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  • CS Wamalwa meddling in Trans-Nzoia politics

    CS Wamalwa meddling in Trans-Nzoia politics

    The soft spoken Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa is the errand boy running Jubilee Party operations in Trans-Nzoia County. He recently led a countermove to DP William Ruto’s tour of the region when he hosted the Interior CS Dr. Fred Matiang’i who inspected small projects as they drummed up support for the BBI document.

    Also in the tour were Cherengany MP Joshua Kutuny and Trans Nzoia Assembly speaker Joshua Werunga who is eyeing the governor’s seat in 2022.

    Wamalwa’s tour was to send a signal to the Deputy President William Ruto who controls the vote rich rift region that he is a budding opponents. He called in Matiang’i who is seen as the man being used by the system to cut Ruto to size and Kuttuny who succeeded DP’s henchman and Soy MP Caleb Kositany who was recently sacked from the position of the deputy secretary-general of Jubilee party.

    CS Wamalwa emphasized that the projects they toured were financed by President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration and not by the Deputy President who has been traversing the county and launching projects.

    He is accredited for luring the Trans Nzoia County Assembly with majority Jubilee MCAs to pass the Building Bridges Initiative Bill to massage his 2022 presidential dream. Wamalwa enjoys the support of less influential Kanu party officials like Pius Arap Kauka who has thrown salvos at Ruto’s allies for opposing the BBI drive. Kauka told off Endebess MP  Robert Pukose who accused Trans Nzoia MCAs of accepting the car grant bribe to vote in favor of the Bill.

    Pukose is the man leading Ruto’s campaign’s in the county alongside women representative Janet Nangabo, Kakai Bisau and Abraham Sing’oei who are both working at the DP’s office.

    Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa and his Interior counterpart Fred Matiang’i. [p/courtesy].
    As Wamalwa fumbles to tackle DP Ruto’s influence in the county, talks are also underway with a section of elders pushing Wamalwa to utilize his ministerial status and run for the gubernatorial seat in 2022 or vie for a parliamentary seats to allow him to ascend to the national politics if BBI Bill is adopted. BBI will allow the president to pick ministers from parliament but he still shies from making such plans public.

    “I will declare my political aspiration at the right time after getting views from residents of this county at the right time. I am currently focused on discharging duties bestowed upon me by the president,” Wamalwa told the Standard Newspaper in 2019.

    Many politicians from the county have lined up to occupy the seat currently by Patrick Khaemba including Kiminini Mp Chris Wamalwa of the Ford-K party, Dr Stanley Tarus, Dr Abraham Sing’oei, Kakai Bissau, Janet Nangabo, Moses Khaoya, and Philemn Samoei.

    Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chief executive officer Ezra Chiloba has been mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate or an aspirant in Kwanza constituency until the ICT CS Joe Mucheru has appointed him the Youth Enterprise and Development Fund board director.

    That’s a blessing to Wamalwa whose head of women caucus, Dorcas Njenga, has hinted that he is waiting for the BBI outcome to decide his next move which could be a county or national seat but he is aware that he lost touch with that the grassroots after he was made a cabinet secretary.

    Wamalwa is lying on the waning influence of Governor Khaemba after BBI and 2022 politics brought them together. Khaemba is serving his final and Eugene Wamalwa could be desperate for his endorsement.

     

     

     

     

  • EACC Trailing Trans Nzoia County Principal Accountant Andrew Biketi Musuya For Massive Fraud

    EACC Trailing Trans Nzoia County Principal Accountant Andrew Biketi Musuya For Massive Fraud

    Trans Nzoia county principal accountant Andrew Biketi Musuya, is now on EACC’s most wanted list.

    Musuya was name was listed  after he awarded Sh177.7 million contracts his proxy woman, Mildred Kerubo Obare.

    According to documents being held by EACC, Biketi The first time accountant acquired residential Storeys in Mtwapa (Kilifi), Mombasa and Kitale.

    EACC detectives told this writer that Biketi acquired these sh 227 million worth properties in past 5 years alone.

    On top of all those multi-million properties, Musuya also acquired a brand new Toyota Prado, A Toyota Harrier and a Toyota saloon worth sh 10M under his clandes details.

    According to EACC records, Musuya’s 6 years combined salary totals to Sh5.8 million, that’s without expenditures.

    However, EACC detectives have unearthed that Musuya received cash deposits into his bank accounts totalling to Sh45.5 million. His salary excluded.

    According to documents presented before our detectives, Musuya also received a total of Sh7.9 million over his personal M-Pesa account.

    In 2015, EACC detectives established that Kerubo, Musuya’s clandestine owned a Toyota Prado worth Sh5.6 million under her name but buying documents indicate that it was bought by Biketi.

    Ahmed Iftikhar, a Pakistani car dealer  who sold Bekite the said Prado told EACC detectives that he was paid in two instalments of Sh3 million and Sh2.6 million within hours.

    Mildred Kerubo 46, a clothes trader was arrested earlier this year and confessed to EACC detectives that she’s not the owner of the Prado she drives.

    Kerubu told EACC that Biketi only used her particulars to acquire the Prado.

    EACC joined the dotsfrom Kerubo’s confession and through IFMIS, they unearthed that there are 6 firms registered under her name.

    All of the said firms have been Receiving backdoor contracts from Trans Nzoia County and have been paid over Sh177.7 million by Trans Nzoia county through Biketi Musuya.

    The firms in record are
    1. Nyansha Enterprises that was
    paid Sh49.9 million,

    2. Handprint Enterprises
    received Sh16.4 million.

    3. Girlful Enterprises that was
    Paid 21.3 million.

    4. Finewood Enterprises got Sh47.9 million.

    5. Culent Logistics got sh15.5 million.

    6. Valuda Enterprises got Sh27.6 million.

    In 2014-15 financial year, Musuya was appointed as a member of the county procurement committee for approval of all tenders under Sh500,000.

    EACC has also revealed that Trans Nzoia county paid Sh52 million to Josim Instantenous Colsultium Ltd, a firm owned by the corrupt accountant.

    Investigations also revealed that Josim Instantaneous Colsultium has hired Isaiah Walubengo as their senior accountant without the required profession academic credentials.

    Our investigations reveal that EACC quietly obtained orders from Justice Onyiengo on March 24 that saw Biketi’s three bank accounts frozen with Sh15.7 million in them.

    EACC chair Twalib Mbarak said they are set to file a recovery suit of assets worth Sh286 million before the Bank accounts freezing order expires on June 24.

    Twalib Mbarak served Musuya Biketi with an official letter dated March 28, 2019 binding him to explain the now known disproportion between the value of his assets and his legitimate source of income within a week.