Category: Investigations

The puzzle over the kidnapping of Africa’s youngest billionaire, Mohammed Dewji, 43, in Dar es Salaam can only be unravelled by establishing why and who tampered with security cameras at Colosseum Hotel where the tycoon was abducted last Thursday.

Failure by the CCTV cameras installed at the hotel to capture helpful images of the abduction has raised questions as to who might have tampered with the devices, for what motive.

Mo, was kidnapped on Thursday around 5am at the hotel in Oyster Bay, an affluent neighbourhood in northwest Dar es Salaam, where he had gone for a regular morning workout.

Police say two white men, probably foreigners, arrived at the hotel in a Toyota Surf, abducted the businessman, fired in the air before they disappeared.

To date, there has been no clue from either investigators or relatives on the whereabouts of Mo; who might have carried out the kidnapping and why.

Meanwhile, the unresolved abduction has led to a tussle between the government and the opposition over calls to allow external investigators to join the hunt for the missing businessman.

The opposition spokesperson for home affairs Godbless Lema Tuesday asked the government to invite foreign experts to resolve the abduction, accusing the police of not showing any serious resolve to find the businessman and arrest his abductors.

But in a quick response, Home Affairs deputy minister Hamad Masauni declared there was no intention within government to allow foreign investigators as the local police were capable of doing the work.

Meanwhile, we have reports that American Intelligence Groups (AGI) have taken over the kidnapping case of Mohammed Dewji, 43, who was taken by gunmen from hotel gym. AGI have seen one of the gunmen enter the front the others were already inside, this was planned out AGI say it was an inside job and was planned in advance.

Crucial photos in the investigations released by the AGI.

 

Dewji, was taken by gun men from gym according to the AGI reports. News has also Surfaced of Dewji, was being photographed by Muthoni Gathitu AGI discovered images of Mohammed Dewji on her webpage also centered in several pictures and several boats in Mombasa, Nairobi, South Africa  AGI is investigating this lady in question.

AGI say Dewji, was taken by a man wearing a blue T-shirt, carrying a rifle wrapped in a towel. Tourists reportedly took several images and American intelligence groups.

The CCTV setup inside hotel wasn’t turned on inside the gym which could have been inside job. AGI checked video and no workers were even monitoring security cameras but two men were on the look out side holding something in hand.

As pursuit continues to unravel the puzzles, family of Dewji are offering a reward of Tsh1B to anyone with information that would lead to finding him.

In a new twist of events, the Court of Appeal yesterday issued orders stopping Britam’s attempt to use the courts to distract its competitor, Cytonn.

It has emerged that Britam might not have lost Ksh1.2 billion under the watch of its former employees, as they claim. Instead, records show that the money was spent on various Britam projects in the country.

Bank records in possession of our investigative desk show that the money that Britam accuses four of its former employees stealing was wired by Britam’s own Fund Administrators from Standard Chartered Bank in Mauritius to Chase Bank in Kenya to different accounts held by Britam and its then Subsidiary, Acorn.

The money was meant for different projects which were initiated by Britam in conjunction with Acorn Group Limited. Acorn was Britam’s partner in real estate development, and even they (Britam) had shares in Acorn.

The money wired from Mauritius was acquired from investors. Mauritius was the preferred destination because of its tax treaty with Kenya hence avoiding double taxation. However, Britam group did not want the projects done for BAAM investors, they wanted the projects done for Britam directors, a move that former employees firmly resisted, hence the attempt by Britam to punish the four, a move that the court of appeal stopped yesterday.

The disbursements were signed by Shiv Arora who was the Investment analyst for Britam, Elizabeth Nkuuku who held the position of a senior portfolio manager and Edwin Dande, the then Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Investment Committee had already approved the five projects, in which the Ksh1.2 billion was to be used on.

As stated, only three executives authorised the transactions, putting in question why Britam decided to include Patricia Wanjama in the suit. Sources within Britam intimated to us that the owners of Britam, working through the previous DPP, Keriako Toniko, decided to manipulate the justice system to punish the Cytonn four, who exited Britam to form their own company.

We are in possession of bank statements showing how Britam used the money:

The first Ksh9.9 million was disbursed to Edenvale Developments LLP, a student housing project sitting on a 0.4 acre piece on Jogoo Road, Nairobi.

Another Ksh42.2 million was disbursed to Starling Park Properties LLP, a real estate project on a 0.7 acre piece of land on Gitanga Road, Nairobi, now called 67 Gitanga on Agwings Kodhek.

The third Ksh43.3 million disbursement was made to Crimson Court Developments LLP a real estate project on Riara Road, Nairobi.

Sinopia Properties LLP received Ksh150 .7 million, a project sitting on a 202.9 acre piece of land located in Ollolooitikosh Town.

The final Ksh915.4 million disbursement was made to Mikado Properties LLP a a real estate development sitting on a 28.4 acre piece of land in Mavoko on Mombasa Road.

This case is important to the market because it is about big corporates trying to keep their position by manipulating the Justice system. For a company that is also owned by IFC, Swiss RE and Africinvest, it’s surprising that international investors would be part of bribing the system to so that they dominate the market.

Next we shall explain to you how Britam issued fake statements to investors in their unit linked education policies. Our mole at Britam informed us that the DCI has been investigating Britam about their Mauritius Ponzi Scheme run by previous shareholder, David Rawat.

While at it, we would like the Director of Criminal Investigations to also investigate these fake unit linked education insurance policies Britam has been peddling to Kenyans using teachers as their agents.

Detectives are trying to piece up how the slain businesswoman had managed to beat the airport’s protocol to pass with a lot of cash undeclared through the heavy security without a trace.

Monica is said to have flown in with huge amount of money in USD currency which is when she called Jowie to escort her from the airport. It’s clear the money was packed in a bag and passed, what’s not clear is how this could’ve possibly happened and no trace left.

According to reports, the late Monica Kimani was briefly detained at the airport upon arrival from Juba because she was in possession of undeclared cash.

She was, however, let go after a high flying individual called senior KAA officials to secure her release.

The incident has been handled with the strictest confidentiality, with no official records showing Monica was at the airport on the material day.

According to other reports, Monica’s flight details for 19th September when she traveled from South Sudan are heavily guarded by KAA going to show the trail captures the mightiest in the land.

The KAA officers are the ones mandated to screen baggage. In case of somebody carrying large amounts of cash, he or she is supposed to declare it with the customs department which issues a receipt. Immigration simply checks on the passports and visa.

When screening baggage and they notice banned substances or illegal goods, KAA officers re supposed to alert airport police.

The officer said that in the case of Monica, JKIA security has discovered that she had cash but the KAA officer who screened her did not inform the police.

Monica is said to have placed a call to a high office and was set free with the money undeclared. It’s alsi speculated that a contact on South Sudan who’s the source of the money coordinated her pass with his networks.

It is in the backdrop of the missing cash that detectives have pitched campbin South Sudan to piece up evidences and determine if their could be a link with her death.

In what is a suspected money laundering syndicate, the slain who lived a lavish lifestyle and accumulated wealth in a short span, the case could be much more complicated than thought as those in the trail of the cash and possibly the high gods, will fight blood and sweat not to appear on the picture.

Whats more puzzling is where the cash in the suitcase disappeared. It has been speculated that it was about USD400,000 cash. At one point, it was reported that Monica’s purse with cash was recovered at Maribe’s House butbthis story disappeared into the thin air.

Investigators have told the court, where they have arraigned two suspects, that they are still investigating the possibility of money having been stolen from Monica in her killing.

“The investigations are ongoing to establish any money that could have been taken from the deceased’s house. The deceased was to travel out of the country,” an affidavit by investigating officer Maxwell Otieno reads.

He said they are tracing the money movement, persons involved, and how and who is currently in possession of the money.

If the police can break the money puzzle then it will definitely open a box of pandora exposing those involved and might just give this case a whole new angle. This money is somewhere andnjust maybe if the police can get to those in possession then we’d have a new crime motive and even the actual killer if it wasn’t Jowie.

Detectives continue to patch holes in the murder so foul of Monica Kimani in her apartment even with prime suspect Joseph Irungu aka Jowie and his fiancée Jacque Maribe having taken plea against the murder they’ve been formally charged for.

Missing links in the case which the police described was work of a highly trained assasin who left just enough trails and was smart enough also to throw off the cliff investigators.

Detectives, for example, wondering why Ms Kimani did not struggle as her hands were tied behind her back and her mouth taped shut.

Police are struggling to figure out if Monica was drugged as the two had been taking wine together. Her body did not have injuries consistent with a big struggle against an assailant according to police reports.

There were also no signs of struggle in the apartment, as one would expect. A source privy with the scene analysis told journalists she was tied like a goat before her throat was slit.

Police do not think she was tied in the bathroom, a police source speculating to journalists that she might have been trussed up in the bedroom and taken to the bathroom and killed.

The drugging angle would be consistent with the profile of the killer that the police have: A meticulous planner and trained killer who thought about the crime seriously in advance and covered his tracks, including disguising himself in a kanzu and stealing an identity card for use in getting into Ms Kimani’s apartment.

Assuming that the killer acted alone and was known and trusted by the victim, then the most likely explanation for the lack of a struggle is that he either tricked her to allow herself to be tied, or just drugged her.

Detectives said they were still trying to conclusively figure out the motive of the murder, and that DNA results were still being analysed.

As it stands, police are relying on circumstantial  evidence and fingerprints dusted from Ms Kimani’s home, wine glasses and furniture have shown that Mr Irungu was in Ms Kimani’s Lamuria Gardens flat, quite probably on the night of September 19. However, the forensics team has not given the DNA results yet.

“It will take time before we can really ascertain the biological identity of the killer,” a detective, who is privy to the investigation told the nation. “We are relying on circumstantial evidence for now, but we have not been successful in getting any important information from the main suspect in our custody. He has not helped much. All he says is that he was not involved in the murder. He is very guarded.”

For now, the source said, detectives have not been able to conclusively establish where Mr Irungu’s main residence or central place of operation. The house believed to have been his previous residence in Nairobi’s Buru Buru Phase 2 estate is currently occupied by another man.

The murder weapon used to slit Ms Kimani’s throat has also not been found.

Determining the biological identity of the killer will need DNA analysis and more so with the killing weapon which is not in the picture. Circumstantial evidence can be punched down by lawyers and even though the DCI exudes confidence that they’ve met the threshold, proving that it was indeed Jowie who slit Monica’s throat is the hurdle.

Police are however said to be in pursuit of a second suspect said to have been with Jowie that night and the murder weapon which could give a major breakthrough in this case. On the night Jowie was arrested he reportedly bragged to the police that the case won’t go nowhere going to cast questions as to just how much he knows and his silence and non corporation with the police can only mean he’s guilty or covering up for someone seemingly more powerful and buying time to evade the net.

After the celebrity couple were separated for nearly two weeks as investigations into the murder of Monica Kimani took course, Maribe and Jowie the prime suspect in the case came face to face for the first time in Kilimani court where the duo are to be charged collectively for the murder.

DPP Noordin made the decision to charge both the murder dating evidence collected was strong enough to link the two to the heinous act. Earlier, it was speculated that Maribe would be turned into a state witness and testify against her fiancé who’s the prime suspect in the murder.

In a sharp twist of events, DPP made the decision to collectively charged for the murder. In the investigations, police say that on that night, Maribe and Jowie were in the same company and that Jowie while driving Maribe’s car to Monica’s apartment, was captured in a company of someone.

Police also allege that Jowie attempted to take his life by shooting himself inside Maribe’s bedroom following a disagreement that is yet to be detailed. The clothes worn by Irungu at the crime scene were also partly burned and recovered by police at Maribe’s House. It’s aksomdaid the knife used to commit the crime and which is yet to be found, was from Maribe’s kitchen.

Maribe was initially considered as an accessory to murder by conspiring to mislead investigations, she knowingly lied to the Lang’ata police that Jowie was shot by thugs while in full knowledge of actual act.

Businessman Brian Kassaine who’s also behind bar with his gun having been used by Jowie in the attempted suicide and said to be poised to be charged for being in possession of illegal firearm, could possibly have cut a deal to be a state witness and testify against the murder suspects.

Jacque Maribe is represented by DP’s ICC lawyer Katwa Kigen while Irungu is represented by seasoned criminal lawyer, Cliff Ombeta.

Updates:

DPP Noordin Haji says there is sufficient evidence to warrant charges against TV anchor Jacque Maribe and her boyfriend Joseph Irungu alias Jowie over the murder of Monica Kimani.

Jowie and Jacque Maribe to be remanded at  Industrial Area and Lang’ata respectively until Monday, Maribe to undergo mental assessment test.

New details continue to emerge on the trending amdnmost complex murder in town. Jacque Maribe’s dad has raised fears over the life of her daughter should she confess against the prime suspect Jowie who was also her fiancé.

In a new deal, Maribe’s legal team had plotted to negotiate a deal and turn her into a state witness but it won’t be as smooth. Her dad, Mr Maribe now says her daughter’s life will be put in danger and forever live in fear should she testify against Jowie given that he has his accomplices roaming free and would pounce on her daughter. This comes at the backdrop that Jowie’s foreign partners flew in the country on his arrest in a bid to save him backed with local shadowy characters.

Mr Maribe admitted that Mr Irungu was his daughter’s boyfriend, but claimed they were not in good terms.

On September 20, a day after Ms Kimani’s murder, Ms Maribe had a major fallout with Mr Irungu at an upmarket bar when he went to pick her up, according to the father’s version of events. It was also this bar that Irungu mentioned in his statement. He was just from the murder scene supposedly.

Mr Maribe claimed that his daughter wanted to end the relationship. “She asked Irungu to return her car keys and ATM card. Even when they went back to the house, Jacque threw some of his clothes out. The man threatened to kill himself after Jacque said she would leave him. He borrowed a gun and shot himself,” Mr Maribe claimed.

But Mr Maribe said he did not know what prompted the argument between the two but speculated that it may have been “normal issues that young relationships face”.

Initially, the news anchor had told police that Mr Irungu was shot by a gang outside her estate in Lang’ata. But when asked why the daughter gave contradicting information to police regarding the incident, Mr Maribe attributed it to love.

“She may have felt responsible for his attempted suicide. At that time, she did not know about Monica and her connections to Irungu,” said Mr Maribe.

Mr Maribe, a two time Kiharu constituency parliamentary aspirant, said he knew Mr Irungu since he had visited his home with Ms Maribe twice or thrice but he had no idea where he worked. “She is an adult and I was not following much about their relationship. I even heard of their engagement over the media,” said Mr Maribe.

On her status at the police station, Mr Maribe said he visited her on Friday and that she was in good health, relaxed and “her conscience clean as she was innocent”.

She said given the way he brought her up, she was “disciplined” and not the type of a girl who could sit down to plan any crime, leave alone murder. “If she had bad manners, she could not have reached to the levels where she is right now,” he said of his daughter’s career.

Jowie drove into Monica’s apartment in Maribe’s car, used a fake ID which is said he picked from Maribe’s gate in Lang’ata, police are also saying the knife used in the crime scene was from Maribe’s kitchen and the suicide attempt that would later be reported as a shooting by thugs happened right in her bedroom and a live bullet left.

Just what indeed was Jowie’s intentions by leaving all the trails to Maribe and dropping everything at her doorstep. It can only be speculated that she was either an accomplice or smartly fixed in the murder by Jowie. Nothing is clear as the more time moves, more script shifts, however, what’s apparent is Maribe would’ve naively implicated herself in the murder thinking she was hiding a suicide attempt from a domestic brawl not knowing of the murder or maybe she did.

It can also be speculated that reason for Maribe asking out could’ve been linked to infidelity and that’s why he tried to introduce a crime of passion angle by leaving trails to Maribe in the crime if at all that was the case. He’s described as a manipulative and psychopath who could do anything.

Hello Kenya Insights,

If our beloved company(KPC )is really serious about theft and adultarated fuel in Nairobi it should start by highlighting the corrupt syndicate led by one silent but highly manipulative Ms Peris Mburu Njoki, a revenue accountant II, who had been suspended in April 2017 for failing to follow due procedure in allocating product to two oil marketers in the KPC system together with Antipas Tirop who resigned unceremoniously in the heat of the scandal to avoid accountability leaving Ms.Mburu to clean up the scandal using underhand dealings within the company .

Whoever Ms Mburu managed to work her wide hips and charm with the investigating committee that was formed to address their issue and was reinstated back early this year into yet another role in the corporate department were another scandal is in the offing.Some of our IT colleagues were also roped in to manipulate and erase her computer logs/entries in the system.

They had both been suspended for their irregular dealings by exploiting a loop-hole in the gain/loss system through which stolen fuel designated to one oil marketer is illegally allocated to another and then registered as lost in the system. while working in our products accounts department (PS9)of KPC’s Nairobi Terminal where they embezzled millions of shillings and were the kingpin in a corruption cartel that has for many years been stealing fuel and masking the theft as a gain/loss in the system.

In the period between January and December 2016 they stole 1,200,000 litres of fuel and allocated it to dubious fuel marketers of somali origin and later the billing journal entries reversed on those accounts denying the parastal revenue and enriching themselves.

Ms.Mburu is known to have bought a top of the range Toyota suv (KCH 448E) worth Kshs.3 million in cash and a four bedroom +DSQ house in the lavish Oasis apartments in South C for Ksh.16million cash in september 2016 even before the apartment blocks had been finished and further furnishing it for kshs.3 million worth of new furniture and fittings.

The apartment is home to extravagant and exclusive cocktail parties where she and her baby daddy entertain her cartel friends and families.Ms.Mburu is known to have a taste for the finer things in life and you will spot her in top-end malls buying clothes and electronic gadgets,numerous holiday trips to mombasa or throwing birthday lavish parties for her 5 year old daughter or friends funded by the ill-gotten proceeds of her scandalous activities.

Most of the property that she has bought is registered in her mothers’ name to hide tracing them back to her, which is suspicious since the mother lives in a rented house in Donholm while using public transport.

The stolen fuel is known to have been adultarated and channeled into the petrol stations via the mum’s fuel reselling company and other companies o members of the cartel.

Ms.Mburu will always be found at Ceddars resturant or Osinkiri resturant where she prefers to hold secretive meetings with fellow colleagues in the fuel racket scheme like Herman Munga (currently in suspension ) .Her under hand dealings within the company also ensures that she gets nominated for trips and training’s that add no value so as to draw in hefty per diems and allowances, my monies that she is extremely generous with, enabling her to fund the lavish lifestyle and grease the powers that be to avoid prosecution and drain the company coffers.

We want to see these mysterious people in our company brought to account for the scandals they have been implicated in. Criminal characters should not be running this much tainted organization.

Citizen and Concerned employee.

cc.EACC, Asset Recovery Authority…

Fanisi, a US$50 million early-stage and growth capital fund, was launched in April 2010 to invest in diverse sectors in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. It targets to invest in high-growth, mid-tier businesses with a history of profitability. It has since then made various investments in the ICT and education sectors.

Fanisi, fund is backed by the International Finance Corporation, Norfund, Proparco, Finfund, Soros economic development fund and Ludin of Canada.

In November 2010, it invested in Paystream Limited, a firm providing an IT platform for processing cash and card transactions. The same month, it invested in Elris Communication Services Limited, a company specializing in providing network implementation and management services to the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors.

In 2011, Fanisi made an entry into the education sector, by investing in Hillcrest International Schools, where it acquired a majority shareholding.

Private Equity firm Fanisi Capital will pump Sh400 million in Kitengela International School. The investment will see the school triple student population to over 3,000 and open up two more institutions in the next three to five years.

Eight local pension schemes are among investors who have committed Sh3 billion to a new fund operated by Fanisi Capital.

The schemes from Kenya Power, Barclays, Co-operative Bank, Kenya Railways, Alexander Forbes, Kenya Ports Authority and Laptrust have agreed to put the money into the Fanisi Capital Fund II.

This is a 10-year fund that aims to raise between Sh7.5 billion and Sh10 billion in the next one year.

Fanisi’s investment portfolio includes retail pharmacy chain Haltons, which has outposts in Nairobi and other locations in Kenya; agroprocessing outfit Kijenge Animal Products based in Arusha, Tanzania; and private education provider Hillcrest International Schools based in Nairobi.

With a flashy profile, there seems to be rather a darkly side, according to allegations doing rounds.

In 2015, Fanisi Capital announced it had invested $2.1 million in a mid-sized local food distribution and processing firm that sells pizzas, berries and fresh juice.

Fanisi said in a statement it had invested the cash in European Foods Africa Limited (EFAL) through debt and equity.

However, this would remain just that; announcement. According to protest placard doing rounds on social media supposedly from Stefan Bletzer, the founder of EFAL, the $2.1M investment seem to have been a major bluff.

In a statement written on the giant board mounted on a van and moving around the capital, Bletzer seeks to expose an underlying scandal in the investments firm.

”INVESTORS BEWARE!” It opens, “this is to inform the public that Fanisi Capital never invested 2.1M Dollars in EFAL as Fanisi via Tony Wainaina as announced in various newspapers in 2015.” It reads. Tony Wainaina, the Fund’s managing partner, previously served as the chief executive of Centum Investment Company Ltd (then known as ICDC Investment) and Trans-Century Limited.

He goes to give an affirmation, “I Stephan Belzer, founder hereby confirm investment failure of Fanisi Capital led to massive distress with EFAL and huge staff layoff. As a foreign investor, I was misled and taken advantage of with promises not fulfilled.”

If the accusations are anything to go by then it can only be speculated that Fanisi either made the headlines to boost their portfolio or perhaps according to Belzer, it would be a scam.

Kenya Insights is interested in investigating and taking up this matter. Anyone with information on Fanisi Capital Group can reach out to the editor of this site on ([email protected])

 

Citizen Lab developed a new Internet scanning techniques to identify 45 countries in which operators of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware may be conducting operations.

Between August 2016 and August 2018, Citizen Lab scanned the Internet for servers associated with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. They found 1,091 IP addresses that matched their fingerprint and 1,014 domain names that pointed to them. They developed and used Athena, a novel technique to cluster some of the matches into 36 distinct Pegasus systems, each one which appears to be run by a separate operator.

Israel-based “Cyber Warfare” vendor NSO Group produces and sells a mobile phone spyware suite called Pegasus.

To monitor a target, a government operator of Pegasus must convince the target to click on a specially crafted exploit link, which, when clicked, delivers a chain of zero-day exploits to penetrate security features on the phone and installs Pegasus without the user’s knowledge or permission.

Once the phone is exploited and Pegasus is installed, it begins contacting the operator’s command and control (C&C) servers to receive and execute operators’ commands, and send back the target’s private data, including passwords, contact lists, calendar events, text messages, and live voice calls from popular mobile messaging apps.

The operator can even turn on the phone’s camera and microphone to capture activity in the phone’s vicinity.

Pegasus exploit links and C&C servers use HTTPS, which requires operators to register and maintain domain names.

Domain names for exploit links sometimes impersonate mobile providers, online services, banks, and government services, which may make the links appear to be benign at first glance.

An operator may have several domain names that they use in exploit links they send, and also have several domain names they use for C&C.

The domain names often resolve to cloud-based virtual private servers rented either by NSO Group or the operator. The front-end servers appear to forward traffic (via a chain of other servers) to servers located on the operator’s premises.

The study found suspected NSO Pegasus infections associated with 33 of the 36 Pegasus operators we identified in 45 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, the UAE, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and Zambia.

Pegasus also appears to be in use by countries with dubious human rights records and histories of abusive behaviour by state security services. In addition, it was found indications of possible political themes within targeting materials in several countries, casting doubt on whether the technology is being used as part of “legitimate” criminal investigations.

In a separate report, Communications surveillance is being carried out by Kenyan state actors, essentially without oversight, outside of the procedures required by Kenyan laws.

Intercepted communications content and data are used to facilitate gross human rights abuses, to spy on, profile, locate, track – and ultimately arrest, torture, kill or disappear suspects, as this report documents. The Kenyan constitution guarantees freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and the right to a fair trial as fundamental rights.

These abuses have marred Kenya’s counterterrorism operations and further eroded Kenyans’ already weak trust in the agencies responsible for protecting them. The investigation also explored the potential impact of unaccountable communications surveillance on the 2017 election cycle.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) regularly shares information with police agencies, some of whom have been engaged in gross human rights abuses, according to multiple independent media, civil society, and Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHCR) investigations. The NIS appears to have direct access to communication networks across Kenya.

This direct access means that the network operator itself has little to no knowledge of the interception of communications occurring on its network, and therefore no real ability to check these powers or report the potentially abusive use of communications surveillance powers.

Former MP Danson Mungatana lost virtually all his wealth to cunning tricksters who promised to multiply his riches.

Mungatana, a former assistant minister in Kibaki administration and former MP for Garsen Constituency, lost Shs 76 million, a piece of land and a car to the con men who promise to “wash” for him dollars and make him a billionaire.

He is among the eight Kenyans who have recently fallen victim to the gang of con men from West Africa, claiming to have powers to multiply money.

According to Police sources, the conmen, who include three Mali nationals and a Kenyan, carried out their operations in a building in Nairobi’s Westlands.

They convinced the politician to part with the money so that they could buy ‘ink’ to cleanse billions worth of ‘dirty’ dollars.

Mungatana reported to police that he lost Ksh.76 million but kept on going for more, even selling his car and a piece of land in the posh Karen neighbourhood. His ordeal began in March this year when he was introduced to the con men.

Another unnamed Kenyan businessman lost Ksh.14 million to the same con men who also ask their victims to bring large sums of money for miracle sessions after which the victims would walk away with fake currency after handing over their hard-earned cash. Many only realise they were being conned when it is already too late.

Three people suspected of carrying out the crime have been arrested and arraigned in court after being found in possession of over Shs one billion worth in fake currency.

They are  Abdoulaye Tamba Kouro, his son Abdala Tamba and a Kenyan, Anthony Mangangi Munyiva.

They will remain in police custody for the next 15 days, after the court granted the prosecution’s plea to continue holding them.

Mungatana was recently ordered to repay a Sh7.5 million loan he owed Equatorial Bank in full after the High Court rejected his request to pay the loan in instalments.

The Court ruled that he had failed to comply with his earlier plea that required him to pay a monthly instalment of Sh100,000, hence, his plea would not be accepted.

“I find no reason or proof that the judgment debtor is not able to pay at once nor that the most he can pay is Sh100,000 per month. He has not been candid in this matter with facts regarding his finances.

“The result is that I find the application unmerited, lacking in bona fides and thus cannot succeed, but must fail and is hereby dismissed,” Justice P.J.O Otieno stated in his ruling.

The court also dismissed Mr Mungatana’s claim he was not able to pay anything more than what he was offering, indicating that the former Assistant Minister was setting his own terms to pay the debt.

The bank further accused Mungatana of issuing fake cheques that bounced.

Surgeoderm Healthcare, a Nairobi-based clinic and the doctors who performed the surgery have lifted the lid on the top hospital with the filing of a petition questioning why it was not being investigated.

The patient underwent cosmetic breast operation at Surgeoderm Healthcare clinic in Nairobi and died after she was transferred to the Nairobi Hospital to recuperate.

KMPDB, which is listed as a respondent, launched investigations into the death targeting the health facility and the doctors who performed the operation

A battle looms as three plastic surgeons moves to court to protest against the manner in which investigations into a woman’s death due to a botched breast surgery is being conducted.

The three doctors have accused the medical board of bias in the handling of the case lodged by Ms Wanza’s husband Joseph Mulupi. The trio argues that the move is discriminatory and that the committee looking into the matter was constituted by the medical board with a sole intension of settling scores.

The committee comprises Dr Nyahim Opot, a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Mr Peter Munge, the board’s lawyer, and Mr Mulupi’s advocate called Jimmy Simiyu.

It turns out that Dr Opot is a colleague of Dr Khainga at the university and would likely have a biased decision since he had a personal difference with him as well.

They also argue that all the three committee members are parties to a case in which Prof Khainga is the complainant against the board over a decision made by Dr Opot. The conflicting interests leaves a wide space for biased decisions.

The medics also allege that it is Dr Okioma of Nairobi Hospital who injured neck vessels of the late Wanza yet he has not been requested to record a statement. “All indications are that the KMPDB intends to lay blame on the trio since Nairobi Hospital and Dr Okioma have been exempted from the investigations notwithstanding that the deceased met her death while on their hands,” says Prof Kiama Wangui, their lawyer.

The deceased underwent liposuction and breast enlargement at Surgeoderm Clinic on June 5.

However, she was reportedly attended to by an unnamed medical practitioner at the Accidents and Emergency Department of The Nairobi Hospital the next day after complaining of abdominal pains.

Surgeoderm have distanced themselves from the death saying they checked the patient out of their facility in stable state and that Nairobi Hospital records shows when she checked in, there were not serious complications. It was during a surgery at NH that a vessel in her neck was injured leading to her death.

It really doesn’t make sense why the board has not considered probing Nairobi Hospital and the Doctor who handled the deceased. We understand the three doctors under probe were yet to be interviewed and record their statement. How the board is to make unbiased decision while the subjects are yet to lay bare their side makes it believable that the intent of investigations isn’t in good faith.

Suspiciously, the family to the deceased didn’t lodged a complaint making the three doctors believe it is set with mischievous intent to settle scores. Incompetence is an issue as far as the committee is set up, none are plastic surgeons meaning they’d be passed on certain things, they’ve said the committee lacks the capacity.

How the board intends to make a fair decision while Nairobi Hospital and the Doctor who handled the patient before her death leaves a lot to desire. They’re clearly persons of interest and without their inclusion it’s apparent a predetermined decision to punish the said doctors is set.

For Citizen TV’s Jacque Maribe, things have taken a sharp twist from what used to be a fantasy and fairytale love story into tragedy. Joseph Irungu, the key murder suspect in the cold hearted killing of Monica Kimani in Kilimani.

Maribe has been a trending character in the story for one, her prominence and the fact that she was supposedly with the suspect moments after the killing had occurred making her a key witness in the case in which Irungu alleges that he was shot at while dropping off Maribe at her house in Lang’ata.

According to police trails, Maribe’s car, a Toyota Allion KCA 031E was spotted at Luciane Apartments in Kilimani where Monica lives. According to neighbors, Joseph, popularly known as Jowi was well known to them and was the last one to be seen out of Monica’s house before her body was discovered the next day. Dressed in a kanzu and a cap, records indicates that he passed through the gates with a fake identity of a Dominic.

Police on Thursday dusted TV journalist Jacque Maribe’s car, Toyota Allion which they have detained at Kilimani police as they continue with investigations. According to police, Irungu was also driving the same car at about 1.30am on September 21, when he claimed to have been shot and wounded in the chest by a gunman who, Irungu said, escaped on a motorbike outside their house.

Irungu told police that he had picked up Maribe from a club in Kilimani which is incidentally the same neighborhood where Monica was killed and drove her to her house in Royal Park Estate, Lang’ata where he was supposedly shot at the gate after dropping her and this is where all her troubles checks in.

According to the police, there were no spent cartridges at the scene Irungu had alleged to have been short, no neighbor heard gunshots or screams. Irungu told the police that after dropping Maribe, he drove back to the gate where he had noticed suspicious characters and on confrontation, they shot him on the left side of his chest before fleeing off.

Logically, not unless he knew the said suspicious characters, he’d not drive back to the gate rather than calling the police or the security. Moving on, after he was supposedly shot, Irungu went back to alert Maribe on the incident and she drove him to Nairobi West Hospital. The script on the exact hospital has been changing, last I heard it was at the Mbagathi according to his lawyers in court.

Maribe and Irungu both recorded a statement at the Lang’ata police station where the police dismissed the shooting incident. It was at this point the cops started connecting the dots to the murder incident in Kilimani before arresting him at Maribe’s House. It occurs that she has been housing the fiancé who’s job other than his partying life is unknown. It also discredits the fact that he was dropping her off. He stayed with her and a typical Nairobi fuckboy who was housed and fed by the woman.

Irungu most likely created an alibi with the shooting to disconnect him from the murder scene and you can read from the body language that he’s a manipulative, psychopath and partly smart that he knew the lady’s weaknesses and exploited. He may have made her to corroborate his shooting if at all she wasn’t privy and this puts her in a tight spot.

Homicide detectives have since summoned and interviewed Maribe for a second day running after Irungu the boyfriend was charged with murder signaling at a disturbed path for the blue screen darling.

Police are heavily relying on her testimony to affirm or discredit the shooting as this would give a breakthrough whether Irungu was indeed shot or he created an alibi to mislead investigating authorities. The shooting perhaps an afterthought after realizing he had left all his trails at the murder scene being the last person spotted at Monica’s house or maybe he was indeed shot.

A lot of inconsistencies have been marked by investigators in the initial testimonies given by the two when they reported the incident at Lang’ata Police station on the very night that Monica was killed. Police are determined to confirm if he indeed picked Maribe up from a Kilimani club and drove her home and on the shooting incident or if it was a lie, having given an affirmative testimony earlier perhaps to defend a spouse, it puts her in much more trouble.

Perhaps it’s in this backdrop that Maribe has hired one of the finest criminal law experts in town, Cliff Ombeta to represent her as grilling continues. Now law practitioners are raising red flags and serious concerns for Maribe.

Unconfirmed reports from sources indicate Jacque Maribe may be charged for being an accessory to murder, which carries a life sentence, she is said to have driven her killer boyfriend from the murder scene. In a more conflicting statement, she drove her from Kilimani to Lang’ata. She’s however not being treated as a suspect but a key person of interest in the investigations so far.

One of Kenya’s most prolific lawyers, Donald Kipkorir notes, “In Criminal Law, if you knowingly assist in any way a Person who murders as providing a car, you’ll be charged with Murder; If you didn’t have prior knowledge but got to know about it & you assist him create an alibi, you will be charged with Accessory to Murder Acter the Fact.”

Irungu had used Maribe’s car to the murder scene, he continues, “on conviction for murder, the sentence is only one, Death …. On conviction for Accessory After the Fact to Murder, the sentence is Life Imprisonment.”

One can only hope that Maribe didn’t help her spouse to create an alibi by corroborating the shooting which if determined, would risk her being charged with murder. Jowie’s life is a mystery as mysterious as ever.

 

There’s no known job that he holds other than presumed security job in Dubai and Afghanistan where it’s not clear what he does. He travels a lot according to his Instagram page which leaves a lot to desire. Even here in Kenya apart from his hard partying, no one really knows what he does, word on the street is Joe is a professional hit man behind several executions in the city.

Investigators are also pursuing to determine the businesses that the late Monica Kimani was engaged in South Sudan where she worked in the embassy and supposedly ran family businesses. This would help the police in determining the motive of the murder.

Being someone whom has been living with the suspected killer, Maribe would be resourceful in helping the police in piecing up crucial information on his lifestyle and the relationship he had with the victim whom we gather was closer to him.

Known for his flamboyance than anything in the legislative wing, Embakasi West MP George Theuri. Mzalendo.com reported that he spoke 34 times in the House in 48 months. On average an active MP would speak more than 500 times on the floor of the House in five years.

From a Mitumba trader to being an MP for two terms running, Theuri has made himself not only a household name but very popular mostly with the youths going to show his grassroot grip.

With praises, comes underlying issues, case at hand in which the MP is accused of being unaccountable for money raised from a public swimming pool.

 

The newly constructed swimming pool in Umoja One Primary School open to the public on Saturdays in addition to Sundays has been in operation.

The project, funded by the Embakasi West Constituency Development Fund, has been marred in controversy, with residents questioning the rationale of constructing a swimming pool in a neighbourhood perpetually experiencing water rationing.

MP George Theuri, in his defence, explained that the pool draws its water from a borehole sunk in the school. The swimming pool was intended to host inter-school swimming competitions and is also a recreational establishment for residents.

He added which the pool is actually intended to host inter-school swimming competitions in addition to is actually also a recreational establishment for residents.

On it’s opening, the swimming pool was meant to be free but things seemingly have taken a sharp turn as residents have found out.

The lid has been opened by a resident who questioned as to why the facility was charging residents and more curiously why there’s no official management running the facility and why the money collected remains unaccounted given that no receipts are issued.

The swimming loo which is now called Swimo ya Theuri for one, it’s branded with ‘swag’ his alter ego and with a ghost management which could be his boys, according to the information we have, they’re now charging and collecting Sh100 per session from individuals and Sh5500 for training. Being a public pool in a densely populated area, the amounts collected is in huge figures.

Workers at the pool are utterly rude and don’t give receipts to any of the payments. If the justification for such collections is msinysinscrvof the pool then for a public office you document and account for everything not run such a place like a matatu where conductors collects money without issuing receipts.

This is clearly a corruption scandal that must be immediately investigated by authorities and the MP arrested and charged if he’s linked to this illegality. The pool was a mispriority in the first place as the school is in diplorable state that it needed an upgrade not a swimming pool according to residents who criticized this development.

We’ve also learnt that those who’ve raised this matter on different social media platforms have all been banned in what is suspected to be a clean up exercise and work of the MPs guards to keep negative comments away.

There are accusations running on several Umoja residents pages that the MP has allegedly come up a DSTV sambaza which is a common practice in the estate where the Multi Choice product is hijacked and instead of paying for premium package for every account, one account is used to service several residents. This has led to the company which is struggling to stay afloat against Netflix to make huge losses.

Theuri is also being accused by some residents of putting up stalls everywhere around Umoja Estate using CDF then turns them into personal assets where one pays a rent of 10k but but have pay a total of 300k to acquire one. Critics are saying this infiltration is turning the Estate into one big slum with disorganization. We have our eyes on the ground and encouraging members of public to send in more scandals relating to corruption in Embakasi and elsewhere we will highlight and expose to the public.

Citizen TV’s Jacque Maribe has gone into hiding according to the police who’ve been looking for her to make a statement following the arrest of her fiancé Joseph Irungu now being held at Muthaiga police over the gruesome murder of Monica Kimani at her home in Kilimani.

According to the police, the car Irungu used to Monica’s apartment a Toyota Allion, belonged to Maribe. This is the same car used to drive Maribe home from a Kilimani club according to Irungu statement and also one he was shot in allegedly. A bit of inconsistency in the report has raised questions.

Earlier, both Irungu and Maribe had told police that the shooting had happened inside the house before the script was changed to outside the gate. Irungu was positively identified by at least four witnesses as the last person to have walked in and out of Monica’s body dressed in a white kanzu before her body was later discovered.

Irungu was also driving the same car at about 1.30am on September 21, when he claimed to have been shot and wounded in the chest by a gunman who allegedly escaped on a motorbike outside their house.

On the night of September 20, Irungu had told police he had picked Maribe from a club in Kilimani and driven to their house in Royal Park estate, Langata.

Irungu told police they arrived in the estate at about 1.30am when he spotted three men standing outside.

Irungu told police he took Maribe into the house and went back to the gate to check what was happening. That is when he claims to have been shot.

Irungu said he went back to the house and told Maribe what had happened. Maribe told police she was drunk and drove him to Nairobi West Hospital where he was attended to and sent home.

The two also told police they went to Nairobi West Hospital and Langata Hospital the same night seeking treatment for the gunshot wound. But yesterday, one of their lawyers told a Kiambu court that the couple also went to Kijabe Mission Hospital.

City Lawyer has now taken over the case representing the TV star who now finds herself in the middle of one of the coldest killings in town. Her accounts of events will be key in piecing up events of that night. Being the person who was last with the murder suspect the night he was supposedly shot, Maribe’s testimony will either nail or exonerate the suspect.

Circumstances upto the alleged shooting holds a lot and movements from Kilimani club if it ever happened, she could describe the situation of Irungu when he went to pick her. Most likely if version is true, Irungu might have killed Monica first then proceeded to pick Maribe from the club. Her accounts of events from that point will be very crucial like how he behaved, what he said or whom he talked to and in what.

It has also been established that Irungu who boasted of being a licensed gun holder is a lie as he didn’t have any registration. Details on what he does exactly as a private security guard is unknown. Being a trained killer, Irungu has been providing his services in Dubai and Afghanistan.

The two lovebirds have been cohabiting and police are interested to get her points on his lifestyle that would be crucial in the investigations. A live bullet is said to have been discovered under their bed.

It reads like a scene of a horrific crime movie, Monica Kimani, a 29 year old businesswoman had just returned from South Sudan and was planning on flying out to Dubai for a vacation.

Monica’s lifeless body would letterbbe discovered by her brother after breaking into the house following several unanswered phone calls. The killers had slit her throat open after tying her hands and left the tap running after dumping her body on the bathtub.

Two men well known to her. According to the family of the late Monicah Nyawira Kimani, the men were not strangers to their daughter as she introduced them by name to a neighbour before she ushered them into the apartment.

Inside the house, George Thiru, Monicah’s bother who was among the first people to reach her apartment in Lamuria Gardens, were two glass wines while a yellow bag with a piece of bread, ajera an Ethiopian delicacy, was hanging at the main door.

According to Thiru, the chapatti-like bread had not been broken; it was apparent the killers had walked through the front door, locked their victim inside and carried her house and car keys.

The family, which is still trying to come to terms with the gruesome murder said there was no business rivalry, and neither did Monica owe any debt as all the Milly Paul General Trading Family business financial aspects were handled by Thiru, the brother.

Only identified as Joe and Owen, the two walked in as Monica was sitting with a white neighbor whom out of courtesy, walked out to give them privacy. An unidentified man in a white kanzu and only identifying himself as a pastor, walked in moments later.

The man in the white gown is said to have committed the actual act where Monica hands were tied to her back before being slaughtered on her bathtub. It was done so quick that according to CCTV footages that can’t clearly reveal faces, were done under ten minutes and they walked out without being noticed.

We’ve established that an analysis of phone records between the accused and the deceased show that the two were in constant communication the night of the incident. His phone trails that night also places him at the crime scene. He skipped getting away with murder classes that a smartphone will have all traces of your movements stored.

On the very night that Monica was slaughtered, Joseph Irungu, a prime suspect now in custody, reported a shooting incident at Lang’ata Police and this when he raised curiosity and police followed leads.

Police could not verify the shooting incident as no catridges were found at the scene. The neighbours also did not hear any gunshots on the said date. Something was amiss.

He told police he had arrived at the Royal Park Estate last week on Friday morning to drop off his girlfriend, Maribe when he noticed three men standing at the entrance.

He had earlier on picked her from a club in Kilimani and drove her to her residence(He picked her up on Kilimani which is also the same place the killing occurred). After arriving at the house, he drove back to the gate to check what was happening with the strangers hanging around. This is the only man to drop a lady and then drive back to a hostile ground like a Rambo.

Irungu told police when he tried to establish what their mission was there, one of them shot him on the left side of his chest. The bullet exited to the back as the attackers allegedly escaped on a motorbike. They did not steal anything.

On September 21, Monica Kimani was found in the bathroom with her throat slit at the Luciane Apartments on Kitale Lane off Denis Pritt Road. The same day Irungu claimed to have picked up his girlfriend from a club in Kilimani.

Police can easily establish if indeed he picked up the girlfriend and if the timelines correspond with CCTV footages from the club and on the road. They don’t. The TV siren reportedly took Irungu to Nairobi West Hospital for the gunshot wound treatment.

This is why I’m concerned and a reason for real caution for Maribe. The police will rely on her testimony in collecting evidence against her boyfriend who puts her in a fire we can only believe she walked into not deliberately.

She has to convince the police that she didn’t have any knowledge of his criminal record and killing instincts so as not to be considered an accomplice. She need to be extra careful in giving the details as she recounts the incident and not bite her tongue.

If there were suspicious elements at the gate as alleged then did she also notice them as he drove him to the house? Did she witness or hear of gunshots at her gate as claimed by the boyfriend? It’s susiegted Irungu shot himself to create an alibi.

He knowingly put her in trouble as she’s a key person to either confirm the incident or disapprove it to affirm his presence at the crime scene in Kilimani. Irungu took photos of her shot at self posing like a model licking his lips, the ease in his face showing he’s not only acting but not disturbed at all with the gruesome murder of Monica perhaps a sign he’s used to such.

Love matters are complex and Maribe is at a place where she can exonerate a suspected killer or nail a criminal, she has to choose between freedom and peace, love and truth. Word is she had expressed her fears and suspicions on Irungu to close friends but she held on for whatever reason. However, she now has an issue to deal with and being a celebrity, the focus on her other than the real accused Cold murderer will haunt her.

Given that Irungu and the deceased were in constant contact that night and before and how he gained entry into the premise where the body was discovered, goes to show a relationship existed. We don’t know whether this was business or whatever it was, however, the nature and what the two were communicating would help in determining the motive of a murder so foul. Motive of murder would also open a box of pandora by dragging in other suspects in the picture if any.

A suspect in the murder of a woman who was found dead in a Kilimani apartment last Thursday has been arrested. Joe Irungu was questioned at the Kilimani police station over the killing of 29-year-old Monica Kimani.

The body of Monicah Nyawira was on Friday found inside a bathtub by her sister who came visiting.

The sister told police they had to break into the house having failed to get a response after knocking several times. They were shocked to find the body in the bathroom with a slit neck. Nyawira lived alone.

Her hands had also been tied from behind with a rope, an indication that Nyawira was tortured before being killed.

Incidentally, in police records Joseph Kuria Irungu reported an incident at Langata Police Station on September 21, this is the same date that Monica was slaughtered, report stated he had been attacked and shot on the left side of the chest. He told police he had arrived at the Royal Park Estate last week on Friday morning to drop off Maribe when he noticed three men standing at the entrance.

He had earlier on picked the woman from a nightspot in Kilimani and driven her to her residence. After arriving at the house, he drove back to the gate to check what was happening with the strangers hanging around.

Irungu told police when he tried to establish what their mission was, one of them shot him on the left side of his chest. The bullet exited at  the back and the attackers escaped on a motorbike.

He then went back to the house and told the woman what had happened. The woman told police she drove him to Nairobi West Hospital where he was attended to and left to go home.

Irungu was driven back to Langata Hospital where he was admitted on Friday afternoon until Monday evening when he was discharged. In what looked like a poorly executed cover up story, Police say preliminary findings showed no shooting was reported at the scene, no spent cartridges on the scene. A look on his bullet wound disapproves that he was shot rather did it himself. Done at a close range, if there was any shooter then it should’ve aimed a killing point.

Joe is said to have been known to Monica and why he had the free walk to her house. Together with another killer dressed in a Kanzu and the one who executed the murder. The two showed extreme professionalism in the killing as the cameras fitted doesn’t show their faces since they figured how to evade being captured. The hit was done in ultimate speed we’re told it happened under ten minutes and they had gone.

Irungu is a bouncer in Dubai where he runs private security, his paramilitary training added much points to hit credentials. He’s also famous in Nairobi’s social circles as he’s a party animal. If established, it shows this what he’s been doing.

The burden is the police to link the faked shooting and the murder which can be done by trailing his movements that day. Motive of the murder is yet to be established and the gruesome manner in which it was done leaves a lot to desire.

Migori Governor Okoth Obado is a man at the center of everything wrong in this country, the NASA rebellious governor is suspected to have played a central point in the most foul murder. Obado was charger with abetting and financing the murder of the university student.

Away from the heinous act of murder, the Governor is entangled in a series of corruption scandals at the South Nyanza county. Migori governor Okoth Obado is on the spot for the third week running after it emerged that detectives are pursuing what is believed to be suspicious transfers of county funds to his children abroad.

It has been established that asset recovery agencies have frozen the bank accounts of Obado’s wife, Hellen Adhiambo Odie, five businessmen and three companies believed to be proxies or associated with the county boss.

In documents filed in court, EACC says major Migori county suppliers who are alleged to be Obado’s proxies made huge international transfers to, among others, Obado’s children in Australia, Hong Kong and China.

The proxies known to each other registered many companies that have been awarded what EACC terms as “inflated and fictitious contracts”.

Over Sh2.5 billion has been paid out to the dubious companies over the last five years.

“The preliminary investigations have raised reasonable suspicion that the embezzled public funds have been used by the governor, his wife and the said close proxies, the respondents herein, to accumulate property and illicit wealth,” EACC said.

Those named as the governor’s associates who have benefited from the alleged fraudulent deals and whose accounts have been frozen include Jared Peter Odoyo Oluoch Kwaga, Ernest Omondi Owino and Joram Opala Otieno.

Others are Patroba Ochanda Otieno, Beatrice Akinyi Ogutu, Kennedy Odhiambo Akello and Kennedy Onyango Adongo.

Opala, Kwaga, and Ochanda are blood brothers.

In the 2015-2016 financial year, for instance, the companies owned by the suspects were awarded tenders worth Sh239.7 million.

EACC  has also obtained bank details and statements of over 30 additional bank accounts, motor vehicle ownership documents; Local Supply Orders of more than Sh200 million and payment vouchers of more than Sh45 million.

EACC is now demanding an explanation on the sources of the monies in the bank accounts and the land parcels.

“The EACC intends to file a suit for recovery of assets under section 55 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act after the investigations,” Judge Ong’udi said in granting the extension.

An affidavit by EACC investigator Pius Maithya described how Kwaga transferred huge sums of money from his Co-operative Bank accounts to several accounts in China and Hong Kong on August 21, 2014, October 23, 2015, November 18, 2015 and August 23, 2016.

Kwaga is among Migori suppliers whose properties were preserved pending completion of investigations.

Other accounts frozen are for Janto Construction Limited (Sh4,000,317), Marowa Stores (Sh1,711,134) and Mbigo Enterprises (Sh2,067,058).

Also frozen are the accounts of Hellen Obado at Equity Bank, Awendo branch, which has Sh784,451 and an account identified as Kuku Ni Pesa, Equity Bank, Migori Branch with Sh700,660.

Owino is a director of two firms under probe, Janto Construction and Mbigu Enterprises.

When EACC searched his accounts in August last year, Owino had a cool Sh5.3 million in the bank.

Detectives have also established that the contractors are surrogates and share cash paid by the Migori county government.

“There was a trend whereby, in each of these companies, upon receipt of funds from Migori county transferred monies to Jared Peter Odoyo Oluoch Kwaga who in-turn transferred to Earnest Omondi Owino and also Joram Opala,” EACC told the High Court.

Mbingo Enterprises Ltd has been paid more than Sh700 million for several contracts.

EACC says Mbingo Enterprises constructed Obado’s palatial home in Uriri constituency but could not find records indicating that the governor paid the contractor.

Privy sources to the case intimates to Kenya Insights that the body is is planning a major crackdown at the Governor’s residence in Migori where strong intelligence points at the fact he’s hiding huge amount of money that’s being hoarded in dollars kept away from public scrutiny and bank trails..

When the Nairobi County Assembly’s Speaker Beatrice Elachi was impeached, one man was outstanding, when the high court overturned the impeachment, one man led the team of unruly, drunk MCAs to storm and attempt forceful eviction from the office of speaker. That one man is Abdi Guyo, the assembly’s majority leader who’s in our view and all approximations, the most powerful man at city hall.

Just to give an hint of who we’re dealing with, unlike the norms, Guyo is the only majority leader in the country with a chase car and officially assigned five police bodyguards which we’re told is from his good relations with the Police IG Boinnet who  must have such an irresponsible and unworthy allocation. When the country is struggling with insecurity, it is utterly stupid to allocate a mere majority leader with five bodyguards when he not only don’t deserve but illegal in all aspects. Guyo also rides on a brand new Toyota Prado which we learn he’s using a private number plate yet it is County’s car.

Suspended Nairobi County Assembly Clerk Jacob Ngwele and Abdi Guyo are the ringleaders of a gang of officers behind corruption and theft of public funds at the scandal ridden assembly, we can reveal today.

Ngwele, who was recently suspended from office after he was charged with corruption, is still pulling the strings and controlling all deals and actions by MCAs at the assembly backed by Guyo who’s now calling the shots at City Hall as the Speaker is not functionally in office.

Ngwele operates through his henchmen Majority Leader Abdi Guyo and Minority leader Elias Otieno, who are his co-members of the County Assembly Board.

According to our investigations, Ngwele is the brainchild of most corrupt deals at the assembly and uses Guyo and Otieno to cover up his tracks and also contain MCAs.

Guyo, the Jubilee MCA for Matopeni Ward in Kamukunji, is Ngwele’s right hand man. He is also very powerful and boasts of close ties to Deputy President William Ruto, National assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale and EACC CEO Halakhe Waqo. We’re informed that Guyo and EACC’s CEO on Wednesday held a meeting at Serena Hotel and advised the scandal ridden majority leader to write a letter to the anti corruption body.

The two men who’re from the same clan in Isiolo allegedly hatched an escape plan and that the letter was to ask EACC to return the issue to the privilege committee plus Halakhe to ask his officials to go slow on Nairobi county corruption scandals. This by all angles is not only exposing the corruption at the anti corruption body but putting in line the integrity of Halakhe.

Moreover, the CEO is not new to suspicious deals, a lobby group wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, lnfrastructure and Urban Development James Macharia to investigate an alleged grabbing of land belonging to the ministry by Ethics and Anti-corruption boss Dr Halakhe Wako in Isiolo.

In the undated letter received by the ministry on 29th March, 2018, Coalition of Citizens against Land Grabbing wanted the Cabinet Secretary to investigate the circumstances under which the land located in Isiolo and which is the property of Public Works Department of the ministry ended up in Waqo’s hands.

The lobby said in the letter that the EACC director general has gone ahead to erect a six storey building on the land. Further the lobbyists alleged that Waqo has also grabbed a 31 acres of land belonging to a community trust at Camp Garba in the same county.

In yet another case, a former Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) investigator linked the anti-graft body’s Chief Executive Officer Halakhe Waqo to the controversial acquittal of individuals associated with the 2015 National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.

Adan Moro Guracha, through a suit filed at the Employment and Labour Relations Court to contest his sacking, alleged that Mr Waqo interfered with several corruption cases by receiving kickbacks, including allegations that he was paid Sh300 million to end the first NYS scandal that led to the loss of Sh796 million.

Instructively, Guyo is the only County assembly majority leader with a chase car and five bodyguards, signaling his connections to powerful people in the Kenyan government.

Ngwele and Guyo control all tenders and contracts at the assembly and has become fabulously wealthy in the short period he has been the majority leader.

According to an MCA who spoke on condition of anonymity, Guyo is behind the impeachment motion against Counthy Speaker Beatrice Elachi.

“Imagine he can even give county assembly workers orders to lock out Elachi from her offices even after High Court reinstated her after the vote of no confidence,”   said the elected MCA, who is among the MCAs who have since shifted their allegiance to the embattled speaker.

Ngwele, who is very wealthy and cunning, has secretly recorded Guyo in compromising situations, allowing him to manipulate the MCA.

Ngwele has also curiously built high end apartments in See Far Apartments in Highrise Nairobi. He is also building a commercial building in Nairobi.

A case in point is the kickback payments he received in the dubious payments to Kensun Enterprises which carried out renovations to the County assembly Chambers.

Another area he stole from the assembly is through exaggerated legal fee notes. “Services such as drafting of Bills are being outsources at highly inflated costs when such services can easily be done by Assembly employees in legal department,’ said our source.

The source cited the case of Muthama Karanja Advocates which represented the assembly in a case with the executive arm of the Nairobi County. The case has been withdrawn but the law firm is still demanding to be paid Shs 2.9 million.

According to our source, Ngwele has infiltrated the DCI, Devolution ministry an EACC where compromised officers leak to him secrets. That’s why he recently evaded arrest.

Ngwele went missing for a few days after DCI officers leaked to him his impending arrest after Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji ordered his arrest.

Haji also ordered the arrest of four other senior county officials over the irregular awarding of a tender. Ngwele escaped a DCI dragnet at the assembly, where three of his colleagues were arrested.

Ngwele, four staff and a proprietor of a firm have been accused of defrauding the county through unscrupulous tendering.

“ he disappeared when people were being arrested and reemerged when others had appeared in court,” said a source close to the issue.

Another curious issue is that the advocate who represented Ngwele in court is an employee of the county assembly, in a case of conflict of interest.

Ngwele is also on the spot over recent retreat for MCAs to Mombasa, which was unbudgeted for and unnecessary.

The County Assembly spent 22 million to take the MCAs for a second induction workshop.

The source posed: “How do you go for induction twice? It was not in the budget and was only a bribe to MCAs.”

An MCA also complained Ngwele and Guyo uses membership to committees and foreign trips to influence MCAs to support their corrupt dealings.

He said: “Some MCAs have never gone for trips but those close to the cartel like Antony Kiragu have gone for over ten trips.”

Another member of the cartel is Titus Kitetu who is Ngwele’s handyman. He is the one who withdraws or picks bribes for him.

Ngwele and Guyo are also accused of practicing nepotism when it comes to employment at the assembly.

“You can only get a job at the assembly if you are related to Ngwele or Guyo,” said the source. “That’s why Ngwele’s sister is the one running the assembly kitchen.”

A source intimates to Kenya Insights that the City Hall’s fiasco is due to displeasure by the Governor on the removal of Ngwele. When we posed a question to one of the MCAs whom we spoke to on anonymous grounds as to why the Speaker was impeached, he was very categorical, “because of Ngwele, he was the boss’s henchman and for him, the whole assembly would rather go down than have his person ousted.”

Ngwele’s approval into office is bravely questionable, he moved from the National Assembly into the county’s and his position was done in the shoddiest terms. It wasn’t advertised as it should be in normal process, his appointment didn’t adhere to legal terms and was basically handpicked with approvals from the Guyos. This matter must also be investigated since this man was illegally appointed meaning he’s been receiving money illegally from the office. It should be noted that at one point, Ngwele was receiving double salaries both from the National Assembly and the County’s before he finally resigned from the former. Curiously, Ngwele was approved through a court before officially resigning from the national assembly’s job.

Many questions now hangs as to why the jubilee party can’t strike and reign discipline as Nairobi County runs blisters. At one point after Ngwele’s arrest, Guyo and Otieno went to the DCI in attenpbto dissuade the director to drop cases against Ngwele. We learn this was out of pressure from Ngwele who’s holding the two and others at ransom with his recorded tapes implicating them in corrupt deals, Ngwele just like Sonko, secretly records most of his deals.

Just after the removal of the speaker, our sources at City Hall intimates that the members have gone on spending overdrive. As a condition during the impeachment of the speaker, members were blackmailed and coerced into voting. MCAs we’re threatened with exclusion from committees and foreign trips if they didn’t vote out the speaker.

As we speak, about 30 Nairobi MCAs are on foreign trips which are more of vacations. There’s a group in Zanzibar to learn how to dance, that’s how stupid this is. As the country struggles to control the debt weight, some are exploiting. It should reach the President and the Governor Of Nairobi whim we’re convinced knows the games at City Hall on the overspending at City Hall.

The county government has not been meeting targets and fears that it might be going broke. Biggest failure is mismanagement, unnecessary trips must be capped, a leash must be put, does this county even have controller of budget? An MCA talking to us, raised a red flag that if things continues the same and no controls put over spendings then the county faces imminent failure.

Nairobi County Assembly has asked the Labour Court to lift orders which shielded speaker Beatrice Elachi from impeachment.

The assembly through Senior lawyer Prof. Tom Ojienda argued that the case filed by Elachi was defective as she had not sworn an affidavit to support it.

Prof Tom Ojienda is not new to City Hall fiascos as he’s been their representative, the lawyer had initially demanded a cumulative Sh1.84 billion in fees for representing the county government in five suits, in 2014, one of which was filed by the current governor, Mike Sonko.

City Hall had challenged the amounts before the High Court’s taxing master, who whittled down the amount to Sh264 million.

According to our sources, Ojienda enjoys positive relationships with most of the top ranked at the City Hall and will make s killing out of such cases. Guyo who’s nicknamed Mr. 10% out of his love for kickbacks allegedly, is said to have played role in the previous assembly to push for Ojienda’s payments in which allegedly, he was guaranteed his 10% cut. Everything connects with Guyo being at the forefront in the impeachment of the speaker now.

Relationship between Guyo and Halakhe must be investigated as it undermines the investigations and inline promoting corruption at City Hall . Why’s the DPP holding his horses while the time is ripe for execution? Why’s the President and the Jubilee Party not stamping it’s authority while the County is being mismanaged? Ngwele,Guyo and the rest of marked officials must be investigated, prosecuted and jailed as there’s enough evidence to ascertain all these.

Our eye on City Hall continues.