Collins Kipleting Serem

Sleuths from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are holding a 22-year-old man in custody on suspicion of impersonating Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and fraudulently obtaining an unknown amount of money from gullible Kenyans.

The suspect, Collins Kipleting Serem alias ‘Rengstar’, is a benga artist based in Kamplemur village in Sugoi, Uasin Gishu County.

He is alleged to have created a fake Facebook account bearing DP Gachagua’s name and received funds from netizens on false claims of supporting an ongoing campaign to feed Kenyans facing hunger.

Mr Serem had published a pay bill number connected to an account at Eldoret’s Standard Chartered Bank and appealed to his over 14,000 followers to come together and raise funds for the victims of hunger, promising God’s blessings to those who would heed the plea.

Law enforcement officers attached to the Deputy President’s office launched a manhunt for the suspect and arrested him in Sugoi, where he is being processed and awaiting arraignment.

The news comes just two days after a similar Saturday incident in Garissa, where detectives apprehended a 33-year-old man for impersonating a Kenya Defence Forces officer.

A team of sleuths were dispatched to track him down from his hideout after he circulated a videotape on social media while dressed in military fatigue.

A search conducted following his arrest resulted in the recovery of the military uniform he used.

The suspect was later handed over to Anti-Terror Unit detectives for further questioning pending arraignment in court.

NHIF CEO Dr. Peter Kamunyo

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has launched a probe into the hiring of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) CEO Peter Kamunyo.

Reports have emerged that the anti-graft watchdog is investigating the irregular recruitment of Dr Kamunyo who was appointed to the position in April 2020, replacing Nicodemus Odongo who had been in an acting position since November 2018.

Mr Odongo’s predecessor, Geoffrey Mwangi, was kicked out of the NHIF corner office following allegations of corruption and mismanagement.

“The Commission, pursuant to its constitutional and statutory mandate… is investigating allegations of irregular recruitment of Dr Peter Kamunyo Gathenge, Chief Executive Officer at the National Insurance Fund,” the EACC said in a letter.

Before Dr Kamunyo’s appointment, the search for a new NHIF boss had lasted two years, with the position having been re-advertised in February.

After a series of hasty interviews, a shortlist of three candidates was forwarded to former Health minister Sicily Kariuki.

Dr Kamunyo’s recruitment was a rare case for a state corporation hiring a CEO within a few weeks as opposed to the much more common style of slow and drawn-out interviews.

In a letter dated October 4, 2022 and addressed to the NHIF chairman Lewis Nguyai, the EACC demands to be furnished with 10 documents involving the hiring of Dr Kamunyo.

They include copies of the lists of shortlisted candidates, short-listing panel’s report and recommendations, the interview panel’s report and recommendation as well as the candidates’ score sheets.

They have also requested NHIF to furnish the anti-graft watchdog with the advertisements for the position of CEO issued in July 2019 and February 2020.

The EACC is also asking for academic/professional qualification requirements for the chief executive officer post.

It has specifically asked NHIF to provide academic and professional qualifications for Dr Kamunyo.

The commission also demanded special board minutes of the meeting held on March 20, 2020, the NHIF Human Resource Manual and the letter that appointed Dr Kamunyo.

It gave the NHIF upto October 11, 2022 to provide the listed documents.

The EACC probe comes at a bad time for Dr Kamunyo, who recently faced a vicious board fight over the lucrative secondary school medical cover.

In September, the NHIF board revealed that it will punish Dr Kamunyo for insubordination over the revocation of contracts for 17 healthcare providers under the scheme.

During the cancellation, Dr Kamunyo claimed that an audit unearthed irregularities under the Comprehensive Secondary School Students Medical Scheme, known as EduAfya.

Unilever Kenya

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has punished consumer giant Unilever Kenya for exploiting smaller traders by revising payment terms.

Findings from a probe by CAK ruled that the consumer giant abused its buyer power – the ability of dominant firms to obtain advantageous terms of trade from their suppliers.

Buyer power can be abused where the buyer has significantly more bargaining power than the seller.

Unilever revised the payment periods for its 75 suppliers, mostly local traders, from 60 days to three months.

It gave the traders one week to accept the varied terms or drop them from its sought-after list of suppliers.

They, however, exempted 23 of its large and foreign suppliers from the delayed payment order.

The delayed payment was meant to boost the cash flow of Unilever while hurting those of its suppliers as the consumer giant fights to retain its dominance that has come under a severe attack from homegrown rivals.

The competition watchdog reckons the revised payment terms amounted to an abuse of buyer power, which attracts a penalty of Sh10 million and jail terms of five years for executives of firms in breach.

It has since ordered Unilever to cut the repayment period for a supplier to between 30 and 45 days and to increase spending on local supplies by over Sh400 million over the next three years starting next month.

From an exclusive brief on the probe, it is understood that Unilever sought to settle the breach with the CAK to avoid financial penalties and jail for its executives.

“The settlement follows investigations into the alleged breach of Abuse of Buyer Power provisions of the Competition Act,” said the brief.

“The Authority’s finding was that Unilever possessed buyer power over its suppliers, a majority of whom are SMEs.”

The probe revealed that Unilever Plc’s trade terms provided for an average of 30 days payment period, and not the 90 days mentioned by the Kenyan subsidiary.

CAK further said that its investigations revealed that “Unilever presented a superficial choice to its suppliers, based on the limited time (about a week) given to respond to the varied offer and the language of the communication made it clear that the matter was not open to discussion.”

Claims of abuse of buyer power came into sharp focus in early 2018 following complaints by supermarket suppliers that retailers were using their dominance to delay payments, which triggered the collapse and auction of firms feeding the stores with goods.

The CAK may also impose administrative remedies, including a penalty of up to 10 per cent of a firm’s annual sales and a reversal of the violation.

The buyer power law, which took effect in 2018, aims to protect firms with weaker bargaining power from unscrupulous dominant companies.

Rather than face off with the competition watchdog in a tribunal or court, Unilever opted for a settlement.

They have agreed to increase its local procurement spend by Sh400 million over three years beginning January 2023.

Unilever has also committed to reduce its payment period for supplies to between 30 and 45 days and invite at least two local SMEs suppliers to all its tenders.

It will also set aside an annual budget of Sh75 million for development training for its SME suppliers for three years.

Unilever Kenya is one of the multinational’s three strategic hubs in Africa, alongside Nigeria and South Africa.

It runs a manufacturing plant in Nairobi’s Industrial Area for its consumer goods and operates tea factories in Rift Valley.

Child Welfare Society of Kenya CEO Irene Mureithi

Two years after her reinstatement through a contentious High Court order, Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) CEO, Irene Mureithi is facing a renewed ouster attempt by powerful State House forces who want her kicked out over endemic corruption at the government agency.

In 2019, Ms Mureithi was sent on compulsory leave following adverse media reports and a subsequent public outcry on the alleged massive violation of children’s rights housed in CWSK facilities.

The decision to send her on compulsory leave came after the Ministry of Labour formed a task force to look into allegations that she oversaw corruption and misappropriation of funds.

Weeks after her suspension, drama ensued at the CWSK offices after angry employees tried to eject their CEO Irene Mureithi from office, claiming she was still transacting business despite being barred from office.

They accused her of reducing the society to a one-man show, where other key staff are not involved in the running of the organization’s activities.

There were also reports of senior managers doing business with the society, which is a contravention of the law.

Despite all these scathing allegations, Ms Mureithi somehow found her way back at the helm through the suspected help of influential cronies in the past government.

Insiders say that a section of top officials in the current administration view this as yet another grave mistake that was overlooked during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime and have vowed to ensure it is fixed.

A plot is now in place to revive all her links to corruption and abuse of human rights, which will set the stage for her subsequent sacking.

They tasked with pushing for her ouster say that CWSK is a cash cow for powerful individuals in government and Ms Mureithi has been their channel for looting.

“The President should intervene and send away Irene and protect the lives of those innocent children as well as the society,” one reliable source told us under the request of anonymity.

Panic has now gripped the CWSK Board of Trustees after they learnt that a Kenya Kwanza top decision-making organ has demanded that all managers involved be shown the door alongside the CEO.

Some members of the board have already distanced themselves from Ms Mureithi in preparation for the oncoming storm.

They insist she must carry her own cross.

Employees withholding information on corruption activities in the society have been encouraged to report to relevant government authorities in order to help with the impeding investigations.

Ex-NTV journalist Laban Cliff Onserio

The Anti-Terrorism Police Unit police want a suspect detained for being found with an explosive weapon without authority.

Mr Laban Cliff Onserio, a former journalist at the Nation Media Group, was arrested on Sunday at the Holy Family Basilica basement and arraigned before Kahawa Magistrate Court.

Mr Onserio had parked his car at the facility to attend the Solfest Music Festival at the KICC on Saturday night and only came to pick it up the next morning while visibly drunk.

Detectives say he was in possession of a stun grenade and threatened members of the public with an imminent attack against them while holding the said weapon.

When questioned, the suspect could neither give satisfactory reasons as to why he was in possession of the flash-bang grenade nor could he produce certification for the weapon.

According to the sleuths, preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect illegally acquired the weapon from a British national named ‘Don Smith’, who reportedly works with the Fly540 airline.

The CEO of Fly540 airline Donald Smith Earle: He Runs his collapsing company with an iron fist and would rather risk lives and make money than comply with aviation safety guidelines. [Click this image to read more about him.]

The officers are seeking to detain him for five more days to enable them to seek a search warrant as they believe he could be in possession of more grenades.

The detectives also want time to conduct a forensic examination of the gadgets before they charge him with the appropriate charges.

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Mr Onsiero is a former news anchor at NTV.

He is currently the Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO at Standard Group Limited, Mr Orlando Lyomu.

He previously worked at Kenya’s Office of the President in the President’s Delivery Unit; a government project execution arm supported by the Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Institute.

Laban Cliff is also a News Anchor on KTN News and KTN Home.

Out of work he enjoys motorsports and is a rally co-driver in the World Rally Championship and assists in handling communications for the East African Safari Classic Rally.

He is the East Africa Regional Director of the Chief of Staff Association, UK the World’s representative body of Chiefs of Staff in government, private sector, and military circles.

Don Smith: The Mzungu That Killed 10 Kenyans Is Now After Cyprian Nyakundi

Former Kenya Power and Lighting Company Plc (KPLC) board chairperson Vivienne Yeda Apopo is set to be arrested.

According to sources, Apopo will be charged with economic crimes carried out under her tenure at KPLC and  East African Development Bank (EADB).

Ms Apopo had grown too big for her court; too headstrong and was also reportedly overheard (recorded) talking ill of the current William Ruto administration.

KPLC

She was appointed at the time the parastatal was facing massive looting through staff tampering with meters, tender irregularities, which saddled Kenyans with high electricity costs.

She was supposed to be the cure to these things but instead, KPLC became worse.

Soon after taking over, she was at the forefront in sabotaging then-newly appointed CEO KPLC Bernard Ngugi, who in August 2021, resigned abruptly.

Vivienne Yeda Apopo’s: Former KPLC Board Chair.

There were bitter exchanges between the top managers before Ngugi’s exit. He had become isolated as the chairperson often engaged a Ms Bore, the head of legal and regulatory affairs.

Ms Yeda is known for such manoeuvres even as she was at East African Development Bank (EADB). It does not come by surprise that this site called her out by stating categorically that KPLC’s Pick for board chair is a criminal.

Mismanagement also dogged EADB with Yeda Apopo at the helm.

What was a Sh200 million tender was cancelled by the board and pumped to Sh1 billion.

The board chair argued that the management had not incorporated most of the guidelines that the board had proposed in the insurance tender.

“Please track the board inputs. I don’t see any changes to the previous specs (specifications). The premium turnover should be a multiple of KP (Kenya Power) premium – not less than Sh1bn. See director Gudka and my comments and any others that the directors shared and refer to the minutes,” wrote Yeda in an email to Bore on July 20. Bore’s response a few minutes later did not assuage the chairperson, who is also the CEO of East African Development Bank.

“We are still waiting for the revised tender specs for insurance and the other project details. Kindly share with the board the template that has been developed on the basis of the government of Kenya guidelines I shared with you,” wrote Yeda in her response.

Frustrated by the response, Yeda asked the General Manager in Charge of Supply Chain Kipyegon Ngeno and Bore to send the minutes of that meeting on the day when specifications for the tender were discussed.

Reports indicate that Bore would finally bow to pressure, increasing the cost of the tender to Sh1 billion.

“Board members, we need to guide management and make proposals. My proposal is that the current premium volume of the prospective broker needs to be increased from Sh200 million to Sh1 billion, the guarantee from Sh3 million to Sh10 million and the professional indemnity cover from Sh200 million to Sh1billion. This should be justified based on the size of Kenya Power, the type of risks covered and the level of business being placed,” said Yeda in the email. She emphasised “a solid organisation structure and team with the ability to conduct risk surveys and specific experiences in the energy market locally and internationally”.

“MD please revert with the specs, urgently given the tight timelines you indicated,” she instructed. On June 17, Yeda sought from Ngugi the details of tenders on the Kenya Power’s website…READ more

Yeda Apopo’s record

Vivienne Yeda Apopo’s record at another institution, The East African Development Bank (EADB) was not colourful.

Her looting ways shone brightly before.

The EADB boss is known for all the wrong reasons such as cooking the books of account at the bank and issuing questionable loans.

READ: Did Vivienne Apopo Bribe East African Development Bank Board To Ignore Her Criminal Activities?

A Key president Ruto ally is wreaking havoc at the Kenya Ports Authority as management at the Key parastatal struggles to obey their demands that have been termed as “Crazy”.

According to reports, the man has been telling the Kenya Ports Authority(KPA) officials that he will be the Chair of the parastatal very soon and those that will not act according to his wish will face the music very soon.

The man had been previously charged with graft at the same port that he now claims he will be chairing very soon.

The flamboyant man brags he has a serious clearing and forwarding company that all must use in the business. Recently, he claimed that he brought the lands cs to office.

The man also says he controls Nakuru, so Naivasha dry port is his.

The Kenya Ports Authority officials were recently shocked when the man, a powerful CS and a newly appointed businesswoman raided the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) offices and demanded to be given tender plans worth billions.

It is unknown why they wanted the tender plans with some insiders telling the editor of this site Cyprian Nyakundi that they aim to sell them to potential dealers.

Defeated and intimidated, the KPA management gave them the documents.

It will be tough years but president Ruto needs to warn his close men, as they may one day put him in a tough position

LEFT: Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja RIGHT: Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has warned Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja against making any unfavourable pronouncements affecting the matatu industry.

Speaking in Nyeri on Monday, December 19, 2022, the second in command advised Sakaja not to forget the person who mobilized members of the Kikuyu community in Nairobi to vote for him in the August polls.

He further instructed the Nairobi governor to consult him when making decisions that could negatively affect businesses in the city.

“Na nimemuambia governor wa Nairobi tutakaa chini na yeye kwa sababu sisi ndo tulimchagua. Mimi ndo niliketisha Wakikuyu pale Nairobi nikawaambia wamchague. Na nimemuita tukae chini na yeye. Mambo yoyote ambaye anaamua ambayo inaweza haribu biashara katika Nairobi kwanza tuongee tukubaliane,” Gachagua said.

According to DP Gachagua, banning matatus from operating in Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) is impossible.

“Hatutaki speed mingi sana, twende pole pole. Sindio? Hio maneno ati ya kutoa matatu nini hio maneno haiwezekani. Staki tuanze kusumbua wafanyi biashara,” he said.

Governor Sakaja had instructed matatu Saccos plying the Western, Nyanza, and Rift Valley routes to pick up and drop off passengers from the Green Park Terminus starting December 1, 2022.

The decision was reached after Sakaja met SACCOs and other transport stakeholders on November 18, 2022, at Charter Hall.

On November 28, the Nairobi county government published the new guidelines agreed upon and signed by the Acting Nairobi county secretary, Jairus Musumba.

Long-distance travel operators ultimately moved to court to challenge the directive by Sakaja that required them to move to the Green park terminus on December 1.

The operators said the decision was discriminatory as it excluded some of their rivals.

They added that Sakaja’s directive would expose them to huge losses, and would also inconvenience long-distance travellers who predominantly travel with relatively large luggage, especially during the festive season.

The petitioners in the case include North Rift Luxury Shuttle, Madaraka Prestige, Transline, Great Rift Shuttle, Legacy Luxury, Kina 2015 Classic, Sasaline Classic Shuttle, Blue Line, Team Swat and Transliner Galaxy.

After days of endless speculation, the backstory of the dreadful breakup between KANU Chairman Gideon Moi and his party’s Secretary General Nick Salat has finally been revealed.

Reliable sources have pinned down the widening cracks in the diminished former ruling party to an alleged secret late-night meeting between Salat and President William Ruto, where a host of political issues were discussed; including strategies to frustrate Moi’s ambition to run for the presidency in 2027.

Word has been going around that Salat’s pockets have recently run dry after his party leader stopped funding his lavish lifestyle following the defeat of the Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga in the August polls.

It is understood that Ruto had initially tried to reach out to the former Baringo senator, but he declined the offer.

When the ostensibly broke Salat heard the news, he opted to accept the proposition in his best interests, to the dismay of his boss.

According to insiders within the KANU camp, Moi’s calculation is that Ruto will lose popularity countrywide, including Kalenjinland, where he has rubbed the community the wrong way by allowing the importation of GMO maize.

Many Kalenjins are maize farmers and have frowned at the move to import the commodity.

But as things now stand, Ruto has struck first by enticing Salat, who reportedly agreed to lead members of the party in striking an alliance with Kenya Kwanza and isolate the Chairman.

Last week, Salat, on leaving KANU, fired back at Gideon, stating they targeted him for removal as Kanu secretary general for calling out the party chairman for running down the independence party.

Gideon suspended the long-serving secretary general for alleged misconduct and violation of the party’s constitution, culminating in months of boardroom wars between the two top officials.

Gideon accused Salat of having clandestine plans to auction the party to Kenya Kwanza, but Salat rejected the suspension as illegal as he revealed that members have targeted him for telling off Gideon about running down the party.

“We cannot worship an individual at the expense of the party. We cannot worship him. We can’t,” he said.

Salat lamented that the party’s fortunes had been diminishing since Gideon took over the leadership mantle.

“Small parties are coming up, winning seats and the presidency, but for us, we are stuck because of an individual. I told him off, and that is why he is suspending me,” he said.

“In 2017, we had 11 MPs, now we have six. We had 64 MCAs, but now we have 30. We have no governor. And even the few who were elected won were not helped by the party,” he added.

“Why are we glorifying him and we are not helping the party?” he posed.

The party ruled for 24 years when Gideon’s father was the president and as the party boss.

Salat said Gideon and the National Executive Council had no authority to discipline or suspend him.

According to Salat, Gideon, alongside him and other party officials were installed as interim officials by the national delegates’ conference in 2012, pending elections.

The elections, he said, have never been conducted to confirm them as officials with full authority and mandate to suspend an official of the party.

Last November, Salat was at loggerheads with Gideon after the party boss submitted to parliament an application for the East African Legislative Assembly, a move Salat alleged was selfish.

Salat had also forwarded his name for consideration for nomination for EALA on the KANU ticket, triggering a political standoff with Gideon who later pulled out.

Salat claimed the chairman has personalized the once vibrant party that has since lost its glory.

But Gideon and Salat missed out on the Azimio list of 12 that was submitted to parliament.

The former Bomet East MP came out with guns blazing a day after Azimio released a list in which KANU nominees were missing, questioning the motive behind the move by the chairman to withdraw his name.

This was the first time Salat publicly challenged Gideon since the two took over the control of the oldest political party

Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika with her husband Sam Mburu at President Ruto’s former residence in Karen, Nairobi.

Samuel Mburu Kamau, the husband of Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika, is on trial for tax fraud allegations presented against him by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).

Appearing before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Zainab Abdul, a KRA investigator, Patrick Mugambi, narrated how they raided Landmark Freight Services Limited—a premise linked to the governor’s husband—and discovered containers with uncleared imported goods.

The witness told the court that his team interrogated the “Simba System” which is used by KRA to verify details of an exporter or importer, and the description and quantity in the container being processed.

Following the check, they discovered misdeclaration as compared to what was contained in the system and physical forms.

Mr Mugambi says he questioned several staff involved and finally made recommendations to the commissioner.

He recommended some officials of KRA intelligence, Harry Thuo and Esther Maina, to face a disciplinary committee.

Some of the accused persons alongside Sam Mburu in the ongoing trial include: Esther Wangui Watene, Ali Thuo Chuphi, Alex Maina Ndiritu, Cornelius Mwanyamba Mwango and Cheruiyot Busongo.

Others are George Gikaru Kamau, Ibrahim Twahir Mohamed, Harrison Ngige Muchiri, Ms Gendipe Enterprises and Wycliffe Lukaro.

The charges state that they conspired to defraud the government of Sh6 million between January 24 and January 29, 2018, by falsely declaring the said goods as machinery, which attracts lesser tax.

They are alleged to have tried to conceal the import of nine containers of 20ft beach containing a total of 12060 units of 20 litres Hayat Palm brand of cooking oil, which was to attract a tax of Sh6 million.

On their part, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) inspectors Cornelious Mwanyamba Mwango and Frederick Cheruiyot Busonga are accused of unlawfully releasing the nine (9) non-inspected and unverified containers.

Watene and Thuo Chuphi are accused of conniving to conceal the consignment of imported goods by fraudulently declaring them as machinery, an act intended to defraud the government of Kenya.

The trial will proceed next year when a second witness is expected to testify against the accused persons.

Governor Kihika and Sam Mburu met in 2013 after Kihika returned to Kenya to join politics after being in the United States for at least 20 years.

As a wealthy businessman with deep political connections, Mburu helped Kihika learn the ropes within a short space of time.

After the 2013 General Election, she was appointed the Nakuru County Assembly Speaker.

The position enabled her to build political networks and in 2017 she successfully ran for the Nakuru Senatorial seat.

Mburu is said to have funded her well-oiled campaigns.

The couple officiated their union in a colourful wedding in November 2020.

The ceremony was attended by President-elect William Ruto and other leaders.

However, Kihika was married as a second wife, though now Mburu has parted ways with the first wife.

The first wife, Beatrice Wanjiku got engaged to Mburu in 2003, and they were blessed with two children.

After the separation, she took him to court, demanding Ksh757,000 every month for upkeep.

However, the court ordered Mburu to be paying 597,000 monthly to his estranged wife for their children’s maintenance.

Mburu is the founder of Landmark Freight Services, a shipping agency with offices in Kenya and China.

He has also made huge investments in real estate in Nairobi, Nakuru and Kajiado counties.

Susan Kihika Gets Into Bed With Asian Textile Manufacturer Oppressing Workers In Nakuru

Troubled KAA MD Alex Gitari

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has unearthed how the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) spent Sh821 million on five stalled projects at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) whose completion still hangs in the balance.

In her report for the year ended June 2021, she says the expenditures relate to spending on stalled projects at Greenfield Terminal and the second runway at JKIA in Nairobi.

This includes Sh670 million for the Greenfield Terminal and Sh149 million for the second runway, whose tender was cancelled in 2016.

According to Ms Gathungu, the completion of the projects is doubtful and the likelihood of the costs being impaired is high.

Records show that they disbursed the amount between 2013 and 2016 without giving details of the spending.

The two projects also attracted penalties from contractors, some of whom feel KAA edged out after winning the jobs fairly.

The Chinese firm, ACEG-CATIC JV, for instance, slapped the authority with a Sh17.6 billion bill for a project that never took off.

The tender was cancelled in March 2016.

This was after they had paid Sh4.2 billion to the contractor in advance and spent Sh75 million on a groundbreaking ceremony in 2014.

Chinese firms Anhui Civil Engineering Group (ACEG) and China Aero Technology Engineering International Corporation (Catic) were selected to build the Sh56 billion Greenfield terminal, which was expected to handle 20 million passengers a year.

The contractor may get back his job as President William Ruto’s administration plans to revive the Sh56 billion airport tender, reversing another major infrastructure decision by former President Uhuru Kenyatta.

It is, however, doubtful that this will happen under the stewardship of troubled (KAA) Managing Director Alex Gitari, who is a man under siege.

Recently, reports emerged that Mr Gitari is a key target of a renewed bid by powerful State House forces to push out individuals who played a role in supporting Azimio leader Raila Odinga’s failed presidential bid by mobilizing to offer monetary aid to his campaigns that raked in billions of taxpayers’ money.

According to sources, Gitari and the General Manager of the HR department Anthony Njagi practised gross misconduct by pumping millions of shillings into Azimio La Umoja at the expense of staff welfare.

Insiders further revealed that whenever the two remitted money to Raila’s campaign kitty, they benefited from heavy kickbacks.

It is also alleged that Gitari and Njagi landed their respective lucrative positions through the influence of former powerful Interior PS Karanja Kibicho and the outgoing Transport PS Paul Maringa.

At one particular time, former Transport CS James Macharia complained regarding circumstances under which Gitari and Njagi manoeuvred their way into the office.

Workers at KAA have also been lamenting impunity at the hands of Gitari and Njagi which has left them heavily demoralized.

Additionally, the duo is accused of negotiating collective bargaining agreements with the workers’ union only to dishonour such deals.

A case in point is when they allegedly negotiated with the workers’ union for a 13 percent pay rise in salaries, but as workers were waiting to harvest at the end of the month in 2016, KAA broke their end of the promise and defaulted.

It is imperative to note that ever since the KAA board of directors confirmed Gitari as the MD effective July 8, 2021, for three years, the institution has been linked to several scandalous deals under his leadership.

This included a plot to fast-track the deal to hand over Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Kenya Airways.

Kenya Airways had submitted a proposal to KAA to run the airport for 30 years while paying concession fees to the operator.

Gitari’s name was also featured in the mystery that surrounded Covid-19 gear that China billionaire Jack Ma donated to Kenya at a time Covid-19 was ravaging the country.

The Kenya Civil Society group, while protesting the theft, noted that Gitari in his capacity as KAA MD should have come clean about how the consignment was stolen since he was part of the government dignitaries who received the donation at the airport.

It is starting to look highly unlikely for him to survive this raging storm.

Why Powerful State House Forces Are On The Neck of KAA Boss

Embattled Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza alongside her husband Murega Baichu

The Senate on Tuesday recommended the formation of a special 11-member committee to probe impeachment charges against Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza.

This follows a meeting of the Senate leadership after reconvening the House for a Special Sitting regarding the charges facing Governor Mwangaza.

According to Section 33 of the County Governments, the Senate can prosecute an impeachment through a special committee or plenary.

During the Tuesday meeting, the Senate Business Committee asked the House to approve 11 names it has proposed to sit on the panel.

The motion for the formation of the committee was moved by Senate Majority leader Aaron Cheruiyot.

The proposed senators are Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago, Kakamega counterpart Boni Khalwale, Ali Roba of Mandera, Migori’s Eddy Oketch and Karungo Thangwa of Kiambu.

Other members are nominated senators Esther Okenyuri, Peris Tobiko, Joseph Kamau of Lamu, Edwin Sifuna of Nairobi, Agnes Kavindu of Machakos and Johnes Mwaruma of Taita Taveta.

Mount Kenya University (MKU) founder Simon Gicharu

A probe into an inflated Sh1.2 billion campus purchase deal between the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) and Simon Gicharu’s Mount Kenya University (MKU) has come to an abrupt end.

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has cited the demise of the official accountable for the transaction as the reason behind the conclusion of their investigations.

The commission commenced an inquiry into the matter following a complaint that MMUST had purchased the MKU Turkana Campus at an exorbitant price of Sh1.2 billion, yet the real value of the property was at Sh600 million.

EACC established that the acquisition was initiated on March 17, 2016, by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of MMUST, Planning, Research and Innovation, who wrote to the Cabinet Secretary of Education Science and Technology.

They granted the proposal requesting the approval of the acquisition subject to the availability of funds, preparation of a financial outlay for the project, and the concurrence of the Commission of University of Education (CUE).

CUE approved the acquisition, stating that it had already accredited the campus.

The MMUST University Council also deliberated and approved the acquisition on June 17, 2017.

But according to EACC, upon their investigation, they found out that the procurement procedure was not followed.

The person responsible for ensuring adherence was the accounting officer who was the Vice-Chancellor (VC) at the time, the late Prof. Frederick A.O Otieno.

On July 28, 2022, EACC officials forwarded a report to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) with a recommendation for closure of the inquiry file reason being that the officers who had made the payments acted within the law and fulfilled contractual obligations.

The report further held that the VC (Prof. Otieno) who would have been culpable for failing to adhere to the procurement law and regulations, is deceased.

On October 24, 2022, the DPP returned the inquiry file and concurred with the commission’s closure of the file.

Prof Otieno left office on December 1, 2018, amid a barrage of audit queries.

He died the following year.

Prior to his death, Prof. Otieno was linked to several scandals.

This included a damning report by the Auditor-General’s office alleging irregular expenditure of funds amounting to Sh362 million in the year to June 2016.

In his defence, the deceased had accused MMUST of entering into huge illegal contract variations, irregular procurement, failing to present cash books for an audit, and keeping cash unbanked and unaccounted for contrary to proper accounting procedures.

Gender and Public Service CS Aisha Jumwa

The fate of Cabinet Secretary for Public Service and Gender Aisha Jumwa now hangs in the balance.

Mombasa High Court will on Wednesday issue its directive following an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Hajji that seeks to withdraw murder charges levelled against her.

High Court Judge Anne Onginjo directed Haji to file a formal application before her court to enable her to decide if her court will allow the application.

Three weeks ago, Justice Ongi’njo dismissed an application by the state, arguing that it was too “casual”.

She informed the court that the oral application made in court by Haji through senior prosecution counsel, Vivian Kambuga, to have the murder charges withdrawn and Ms Jumwa being turned into a state witness did not meet an official application.

Justice Onginjo further questioned why the DPP had made the move to have the matter withdrawn nonchalantly, in the absence of the accused person, and with no formal application before the court.

The judge ordered Jumwa to appear before her court and issued directions to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to amend the charge sheet.

In Ms Jumwa’s letter to the ODPP, she requested to be turned into a state witness and sought the matter settled out of court to give leeway for her to compensate the family of the deceased Ngumbao Jola.

Jumwa alongside her bodyguard Geoffrey Okuto is facing charges in the murder of Jola who was shot dead in the 2020 during Ganda by-election when chaos broke down.

Over five witnesses had already testified against Jumwa and the co-accused.

The matter will be mentioned tomorrow for further directions.

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s niece Nana Gecaga is no longer the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya International Convention Centre (KICC).

Cabinet Minister for Tourism and Wildlife Peninah Malonza joined the ministry’s Principal Secretaries and KICC staff in ceremony to bid Nana farewell as she completed her tour of duty as CEO.

CS Malonza lauded Nana for her service and wished her well in her future endeavors.

Nana has been in charge of KICC for seven years.

Her replacement has not been named yet.

PHOTO CAPTION: President Uhuru Kenyatta’s niece and KICC chief executive Nana Gecaga

Revisiting her tenure

Nana Gecaga’s tenure was marked with tales of looting among the few good things she did. The few were realluy few and far in between.

In September 2022, it was reported that she illegally awarded herself a salary increment meant for all staff through a re-categorization of the institution from a C7 category to an A7 category.

Despite the Treasury coughing out over Sh400m for the entire project: to cater for salary increments and maintenance of the 28-storey building, workers on the ground are yet to receive their arrears.

In 2019, a scandal broke out that she was employed after presenting fake academic papers. For this reason, she refused to present her academic paper for audit.

Before her appointment at KICC, she was a ghost worker in a non-existent position, where she was earning a salary, allowances, and perdiem illegally without offering any services.

Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC)

In the same year, when she hosted a concert organised at the KICC (KICC hosted two American R&B Singers, SWV and Blackstreet boys). Nana was the chief marketer who convinced the KICC to pay Shs25 million stating that the concert would generate over Sh45 million.

In that concert, Nana had coerced KICC to use Sh25 million; Sh10 million above the allocated budget of Sh15 million.

EACC had Nana on their sights, for this particular corruption and other procurement irregularities, but whatever happened to that, we will never know.

She did it again

In 2018, during the FIFA world cup, local entertainment providers Home Bpys set up a base for watching the matches at KICC at no cost.

Honda also used the grounds, they supplied KICC with a Motor vehicle and five motorbikes at a cost of Sh2 million despite the activity not being previously budgeted for.

A intern’s confession

I interned and worked at KICC 2013-2014 and was a cashier at the parking facing parliament road. During this time the monthly average collection was approximately Kshs. 5 million. Parking fee then was Kshs. 250 per vehicle per day. Kanjo (City Council) fee then was Kshs. 140.

Speaking to colleagues who are currently working there, they are sad and demoralised. Parking fees was increased when Fred Simiyu became the M.D to Kshs. 300 per vehicle per day, but collections dropped marginally but we still manages to get to about Kshs. 4 million a month.

This girl came and raised parking fees to Kshs. 500. Collections there hardly hit Kshs. 500k in a whole month.
Now, I stand to be corrected, but what kind of reasoning will prompt a whole M.D to take a decision that creates a approximately Kshs. 3.5 – 4 million hole cashflow per month?

Broke KICC

It is still a mystery who owns the KICC.

The ownership of the land on which Nairobi’s iconic Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) building stands is uncertain after an audit revealed that the parcel is not owned by the State corporation that runs the complex.

Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu says the title deed for the 28-storey building is not registered in the name of KICC, which is a State Corporation under the Tourism ministry.

CAPTION: Tourism CS Penina Malonza, Heritage PS Sylvia Museiya, and Tourism PS join KICC staff in bidding farewell to their CEO Nana Gecaga as she comes to the end of her tenure. Nana has served KICC for 7 years.

But the identity of the person or entity in whose name the title deed of the land, which is valued at Sh2.29 billion, is registered has not been revealed in the public auditor’s report for 2018/19.

“It has also been noted that the land in which Kenyatta International Convention Centre building stands is not registered in the name of the Corporation although its value has been included in the financial statements,” she says.

KANU was kicked out twice, in 2003 and 2013, but it looks like they still own the building.

Farewell Nana, you did not manage the entity well.

We pray you don’t get idle and fall back to alcoholism.

[EXPOSÉ] Slayqueen Nana Gecaga On The Spot For Fake Academic Papers, Mismanagement And Employee Mistreatment

Savannah Cement factory

Debt-ridden Savanna Cement will enjoy a slight relief after a court blocked KCB Group and Absa Bank from seizing its assets pending the determination of a review it filed at the High Court.

Savanna was granted a temporary order barring any seizure of its assets and the banks from appointing an administrator or liquidator to manage its properties.

Justice Alfred Mabeya directed that the status quo be maintained until the court issues further directions.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the status quo is that no peremptory action whatsoever should be taken until the aforesaid date,” Justice Mabeya ruled.

The cement maker had rushed to court to stop plans by the two lenders from seizing its assets over debts that are running into millions.

The judge also ordered Savanna to pay Absa Sh10 million within one week from the date of the ruling to avoid the seizure of its assets.

The injunction comes after an earlier application by the embattled firm was rejected by Justice Wilfrida Okwany but it claims that it wanted the judge to disqualify herself from the case over undisclosed reasons before the ruling was delivered.

Justice Okwany stated that the cement maker admitted that it owes the two banks a substantial amount of money and the banks, being the parties on the receiving end, were likely to suffer huge losses.

But Justice Mabeya inhis ruling directed the matter to be handled by Judge Abigail Mshila.

Court documents show that Savanna has defaulted on the loan repayment with KCB interest now standing at Sh297 million, including a penalty of Sh13.5 million.

Benson Sande Ndeta, who is the director at Savanna Cement, admitted that the collapsing firm took several loans from KCB and Absa, which it has been struggling to repay.

Mr. Ndeta said the company was figuring out ways to repay the debt as he pleaded with the two lenders to restructure the loan repayment terms.

He also accused KCB of increasing the amount in breach of the ‘in duplum rule’, which bars banks from charging interest above the principal amount.

The firm claims it requested KCB to furnish it with a statement of account to ascertain how the balances reached unbelievable levels, but the bank declined and threatened to seize its assets.

Ndeta stated that the cement maker was coerced to repay loans of Sh5 billion by KCB and Absa to forestall the seizure. He added that the looming recovery was in breach of the firm’s rights and a sinister move by the banks to enrich themselves unjustly at the expense of shareholders.

Savanna also argues that it will suffer huge losses that cannot be compensated since the banks are eying assets that might never be recovered, including machinery and land.

It added that it has several contracts to supply cement to various government projects, which will automatically be terminated if the banks are allowed to seize its assets.

The director said the company should be given more time as it is currently struggling to fund its clinker project, which allows it to raise sufficient funds and clear the debts.

Mr Ndeta said the company has proposed to pay the balance after it is given the statement for verification.

The poorly managed Savanna Cement had its Athi River giant plant temporarily shut down for one month in 2021 when its financial problems worsened.

It has also been hit by ownership wrangles and protracted court battles in recent years, leading to the Court of Appeal quashing the appointment of new directors in May 2021.

It opened the Athi River grinding plant, then sacked 21 senior employees and the then managing director, Ronald Ndegwa, who was not in the good books of the cartels.

Lawyer Cavin Anyuor alongside TSC officials when they appeared before the National Assembly Education Committee on Monday

Members of the 13^th parliament have been faulted for politicizing the recruitment of teachers, which could set a precedent for nepotism, tribalism and regional imbalance in the field.

The big debate has emerged as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) begins the hiring of 35,000 teachers, one of the biggest lot in Kenya’s history.

Some MPs have poked their noses into the TSC recruitment formula, which they have termed as faulty.

The lawmakers argue that the current hiring criteria has led to thousands of teachers ageing before getting employment because the commission puts more premium on grades than on the biological age of candidates.

On Monday, members of the National Assembly’s Education and Research Committee caused a stir after they demanded a revision of the hiring principles to ensure they consider the biological age of applicants alongside other parameters.

Currently, TSC selection standards give weight to the year a teacher graduates and the quality of the certificate he or she possesses.

The MPs, led by committee chairperson Julius Meli, hysterically suggested that TSC should work out a formula that would give an advantage to the biological age of the unemployed teachers.

Stakeholders have strongly opposed this move, saying that some MPs are only acting out of selfish interests of favouring the politically correct instead of the duly merited.

It is rumored that some legislators have been enticing unemployed teachers by demanding their details with the false promise of helping them gain employment.

Such involvement could end up being a subtle way of reintroducing nepotism and tribalism in the recruitment process.

TSC was appearing before the Meli-led committee to discuss the ongoing recruitment of teachers, interns, and the delay in the promotion of tutors across the country.

The Commission team was led by chairman Jamleck Muturi and Legal, Labour and lndustrial Relations director Cavin Anyuor, who represented CEO Nancy Macharia.

Anyuor defended the formula used by the Commission, blaming the growing number of qualified teachers who remain out of employment on the exchequer.

“Our recruitment considers the year of graduation and strength of certificate. We currently have a 116,000 teachers shortage. We have no budget for it. Recruitment of teachers is based on budgetary allocation, the problem is in the budget not the selection criteria,” he said.

Muturi assured MPs that age will not be used to bar anyone from the ongoing recruitment, urging all Kenyans qualified for the advertised positions to apply.

Muturi also clarified that TSC analyzes to establish the number of intern teachers who had exited to allow those who were unsuccessful in the permanent jobs to try their luck in the interns’ recruitment.

TSC commissioner Timon Oyucho said the commission had planned to conclude hiring of permanent and pensionable teachers before recruiting interns.

Last week, TSC boss Nancy Macharia told MPs that the compressed school calendar caused the delay in the recruitment of the interns.

“We have had a different school calendar since the onset of Covid-19, but we will advertise for the positions immediately after KCSE,” Macharia said.

This comes even as TSC extended the deadline for teachers to submit their applications.

The commission said 10,000 of the teachers will be employed on permanent pensionable terms, while 25,550 will be intern teachers.

Some 9,000 of the slots are for permanent secondary school teachers and 1,000 for primary school teachers, while 21,550 slots are for interns for junior secondary schools.

The commission said another 4,000 intern teachers will be hired for primary schools.

MultiChoice Kenya Head of Marketing, Celeste Muli, Head of Customer Value Management, Lucy Mwakalama and Corporate Affairs Manager, Philip Wahome

An unhappy client has exposed GOtv Kenya for failing to comply with a refund request.

Speaking out via Facebook, the victim, named Oscar Ochieng, explained that on 21st November 2022, he mistakenly made a Sh13,000 payment for a subscription package priced at Sh1,300.

This resulted in an excess payment of Sh11,700, a hefty amount considering the current harsh economic times.

In a bid to recover the funds, Mr Ochieng contacted the company’s customer care service, informed them of the error and followed all the steps they advised him to take.

Initially, they informed him that a refund would be triggered 14 days after he submitted all the required documents, which included a written e-mail requesting the reversal and a copy of his ID.

But after this timeline elapsed, the monkey games began, and up to date, he is yet to receive his money.

The staff at GOtv have been making all types of excuses, which have led him to grow impatient and worried that he might never get back the amount.

In his submission shared below, he says that most recently, the company’s customer care representative named ‘Doreen’ hang up the phone, saying that her supervisor was ‘not in the right mood to talk’.

“Hi, Kindly assist me here by posting this on your timeline, as it will help me get refunded.

I erroneously sent money to my GOtv Kenya account for the November subscription, being that the children were home and they needed to get entertained.

Unfortunately, instead of sending Sh1,300, I sent Sh13,000 to my GOtv account number 7017680973 on 21st November 2022 under the name OSCAR OCHIENG.

I contacted them through their customer care number.

They advised me to write to them an email requesting a reversal, which I did.

The following day, they sent me a form to my email which I was required to fill, scan and send with a scanned copy of my ID too.

I did that too.

I called again, and they told me to send my bank account number, claiming that they don’t refund through the mobile number, though I sent the subscription fee through my phone number.

I did that too, and they promised to refund the money after 14 days.

Now, 14 days elapsed, and I called again, only to be told that I should wait for 14 working days exclusive of weekends and holidays.

I remained patient until those days elapsed again.

When I called again, they claimed to have refunded the money to my Equity account on the 7th of December this month, even though there was no money sent.

They insisted that I should go to the bank and check again. I did as they said, got impatient, and called them again.

They told me to print my bank statement, scan and send it to their email, which I did.

The bank also got tired of this issue and they wanted to talk to GOtv Kenya to confirm with them if they truly sent the money, but when they called to talk to them, they hung up and refused to cooperate.

One of the customer care on the phone called Doreen said that her supervisor was not in the right mood to talk.

I am worried and disappointed with how they treat their customers because I have used a lot of money to make a follow-up on the refund,” the victim laments.

The current Chief Executive Officer of the embattled Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Mr Wilson Muthaura is in contempt of court.

In a ruling by Judge B O Manani, dated December 15. The CEO was directed to reinstate the full salary of Albert Otochi and Japheth Sayi.

Wilson Muthaura, CEO, KTDA

The two officials, are the managing director of the Kenya Tea Packers (Ketepa) and Japheth Sayi as the general manager of KTDA Power Company respectively.

He was supposed to reinstate the two as a substitute for the contempt charges.

The salaries for the two had been cut to half after their suspension in September.

In a letter dated September 22, KTDA suspended Mr Otochi and another company official and placed them on half salary, however, the court restrained the agency from effecting the directive.

The two officials went to court in September after they were served with a show-cause notice for allegedly interacting with some directors of KTDA.

“It is impermissible for a litigant to act in respect of a court order in the manner that the respondents have done. They had a duty to ensure that the claimant’s contract ran uninterrupted in terms of court orders… they defiled the orders and they are therefore in contempt of court,” read the ruling.

“I will, therefore, require the respondents to purge the contempt by paying the claimant his full salary, pending further orders of the court. I will also require the respondents to cease the disciplinary process in terms of the court orders of September 29 by setting aside the suspension of the claimant pending further direction by the court,” the court said.

According to Mr Otochi, Mr Muthaura is misrepresenting himself as the group chief executive officer, yet he is the general manager of human resources and administration and hence not his supervisor.

He says issuing the letter when he is not his supervisor is unlawful.

He further says the CEO started the disciplinary process against him, while the human resource policy says suspension should only be issued where there are pending investigations.

Mr Otochi says he was suspended, yet there are no pending investigations.

Further, he says the group HR policy also allows him to interact with directors, and the purported charges for gross misconduct for interacting with directors are illegal.

Mr Muthaura was appointed as KTDA’s chief executive following the suspension of the former head Lerionka Tiampati.

Troubled KAA Boss Alex Gitari

The Office of the Auditor General has lifted the lid on the puzzle of Sh205 million parking revenue that was collected by the Kenya Airports Parking Services (KAPS) at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) but not remitted to the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) as per contractual agreements.

In a report tabled in parliament last month, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu noted that the amount includes Sh132 million, which represents 65 percent of KAA’s outstanding revenue arrears in the past nine months.

Ms Gathungu says it remains unclear why the firm has not been forwarding the revenue to KAA despite entering into a binding arrangement on how they should remit the collected funds to the agency.

According to the report, the recoverability of the amount due to KAA remains doubtful.

KAA and KAPS entered into a concession agreement for installing, operating and maintaining an automated car parking management system at JKIA in August 2019.

The deal stipulated that KAPS shall pay KAA a concession fee of 82 percent of parking revenue collection.

The payment from KAPS was subject to a minimum annual guarantee of Sh20 million payable in equal monthly installments.

The authority renewed the KAPS contract in September 2018 after they disqualified a firm known as Endeavour Africa (K) Ltd, which was found most responsive, for allegedly presenting fake papers.

KAPS was the second most responsive firm and was awarded the tender.

But the two other bidders, Mason Services Limited and Qntra Technologies Limited, contested the decision at the review board, arguing that KAPS is a foreign company.

The Public Procurement and Administrative Review Board (PPARB) 2019 cancelled the contract awarded to it by the KAA and disqualified it from participating in the tender.

This prompted the firm to move to court, seeking to salvage the lucrative contract to run its car park system at JKIA.

Recently, KAA introduced new standard parking fees at Kisumu International Airport and Mombasa’s Moi International Airport after taking over control of the car park systems at the two installations.

Under the new arrangement, the KAA says it will manage parking operations at the two airports on an interim basis as it prepares to issue a fresh tender.

Mason Services Limited previously held the contract for installing, operating and maintaining an automated car park system at both airports.

The developments are coming at a time KAA boss Alex Gitari finds himself on the radar of powerful State House forces that are out to have him punished for his contribution to Raila Odinga’s presidential campaigns.

Gitari is among prominent individuals who were used by the retired regime to offer financial assistance towards the failed Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and subsequently, the ODM leader’s failed presidential bid where billions of taxpayers’ money were wasted.

Their key role was to facilitate corruption in favour of those who were bootlicking former president Uhuru Kenyatta and frustrating William Ruto’s presidential bid ahead of the August 2022 general election.

It is because of Gitari, general manager HR Anthony Njagi and some rogue CSs like Joe Mucheru and Fred Matiang’i that Ruto, during his campaigns, complained of state capture and promised to crush them once elected president.

Workers at KAA have also been lamenting impunity at the hands of Gitari and Njagi which has left them heavily demoralized.

Additionally, the duo is accused of negotiating collective bargaining agreements with the workers’ union only to dishonour such deals.

A case in point is when they allegedly negotiated with the workers’ union for a 13 percent pay rise in salaries, but as workers were waiting to harvest at the end of the month in 2016, KAA broke their end of the promise and defaulted.

It is imperative to note that ever since the KAA board of directors confirmed Gitari as the MD effective July 8, 2021, for three years, the institution has been linked to several scandalous deals under his leadership.

This included a plot to fast-track the deal to hand over Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Kenya Airways.

Kenya Airways had submitted a proposal to KAA to run the airport for 30 years while paying concession fees to the operator.

Gitari’s name was also featured in the mystery that surrounded Covid-19 gear that China billionaire Jack Ma donated to Kenya at a time Covid-19 was ravaging the country.

The Kenya Civil Society group, while protesting the theft, noted that Gitari in his capacity as KAA MD should have come clean about how the consignment was stolen since he was part of the government dignitaries who received the donation at the airport.

How Kenya Airports Authority Plundered Sh821m