and Companies Registry collecting files containing our client’s details and documents.”

    One wonders why Mr. S.K. Kipkenda advocate did not complain about Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud who had written the letter Reference No. EACC. 6/16/1 Vol. XXXIV (56) on 19th February 2014 stating “Our officers Messrs. Kipsang Sambai and Tabu Lwanga will be available to collect the said documents.” Mr. Kipkenda also did not complain about Mr. Tabu Lwanga because he was cooperative with Mr. Abdi Mohamud and didn’t accompany Mr. Sambai in collecting the documents. It is instructive that by end of the year, as punishment, Mr. Abdi A. Mohamud posted Mr. Kipsang as the Officer in Charge, Malaba Satelite Office (where he was on 27th February 2015) and later he was posted in Garissa Satellite Office where he is currently based and is genuinely in constant fear of losing his life like many others have.

    On 21st August 2014, Abdi A. Mohamud of EACC, pretending that the late George Oriaro Advocate was the whistle blower, submitted several forged and fake documents calculated to frame and fix Commissioner Irene Keino of EACC, who was pushing for investigation on Integrity Centre Plot and protecting Mr. Kipsang Sambai, accusing her of grabbing Kenya Railways Plot LR No. 1/287.

    Mr. Abdi A. Mohamud authored numerous documents to justify his falsehoods and fix Commissioner Irene Keino. The first document was a classified advert purportedly dated April 28, 2007 purporting to be a Public Notice for change of user by Nairobi City Council Town Clerk by Irene Keino for Plot No. 1/287. I have confirmed Nairobi City Council never placed such advert in its classified and Nation Media Group can as well confirm.

    The second forged document was an Authority for Change of User for the land indicated as LR. No. 1/287-Nairobi, 1.021 Acres whose registered owner was purportedly The General Manager of the East African Ports and Harbors (which was alleged to have been transferred to Kenya Railways Retirement Benefit Scheme). The purported Nairobi City Council document marked File No. 34969/76 has no Nairobi City Council logo and it feigned to be signed by Mburu J.N on 30th November 2007. I can confirm as Governor of Nairobi the document was fake.

    Another forgery done to fix Irene Keino was a purported letter Ref. 34969/77 dated 11th November 2008, purportedly written by S.K. Mburugu as a purported approval proposal for change of user by Irene Keino to change Residential Plot 1/287 Kilimani Nairobi to multi-dwelling units.

    On 21st August 2014, Irene C. Keino in fighting off the allegations wrote to DCI, Cabinet Secretary Transport & Infrastructure, Chair National Land Commission, CEO Kenya Railways Staff Benefit Scheme, Cabinet Secretary Lands, CEO of EACC stating “I have received intelligence information that some people are purporting to transfer the above property into my name at the National Land Commission. I wish to confirm I have never applied for allocation of the said property at any time, nor have I appointed any agent to engage in such an illegality. I therefore request that investigations be urgently undertaken and the culprits brought to book.”

    On 25th August 2014, EACC in total disregard of the protests of Commissioner Irene Keino wrote to CEO/Commission Secretary, National Land Commission Ref. No. EACC.6/16/1 Vol. XXX/(21) dated 25th August 2014 stating that “The Commission is in receipt of a complaint that touches on purported allocation or registration of the above referenced parcel of land, which is situated in Nairobi. We request your Commission to furnish us with details concerning the property, to facilitate our enquiry on the matter. The document was signed by CEO of EACC which is proof that Abdi A. Mohamud has no qualms using EACC CEO’s names and signatures to harass those who stand in the way of his criminal schemes like me.

    On 2nd September, 2014, the alleged owners of the Plot No.1/287 Kenya Railways Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme, which Irene Keino was allegedly trying to grab from them, replied vide letter Ref. ES/Gen/1, with the CEO Simon Nyakundi asking for more details on the plot as they were not aware of such property or its location.

    On 17th December 2014, Kipkenda & Company Advocates (lawyer for Revack Ltd) wrote to the Director of Criminal Investigations Ref. No. SK/12/CON/2412 stating “We act for Tegus Ltd on whose instructions we wish to lodge this complaint. Our client’s attention has been drawn to clandestine activities intended to forge documents of its property Land Ref. 209/1069 usually known as Integrity Centre by one Mr. Kipsang Sambai and Irene Keino purporting to be acting on behalf of EACC in team work with land fraudsters connected to senior officers in the Ministry of Lands. The property was transferred from Revack to Tegus Limited (both our clients).

    On 18th February 2015, Kipkenda & Co. Advocates in letter Ref. SK/12/CON/2412, giving EACC Chairman then Mumo Matemu on behalf of the Commission, purportedly acting on instructions of Tegus Ltd, NOTICE to vacate Integrity Centre by 30th June 2015 and accusing the Commission of letting a commissioner and a member of staff (referring to Commissioner Irene Keino and Kipsang Sambai) to investigate them.

    On 27th February, 2015 EACC Chairman Mumo Matemu replied to Kipkenda & Company Advocates vide Ref. EACC. 1/1 Vol. 11(175) asking for more details. On the same day he asked Mr. Kipsang Sambai to give him a report on the investigations which contained in the Internal Memo of the same date.

    On 12th March, 2015 lawyer Geoffrey Oriero, Advocate No. P15/5212/03 of Oriaro & Co. Advocates made a petition seeking the sacking of Chairman of EACC Chairman Mumo Matemu and Vice Chair Irene Keino over allegations of violation of the Constitution. Mr. Oriaro stated that the EACC Chair interfered with investigations into the multi-billion-shilling Anglo Leasing scandal, and should, therefore be sacked. Remember investigations dockets alleged to have been interfered with was under Abdi A. Mohamed. Matemu dismissed the petition as corruption fighting back.

    On 20th March, 2015, EACC Chairman Mumo Matemu formed a Special Team to probe, among others, to establish how the Integrity Centre Land was transferred to the current purported owner and how the property was discharged, why upon expiry of lease the property did not revert to Government and why if the ownership of the property had been transferred to the purported buyer, EACC was still paying rent to Revack Ltd from June 2013 to March 2015.

    On 19th April 2015, EACC Chair Mumo Matemu said his life was in danger after a van rammed into his official car twice in Nairobi along Chiromo Road. The occupants of the car that hit Matemu’s car ran away and could not be traced.

    On 27th April 2015, the late Jacob Juma posted “How can Ahmed Adan Advoc and his wife Asma Ahmed Adan steal Integrity House in broad daylight…” One year later, on 5th May 2016 Jacob Juma was killed in a cold-blooded murder that shocked the entire nation.

    On 30th April 2015, EACC Vice Chair Irene Keino resigned saying she did so to spare her family the anguish of a judicial process that will cause them unimaginable pain. She said: “The Commission and I have found ourselves in the proverbial hot water that has characterized the war on corruption in the past”

    On 12th May 2015, EACC Chair Mumo Matemu resigned citing personal rights and interests. On 31st May, 2015 the last Commissioner Prof. Jane Onsongo resigned claiming EACC “was incapable of fighting corruption.” His bodyguard, an AP Officer Mr. Joshua Momanyi, had earlier petitioned seeking removal of Prof. Onsongo accusing her of gross misconduct and violating the Constitution by sending her to buy groceries.

    On 19th August 2015, Geoffrey Oriaro from Ugenya, the lawyer who had petitioned for sacking of Matemu and Keino was found dead in swimming pool Beach Seafront Chalet Hotel at 4:30AM. His family said he was a good swimmer and was pulled out of the water alive but died at hospital.

    On August 29 2015, former Ugenya MP Chris Karan said the fact that the lawyer died barely six months after he filed a petition to oust EACC bosses needed to be investigated. On 24th August 2019, he was arrested by EACC detectives and accused of forging documents used in the election petition.

    On 2nd September 2015, Three relatives of Lawyer Geoffrey Oriaro died in a Nakuru road accident on a Wednesday morning, two weeks after he was found dead. Oriaro’s brother Patrick Ochieng and his wife Rose Akoth and their daughter were travelling back from his burial. Patrick had said at the burial that the sudden death “cannot just be left like that.”

    RECENT ACTIONS BY ABDI A. MOHAMUD CARTEL AGAINST WHISTLE BLOWERS

    On 3rd June, 2019, EACC Commissioner Paul Gachoka declared that, as a Commission, they had issues with valuation of Integrity Centre for the sale. His close relative, James Gachoka, was arrested by EACC detectives and accused of and charged with involvement on in the 100M audit vault scandal.

    On 30th July 2019, I was summoned by EACC Reference EACC. 7/10/1 Vol. XXXI (44) just weeks after I started probing and following up on the Integrity Centre land sale. The summon was such an afterthought that I was accused me of “making utterance against Esther Muthoni Passaris on 1st May 2019 (Labour Day) at Pumwani Grounds. How did EACC miss the fact that I made the statements on Madaraka Day at Pangani Grounds? This is the same day the 2nd illegal Consent on the South C Land reinstating the Building Approvals was entered behind my back.

    On 7th August 2019, Siaya Speaker George Okode who had called for probe into the death of Geoffrey Oriaro was summoned by EACC for allegedly pocketing Ksh. 200,000 for “fictitious Uganda trip.”

    On 27th August, 2019 EACC summoned me again accusing me of receiving money from my friends before I became Governor from companies that are not contractors in the County. It was almost one month and I had refused to recognize the Consent Order of 30th July 2019 as well.

    On 2nd September 2019, the day I appeared before EACC is the same day Abdi Mohamud remembers to reply a letter from the South C Land Grabber’s lawyer dated 31st July 2019, one month later promising to help “maintain the status quo” meaning the land grabber continues with construction on the grabbed public land against my wishes. Next day, EACC retweeted a story in the media falsely claiming I had been bribed Ksh. 20 Million which made me wonder about its source.

    On 20th September 2019, at 11:37AM Matopeni MCA Abdi Guyo meets Director of Investigations EACC Abdi A. Mohamud at the Poolside of Heron Portico Hotel. Guyo arrived first and Abdi a few minutes later. Intelligence confirmed to me that Abdi Guyo had agreed with Issack Abdullahi Ibrahim and property owners who had been given illegal approvals to fund Abdi A. Mohamud until he makes sure I take a plea and step aside to allow for a person who can let him finish constructing his mall on the South C Public Land. Money was exchanged in an orange bag by aides.

    On 27th September 2019, MCA Abdi Guyo accuses me of killing careers after I suspended 2 of my CEC Members, which is within my constitutional prerogative after the death of 8 pupils. He leads a mutiny of MCAs against me and threatens to impeach me.

    On 11th October 2019, Guyo accuses me of wanting to kill him while I am away in France and goes to DCI to record a statement saying he does not trust officers at the Central Police Station, meaning he had likely been send by Abdi A. Mohamud, who was seconded to EACC from DCI, to a specific officer there sympathetic to their cause.

    On 23rd October 2019, I went to KTN’s Point Blank show and spoke out against the grabbing of the South C land and Integrity Centre Land and specifically accused EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud as the one trying to fix me for my stance against land grabbing and illegal construction in Nairobi by his friends.

    On 27th October 2019, South C Land ELC 158 of 2019 comes up and this time the Nairobi County Lawyer has firm instructions not to consent to withdraw the restriction/caveat on the land which Issack Abdullahi Ibrahim wants lifted so that he can register the land NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 as security to access loan facility Reference No. RC/795/GK/RO/SK/2018 Ksh. 415 Million dated 18th December 2018 which has failed to go through due to the restriction placed on the land.

    On 28th October 2019, EACC summons me again, vide Letter Reference EACC.7/10/1 VOL. XXXIII (170), for the 4th time in 3 months and it was alleged by EACC in the media that I had lied in my self-declaration form, by claiming that I did not have pending criminal cases. But in truth, none of the 14 EACC self-declaration form questions from (a) to (n) ask anything about having pending criminal cases. So the question begs, did I lie about what I had not been asked about in EACC form???

    Fellow Kenyans, BE THE JUDGE!

    In the meantime, the CARTELS MUST FALL!!!

    H.E. MIKE MBUVI SONKO, EGH
    Governor, Nairobi City County

    Dated: Tuesday, November 04, 2019

  • Sonko Goes After EACC Director Of Investigations Abdi Mohamud As Part Of A Bigger Cartel

    Sonko Goes After EACC Director Of Investigations Abdi Mohamud As Part Of A Bigger Cartel

    PART ONE:

    MY PERSONAL STATEMENT ON WHY THE EACC DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS, MR. ABDI A. MOHAMUD, IS FIGHTING ME OVER MY STAND AGAINST LAND GRABBING IN NAIROBI

    Fellow Kenyans, a lot has been said lately regarding my frequent run-ins with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). As I have stated countless times before, I have never had any qualms at all with any investigations against me as a state officer. However, I would generally have a problem with individuals misusing public offices to cover-up for their crimes, while at the same time using intimidation, witch-hunt and arm-twisting tactics against those genuinely committed to fighting corruption and impunity in Kenya.

    Below are TWO very important narratives that serve as proof that, indeed, corruption and impunity fights back, often times from the least likely of quarters. What worries me most is when the Constitutional Institution tasked with fighting corruption perpetuates the same vice with impunity.

    CASE No.1: THE ILLEGAL SALE OF PUBLIC LAND IN SOUTH C WITH THE HELP OF THE EACC DIRECTOR OF INVESTIGATIONS

    In May 2014, one JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA (a former Nairobi County employee) attempted to build a Boundary Wall and a Gatehouse on Land Reference Number NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 in Mugoya Estate on Muhoho Road, South C which is a public utility plot earmarked for ECDE Centre/Playground for children in Mugoya Estate. When Mugoya Estate Residents reached out to me then as the Senator of Nairobi County, and we confronted the land grabber, we found that he purported to have a title for the land issued by County Council of Nairobi on 20th September 2012 although the land had been a playground for children since the estate was built.

    On 27th May, 2014, we agreed with the residents that they report the matter to EACC and in a letter on the same date, Catherine Njiru of P.O. Box 59041-00200 Nairobi wrote on behalf of the Estate Residents to EACC requesting for investigations into allegations of suspected fraudulent/irregular acquisition of the public land Plot Number NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 in South C. Evidence shows that the allegations of grabbing of that land were true and merited investigations as a matter of urgency.

    On 16th July, 2014, EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud responded to Catherine Njiru vide letter Ref. No. EACC. 6/16/1 Vol, XXVIII (69)-46286 noting receipt of the letter dated 27th May 2014. The letter acknowledged the allegations of suspected fraudulent/irregular acquisition of public land and promised to take the necessary steps to verify the same to inform action, as need be. Interestingly, the Director of Investigations also advised the Complainant that she “may seek further intervention from the National Land Commission” even though she had indicated it as a public land.

    However, despite the undertaking, Abdi A. Mohamud as EACC Director of Investigations refused to investigate the complaint of Catherine Njiru at all, contrary to section 25 of the Anti-corruption and Economic Crimes Act, 2003 which makes it mandatory for EACC to investigate every complaint unless it dismisses the same in writing. It took another report to EACC 4 years later on 23rd July 2018 for the Commission to launch inquiry into the grabbing of the subject plot.

    According to the intelligence I have, instead of investigating the complaint upon receipt, the EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud immediately used the information obtained from the whistle blower on the grabbing of the public land in South to appropriate the land for himself and his personal friend Isaack Abdullahi Ibrahim and the same plot had been transferred to him by 11th December 2014.

    On 15th September, 2014 (2 months after the Abdi A. Mohamud letter to the whistleblower Catherine Njiru), sale of land agreement Reference Number M/035/2014 drawn by J.K. MWANGI & CO. ADVOCATES of Avenue Office Suites, 3rd Floor, P.O. Box 9301-00300 Nairobi was executed between JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA (ID. NO 3727396) and ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM (ID NO. 1195102) for sale of the South C Plot measuring 0.218 Hectares (0.521 acre) at a throw away price of Ksh. 42,500,000.

    On 4th November, 2014, the Advocates for ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM (the purported purchaser) ISEME, KAMAU & MAEMA ADVOCATES as listed on the sale agreement (clause 3) sent at 15:30 send Ksh.38,250,000 from I & M Bank Account No. 00100076871201 (Transaction Ref. No. 9990RTGS4033614) to then FINA BANK Account No. 1111800331 (Kimathi Street Branch) in the name of J.K. MWANGI ADVOCATES. The firm of J.K. MWANGI ADVOCATES is listed in the Sale Agreement as Advocates for JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA with the proprietor James Karanja Mwangi Advocate No. P.105/3042/96 (aka J.K. MWANGI) witnessing and certifying the signature of the vendor on the agreement as being known to him.

    On 17th November 2014, the said JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA signed a transfer of lease witnessed by the same J.K. Mwangi Advocate who witnessed his signature and certified his photo, ID No. 3727396 and PIN NO. A003944002Y as true copies of the original. He also certified that the said JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA appeared before him on the same date 17th November 2014 and signed the transfer. The transfer is drawn by the Purchaser’s advocate ISEME, KAMAU & MAEMA ADVOCATES under reference number IBR-001-0009-12 and the ID. No. 11951012 and PIN. NO. A003023556J are certified by Emma Irene Gathoni Wacira Advocate P.105/5947/05 of P.O. Box 11866-00400, Nairobi.

    On 11th December, 2014, the transfer was purportedly registered and certificate of lease for NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 was issued to Issack Abdullahi Ibrahim of P.O. Box 1953-00100 Nairobi.

    On 23rd December, 2014, J.K. Mwangi Advocates vide Reference Number 001RTOU143570033 from the law firm’s account at Chase Bank Account No. 0012000103001 in the name J.K. MWANGI AND CO. ADVOCATES TRUST A/C transferred by via RTGs Ksh. 10, 350,000.00 to then and current Nairobi City County Chief Officer Lands, STEPHEN GATHUITA MWANGI First Community Bank Ltd Account No. 107871 at 2:36PM. The same Advocates from the same account on the same day 23rd December 2014 transferred to Ksh. 1,850,000.00 to the purported vendor of the Land NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA vide transaction Reference Number 005TROU143570051.

    On 12th September 2012 when the public land NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 was purportedly transferred to JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA, Stephen Gathuita Mwangi (alias SG MWANGI) was at the time the Deputy Director, Land and Engineering Survey (2008-2013) and before then he was the Assistant Director Land Survey (2004-2008), Principal Land Surveyor (1989-2004) and Senior Surveyor (1985-1989). Prior to that, SG Mwangi was a Staff Surveyor at Ministry of Works, Housing & Physical Planning (1982-1985).

    Indeed, it is also around this time when SG MWANGI was Staff Surveyor at the Ministry of Works, Housing & Physical Planning that the survey and issuance of lease for Block 103 for Mugoya Estate, where the grabbed land is situated, was done and leaving that land unallocated as a public utility plot for ECDE Centre and Playground for children. In a sworn affidavit dated 4th October 2019 filed in ELC Case No. 158 of 2019, Margaret Wambeti, one of the investigators of EACC appointed to investigate the case states in Paragraph 25 thereof: “Notably, Nairobi Block 103 (the grabbed land is NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793) was created from the years 1980 with all its leases issued by the National Government being the Head Lessor running from 1984, 1986 & 1993. The lease to the suit property is for the year 1978 with the head lessor purportedly being the defunct Nairobi City Council.”

    Further, in Paragraph 26 of the same Affidavit drawn and filed on behalf of EACC in court by Clare Cherono Lai Advocate (the EACC In-house Advocate handling the case ELC No. 158 of 2019), Ms Margaret Wambeti proceeds to state:“THAT investigations so far conducted by the 2nd Respondent (EACC) reveal that the suit property (Land Reference Number NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793), a public property, was illegally and fraudulently alienated through an intricate corrupt and fraudulent scheme involving public officials and private citizens.”

    The information that STEPHEN GATHUITA MWANGI, being Nairobi County Chief Officer, Lands on 23rd December 2014 received Ksh. 10,350,000 from J.K. MWANGI & CO. ADVOCATES for giving consent for the transfer of the public land by one Land Grabber JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA to another land grabber ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM, has been known by EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mahamud and his EACC Investigating Officers working under him all along since last year but they have done nothing to recover the public land.

    On 13thMarch, 2018, the same JOSEPH NYAGA KIBIRA (even though he had purportedly sold and transferred the land to ISAACK ABDULAHI IBRAHIM 4 years earlier) applied to the Nairobi County for building plans approval under REF. NO CPD/DC/L.R. BLK/103/793/MNI and paid Ksh. 1,830,200.00 vide Receipt Number 180313009653645 (for Invoice Number INV-22393) in the name of Johnson Nyaga Kibira.

    On 29th March, 2018, even though the Urban Planning Department is the one that had earmarked the land in question NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 as public utility land for use for ECDE Centre and Children Playground during approval of the Mugoya Estate plans, and the land had always been used as a children’s playground, the Director of the Urban Planning Department purported to approve the plan, Reg. No. CPF AP 040, for proposed shops, offices and 28 No. (two bedroom apartments) 8 levels to be erected on NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793.

    On 23rd July, 2018, a complaint was made on behalf of Mugoya Residents to EACC, after which they launched investigations into the allegations of illegal and/or fraudulent acquisition and disposal of public the property Nairobi/Block 103/793.

    Since July 2014 when Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mahumud replied to Catherine Njiru’s complaint made on 27th May, 2014, EACC had not opened an inquiry file. It is not until 2018, after the second complaint was made, that investigations were commenced vide Inquiry File EACC/AT/INQ/26/2018, to establish the veracity of the allegations on the illegal or fraudulent acquisition of the land NAIROBI/BLOCK/103/793.

    From 28th August 2018, EACC commenced preliminary investigations and sought information from relevant/responsible institutions including, among others: The Director of Physical Planning, The Secretary of Lands, the Chief Land Registrar, the Director of Surveys, the Director General NEMA and the County Secretary, Nairobi City County all of whom confirmed the land is public utility.

    On 15th October 2018, EACC Deputy Director, Humphrey Mahiva wrote to the Nairobi City County Secretary vide letter Reference Number EACC. 6/16/1 Vol LXVI (39), requesting S.G. Mwangi, the Chief Officer Lands to go to Integrity Centre Offices on Thursday 18th October, 2018 at 10:00AM for an interview and statement recording to assist with investigations in respect of Land Reference Number: Nairobi/Block 103/793, assisted by EACC Officers Margaret Wambeti and Justus Wangia.

    On 14th November, 2018, Nairobi County Chief Officer-Urban Planning Justus Mwendwa Kathenge wrote to Humprey Mahiva, Deputy Director, Investigations at EACC Reference No. UP/PCE/00225 in reference to EACC Letter Reference No. EACC.6/16/1 Vol LXVI (40) confirming that the land is public utility land. The next day, on 15th November 2015, Humphrey Mahiva of EACC launched a Restriction on Nairobi/Block 103/793 to Chief Land Registrar vide letter Reference No. EACC.6/16/1 Vol LXVI(101) “Pursuant to Section 76(1)(2)(b) of the Land Registration Act, 2012…for restriction on dealings (transfer, sale or other dealings) related to the above parcels of land until the allegations are verified.”

    On 10th April, 2019, EACC through Humphrey Mahiva wrote to the Nairobi City County Secretary Letter Reference ACC.6/16/1 Vol. LXVIII (101) titled RE: REQUEST TO STOP DEVELOPMENT ON L.R. NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793. In the letter, EACC stated: “Our preliminary findings reveal that the parcel of land was irregularly acquired. In the course of our investigation we established that the proprietor has an ongoing construction on the subject land. This is therefore, to kindly but urgently request you to stop the ongoing construction until the investigations are completed.”

    On 17th April 2019, as Nairobi County we complied with the request of EACC and wrote to JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA vide Letter Reference Number NCC/UP/DC/L/0098/TDA/jnm canceling building plan Reg. No. CPF-AF363 and CPF-AP040 on Plot No. NAIROBI BLOCK 103/793, Muhoho Road, South C.

    On 6th May 6th 2019, an Internal Memo from T.D. Adanje, Assistant Director Development Control to Chief Officer, Urban Planning Ref. Number NCC/UP/DC/M/0107/TDA/jnm confirmed that the approval had been cancelled by the Technical Committee.

    On 15th May, 2019 ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM filed a case ELC 158 of 2019 against Nairobi City County, EACC and JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA which sought various orders including the lifting of the Restriction Order (but had not enjoined Chief Registrar). However, there was no prayer for orders to continue construction or for reinstatement of the cancelled building approvals.

    On 24th May, 2019, EACC appointed Claire Cherono Lai (P105/9011/12), who is an in-house Counsel for EACC, as their Advocate in the matter. There is no record of Nairobi City County instructing any advocate, and the advocate on record for the County was sourced by the land grabber with help of his friend Nairobi County MCA Abdi Guyo behind the County Executive’s back. Further, there is no evidence of authority from the Accounting Officer of County Executive, namely the County Secretary or the County Attorney, to enter any consent in any application in the matter whatsoever.

    Nevertheless, on 27th May, 2019, the lawyers chosen by EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mahamud (for EACC Clare Lai Advocate), Matopeni MCA Abdi Guyo (for Nairobi City County Musyoki Mogaka & Co Advocates who had not yet been appointed by the County or given instructions to consent) and the Land Grabber Issack Abdullahi Ibrahim (Cohen Amenya for Ahmednassir, Abdikadir & Co. Advocates), conspired to enter consent in favour of the land grabber

    The Consent Order recorded before Hon Justice B.M. Eboso “THAT pending hearing and determination of the suit, the applicant herein be allowed to continue with development and construction without any interference from any party on L.R. NO. 103/793. THAT the 2nd Respondent is allowed to continue undertaking investigations.” In truth, EACC does not need permission of the Court to continue or discontinue investigations and the consent by EACC allowing the Land Grabber to continue with the construction, coming in a matter of days after the Commission wrote to Nairobi County to cancel the consent, was strange.

    It is at this point when the land grabber resumed construction that residents of South C approached me as the Governor of Nairobi to intervene on the matter. I found the consent strange, as I had never heard anywhere else EACC consenting with a land grabber to continue construction. The consent orders also did not make sense as the public land cannot continue to be available for original use, namely, ECDE Centre and Playground, once a mall is built on it as ordered by consent. I could also not understand why the CEO of EACC had not engaged me on the matter to reach an agreement as he had done before in other matters where we had successfully collaborated in recovering public land stolen by land grabbers.

    Further, I read mischief in this matter especially after I learned that the residents through their Estate Administrative Manager Catherine Njiru had written to EACC and Abdi A. Mahamud responded to them promising investigations but sat on the file for the whole time the land grabber in question Isaack Abdullahi Ibrahim was purchasing the land from the original land grabber JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA.

    I also found it strange that almost a year after the complaint was made, EACC Department of Investigations had not yet summoned or recorded a statement or even informed the Land Grabber whose name was on the title of land NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/973 and who was the beneficiary of the consent ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM, despite being adversely mentioned in the complaint dated 23rd July 2018. As a result, I refused to comply with the order allowing the land grabber to continue with development and construction and that is where my problem with the EACC Cartel, led by Abdi A. Mahamud, started in earnest.

    On 10th June, 2019, the lawyer for the land grabber Cohen Amanya Advocate wrote to Musyoki Mogaka & Co. Advocates vide letter Reference No. AAC/5822/2013 stating “The above matter refers and our letter dated 27th May 2019. We bring to your attention your clients refusal to reinstate the plans as per the court order which had directed that our client continue with construction without interference. Kindly but urgently let’s resolve the issue to enable the contractor proceed with the construction and development. My client keeps incurring losses and failure to which I will seek the courts intervention.”

    I refused to recognize the consent order as the Governor of Nairobi City County. This forced the lawyer for the Land Grabber to go back to court vide Notice of Motion dated 5th July, 2019 before Justice B.M. Eboso again and strangely, the EACC In-House Advocate Clare Lai, Nairobi City County Advocate Musyoki Mogaka & Co. Advocate (without any written instructions) and the lawyer for the land grabber Cohen Amenya purported to enter another consent on 30th July 2019.

    Specifically, on 30th July 2019, it was again ordered by consent of EACC in favour of the land grabber for NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM “THAT an order is hereby issued directed towards the first respondent, its agents or employees to reinstate the approvals and building plans Reg. NO. CPF-AF363 and CPF-AP040 on the property known as Land Reference No. 103/793, South C or any part thereof.” I refused to recognize or enforce the same because I could not and still cannot understand how EACC can enter consent with a land grabber to continue construction even after writing to the county stating that, “Our preliminary findings reveal that the parcel of land was irregularly acquired.”

    On that same day, 30th July, 2019, I was summoned by EACC to purportedly go and record a statement on 1st August 2019 concerning public utterances made against Hon. Esther Muthoni Passaris. To illustrate that the summons was an afterthought, the letter reference No. EACC.7/10/11 Vol. XXXI (44) purported that I made the statements on “1st May 2019” which was on “Madaraka Day” when in truth I had not spoken about Esther Passaris on Labour Day, which was held in Uhuru Park, but had made the alleged statements on 1st June 2019 during Madaraka Day at Pangani.

    On 31st July, 2019, the Advocate for the Land grabber, armed with the second consent given by EACC was on to the next challenge, namely, to get rid of the restriction imposed by EACC (possibly through another consent). Cohen Amanya Advocate vide letter Ref. AAC/5822/2019 wrote to the Chief Land Registrar and copied EACC stating in bold “We act for Mr. Isaack Abdullahi Ibrahim who is the registered owner of the said property NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793. It is our instructions that the said restriction should be removed as our client is registered owner of the said property.”

    Further, the land grabber’s advocate added “We wish to also inform that by consent of the parties in ELC No. 158/2019, Issack Abdullahi Ibrahim vs Nairobi County Government and EACC, our client was allowed to continue with the development and construction without any interference from any party on the said property and the approvals and building plans have now been reinstated (we attach the said order). Your cooperation in having the same removed will be highly appreciated.”

    On 2nd September, 2019, the Director of Investigations EACC Abdi A. Mohamud (instead of Humphrey Mahiya who had previously written the letter for restriction) responded to the letter vide Reference Number EAC. 6/16/1 Vol LXXI(5), stating as follows and addressed to Mr. Cohen Amanya, Advocate for the Land Grabber: “Please note that the restriction placed on the subject parcel is in tandem with the Court’s direction and orders given on 27th May 2019 on maintenance of status quo. The court did not issue any orders to lift the restriction. The Commission’s investigations have not interfered with any development or construction being undertaken by your Client.” This letter was received on 3rd September 2019.

    On the same day, 2nd September, 2019 Abdi A. Mahamud summoned me again to record another statement due to his hard stance on the case and for fear he will stand on the way for the removal of the restriction on NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 which is needed in order for the Land Grabber to access the Ksh. 415,000,000 loan facility from DTB Bank. The amazing thing is that the same Abdi A. Mohamud is yet to summon JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA more than 4 years since he received and shelved the complaint of Catherine Njiru on the fraudulent allocation of NAIROBI BLOCK 103/793. Abdi A. Mohamud is also yet to summon or record a statement from ISSACK ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM who purportedly bought the property after he received a complaint on to investigate.

    While all this was happening, EACC was busy consenting with the two land grabbers despite overwhelming evidence that the land was public land, even as Abdi A. Mohamud was busy using his officers to intimidate Governor Sonko for standing against and threatening to expose the consent orders granted in cahoots with EACC to the land grabber.

    CONCLUSION
    Given the foregoing, I wish to make my personal appeal to the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Mr. George Kinoti and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mr. Noordin Haji, to immediately institute investigations into the conduct of the EACC Director of Investigations, Mr. Abdi A. Mohamud, in clear cases of abuse of office in contravention of Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Kenya, the Anti-corruption and Economic Crimes Act (2003), the Leadership and Integrity Act 2012, and all related legislation.

    Now I can understand President Uhuru Kenyatta’s frustration with the EACC particularly on his war against corruption, because, how is it possible to expect impartial investigations, when the EACC Director of Investigations himself is mired in activities that negate the mandate of his office? When he abuses his office to settle personal scores or intimidate those who find him unfit to remain in a public office?

    On Tuesday, 5th November 2019, I will honour the summons by EACC, even though I am scheduled to be interviewed by same EACC Officers who recorded my statement last time. However, I will be the one to decide where my statement will be recorded within the Integrity Centre, for I know what they are capable of. For the reasons and the manifest coincidences above, I believe I am justified in lacking faith in some of the elements within the EACC Investigations Department led by Director Abdi A. Mohamud.

    Fellow Kenyans, BE THE JUDGE! In the meantime, the CARTELS MUST FALL!!!

    NB: For copies of all the documents mentioned in this statement, visit my Official Facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/GovernorMikeSonkoMbuvi

    H.E. MIKE MBUVI SONKO, EGH
    Governor, Nairobi City County

    PART TWO LOADING……: ON INTERGRITTY HOUSE CORRUPTION WHERE STATE LOST 1.5B.

  • SCAM ALERT: What They’re Not Telling You About The Proposed KNH Private Hospital Through PPP

    SCAM ALERT: What They’re Not Telling You About The Proposed KNH Private Hospital Through PPP

    Information is empowering that’s why those who knows this say that if you want to hide something from a black person put it in a book. Politicians and governments particular, knows this secret that’s why they hide much and sell only what’s glittering and blinding the masses.

    We have a proposed plan to have a Private Hospital built in KNH premise under Public Private Partnership Plan, now before I go ahead, this is simply a ‘tender’ decorated with so many plans. Someone who’s so determined to kill completely the ailing public healthcare is sending it to the grave. Why? Monopoly game to maximize on profits and be the giants that the sick public can’t afford.

    When you hear visionless politicians saying that the product is good for the public and that it will improve healthcare then you know you’re dealing with a nincompoop. Who has a brown envelope in his coat when addressing the press.

    Public Healthcare can’t be fixed with roadside and boardroom deals like what’s happening in KNH now, it’s not a secret what the Management Board knows and individual interests they have in this looting trap, that’s a story we shall revisit another day soon.

    Here’s a system that allowed billions worth of medical equipment be taken to counties in a similar looting program of leasing. All this time taxpayer is paying for services that they don’t get, state of public healthcare is even getting worse and healthcare tenderprenuers love this and will go to the greatest heights to hold the mantle.

    So now you think overnight, they’ve listened to the cries of public and now want to improve the facilities in KNH using a private investor? Bullshit!

    If anyone cared about quality service delivery at KNH then the last thing would be incorporating a private citizen to run a public entity. If you need to understand how these cartels and particularly the one behind KNH proposed private hospital then you must think like them.

    This is a business model please understand that, these people are not coming to do charity work. Opening way for a Private KNH is a long term strategy that has been in the roping. This includes overhyping negligence issues, the hospital is underfunded, take a walk to KNH you’ll find it running with colonial facilities yet you expect it to deliver modern day services, you have to give it to the innovative doctors, they try much at KNH. Spirited, sponsored fight to discredit local doctors as incompetent yet the opposite is true and importing quack Asian doctors and Private hospitals who’re painted as the saviors. Your rod is set on fire, I’ll revisit.

    Management had to kill KNH for Private KNH to happen, now go back and take a look at the composition of the board, you think fighting for a place in the board was in vain? Well as I said, I’ll revisit this.

    Back to this scamming strategy of KNH Private Hospital. According to David Hall the founding director of PSIRU (Public Services International Research Unit) at the University of Greenwich from 2000-2013. And is now a visiting professor at the university. He has published numerous reports and articles on the economics and politics of public services, public finance, and privatisation, including reports on water, energy, waste management, and healthcare.

    David in his report ‘WHY PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS DON’T WORK” terms the arrangement a bluff embedded on false promises. This is what’s being engineered for KNH.

    For decades the failures of water, energy, rail and health privatisations have made clear across the globe that those who promote privatisation offer false promises. Elections have been fought and won on promises to keep public services in public hands. In sectors like health, education, water, energy and transport, community attitudes strongly support universal public provision. 

    Yet privatisation and so-called public-private partnerships are coming back in fashion. Many governments are turning to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the hope that the private sector will finance public infrastructure and public services which been savagely hit by the financial crisis.

    This hope has long run through the World Bank and OECD, but is now emerging in the G20 and the ongoing negotiations at the United Nations for the Sustainable Development Goals and the linked Financing for Development. 

    If successful, privatisation could become official UN policy. Why such a resurgence when the past 30 years experience shows that privatisation is fundamentally flawed? In the context of the economic crisis, governments are under increased pressure to find quick answers to hard questions about maintaining public services and funding infrastructure. 

    The longer the crisis extends the more pressure mounts to find answers, but so do the risks of forgetting the root causes: greed, deregulation, and excessive faith in private corporations.   PSI’s report “Why we need public spending”1  explores the importance of public investment and complements this report.  “Why public-private partnerships don’t work” is the culmination of thirty years’ experience with and assessment of privatisation, in countries both rich and poor. 

    It demystifies the shadowy PPP processes, most of which hide behind confidential negotiations to protect commercial secrecy. There are no public consultations, lots of false promises, and incredibly complex contracts, all desigend to protect corporate profits. There is also a fair amount of bribery, as privatisation contracts can be extremely valuable. PPPs are used to conceal public borrowing, while providing long-term state guarantees for profits to private companies. Private sector corporations must maximise profits if they are to survive. 

    This is fundamentally incompatible with protecting the environment and ensuring universal access to quality public services. The report concludes that PPPs are an expensive and inefficient way of financing infrastructure and services. The report is an excellent working paper that PSI is proposing to affiliates to better understand privatisation and its dangers. 

    The different arguments need to be considered on their own merits and in conjunction with the others, as privatisation is an inherently complex process. Unions can extract information from this reference document and apply it to their specific contexts.

    Regrettably, most politicians and senior civil servants never access this type of information. Local and national governments and the UN are heavily influenced by the powerful lobby of the biggest services and financial corporations, global consulting and law firms, all intent on reaping profits from basic public services such as health, water, energy. 

    It is our job, in alliance with social movements, to raise the alarm bells, to demand transparency and accountability of our public officials and elected politicians and to create mechanisms for systematic participation in decision making. 

    These privatisation policies are also linked to the new wave of trade negotiations (TISA, TPP, TTIP), also secretive, without public consultation, agreed behind closed doors and heavily influenced by business interests. These trade deals not only facilitate PPPs but will also lock them in, making it next to impossible to reverse them, regardless of outcomes. 

    A further danger is the recent effort by the World Bank, the G20, OECD and others to ‘financialize’ PPPs in order to access the trillions of dollars held by pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors. To access these funds, governments are advised to do a whole lot of PPPs at the same time in order to create a pool of assets that can then be bundled and sold on to long-term investors. This is exactly what the financial services companies did with home mortgages at the turn of the century, which brought us the global financial crisis of 2008.

    The PSIRU report also points to the public alternative to privatisation, in which national and local governments continue to develop infrastructure by using public finance for investment, and public sector organisations to deliver the service. This provides numerous benefits to the public such as greater flexibility, control, and comparative efficiency – because of reduced transaction costs and contract uncertainty, as well as economies of scale – and the efficiency gains of more democratic accountability.  And, alternative to PPPs, public-public partnerships, based on solidarity and not profit, is having an effect in the development community.

    Forget what they’ve told you, what I’m telling you is we’re watching the death of KNH, the only National referral hospital that for ages has been the poor man’s last resort. Now what will happen for KNH Private Hospital to survive and make profits? Public wing must die completely and that’s the plan ladies and gentlemen, you’ll have to pay an arm and leg to be able to afford basic treatments at KNH. Do they give a fuck about you? Absolutely not! And you have stupid leaders to ice the cake so you’re on your own.

    For us the least we can do is give you information, we’re going to dissect this KNH Private Hospital topic in subsequent updates including the powerful and minor cartels working day and night to kill the public healthcare and determined to make billions out of this KNH saga. We depend on our own sources and well wishing individuals. If you have any tip, story and a lead that can help us enlighten the public please write us an email. Meanwhile we’re also aware the system is all set and currently bids from investors are underway even though we’re also aware this is a predetermined case with a Chinese firm(name withheld for now) having been handpicked by their godfathers.

    Please email me ([email protected])

    NB: Read the rest of the WHY PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS DON’T WORK The many advantages of the public alternative BY DAVID HALL, PSIRU below.

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  • Paramount Bank And Merali’s Employee’s Dossier On The Insider Dirty Dealings

    Paramount Bank And Merali’s Employee’s Dossier On The Insider Dirty Dealings

    Hello,
    I am an employee of Paramount Bank and the various real estate companies that operate from the same offices at Sound Plaza.

    PLEASE! PLEASE! HIDE MY IDENTITY.

    I am an internal clerk at Paramount Bank and I have some information to share with you. This is what I have managed to gather from my junior position. I have been here for 1.5 years now. I can tell you this this is a crooked bank that enjoys protection from some Central Bank people. I can also tell you that proceeds of this are used in Real Estate developments by Anwarali Noorali Merali Padany, the Executive Chairman of the Bank and real estate companies. His son Ayaz Merali is the CEO. Every important decision in these companies is done by family only. The Africans are for show only and are only allowed to handle regular Kenyan accounts like staff members of his company’. This is just to cover for the illicit business that goes on there.

    Paramount bank.

    Used for money laundering and the proceeds invested in real est. Akila 1 and 2., Nuriana Apartments, Jannah Villas/Apartment and the Alina Villas in Lower Kabete for later.
    Tormount holdings, one of the shareholders of the bank have been mentioned in illegal activities in the Panama report.

    This is from here https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/10071671


    Remember Paramount Bank at some point bought another Muhindi Bank, Universal Bank. These banks were all set up during Moi days for siphoning money out of Kenya and for money laundering. Merali was at some point taken to caught by another crroked Bank, Trust Bank for crazy dealing leading to the collapse of Trust bank.

    http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/54571.
    Merali has for long been invoved in dirty deals with Lands officials using the bank as the money conduit. Here is one of the cases that bust and was documented. http://theinformer.co.ke/12363/paramount-bank-entangled-in- sh30million-loan-fraud/

    The African workers in the Bank are kept busy with small accounts of Kenyans but the wahindis are served in a special room. Sometimes the bank is closed in the afternoon when money is brought in, systems reconfigured and money is cleaned. I was told by a guard who had observed the trend.

    The elite Asian bankers who exclusively serve the Asians are paid double what we earn and all they do is act on laundering instructions from Merali.
    We have separate toilets for Asians and Africans. Africans here are for dealing with the Africans, just for show. The same happens in their Real Estate arm. As you will see.

    Real Estate.
    Merali has developed Akila 1 & 2, Nuriana Apartments, Alina Villas and Jannah Villas/Apartments using laundered money. The homeowners of these properties can attest that they were forced to work with only one lawyer and they only had Paramount Bank as a mortgage option. This is how they hide their deals and use the information circle. It is also how Merali manages to show that his bank is a regular normal bank.
    We are now dealing with a case of homeowners in Jannah Villas who are being asked to add over 3M each after 6 years of waiting for their Shares in the development and for their Titles.

    Imagine Merali convinced them to buy the house and hand over management and sub titles by 3 months. 6 years later they have been told to pay more to get what they should have gotten 6 years ago. All these new charges are out of the sales agreement and since Merali never handed over management, he says he has the sole right to decide on all manner of costs and demand for them. He has threatened not to register the sub leases unless he is paid this money. He sold incomplete units without a sewer and a wall and is now demanding that from them. Absolute corruption and intimidation because he is connected at lands. This is how he recovers his bribery money by fleecing poor Africans.

    Some of the owners are threatening to sue for 150m for loss of use of property, the have not been able to show ownership of their property despite paying in full 6 years ago. Some have tried to use the agreement to get loans but have been turned down by banks because they do not have the title or sub-lease. This will be messy becaue there are 80 houses and Merali only managed to sell half and hence has to find a way to recoup his investment by ovcer charging the poor African buyers. The house owners were not aware that Merali had not gotten approval to build the houses and therefore sold them illegal structures.

    The title was only approved for construction in 2017 (4 years later) and at the time of the sale, the Title belonged to Tanad Properties and was not approved for apartments.

    Some of the leases were registered in 2018. 5 years later.

    The houses were built without a sewer and used to drain to NAIROBI river in collusion with NEMA and County planning officials who are on a monthly salary from Merali through Paramount Bank in dummy accounts. They are now being asked to pay charges which they neither knew of or consented to as owners.

    This case will be big and will expose the corrupt networks at Nema, Lands and County who have allowed Merali to continue conning Kenyans. It is the same officials who have allowed the construction of executive villas by Merali (ALINA VILLAS) in Lower Kabete that the late Wangari Maathai fought against https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/multi-million-buildings-built-on- wetland-to-be-demolished.

    During this past demolition exercise, 250m was used to keep bulldozers away. These bribery costs are later passed on to buyers for spurious reasons. Sound Equipment Ltd is another of Merali’s companies and the owners of Sound Plaza Westlands, the HQ of Paramount Bank and Merali’s offices.

    I will get more information and pass it over. This is information I have gathered from documents I have been sent to deliver across offices and I have used my phone to scan. Others are from the net.
    Thank you.

  • How Mombasa Hospital And Bank Of India Stole Sh15 Million From A British Octogenerian In Coma

    How Mombasa Hospital And Bank Of India Stole Sh15 Million From A British Octogenerian In Coma

    Mombasa Hospital has been alleged of swindling Sh15M through Bank Of India from Jeremy Franklin a British octogenarian who’s admitted at the facility after suffering stroke.

    At the centre of this alleged medical fraud is BOI’s Mombasa branch manager Manoj Kumar. Kumar is alleged to be in charge of a thorny scheme that wants to sweep clean the old Britons account at the bank. BOI is, without Franklin’s or his partner in the joint account consent are settling Jeremy’s inflated and non-transparent medical bills from Mombasa hospital where he has been in a coma for the last two and a half years.

    On July 12, 2017, the now 80year-old British citizen Jeremy Franklin was hustled to Mombasa hospital after he suffered a stroke. Later, was admitted in the ICU for a week. Franklin’s goose started cooking when he was transferred to Mombasa Hospital’s private wing run by Dr Swaleh Bukhet.

    Jeremy, who has since remained in a coma and his situation worsening every day while at the facility, the hospital remains the beneficiaries of his 30+ months coma. According to medical invoices at the Mombasa hospital, Jerremy’s medical bill was flying at Sh21 million by the start of October.

    When Jeremy’s guardian Said Omar, who brought him at the Mombasa hospital and has been responsible for his care including payment of bills requested for a medical report, BOI’s and Mombasa Hospital’s management permanently blocked him and thwarted his plans to seek alternative treatment for the almost dying Brit elsewhere.

    Omar had to seek court order through Kithi and Company advocates after Mombasa Hospital’s head of security Mr Omani under instructions of the hospital’s administrator Abbas Nasser blocked him from accessing medical files and Jeremy’s patient room.
    In what clearly looks like a masterminded medical fraud, BOI has, after Omar being blocked by Mombasa hospital, also blocked Omar from accessing the joint bank account he operated together with the now unconscious Brit.
    Omar also states that he was only shown medical invoices from Mombasa Hospital which indicated that the account has already covered
    more than Sh15 million of the skyrocketing Jeremy’s hospital bills.

    Kadima and Company Advocates on behalf of Omar on July 22 2019, wrote to Bank of India alerting them their client’s intention to sue the bank for blocking him from accessing to the joint account without logical explanations.

    On the other side, Kithi and Company Advocates have also sent a demand letter to Mombasa Hospital on behalf of Omar warning that unless the hospital produces Jerremy’s medical report, he will seek for the court’s intervention.

    “Kindly note that our client has been the informal guardian of his patient in your facility since July 2017 to date… Until recently, our client (Omar) was not able to discharge his duties pertinent to the patient’s care at your hospital with ease. However, the bank has of late frustrated our client’s seamless discharge of duties and thus will refer his predicament to the courts of law,” the lawyer’s letter dated September 23, 2019, to Mombasa hospital read in part.

    Our sources also reveal that Manoj Kumar, BOI’s Mombasa branch manager upon realising that the patient’s joint account contained millions of shillings, he together with Dr Swaleh Buketi, Administrator Abbass Nasser and others are scheming to hold the Octogenarian at the facility in a coma until his Bank Of India accounts are drained.

    Jeremy Franklin, a historical researcher, born in 1939 at Belfast, England has been living in  Kenya for the past three decades. He’s registered under British passport number 517899566.

    Also implicated in the mess is Sharda Rai, Bank Of India’s CEO who has not only been racially abusing and underpaying Kenyan staff at the bank but also alleged to giving unsecured loans to Indian golden customers. Sharda has also been alleged to, through the bank, aiding Indians in Kenya engage in inside loans trading and money laundering to India.

    Kenyan investigative agencies should follow this lead and act as soon as now. Also, the British High Commissioner in Kenya Jane Marriot should come to Jeremy’s rescue before the old man dies a poor foreigner in Kenya.

  • Ex-Othaya MP Mary Wambui Secretely Moves To Retired President Kibaki’s State Home

    Ex-Othaya MP Mary Wambui Secretely Moves To Retired President Kibaki’s State Home

    Controversy mired former Othaya MP Mary Wambui has reported to have moved in with the Retired PNU leader and President Mwai Kibaki at his sh400 million retirement home that the former head of State was awarded by the government.

    Retired President Mwai Kibaki’s State Home in Nyeri Photo|WEB

    Mary Wambui, who was recently appointed by Jubilee to head the National Employment Authority, the appointment has since been revoked after Jubilee’s Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja filed a petition, has moved to Kibaki’s palacial state residence in Mweiga in Nyeri county since her controversial appointment flopped.

    Mary Wambui and Rtd President Kibaki Photo|NMG

    From the few details available about the elegant house along the Nyeri-Nyahururu road, Red-tiles roofed mini State House is detailed with a helipad, 24/7 presidential security details and State of the art surveillance systems.

    Kibaki and his late first lady Lucy Kibaki were swirled into a controversy saw NMG publish and expose of the secret links between Kibaki and the then Nairobi based Othaya MP Mary Wambui, after the Nation media camera man was forced to delete the video of Lucy Kibaki slaping and MP that introduced her as Lucy Wambui instead of Lucy Kibaki.

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    Due to the tight security measures in and around the State owned home, our investigative sources did not succeed on attempts to get out pictures.

    Kenya Insights is following the story and more details will be revealed in as Updates…