Gold scammers are colluding with rogue Immigration Department officials to intimidate foreign businessmen and their witnesses after defrauding them.
An investigation report has revealed how some immigration officers were even placing red alerts of deporting the foreigners who have been defrauded without compelling reasons.
According to the report, the officials involved in these scams are said to receive 10 percent of the proceeds, according to a report.
In one of the cases highlighted in the report, Doreen Agani Songwa was found to have endorsed the passport of a Liberian gold fraudster with a fake E-visa at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
This was to enable him enter the country illegally, according to a letter reference IMMS/6/4/VOL.XIX(TF)/108 and dated May 2.
The Liberian together with a Chief Inspector Peter Owiyo were later charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and Stealing goods on transit -6.4kg of gold valued at USD408,420.
“From the travel history report obtained, details of the flight captured PW 614 instead of KQ 509 was meant to assist and conceal the illegal entry into the country,” according to a confidential report.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has also that the scamming in the country had reached unprecedented proportions with negative ramifications both for the reputation and economy of the country.
“While Kenya does not produce much gold, tons of the commodity are being traded through the country whereby scores of foreign gold buyers have lost millions of dollars in a scam which has continued despite efforts by the government and reports in the media,” a report reads.
“Scammers are using any means possible to intimidate foreign complaints such as threats and unjustified travel stop orders place by corrupt Immigration officers,” the report adds.
On May 5th, gold scammers had engineered the deportation of a Ghanaian national who also happens to be a key witness in a Sh132M gold scam. This was however thwarted by the interior CS Prof. Kindiki.
Lawyer Thomas Otieno Ngoe and businessman Nicholas Otieno Ndolo were charged in a Nairobi court with defrauding an American businessman of Sh132 million in a fake gold deal.
Lawyer Thomas ‘Tom’ Otieno Ngoe. Photo courtesy DCI.
Investigations have also shown that most of the foreigners who come to buy gold are on tourist visas. “Immediately the buyer realizes that is being scammed and reports to the police, the scammers call their Immigration department contacts who are in their cartel and start proceedings to deport these foreign buyers,” the DCI said.
Gold scammer Steve Okute who, according to the report, travelled all the way to the US to convince a complainant not to attend the hearing of the case in court. PHOTO/COURTESY
When some of these victims discover that the gold is fake after they have travelled back to their country, they are usually denied entry again in Kenya.
“His or her passport is stamped as ‘Prohibited Immigrant’ for 5 years. For their work, it is alleged that the Immigration officers involved in the scam receive 10 percent of the proceeds,” the confidential report reads.
In cases where genuine buyers apply for a visa to come and do gold transactions in the country the gold fraudsters will ensure that the buyer will get a tourist visa.
“Since the buyer is invited and lured by the scammers they make sure that the buyer has sent a copy of his passport which is given to corrupt immigration officers in their scamming cartel to issue tourist visas only,” the report adds.
However, if the buyer insists on a business visa, they are usually advised that the same will be obtained once they are in the country.
The fraudsters usually organize accommodation for their victims and facilitate their visit to tourist sites, among other activities, to win their confidence.
They will also ensure the buyers do not associate with the locals or their local contacts, relatives or friends.
“The scammers ensure that one of them is assigned at the hotel to monitor their movements and ensure that they do not go out unaccompanied,” the DCI said.
The fraudsters also ensure the buyers are under their full control and even have full control of the CCTV to monitor the activities of the buyer.
On May 5, a Ghanaian and a director of one of the aviation companies was arrested by the DCI’s Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU) on allegations of being illegally present in Kenya.
It was later revealed that the foreigner had a valid working permit and the arrest was planned by the gold fraudsters since he was suspected to have been providing crucial information to some detectives about the fraud.
“When he flew back to the country to give more evidence, he was held at the airport immigration desk for more than two hours with claims that his visa had an issue and there was an alleged restriction only known to the immigration department,” the report says. The Liberian accomplice, Carace Ownze Toomey, a Liberian of passport number PP00409389 is said to have aided his escape from JKIA.
The gang is well connected with the report stating that a Liberian fraudster who has been masquerading in the country as a preacher aided the escape of his fellow countryman at the JKIA after he had defrauded a businessman. He was later arrested around Wilson Airport following a tip off.
In another case coming up for hearing this Thursday May 18 where Patrick Ngare Muchina, Kelvin Mwaura and Muke Wa-Mansoni Didier, a Congolese were charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and stealing goods on transit, the complainant was also threatened with deportation.
The report also reveals that one of the gold scammers, Steve Okute, travelled all the way to the US to meet an American woman he and Bruno Otieno had defrauded USD 100,000 to convince her not to show up during the hearing of the matter in court. This case will proceed in court on June 19 and 20 in Nairobi’s Milimani court.
The report further states that the theft of gold which is in transit through JKIA is always facilitated by rogue and corrupt government agencies officials who would have ensured that passengers and goods in transit remain in the designated areas within the airport. Jared Otieno a well known gold scammer was recently arrested after stealing gold bars valued at USD 408,229 (an equivalent of about Ksh. 54,294,457.00) belonging to Shanmugam Sundar Darmaraju. The gold bars were on transit from Liberia to Dubai.
Pearl Beach Hotels Limited, the developer of Mombasa’s English Point Marina is in trouble as he’s now facing investigations, for alleged theft through fraudulent billing of apartment owners.
A group of 12 buyers of the luxury apartments had pursued a civil suit against the property developer for locking them out of their apartments on account of disputed service charge bills, they also say that electricity has been disconnected from some apartments as management refuses to account for money collected.
They already paid Sh600 million to acquire the houses.
The 12 disgruntled buyers among them Rockefeller Foundation Africa boss William Asiko, Jubilee financier Sam Kairu and tycoon Booker Mbugua. Others are Susan Muigai, Kariuki Minju, Joseph Wanjui, Solomon Bundi, James Kinuthia, Resilient Investments, Everywhere Investments and Silverline Investments, moved to court since English Point Marina has blocked buyers from renting out their apartments, contrary to the purchase agreement in which the management undertook to assist in sub-letting in exchange for 30 percent of revenue collected.
The developer had moved to court to stop the suit and stop the police from investigating the claims made by the buyers.
However, in February, Mombasa High Court judge John Mativo allowed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to go ahead with the investigations dealing Pearl Beach Hotels Limited a major blow as it now becomes a crime scene and combing their books will expose them to many more dirt being unearthed if any.
Racial Discrimination
According to the matter in court, the investors are partly accusing the management of subjecting them to racial discrimination, they claim that an internal Memo was issued to staff instructing them implement strict regulations and to discriminate particularly the black African homebuyers and deny them access to their apartments.
Most homeowners are foreigners.
The management is also accused of deliberately disabling security keys for apartment owners in a bid to frustrate their tenants and guests into opting for the hotel instead.
The luxury property consist consists of 96 apartments, eight penthouses and a 26-room hotel.
The project is owned by brothers Al Noor and Amyn Kanji . Other owners are Kanji’s wife Leila, sister-in-law Nafisa and Nazir Jinnah.
From the suit, some of harsh conditions out by management included the homeowners to seek permission from the office with an earlier notice before visiting their apartments.
Nazir Jinnah is being probed by DCI and LSK as it’s claimed he posed as a genuine lawyer yet not registered in High Court to practice.
The Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the DCI, revealed that detectives have uncovered that English Point Marina may be laundering illicit funds and that the only resolution is to let the investigations run their course.
“Preliminary investigations have revealed possible offences relating to fraud and money laundering which can only be proved or disapproved by analysis of the documents requested. The investigation powers conferred on the police are designed to serve a salutary purpose and the application is further misconceived as Pearl Beach Hotels has not demonstrated, beyond wild conjecture, how the request for information is in excess of the DCI’s authority,” Peace Maithya, a detective probing English Point Marina, says in court papers.
Francis Michuki, the son of former Internal Security minister John Michuki, who died in February 2012 is amongst those under investigations in the death of Sudhir Shah, 68-year old Thika businessman who was on Saturday shot by a gunman riding a motorcycle on Saturday afternoon near a vast coffee plantation along the Thika Superhighway as he and his associates chatted.
According to reports, the family of the slain businessman believe that the Sh3B land deal that he went to negotiate, was a trap used by his associates to lure him to the death trap.
His widow Taruna Shah and nephew Jitan Shah said they believed the meeting that had been planned to negotiate a land deal was a set-up. They did not, however, disclose by whom.
“Sudhir was the one managing the coffee farm for over 11 years after he closed down his motor vehicle spare parts shop in Thika to concentrate on the Ndarugo farm,” said the widow.
Sudhir co-owned Ndarugo Plantation 1960 Limited in Juja with five other directors and the family said the deal involved the sale of 150 acres.
Mr Shah, a father of two, was shot in the neck and at the back of his shoulder and was pronounced dead on arrival at Thika Central Memorial Hospital.
At the time of the shooting, Mr Shah was with his co-director Francis Michuki, the latter’s bodyguard Jesse Kariuki and five potential investors. Francis is the son of former Internal Security minister John Michuki, who died in February 2012.
“His death is suspect. Why him? No one else was injured during the shoot-out. Mr Michuki had a bodyguard and we are told he fired back when the two gunmen had left,” Jitan said, referring to reports a police officer assigned to one of the co-directors had engaged the attackers.
The initial plan was to set up a special economic zone in the area that would host industries and go-downs. It is said this was the first meeting with the investors and unfortunately the last that Shah had to attend.
According to the wife’s account of events, the businessman woke up at 6.30am and left his home at Section Nine in Thika to a temple in town. Thereafter, he drove to Ndarugo for the meeting.
After the meeting at the offices of Ndarugo Plantation 1960 Limited on Saturday, the group had driven out in a convoy of three vehicles. They parked next to the plantation.
A police report indicated that they were accosted by two suspects who were riding a motorcycle of unknown registration number.
“One of them was armed with a pistol and ordered everyone to lie on the ground. But the officer (Michuki’s bodyguard) defied the order after seeing one of the suspects was armed with a pistol. He took cover and started firing at them, who fired back. The suspects were overwhelmed and sped off without robbing the victims,” states the report.
In trying to piece it all up and find the killers and conspirators, detectives from the DCI who visited the scene on Sunday, confiscated mobile phones of all the eight people who were with Mr Shah for forensic analysis.
Mr Michuki’s bodyguard has also reportedly surrendered his gun.
Four rogue police officers attached to DCI Langata, have been arrested by Serious Crimes detectives on charges of Robbery with Violence, DCI Boss George Kinoti has announced.
This is after they abducted a man at NextGen Mall on February 6, 2022, at around noon and forcefully demanded money from him.
The man who had requested for a taxi by the roadside along Mombasa Road, was accosted by the officers before being forcefully bundled in a waiting Subaru, that had five occupants.
According to DCI Kinoti, whilst in the vehicle, the in-charge Corporal Tom Otieno, forcefully transferred Sh40,000 from the victim’s Mpesa account to his Mpesa account.
“They then proceeded to the victim’s apartment where they took a further USD2,400, from him, before dumping him at Choma Zone located at Total petrol station along Mombasa Road, after a 2-hour ordeal.” Says the report.
The following day, the victim went to Akira police station to make his report, only to find the vehicle he had been bundled into parked at the station. He immediately rushed to the DCI headquarters where he reported his discovery at the Serious Crimes unit.
Investigations were launched immediately and the serious crimes detectives established that the vehicle indeed belonged to DCI Langata.
Kinoti says all the four officers who were involved in the criminal act have since been arrested after being identified positively by the victim, in an identification parade conducted this evening at the DCI headquarters.
The suspects now in custody will be facing Robbery with Violence charges, contrary to Section 296 (2) of the Penal Code.
Kinoti has condemned condemns the thuggery behavior of the four suspects in the strongest possible terms. “Their actions are isolated indiscipline cases that do not represent our moral values and what we stand for.” He says.
“We are an investigative body that is responsive to the security needs and requirements of every Kenyan and such acts do not in any way define who we are.” He states.
He further warns, “we caution any police officer/s found on the wrong side of the law, that stern and prompt action shall be taken against them, in strict fidelity to the law regardless of the service they are from. The Directorate shall spare no effort in bringing such criminals who taint the image of the entire Police service to justice.”
The Directorate is urging those who’ve gone through the hands of rogue elements in the force to come forward to report and weed out such officers, “any Kenyan who may have unfortunately suffered in the hands of the four, is urged to immediately report at the Serious Crimes Unit headquarters for action.” He says.
People living with disabilities under the Ulemavu Initiative have petitioned the removal of High Court Judge Anthony Mrima over incompetence, bias and gross misconduct.
Through their leader Michael Makarina, the group wants the Judicial Service Commission to remove Justice Mrima over his decision to convict Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti over claims of failing to return firearms belonging to businessman Jimmy Wanjigi.
According to the group, the conduct of the judge went against all principles of Judicial Independence, conduct, rule of law and constitutionalism as it smacks deliberate misconduct or incompetency.
Through lawyer Danstan Omari, the group wants JSC to determine the actions of Justice Mrima amounted to incompetence, corrupt, bias and gross misconduct and breach of Judicial Code of Conduct and Ethics and oath of office and consequent to this determination initiates the necessary procedures for his removal from office.
Makarina wants the JSC to suspend the judge for his show of bias and find the conduct of Justice Mrima be investigated to ascertain any benefit he may have received for taking a deliberate legal misdirection. He also wants the judge to be dismissed from discharging, executing his duties.
Makarina argues that the judge has used his power, office and authority in unaccountable manner meant to frustrate DCI Kinoti and to expose mwananchi to danger as the said convict as the court has since observed, is a man with huge National responsibilities as Director of Criminal Investigations by sentencing him to jail term consequently ignoring sentencing policy Guidelines of 2015.
“It is palpable that the accused judge has been acting with malafides, morbid and ill will with sore him of humiliating Kinoti either through his convenient, misreading, misapplying and misunderstanding of contempt of court proceedings in a manber that render picayune of import of Director’s rights to a fair trial and right to a fair hearing or the court’s show of incompetency that jeopardize the rights of DCI Kinoti,” says Makarina.
In the petition, Makarina argue that the intimation that the Inspector General was to bring Kinoti to court to answer to the charge of contempt long after DCI Kinoti had been sentenced is baffling and a demonstration of the court’s inability to appreciate that the invitation is belated and obviously reverse of the process and procedures as they are understood in law and in practice.
He further accuses the judge of refusing to appreciate the material evidence presented before him as proof that the conviction and sentence against DCI Kinoti was erroneous, baseless, worse, unmerited and unsupported by any tangible proof or evidence
Korir had moved to the High Court to stop his prosecution, but Justice Anthony Mrima yesterday dismissed the petition on grounds the State was right in mounting prosecution against him with the offence of assault and injuring his estranged wife Evelyn Koech while she was pregnant.
He had sought to stop the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) from arresting and prosecuting him in connection with the offence, terming it as illegal, in bad faith and infringement on his constitutional rights.
“The petitioner has not shown how the DPP violated the Constitution by authorising his prosecution, further, if the court quashes or grants the orders sought, it will frustrate the rule of law,” Justice Mrima ruled.
Korir risks losing his plum job in line with Chapter 6 of the Constitution as well as the Leadership and Integrity Act which states that “any State officer automatically goes on suspension after taking a plea in a criminal case.”
He had argued that the prosecution was being used to coerce him to settle a matrimonial property score.
Matrimonial property
Judge Mrima has now set aside orders issued on February, that had temporarily shielded him from arrest and subsequent prosecution for the offence of causing grievous harm that attracts a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Court documents show that his wife reported the assault incident to Hardy Police Station in Karen on November 20, 2018, under OB 40/20/11/2018.
A medical examination report dated November 20, 2018, revealed that Evelyn who was then pregnant, suffered bruises in the abdomen, the forearm and the legs.
A P3 form, signed by the police surgeon based at the police headquarters also showed she sustained thorax and abdomen injuries.
Korir and Evelyn’s marriage is said to have been experiencing problems, but matters took a turn for the worse when claims of assault emerged in 2018.
Evelyn has filed for divorce under application E015 of 2021 against Korir. The PS also faces a separate case in the children’s court, No: MCCC/E945 of 2020 where he is being asked to pay school fees and upkeep for his children.
Korir previously served in the State Department of Infrastructure in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development, and Public Works having been appointed in February 2018.
When he filed his petition challenging his prosecution, Korir was then the for State Department of Youth PS. “The petitioner has failed to prove how his prosecution at this stage will violate his rights.”
He added the impending prosecution will give him a chance to prove his innocence “before the trial court.”
After the judgement, Korir informed the court that he would appeal the decision and sought for a stay of 30 days which was, however, declined.
Nairobi County Assembly is never short of drama. Former speaker Beatrice Elachi after endless fights, threw in the towel and resigned, Majority Whip Abdi Guyo has had his share of fight, a veteran in City Hall life, he was thrown out of his position before he got reinstated. The two leaders haven’t been in good books with each other for long. It all began the moment Elachi took over as the speaker assuming a managerial position and having a bigger say in the operations of city hall, at that time Guyo was in the assembly’s board and calling shots, this was a classic case of putting two rival bulls under same shade.
Their rivalry has played has played openly in the public arena. In 2019, Guyo sponsored a motion to impeach Elachi, it sailed and only to be reinstated later through a court order. Guyo ganged up with his goons and stormed into Elachi’s office in a well documented fiasco.
In the heights of the troubles, the then governor Mike Sonko intervened and eliminated Guyo as the majority leader.
Sonko in his dismissal letter said Guyo was a predicament in his implementation of jubilee policies and that his sustained attacks and intimidation towards the speaker and county staff could no longer stand.
Sonko has effectively nominated, Maringo Hamza MCA, Hon. Mark Ndung’u to take over from Guyo as the majority leader. Guyo fought his ways and was later reinstated by Raphael Tuju, sources privy to the intense lobbying leading to the reprieve confides that the Sec Gen gave in after getting his hands greased. Tables have since turned on Tuju, he’s facing imminent ouster from the jubilee party.
Guyo has had run ins with the authorities, having been in City Hall for over a decade since he started as a councilor, has a wide scope of networks, the man now eyeing a parliamentary seat has amassed wealth that doesn’t align with his salaries, Guyo has been a subject of investigations over suspicions of corruption but has escaped the dragnets thanks to his networks in the investigating bodies.
Guyo has been under EACC investigations in which Investigators found a direct link between Guyo and Flexilease Limited, one of the garbage collection companies implicated in a scandal that EACC was investigating how money from the bank accounts of the garbage collection companies ended up in Sonko’s private bank accounts.
Flexilease was being investigated for receiving payments for services not delivered and making the Nairobi County government pay for ghost workers. Guyo, a close ally of National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale, is also being investigated over a scam involving public toilets in the city. He is accused of working with shadowy businessman identified as Abbas Khalifa to grab all public toilets.
According to sources close to the investigations, Guyo and Abbas pocket at least Shs 1 million each every week from the public toilets. Investigators were also probing the source of Guyo’s sudden wealth. He is said to be building a huge shopping mall in Isiolo and has properties spead across the city. One of our preying birds is telling us he recently bought an apartment in Buru Buru for one of his concubines, a journalist attached to City Hall.
Guyo recently got mentioned in Covid-millionaires saga in which he was accused of money meant for the vulnerable.
The fresh scam involved distribution of relief food to vulnerable families in Nairobi’s informal settlements as a cushion during the COVID-19 pandemic an idea of controversial Matopeni MCA Abdi Guyo. The scandal would see Sh84 million paid to shadowy companies associated with him and Kananu.
Six shadowy companies were paid for the supply of foodstuffs and other necessities but it was flagged by MCAs who alleged that nothing was supplied and money pocketed allegedly by Guyo and associates.
The foodstuffs that were to be distributed in the feeding programme include sugar, rice, loaves of bread and long-life milk, maize and wheat flour as well as other items such as blankets, sanitary pads and basins.
‘I want to confirm that this is a COVID-19 billionaires scandal since some of the slums listed to have benefited from the feeding programme never received the said foodstuffs,” said one of the ODM MCAs when we contacted him.
Here is a breakdown of the monies paid to the six companies associated with Guyo and his cronies at City Hall.
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We also conducted a search of the companies at the Registrar of Companies and we confirmed that the six companies are linked to Guyo and his cronies at City Hall. Here are the results of the CR12 from the companies.
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According to sources at the Nairobi City County Assembly, it would be difficult for the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to prosecute individuals at the center of the scam since the EACC Deputy CEO and Director of Investigations Mohamud Abdi is a close associate of Guyo in their get rich business deals at City Hall.
Sonko on several occasions accused Abdi of being corrupt and wanted him stopped from investigating him. There are videos that were floated online allegedly of Guyo taking bribe stashed in a gunny bag to Abdi. At the time, Guyo was leading the battalion in the impeachment of Sonko. Sonko alleged that Guyo with his close ties with Abdi ganged up to frustrate and implicate him in dirty deals. Sonko in the same bad blood had accused Abdi of colluding with cartels to grab a land something he attributed to his tribulations with EACC.
“I would generally have a problem with individuals misusing public offices to cover-up for their crimes, while at the same time using intimidation, witch-hunt and arm-twisting tactics against those genuinely committed to fighting corruption and impunity in Kenya.” Sonko said when he accused Abdi of using his position as EACC commissioner to fraudulently facilitate grabbing of a land to his friend.
“In May 2014, one JOHNSON NYAGA KIBIRA (a former Nairobi County employee) attempted to build a Boundary Wall and a Gatehouse on Land Reference Number NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 in Mugoya Estate on Muhoho Road, South C which is a public utility plot earmarked for ECDE Centre/Playground for children in Mugoya Estate. When Mugoya Estate Residents reached out to me then as the Senator of Nairobi County, and we confronted the land grabber, we found that he purported to have a title for the land issued by County Council of Nairobi on 20th September 2012 although the land had been a playground for children since the estate was built.”
“On 27th May, 2014, we agreed with the residents that they report the matter to EACC and in a letter on the same date, Catherine Njiru of P.O. Box 59041-00200Nairobi wrote on behalf of the Estate Residents to EACC requesting for investigations into allegations of suspected fraudulent/irregular acquisition of the public land Plot Number NAIROBI/BLOCK 103/793 in South C. Evidence shows that the allegations of grabbing of that land were true and merited investigations as a matter of urgency.”
“On 16th July, 2014, EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud responded to Catherine Njiru vide letter Ref. No. EACC. 6/16/1 Vol, XXVIII (69)-46286noting receipt of the letter dated 27th May 2014. The letter acknowledged the allegations of suspected fraudulent/irregular acquisition of public land and promised to take the necessary steps to verify the same to inform action, as need be. Interestingly, the Director of Investigations also advised the Complainant that she “may seek further intervention from the National Land Commission” even though she had indicated it as a public land.”
“However, despite the undertaking, Abdi A. Mohamud as EACC Director of Investigations refused to investigate the complaint of Catherine Njiru at all, contrary to section 25 of the Anti-corruption and Economic Crimes Act, 2003 which makes it mandatory for EACC to investigate every complaint unless it dismisses the same in writing. It took another report to EACC 4 years later on 23rd July 2018 for the Commission to launch inquiry into the grabbing of the subject plot.”
“According to the intelligence I have, instead of investigating the complaint upon receipt, the EACC Director of Investigations Abdi A. Mohamud immediately used the information obtained from the whistle blower on the grabbing of the public land in South to appropriate the land for himself and his personal friend Isaack Abdullahi Ibrahim and the same plot had been transferred to him by 11th December 2014.“ Said Sonko in an explosive expose.
Fast forward to recent updates, while the former speaker left City Hall to become the Gender and Public Service CAS, troubles from the first have never stopped following her.
In the latest frenzy, the assembly adopted a report that recommended investigative bodies to probe Elachi for violation of the law and abuse office by usurping the powers of the County Assembly Service Board where she served as a chairperson board.
In its finding, the report suggested that promotion and recruitments of staff that took place in 2020 during Elachi’s tenure were against the law and were declared null and void.
However, Elachi defended herself and noted that it was pure malice for the assembly to call her ‘rogue’ as she was finishing a promotion process initiated by the late Alex Magelo who was her predecessor.
“Never has it been on record that I stole money while I was the Speaker. Everything I did is on record and It was not Elachi as a person but as the chairperson of the county assembly board. This is pure malice,” Elachi added.
Abdi Guyo who’s once again spearheading the calls for investigations on the speaker, insisted that Elachi is solely responsible for the irregular appointments.
”“The report is shocking and it reveals that everything was done following a decision by one person and not the board. This is an abuse of power,” Majority leader said.
Kenya Insights has obtained copies of the document that the scandal emanates from and can authoritatively say the decision for the promotions was approved and signed by the board members and not an individual as alleged by Guyo.
Journalists covering the City Hall scandals have become biased according to observations. Our birds say they’ve been properly compromised by the cartels to tell stories that are only favorable to them and in pushing convenient narratives. Brown envelopes have become part of the daily menu.
We’ve also obtained documents showing that Deloitte Kenya, was contracted by the County to research and recommend structural changes at City Hall who would improve service deliver. Deloitte was paid Sh5M.
To implement the recommendations, 2 more board members had to be recruited since it wasn’t fully constituted as recommended by the law. This recruitment process was presided over by the Public Service Commission and Strathmore University. The 2 members formed the part of directors who approved the questioned promotions.
Elachi is now headed to the courts to sue the Nairobi County Assembly for defamation.
Elachi said the assembly has continued to tarnish her name despite her willingly leaving the institution 14 months ago.
SPEAKER: Former Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Beatrice Elachi.
In what perhaps she saw coming, Elachi who terms all this political witch-hunt and settling scores, knew Guyo and alike would at one point come after her in leaving office and she left office with all copies of files she appended her signature for defense.
“We must do better than what the men do in this political arena. When I was resigning I made sure I had all copies that had my signatures and walked away with them.” Elachi said when she met women aspirants and the media at an event hosted by Journalists for Human Rights.
Elachi did this so that when someone tried to accuse her of corruption or any office related misappropriation, she has the documents to back her up.
“I realized that when you don’t steal money people will create stories like abuse of office. When you have documentation, you leave them to create the story then you come with your file and ask them to show you the abuse of office claims,” she said.
As accusations continue fly around, Guyo who’s said to be a supremo in City Hall, has become so powerful that the General Badi isn’t able to contain him, the two are said to be close together and coming from same ethnic group, Abdi who’s also close to a relative to the president and MCA, has managed to get into the good books with the president who is likely unaware of how dirty Guyo moves. Badi vowed to dismantle the cartels of city hall but that’s a wet dream.
So entrenched in looting public funds that Kenya Insights has learnt that Committee members are bribed with unwarranted trips, stipends. Recently, budgeting committee traveled to Turkey to discuss how to pay pending bills and budget for the country. This is something they could easily do in the boardroom or an hotel in the city or if it’s the itch of traveling, Mombasa or Naivasha would do, but no, public funds must be misused, such trips out members at the mercy of leaders to support their agendas before the table.
We’re also aware that the same committee is planning for a similar trip to Dubai to further misuse public funds while normal Nairobian thrive in burden. In the chain of looting, the devolution ministry officials who give approval to the trips are roped in. We’re told for every approval/per member, Sh5,000 bribe is given.
In the middle of the employment chaos, Guyo is accused of irregularly recruiting his relatives including a brother-in-law, cousin. Former clerk Jacob Ngwele who’s a close associate of Guyo is also accused of securing a job for one of the officers in investigative agencies and who was investigating the Trip by an associate Abass to Dubai. This he allegedly did to stop the Investigations.
In the corruption web at City Hall is a lady only identified to us as Nancy who is married to a banker with Central Bank, when Ngwele and team lost control of accessing funds , the husband played a big role in accessing the cash. Another lady who previously worked for City Hall and now with Judge Warsame who gave a favorable and controversial ruling in favor of Ngwele it remains a puzzle how in the ruling Warsame incorporated Edward Gichana who wasn’t part of the suit neither applied to be enjoined. Ruling rose suspicions and foul play. The web is wide and suspect.
It is an intricate web, what we’ve provided is just a shallow grave, in subsequent articles we shall dive in deeper. For now, a multi agency investigation should be initiated to unearth the truths and separate facts from fictions.
Suspected serial Killer and Rapist who has been the nightmare of Ruiru residents for the last four months has been arrested.
Paul Magara Morara, 29, who has killed three ladies and seriously injured four within the period, was arrested today in a scrupulous operation by Ruiru-based detectives, who were acting on an attempted murder report.
Shockingly, Magara has remained in the detectives list of wanted persons since 2020, but the masked hitman was only known by his alias name, Mkisii.
According to DCI Ruiru profiling, the masked Magara occasionally struck ladies in the hours of darkness, killing and seriously injuring some before removing and escaping with their panties.
It all started with one such shocking incident in 2020 at Kiunguru area around Ruiru Bypass, when a woman who had been seen with a man a night before was found dead in her room, with one of her breasts chopped off.
Following the scanty leads obtained from the crime scene, detectives pursued the anonymous perpetrator for months but in vain.
Later in January 2021, a young lady who worked at a hair company was found murdered at a local lodging in a similar style, moments after she was spotted with Magara.
After months of receiving several related murder and attempted murder incidents all reported by female victims, another lady was found murdered in her rental house at Magorofani area of Wataalam.
The mysterious agent of death had caused untold panic and terror in the area, with word having it that a vampire was roaming in the dark hunting down women.
In what called for a round-the-clock manhunt for the perpetrator by all Ruiru sub-county officers, the killer struck again in September 7, by breaking into the house of two sisters aged 18 and 19, where he stabbed and left them for the dead. One of them is still admitted at Kenyatta National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
As pursuit for him heightened, the bloodthirsty monster crept into the house of a couple when they were deep asleep early morning yesterday, stabbing the woman at the neck and vanishing in the dark in seconds.
The husband rushed his 22-yr-old lactating woman to hospital, amidst shock as to how their attacker managed to master their padlock from outside, execute the attack and disappear as he soundly snored. The woman is recuperating well.
Believing that the attacker was still around Wataalam at that early hour, police in Ruiru launched a thorough comb of the area, luckily managing to nab four suspects and recovering a mobile phone that belonged to one of the sisters attacked in the September 7 incident.
Hours of interrogations on the four revealed that one of them, 25-year-old Moses Moogi Okemwa was an accomplice of the prime suspect, who jointly executed some of the attacks.
At the crack of dawn today, Ruiru detectives who had camped metres from the house of Magara’s brother ambushed the prime suspect as he headed to have breakfast at his kin’s place.
As early as 6am, the dusty 29-year-old had a backpack containing a hammer, 7 female panties and an electrical bulb holder.
Further investigations has so far revealed that Magara joined a cult back in 2013, which promised to be paying him for every kill on a woman. Strangely, showing a woman’s pants would confirm that he indeed deserved a pay. He had however been double-crossed after a Sh30,000 down-payment, but continued with the monstrous attacks.
More investigations are ongoing with DCI Ruiru detectives dealing.
The Law Society of Kenya has accused the Directorate of Criminal Investigations of interfering with the functions of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In a hard hitting statement, LSK says wrangles between the two entities on the trial of suspected murders of the late businessman Tob Cohen are likely to derail the case and pursuit for justice.
“There is real danger of the trial being compromised due to wrangles between the DCI and the DPP on extraneous issues manifesting as power struggles between the two,” LSK President Nelson Havi says.
Havi further says, “The discord between the two must be contextualized, and the [parameters of their powers defined to end and avert unnecessary spectacles in future.”
The bone of contention is a letter by the DPP to the Inspector General of Police saying there was no evidence to charge Court of Appeal Judge Sankale Ole Kantai with the murder of the late Tob Cohen.
Havi says the matter has spiraled out of control with the DCI determined to arrest and arraign Sankale in court.
At the same time, a petition seeking the removal of DDP Noordin Haji from office has been filed with the Public Service Commission for declining to charge the Judge.
Havi says the law is clear that the DPP doesn’t require consent from any person or authority for the commencement of criminal proceedings.
“The DCI has in this case purported to arrogate to himself powers that he doesn’t have, by demanding that the Judge be charged when the DPP has determined on the basis of evidence and law that a murder charge is unsuitable,” He said.
He says while the petition at PSC is by Tob Cohen’s family, it has visible footprints and fingerprints of the DCI and seeks to control the DPP on the matter.
The deeply rooted cartel that has been looting from the coffers of Siaya County since 2013 have diversified their tact from breaching procurement regulations, quoting hiked prices and use of proxy companies to stealing staff pension funds, National Social Security Fund and National Hospital Insurance Fund statutory deductions.
The new theft was first exposed by Asembo West MCA Ambrose Akuno when LapFund demanded notes made public by as NHIF struggled to trace Sh1 billion that was deducted from the staff payments but not been remitted for a year now.
MCA Akuno who spoke through a local FM station also revealed that the cartel is run by rogue chief executive committee members who have bought off corrupt MCAs to let them loot. Many MCAs including Akuno were paid some 150k bribe to conceal the Sh 600 million theft.
The revelations which came barely three weeks since the Directorate of Criminal Investigations ordered the finance department to avail them the records of key accountants from the department who are suspended for stealing county funds has also exposed the rotten theft in Governor Cornell Rasanga’s administration.
The looting is presided over by finance chief officer Dennis Nyonje who swindled Sh600 million through fake allowances to rogue staff members in their looting ring. The hefty allowances are deducted but never remitted just like a portion of the Sh600 million loot which was paid out as bogus allowances to corrupt staffers who were used to pass the money to the accountants for kickbacks.
Most of the accountants them invested their kickbacks in tippers, bulldozers and excavators with the plan to out to road contractors who beg for tenders at the county offices. The investments that don’t much their small salaries has raised eyebrows over the source of the overnight wealth.
Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi who is waiting for the endorsement by ODM leader Raila Odinga to go for the Siaya gubernatorial seat also added that corruption is rampant at the finance office. Opiyo who chairs public accounts committee at the national assembly also complained that one of the biggest beneficiaries of Covid-19 stolen billions wants to oust him in Ugunja.
But Nyony’e scheme was exposed by a contractor whom he used and dumped not knowing he was playing a well connected dirty fellow who is working for Rasanga who throws him lucrative tenders for huge kickbacks. The man is part of the powerful cartel that is estimated to have looted close to Sh8 billion since the onset of devolved units in 2013.
More than 48 hours after corporal Caroline Kangogo became a wanted person and an alert issued to all police stations across the country, she is still on the run and has since killed one more person in Juja, Kiambu County.
A divorcee and a mother of two, Kangogo has now killed two men, all whom she was dating. Her second victim, sources say “was the main boyfriend, who also even known in Nakuru.”
Why does the 34 year-old want to blow up her career, after a 13-year service to the nation as a police officer?
Police fear their colleague, whom they now describe as rogue is on a mission to kill more people and have issued a caution to all Kenyans, “especially men.”
The instructions by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are clear; “don’t trust her.”
So, is Kangogo a rogue police officer or another case of mental illness within the National Police Service? What triggered her fury and why is he targeting men?
Kangogo went into hiding after killing her boyfriend of one month, police constable John Ogweno, right within the police quarters in Nakuru.
Ogweno was recently moved from Kisii to Nakuru and had been warned against dating her by colleagues who spoke to Shahidi News.
According to detectives, “she is armed and dangerous.” She is believed to be walking with Ogweno’s Ceska pistol, which by July 5 had 15 rounds of ammunition.
Who is Kangogo and why is she killing her male friends? It remains a puzzle to those who do not know her, but not her friends and colleagues.
Detectives are racing against time to arrest her, before she harms any other person.
We sought to know more about Kenya’s most wanted police officer.
“If seen, treat her as armed and dangerous,” reads a police notice, and which was sent to all police stations in Kenya.
“Please keep a sharp lookout and if traced, recover the firearm and arrest the holder with her accomplices.”
For Kangogo’s incident, it is controversy and more of it, and a pile of questions.
Why did she kill police constable Ogweno in Nakuru?
Who was the Juja man she killed on Monday night? Why did she want both men dead?
According to police sources, Kangogo was last traced while en route to Kisii, to meet another male friend, said to be a doctor.
-The fateful night she killed Ogweno-
According to reputable sources, Kangogo and Ogweno had spent most of the time together, on the fateful day.
“They even went drinking together,” a colleague said.
But in the evening, something happened according to colleagues.
Both went to their respective housing units within the police quarters. Ogweno is said to have later went to her place.
“He found her with another person and was requested to wait at the parking lot,” the source said.
But what transpired in between remains unclear. But minutes later, Ogweno was dead.
Who was the person at Kangogo’s place? Did he play a role in killing Ogweno?
The police alert suggested she had an accomplice.
-The Killing in Juja of a Man-
It has been established that the man who was killed in Juja was a former police officer, currently running his own security firm.
Colleagues and friends say he was known to them as Kangogo’s ‘main’ boyfriend.
“He was known to us. He was the main boyfriend,” another colleague said.
They also alleged that he had recently bought her a car.
“She was not happy when she discovered that the car had a big debt with the Kenya Revenue Authority. But we cannot say that is why she killed the man,” a detective privy to the ongoing investigations and hunt mission said.
-Transition from Kiganjo Police College-
Before she was transferred to Nakuru police station, It has established that she was an instructor at the Kenya Police Training College, in Kiganjo, Nyeri.
“She was dating a senior police officer and while there, they together sired two babies,” another colleague who worked with Kangogo in Kiganjo said.
But the two parted ways after ‘irreconcilable’ differences. The father of the two children is still serving as a police officer.
Kangogo previously served at P.T.C Mombasa in 2009, Kaloleni police station between 2010 and 2013, Kiganjo K.P.C between 2013 and 2015.
Before she was termed, ‘rogue and dangerous,’ she has been stationed at central police station in Nakuru from 2015.
She also underwent a sharpshooting training course in Kiganjo between 2008 and 2009.
In 2019, Kangogo was issued with a show cause letter by the then Officer Commanding Station in Nakuru police station.
Colleagues said she would easily pick a fight with her male colleagues and was engaged on multiple romantic relationships, some which would end in violence.
