A Nairobi court has dealt a significant blow to businessman Jayesh Kumar Probudus Kotecha’s attempts to escape prosecution in a Sh706.9 million fraud case after Principal Magistrate Carolyne Mugo dismissed the Director of Public Prosecutions’ controversial application to withdraw the charges.
Magistrate Mugo accused DPP Renson Ingonga of abusing the court process and operating with a “hidden agenda” by attempting to terminate the six-year-old case without consulting the complainant, Prime Bank Limited. The ruling came after the prosecution sought to withdraw charges under Section 87(a) of the Criminal Procedure Code just days before the scheduled hearing in June 2025.
Kotecha, a British businessman and director of Midland Hauliers Limited, faces multiple charges including conspiracy to defraud Prime Bank Limited of the massive sum by allegedly transferring mortgaged vehicles without authorization. The charges stem from accusations that he disposed of three trucks valued at the disputed amount to Super Hakika Limited while Midland Hauliers was under bank administration.
The court heard that Midland Hauliers Limited was placed under the administration of Ponaningpali Venkanta Ramana Rao in 2020 after defaulting on a loan facility. Kotecha is accused of performing management functions without the administrator’s consent and failing to provide required company information to the court-appointed receiver manager.
Magistrate Mugo expressed particular concern over the timing of the DPP’s withdrawal application, noting that it came just two days after the prosecution had conducted pre-trial proceedings with witnesses who were ready to testify. “This court takes judicial notice that the DPP did not inform the complainant of the intention to withdraw the case against the accused persons as provided for under the law,” she ruled.
The magistrate emphasized that complainants have equal rights to accused persons in criminal proceedings and criticized the prosecution for treating the court as a “rubber stamp.” She rejected the DPP’s explanation that pending insolvency petitions in the High Court justified the withdrawal, pointing out that these cases were already pending when the decision to charge Kotecha was initially made.
Lawyer Elijah Mwangi, representing the bank-appointed administrator, had vigorously opposed the withdrawal application, arguing that it constituted an abuse of the court process and violated the complainant’s rights. The defense team maintained that eight witnesses were prepared to testify and that the case should proceed to its conclusion.
In her comprehensive ruling, Magistrate Mugo declared that “magistrates courts will not be used as rubber stamps by the DPP in the misapplication of the law and doing injustice to complainants in court.” She ordered that the case proceed to full trial starting October 6, 2025.
The fraud allegations against Kotecha include five counts covering conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods, unauthorized management of a company under receivership, and failure to cooperate with the court-appointed administrator. The businessman has denied all charges and remains out on bond.
This case highlights growing concerns about prosecutorial conduct and the protection of victims’ rights in Kenya’s criminal justice system, with the court’s decision setting a strong precedent against arbitrary case withdrawals that bypass proper legal procedures.
Police Sacco has moved to court seeking to block the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) from probing claims of embezzlement of funds against its board directors.
The deposit taking Sacco sought High Court through lawyer Cecil Miller to restrain the DCI or its agents from arresting or charging the officials or the continued harassment or questioning the Board of Directors, pending hearing and determination of the case.
The Sacco also sought orders to discharge directives issued by a Milimani magistrate court allowing the probe and for investigators to carry away certified copies various Sacco documents including list of the names of all members of the current board of directors.
The DCI through investigating officer Inspector Duncan Maina had obtained warrant to investigate Sacco records, list of all tenders awarded to the Police Sacco from 1st January 2019 to 30th October 2024.
The DCI was also allowed to obtain a list of corporate social responsibility projects implemented on the same period, Board of directors’ approval and all procurement documents relating to the purchase, installation and maintenance of the said M-Tawi system, audit reports among others.
“Unless this Honourable Court intervenes urgently, the Sacco will suffer irreparable harm, including damage to its reputation as a leading financial institution, potential breaches of its confidentiality obligations to its members and a potential “bank run’ which will lead to the collapse of the DCI,” Miller submitted.
Further, NPS DT Sacco wants the court to refer the complaint raised in the criminal application to the Sacco Societies Fraud Investigations Unit for investigation.
Court documents stated that in November last year, a magistrate ordered the Sacco CEO Solomon Atsiaya to nominate an authorized person to provide a certificate of production of electronic evidence under Section 106B(4) of the Evidence Act
The court further ordered that an authorized person be nominated to provide a witness statement as evidential account in support of the documents given to the DCI. The Sacco, however, argues that the inspection of the Sacco’s documents falls within the mandate of SASRA, under Section 48(2) and 49(1) & (3) of the Sacco Societies Act, which grants.
“The Sacco Societies Fraud Investigations Unit (SSFIU), established by SASRA in 2020, is mandated to detect, prevent, and address fraudulent activities within SACCOs,” the Sacco said.
Police Sacco submitted that there has been no compliance with sections 67 and 76 of the Sacco Societies Act CAP 490B as they offer a dispute resolution mechanism to be followed which has been bypassed by the current investigations.
” The Sacco’s rights to confidentiality and protection of its members’ personal and financial data under the Data Protection Act, 2019 are at risk of being breached, as the orders would lead to the unauthorized dissemination of sensitive information,” the Sacco added.
The Sacco argues that due to its sensitive nature being a deposit taking institution, SASRA was the ideal place to carry out the investigations, to protect depositors’ funds.
Through lawyer Miller, the Sacco argue that the order dated 28th November 2024 have far-reaching implications and expose the Sacco to potential operational disruption, financial instability, and erosion of public confidence and should therefore be discharged. Atsiaya pointed out that Section 49 of the Act has equipped SASRA with the power to authorize inspections of SACCOs and issue directives where non-compliance is identified under Section 50 of the Act.
He added that via a letter dated 3rd September 2024, select members of the Sacco wrote to SASRA lodging a complaint therefore admitting the jurisdiction of SASRA as the investigating body.
CEO Atsiaya adds that due to the sensitive nature of deposit taking institutions, the power granted to SASRA is ideal for protecting depositors and should be therefore allowed to undertake this investigation as per section 49(1) of the Act. “To allow investigations to continue as they are now will dangerously expose the institution and the depositors of the Sacco to grievous losses should the DCI proceed to effect the orders issued by court,” Atsiaya told the court.
He further state that SASRA’S oversight is critical to ensuring compliance with the prudential standards prescribed under Section 48(2) of the Act, and any deviation from this process undermines the statutory framework established to regulate SACCOS.
“The purpose of SASRA investigation is to safeguard the depositor’s interests and an investigation by the DCI will create a frenzy amongst the depositors causing a bank run,” adds Atsiaya.
Atsiaya adds that the complainants have not exhausted all remedies available to them under the doctrine of exhaustion.
He told the court he is well aware that the Directors of the Sacco are not immune or opposed to any investigations into the operations of the SACCO or their own conduct.
“The said directors of the Sacco are ready to submit to the investigations within the prescribed procedures under the Sacco Societies Act, CAP 490(B),” court heard.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has directed the Makupa Police Station to charge lawyer Joseph M. Munyithia and Farid Mohamed Almaary with fraud-related offenses in connection with a disputed KSh 25 million land transaction.
The case revolves around a sale agreement entered into on 19th May 2021 between Pauline Kanini Mutiso, Regina Mumo Mutiso, Kilungya Mutiso, and Farid Mohamed Almaary for a plot located in Shelly Beach.
The agreement stipulated that full payment was to be made within 90 days.
However, the complainants later discovered that Munyithia had released the original certificate of lease to Almaary without their consent and before the full payment had been made.
Efforts by the complainants to recover the document were unsuccessful, prompting the ODPP to accuse Munyithia of conspiring with Almaary to defraud the sellers.
Further complicating the matter, the two suspects failed to honor police summons, raising suspicions of criminal intent.
The ODPP has now ordered their prosecution for stealing under Section 268(2)(a) as read with Section 275 of the Penal Code, and for concealing deeds under Section 288 of the Penal Code.
Three former officials of the Kenya Union of Saving & Credit Cooperatives Ltd (KUSCCO) have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the institution of over Sh82 million.
The three alongside an advocate were accused of diverting the millions meant for the purchase of a parcel of land.
The accused persons included George Mugutu Mwangi, George Ochila Owino, lawyer Jackline P. Atieno Omolo and Mercy Muthoni Njeru.
They were presented before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Dalpina Alego and denied the charges.
Magistrate Alego issued summons against George Otieno Ototo, who failed to appear in court for plea taking.
They are accused of conspiring to defraud the financial institution by diverting Sh82,826,000, meant for the purchase of parcel of land LR23269/35 at Nairobi.
It is alleged that they committed the offence on diverse dates between the month of October 2020 and April 2022 l, jointly with others not before court.
The prosecution told the court that they entered into agreement for sale of Land LR No.23269/35 in order to conceal or disguise the nature and source of Sh82,826,000 through accounts no. 11020 and 1001 held at KCB and Oriental Bank respectively.
Both accounts were under the name of Jackline P. A Omolo & Advocates whilst having reasons to believe that the said monies were proceeds of crime.
The charge sheet stated that they committed the fraud on diverse dates between 9th October 2020. and 30th April 2022 with others not before court, with intent to dispose of, the money.
Magutu, Ototo and lawyer Omolo were further accused of making an agreement for sale of land LR No.23269/35 to make it appear authentic, with intent to deceive.
The prosecution alleged that they committed the offence on the 6th day of October 2020 with intent to defraud or deceive.
Lawyer Jackline Omollo was accused of knowingly and fraudulently uttering to Moses Adeli a forged agreement for sale purporting to be a genuine agreement for sale of Land LR LR No.337/1925 Machakos from Catherine Wanjiku Mbugua.
They will remain in custody pending a ruling on Tuesday next week, on whether they will be freed on bond.
Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome is facing serious allegations of using her position to interfere with land-related cases in Nairobi courts.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has been called upon to investigate claims that Wahome, the Cabinet Secretary for Lands, and her daughter’s law firm, Wahome and Okedi Advocates, have been involved in fraudulent land deals, including forgery and the illegal issuance of title deeds.
According to sources familiar with the matter, CS Wahome has allegedly leveraged her authority to manipulate land registry processes, facilitating the production of fraudulent title deeds for properties in Nairobi.
Some of these properties are reportedly embroiled in ongoing legal disputes, while others have yet to be presented in court.
The alleged interference has raised concerns about the integrity of land transactions and the judicial process in the capital.
The law firm owned by Wahome’s daughter, Wahome and Okedi Advocates, is accused of playing a central role in the scheme.
CS Wahome and her daughter.
Sources claim that the firm has been used as a conduit to process and legitimize fraudulent title deeds, effectively undermining legitimate land ownership claims.
Affected parties, including landowners and claimants, are now preparing to lodge formal complaints with the EACC, urging the anti-graft body to launch a comprehensive investigation into the allegations.
They argue that the alleged actions by CS Wahome and her daughter’s firm not only violate ethical standards but also erode public trust in government institutions.
“This is a blatant abuse of power and a betrayal of public trust,” said one source close to the matter. “The CS and her daughter’s firm are allegedly using their positions to manipulate the system for personal gain, leaving innocent landowners in distress.”
These allegations stand in stark contrast to CS Wahome’s recent public statements condemning land fraud.
Just days ago, she decried the rising cases of forged title deeds in Western Kenya, emphasizing that officials who authorize fraudulent land documents will be held accountable.
She announced an ongoing clean-up exercise aimed at identifying and eliminating fake titles, asserting, “The clean-up is ongoing, and we will seal all loopholes that allow the issuance of forged documents.”
In a related development, CS Wahome recently challenged former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to present any evidence of corruption within the Affordable Housing Programme to the EACC.
This came after Gachagua alleged that the programme was a business venture benefiting certain government officials and companies. CS Wahome responded by stating, “I would want him to tell the EACC where that is and who happens to be there so that they can help me to deal with that as a corruption issue.”
The EACC has yet to issue an official statement regarding the calls for an investigation into CS Wahome and her daughter’s law firm.
Kenya Union of Savings & Credit Co-operatives Ltd (Kuscco) has been embroiled in a multi-billion-shilling scandal involving forged signatures, cooked books, and systemic theft.
A forensic audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has uncovered a web of deceit that has left the umbrella body for savings and credit co-operatives (Sacco) insolvent, with billions of shillings belonging to depositors at risk.
The Forged Signature of a Dead Auditor
At the heart of the scandal is the forgery of the signature of Alfred Basweti, a deceased auditor from Omenye and Associates.
Basweti, who passed away before the signing of Kuscco’s 2022 financial statements, was posthumously implicated in the approval of falsified accounts.
The PwC audit revealed that the signatures on the 2021 and 2022 financial documents differed, raising red flags. Kenneth Kimaiyo, Kuscco’s former internal auditor, confirmed that Basweti had died before the 2022 financials were signed, yet his signature appeared on the documents.
This forgery is just one piece of a larger puzzle of malfeasance at Kuscco, which includes large-scale theft, bribery, unexplained bank withdrawals, and conflicts of interest.
The organization, which manages billions of shillings from saccos for investments, is now insolvent to the tune of Sh12.5 billion, with Sh24.8 billion in deposits from 247 saccos at risk.
The Rot Within: Cooking Books and Phantom Profits
Former KUSCCO chairman George Magutu.
The PwC audit uncovered a systematic manipulation of financial statements, with Sh9.3 billion misstated in the books.
This was achieved through understating costs such as commissions and interest expenses while overstating incomes, creating the illusion of profits where none existed.
The audit also revealed interdepartmental lending practices that concealed Sh6.5 billion in loans, which were never reported in the books. Of the Sh11.1 billion lent across departments, only Sh286 million was repaid, leaving a gaping hole in Kuscco’s finances.
The audit placed blame squarely on top executives, including former managing director George Ototo, finance manager George Owino, and chairman George Magutu.
These officials allegedly prepared the final financial statements in secret, excluding the rest of the finance team from the process.
When PwC sought interviews with the implicated individuals, they opted for silence, with Ototo even threatening legal action against journalists seeking comment.
Theft and Misappropriation: A Culture of Impunity
The scandal extends beyond financial misreporting to outright theft. Kuscco executives withdrew Sh1.6 billion in commissions, but only Sh1.1 billion was accounted for, leaving Sh0.5 billion potentially misappropriated.
The audit also revealed overpayments to insurance brokers, including Baobab Insurance Agency, which was majority-owned by a former Kuscco managing director.
Baobab received Sh821 million in overpayments, with top officials allegedly instructing the firm to overquote via phone calls and WhatsApp messages.
In another instance, Sh206 million was stolen through unexplained withdrawals from Kuscco’s Sacco savings bank account, purportedly for replenishing cash at Kuscco Fosa branches.
Francis Wande, Kuscco’s main cashier, admitted to delivering Sh135 million to Ototo and Owino over a seven-year period, with no evidence of how the funds were used.
Questionable Procurement and Kickbacks
The rot at Kuscco also extended to procurement, where Sh1.2 billion was paid out through questionable contracts.
For example, 14 out of 16 vendors hired for a homes project in Kitengela had no signed contracts, raising suspicions of kickbacks to Kuscco officials.
One top official received Sh2.7 million from a contractor, claiming it was payment for a vehicle sold to an associate.
The Fallout: A Regulatory Wake-Up Call
The Kuscco scandal has exposed the lack of oversight in Kenya’s sacco sector, with the organization operating without a regulatory watchdog for years.
The Ministry of Cooperatives has since ordered an audit, and Kuscco’s top executives have resigned amid the probe.
However, the damage is already done, with billions of shillings lost and the trust of depositors shattered.
A Call for Accountability
The Kuscco scandal is a stark reminder of the dangers of unchecked power and the need for robust regulatory frameworks.
As the investigation continues, there must be accountability for those responsible, and measures must be put in place to prevent such a collapse from happening again.
The millions of Kenyans who rely on saccos for their savings and investments deserve nothing less.
This story is not just about financial mismanagement; it’s about the betrayal of trust and the systemic failures that allow such scandals to thrive.
The trial against two Italian nationals, Daniele Lo Coco and Massimo Nativi, who are accused of defrauding their fellow Italians of over Ksh 32 million, began at a Kilifi court on Tuesday, November 19, 2024.
The two are facing charges of obtaining money by false pretense after allegedly misleading two victims into paying for non-existent villas in the popular tourist resort town of Watamu, Kilifi County.
The accused, Lo Coco and Nativi, were arraigned before Kilifi Chief Magistrate James Mwaniki.
They were however charged afresh after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) amend the charges against them ahead of the hearing and have denied the charges.
The defense, led by Muthuri Kinyua, is representing the two Italians.
During the hearing on Tuesday, two witnesses testified, including Rita Nappo, one of the complainants.
Nappo in her evidence in chief gave a blow to blow account of how she was defrauded of Sh. 17 million in connection with the purchase of a villa in Watamu.
Testifying in court through an interpreter, as she only speaks Italian, Nappo recounted her experience of seeing an advertisement for villas for sale, which led her to contact the number listed.
She visited the property, signed documents, and was assured that everything was in order, with villas under construction.
However,she was never provided with the necessary documentation to prove her ownership.
Nappo further testified that despite receiving no legal documents or clear evidence of ownership, she trusted the accused persons and made the purchase in 2018.
She explained that she bought a two-floor villa for 140,000 euros but later discovered discrepancies in the property documents, including differences in the size of the villas.
The second witness, Cosmo Armeno, was asked by Nappo to translate the agreement from Italian to English.
Armeno confirmed that after translating the document, it was certified by the Italian consulate in Malindi.
It was only then that Nappo became aware of the fraudulent nature of the deal.
The two accused Italians are charged with defrauding Nappo and another victim, Girola Fiorenzo, of a total of Sh. 32 million by falsely pretending they could sublease villas located on Kilifi Jimba plot number 1544, a fact they allegedly knew to be untrue.
The fraud is said to have occurred between 2018 and 2021.
The case will resume further hearing on Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A city Engineer who allegedly defrauded a woman Sh 13M in fake bore hole drilling business has been charged at a Kibera Law Courts.
Mr.William Maina Muturi was charged before Senior Principal Magistrate Samson Temu where he denied the charges.
In court documents seen by Kenya Insights, the accused person alledgly defrauded Judy Njeri Wanja the said amount on the above mentioned ground contrary to the law.
The court heard that the accused person committed the offence on diverse dates between May 21, 2021 and April 21, 2022 within Nairobi County Jointly with others not before the court.
According to the complaint, Mr. Muturi would endlessly ask her for money in the pretext of securing approvals from different authorities in king Nema, NCA, Water Resources and Management Authority and including electricity installation to both sites to all which she obliged and sent.
His lawyer told the court that he had initially attempted to sort the matter out of court with the complainant and urged the court to grant him a lenient bond terms.
The court papers said that the accused person after alledgly receiving the said amount from the complainant in his three bank accounts at KCB, Co-Operative and Standard Chartered Bank, started playing hide and seek prompting her to report the matter to the police station.
The court granted him a cash bail of Sh 200,000 with an alternative bond of Sh 2Million.
The case will proceed later this month for mention and further directions
A hotel manager has been charged with maliciously damaging a Pride Inn Hotel building.
Mohammed Shabbir Noorani, manager of Pride Inn Hotel, was accused that jointly with others not before court, he willfully and unlawfully destroyed Pride Inn hotel building, the property of Imran Abdul Salaam.
He allegedly committed the offence between May 1, 2020 and July 1, 2020 at Pride Inn Hotel Rapha road in Westlands in Nairobi.
Mohammed faced a second count of stealing CCTVs, door locks, server room equipment, furniture and fittings all valued at Sh36, 668,880 at the same place and dates.
According to a police report, the complainant owns two properties in Nairobi and Mombasa. They leased the properties to Pride Inn hotel. The lease agreement was for five years.
On July 1, 2020, the comp alleged that he went to the premises, the hotel had been vandalized. The furniture had been taken out. He reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of the accused.
He denied the charges before Milimani chief magistrate Francis Andayi and pleaded for lenient bond terms.
The court heard that the accused is one of the directors of the hotel.
Andayi released him on a cash bail of Sh1 Million or a bond of Sh2 Million.
The High Court has dismissed a suit filed by minority owner of Bluebird Aviation who accused his partners of siphoning more than $1 billion (Sh108 billion) from the airline through tax evasion, fraud and money laundering.
Justice Alfred Mabeya brought to an end the five-year court battle pitting Adan Abdi Yussuf against three other owners of the 29-year-old airline.
The judgment came after the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) cleared three shareholders and executives of Bluebird — Hussein Farah, Unshur Mohamed and Mohamed Abdikadir — from financial malpractices after a nine-month investigation.
The investigation followed a criminal complaint from Mr Yussuf against his fellow shareholders, accusing them of fraudulently channelling massive funds out of the company as part of a money laundering scheme.
Justice Mabeya dismissed Mr Yusuf’s allegations, saying he failed to prove claims of fraudulent accounting, tax evasion, fraud and money laundering.
“In the present case, all that the plaintiff did was to make sweeping allegations without any backing by way of evidence. He only stated that he had carried out investigations and made discovery of the allegations he made,” said the judge.
“The documents that were produced were not authenticated to prove any of the allegations made against the defendants.”
Mr Yussuf, who claims to own 25 percent of the charter airline, argued that more $1 billion (about Sh108 billion) has been stolen and put in offshore accounts and investments in Western capitals after being transported physically out of the country without declaration. He said the three directors were using the airport passes granted for restricted areas in airports to move the billions.
The DCI dismissed the secret movement of cash at the airports, arguing its investigation and probe by Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) found no evidence of money laundering.
The Financial Reporting Centre through the DCI said it failed to detect breaches while tracking the flow of cash in and outside Blue Bird Aviation.
Mr Yussuf claimed that his partners were stashing proceeds from the airline in international banks under Amazon International FZE. But Justice Mabeya said his partners had sufficiently showed that their relationship with Amazon was purely commercial.
“That the plaintiff had failed to demonstrate the directorship or shareholding of the defendants at Amazon or that they had stolen money from the Company and deposited the same at Amazon’s accounts,” he said.
“No faithful director exercising independent judgment would take any of the said measures, none of which are beneficial to the Company. In fact, all the steps taken by the plaintiff were contrary to the success of the Company. They were meant to sound a death knell on the company,” he added.
An audit report has soaked Geothermal Development Company (GDC) managing director and embattled CEO Johnson ole Nchoe in an insider fraud after it emerged that he irregularly approved a Sh20 million mortgage scheme for an employee who did not qualify.
According to documents in DCI’s possession, Nchoe allowed Simon Cheruiyot, GDC’s Human Resources and Administration General Manager to access the mortgage facility against the set public service policy and guidelines.
According to the public service policy and regulations, mortgage facilities, where available, are only accessible to permanent and pensionable employees and not to contracted government employees.
According to the documents, Cheruiyot applied for the mortgage in November 2017 and by that time the agency did not have such a facility in place for its employees.
It is also important to note that GDC doesn’t have the facility, nonetheless, if it ever existed, Cheruiyot who is on a four-year contract would not have qualified.
Ole Nchoe, has on top of that made commitments to have the GDC repay the bank loan using public funds without deducting the amount from the employee’s monthly salary.
Documents filed at the DCI by a section of the GDC board members show that Mr Cheruiyot procured the mortgage from Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) while using his position to tamper with the internal administrative structures at GDC.
“This transaction reveals a pattern of fraud and abuse of office within the high chain of command in the GDC where senior officers create ad hoc administrative systems and procedures to confer financial advantages on selected people. This constitutes acts of corruption that your esteemed office should investigate,” one of the documents filed at the DCI reads.
In what looks like a well-crafted looting scheme, Cheruiyot applied for the mortgage on November 30,2017, and the documents indicate that his application was approved a day later on December 1, 2017. The speed and urgency of the approval is my opinion— way faster than Kenya Redcross Response.
DCI has launched probe on how the loan sailed through despite the General Manager in charge of Finance not approving the request and why the then Human Resources Manager in charge of payroll endorsed the application as eligible.
When the GDC board of directors, which former Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner-General John Njiraini chairs, discovered the matter, Mr Nchoe tried to sanitise the suspect transaction.
The GDC Managing Director instructed KCB, through a letter ref GDC/MD/02/4a/RM/rm of September 2018, to convert the loan to a non-existent staff mortgage scheme. In layman’s terms—GDC was committing to use public funds to reimburse Cheruiyot’s loan without indication to have the funds recovered from his monthly salary through a check-off system.
“We advise that we have acted on your instructions. However, as discussed, harmonise the scheme agreement on clause 3.1 (iii) to include a letter in a manner that will expressly confirm that the loan is approved under the GDC mortgage scheme,” the letter from KCB read.
The lender, KCB also requested that the limit approved for Mr Cheruiyot and the persons authorised to sign the instructions from GDC (CEO) be included as well.
“He should be held to account for abuse of office by accessing the GDC staff mortgage scheme before it was operationalised in contravention to the laid-down regulations and guidelines for staff house mortgage scheme,” Godfrey Shitsama, GDC Audit, Risk and Compliance manager, said in an audit report of September 14, 2018.
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is investigating West Pokot County’s Water Department for embezzlement of Sh300 million meant to construct boreholes that had already been set up by Pokot Outreach Ministries, a non-governmental organisation operating in the large Pokot area.
EACC sleuths drawn from Eldoret and Nairobi offices stormed and seized assorted documents from the Kapenguria offices. Some staffs at the Water Department who are implicated in the payment of the dubious projects have recorded their statements.
“I want to confirm to you that we shall be summoning several senior staff from the water section including the immediate water chief executive officer Milka Psiwa to shed light on how they spent the money,” the official told Citizen Weekly journos in Kapenguria shortly after visiting the officers in focus.
Governor Lonyangapuo
“For sure, nobody will be spared once we are through with the investigations that will see several personnel facing the wrath of the law,” the official from the EACC said, adding that the investigations were at an advanced stage.
According to EACC reports, Officials from the Water Department spent funds from West Pokot County funds with documents stating that they had drilled boreholes at Kacheliba, Kapenguria, Sigor and some parts of Chepareria. Each borehole is said to have swallowed over Sh15 million.
“We want the West Pokot governor John Lonyangapou to tell us on which criteria did the county government use to pay money on projects that had already been funded by his organisation,” Rev Julius Murgor, the director of the non-governmental organisation that has been involved in the drilling of boreholes
Murgor stated that EACC officials had written to him requesting that his NGO, Pokot Outreach Ministries confirm how many boreholes they had drilled boreholes in the entire West Pokot County.
“How can the County Government pay Sh 300 million that is supposed to be public fund to projects that we have already been completed with our own funds?” Rev Murgor asked.
In his defense, Governor Lonyangapou, after jetting in from America where he had gone on an official trip while accompanying Milka Psiwa who then was heading the department in question before being moved to the health docket, said that he was not aware that funds from his County had been used to pay the said projects. The talkative governor added that those involved should prepare to carry their own cross.
Kapenguria MP Samuel Moroto, Kacheliba MP Mark Lomolokol and his Sigor counterpart Peter Lochakapong have while commenting on the issue, stated that those implicated in the loot should be prosecuted.
West Pokot county Speaker Catherine Mukenyang also urged that those involved in the looting of public funds should not be spared by the law. Her statement was seconded by Senator Samuel Poghisio who challenged Lonyangapou to come out clean over the fraud.
Rev John Lodinyo of Kiwawa parish said it is time those involved were made to face the law with immediate effect. With former-immediate, West Pokot governor Simon Kachapin said that those involved should be in jail.
Coast Directorate of Criminal Investigations Boss Washington Njiru has seeked the help of Interpol to have two Germans involved in the fraudulent and fabricated transfer of shares that saw Wilfred Guenther, a German investor lose directorship and ownership of Sh2 billion Mombasa based Hotel.
DCI had on Wednesday said that two foreigners were being sought to record statements over the illegal transfer of Wilfred Guenther’s shares from Hanos (K) Ltd, the company that owns and operates Papillion Garden Bar Villa to his children.
“Our investigations have shown that fraud was committed. We are liaising with the Interpol to assist in arresting Mr Ronny Patric Herbert and Ms Jeanie Notalie Boehlig to get their side of the story,” Mr Njiru said.
According to Coast DCI boss, detectives have already recorded statements from several witnesses who would be arraigned.
“I have discussed with the Director of Public Prosecutions and he has advised us to tie some loose ends before we forward the files to him for further action,” Njiru added.
Also implicated in the fraud according to DCI sleuths recorded statements include Mombasa based senior advocate and an account who are facing charges of abetting fraud.
The investigations involved multi-agency teams encompassing the DCI, Kenya Revenue Authority and Registrar of Companies that would top off in arrest and charging of the suspects.
Mr Guenther has been embroiled in ownership dispute of the property with his two children now suspects Herbert and Boehlig maintain that he never transferred his shares nor sign anything to suggest he had left the multi-billion firm.
Council Of Governors Chair Wyclife Oparanya led Kakamega County has lost Sh6.6Million from taxpayers funds in a ghost insider planned public health volunteers training programme.
The alleged masterminds are Public health chief administrator Everlyne Mulunji, community health services coordinator Chris Lumiti and his deputy Stephen Anjeche.
Kakamega county MCAs have written to the Governor to suspend the trio over the loss of Sh6.6 million, that according to the three, was aimed at improving county health programme.
The MCAs written to Ethics Anti-corruption Commission and Directorate of Criminal Investigations to investigate the said graft revelations.
In a document the MCA’s have since said to have forwaded to the DCI and EACC, Deputy health coordinator Stephen Anjeche signed an open Cheque of Sh5,694,000 meant to train community health volunteers.
According to the previous record backed on the cheque, the funds were to facilatate the training in 12 subcounties. But their are not after events records, pictures, videos nor actual venues of said training. In short the whole thing never happened.
In the document also, MCA’s state that Anjeche booked a hotel with four ladies and three men and started transferring the millions of via Mpesa to proxies’ phones. The report, according ti a media source, contains images of Anjeche and the accomplices engaging in sex and merry making at the hotel.
The committee report also revealed that Anjeche agreed to have forged the crucial documents to surrender the imprests.
According to Anjeche, Kakamega Health services coordinator Chris Lumiti demanded Sh1.3 million to protect them.
Speaking before the MCA’s, Anjeche said Lumiti called him at Kakamega Golf Hotel where he insisted that 1.3Million be given governor Wycliffe Oparanya business associate Sir Rodger Martins.
Roger Martins is linked to Imarisha Afya ya Mama na Mtoto, that according to the report, is allegedly being used to siphon millions from the county.
The same Oparanya associate is said to have pressured Lumiti and Mulunji and opened an Mpesa account to pay CHVS and irregularly withdrew Sh915,000 from Imarisha Mama Account.
The county commitee was baffled by Ms Mulunji, who the report says is now a millionaire, who stated that she personally supervised programme but failed to name the venues.
On her defense, Ms Mulunji states that the health committee members chaired by Lukas Radoli requested Sh2.5 million from them so as to ‘keep quiet’ but they refused. She rubbished the report terming it as a witchhunt.
“Radoli called me and I found him in a hotel located along Kakamega-Webuye highway. He was with two ladies and he gave me their mobile phone numbers to Mpesa them Sh120,000 each but I refused hence my troubles with him,” said one of the county health officials.
“Nitumie ile pesa kwa hii numba ile ingine imo na shida ya Mpesa” Folks who send these kinds of con messages from Kamiti Maximum Prison have today morning started a violent confrontation with warders who were mopping up contrabands in Kenya’s most secured Prison.Photo Courtesy|NMG
According to Nation medias sources, the chaos erupted after some of the con inmates resisted to surrender the contrabands.
According to the information about the facility, Kamiti is Kenya’s biggest maximum security prison with cameras and hawk-eyed guards who screen people, vehicles and goods entering the correctional facility.
Since this is Kenya, convicted criminals still sneak contraband into the facility in a racket that clearly involve the very same warders and managers who are supposed to keep the facility contraband proof.
In past mop-ups, prison officers seized laptops, internet modems, sim cards and mobile phones tools that inmates use to swindle unsuspecting members of the public.
Other contraband include cigarettes, hard drugs like crack, cocaine,, knives and daggers curved from iron rods, electric cookers and coils and razor blades.
Kenyan Insights says that a bigger percentage of the investigations both independent and public , established that many of the mobile phone scams in the Kenya are executed by prison inmates.
One of our sources spoke to the chief editor of this site on anonymity and laid bare the rot that is in what the State term as the most secured facility.
“From here, I can run my businesses without being detected. I have bought matatus, built houses and bought land through third parties in various parts of the country. If I leave this place, I am sure that I will be richer than I could have imagined while outside,” An anonymous source stated claiming that prisoners make about Sh500,000 in a week from fraud cases.
They do this with sober and high confidence because, according to the source, the long arm of the law cannot catch up with them because the laws rarely extends to the Prisons.
The source further told this site that the prisoners feel like they are already protected from the law and can only be caught if one of those in the web of cons snitch their masterminds.
According to a whistleblower site cnyakundi.com, a blog that has been exposing and following closely the case of Victoria Commercial Bank owner Yogesh Pattni who, according to the chief editor of the site, has been accused of alleged massive fraud and scam deals and in this case study, money laundering in the Republic of Kenya.
Kanji D. Pattni is a founder member of Victoria Commercial Bank. According to the Banks website, Kanji Pattni has been part of the team of visionaries that established the bank from a finance company back in 1987. With over 30 years’ experience in banking, Mr. Pattni has steered the Board of Directors as Chairman since its inception until mid-2018, a time that the current embattled CEO Yogesh Pattni took over.
Dr. Yogesh Pattni, according to the bank’s website, has a proven executive management record with over 30 years’ experience in banking. He started his banking career with Equatorial Commercial Bank (ECB) Ltd thereafter moving to Uhuru’s owned Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA).
In a series of articles from the chief editor of the whistleblower site cnyakundi.com, Victoria Commercial Bank CEO Yogesh Pattni has turned upside down the past good deeds and books of the Indian owned bank and is threatening the existence of the bank.
According to the whistleblower, the alleged Money laundering scandals at the bank are so serious that they run Chopri, a parallel bank in the Indian Bank. The husband and wife have allegedly perfected the art of mobilizing for funds from people according to cnyakundi.com.
Further reports had indicated that the Central Bank of Kenya was investigating the parallel bank after receiving complaints that some depositors had not been repaid. Mr. Yogesh who likes to publicly bad-mouth Kenya has allegedly bought another citizenship for a huge sum and has not declared himself a dual national over here which is illegal, cnyakundi.com said it can reveal.
The whistleblower Chief editor also alleged that they are probing further reports that Yogesh Pattni may be dealing with arms dealers, drug barons and the likes of Ali Punjani, who is wanted by Kenyan authorities over his deep links to Narcotics in Kenya’s coast of Mombasa and Vicky Goswami who all are enjoying private asylum in India, their country of birth.
The embattled CEO, Yogesh Pattni knows and understands the corrupt Kenyan system very well, and always evades punishment despite the weight of his crimes just like we have seen his close allies do without any form or even shreds of fear.
On 11th September this year, the editor of whistleblower blog supposedly confirmed that the Republic of India had revoked Victoria Commercial bank owner Yogesh Pattni’s passports sometimes back in the year 2018, almost immediately when he took over as the CEO, over money laundering and fraud. His children’s passports were also revoked according to the website.
The current wife that Yogesh Pattni is linked to is not his first wife. According to cnyakundi.com, Yogesh Pattni is a divorcee. The CEO’s first wife is called Shilpa Pattni. She was brought up in an ordinary family in Mombasa and was married off to Yogesh Pattni, CEO Victoria Commercial Bank at a young age.
Yogesh’s ex-wife and Interior Designer Shilpa Pattni (In white blouse) with Software consultant Sue Ajden, Embassy of the Republic of Iraq permanent rep to the UNEP Burhan Jaf
Shilpa Pattni supported him for many years, looked after his parents and brought home beautiful children for him from India through adoption. Tried to give him every happiness in the world but was abandoned for his office worker Azmina Janmohamed in a second. After the divorce Shilpa and the two, separately adopted Indian children moved to Cape Town South Africa.
According to the whistleblower, Yogesh Pattni adopted both of the children. The children who since their dad was implicated in all these money laundering fraud cases lost their Indian passports, Suraj and Sonia Pattni, are adopted from India. They are not biological brothers and sister and were adopted at the time Yogesh was married to Shilpa. Suraj Pattni is currently studying at IE University, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom, and Sonia is with her adoptive mother Shilpa in South Africa.
Left to right: Yogesh Pattni, Azmina Pattni with Jayshree Mawjee of Travellers Forex Bureau The Mall Westlands and Karen.
On the other side, Azmina Pattni, the secretary turned wife, used to be known as Azmina Janmohamed and was just an employee with high ambitions to get rich quickly even if it meant breaking a home. Azmina Pattni used to be a simple administrative assistant in the bank for many years and had an affair with Yogesh Pattni causing Yogesh’s divorce with his wife Shilpa Pattni.
Bipin and Jayshree Mawjee are major players in the money-laundering system. Both of them are very close associates of Yogesh Pattni and Ali Punjani, according to the whistleblower. They own Jade Valley in Grevillea Grove together. They were living there as neighbors for many years before buying out the development together. Bipin’s older sister Indira is married to Yogesh’s older brother Arvind Pattni and they live in Perth Australia.
After the whistleblower blogger broke the news of the money laundering allegations on his blog, social media users pushed the bank to address money laundering, fraud and corruption allegations that have faced the controversial bank. Netizens were pushing their message under the hashtag #YogeshPattniUnmasked. Here are sample tweets from the trending Hashtag and social media campaign
A close source also told the whistleblower that Yogesh’s passport and those of his children were revoked because they are a threat to national security, hence wanted. It is is not very clear why the children and wife are denied entry too but it looks like India is strict just like the USA.
The United States has a specific law, which dispenses sanctions to husbands and wives in equal measure. Proclamation 7750—To Suspend Entry as Immigrants or Nonimmigrants of Persons Engaged In or Benefiting From Corruption was signed by George W. Bush on January 12th, 2004. It was designed to curtail entry to those who have been designated as aiding and abetting corruption around the world.
The Proclamation targets those deemed as corrupt, including their wives, children, and dependents. It reads in part;
After the social media campaign, Victoria Commercial Bank board was forced to have a meeting and discuss the information circulating online about the inside underground dealings that might be passing just below some board members nose without knowing a damn thing.
On 18th of September 2019, Yogesh Pattni, the CEO of the besieged bank issued a statement that specifically blamed the editor cnyakundi.com citing that the whistleblower has been sued severally on allegation of posting defamatory articles on his blog. He said ” The unsubstantiated claims and accusations designated to mislead the general public are completely false, treacherous and libelous.”
On his rebuttal, the whistleblower stated that he is committed just like before to making sure that through his blog cnyakundi.com, remains the public defender number one. He is on record that his work has made him go through hell in this country that every other prominent person takes genuine and honest work as a threat. Through his slogan, WE ARE THEM, Cyprian Nyakundi says he will not be bullied or forced to dine with crooks and cartels that loot and live happily on common citizens sweat and those that suffer every day trying to earn an honest coin to change their miserable lives.
Senior Blogger Cyprian Nyakundi
The whistleblower went ahead and quoted his notable work that has been consistent over the past few years. “Despite the negativity projected on bloggers by those who feel threatened by it, we forged ahead with our programs knowing full well that truth is the ultimate weapon. In 2016, We launched a concerted campaign against Vivienne Yeda Apopo, who was behind the mismanagement of East African Development Bank (EADB) which caught the attention of respective decision-makers, hence a probe on her.” Reads part of a blog from Cyprian Nyakundi.
“We launched a successful campaign against the former CEO of Family Bank Peter Munyiri, who was arraigned in court, regarding his role in facilitating and enabling the NYS heist by among others, Anne Waiguru. We successfully petitioned Safaricom to refund monies stolen from them using the Cheza Games scam. The projects which were conjured by Peter Arina spilled over into the Bob Collymore era and corruption is firmly entrenched in the company. We also successfully instigated and precipitated the sacking of the CFO of Safaricom after we exclusively leaked the KPMG audit report.” The whistleblower adds.
“Through my site, I exclusively covered the corruption at the National Bank of Kenya, and despite a defamation lawsuit filed by the then CEO Munir Ahmed and the Board chair Mohammed Hassan we kept exposing till the whole management had to go. These are some of the defamation cases Yogesh is using to argue his case, to his customers who we believe are wise to read between the lines. The scandal at Kenya Pipeline Company started getting coverage, after our persistent coverage, exerting pressure on mainstream media to execute their mandate, as the perception that they are paid to kill stories is starting to hurt their bottom line.” Nyakundi explained in details.
Due to the good work the editor of this site did by exposing corruption at HF Group, there has been a massive sacking of almost the entire EXCO. The following have been the casualties of his fact-filled articles.
Frank Ireri- Group MD
Samuel Mwaniki Waweru- HFC Bank M.D.
James Karanja- Executive Director HFC
Caroline Armstrong- Director of Special Projects
Patrick Mokaya- Director of Business Development
Peter Ng’ang’a- Director Treasury
James Karanja- Executive Director HFDI
Ben Lanya- GM Human Resource
Francis Theuri- GM Branch Business
I am of an opinion that the Jubilee government has been taking over 50millions of Kenyans on a wild bluff ride that they are fighting corruption yet, the same corrupt individuals have worked directly and indirectly with the State. Where is DCI? Where is EACC? In fact, where is this system we call a working government? It even pains much to see that some of these corrupt folks are the ones sponsoring major State projects and politicians. I mean, this way, Kenya can’t fight corruption because, clearly as it is from my point of view, CORRUPTION itself owns Kenya.
Last month, Eng. Raila Amollo Odinga, the Opposition leader, and self-declared public defender number one lamented that the level of youth unemployment in Kenya is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Speaking during the International Youth week celebrations at the United Nations habitat, Gigiri, the former premier called on employers to work with institutions to match students’ skills so that they are employable.
Our continent is the youngest in the world in terms of demography and the youth bulge can either be a blessing or a curse depending on how its used. We must work at making education provide youth with a realistic, affordable and attractive path to productive employment. #IYD2019pic.twitter.com/Nv70O3nEow
While many unemployed Kenyans have finally ventured into other sources of earning income after their efforts of trying to get formal and informal jobs turned futile, Online niche has created a massive umbrella that has covered the current government unmanageable unemployment rate that has constantly hit Kenyans and especially the Youth since independence.
According to a survey by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in 2018, 7million Kenyans were unemployed with 1.4 million out of this figure desperately looking for jobs. And many youths who have borrowed loans and government grants have never ever seen a payslip since the day they left higher learning institutions that, apparently in Kenyan set up, is a key pillar in enlightening youths and shaping them for “many employment opportunities” available outside here.
“I have never been employed since I completed my degree course in Linguistics Media and Communication from Moi University main campus in Eldoret. I have attended very many interviews with no success and I’m afraid my career path is on an attachment and internship trail after undertaking a lot of internship programs,” One of my case study Ms. Nyaera told me.
Even as Raila Odinga, who is also the African Union High Representative For Infrastructure Development say that unemployment rate in Youths is a time bomb. His close circle consists of folks who have invested in heavily and extensively in looting, robing and blowing the youths hopes of getting employment and financial stability.
In a recent article by this site, a very close political and business buddy to Raila Odinga, who is the Uriri MP and Managing Director of Horizon Media Investments Limited Eng Mark Ogolla Nyamita colluded with Pro Gas and defrauded thousands of unemployed and unsuspecting Kenyans on social media.
Pro Gas which is owned by a controversial Mombasa Tycoon Jaffer Mohammed, who is also Raila Odinga’s ally and business partner with Mombasa governor Hassan Joho. Jaffer is also a business crony of DP Dr. William Ruto, another Kenya’s controversial businessman. Pro Gas and Horizon media have been alleged to be the masterminds behind the collapse of a government-subsidized gas project.
So, who is this Eng Mark Ogolla, Born in Rapogi village in the larger Uririi area in Migori County. The son of a fisherman and an omena seller outsmarted his poverty background and went ahead and conquered the tough like. He graduated from Jomo Kenya University of Agriculture and Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree (civil engineering) and a holder of masters in entrepreneurship from Strathmore School of Business.
After Strathmore, Mark Ogolla was hired by Standard Chartered as a sales representative who represented well the bank in Banking competitions and successfully made Standard Chartered Bank emerge winner as the best chartered Bank in sales and marketing. As the results of the hard work, Standard Chartered awarded him, rather promoted him to the position of a Sales Manager. That’s when Mark Ogolla started high-end deep-rooted cartel con deals.
Before that, Engineer had other businesses and formal jobs in tech firms that are off the record since he was mainly employed without contracts and left the jobs in bad faith. One of our sources states that Mark has been allegedly looting in every gig he has been offered something that has kept him in and out of many casual and official jobs.
Eng Mark Ogolla has also worked as a telecommunication director and technician in technology industries. He has deep rooting connections in the Kenyan telecommunication industry and has worked as head of Corporate sales at Celtel which was bought out by the Indian owner Bharti Airtel which runs its business right now as Airtel Kenya.
During his tenure at Airtel, Mark Ogolla was accused by his juniours of mistreatment and sexual harassment, that Kenya insights treat as unverified allegations. His former colleague was also quoted by another independent blog saying that Mr. Mark Nyamita used his powers as The sales Officer to sell phones that were meant to be distributed to customers.
The customer phones scandal unearthed another massive scandal at Celtel, current Airtel Kenya, that saw Ksh 30million disappear under his watch. A scandal that saw his Sales Manager contract at the telco terminated with immediate effect without compensation after being fired from the firm.
Politically, Mark Ogolla or as many of his close political allies will call him Nyamita, used the connection links that he got when he was given the tender to run a social media campaign of Pro Gas. The founder and CEO of Proto Energy Limited, formerly known as My Gas, a company that had allegedly been linked to Alfred Mutua is a close friend to Eng. Nyamita.
Mark made his name known deeper in the political circle when he openly dismissed calls by WIPER and ANC leaders pushing for Kalonzo Musyoka and Musalia Mudavadi respectively to be presidential candidates in 2022. The Uriri legislature Nyamita said that the calls are premature insisting that NASA remains united and their immediate task is to swear in Raila Odinga.
When Pro Gas was first unveiled, rumors spread fast and became almost believable that the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) company with its almost girlish pink cylinders has made its intent clear in the Kenyan market and threatened VIVO energy and Kobil Kenya as many customers embrace it due to its affordability.
Pro-Gas is owned by Kameel Virjee. And has connections that link its supplies to Jaffer Mohammed and Kenya’s number one LPG dealer, former premier Raila Amolo Odinga. The company started operations in Kenya in 2017 and has gone to establish itself as a market leader.
According to a post appearing on this site, Horizon Media Management Limited firm was contracted by Proto Energy Limited to carry out Pro-Gas marketing campaigns and the firm owned by the MP and Raila’s pointman Eng Mark Ogolla is accused of pocketing money that was meant for promotions late last year. The agreement was that participants with the highest likes in Pro Gas social media pages would be automatically awarded cash prizes and complete gas cylinders. The winners have never been awarded months later.
If indeed Raila Odinga is and meant what he said at Gigiri about youths suffering due to unemployment, Why is he sitting on this case despite several complaints from youths were directly conned by his friend and party member? Raila’s family has deep links in LPG in this country and he can’t say that he has never heard nor informed about this matter! Raila’s silence about the matter makes him look like an accomplice, if he doesn’t speak out on this issue, then the Kenyan youths that were conned and many of those whose dreams were shuttered by Horizon Media that Eng Nyamita owns should blame him because he sits at the higher authority that can easily solve their grievances.
And to Kenya’s first team on antigraft and public defender from the state DCI, should also on their part not sleep on this case. This case has never been settled and one wonders why are the most active state departments quite on all this issue? Who is this Eng Mark Nyamita that has made DCI his clowns and is controlling how they should handle the case?
If the Rapogi villager and legislature Mark Ogolla Nyamita can successfully double-cross and defraud unsuspecting youths across the country, what can he do to the Migori residents, and specifically what has he done already to the Uriri folks and area which is predominantly occupied by Luos with a significant population of the Kuria, Luhya, Kisii, and Somali?
What is the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution doing about this Pro Gas heist and scam that saw thousands of youths swindled by a civil servant? The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) is the National Prosecuting Authority in Kenya which has been mandated by the Constitution to prosecute all criminal cases in the country.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji is the head of the ODPP and operates independently as stipulated under Article 157 of the Constitution. What is his office doing yet this is a massive criminal case that has, in fact, affected thousands across the country?
Communication Authority also is failing Kenyan youths. This is one of the Parastatals that should be, rather should have already launched investigations into this scam that happened online and the accused rather responsible company, Horizon Media limited should be blacklisted if found guilty to have indulged in fraud. This is a past case however it leaves footprints of fraud on the company and so is the owner- MP Mark Nyamita Ogolla.
I mean, Raila cannot be making a lot of noise on and offline that he is more concerned about the development of youths and their gruesome burden of unemployment. It pains not only me but also every youth in this country that is struggling to get few coins to feed themselves only to benefit couple greedy, selfish and con individuals and in this case, elected leaders and known businessmen.
With my little remaining respect as I jot this article down, What does Hon. Eng Raila Odinga who’s also, of course, everyone should know that is in gas business have to say about this and what message does the former Prime Minister send about the war on corruption?
I can’t stand leaders who chest thumb in public making a lot of noise yet beneath are openly engaging in fraudulent activities. If Eng Raila Amollo Odinga has a shred of tenderness and a soft spot on youths affairs in this country, he should, in my honest suggestion I know he can, personally come out to not only condemn but ensure consumers are protected from frauds like this ODM allied MP and that he should have his day in court or at least sent a legal team, which he has, to represent many affected youths…
In conclusion, globally the will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect free expression and existence should be our first objective. One more thing from me to Hon Eng. Raila Odinga, Good people don’t need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around the laws.
Have you seen, interacted or even heard of your Member of Parliament?
Probably no, because they are busy in corridors of courts seeking their freedom and ‘justice’.
Our August house is full of crooks and masterminds of fleecing the coffers.
Chapter Six of the our new constitution that basically entails Leadership and Integrity Act, looks like a printed joke.
Almost every elected member of parliament or even the senate has a case or piles of cases to answer, defend and mostly, clear their names.
Kenya’s economy has been crippled by massive fraud, multi-billion graft and high-end forgeries all courtesy our elected and appointed officials.
Francis Ole Kaparo, the chair of the now dysfunctional NCIC has also not been playing his role.
This has created a niche that encourages hate speech and incitement to violence from the mouthy government officials.
The corruption that is in this country is unbelievable.
All scandals are linked from one member of the parliament to another corrupt deal cleared by a member of Senate to another fraud that touches the Executive which leads to another corrupt clearing by the Judiciary.
In a working democracy, The Leadership and Integrity Act laws are supposed to be governing the government officials.
Also, Public Officer Ethics Act is supposed to be working according to our new constitution.
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission was crippled when the President appointed a retired Archbishop, Eliud Wabukala, to leader and govern corrupt government officials.
Actually, our constitution has well thought out Laws that can actually work to make our country better and great.
These acts are supposed to be governing our members of the national house of laws.
a) Parliamentary Privileges and,
b) Parliamentary Powers 2017,
c) National Assembly standing
Orders and,
d) Speaker’s Rules.
Over 50 Legislators in the August house and another 30 from the Senate have active cases of Criminal Offences.
But the most affected ones are members of the parliamentary committees.
These legislators have active cases and allegations of extortion, bribery, corruption, breach of parliamentary acts and national assembly orders.
Parliamentary committee members are the master chiefs of all major fraud and scandal not forgetting the massive bribes they collect to clear corrupt dealings within the houses.
Samuel Kimeu, the Executive Director of Transparency International says very little has been done to realise the full functions of the Constitution.
“Until we get a way in which State officers can lose benefits and stature when charged in court, we may not make much constitutional progress,” Mr Kimeu told a local press.
National Council of Churches in Kenya Secretary General Peter Karanja also said that a rogue legislature, couple of selfish politicians and their cronies enacted laws that washed out the much needed Chapter 6 of the Constitution.
An allegation that the National parliament speaker Justine Muturi refused to comment about when he was contacted by the investigators of this site.
The National Assembly published last year that, there is an overlap between the Parliamentary (Powers and Privileges) Act 2017, the Leadership and Integrity Act and
the Public Officer Act.
With that out and aside, Nakuru Town East MP David Gikaria was charged today with assault, incitement, resisting arrest and causing disturbance at a Nakuru based Police Station.
The Police said that the MP slapped a deputy sub-county commander when he was being questioned about the land grabbing allegations.
David Gikaria was on 28th of January arraigned in court on eight counts of land fraud.
On 25th June this year, Nakuru Town West MP Samuel Arama was also arraigned in Nairobi’s Milimani anti-corruption court on charges of conspiring to defraud Mr Ahmed Muhammad land in Nakuru Municipality in August 2015.
Mr Arama was also charged of Misleading Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission investigators.
The notorious Bahati MP, Kimani Ngunjiri was on also arrested arrested for assaulting a lady traffic officer in Nakuru Town.
He was later released by the court after they agreed to settle the matter privately.
Bobasi MP Innocent Obiri is still fighting in the corridors of justice after he was charged with breach of peace by a Kisii High court.
Mr Obiri was arrested and charged alongside his bodyguard Charles Nyakweba, who was charged separately of assault and malicious damage to property.
Former president of Lamu County Issa Timamy was also charged with terrorism in 2014. A case that has been mentioned for over 4 years now.
Changamwe MP Omar Mwinyi was earlier last year sentenced to four years in prison with an alternative fine of Sh1 million.
He was charged and found guilty of assaulting two police officers during ODM party nominations in April 2017.
Lugari MP Ayub Savula has a case to answer on charges of fraudulently obtaining Sh122 million from the Government Advertising Agency (GAA).
Embakasi North MP James Gakuya was last year charged jointly with 12 others, of acquiring fraudulently Sh39.9 million from National Government Constituency Development Funds.
The mouthy Sirisia MP John Waluke was arrested over corruption allegations that he denied at preliminary investigation but later a city court said he has a case.
The controversial Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter was charged alongside two businessmen with multiple counts related to forgery of Sh633 million Treasury Bills.
Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi, who was a principal secretary, was in October last year charged with hate speech against the Presidency.
