Category: Investigations

About Sh70B is estimated to have been stolen from Kenya Pipeline in what is possibly the biggest theft of taxpayers money from a public company in the Kenya’s history. This comes from a pile of corruption scams cutting across murky deals and tenders in the national carrier.

According to a recently leaked intelligence report from the national unit, several top ranked officials in the corporation including the MD Sang have been  named in the oil line heist.

A one David Muge who’s like a ghost only identified as Mr. DM has been identified as the biggest scam in the theft and the mastermind in the biggest fraud scheme targeting taxpayers money in Kenya.

Detectives are trying to figure out Who is Mr David Muge(DM) who signed the commission agency agreement with Zakhem for ksh 6B. David Muge signed the commission agency agreement with Zakhem for ksh 6B a project Kenya Pipeline Had Budgeted Ksh16Billion But Plan Ended Up Costing Ksh52B Plus In The Scandalous Deal With Zakhem International.

A big question in the report is the mysterious man in the middle of this scandal. According to our independent investigations and sources, we’ve placed the man in London and will reveal more explosive info on our subsequent series exposing the KPC crooks.

One of the thefts the police are looking into is The KPC LINE 6 SINENDET –KISUMU PIPELINE where according  to the report, was initially awarded to Petrojet Limited and later cancelled  on instruction of Charles Ketter then not a CS to enable CPP will the tender. The report trails the Movement of money from CPP the Kenyan companies not related to the project And questions the Role of Charles Ketter in the tender. Mr David Muge is inked in having signed an agency agreement with CPP for ksh 300M.

Dr David Muge a veterinary doctor based in London  for ‘Animals For Us’ and also runs other companies;  Clifton Energy Limited, Director Great Rift Coffee which are just the known businesses but under his cap is a lot. He’s not known to many and would easily pass unnoticed.

Detectives according to DCI sources talking to Kenya Insights are narrowing down on the man suspected to be a point man of the Deputy President and a deal broker not only in the KPC scams but other spaces. He hails from the DP’s community. In the anti corruption purge, DP Ruto who’s currently on the top list of wealthiest Kenyans is being given a suspicious eye given his overnight acquired empire.

DCI Kinoti has confirmed investigations on the KPC scamming and narrowing down on the masterminds in which our sources places Muge asa tip priority suspect. Britain PM, Teresa recently paid Kenya a maiden visit in which she signed a deal with the Kenyan government to repatriate stolen money from Kenyan taxpayers hidden in Britain.

Being in London, it must concern the British Goverment the integrity and moral values of Davi Muge who’s a practicing vet in the country. The government should also make it a priority to trail and audit his financial lines in the spirit of cordial relation signed. Kenyan Goverment through the Office of Public Prosecution has reinstated their stand in fighting corruption and vowed to pin down public funds criminals like those in Kenya Pipeline that Muge is entangled in, only time will tell if the Britain will live to their words and not only investigate the financial trails but integrity standards of Muge who’s currently stationed in London.

Flying Squad officers have arrested one police officer & are in pursuit of others following a report made by one Bathily Abdoulaye, a Mali national, who had reported that on 15/09/2018 four police officers from Nrb Area command came to his Kilimani residence and arrested him.

In the process of the arrest the officers ransacked his house and took the following items: 8,000 US Dollars,Ksh.83,000, 3 Rolex watches each valued at 15,000 US Dollars, his passport and also transferred Ksh.30,000 from his Mobile phone number to another Mobile phone number.

The complainant was then escorted to Central Police Station where he was later released without being officially booked in the Occurrence Book. Thereafter, the same officers still continued demanding from him an additional 8,000 US Dollars which prompted him to report the DCI.

Flying Squad  officers laid an ambush at Yaya center where the money was supposed to be delivered & in the process managed to arrest one suspect namely Moses Njogu Njagi who led officers to Central Police Station where No.88724 PC Kelvin Ndosi of DCI Central was arrested.

The passport of the complainant was recovered from the arrested officer. The Flying Squad is still looking for the other rogue officers including one driver attached to the County Criminal Investigations Officer,Nairobi Area.

Cases Of Police Officers engaging in criminal acts are not new in the city and this just adding to the pile of many cases. With the purge on illegal immigrants, rogue officers have taken advantage and many foreigners are complaining about harassment.

Mr Robert Kagundah, a former Coca Cola executive, was appointed to take charge of the business now renamed Britania Foods Ltd after acquisition from Manji foods by Catalyst Principal Partners and for Manji Foods, previously House of Manji, is Kenya’s market leader in the biscuits category with a market share of 27 per cent in 2016, according to data from research firm Euromonitor, it was a good gamble for the investors, however, that hasn’t been the case.

On a normal day on Monday, Penina Kadogo after a long day playing, complained to her father, Mathew Kitito about pain in his leg, “Baba naskia uchungu kwa mguu.” The father recalls. He had assumed this was probably a minor injury incurred during their plays with peers during the day. Unknown to him, this would be the start of a short, sad journey and the end of him seeing his daughter alive.

As a precaution, he opted to take her to the hospital for a quick bone check up. Talking to Kenya Insights, the father says a Dr. Tende at Kenyatta National Hospital checked and recommended for an X-ray, ultrasound checks. He was also referred to a bone diseases specialist a Mr. Ndeda.

After tests And deliberations, it was decided for the kid to be taken for operation to sort out the pain on her thighs on Tuesday. As required, she was put on medication and denied food as a patient preparation standard before surgery.

While she was booked for surgery on Tuesday, this never became the case and it was pushed till Thursday. According to the father, the three year old didn’t eat anything from Tuesday when the doctors had scheduled the operation till Thursday when she was taken to the theatre.

Mathew was hesitant about having the surgery done at Kenyatta but he was convinced that it was the best place to have it done given it being the biggest hospital. He had suggested taking her to a private hospital. In his own view, he wasn’t convinced the minor case warranted an operation.

On Thursday at 11am, Peninah was finally taken to the theatre and once again, things would go down the drain from this point. Minutes turned to hours of waiting, uncertainty and anxiety was killing the parents on the other end. At 3pm that is five hours after she was checked in for the minor operation, the mother was called from the ward to take her daughter, by then, they had finished, so they thought.

When her mother, Joanne Atieno took her up, she felt something unusual, she was struggling to breath and at this point the doctors must have realized they made a mistake and then took her away from the mother who was then instructed to leave. This would be the last time she held her in her arms alive.

Peninah took her last breath minutes after, she was registered dead at 3.05pm. Mathew was then called to the hospital at 7pm where they broke to him the bad news.

Dissatisfied with everything, the father is convinced the death has been caused by doctors negligence and according to an uncle Chabuga Evans who’s taking the lead in seeking answers, Peninah was given anesthesia overload and that’s what resulted in the hard breathing. They claim she was taken out of the surgery before full recovery and the doctors didn’t factor in precautionary measures to keep the baby alive.

Narrating his story, the disturbed father is pointing all fingers at the hospital. “This was a minor case that shouldn’t have resulted in the death of my daughter, I’m mad, sad, friends and family are falling and I can’t explain to them what exactly happened.” Our interview pauses as he breaks into tears.

The uncle Chabuga took over making their pointers clear that from Tuesday to Thursday the kid wasn’t given food and was taken to the theatre while too weak. They’re questioning why the doctors didn’t consider the physical stability before taking her for surgery.

Getting answers from the management has become a challenge, the family says. The body is at the hospital’s mortuary and they’re sourcing for independent pathologist to ascertain cause of death. They read dishonesty that the body has already been treated which the claim can possibly wash away crucial clues to find cause of death.

However, the resident pathologists are giving assurances that this wouldn’t be an issue as autopsy will show the exact cause. They’re determined to take the matter to all heights to get justice for the kid. They’ve raised an eyebrow as to why the final report was written by a different doctor from the ones who handled the patient. They’ve been advised to seek answers from the management.

Kenyatta Hospital continues to struggle with systematic failures which this site has been highlighting and are never addressed. General understaffing, underfunding and overcrowding remains the biggest challenges that are yet to be addressed making it prone to such errors which can be avoided.

As this family seeks justice for their daughter, another disaster is waiting to happen, the more things change, the more they remain the same. We’re yet to move on from the incident where a wrong patient had his skull opened and now this and so many unreported cases.

Employ more doctors and staff, thevfew available are overworked, demoralized and proneness to mistakes increased, allocate more funds and ensure the projects are implemented to improve the facilities at KNH, we can’t have a national referral hospital running on colonial equipments. Decongest KNH by ensuring other public hospitals are working perfectly, this hospital should only be for complex issues as it should be not for treating minor cases like fever.

The hospital must give answers to the family of the deceased and ensure justice by taking actions against any deliberate negligence if any that might have resulted in the death of the three year old girl.

12 babies died at Pumwani hospital allegedly over power being switched off. Governor Sonko suspended hospital superintendent & doctor in-charge. Mothers claimed that the staff switched off the power in the new born unit. Governor conducted an impromptu visit that found bodies stuffed in boxes at the storeroom.

Being an emotive case, many people have been angered by the mannerism of how the bodies of the infants are handled. However, facts behind the scenes tells a totally different case.

Dr. Nelly Bosire said, “Pumwani has no morgue. Never has. All bodies of deceased Mothers, newborns and stillbirths are collected by the city mortuary morticians in the morning. Before, this happened daily, nowadays it happens Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.”

According to a summary report on operation at the hospital between Friday and Saturday, a total of 156 deliveries were made and only 6 deaths registered. On accusations of hiding bodies, the report says that The hospital has got a holding room for dead bodies. The room had a total of eleven (11) bodies.

“These bodies are ferried to City Mortuary for disposal on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Of the eleven (11) bodies in the holding room:
• Four (4) were to be ferried to City Mortuary on Friday 14th September, 2018 • Six (6) who died over the weekend will be ferried today to City Mortuary.
• One (1) non-tagged neonate is not from the hospital un-procedurally within the holding area with no documentation availed by the mortician.” Says the report on the discovered bodies that the governor live-streamed to his followers.

Dr. Bosire goes further to paint a picture on what exactly happens in the country’s biggest maternal facility, “For little angels who pass on before birth or in the new born units due to complications, the families have the option of taking them to bury or they can give them up and the hospital then has them buried. This happens in both public and private sector, permissible by law.”

Because of poor facilitation, the staff have to be innovative, “ There are no body bags to keep the deceased in before transfer to the morgue. Hospital staff have to make do with what’s available. Carton boxes and plastic disposal bags are the most available temporary storage for these little angels. Every deceased person, irrespective of age, is registered in the death notification register provided by the registrar of persons (births and deaths). Each of these little ones is moved to city mortuary with an attached notification. They are not just statistics.” Dr. Bosire says.

According to the report, the AUTOCLAVING MACHINE broke down on Wednesday, 12th September, 2018 and repaired on Thursday. The machine broke down again on Sunday, 16th September, 2018. The hospital liaised with Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital for assistance respectively. The delivery packs were autoclaved and returned back to the hospital. The machine has since been repaired and is now operational.

Understaffed

The hospital currently has seven (7) medical doctors, five 5 consultant one on annual leave, one on sick leave awaiting doctor’s review report. In the obstetric gynecologist; there’s only one (1) Medical officer per 12 hour shift. Theatre 2 is run by consultants who operate on cold cases/elective Caesarians. There is usually one (1) Consultant on call for a 24 hour-basis at the moment theatre two is doing emergency c/s due to long waiting list. This Consultant covers both the labour ward and theatre.
Labour ward has 6 nurses per shift whereas the recommended is 10 nurses.

STATUS ON ULTRASOUND

The hospital has one (1) operational ultrasound run and managed by two (2) Sonographers. The working hours is 8am – 5 pm for 5 days a week. Due to the inadequacy of staff, there is no one to cover the weekend, holidays and night shifts. The clients pay Ksh. 1,800. NHIF have been requested to come and upgraded the system to cover this service for those who are on the NHIF and Linda Mama scheme.
There is an additional ultrasound machine in the store, not operational due to staffing requirement.

In a nutshell, the case of Pumwani is the situation in many public hospitals where systemic failures has been the cause of negligence deaths . These are crucial points that must have passed Sonko as Dr Bosire questions, “did Sonko bother to find out this? Nope. He chose to call it sinister because he did not understand it. He proceeded to suspend the team without investigation.”

These failures need to be addressed away from populist stunts by politicians, if things remain as they’re then most likely more avoidable deaths will be registered. Being a referral hospital receiving complicated issues, Pumwani should be prioritized in facilitation. So if Sonko genuinely cares about the mothers and infants, the best way to address situation in Pumwani is not firing victims of the circumstances but instead solve the entire thread by addressing the key facilitation points.

NextGen Mall has been making stories for all the wrong reasons starting with Kenyatta University’s student who was run over by a cop in a speeding car to now romping in the parking. A video has b rn circulating on the Kenya’s social media pages of an incident that occurred in a parking lot on Mombasa Road this weekend.

In the video, occupants of the Mercedes Benz car licensed KCF 122T are seen to be engaged sexual intercouse inside the car which is reflected with the rhythmical movements.

According to the NTSA database as searched by Kenya Insights, the car is registered under and owned by one Dennis Sangale Keis Of passport number, A007411901A who also happens to be the Kenya’s African Union youth commissioner for trade and industry.The youthful commissioner is said to be allied to the DP’s Ruto wing of the Jubilee Goverment.

It will be keen to watch how the Africa’s union body will handle this case of moral insobriety that involves their own commissioners and also a check on people in the scope of the commissioner who make it a habit of sexual irresponsibility to get off at off points like the parking lot.

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It all started with a glance, then a text before it blossomed into an explosive love affair, which climaxed into a pregnancy before demands for a Sh35 million house in Nairobi soured the relationship.

This is how Migori governor, Okoth Obado described his six-month romantic relationship with slain Rongo University student, Sharon Otieno when he was grilled for at least eight hours by the police on Tuesday.

In his statement to detectives in Kisumu on Tuesday, the governor explained that he first met Sharon in November last year after she initiated communication.

According to the governor, Sharon had sent a couple of text messages to him after last year’s election prompting him to invite her to Migori for a first meeting.

However, on that day, Obado was not able to see her as he had other engagements on county matters; an incident which infuriated the late Rongo university student who sent him a text to complain.

Later in the day, the county boss called to apologise and asked Sharon to reschedule a meeting for another day as he was to leave for Nairobi that evening.

Coincidentally Sharon told Obado she wanted to ‘see him’ on her way to the city too, a development which led to the pair having their first meeting in Nairobi.

The next day, the two met at the Intercontinental Hotel for a drink. In Obado’s words, one thing led to another as the two began a romantic relationship.

The Governor would then see Sharon regularly and most of their dates were either in Kisumu or Nairobi until one day she told the Governor of her pregnancy.

Obado recalled that in April during the Devolution Conference in Kakamega, he and other county bosses were booked at Acacia Hotel when Sharon travelled to Kisumu and checked in at Imperial hotel, in his name.

The Imperial hotel manager then called him saying ‘welcome your excellency to our hotel’ but he could not understand what he was talking about as he had already checked into the other hotel.

The manager then informed him that Sharon had checked in to ‘your usual room’. Late that evening, Sharon called the governor asking him to go to the Imperial hotel.

As he contemplated whether to go or not, he received a call from his wife Helen who inquired about his whereabouts. She then dropped a bombshell.

Hellen asked her husband whether he sure that he was at Acacia hotel but when he insisted that he was she demanded to know who Sharon Otieno was.

According to the statement, the Governor got confused and struggled to explain to his wife that there was no mischief involved and even asked her to come to Acacia.

The wife then warned Obado against going to Imperial saying if he dared, she would get the entire episode on camera as she had a team monitoring him.

Scared by the warning, Obado called Sharon to say he can’t make it for the night since madam was around. Ironically, Sharon was infuriated, Obado said and accused him of being with another woman and using madam’s name as an excuse.

Sharon told Obado that she knew where the wife was, telling him ‘every time I want to see you I first monitor madam’s movements’.

He asked Sharon to plan and meet him later in Nairobi after the conference. Sharon, who had at this point not revealed to Obado that she had other children from previous relationships, wanted the Governor to move her to Nairobi.

The county boss linked her with an estate agent who found a Sh10 million apartment but she declined the house. She instead got another house in Westlands worth Sh35 million.

Obado declined to buy the house and following further negotiations, Sharon said she was willing to settle for a Sh25 million house. This too, was declined. This was in May this year.

After this disagreement, the Governor then cut communication with Sharon and blocked her calls. Perhaps out of desperation, the student began sending texts to the governor’s close aides even family members.

Obado told police at one time, Sharon sent a picture of her baby bump to his eldest son who upon inquiring what the picture was for, was told: “I am carrying your brother, send it to your mother.”

As the texts intensified, his wife one day called him and asked that they talk as a family. She asked the governor to hand over his phones to his security so that they can have an uninterrupted discussion.

Having sensed the issue at hand, Obado spoke first and confessed to his wife about ‘that Sharon that you had warned me about sometime back’, who was now pregnant. The two later called their children and explained the same to them.

Obado then told investigators he later received a call from ODM chairman John Mbadi who said there was a journalist by the name Barack Oduor who had a story about him. Mbadi sent him Odour’s number.

The Governor called Odour and the two agreed to meet in Migori.  The journalist then met Obado about three days later in the company of Lawrence Mula, a former MCA.

They explained their mission but the Governor who seemed unmoved told them to proceed and publish the story since the ‘pregnancy was no longer a secret in the family and Migori’.

However, the two explained that their mission was not malign his name but would love him to sort out the issue with Sharon amicably. Obado asked them then to go and ask Sharon what she wanted.

About a week later, Mula travelled to Nairobi and met Obado at Heron Court saying Sharon had now settled with a proposal of getting a plot in Homa Bay.

Mula was then given Sh50, 000 to sort out his car which as in a garage before returning to the city to meet Obado later at Serena hotel.  The ex-MCA was given Sh100, 000 to deliver Sh80, 000 to Sharon and Sh20, 000 for his night stay in Nairobi and fuel back to Homa Bay.

Two days later, Mula called to say Sharon had identified a plot in Homa Bay town which she wanted him to buy for her.

Obado declined the proposal and asked the MCA to ask Sharon to identify a plot, between an acre and two acres. He then offered to construct a three bedroomed house for her.

The Governor recalled that just a few days before the abduction and eventual murder of Sharon, he had received a text from journalist Oduor cautioning him that the matter was getting out of hand and he needed to act immediately.

Odour is said to have warned Obado not to blame him for anything that happens on the Sharon matter. The next thing, Obado says he heard was that Oduor and Sharon had been abducted and Oyamo (Michael) his PA had been implicated.

His Communication Director Nicholas Anyour was the first to uniform him about the incident before Nyanza regional police chief called him on the same matter.

“The pregnancy was not a problem to the governor. Sharon was in the process of being assisted and that if the child eventually was to be born and is confirmed to be his, she was to be provided for. There is nothing to gain with her death. What was the benefit?” Obado’s lawyer Cliff Ombeta said.

On Wednesday Obado was accompanied by his family as he sought t to distance himself from the brutal murder of Sharon. Obado has since given police his DNA samples.

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More often during his predecessor’s tenure, Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko attributed the city’s problems to Kidero and the faceless cartel that derailed developments by engaging in massive theft of public funds. George Wainana Kidero’s top aide became one of the wealthiest in the city let alone his boss, both are on anti graft radar. City hall was a den of thieves and little has changed with entrance of Sonko as Kenya Insights found out.

Some 103 MCAs voted to remove the speaker Elachi from office, two voted against while two others abstained. The MCAs removed her for causing ‘great embarrassment’ to the county assembly. In a motion by Waithaka MCA Antony Kiragu on Thursday, the MCAs accused Elachi of gross misconduct.

MCAs gave their grounds for impeachment but today we’re not here for the junky literature which is just that, unknown to the public, this was the end of a fierce internal wars that has been ongoing at the City Hall which has the biggest allocation share in the county governments and controls biggest wealth share in the county.

The County Assembly Board as Kenya Insights found out is where Beatrice’ problems started. The constitution of that board is not only suspicious but legally unbalanced, it’s constituted of the Speaker; Beatrice Elachi, Majority Leader, Ibrahim Abdi Hassan, Minority Leader, Elias Otieno, Assembly Clerk Jacob Ngwele and an outsider.

How for instance majority and minority leaders sit on the same board doesn’t make sense even in parliament it doesn’t exist. Being the most powerful board that cuts the deals, it’s constitution and members are carefully considered. Godfathers will want their loyalists to be at the helm.

Assembly’s Clerk Jacob Ngwele who has been jumping from the DCI offices to the courts defending himself against corruption accusations once again stands out as a controversial figure in the web. As we found out, his appointment to the county assembly remains questionable; he was handpicked from the National Assembly, and there’s no record showing the clerk’s position was ever advertised, this being a public office, goes the red flag. Mr Ngwele’s name was not tabled before the assembly for approval, making the appointment an “illegality” contrary to the County Assembly Services Act, Article 18 (2), on process of approving the appointment of a clerk.

A review of the Assembly’s funds cashbook according to audit report by Auditor General Ouko revealed that the money was irregularly transferred in 2016/2017 from the fund account to various other accounts without approval of the county executive committee member for finance. Consequently, the county assembly was in breach of law.

Ngwele admitted he irregularly reallocated Sh42 million meant for MCAs car loans. He told the Public Accounts Committee that he used the money to pay MCAs’ salaries and imprests. Of interest was the fact that he transferred the money from the loans fund account to the operations account without approval of finance executive as required by law.

2017 in broad daylight, two suspected thugs were gunned down by a policeman in Eastleigh, Nairobi, the bizarre incident was caught on camera and the video went viral on social media causing an outrage and that’s how Ahmed Rashid was introduced to the public.

He was filmed shooting at a point blank at the unarmed suspects who allegedly were members of the dreaded Superpower Gang in Eastleigh. The criminal unit maimed and killed many, criminal levels were at an all time high and at that pony, rashid was attached to the DCI.

Perhaps for his reputation within the force, Rashid was tasked with one mission when he was deployed to Eastleigh; finish criminal activities. In the first interview he’s ever done, Rashid is blunt about his mode of operation; criminals are not to be spared and the end justifies the means.

To human rights defenders, Rashid is a villain who shouldn’t be in the police force. To the residents of Eastleigh, he’s a hero who has reduced the crime rates in the Estate by 80%. The mention of his name and his squad of six officers sends shivers down the spines of many.

He has killed many and almost whipped out the Superpower gang which is now on its death bed if not completely wiped out. Other than killing, he has rehabilitation programs for reformed thugs like he has a car wash where the thugs who’ve reformed work to make a living.

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Dr David Muge a veterinary doctor based in London  for ‘Animals For Us’ and also runs other companies;  Clifton Energy Limited, Director Great Rift Coffee which are just the known businesses but under his cap is a lot. He’s not known to many and would easily pass unnoticed.

A leaked intelligence report on Kenya Pipeline has revealed the face behind multi billion theft that has been unearthed at the energy’s most profitable parastatal. Muge is adversely mentioned in the report, only known as Mr.DM, he operated in mystery and from the pattern he was just an agent of a powerful godfather.

Muge from the report signed deals even on behalf of Kenya Pipeline despite the fact that he isn’t an employee. While operating ghost companies and a stream of that won several tenders, Muge is a marked man in the corruption scheme that has cost the taxpayers billions.

David Muge(DM) signed the commission agency agreement with Zakhem for ksh 6B a project Kenya Pipeline Had Budgeted Ksh16Billion But Plan Ended Up Costing Ksh52B Plus In The Scandalous Deal With Zakhem International. The report questions his role pointing at a possibility of being a conspirator in the theft.

KPC LINE 6 SINENDET –KISUMU PIPELINE is another project where Muge features in. According to the report, the initially awarded to Petrojet Limited and later cancelled on instruction of Charles Ketter then not a CS to enable CPP will the tender. The report trails the Movement of money from CPP the Kenyan companies not related to the project And questions the Role of Charles Ketter in the tender. Mr David Muge signed and agency agreement with CPP for ksh 300M.

Muge is in a nutshell a proxy of the mighty in the system and might have taken a bite more than he could chew. He enjoys a close relationship with DP Ruto And his fellow tribes mate Cs Keter And the KPC MD Sang both of whom have been implicated in the corruption scandal. Rumors have it that he’s the proxy tying deals.

Muge was recently seen public with the DP when he traveled to Uganda. With corruption allegations on Muge coming up, we’re asking the UK government to pay attention and possibly trail taxpayers money if any. PM Theresa Maina recently gave a commitment that the UK will repatriate proceeds of corruption in Kenya. So the matter of David Muge who’s a vet doctor based in London must become their immediate litmus. More details will follow.

If you have a story, tip on David Muge and other related that should be made public for accountability, write to us; [email protected]

According to a leaked document that has gone viral on the social media platforms in Kenya, top officials at Kenya Pipeline have all been implicated in major scandals within the energy ministry scaling up to billions. From the top, CS Keter has been largely mentioned in the report going down in a net that has captured great number.

The report says that The OAG staff working on the 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 KPC audit were intimidated to drop the audit items raised. Ksh 60M was paid to the OAG team to drop all the audit quarries. The Lead auditors Romanus Ochieng additionally got a CSR activity in his village while Audit Director Kamar had his child taken for internship. It also alleges that DG Ouko got a cash payment delivered by CS Ketter.

KPC GENERAL MANAGERS WITH VAQUE ACADEMIC PAPERS

GM Peter Mbugua 

1.Peter Jabon Mbugua was dismissed for possession of vague academic papers. Peter was recruited on the strength of chairman John Ngumi Recommendation says the report that further questions what the chair knew about Peter Mbugua VAQUE Academic Papers.

Ps Andrew Kamau was Peter Mbugua referee in the CV, What did the PS know about Peter Mbugua questionable academic credentials.

CS- Gloria Khefafa

Company Secretary Gloria is serving though under active DCI investigation. Queries on why the chair wrote to DCI asking them to go easy on the investigation? It also notes that Gloria is still in office despite active investigation by DCI.

GM -Vincent Cheruiyot

Vincent Cheruiyot Brother ERIC KORIR –KPC BOARD MEMBER- Alternate Director from National Treasury was present in the board session that recruited his own brother without declaring interest. Was Vincent the best candidate or was the process manipulated to suit him. Report questions if the board is responsible for the loss of funds paid to quacks and subsequent promotion of the quacks which should be a basis of investigations.

On receiving the Employment letter a KPC Supplier AERO DISPENSOR LTD Congratulated GM Vincent Cheruiyot with a PRADO GREY COLOUR KCJ. YAMASON LTD a construction company was awarded a contract at PS 08 to construct staff houses. The owner of YAMASON LTD in return Rewarded GM procurement -Vincent Cheruiyot with half acre plot off Ndege Road Karen.

Vincent in Return surrendered to Joe Sang MD his own half for the MD to be able build his palatial house on one acre. The contractor Yamason ltd bribed Vincent for the contract with half acre plot and Vincent was able to Reward the MD for his Job.

Multi-Trade Industrial Supplies Limited

Multi-Trade Industrial Supplies Limited is a KPC Supplier for various spares. The MD Mr Arif Juneja -0735986725, 0722968725 and his workers have been involved in construction of Joe Sang and Vincent Cheruiyot houses at Karen Ndege road. Multi trade has been involved in supply of air to KPC at inflated prices.

NEPOTISM – KPC Management Employed their own Children

Managers have been employing their children by manipulating the interview process. Evans Nyagaya while working as the acting operations Manager was present in the panel that employed his own son to his department and the decision sanctioned by the fellow panel members and management. KPC Managers have massively abused the interview process to favor their own relatives.

All ICT Department Tenders and Projects

The report questions number of upgrades and ICT projects have undertaken annually, its significance and if operational. Did KPC get value for money for all the ICT Projects.

KPC have lost millions of shillings almost kshs 800M from fictitious ICT projects being undertaken annually with a view of siphoning money. Some of the project never reach the commissioning stage despite full payment.eg the budgeting project where kshs 17M was paid for air.

KPC system has been compromised by many cosmetic projects undertaken by ICT to cover up for the many scandals. The trend of appointment of Michael Wanderi to evaluation committee of ICT tenders points to manipulated projects. Francis Muraya and Laban Kosgey are the Key beneficiaries of millions of shillings being kickbacks from ICT vendors.

More details continue to surface in the light of megs corruption at Kenya Pipeline where taxpayer has been losing billions siphoned through unscrupulous deals made by officials and brokers. In the leaked intelligence report under, ‘KPC PURCHASE OF 2-ACRE LAND L.RNO 209/8618 –KSHS 653M’ the agents engaged in the looting of KPC have been named including the banks that were used in the fraudulent transactions.

The report questions why the valuer was changed from lands to NLC. Why KPC BOD made contacts with the NLC Valuer which shows clear conflict of interests. Why did the NLC valuer made contact with the lawyer(➢ The role of advocate Khayega based at Maendeleo House in the money laundering.) How the Eldoret based Advocate picked to transact as opposed to all the lawyers in Nairobi.(➢ Advocate Richard Cheruiyot is based in Eldoret under his firm Cheruiyot and Cheruiyot Advocates, how did he transact under Kimaru Kiplagat Advocates.)

Movement of money in directors and lawyer( Khayega) account in the period -Nov 2016 – Mar 2017. Deeper, the report flags➢ The role played by CS Charles Ketter in the process and how he was paid kshs 40m. ➢ The Role played by KPC MD Joe Sang and how he was paid kshs 20M. ➢ The role of KPC BOD Felicity, Faith, Neepe and ,Waome and what they got kshs 50M.

➢ The role of NLC to get a share of kshs 10M. In banks, the report lists; ➢ Barclays, DTB , Housing Finance & I&M as having been used in laundering the loot. Presumably, they overlooked anti money laundering policies.

In the deal, phones linked up in the piecing of events to prove relations ➢ Numbers on interest in the transaction .0732625777-0721625777-0791281749-0722310203-0716012150-07227414710722666317-0722530555-0722310277-0711440291 these will give a direct link to who got what in the deal.

The role of company secretary in the process, evaluation and provision of legal opinion the report questions, it goes further to shed lights on Accounts of ARMCO Directors should be critically analyzed for bulk cash movements.

It was found that the Evaluation team were paid kshs 5M to give a favorable report through Soimo and CS-Gloria. Curiosity is heightened as to How the initial Valuation by KPC James Nyamongo of 320M was discarded and NLC approached to give a higher valuation.

The Role of Director Faith in the negotiation with NLC valuers. Was Faith an intern at Kimaru Kiplagat Advocates who were given the conveyance contract? Was Richard Cheruiyot Supervisor of Faith at Kimaru Kiplagat Advocate, the report flags.

Report recommends the following as persons of interests and beneficiaries who ought to be investigated;

1) CS Charles Ketter

2) Kpc MD Joe Sang

3) KPC Directors

4) KPC Company Secretary

5) Evaluation Team

6) Banks

7) Armco Directors

8) Advocate Richard Cheruiyot

9) Advocate Khayega

10) KPC Chairman John Ngumi

11) NLC valuers.

12) KPC James Nyamongo

13) Sharon Kisire

FIBRE OPTIC PROJECT KSHS 800M

The report notes that the best company with a bid of ksh 600M was disqualified and intimidated. It recommends a review of the evaluation process that will reveal how the highest bidder was awarded. It is indicated that scout Sh300M could have been lost while questioning who JV Partners named largely here were.

The evaluation team was paid ksh 10M to fix the tender process. The Evaluation committee chair Lamik Rotich made contacts with Express Automation –Piresh/Bill and (Mr Abdul 0731786444-0722887212 –Son of Hon Duale ) who was the JV partner.

It is indicated that Cs Ketter and PS Andrew Kamau were paid kshs 100M, KPC MD Joe Sand got kshs 20M. GM Vincent Cheruiyot got 1M, GM Peter Jabon Mbugua who was later found with vague academic papers and dismissed got kshs 3M. The money lost was never recovered, KPC Chair John Ngumi secured kshs 20M. Report raises eyebrows as to why the lowest company was not awarded the contract.

Listed as persons of interest;

1) CS Charles Ketter

2) Hon Adan Duale son

3) Ps Andrew Kamau

4) KPC Chair John Ngumi

5) KPC MD Joe Sang

6) GM Vincent Cheruiyot

7) GM Peter Jabon Mbugua

8) Eng Lamik Rotich

VALVE AUTOMATION PROJECT KSHS 1.2B

Investigations questions why the tender was split and why SECO was recommended for the award and later cancelled. Rigel systems quoted $3.4M for what was awarded to coricom Ltd at $5.1M

Rigel systems ltd is an Italian company whose local agents Hawkeye ltd are based at Mayfair center. It’s the local agent who paid out kshs 60M to kpc MD and BOD. Coricom Ltd in owned by MERU Deputy Governor Titus Ntuchiu who has direct link to KPC board through Gregory mwenda the Husband of KPC Director Felicity.

Ceraph did the actual Job in the JV, While KPC made all payments to the broker Coricom Ltd who retained the commission and remitted the cost of actual works to Ceraph ltd FRED Okello 0722-735097.

Bank transactions from KPC –Coricom-Ceraph-KPC director Felicity can be clearly traced for all the payments. The contract should have been awarded for $3.4M to Rigel Systems Ltd but due toBOD pressure Ceraph/Coricom JV was awarded for $5.1M.

RTGS transfers of ksh 100M can be traced directly to some of the KPC board Member and family members. Number of interest 0734891417, 0722131308 – 0715312312- 0722666317-0722957996.

KPC MD Joe Sang-Nephew Hillary Langat 0722957996 is the lead money collector for KPC MD whose phone contacts can be traced to all KPC supplier who have been paid or awarded contracts.

➢ He’s net worth is over a billion under KIMBELL INVESTMENTS Limited and LENKIM SERVICES LTD he hold the property on behalf of KPC MD JOE SAND

Persons of interest recommended by the report;

1) Board chair John Ngumi

2) Kpc MD Joe Sang

3) Titus Ntuchiu

4) Hawkeye local Agent Jomo

5) Hillary Langat.

6) Grecory Mwenda

7) Felicity Biriri

8) Fred Okello

9) Stella of Coricom ltd

Details emerging from the leaked intelligence report to the DCI Kinoti has shown the ugly face of corruption that has been thriving within the Kenya Pipeline corridors. While all these remains mere allegations, the intelligence collection in the recent past has been undefeated so you can as well yake it as the facts at hand.

KPC LINE 6 SINENDET –KISUMU PIPELINE

According to the report, the initially awarded to Petrojet Limited and later cancelled  on instruction of Charles Ketter then not a CS to enable CPP will the tender. The report trails the Movement of money from CPP the Kenyan companies not related to the project And questions the Role of Charles Ketter in the tender.

Pointers in this project;

➢ Who is Mr David Muge who signed and agency agreement with CPP for ksh 300M

➢ CS Charles Ketter was paid kshs 60M through Mr Langat former NSSF Managing Trustee

➢ KPC Board of Directors were paid kshs 50M

➢ Charles Tanui was paid ksh 28M

➢ PS Andrew Kamau ended up with KSHS 50M

➢ MD Joe Sang got kshs 30M to facilitate final payments to CPP.

Persons Of interest

MR. DM, CS Charles Ketter, MD Charles Tanui, KPC BOD and CPP Management.

KISUMU OIL JETTY-KSHS 1.7B

Another scandal lined in the same line, The budget was varied from kshs 900M to 1.7B
On firm instruction from the Board Chair John Ngumi with the support of PS Andrew Kamau.

The winning Bid SouthernEngineering Company- (SECO) had made several contacts with the Chair and the PS. The MD Joe Sang and GM Vincent Cheruiyot made contact with. The project is a white elephant and currently not in use.

Persons of interest and beneficiaries;

➢ PS Andrew Kamau was paid ksh 100M

➢ KPC Chairman John Ngumi got kshs 250M at Dusitd2 Nairobi and partially in Dubai through

the Sub contractor Consilium Dubai.

➢ KPC MD Joe Sang and GM Vincent Cheruiyot were paid 50M in Mombasa.

➢ KPC evaluation team ended up with KSH10M.

➢ Number of trips to Dubai by Chair Ngumi.

➢ Number of stop overs made by Chair Ngumi in Dubai.

➢ Sinking of KSH 1.7 into a white elephant project by the KPC BOD and Management.

1) PS Andrew KAMAU.

2) Chair John Ngumi

3) MD Joe Sang.

4) GM Vincent Cheruiyot

5) Evaluation Team.

6) SECO Management

7) Eric Kivuvani

8) Consilium Dubai ltd

and its Directors.

Directors of SECO in Mombasa.

One consistent name and a mysterious one is the Mr DM whom we shall unveil, goes to show how the parastatal was invaded by fraudulent characters who had to ensure the coffers are dried. DPP must not show mercy and spare the rod.

As we’ve been saying in past articles, corruption thrives in the energy sector and at Kenya Pipeline, it goes deeper than that. A report has surfaced online labeled top secret terming the depth of corruption at KPC as a threat to national security.

Word reaching us is, the DCI are almost done with their investigations and DPP preparing his files. We’re going to summarize the details on the document for public’s consumption since this a matter of their interest. Billions of taxpayers money has been stolen.

1. KPC Line 5 Project contract sum kshs 48.4 Billion.

The compiled report notes that the procurement process might have been above board and the speed  of financial evaluation was done and award letter given is suspicious. Also the report follows the movements of money overseas and within the country in what they’ve used to piece up and build their case. They also used phone records of the principals and their agents.

Actual Money Lost

➢ Who is Mr David Muge(DM) who signed the commission agency agreement with Zakhem for ksh 6B. A big question in the report is the mysterious man in the middle of this scandal. According to our independent investigations and sources, we’ve placed the man in London and will reveal more explosive info on our subsequent series exposing the KPC crooks.

Key pointers on the report sent to the DCI Kinoti;

➢ Was the money wired from Turkey to UK.
➢ Was the Money wired from US to UK
➢ How did the money end up in Kenya and to which account.

It then goes further to detail how the theft was executed;

➢ KPC MD Charles Tanui was paid $3M in Dubai and $1M in Kenya through the brother Daniel
Tanui-,MD Mitchellcotts,Abdi –MD-Nandi Tea and the MR Terikin MD Total security

➢ KPC chairman John Ngumi made several contacts with Albert of ZIC he was eventually paid
$1M

➢ CS Charles Ketter on entry to the ministry made several demands to Ibrahim of ZIC and was
silenced with kshs 100M

➢ PS Andrew Kamau also benefitted with kshs 200M from his meeting with Ibrahim of ZIC

➢ PS Andrew Kamau made contacts with ZIC top management in his May –June 2018 trip to
USA he has a confirmation of $2M facilitate the variation payment

➢ PPOA Chair Paul Gicheru has was instrumental in the cover up of the tender award with a
KSHS 10M reward from ZIC

➢ PIC Chair Adan Keynan was paid ksh 29M at zic offices at Spring Valley ZIC residence to
cover PIC member although the money never reached the members forcing ZIC team to make
additional payments direct to PIC members

➢ KPC Board of Directors and Families Faith, Felicity and Charles Tanui – ZIC offered a fully
paid holiday to board and families members in a five star hotel in Dubai in addition to kshs 3M
per member.

➢ Current KPC MD Joe Sang and GM Supply Logistics –Vincent Cheruiyot were paid ksh 35M
through sealing solution ltd, Oilfield engineering and Boiler solutions ltd.

➢ Chief Technical Manager Elias Karumi and project Manager Kiama were paid ksh 80M to
approve design change resulting in a saving of kshs 300M for ZIC.

➢ Board Technical Chair Marwa was paid Kshs 15 Million to facilitate Design Change.

➢ NCA Fees 0.05% (kshs 200M) of the contract sum was paid to ZIC despite a waiver having
being sought from NCA and relevant government agencies.-The money was shared between
ZIC, KPC board and NCA Director Manduku.

➢ What was the main reason for constant contacts between ZIC and KPC BOD the report questions and that’s something for everyone’s guess.

PERSON ON INTEREST- DIRECT BENEFICIARIES

1) MRDM
2) Charles Tanui
3) John Ngumi
4) Daniel Tanui
5) Abdi
6) Terikin
7) PS –Andrew Kamau
8) CS-Charles Ketter
9) KPC Board Of Directors 10) Adan Keynan
11) ZIC top management 12) Payments to Sealing
Solutions LTD
13) Payments to Boiler Solutions LTD
14) Oilfield Engineering Ltd

15) GM-Procurement
Vincent Cheruiyot 16) Eng Elias Karumi
17) Eng Kiama
18) NCA Daniel Manduku

As we continue with our expose on the grand theft at KPC, we’re also keen to follow the actions that will be taken by the authorities and arrests that shall. E made. Si far, those implicated in the report should have their days in court.

The billions have been lost in the process of replacing the country’s oil pipeline through alterations to tender documents to justify inflation of costs and skewed award of tenders for different works.

At least Ksh16B may have been lost through wasted investments in phased upgrading of systems between 2008 and 2014, while a whopping Ksh35B has been expended on a white elephant project to replace the ageing pipeline in a tender contract awarded to Lebanese firm – Zakhem International.

Extension of time requests

A further Ksh18B could go down the drain if the contractor finally gets paid claims following delayed completion of the project as a result of granted Extension of Time requests, which could take the total amount of money lost in the project to Ksh74B in 10 years. While the the original project duration was to be just over 20 months, the contractor has requested for five EOT’s leaving the project 28 months behind schedule.

Strangely, already, KPC management have approved a payment of Ksh4.4B to Zakhem, who maintain they must be paid their full claim of Ksh18B due to the delays. Ordinarily, in contract terms it is the contractor who is supposed to pay KPC in form of discount on the total tender costs because it is the contractor who requested for the extension of time.

The approval of the first EOT around February 2016 was done against the advise of the then project team, who were all removed and friendly individuals appointed. The new team approved the EOT’s that should not have been granted in the first place so as to appease their collaborators in management and the board.

Replacement of the 14-inch pipeline was envisioned upon its commissioning way back in 1978, the strategic plan putting the upgrade to a 16-inch pipeline in 2016. Under the plan, the project was to be implemented in phases starting with the upgrading of electrical, mechanical and control systems which was successfully done in 2008 at a cost of Ksh3B.

Phase Two was to include the installation of pumps in even stations at Samburu, Manyani, Makindu and Konza; which phase was concluded in 2010, costing Ksh10B. This was meant to double the flow rate to 800 cubic metres per hour before the final phase of installing third pumps in all stations to attain a further increase that would settle the flow rate at 1,200 cubic metres per hour. This final phase was concluded in 2014, costing the exchequer Ksh3b.

Line 1 replacement

While sources suggest that the Ksh16B spent on the first three phases had been highly inflated, it is the fourth phase of the project that has seen the greatest plunder of public resources.

Kenya Pipeline had budgeted Ksh16B for the replacement with a 16-inch pipeline, which cost was to be borne by the company and the process was started in the final quarter of 2012. KPC appointed a consultant whose immediate task was to spearhead the bidding process for pre-qualification – 13 firms emerged successful at the end of the initial stage concluded in 2013.

KPC appointed a project team, who worked with the consultant to prepare the tender documents which were to be sent to the pre-qualified companies in February 2014. This is where drama started to unfold.

Curiously, the management and the board suddenly changed the scope of the works and instead of replacing the line, the project team were given two weeks to redo the tender documents for construction of a new line as a 20-inch infrastructure.

This essentially meant that the upgrading from 14 to 16-inch in the first three phases between 2008 and 2014 was a waste of money as the new scope of works would entail installing anew all pumps, mechanical, electrical and control systems as well as pump rafts.

As a result of this unexplained decision, the Ksh16B spent on phases 1,2 and 3 had gone down the drain as the infrastructure was obsolete.

The financial impact of the new contract increased the cost of the project by an additional Ksh35b; which money KPC opted to source through a syndicate bank loan, which was to be repaid starting from July 2016. Experts questioned, not only, the projected cost saying it was inflated but also the rationale of such a huge infrastructure that could lead to idle capacity considering the demand.

Idle capacity of four days

The current uptake to Nairobi which also serves Western Kenya and neighbouring countries stands at 13,000 cubic metres per week, meaning that with the new 20-inch line capacity to pass up to 200,000 cubic metres, it would only take three days to satisfy the demand and as such it would not be of any economic value due to high idle capacity of four days in a week.

“It means that the infrastructure would be idle for four days in a week so there is no logic in constructing this kind of pipeline now when you cannot get maximum value,” a source told Kenya Insights, revealing that Kenya would need this kind of pipeline in 2044 according to growth projections.

“So we have in essence gone ahead of ourselves on time by building something we do not need now. But of course the point here is to find a way of eating public money.”

The award of the tender to Zakhem was irregular as it has been established that the company had been given the contract with KPC very well aware that the company been blacklisted in several countries including in Nigeria and Liberia, had a history of non-performance by not completing projects and generally lacked the capacity to execute such a project.

“It is obvious that they bribed to get the contract and the management and board members knew exactly what was going on,” a source privy to how the tender was issued said.

“There is no possible way that they (Zakhem) could have got the tender had the evaluation been done competitively because when you look at how they were scored, it is clear that everything was pre-planned.”

China Wu Yi appeal for review

The above position was corroborated by documents obtained from the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board in Review No. 24/2014 of 11^th June 2014, where China Wu Yi had contested the award of the tender to Zakhem. The Chinese company presented the lowest bid of Ksh45.7billion against Zakhem’s Ksh48.5b.

In their submissions to the PPARB, China Wu Yi submitted that the process was skewed on the basis that they received their regret letter on June 3^rd2014 yet that was the same day KPC said they had opened the financial proposals.

They contended that it would not have been possible to open and peruse the financial bids and award the tender on the same day. According to them, this was evidence that the entire process was pre-meditated.

Sources have confirmed that the consultant, together with the engineers that developed the tender documents, were excluded from the tender evaluation committee despite the scope of the work also requiring that the consultant be part of the evaluation process.

KPC won the case, but still lost Ksh3B in legal fees that could have been avoided had the process been transparent.

The quality of the works being done by Zakhem on the 450-kilometre Line from Mombasa to Nairobi have been questioned and the safety standards are also on the spotlight.

Compromised safety measures

It is understood that around September 2015, Zakhem wrote requesting to lower safety standards for the 14 motors, claiming there was no company in the world that could manufacture the 3-megawatt capacity motors specified in the contract.

They were seeking approval to downgrade from Exd (explosion proof to prevent motors from exploding in the event of a fire) to Exn (explosion-proof but of inferior quality). However, a project team meeting to discuss the matter was informed that there were manufacturers with capacity to produce motors of up to 32-megawatt capacity; which information split the team and led to some of the members being ejected and eventually dismissed.

Legend has it that while the entire team of engineers who sat in the project team panel were opposed to the downgrading, some of them “were talked into compromising their position except three” so they were outnumbered to influence the final outcome of the decision.

“The argument was between those saying that if the downgrading is approved then the contractor needed to give a discount on the total tender value on motors,” says a Kenya Insights source.

“The consequence of failure to get the discount was that KPC lost at least Ksh200million because they are getting something cheaper than they have paid for.”

Summary of projects and monies lost

	Project	Cost (Ksh)	Loss (Ksh)
1	Line 1 replacement	48.5 billion	32.5 billion
2	Phase 1,2 & 3 upgrading	16 billion	16 billion* (rendered obsolete)
3	Line 1 replacement EOT’s	18 billion	18 billion
4	Line 6 pipeline	6.8 billion	1.9 billion
5	Kisumu oil jetty	1.7 billion	1.7 billion (white elephant project)
TOTAL			70.1 Billion

Other questionable projects include purchase of land in front of KPC headquarters, valve automation and procurement of security consultancy services, among others.

A further close to Ksh5b may have been lost through theft of fuel, procurement of composite sleeves, procurement of hydrant pit valves and construction works in Kisumu where 400 metres of a wall were done at a cost of Ksh154million which loosely comes down to Ksh385,000 per metre.

Key questions that KPC officials starting with the MD must answer is why KPC had rushed to award the contract on the same day that the financial bids were opened. Earlier, the MD had told a parliament committee that the financial bids were opened on June 3 and after combing both the financial and technical evaluation reports, they resolved to award the tender on the same day.

KPC need to answer as to whether they did a due diligence on Zakhem following reports that the same firm had been blacklisted in Nigeria, Liberia and Ghana. And a clarification if they had broken their own tender rules by accepting a bid bond by Zakhem issued by Ecobank Nigeria, in spite of their requirement of a bond from a bank operating in the country.

When going for the culprits, the investigations must not leave out the energy CS Charles Keter who by statute of the office is in the middle of all these scandals. The DPP and DCI must therefore not spare the rod and bring the whole cartel down. The MD and the entire procurement and financial units must be brought to book. We’re following to see who’ll be left out as word moves around on imminent arrests.

If you have any leading information of corruption in this section and scandals that need to come to the public’s knowledge don’t hesitate to drop us an email ([email protected])

As war on corruption intensifies, the guns must turn very fast on parastatals and more so the energy sector that has become a milking cow for fraud officials. Kenya Pipeline is such department that has deep corruption that must not be rushed over in investigations therefore the DCI must take their time to unearth and send people to jail. Kenya has lost billions in several scandals not just under the scandalous MD Joe Sang but also his predecessors.

If investigations are done, I hope the scope goes wide enough to net thugs who’ve been siphoning billions of taxpayers money through KPC. Among the scandalous deals that DCI must take a close look into includes but not limited to; details of the purchase of land next to the KPC headquarters, the KPC integrated security system, the proposed SCADA system, Kisumu oil jetty, bottom loading facility in Eldoret, the loss of line fill of Emky Ltd, valve automation, PS 14 fire hydrant system and the findings in the investigation on possible fuel theft on authorised fuel advancement to OMCs,  Thange oil spillage clean-up, Line 6 construction tender and Kisumu improvements civil works.

In summary, the taxpayer may have lost up to Sh120 million for the purchase of the two acre piece of land. Original documents show the ministry of Lands valued the land at Sh253 million before the National Land Commission pushed it to Sh545 million.

In the lease agreement, the figure indicated is Sh545 million but KPC paid up to Sh670 million for the land in a deal that was executed through a broker.

The technical processing committee had recommended that the corporation pays the amount that the NLC had arrived at but KPC paid more for unjustified reasons. The DCI is also said to be interested in knowing the rationale of using brokers yet the owner was selling the property directly.

The investigators are also interested in the tender awarded for the construction of the Sh1.7 billion oil jetty in Kisumu which was meant to ensure efficiency in the delivery of petroleum products.

In the following series of corruption at KPC, we explore the biggest scam that has been widely reported but we just putting a reminder on how At least Ksh16B may have been lost through wasted investments in phased upgrading of systems between 2008 and 2014, while a whopping Ksh35B has been expended on a white elephant project to replace the ageing pipeline in a tender contract awarded to Lebanese firm – Zakhem International.

As I said before, investigations must not be rushed, detectives must take their time and dig deep, what they’ll unearth is earth shaking. KPC has many overnight millionaires with firms that made billions through unscrupulous deals st the expense of the taxpayers.

Should you have any leading information that would help on the investigations or you wanna expose a dirty deal either on officials at KPC or firms that does business with Kenya Pipeline, drop us an email we shall expose the story and keep your identity anonymous. Write to ([email protected])

David Mwai used to operate a play station shop and a number of boda boda’s. He was approached one day with a job offer to kill someone. In Kenya, human life has no value. It’s cheaper to get someone killed than it is to bribe them. Lawyers and witnesses against powerful politicians have been killed in the past. It’s become the norm. The offer on the table for carrying out the job was Sh2.4 million. Mwai couldn’t resist.

The target for this kill was Idriss Mukhtar and his lawyer Charles Kanjama. The client, according to Mwai’s family, was Ali Korane. Ali is the current Governor of Garissa. He was working in the airforce in 1982, during the attempted coup. During the purge that followed the failed coup, he was saved by his wife, as she happened to be General Mahmoud Mohamed’s daughter, the man who quashed the coup. His father-in-law went even further to cushion Ali, by ensuring that he was absorbed into the provincial administration. He rose from the position of District Officer to Provincial Commissioner, before becoming a Permanent Secretary in retired President Moi’s regime. After the NARC government came to power, Ali started a security company. He had links in the military, the police and the National Intelligence Service and his businesses thrived.

Last year, Ali ran for public office and Idriss Muktar joined his campaign team. Idriss later fell out with Ali Korane and decided to expose the Governor’s fake academic credentials. Korane had claimed he had a masters from Nairobi University and Idriss had evidence that Korane’s academic credentials were fake. It’s alleged that Governor Korane then engaged Mohamed Hussein Aden to deal with Idriss. It is Mohammed who is alleged to have recruited David Mwai for the job and offered to pay him Sh2.4 million. The assignment was to kill Idriss and his lawyer, Charles Kanjama, who was preparing a court case to challenge Ali Korane’s academic qualifications.

On 19th August 2018, David Mwai shot Idriss in the head outside a mosque in Kileleshwa. He was supposed to shoot Idriss seven times. He tried, but the gun failed after firing three rounds. Idriss was hit in the head once and is currently admitted at Nairobi Hospital with the bullet lodged in his head. David Mwai escaped on a motorbike after the shooting.

Before Idriss was shot, he had filed a report at Kilimani Police Station claiming that he was receiving death threats from the Governor and his security people. Police tracked Mwai to Dandora Estate and on 27th August, the 28-year-old was arrested, together with his wife, Rebecca Hajila. With the mother of his two babies in custody, Mwai was shown CCTV footage of him shooting Idriss Mukhtar. Police persuaded him to confess and turn state witness. This he did, with the hope of buying his wife’s freedom, since she wasn’t part of the crime.

In his confession, Mwai said he was hired by Mohammed Hussein Aden, who worked for the Governor, through a lady known as Njoki. On Tuesday, 28th August, Mwai called his elder sister, Esther Wanjiru, and asked her to find his wife. He had been told she would be taken to Milimani Law Courts, but family members had already gone there and failed to find her. On Thursday, 30th August, Mwai called Esther and told her that he had confessed to the shooting and was ready to face the judge. He added that he’d been approached by some people, inside his cell, who said they could help him escape. Esther urged him not to do it, suggesting that they were tricking him, so they could kill him. Mwai had been given some documents to sign, but since he didn’t understand them, he had refused. That evening, during the 7pm news, Esther learned that her brother had allegedly killed himself. David Mwai’s evidence allegedly implicates Governor Korane as the mastermind and the person who would have benefited from Idriss’ murder.

The police, using telephone records, tracked down the people involved in the case. All of them have a connection with the Governor. The people in custody are the Governor’s bodyguard, his security advisor, and the lady who connected David Mwai with the Governor’s people.

The police arrested Governor Ali Korane, but following numerous phone calls, he was eventually released. Korane had threatened the investigating officers and pushed for the case file to be moved from Kilimani Police Station to CID Headquarters. The officers who had cracked the case were removed and new officers introduced to help cover up Korane’s involvement. Whereas, it is human nature to hate David Mwai for agreeing to be used as a killer, there is no excuse for the police to have murdered him inside a police cell. Mwai’s murder is to help a bigger murderer get away. I am not defending a cold-blooded killer, but it is wrong for one to be murdered inside a police cell. We live in a country with laws.

I have slept in almost every police station in Nairobi. Most police stations were built during the colonial era and the cells are horrible. The “windows” are just a small strip of an opening near the roof, barricaded with iron bars. As someone who has been arrested enough times, I can tell you for certain that you’re never alone inside a cell. Belts and shoe straps are confiscated and if someone brings you food, they must taste it first.

A country must be governed by the rule of law. David Mwai deserved his day in court, as do his masters, who hired him to kill, and his murderers too. If the killers of Mwai get away with murder, what will stop any other accused person from killing a whistleblower, a witness? David Mwai’s murderers were paid by the same person who paid David to kill Iddriss Mukhtar.

Six people are in police custody in connection with Idriss Mukhtar’s shooting, but the main culprit may not be among them. The police have denied David Mwai’s family access to view his body and his wife is still missing. Betrayed by law enforcement, now there is pressure on Iddris’ family to settle this issue out of court, using camels. Tradition, like political privilege, seems only to be invoked to defend the rich, never the poor. Iddris’ family wants justice. We want the laws of the land to be upheld.

By Bonface Mwangi

Questions have been raised over ownership of the islands, given that most of them are in the hands of foreigners. The islands are also a source of conflict between investors and residents who claim to have been robbed of their land. Recently, some Funzi residents claimed that Mr Torriani had denied them access to the beach and fishing along the channel by deploying Maasai morans who harassed them.

In the past few weeks, Nema has been at the center of focus following demolitions of illegal structures in  Nairobi. Things have suddenly gone silent with many questioning the whereabouts of famous SANY excavator. From what Kenya Insights gathers, the Nema staff are generally demoralized following withholding of their salaries and currently staging a countrywide go slow.

Key issues that we’re gathering include; Inefficiency in operational and structural management in Nema,
Lack of adequate resources for healthy work environment, Ministry refusing to release Nema approved budget, Field offices inadequacy and vulnerability, Lack of support from other lead agencies and the Demoralized and lack of morale in Nema staff.

Nema staff have been having delays of salaries, July yet to be paid. Last quarterly allocation to county offices not dispersed. Parliament allocated Sh400m additional budget which the Ministry never sent to Nema.

No office operation has been sent since March only Sh100,000 this was to pay and budget for all field operations reasons Former Ps Sunkuli was reshuffled. Many of field vehicles have brocken down.

All departments in the Ministry were given money for operations and salary except Nema yet to be allocated for the quarter. Current rumour is that there is no money for Nema seems it has been eaten up again. Low staff morale and Go slow at the Counties.

There are fears that cronies at the Ministry are out to frustrate Nema operations. When Eia fee was scrapped off that was the beginning of the downfall. With no revenue Nema is entirely dependant on Ministry and Treasury. Treasury releases and staff within Ministry do not want to release money unless a kickback is guaranteed. No Nema inspections or compliance is currently happening with understaffed no of employees and no resources little can be achieved.

Under Emca Act Nema is very powerful its an institution created by the law. But with teeth it cant bite little happens. You can see how the plastic menace is still present. How can you use a police officer the whole day making arrests and dont facilitate them. Data register of people taken to Court is just filled but at the ground nothing happens completely.

Kenya Insights gathers that current impasse Is because of PS Mochache and Tobiko cartel. End of Financial year last quarter Sh400m was given to Nema supplementary budget it disappeared. Vehicles used to get Sh60k per year for maintenance it has never been sent since 2016.

Migori Bomet Siaya are some of the Counties with no vehicles at the moment. There are only 2 officers per county supposed to do all the work. County director and environmental officer plus driver you can see how it becomes difficult in monitoring and ensuring compliance. This is also a reason why a lot is going on unnoticed or overlooked because of corruption.

Word within Nema corridors is that the Ministry is said to hold money in banks and let it gain intrest at the expense of the authority. Intrest is personal for the big guys in ministry. Rumor  is they changed Finance officers who were spanner boys for Sunkuli. Keriako and Ps Mochache have brought their guys.

Another information we’re getting is  that the Ps Mochache and Finance director in Ministry allegedly have a secret account where they hold and get interest accusations that we can’t substantiate at this point but raises serious questions on handling public funds.

According to the allegations, after the money gaining interests, They then release Nema money late. Talking to a frustrated Nema staff, he opens up, “You are expected to pay bills eg electricity printing and fund office operations from pocket. It opens and exposes vulnerability risks hence we expect the clients to fund the office simple corrption which in turn compliance is compromised.

He goes further to make claims on a recent incident in Nakuru, “The 2 staff were interdicted the ones for Nakuru. High risk facilities are licensed from Hq. They were sacrificed a luo and kalenjin. One officer a kikuyu same office was left. No one currently wants to work in Nakuru office. No resources pure frustration.”

With environmental safety being a serious concern and Nema mandated to oversee this, it is immoral for whatsoever reason that the ministry would withhold staff salaries and expect things to run smooth. Such uncouth steps exposes staff to being easily compromised.

We’re also calling upon the ODPP to look into the accusations raised here that the PS and other elements within the ministry could be involved in personal trading with staff moneys. We’re following keenly on this matter and will keep you upto dates. Meanwhile, over to the ministry to rectify, put house in order and the ODPP to look into these accusations which came from Nema insiders.