Kenya National Highways Authority has awarded Concordia Building and Civil Engineering Company Ltd a firm linked and registered with Majority Leader Aden Duale and a Abdi Duale as the directors. The firm ‘won’ the tender to construct a simple footpath in the A3 Road in Garissa which also happens to be Duale’s constituency where he’s the member of parliament, talk about insider deals.
According to the contract agreement witnessed by Norah B.A Advocates, it goes through for 15 months. What’s puzzling is not only about the area MP, Duale, awarding himself the tender but the mere fact that a simple footpath costs Sh154M an amount that is capable of constructing a long road given existing market prices, if this is not looting then what can it be explained as?
Investigations done by media press, indicates that firms linked to Mr Duale have got millions-shilling-worth of contracts from government entities, with his specialty being the partitioning of offices for government agencies moving head offices or modifying existing designs.
In one new case, Concordia Building and Civil Engineering Company Ltd, of which the MP was a founding director, last year received Sh157 million for the partitioning of two floors of the new headquarters of the National Construction Authority at the new Kenya Commercial Bank Plaza in Upper Hill Nairobi.
Valuers contended that Sh157 million was an astounding amount to use on partitioning office space, but the company got the tender even though some others quoted much lower prices for the same job. Some 29 companies bought tender documents for the job when the NCA advertised it.
A valuer from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development who spoke to the website on condition of anonymity said the tender was “grossly inflated. This money, taken together with the rent being paid for just the first three years, could have built the NCA a permanent headquarters,” said the valuer.
Two companies associated with Mr Duale were also implicated over claims that they were irregularly awarded multimillion tenders by Geothermal Development Company (GDC).
Concordia Building and Civil Engineering Limited and Nomad Palace Hotel Limited were awarded the tenders at a time when the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs chaired by Ainabkoi MP Samuel Chepkonga had put pressure on EACC to investigate GDC and its Managing Director Silas Simiyu, who was later suspended, over inflated costs of transportation of power plant equipment to the tune of Sh1.7 billion.
Before the issue landed before the Legal Affairs Committee, EACC had initiated investigations to establish how GDC offered Bonfide Clearing and Forwarding a contract in 2012 to move geothermal rigs and other equipment in 40 lots with each costing Sh42 million within a distance of 11 kilometres, bringing the worth of the entire deal to Sh1.7 billion.
In a different letter that was send to the DCI and copied to Kenya Insights, the Duale’s family and particularly the son Abdul Duale was adversely mentioned in Kenya Pipeline looting that amounted to billions, however the claims haven’t been ascertained because of no investigations.
Its highest degree of irony for the majority leader in parliament whom many allege to have increased his worth during his stint in parliament to talk about corruption while his name is tinted with graft accusations.
UPDATE
Duale has since distanced himself saying he’s not associated with Concordia Ltd, the company implicated in the bloated raid construction deal in Garissa where he’s the MP.
2/2 The company in question is Concordia. I'm not the Director. If they run the fake story I will sue @dailynation / @ntvkenya for defamation. I have provided all the necessary details to the editor.
— Hon. Aden Duale, EGH (@HonAdenDuale) July 17, 2019
Despite providing the Nation reporter with all the documents that could have helped him to do a professional job, sadly @dailynation has decided to go the gutter route by publishing pure falsehood in the name of investigative journalism.
Barely a week has passed since Safaricom system fault enabled customers to acquire data bundles free of charge. Social media postings revealed that a system malfunction at Safaricom’s headquarters on 28 June had enabled customers to acquire bundles of up to 64 GB of data free of charge.
Safaricom would immediately detect and rectified the glitch that had many ‘lucky’ customers acquire themselves the luxurious platinum package.
However, this wasn’t the first, Safaricom has in the recent past been faced with serious system glitch with the biggest being a data breach where the company has been taken to court for. Internal fraud cases is something Safaricom continues to struggle with as it keeps coming.
Safaricom has been sued for Sh115Trillion for breaching the data of 11.5 Customers. According to the petition filed in the High Court by one Benedict Kabugi, the telco breached the privacy of 11.5 million of its customers by exposing their sports betting history and biodata.
“The data, which the petitioner herein viewed personally, was specific to gamblers who had used their Safaricom mobile numbers to gamble on various betting platforms registered in Kenya,” said the petition.
In the suit, the data allegedly contained specific identifying details of subscribers, including full names, their mobile phone numbers, gender, age, identity numbers, passport numbers as well as the total amounts gambled.
In the same case, two Safaricom ICT employees Simon Billy Kinuthia and Brian Njoroge were charged in court for trying to obtain Sh300 million from the company by transferring priviledged information on a subscriber from the company’s database and sharing it with an unauthorised person.
In 2017, a man from Niger shocked the Milimani Law Courts when he confessed that he was behind the network outage that telecommunications giant Safaricom suffered on April 24.
Mohammed Sani, claimed that the recent Safaricom network outage that triggered panic across the country was planned and executed from his cell at Industrial Area Prison in Nairobi.
“I know everything that happened the day Safaricom shut down; we did it in my prison cell.
“I have all the evidence and people in prison who are willing to come out as witnesses to support my claims so that they are not seen as baseless allegations,” Sani claimed.
On 3rd Wednesday July, another disaster struck the region’s biggest teleco, this time it was on their Twitter page. Users realized unusual responses from the official account which at first was attacking government officials in the wake of the new CEO search following the death of Bob Collymore.
One of the tweets posted from Safaricom’s official Twitter page attacking government official the CS. Has since been deleted.More attacks wedged on Itumbi who’s the Presidency’s Digital Strategist, from the Safaricom’s official Twitter account.
That wasn’t the end of it, there were some other random tweets from the account that pointed at unusual behavior and a serious problem. All these tweets have since been deleted from the account and these are screenshots we collected from affected users.
Some of the deleted posts.
Safaricom in a damage control move and probably after taking back the account, acknowledged the tweets and made a public apology.
Good morning. We apologise for the series of tweets that went out from our official accounts last night. We had a system glitch that has since been rectified.
System Glitch? For those of you who use Twitter know what a system glitch would do, while most corporates automates their replies, the replies from Safaricom were obviously not automated but personalized to the tweets replied to.
Because of this fact, there are several possibilities as to what exactly would’ve happened. First, the handlers of the account forgot to switch accounts, see most of these corporates have social media handlers who use bulk tweeting apps like Tweetdeck that can use multiple accounts on one app, one has to manually switch between the accounts to make post.
So in a scenario where the handler is using both their personal account and the firm’s, they can forget to switch and post wrong tweet in the wrong account. In the Safaricom’s case, we can theorize that handler A forgot to switch to switch from Safaricom’s and thought they were tweeting all along on their personal handle where the language is free.
Second scenario is the Twitter account was compromised. Kenya Insights has managed to talk to a few insiders at Safaricom and there’s rife speculation that a disgruntled ex employee who possibly had log in credentials to the official account, gained access and made the raunchy tweets. Well this we can’t independently confirm as it remains mere allegation.
Another scenario is also just a hacker doing it for fun. Unlike in many cases where anonymous hackers gain entry, there’s no group that has claimed responsibility so this is out of question leaving the above two theories the most likely but not necessarily the real reason.
Or maybe we can just speculate that someone was drunk at work. You obviously don’t expect an official admission of failure and Safaricom to take responsibility, naturally a coverup would be most ideal.
With cases of ‘technical hitches’ continuing to hit Safaricom which basically holds the economy of Kenya given its dominance not only in the money transfer, calls and data services, a lot of security questions and concerns continues to arise.
One would question how secure the Safaricom system is and the security of customers data now that there was recent data breach. One would also ask if the social media accounts can be compromised or suffer a hitch as they say what else can be compromised and the mechanisms put down by the company to avoid similar problems.
Squad Digital Media a subsidiary of ScanGroup Kenya handles the social media pages alongside Safaricom’s internal communications team. We’re informed that investigations are underway to determine the cause of last nights glitch.
DCI had sought help from the FBI to help trace and determine the source of the assassination letter that has in the past week caused serious rift in the executive. According to media reports, the FBI conducted and concluded their report that the letter was published at a Cyber Cafe in Karen before giving the DCI the report that led to the arrest of Itumbi.
On Wednesday while having lunch at a Charlie’s Bistro a popular food joint in Wabera Street, CBD, 5 detectives in the team of 11 surrounded Itumbi who asked them to let him finish his lunch first but wasn’t given the privilege. He was whisked away in the now familiar Subaru Outback to DCI HQs in Kiambu for questioning.
DCI director told reporters that investigations had put Itumbi at the center of the fabrication of the letter that formed the basis of assassination claims leading to accused CSs being summoned for questioning.
Another blogger only named as Sam was also arrested on Tuesday by detectives following the trails of the letter. It has emerged that the letter was first posted on Twitter and other social media platforms before it went viral at the Said Cyber Cafe that detectives had also raided to collect more documents.
Itumbi has lately been operating from the Deputy President’s Harambee House Annex Building, from where he has stepped up publicity campaigns for Ruto.
Itumbi will be taken to court today where the DCI are expected to ask the court to allow them hold him for 14 more days while doing more investigations.
The events in Monica Kimani murder case have taken another twist with the involvement of President Uhuru’s cousin John ‘MO’ Muhoho, a week before the Court set date for trial.
Brian kasaine’s statement has revealed details showing why police believe that Joseph ‘Jowie’ Kuria and his then-fiancee, TV Journalist Jacque Maribe murdered Monica.
Kasaine had been arrested and then released in connection with the murder, recorded his statement with the DCI giving out further detailed activities of Jowie on the night of the killing happened and the following day.
DCI’s lead investigator Maxwell Otieno, statement has outlined events that could have led to the murder of Monica Kimani.
“Our investigations established that both the accused persons were directly responsible for the death of the deceased Monica Nyawira,” reads the conclusion of his statement.
The two statements on our desk are part of the Prosecution documents that will be used on Tuesday’s trial.
Monica Nyawira Kimani was murdered in her apartment on the night of September 19, 2018.
Kasaine’s Statement with the police indicates that he, Kasaine, had given Jowie the gun because he knew him as an undercover cop.
The said gun is the one that Jowie shot himself with.
Kasaine narrated the happenings of September 20, 2018, the day the police believe Jowie tried to destroy evidence.
Kasaine told the Police that he received a WhatsApp call from Jowie at around 2am seeking to know if he had “paraffin or anything flammable or air freshener in the house.”
“I got surprised at such request of these items by himat such late hour,” Kasaine’s statement reads.
Kasaine also told the Police that he met Jowie at 3pm on the very day, at Maribe’s House.
“I wanted to borrow their car keys so that I could use it to go and pick up my son from school. He was wearing a white vest, grey sweat pants. He was in deep thought and distracted,” Reads Kasaine’s statement.
Kasaine said he “jokingly” asked Jowie why he was looking for paraffin in the middle of the night.
“He replied, ‘tulikuwa job fulani na Mo-Muhoho na nikama alidunga mtu kisu’ (I was with Mo-Muhoho yesterday for an assignment and he stabbed somebody,” Reads Kasaine’s statement.
“When Jowie told me as follows, ‘tulikuwa job Fulani na Mo-Muhoho na nikama alidunga mtu kisu’ – he was referring to John Muhoho who is a close friend of his,” Kasaine clarified to the Police.
John Muhoho is the son of former KAA chairman and Mama Ngina’s brother George Muhoho.
John Muhoho, President Uhuru’s cousin has been a very close and social friend to both Jowie and Maribe
These photos on Instagram proofs right the statement.
Instagram post of a Picture of John Mo, Jowie and Maribe courtesy of Urbannews254/pageA file photo of John Muhoho and Jacqueline Maribe
John Muhoho is not only an Instagram rich kid but also a very private member of the wider Kenyatta family that had maintained a clean on and offline existence till this Statement surfaced.
John Muhoho is alleged to have spent sh1.6 million at the 1824 launch party.
The two, John and Maribe, have also been spotted in all the major Jubilee party rallies
Louis Mdudu selfie with Maribe and Muhoho
Jowie, John and Maribe have been close friends enough to an extent that Muhoho has been to couple of Maribe’s birthday parties and other celebrations.
John Mo with Jacque Maribe on her last birthday Photo/Courtesy/
John Muhoho and Maribe pictured post courtesy of Instagram
Kasaine told the Police that Jowie told him that he wanted to burn some stuff and had used some air freshener “while pointing towards the empty plot across their house.”
DCI’s lead investigator Maxwell Otieno gave 12 reasons why he concludes that Jowie was directly involved in the murder.
Mr Otieno also highlighted five reasons on why Maribe should be charged.
According to DCI’s Otieno reveals that tests by the Government Chemist in a report reference A 199/2018 dated December 13, 2018, confirmed that DNA profile generated from a short Jowie wore on the day of the murder marched that generated from Monica’s blood sample.
“After the commission of the crime, the accused person burnt the clothes he was wearing at the scene of crime at the second accused residence in her presence,” Reads part of Otieno’s statement.
Daboul Walid and Owen Omondi
Who are both witnesses in the case placed Jowie in Monica’s house and two of them said they left Jowie in the house on that day.
Another revelation in the case has that Jowie changed into a different set of clothes before he went to see Monica in her house.
“The accused changed and dressed in a white kanzu, grey
coat and red cap in the immediate presence of Jennings Olando (a Recce squad officer who also had been arrested during investigations). These were the same clothes that he was putting on while at the residence of the deceased on a fateful day as confirmed by Owen, Walid and guards at the Lamuria gardens apartments,” Otieno’s statement reads.
Jowie was in the same red cap at Club 40 Forty on the night of the murder and witnesses say he had the same red cap at Monica’s house.
“After the commission of the crime, the accused person burnt the clothes he was wearing at the scene of crime at the second accused residence in her presence. “ Said DCI detective Maxwell Otieno.
Kasaine said that Monica introduced Jowie to Walid and Owen as someone who works with the Interpol when they sat in her house.
He indicates that Jowie at one time commented on the live news that “They (Interpol) him included had arrested 19 terrorists in Lamu who were to be ferried to Nairobi for deportation.”
Investigations revealed that Jowie claimed to be wearing a kanzu to enable him “blend with the Somali community since he alleged that he resides in Eastleigh.”
“When Owen said that he desired a firearm for protection purposes, the 1st accused offered that he was going to assist him to acquire one either through the legal or illegal process,” Otieno’s statement says.
“Owen confirmed that while in the deceased house, Jowie received several phone calls whereby he would move aside and speak in coded language over the phone.”
Otieno’s statement reveals that a gardener accessed Monica’s house through a window and found her in a bathtub.
The Gardener got out and informed Monica’s brother who was waiting outside her house and this is when they broke the door before calling the Police.
The Police believed that Jowie murdered Monica because he had informed Jennings of who he was going to see.
“He informed Jennings Olando whom he was with that he was going to visit a lady friend who had just arrived from South Sudan,” Otieno’s statement reads.
Otieno’s Statement says that on September 19, 2018, Monica flew from Juba and landed at JKIA at around 5.30pm.
Investigations into the murder have revealed that Maribe’s car was at the scene of the crime and she was seen in it on the later that very night.
“The accused person witnessed the burning of the clothes by the first accused on the night of the incident near her residence,” This is the second supporting evidence.
Maribe’s phone was also within the same area of the incident and before being switched off at about 10.25pm and switched on at around 9:52 am the same day.
The Police autopsy records indicate that Monica died at around the same time Maribe’s phone went off.
“Considering the above, it is evident that the accused persons jointly murdered the deceased,” Otieno’s statement reads.
Maribe’s contradicting statements on how Jowie had sustained his gunshot injury also depicts her as “dishonest”
Her alibis on the murder date are also not believable.
Maribe was also spotted with Jowie at Club 40 Forty almost immediately after the murder and was spotted too near the scene of the crime.
Kasaine also narrated the events of the night of September 21, 2018, when he found Jowie bleeding at his gate.
“He was shouting at his fiancee Jacqueline Maribe immediately he saw her there saying ‘you want me out of your house, it is fine, bury me in Lang’ata’ then went quiet. Jacqueline didn’t answer him,” reads Kasaine’s statement.
Kasaine told the Police that Maribe told him that Jowie shot himself when he, Jowie, told Kasaine to secure the weapon.
According to Kasaine, Jowie couldn’t be admitted to Lang’ata Hospital and Nairobi West Hospital without a deposit of Sh50,000.
Jowie passed by the Lang’ata police station the following evening and reported the matter as a shooting incident then later went to Lang’ata Hospital for gun wound dressing.
Kasaine said that Jowie had been advised to do so by someone he, Jowie, didn’t name.
Trans Nzoia county principal accountant Andrew Biketi Musuya, is now on EACC’s most wanted list.
Musuya was name was listed after he awarded Sh177.7 million contracts his proxy woman, Mildred Kerubo Obare.
According to documents being held by EACC, Biketi The first time accountant acquired residential Storeys in Mtwapa (Kilifi), Mombasa and Kitale.
EACC detectives told this writer that Biketi acquired these sh 227 million worth properties in past 5 years alone.
On top of all those multi-million properties, Musuya also acquired a brand new Toyota Prado, A Toyota Harrier and a Toyota saloon worth sh 10M under his clandes details.
According to EACC records, Musuya’s 6 years combined salary totals to Sh5.8 million, that’s without expenditures.
However, EACC detectives have unearthed that Musuya received cash deposits into his bank accounts totalling to Sh45.5 million. His salary excluded.
According to documents presented before our detectives, Musuya also received a total of Sh7.9 million over his personal M-Pesa account.
In 2015, EACC detectives established that Kerubo, Musuya’s clandestine owned a Toyota Prado worth Sh5.6 million under her name but buying documents indicate that it was bought by Biketi.
Ahmed Iftikhar, a Pakistani car dealer who sold Bekite the said Prado told EACC detectives that he was paid in two instalments of Sh3 million and Sh2.6 million within hours.
Mildred Kerubo 46, a clothes trader was arrested earlier this year and confessed to EACC detectives that she’s not the owner of the Prado she drives.
Kerubu told EACC that Biketi only used her particulars to acquire the Prado.
EACC joined the dotsfrom Kerubo’s confession and through IFMIS, they unearthed that there are 6 firms registered under her name.
All of the said firms have been Receiving backdoor contracts from Trans Nzoia County and have been paid over Sh177.7 million by Trans Nzoia county through Biketi Musuya.
The firms in record are
1. Nyansha Enterprises that was
paid Sh49.9 million,
2. Handprint Enterprises
received Sh16.4 million.
3. Girlful Enterprises that was
Paid 21.3 million.
4. Finewood Enterprises got Sh47.9 million.
5. Culent Logistics got sh15.5 million.
6. Valuda Enterprises got Sh27.6 million.
In 2014-15 financial year, Musuya was appointed as a member of the county procurement committee for approval of all tenders under Sh500,000.
EACC has also revealed that Trans Nzoia county paid Sh52 million to Josim Instantenous Colsultium Ltd, a firm owned by the corrupt accountant.
Investigations also revealed that Josim Instantaneous Colsultium has hired Isaiah Walubengo as their senior accountant without the required profession academic credentials.
Our investigations reveal that EACC quietly obtained orders from Justice Onyiengo on March 24 that saw Biketi’s three bank accounts frozen with Sh15.7 million in them.
EACC chair Twalib Mbarak said they are set to file a recovery suit of assets worth Sh286 million before the Bank accounts freezing order expires on June 24.
Twalib Mbarak served Musuya Biketi with an official letter dated March 28, 2019 binding him to explain the now known disproportion between the value of his assets and his legitimate source of income within a week.
As Oracle Technology Systems Kenya bids farewell to their Machiavellian and grotesque Country Leader CorineMbiaketcha–Nanato finally regain some corporate sobriety, there is plenty to commiserate and little to celebrate. She had exaggerated her importance for far too long.
Corine’s scorched-earth policy has impacted the standing of practically all major multinationals in the technology industry, casting a heavy shadow of mistrust for years to come, with likely stagnating if not shrinking revenues across these global players regionally. This is without taking into account the institutional damage of the Oracle brand occasioned under her watch in influential establishments such as KCB, Safaricom, Equity Group, IEBC and KRA.
A typical tin–pot if there ever was one, Corine‘s leadershipstyle enabled by Oracle HQ’s hands–off attitude has not only cast off great talent much to the joy of Oracle’s competitors, but also reduced Oracle in Kenya to a brand of ridicule and smear, no longer attracting or exciting talent due to fear of discrimination, intimidation, acts of retaliation and constant abuse.
In cahoots with dubious characters in HR, Corine has executed her own brand of Oracle’s famed land-and-expand strategy best epitomized by how she tried forcing her countrymen down the throats of the EA hub in total disregard of their regional ineptitude. Could there be a pettier adult than a Country Leader who fights for a parking bay with juniors in a yard where the company has enough reserved slots?
Truly leaders who don’t listen are quickly surrounded by people who have nothing to say, which explains all the ludicrous choices she made in replacements for the Kenyans she dismissed; abysmal, torrid, horrendous, clueless foreigners. And the results since January 2017 are clear.
The most shocking part of this reprehensible story is thatCorine‘s work permit had expired in March 2019 and she was forced to stay away from the office for 2 weeks, during which time she miraculouslymanaged to obtain a renewal under very suspicious circumstances which can best be explained by the likes of KPMG Canada and their local affiliate. If it smells like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… the likelihood of duplicate passports and immigration files to circumvent the earlier rejection of her permit renewal is quite high.
By the same vein she would take every opportunity to elevate praise-singing foreigners at the expense of local talent, which explains why her reign at the Kenya hub is littered with fraud and abuse of immigration laws, including the orchestration and perfection of a system where Interns would be put in permit applications as understudies of the so-called expatriates working at Oracle, creating an endless, systemic cycle of abuse of locallabour laws.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of the so-called expatriates who have unfairly benefitted from Corine’sdespicablepolicy of subjugating and displacing Kenyans, the Kenya Immigration is called upon to swiftly review the circumstances under which the individual work permits were issued:
• Jason Bowers
• Serge Blockman
• Nial Meany
• Bob Hroch
• Neelu Arora
• Pramod Nair
• Piotr Piwowarczyk
• GopalkrishnaRayavarapu
• BukunmiOmidiran
• Alexandra Gregorovic
• Ade Famoti
• PardeepKhurana
• Lucky Sharma
The nitwits in Oracle HR such as FolakeAdeleye their Africa Director who has never defended a single employee in anything, and the tainted, embarrassing excuse of a Kenyan by the name MukunyaMugo have long been Corine’s pigtails.
Going by his tales in Google annals, it is as if Oracle never did any due diligence while on-boarding him back in 2015 after his Samsung EA heist, but have since then had him by his balls, squeezing as they wish. In this blackmail Mukunya’s boss Folake was most complicit, looking the other way as Corine executed her nefarious agenda on Kenyans via Mukunya.
She has executed her own brand of Oracle’s famed land-and-expand strategy best epitomized by how she tried forcing 2 villagers by the names Alexis Bekoule and LudovicNono from her home hamlet in Cameroun down the throats of the EA hub in total disregard of their regional ineptitude.
Corine single-handedly destroyed careers of highly talented Kenyans at the peak of their prowess, applying the most crude people management tactics reminiscent of a paranoid insecure village elder. Her drive to elicit high praise from all and sundry as well as absolute loyalty to her, meant that Oracle’s oft-ridiculed bus strategy was at its height during her tenure, with different lines of business cannibalizing each other in front of customers as they fought to control budgets and clinch deals.
She reigned in creating as chaotic an environment as possible so that she could remain relevant in purporting to resolve the same chaos. How Oracle opted to build their EA kingdom with someone who craves attention from the village will always remain a mystery and a blot on their HR practices, especially for a global firm whose expertise is data.
Whereas a few brave ex-Oracle employees are in court seeking justice and equity, majority are suffering in silence, afraid perhaps, to take on the behemoth that is Oracle. This is a call to all those former Oracle employees who were victims to come forward and share their experiences and be included in the soon to be filed Class Action suit.
We are also aware of other individual lawsuits already filed and would be happy to bring to life those cases directly from the plaintiffs so that no current or future employees of Oracle suffer similar indignities. We will be a nuisance where it counts; we are playing our part to inform and stimulate others to join this cause.
We must continuously be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed for power, corruption and mediocrity… but never give up. We must never allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
The Kenya government, in particular the DCI, Kenya Immigration and the Judiciary, are called upon to do their part in rendering justice, including exacting punitive and deterrent fines on Oracle Corporation for the crimes and abuses committed in their name by their agent CorineMbiaketcha-Nana and her courtiers in HR.
Air of discontent has engulfed the Kenya Bankers Association following complaints by the juniors who’re not happy with the leadership style employed by the CEO Habil Olaka. According to reports, the boss barely consults his staff even on matters that need their implementation thereby causing unease.
According to a newspaper report, Dr Olaka who was appointed Chief Executive Officer in October 2010 to be responsible for strategic direction of the Association under guidance from the KBA Governing Council, has been drawing hefty allowances including travelling ones.
The staff now want the CEO who boasts to have a questionable doctorate degree investigated. Further they claim, the association accounts are being manipulated to show all is good when in true sense doctoring of figures is the order of the day. Insiders reveal to journalists,Olaka and his cronies use Chairman Ball Dinner to solicit funds from sponsors that cannot be easily accounted for.
Among the sponsors during the last dinner event were Telkom Kenya,Quintessence Tailor,Glenmorangie and Kenya Wines Agencies Ltd. The CEO is accused of being arrogant and openly engaging into nepotism.
They say the CEO runs the association like personal property and has little regard for advice from the governing council.
The staff say despite his wide experience, having started his career at the PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nairobi in the Audit and Business Advisory Services Division and sitting on a number of boards representing the KBA, Olaka has little to show for since assuming the helm at KBA.
Bitter staff claim that, though KBA General Body elects a Governing Council that comprises a minimum of 12 CEOs who represent the members and oversee the Secretariat’s operations, programmes and budget, Olaka runs the show like personal property and enjoys the support of the chairman, Joshua Oigara who is the Chief Executive, Kenya Commercial Bank.
To win the local bank CEOs on his side, Olaka allegedly releases negative dossiers on the operations of the banks and then promises cover-ups.
Though KBA prides itself with reinforcing a reputable and professional banking sector in a bid to best support Kenyans, who entrust their ambitions and hard-earned resources with its member banks, it did nothing as rogue managers worked hand in hand with crooks to steal taxpayers money in the National Youth Service and NBK scandals.
Insiders want Olaka to state how much KBA has received inform of donor partnership and projects undertaken.Further they want him explain those who accompanied him during a visit to South Africa to receive honours on behalf of KBA.The South African trip is said to have been turned into a sex tour with millions used.
Concern is that , KBA which also has micro finance institutions as members has been minting millions from mushrooming micro finance as protection fee despite looting from innocent Kenyans.
Kenya has had its share of dramas but the Armenian criminal duo must have been one of those that stands out in the recent history. How two foreigners got to Kenya, registered shell companies, using Statehouse connections were made deputy police commissioners giving them access to any security facility and given VIP passes at JKIA puzzled many.
Flashy lifestyles is what they were known for in the public but behind the scenes, these were dangerous criminals if not just business partners in the drugs syndicate with Kibaki administrators and family members at it would later be exposed.
These guys had zero fear and were so powerful at one point they even dared the police commissioner Major Hussein Ali to arrest them.
Their criminal activities would come to surface following the raid on Standard Group office after Lucy Kibaki had gotten wind of the newspaper planning to splash a story on the president’s two wives.
The late Michuki who was a powerful minister came to the Armenians rescue just to tell you how highly connected this criminal outfit was with his famous quote “if you rattle a snake be ready to beaten by it” to insinuate the newspaper touched the wrong hole.
A stage managed deportation to Dubai then preceded after public outcry and even then the Artur brothers refused to have their luggage’s checked at the airport as standard procedure in al airports. At JKIA where they had VIP access, they were unmanageable, assaulted immigration officials.
Stanley Murage a PS and special strategy advisor to Kibaki was mentioned as a key player in the saga alongside Mary Wambui and her daughter Winnie Mwai were said to have direct links with the Armenians according to a parliamentary report on the two.
Kibaki instituted inquiry commission led by former commissioner of police Shadrack Kiruki to check on the criminal activities of the two Armenians.
According to the parliamentary report to look into the conduct of the two, the formation of Karuki commission was part of the larger conspiracy to coverup and shield the two. It was a long chain and the face of the top office which was at the epicenter had to be saved.
Findings of Kariuki Commission has never been made public not even a copy was given to the parliamentary committee investigating the Artur brothers. Despite Kibaki promising to make the report public, it was classified and that was the end of it. But again everything put in consideration, this was understandable, who would expose something close home?
According to the parliamentary committee, their investigations were frustrated by Kibaki administration loyalties including the justice and constitutional affairs minister Martha Karua who attempted to stop the committee from investigating the matter on spurious grounds that Kiruki commission was already investigating the same matter. Again the web of coverups was large and clear.
Karua also blocked a motion in parliament in her capacity as the deputy leader of government business in parliament. The investigating committee had proposed a motion to make public all the evidences of investigation.
Committee also noted that high state officials they had summoned to give evidence as they had the major keys to unlock the saga, refused to honor in what they say was on instruction from high levels.
Isiah Osugo, PCIO Nairobi, David Kimaiyo, Director Of Operations at Police HQ and Patrick Lumumba OCPD Gigiri Station had been summoned to give crucial evidence they were holding and they never honored thereby sabotaging committee’s efforts.
In an expose fine by investigative journalists Mohammed Ali and Dennis Onsarigo, another side of Artur brothers was also exposed.
They disclosed how several tonnes of the cocaine went missing, how key suspects were allowed to escape and how two State prosecutions were deliberately mishandled.
They also shone a light on the drastic lengths to which Kenya’s drug barons and their friends in high places go to ensure their secrets remain protected. At least four police officers and one spy investigating or connected to drug-related cases have been killed in mysterious circumstances, the team reported.
The foreign mercenaries whose activities infuriated Kenyans in early 2006 were brought into the country by rogue Government officials in response to the dramatic seizure of 1.1 metric tonnes of cocaine 15 months earlier, it emerged.
The men were allegedly recruited to set up and train a specialised anti-narcotics unit. Publicly purporting to be investors and privately passing as security consultants, but we’re merely imposters.
Sources suggested that the State was tricked into hiring enforcers working for drug traffickers who wanted to recover the Sh6.4 billion worth of cocaine being held in Kenya. The hired guns failed to complete their task after they were publicly exposed following their March 2, 2006, raid on the Standard Group. This was a bungled operation ordered on the strength of false information about an alleged story linking powerful individuals to drug trafficking in Kenya. No such story existed.
A NSIS report that was ignored for obvious reasons warned that the two brothers were lethal drug dealers and part of international hitmen in the drug world.
For about three months, the so-called Artur brothers had free run of Nairobi police stations from which they took vehicle number plates with which to disguise their unit’s cars. One of them even visited the secure installation where the 1,141kg of cocaine was being stored until two cases in court were completed.
A report prepared by a joint team co-chaired by Mr Paul Muite and Mr Ramadhan Kajembe also wanted to look into the roles played by then Internal Security minister John Michuki (now deceased), Francis Muthaura, Mary Wambui, Winnie Wangui, Raju Sanghani and Kamlesh Pattni.
This never happened, nothing has and probably never will. They’re going on with their normal lives infact persons like Muthaura still getting rewarded, now the board chairman at KRA. Pattni relocated to Zimbabwe where he’s continuing with his scamming career. Answers shall never be known only to the ones involved.
When police raided Humphrey Kariuki’s multimillion alcohol empire in Thika town months ago, the world of Kenya’s most reclusive billionaire was opened for all to see.
Detectives led by Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet and senior Kenya Revenue Authority officials made what they said was a dazzling find: An estimated 21 million counterfeit excise stamps and 312,000 litres of illicit products — all worth billions of shillings in taxes.
Mr Kariuki’s Africa Spirits Limited is now under police watch even if it’s unclear how the authorities haven’t been able to get hold of him and arraigned him in court despite the tax evasion accusations. We suspect he could probably have bought his way out not to appear on the dock as he should’ve given the magnitude of his crimes.
Africa Spirits is only a small part of Mr Kariuki’s multibillion empire — all under the name of a holding company, Janus Continental Group and which encompasses all that a billionaire would want: A five-star luxurious Mt Kenya Safari Club originally a retreat to famous Hollywood stars such as William Holden — who founded the club.
Its members once included British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US singer and actor Harry Bing Crosby.
RESERVED
The name Janus is significant in one critical way — and for such an empire.
Janus, which means “the beginning and origin of things”, is an ancient two-faced Roman god who provided protection in the beginnings and endings “at the gates, the doorways, and passages and endings”.
As a god, Janus had the uncanny ability to see both in front and behind; thanks to his being a two-faced god.
But when detectives raided one of Janus’ establishments in Thika — it seemed that the protection against any nosy raid on Janus properties had vanished; at the tail-end of January (which ironically stands for the month of Janus).
Unlike other billionaires who love publicity, Mr Kariuki is the country’s equivalent of Mr Brad Kelley, the US tycoon known for his love of exotic animals, and who despite his extra-ordinary wealth shies away from publicity.
IMPORTED CARS
Born 61 years ago in Nyeri in a family of 10, Mr Kariuki studied at Nairobi School and Kagumo High School before joining Central Bank of Kenya when he was only 19 as a clerk.
“I was at the bottom of the ladder. I always tell people that in life you need to start from the bottom; the only place where you start at the top is when you’re digging a well. So I started as a clerk, and then went on to work in various other departments in the bank,” he told Forbes magazine in 2017.
Mr Kariuki says he made some “decent income” at Central Bank and that he ventured into the business world by importing cars — starting off with a car owned by his UK-based elder sister which he had shipped to Nairobi.
“I was able to sell (the car) at double the price my sister was asking for. I gave my sister her money and kept the rest for myself. I was amazed, and I wondered: ‘Is this how easy it is to make money?’”
And that is the story that Mr Kariuki tells about his rise into the billionaire ranks.
Photos of Kariuki’s Sh2.7B Bombardier Challenger 350
MEETING PLACE
He would later set up the famous Green Corner Restaurant at Nairobi’s Tumaini House, behind Kencom House, where he struck everyone as a hands-on manager.
Every morning, in the late 80s and early 90s Mr Kariuki — slim and always smartly dressed — would be here walking the tables and freely engaging his customers.
At best, he was always at hand to deal with customer complaints right away and this made Green Corner the go-to-and-must-be-seen-at place for the hip crowds of Nairobi.
The building, owned by the National Council of Christian Churches (NCCK) — was by then the mini-headquarters of anti-Moi elite squad and housed offices of fierce critics such as Pius Nyamora’s Society Magazine, lawyer Gitobu Imanyara’s Nairobi Law Monthly, and Dr Oki Ooko Ombaka’s Public Law Institute (PLI).
Green Corner, downstairs, was the perfect meeting point of all multiparty crusaders – likes of Raila Odinga, Paul Muite, Gitobu Imanyara and Prof Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o.
Another common face at the restaurant was Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya boss John Harun Mwau — a well-known millionaire.
RESTAURANTS
Whether Mr Kariuki took note of this crowd is not clear — but those who saw him then knew he was always apolitical. “He would say hello and disappear,” a man who knew him in those days tells this writer.
“We made the best hamburgers, steaks, and samosas among other things. For years, Green Corner was the place where professionals who worked in Nairobi converged for their lunch and business meetings,” he said in the Forbes interview.
Besides Green Corner, Mr Kariuki also had another restaurant which he named Twigs, which was next door to Green Corner but serving the higher end of clients.
For some strange reason, Green Corner was better known than Twigs Restaurant.
At the indoor parking of Tumaini House, Mr Kariuki’s car business blossomed and here, one could find the latest state-of-the-art European motor vehicle models such as BMWs, VWs, Mercedes and Range Rovers.
ALCOHOL
At any given time, there would be an average of five vehicles with foreign registration number plates.
After a few days, the vehicles would be replaced with another different set — meaning he was in a booming business.
Kariuki’s Bombardier Challenger 350
That Mr Kariuki would be able to import such high-end cars at a time when the foreign exchange regime was prohibitive meant a lot on the kind of business strings that he managed to pull or, perhaps, pointed to his acumen as an astute businessman.
But again, Mr Kariuki had previously worked at the Foreign Exchange Department of CBK which was approving foreign currency for businessmen intending to import goods.
While still in his late 20s, Mr Kariuki ventured into wines and spirits distributorship through Wines of the World Limited as the distributor for Jack Daniels, Bacardi and the Edrington Group, whose premium brands include The Macallan, The Famous Grouse, and Brugal rum.
SOUTH SUDAN DEALS
Later on, he started building his own factory in 2002 with the brand Blue Moon Vodka manufactured by Africa Spirits Limited – the company that was raided by detectives.
“I’m proud to say that Africa Spirits Limited is the most successful indigenous alcoholic beverage company in Kenya today,” he had said two years ago.
“The margins were astronomical. The volumes weren’t much, but the margins were crazy,” he told Forbes.
It was this period that he built the Hub shopping mall in Karen and also bought Fairmont Mt Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki.
Interiors of Kariuki’s Bombardier Challenger 350
Besides the current raid on his factory, Mr Kariuki’s efforts to get an exclusive license to import and distribute 214 premium wine and spirit brands including Bacardi-Martini labels has been thwarted by the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) this year.
The Wines of the World wanted to enter exclusive distribution agreements with various alcohol manufacturers.
The current turn of events is yet another twist in the life of a man — so wealthy; and so reclusive — who provides wild animals with a place to call home at his Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy and Animal Orphanage.
What puzzles most Kenyans is how a man with such an high magnitude of economical crime has not been able to be arraigned before any court in the land and more so that his suspected fraudulent accounts have been unfrozen under unclear circumstances by a suspicious ruling.
Kenya is losing billions to unscrupulous businessmen like Kariuki who prey on loopholes in the system to make away with billions. DCI and relevant authorities need to be on the alert to ensure only clean deals gets to see the light of the day and crooks like Humphrey is alleged to have their day in court or better yet in jail.
Days After the UK government gave assurance to the Kenyan government on renewed efforts to curb corruption, it’s now emerging that the train has hit the rail.
Three London properties worth more than £80m (Shs 10B) are being investigated over allegations that a “politically exposed person” bought them with dirty money.
It is the second case using new Unexplained Wealthy Orders (UWOs), which allow authorities to look into illicit finance flowing into the UK.
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) said the orders were obtained at the High Court for three residential properties in “prime locations”. All were held by offshore companies.
Highly placed sources told Kenya Insights the properties belong to Dr David Muge, a London-based close business associate of Deputy President William Ruto.
Andy Lewis, the body’s head of asset denial, said: “This is the second time the NCA has successfully secured UWOs since the new legislation was enacted.
They are a powerful tool in being able to investigate illicit finance flowing into the UK and discourage it happening in the first place.
“The individuals behind these offshore companies now have to explain how the three properties were obtained. The NCA will not shy away from complex and detailed investigations against high-profile individuals and professional enablers.”
Graeme Biggar, director of the National Economic Crime Centre said the purchase of premium property in London was a known money laundering tactic allowing criminals to hide illicit gains.
“We will use all the powers available to us to target those who try to do this,” he added. Our aim is to prevent misuse of the UK’s financial structures which undermines the integrity of the UK’s economy and institutions.”
UWOs came into force last year as part of powers dubbed McMafia laws, after the BBC TV drama series on international organised crime and factual book that inspired it.
They force subjects to explain the source of their wealth and give the NCA power to seize assets if they can’t.
The term “politically exposed person” refers to someone from outside the European Economic Are, who is in a position of power that makes them liable to bribery or corruption, or those with suspected links to serious or organised crime.
According to the source privy to the matter, Kenyan Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) is also involved in the issue.
“ Saitoti ( ARA Boss) was actually in London last week to assist his UK counterpart on the matter,” the source whispered.
Muge is a veterinary doctor based in London for ‘Animals For Us’ and also runs other companies; Clifton Energy Limited, Director Great Rift Coffee.
He has also been adversely mentioned in the Arror and Kimwarer Dam scandals that saw Kenya lose Shs 21 billion.
The first case of its kind, in February 2018, saw the orders obtained against London properties worth £22m belonging to jailed Azerbaijani banker Jahangir Hajiyev and his wife, Zamira Hajiyeva.
Ms Hajiyeva came to the attention of the NCA because of her credit card spending and effective control of a Knightsbridge house, now worth £15m, the High Court heard.
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Lawyers for the NCA said that her husband was a state employee between 1993 and 2015 and would not have had a large enough legitimate salary to fund their lifestyle.
The couple used offshore companies to buy property including a Knightsbridge home and golf club in Berkshire.
Hajiyev was the chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) from 2001 until his resignation in 2015 and was subsequently sentenced to 15 years for fraud and embezzlement.
The scale of Ms Hajiyeva’s spending could be laid bare for the first time this week after a tranche of court documents were released to the media.
She was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 2015, after gaining a controversial “tier 1 investor visa”, but is now facing extradition to Azerbaijan over allegations of embezzlement.
Barclay’s Bank, Kenya branches, lost a combined sum of sh11 Miillion over Easter this year.
Polish cyber security firm, OnNet Services had warned Barclay’s Kenya via a tweet published on 17th of April, stating that ‘SILENTCARDS’ group of hackers were planning to hack into their ATMs.
OnNet services had also published on their blog a fortnight ago that they believe the hacking threat from SilentCards is still active in many other institutions.
OnNet Service Chief Technician and Innovator Stephanie Neringa told the investigators of this site that they are creating a global community awareness to minimize the loss of both finances and most important, the customers of local financial institutions.
Stephen said their are having a hard time to accomplish their goals because most of our banks have poor or backdoor security loopholes that make them easy targets from SilentCards.
OnNet Services Group innovator also said they have server information used by SilentCards hackers to loot over sh 450Million from a local Bank.
Our efforts to get the details or the name of the Bank were fruitless due to nonexisting tech advisory contract between the Bank and OnNet Services.
This is not the first time our local banking sector is losing billions of money to group(s) of hackers.
March last year, National Bank of Kenya confirmed to have been successfully hacked. The hackers went away with key security details and a loss of over sh 29 million.
Microsoft’s Cloud chief strategist Rudiger Dorn, said that cyber criminals looted over 800 million dollars globally in the past year.
Earlier this year, CBK and Visa held a successful cyber security workshop that exposed how rogue bank officers collude with hackers swindle illiterate customers and ATM induced cash-outs.
Visa sub-Saharan Africa Head of Risk and management Bevan Smith said hacker get hold of genuine cards that give them quick and easy backdoor access into banking system.
Increased cyber threats prompted CBK to introduce cyber security guidance and guidelines in July 2017.
Local Banks were required to file, compiled annual reports to CBK on their cyber security system and how they are curbing the threats facing their systems.
These security guidelines were also imposed on mobile money transfer networks. With Safaricom’s M Pesa services being on top, they are legally required to notify CBK of any cyber security glitches within a period of 24 hours.
Back to the elephant in the house, SilentsCards, are local Cyber criminals members of what was formally known as Forkbombo.
These cyber crooks were named Forkbombo in 2016 by government cyber watchdogs because they used [email protected] to electronically get hold of keyloggers data.
Kenya Revenue Authority, Banking Fraud Unit and Cyber Crime Unit of the DCI formally CID dismantled Forkbombo after the criminals 2 years of contacting cyber crime.
In 2017, The DCI arrested
Calvin Otieno Ogalo, a 35 year old former police officer and bank employee who was said to be the Forkbombo leader.
Calvin Otieno was arrested alongside minor members and two American citizens. They were both charged and the two Americans deported.
The cybercrime department of DCI said that Kenya lost over sh 17 Billions to hackers in 2016-2017.
Last year, DCI detectives said that majority of cyber criminals in their custody had deep international connections with local and international Politicians.
This international deep political connections of the hackers saw Kenya ranked 69 out of 127 most vulnerable countries by the Global Threat Index.
OnNet services says that SilentCards regrouped in 2017 after obtaining the original keyloggers data from remaining members of forkbombo.
“The latest code used in several banks after reversing has the main Def as OnKeyBoardEvent() and the files are usually saved as tech_kg.py,’’ OnNet Chief said.
According to OnNet services, Silentcards attackers use these three passwords as their first attempts to enter into banking systems;
a) admin123
b) secret123
c) welcome1
Further investigations from OnNet indicate that Silentcards
attacks copy and evaluate audit information from main data servers.
OnNet service says that Forkbombo used to have money mules whereas SilentCards uses a well connected web of foreigners who get quick international backdoor wired transactions that later withdraw in a coordinated plan.
Silentcards hackers are specialized in Python Scripts and also use advanced hacking
tools like Empire, Metasploit, DeathStar, Bloodhound, CrackMapExec, Aesshell, XmultiShell, CHAOS and Katoolin.
OnNet investigators said that they are following up a tip that GrapZone international hackers are now working with Silentcards to fully regroup Forkbombo and their viscous cyber attacks.
Have you seen, interacted or even heard of your Member of Parliament?
Probably no, because they are busy in corridors of courts seeking their freedom and ‘justice’.
Our August house is full of crooks and masterminds of fleecing the coffers.
Chapter Six of the our new constitution that basically entails Leadership and Integrity Act, looks like a printed joke.
Almost every elected member of parliament or even the senate has a case or piles of cases to answer, defend and mostly, clear their names.
Kenya’s economy has been crippled by massive fraud, multi-billion graft and high-end forgeries all courtesy our elected and appointed officials.
Francis Ole Kaparo, the chair of the now dysfunctional NCIC has also not been playing his role.
This has created a niche that encourages hate speech and incitement to violence from the mouthy government officials.
The corruption that is in this country is unbelievable.
All scandals are linked from one member of the parliament to another corrupt deal cleared by a member of Senate to another fraud that touches the Executive which leads to another corrupt clearing by the Judiciary.
In a working democracy, The Leadership and Integrity Act laws are supposed to be governing the government officials.
Also, Public Officer Ethics Act is supposed to be working according to our new constitution.
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission was crippled when the President appointed a retired Archbishop, Eliud Wabukala, to leader and govern corrupt government officials.
Actually, our constitution has well thought out Laws that can actually work to make our country better and great.
These acts are supposed to be governing our members of the national house of laws.
a) Parliamentary Privileges and,
b) Parliamentary Powers 2017,
c) National Assembly standing
Orders and,
d) Speaker’s Rules.
Over 50 Legislators in the August house and another 30 from the Senate have active cases of Criminal Offences.
But the most affected ones are members of the parliamentary committees.
These legislators have active cases and allegations of extortion, bribery, corruption, breach of parliamentary acts and national assembly orders.
Parliamentary committee members are the master chiefs of all major fraud and scandal not forgetting the massive bribes they collect to clear corrupt dealings within the houses.
Samuel Kimeu, the Executive Director of Transparency International says very little has been done to realise the full functions of the Constitution.
“Until we get a way in which State officers can lose benefits and stature when charged in court, we may not make much constitutional progress,” Mr Kimeu told a local press.
National Council of Churches in Kenya Secretary General Peter Karanja also said that a rogue legislature, couple of selfish politicians and their cronies enacted laws that washed out the much needed Chapter 6 of the Constitution.
An allegation that the National parliament speaker Justine Muturi refused to comment about when he was contacted by the investigators of this site.
The National Assembly published last year that, there is an overlap between the Parliamentary (Powers and Privileges) Act 2017, the Leadership and Integrity Act and
the Public Officer Act.
With that out and aside, Nakuru Town East MP David Gikaria was charged today with assault, incitement, resisting arrest and causing disturbance at a Nakuru based Police Station.
The Police said that the MP slapped a deputy sub-county commander when he was being questioned about the land grabbing allegations.
David Gikaria was on 28th of January arraigned in court on eight counts of land fraud.
On 25th June this year, Nakuru Town West MP Samuel Arama was also arraigned in Nairobi’s Milimani anti-corruption court on charges of conspiring to defraud Mr Ahmed Muhammad land in Nakuru Municipality in August 2015.
Mr Arama was also charged of Misleading Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission investigators.
The notorious Bahati MP, Kimani Ngunjiri was on also arrested arrested for assaulting a lady traffic officer in Nakuru Town.
He was later released by the court after they agreed to settle the matter privately.
Bobasi MP Innocent Obiri is still fighting in the corridors of justice after he was charged with breach of peace by a Kisii High court.
Mr Obiri was arrested and charged alongside his bodyguard Charles Nyakweba, who was charged separately of assault and malicious damage to property.
Former president of Lamu County Issa Timamy was also charged with terrorism in 2014. A case that has been mentioned for over 4 years now.
Changamwe MP Omar Mwinyi was earlier last year sentenced to four years in prison with an alternative fine of Sh1 million.
He was charged and found guilty of assaulting two police officers during ODM party nominations in April 2017.
Lugari MP Ayub Savula has a case to answer on charges of fraudulently obtaining Sh122 million from the Government Advertising Agency (GAA).
Embakasi North MP James Gakuya was last year charged jointly with 12 others, of acquiring fraudulently Sh39.9 million from National Government Constituency Development Funds.
The mouthy Sirisia MP John Waluke was arrested over corruption allegations that he denied at preliminary investigation but later a city court said he has a case.
The controversial Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter was charged alongside two businessmen with multiple counts related to forgery of Sh633 million Treasury Bills.
Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi, who was a principal secretary, was in October last year charged with hate speech against the Presidency.
Director, Criminal Investigations Department 28th March 2019
PETREDEC IS THE BRITISH COMPANY LAUNDERING KENYA’S CORRUPTION MONEY.
Money laundering is done in the three stages; placement, layering and integration. Through these steps, money from corrupt proceeds is made to appear legitimate and introduced into the mainstream financial system.
I write to you today since due to my interactions with the players in this scheme, I have firsthand verifiable information that money stolen from public coffers in Kenya is finding its way into the mainstream financial system by the help of Petredec.
This is a critical link from the stolen money abroad to the local Kenyan economy. A quid pro quo scheme was setup to mimic legitimate large scale transactions but is just a way of channeling corruption cash from European capitals. The main masterminds in this scheme are Mr. William Ruto (Deputy President, Kenya) and Mr. Giles Fearn (CEO, Petredec). The executors of the scheme are Mr. David Muge (Mr. Ruto’s proxy) and Mr. Mike Abbott (CFO, Petredec)
David Muge is a longtime resident of London from where he has known Giles Fearn. He now uses his immigration status in the UK to perpetrate shocking looting of the Kenyan coffers using his London networks like Petredec. There exists a secretariat based in Upperhilll, Nairobi run by David Muge, in which William Ruto, the Deputy President, undertakes brazen corruption schemes.
This is the office of Clifton Energy International. Anytime on any day that you walk in this office, you will find Ministers, Principal Secretaries, Parastatal heads from our wing of government all lining up to draw up deals for kickbacks by contractors and rent seeking via Clifton Energy International.
All major corrupt kickbacks for William Ruto are signed by Clifton as the commission agent. Investigations currently being undertaken by DCI on Clifton Energy International and are in the mainstream media and public domain include:
a) Kenya Pipeline Corporation Zakhem deal for USD 700 Million.
b) School Children’s Laptop Deal JV by Moi University and Clifton Energy International for
USD 800 Million.
c) Arror, Kimwarer and Itare Dams Scandals by CMC Di Ravenna for USD 560 million.
d) Mwache dam Project by Sinohydro for USD 200 Million.
e) Security Sector scandals by Thales Group etc.
f) Kenya Power Equipment scandals KETRACO construction and finance scandals
g) Eurobond Transaction advisory Kickback scandal
David is an asset to William in that he has been based in London and through his international network knows how to launder big money; something which other power brokers in William’s circle do not know. Therefore all mega deals introduced to William are forwarded to David for execution due to his money laundering expertise. Everyone who deals with William Ruto knows this. In Kenya corruption history, David Muge is to William Ruto, what Jimi Wanjigi was to the corrupt clique in the Kibaki regime.
Petredec and Clifton have setup a company in Kenya (Mansa East Africa Ltd) pretending to undertake a gas project in Mombasa. This corrupt partnership has assisted in the transfer of corrupt monies from kickbacks including from bankrupted CMC Di Ravenna of Italy for Itare, Kimwarer and Arrror Dams that Clifton via David Muge secured for William Ruto in Italy.
This money is channeled in fake share purchase/transfer and trade finance schemes legitimizing the corruption money. These monies are laundered via Barclays Bank and others. By pretending to be doing a mega project, these layering of shares and trade finance transactions has enabled corruption money to escape the international money laundering radar. This brazen quid pro quo transaction leaves many unanswered questions:
a) Why is William Ruto supposed to purportedly pay in Europe to buy shares and get trade finance for a company incorporated in Kenya? Why can’t the transactions happen in Kenya?
b) Why does Petredec accept to receive corruption money in exchange for ‘partnership’ and promised control of Kenya’s oil and gas sector?
c) There is no reason why Petredec would partner with William Ruto who has zero expertise in oil and gas other than to perpetuate corruption in this quid pro quo scheme. What value does Petredec get from William other than corruption?
d) Why has the UK Government through MI6 remained silent while money meant for poor Kenyans is blatantly stolen and laundered in broad daylight by Britons? Is this a grand neo-colonialist scheme to take over Kenya’s oil and gas resources?
This international syndicate is for the sole purpose of bringing corruption money into Kenya in batches and will be used for the foreseeable future to clean corruption money stuck in the UK and rest of Europe in time for William’s presidential campaign after which Petredec has been promised total control over Kenya’s oil and gas sector. This is a perfect quid pro quo scheme.
Petredec will pretend to be setting up a new terminal in readiness for Kenya oil exports to boost their profile while William Ruto will bring in corrupt money stuck abroad in readiness for his total destruction of the President Uhuru Kenyatta Anti-corruption machinery. This is garden variety collusion between a greedy capitalist British company and a corrupt African leader to use stolen funds to destroy Kenyan institutions on one hand and deliver astronomical profits to the greedy neo-colonialists on the other hand. With this billion dollar corrupt setup, the security of the President is at great risk from the oil and gas mafia.
These international masterminds of corruption are looking for the quickest overnight route to power for William to immediately take over as Commander in Chief. Petredec should refund to Kenyans all money from public coffers that they have helped William Ruto to launder.
Erick C. Korir Whistleblower
Official Company Registry Records of Money laundering company setup by William Ruto and Giles Fearn. Shareholding held by Abbott James (Petredec CFO) and David Muge (Clifton Owner), Maurice Towey and Tony Monckton (Petredec, Trade Finance). Money laundered in the guise of share transfer and trade finance transactions.
Fake ESIA report submitted to Kenya’s NEMA by money laundering company in the guise of an ongoing project to enable money transfers from Europe through fake share sales and trade finance advances.
While majority of women in Kenya’s urban areas are struggling with obesity and weight loss, a breed of women have emerged that are doing everything to gain weight.
City women are now using antiretroviral (ARVs) to enhance their body mass and weight in well-organized groups of 10 from a popular social media app.
These women are first brought together through posts who later form or added to Facebook groups. Majority are always resistant to enter into this perilous and prohibited act at first.
Sources to the writer indicate that the Facebook groups are used to lure and convince the naive and unsuspecting souls who are desperate to gain weight.
Many of these women are willing to do anything to get to their anticipated weights. Majority also don’t know where to get the ARVs.
The source further says that the willing group members are later taken to a city pharmacist who sells them ARV drugs at Ksh 5,000. The now-unnamed Pharmacist is allegedly HIV positive. That’s how he’s able to access the drugs more often.
The prescription runs in a year. With some women saying that they would only stop taking drugs when they hit the weight of their choice.
Dr Patrick Gichohi a HIV-AIDS specialists states that injection of ARVs in a healthy body changes the distribution body fats. Majority of Nairobi women confuse it with body and weight gains.
“Various antiretroviral drugs, for instance Efavirenz may possibly cause psychiatric complications. Whereas protease inhibitors, anti-HIV replicator drug, may well elevate levels of cholesterol,” Dr. Gichohi revealed.
The HIV-AIDS specialist also said that ARV will have calamitous effects on their bodies sooner or later.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the leader of Emirate of Dubai has filled complain to Kenya that an opposition senator has conned the Royal family Ksh 400 million of gold.
The opposition senator is among a gang of six cartels that are under the keen eye of DCI’s investigations of their involvement in the Gold scam. The gold fraud has implied strong complaints from the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates.
The DCI is trailing a scheme that saw the royal family scammed multi-millions allegedly to secure a release of 5 tons of gold that had been purportedly seized at JKIA.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the alleged seizure was, supposedly, to be the first batch of a 23 tons gold shipment that was to be illegally brought in the country from DRC.
The trail has unraveled that the opposition senator flew to Dubai severally to persuade Royal Family that he has associates who would release alleged seized gold.
The said opposition Senator, a politician and a businessman who runs a private jet leasing company at Wilson Airport have since denied all the allegations from the Royal family.
Preliminary investigations show that the scheme started September 25, last year when the Senator and his group approached a nephew of Sheikh Maktoum, Mr Ali Zandi. Ali is a representative of Dubai based gold trading company, Zlivia.
The cartel told Mr. Ali that they can deliver 4.6tons of gold from DRC. They had secured services of a Russian gold dealer who wanted down payments and transportation charges to Dubai.
The senator and his cronies contacted Mr. Ali on September 27 alleging that the gold consignment had been incarcerated by customs officials at JKIA.
Investigations indicate that Massoud Zandi a representative of Zlivia Gold Trading Company called the Senator for help and on 15th December last year the opposition senator flew to Dubai on the invitation of Mr. Zandi.
The senator demanded cash to ease the release of the alleged confiscated consignment. Mr. Zandi was of the contrary opinion and flew in the country on 24th December last year with hopes of meeting a senior Kenyan government official.
Mr Zandi could not manage a sit down with the government official instead the senator and his cartels took Zandi to JKIA and showed him sealed boxes allegedly holding Gold.
On January 21, this year, Zandi was secretly moved at night to meet a Cabinet secretary imposter at a Karen Hotel. The senior government imposter met Mr. Zandi in a car in the presence of the Senator.
They, the Senator and the CS imposter guaranteed Zandi that his Gold will be released in a week time after he flies out back to Dubai. Zandi says he has neither received his gold nor heard from the six cartels months later.
Sheikh Maktoum has forwarded a written complain to Kenya through the Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i. The Royal family leader has requested immediate actions to those involved in masterminding a gold scam against the Family.
Sheikh decided to contact the government directly after the cartels lied to him that the delay to release the consignment was caused the DusitD2 attack.
“Nevertheless, now we need your immediate and strong action to release the totality of Zlivia Gold shipment to UEA as soon as possible and accordingly to the instructions by our General Manager Mr Zandi who is there in Kenya to organize the shipment.” Quote from the Sheikh’s letter to interior CS dated 20th January.
Since the Shiekh wanted the matter to be solved as soon as possible, a Russian national Yulian Stankov and Mohammed Rashi both wanted international scammers were on Friday arraigned before the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi. The two are said to be in connection of the Ksh 400 Million scam.
Investigators told the court that Stankov did not have any identification documents. He was arrested after saying that he’s shipping 5tons of gold to Dubai.
DCI Investigators demanded the permission to access cell phones of the accused persons to aid in the investigations of their involvement in the gold scam and other related Cybercrimes.
The society has been filled with ‘get rich quick’ mentality. Many of young generation are doing whatever they are capable of doing to ‘prosper’.
Our desk has received information of couple of Instagram accounts that are luring girls into prostitution. Nairobi girls are being lured into sex for cash business in what is termed as private parties and businesses in foreign countries.
The Instagram Direct message post says an agency in Nairobi has orders from sponsors who offer cash for sex.
Instagram Direct Message screenshot Photo|Christine_rence
They even claim to have a quotation of Ksh 50 thousands for a single sex session. They convince unsuspecting girls that they conduct vital tests before joining the agency.
Instagram has been flooded by photo maniacs’ celebrities and fake Socialites who are actively promoting prostitution.
Socialites have taken over the Instagram app. Currently majority of gram users are Posting and sharing travel pic and the Porsche lifestyles.
Instagram is now a certified prostitution platform. The platform has verified sex for cash accounts that have misled the entire generation.
Young girls are tricked to joining agencies that later connect them to sex addicts in Dubai, Qatar, UAE and many other destinations.
Fake lifestyles posts and big currency quotation are key things these slavery agencies invest in to lure young naive girls. With some posting fake ownership of businesses on some of the world’s greatest destinations.
Many cases of sexual assault and abuse have been reported by Kenyans working in diaspora. Some who Kenyan embassy had no idea they were in the respective foreign countries.
So many young naive girls’ minds have been besmirched by fake travel pics and lifestyles on Instagram. Majority have been enticed to travel to foreign countries like Dubai, Qatar and other Middle East countries only to get sexual abused and assault.
Instagram has turned a blind eye on the increased sex for cash and sexual slavery promoting agencies on its community.
They also have verified socialites with fake lifestyles. The same people who are alluring girls into prostitution in foreign countries.
This makes them accomplices in the now most famous activity on their platform.
Here’s A Facebook post of Oge Nwabueze elucidating her awful sexual experience in Foreign terrestrial
Drug addiction and unprotected sex under the influence has hit its rise in Nairobi’s University and Colleges.
Cocaine, marijuana, crack and blue tabs have high consumers in schools. A lot of comrades are active drug users and addicts.
We have received information from our sources about the increased cases of illegal drug use and prostitution in Nairobi’s Technical University of Kenya.
Suspended students from TUK and expelled comrades of TUK have turned to biggest drug peddlers in the institution.
These former TUK comrades are peddling cocaine and marijuana inside the technical university of Kenya.
The illegal business happens behind Block Q~ which the majority know it as Block Z.
Our sources says these marijuana peddlers mainly reside from Nairobi’s Mathare slums.
They link up with former TUK comrades behind block Z for cracked cocaine from South B.
These peddlers are said to be mixing marijuana and cocaine. A mixture that is highly effective and dangerous for your health.
With other selling crack blue tabs and rolled cocaine to unsuspecting Students.
This has been the main cause of rise of drug addicts in the institution.
Some students are also involved in prostitution behind the same Block Z. Lack of money to buy the hard drugs and some students sleeping around unprotected only to get free cocaine to sniff and smoke because of addiction.
These gang of peddlers operate their illegal business in open daylight. Many and majority of their customers are TUK students.
Student leadership in TUK has raised concerns about the peddlers to the relevant authority.
Some comrades, who are actively in TUKs leadership say that the Authorities are aware of this business and seem to be offering the peddlers ‘protection’.
Current TUK student leaders have called for immediate actions before they take the matter in their hands.
The students leaders have called for ‘Operation okoa block Z’. They’re demanding it to be demolished or put into active use to scare away the peddlers.
They have also blamed the TUK handlers for not involving the police in all this menace happening inside the institution premises.
The socialites-loving Simiyu has gone underground, and is probably on the run, after conning a company a whopping Shs 100 million in the pretext of securing it a tender at GDC
Disgraced former Geothermal Development Company (GDC) CEO Dr Silas Masinde Simiyu has apparently resorted to conning and obtaining money through false pretenses from business people only four years after leaving the lucrative position.
The socialites-loving Simiyu has now gone underground, and is probably on the run, after conning a company a whopping Shs 100 million in the pretext of securing it a tender at GDC.
Simiyu who styles himself as a fundraising consultant and geothermal energy expert convinced the owners of the company (identity hidden) that he would secure them the multibillion tender.
He claimed that he was still influential at GDC and could decide who gets what tender.
Jimmy Wanjigi.
The owners delivered the money (in Kenyan denomination) to Simiyu’s hideout in Lavington, Nairobi just a few days before 2018 Christmas.
Our investigations revealed that the money was delivered to Simiyu in a pickup.
We also confirmed that Simiyu, who spent years living in a hotel in Upperhill area, spent the money on a villa in the upmarket Lavington estate.
After receiving the money, Simiyu stopped taking phone calls from the company directors.
The directors were later shocked to learn that Simiyu was double crossing them and also taking money from a rival firm.
Simiyu was in 2015 arrested by EACC and charged with corruption over the irregular procurement of Rig Move Service in the 2012/2013 financial year.
Simiyu was charged alongside the then company secretary Praxidis Siasi and all members of the company’s tender committee who included Abraham Saat, Nicholas Karume Weke, Peter Ayodo Omenda, Godwin Mwangae Mwawongo, Caleb Mbayi and Bruno Mugambi.
Simiyu was also accused of abuse of office and failing to ensure proper management of public funds.
GDC is set to carry out the groundbreaking ceremony for the first of the 3 power plants to be constructed by independent power producers at the Menengai Geothermal Project.
GDC has lincesed 3 IPPS – Orpower 22 Limited, Sosian Menengai Geothermal Power Limited and Quantum East Africa Power Limited.
Simiyu has been bragging to anybody who cares to listen that he was behind the successful tendering of all the three companies.
Simiyu’s reign at GDC was ridden with corruption and sex scandals.
Not only did he become a spanner boy for renowned wheeler dealer Jimi Wanjigi, Simiyu also slept with most female employees in the company.
Wanjigi actually bought Simiyu the then top of the range Toyota Land Cruiser VX worth over Shs 11 million.
In return, Simiyu ensured that only the Chinese firms represented by Wanjigi scooped the multibillion contracts at GDC.
He was also known as a womanizer who only promoted the ladies he had bedded.
Top of the lsit of employees he bedded included Lydia Odhiambo, tecla Mutie, Marietta Mutonya and a Miss Sylvia.
Unknown to anyone, Naftali Kinuthia travelled 300KMs from Thika to Eldoret with only one aim, murder. When the news of Ivy Wangechi, a medical student at Moi University first hit the waves, wild theories flew around.
Unsurprisingly, the victim was victimized with all mannerisms of justifications flying around. At the end of the day, an innocent life was taken away in the most brutal way by a man well known to her and in a dangerous obsession story as it turned out later on.
The story of Ivy isn’t isolated; it only opened a Pandora box that something is seriously wrong, if you study media trends, not a day will pass without reports of partners killing each other. In fact under the last 7 days, there have been 6 reported deaths of wives killed by their partners. It’s worth noting that these are just the reported cases on media, many go unreported, which paints a grim photo of what really is going on.
While the 2018 statistics are yet to be released, in 2017 for example, there were 2,774 cases of homicide. In the same year, police recorded 1, 213 cases where men had committed murder against 222 women perpetrators.
Because of victim shaming and a culture of silence common in conservative communities, many cases of gender based violence on women go unreported. It’s for this that it’s nearly impossible to tell the exact figures of women being murdered by their partners.
We’ve had some high profile femicide cases like that of Sharon Otieno, the 7-month pregnant Rongo University Student who was also brutally murdered, with Migori Governor Okoth Obado suspected to have been behind the heinous murder.
Monica Kimani the business lady who was found with her throat slit in a bathtub at her house in Kilimani is yet another prominent case of femicide.
While some of these cases are in court, most victims don’t get the justice.
There are circumstances where men get away with murdering their lovers either by corrupting the judicial system or even paying off relatives of victims to buy their silence. There are cold people out here with cold hearts and chilling stories that will throw you off a cliff.
Here is a perfect example:
On Saturday the 8th of August 2017, Rhoda Mumbi set off on a trip with her husband, to Jacaranda Elementaita hotel, in Gilgil, ostensibly to celebrate her husband’s birthday ( he had just turned 36) and to try and resolve marital differences she had with him. She had left her 2 young boys, then 2 and 4, with her elder sister the Friday before. Mumbi, a quiet, religious mum, was happy with a trip, not least because her husband was not one to take his wife out.
By 9.30pm that Saturday, Rhoda lay dead, naked in a bathtub at their hotel room. From the onset, police handled the incident as a suspicious death. After investigations, and a postmortem conducted by three different pathologists representing the government, Mumbi’s family and Koskei, the police arrested and subsequently charged him with murder.
Two years down the road, for inexplicable reasons, the murder trial is yet to start.
According to police statements supplied to this writer by a concerned whistleblower in the police service, there are several hints that point to her death being a pre-meditated murder and not a drowning accident as alleged by her husband. Conversations with witnesses, who spoke anonymously as they are not authorized to comment on the case, speak of a well planned murder that went slightly wrong at execution.
During investigations, police found that this was not the first time the accused had visited the hotel. It is here that police allege he would have noted the cottages were quite a distance from the main reception and there were no CCTV cameras.
It also emerged that when Koskei made reservations for the hotel on 5th July 2017 via telephone, he insisted on having a room with a bath tub because his wife “loved bathtubs”.
On the material day, the couple arrived at the hotel at 4pm, checked in and sat down by the pool side. Witnesses say the two sat talking while the husband ordered beers and Mumbi some tea. After sunset, around 7pm, the two took a menu and went to their room. That was the last time anyone saw Rhoda Mumbi alive.
Mumbi and Koskei At a past event.
According to a DCI report, at around 9pm, a waiter at the lodge bumped into Koskei outside the dining room. He claimed he was out jogging. The report states that, Koskei was panting and his face glittered from sweat. This struck the waiter as odd because Koskei was wearing slippers. The statement also states that it was dark and questioned why Koskei would think to jog in unfamiliar surroundings at night.
A short while later, Koskei rushed to the reception for a master key claiming his wife wasn’t answering her phone and he needed to access their room as he had left his keys inside. The receptionist handed him the key and asked a security guard to accompany him so he returns the key as guests were not allowed to have it.
Upon arriving at the room, Koskei asked the guard to accompany him to check if his wife was ok as it was unusual for her not to answer her phone. It is at this point that the security guard discovered the body of Mumbi in the bathtub facing up with one leg hanging over the side.
What baffled the investigators when they arrived at the scene was that the bathroom floor was completely dry including the bathroom mat. Suspiciously, despite Koskei claiming that he had left his wife taking a bath after he had taken his, investigators did not find any signs of anyone having taken a bath. They also noted the soaps were still intact, unopened and resting where the hotel staff had placed them. When her body was found, her mouth and nose were not submerged, casting more doubt on the drowning angle.
As the scene was being processed, Koskei was curled up in bed sobbing and saying how his wife was a drug addict and abuser of sleeping pills. As postmortem results would later show, it wasn’t drowning and there were no illegal drugs in her blood. The police also noted the presence of blood on her head and an injury on Koskei’s finger.
In his official statement to the police, Koskei alleged that he had left the room at around 8.30 to go order dinner, after showering as his wife prepared to shower. He claimed he went out and got engrossed making calls, until at round 9pm, when a message from his wife asking him to “order tea” made him remember that he had not asked her what she wanted for dinner. He then called her unsuccessfully to take her order. He walked back to the room and found the doors, which he said were “bang and lock” closed. She did not respond to his knock and calls. He therefore went back to the reception, got the master key and on opening the door, found his wife dead in the bathtub. The door to the room, as noted in one of the statements, is not a ‘bang and lock’.
One day before the postmortem was conducted; the husband contacted his friend, a medical Doctor, seeking advice on whether it was possible to influence the pathologist who would conduct the post mortem to conceal certain facts. He said that his previous statement to the police was false; and that he had in fact had a fight with his wife, and “may have touched her neck”. When he discovering he had killed her, he stage managed the “bath tub” scene to create the illusion of death by drowning. His friend told him that post mortem reports were scientific and could not be tampered with. He then reported the conversation to the police.
Koskei on duty as a UN staff.
Motive of the alleged murder is a subject of discussion, in one of statements by witnesses to the police, the couple had disagreements which were described as ‘normal marriage issues’. Other encounters also claim that Koskei wasn’t happy with the wife claiming she was a financial burden to him and that he regretted marrying someone from a poor background.
It is also said Koskei may have killed her after she threatened to seek divorce because of his infidelity.
Family members of the accused were also opposed to the union between the two on ethnic grounds and refused to meet Mumbi’s parents for the more than 8 years the two were together. They only made contact a week after Mumbi was murdered to offer their condolences.
Upon arrest, Koskei was released on a paltry sum of 300,000 shillings bond (not cash bail), within record time after pretending to be mentally unstable in remand. He kept shouting “I killed my wife for love”, rocking himself to and fro.
Since the 3rd of August 2017, Koskei has been out on bail. He even went to court to get custody of the children whose mother he is accused of murdering. Meanwhile Mumbi turns in her grave, crying for justice.
Police sources are convinced that Nicholas Koskei lured his wife to Gilgil intending to kill her. He drugged her with sleeping pills in her alcohol. He then stripped her naked and attempted to put her in the bath tub. It is at this point that Mumbi, though weak from the drugs, somehow managed to fight back, forcing him to hold her in a choke hold, killing her. His later attempt to find a way to compromise the government pathologist points to him knowing her postmortem will prove strangulation was the cause of death, dismantling his drowning after a sleeping pill overdose theory.
Investigations also revealed that Koskei had been researching head and neck injuries, introduction of drugs via veins and drowning. This information, which is crucial to the case is yet to be given to prosecutors in a report format by the CID cyber crime unit, two years on.
Koskei, the accused face behind the murder of his wife Mumbi.
This is just one example of the many femicide cases in Kenya today. There should be renewed public interest in cases such as this, to ensure the accused do not get away with murder.
The Judiciary must also stand firm. If not well handled, more women will be targeted and killers get away with it. In Mumbi’s case, there’s enough evidence, according to the police reports to prosecute. The tactic of delaying and lengthening trials is an old books trick to help suspects get away with crimes. The longer a case is delayed, gives suspects enough time to corrupt their way out.
With New sheriffs in town like our able DPP and Kinoti at CID, we hope that their interventions will strangle this monster sweeping away our women and they will take time to focus on Koskei’s case, to get justice for Mumbi.
Sony sugar has been struggling financially for time now with farmers and workers going on strikes over nonpayment. While this could ordinarily be blamed on mismanagement, something wasn’t adding up.
The company was receiving unusual payments claims from farmers. As a matter of resuscitating the sugar company, management contracted an investigating firm to establish whether these claims from lawyers were genuine.
Sony Sugar looting is a classic case of obtaining money by false pretence contrary to section 313 of the penal code, forgery contrary to section 351 of the penal code and uttering a false document contrary to Section 353 of the Penal Code.
The brief circumstances of the case are that South Nyanza Sugar Company Limited (SONY SUGAR COMPANY) officials reported that their company is experiencing enormous cases of embezzlement of funds. This is as a result of fake civil cases filed by advocates and using names of SONY SUGAR farmers (clients) without the farmers’ knowledge
Investigations reveal M/s Odingo & Co. Advocates and M/s Kerario Marwa & Co. Advocates are adversely mentioned as the ones participating in this acts.
There are over 50 law firms involved. In 2014 we had 5. Most these just came from Mumias Sugar Nzoia Sugar, and Chemelil Sugar.
Records at the company’s’ registry and those at Migori Court registry indicate that several farmers’ names are being used to file fictitious civil cases without their knowledge. Some cases are pending before court and others have been awarded money but when interviewing the relevant farmers, they asserted that they had never met the said advocates, never filed any civil case neither have they received the award monies.
Some of the documents indicate that some names of farmers who are deceased are being used to obtain money from the company.
The following farmers were interviewed and confirmed as follows: John Otieno Orwa his case 2385 of 2015 was filed in Migori without his instructions and authority and has again been refilled as Civil suit no 299 of 2018 in the same migori court,
One Francis Kuwawe Okomo, and Stephene Odhiambo Abich were paid for suits they never instructed advocates and who they have never met. They have not received they loot too.
Elijah Mberesio Onyambu is a farmer who is deceased (died 27thDecember 2013) and M/s Odingo & Co. Advocates filed a civil suit No. 276/2018 Migori law court.
Elijah Mberesio Onyambu died 2013The deceased client gave instructions to advocate… S. O. ODINGOThe deceased even signed an affidavit on 27th May 2018. These captures how the law firms use ghost clients to embezzled funds from the Miller.
Samson Ontiri is litigant who died in Tabaka Hospital in 03/09/2013 and the amazing thing is that Kerario Matwetwe & co Advocates have filed a suit no. 687 of 2017 in Rongo court.
The eldest son who is Principal of Nyakeyo High School confirmed that the family has never instructed any law firm as they still do sugar cane farming and are still supplying to SONY SUGAR.
Samson ontiri is another ghost litigant. Died in 2013 but his matter was filed in 2017. Crude ways of earning a living.
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The amount of monies paid out as compensation for damages to law firms are huge. They have crippled the company to a level that the management cannot pay its suppliers, farmers and workers.
Accordingly it became necessary to contract a professional due diligence firm to assist in unearthing this legal pests who have preyed the millers in the Kenyan sugar belts.
Advanced Forensics Limited was the firm that has been on the ground since management entered into contract with them.
Efforts to contact the operative on the ground weren’t succesfull but we got to the CEO Charles Kimani Njuki who gave us scanty information on the scale of fraud. He indicated that the losses are huge and run into millions.
They range from payments to:
(1) dead (unexistent)litigants,
(2) Double Pay outs to parallel suits
(3) Exaggerated farm sizes and claims ete
He could not divulge much as the matter is sensitive. We established that the firm has done many prominent matters.
This style of embezzlement seems like a borrowed template where lawyer Ojienda who was recently arrested for the Sh200M loss at Mumias Sugar. It’s a bitter case where dubious lawyers rip off the company at the expense of poor farmers not getting paid, workers and a ripple effect of undermining the southern Nyanza economy.
Bank accounts of the dubious lawyers mentioned have since been frozen on the command of ODPP as the matter now goes to court. It’s also an opportunity for the management to now put the house in order as the investigators have poked the leaking holes.
