CAPTION: Administration Police Officers at a Passing Out Parade. 

Good afternoon Cyprian,

I am so much annoyed on how some Administration Police officers and their sub-county Commander at Khwisero Sub-County are harassing innocent wananchi. A case in point is on February 3rd, 2017, administration police officer by the name Koech and Mwaura based at Mwitseshe AP post arrested one Abisai Buliba for undisclosed offense. Mr. Abisai was detained in an un-gazzetted police cell for over 12 hours without being informed of the offense that he had committed. As a suspect, he had all the rights as a Kenyan to know the reason for the arrest in the language that he could understand.

As a concerned citizen, I wanted to know why he was arrested. I was told that the alleged suspect had misplaced a hummer (Nyundo) that belonged to one Christopher Amunga and because he had not returned it they had decided to detain him for all those hours. I wondered which law was guiding these officers. Do they know the difference between a civil case and a criminal caseCAP Are they aware of which cases they should intervene in and which ones should they not intervene?

After making this inquiry, I was asked by one Koech to give him Kshs. 3000 so that he can free the suspect. I declined and asked him to take the guy to the gazetted police station at Khwisero sub-county headquarters. The officer got so much annoyed and asked me to report to DIG APs.

Instead, I talked to the Sub-county commander- one Mr Achuka (phone number 0710370606) to talk to the officers so that if they feel the suspect had committed a criminal offense they should take him to a police station and lock him in until he is taken to court. To my surprise, the sub-county commander abused me that I am a fool, and he said I should take him anywhere I wish to. As a kenyan I only require services from civil servants, not taking them anywhere.

In spite of the above the suspect was taken to Khwisero police station where an officer at the report office declined to book the suspect, since she didn’t see the reason why the suspect was being brought to cell. This annoyed Koech (an AP Officer), who decided to book him in now for a different offense (creating disturbance). Even though this is an offense where one is supposed to be given a free bond, he was detained for another 12 hours, and only left Scot free after the wife looked for a bribe worthy kshs 2000 that was given to the police men as a transport cost. Raising Kshs. 2000 by this family is such an uphill task because they are the kind of people that usually have a single meal per day if lucky or none at all.

I find this disturbing because the Police who are supposed to protect the wananchi have become a security threat to them. They extort without care. All I want is the sub-county commander to apologize, and the above police officers to return the money they had taken from the above suspect. I need justice for one Abisai Buliba. We are willing to provide more evidence that can assist investigations.

Thank you.

CAPTION: NASA flag-bearer Musalia Mudavadi being shown the planned Fourways Junction Estate by its owner Peter Muraya.

Dear Mr Nyakundi,
I read your very interesting article titled “#SurayaPropertySham : Thieving Couple Peter & Sue Muraya On The Spot For Conning Clients”

I would like to update you on how the owners and residents of Fourways Junction have dealt with their issues with Suraya to demonstrate that we are not what you described as “the dumb 8-4-4 conditioned middle-classers, (who) took the bait, and are now counting their losses after being scammed in the Suraya Fourways Sham, executed to perfection by one greedy couple”. Perhaps the residents and owners of the Lynx at Mbagathi can learn a few lessons from Fourways Junction?

The “dumb” residents registered the Fourways Junction Residents Association (FJRA) in June 2014 and in August 2016 we took over the management of the estate away from the Suraya company that was mismanaging the affairs of the estate under the same Anne Njeri who is mentioned in the Lynx estate management. We took over estate management from Suraya after numerous warnings to them about pretty much the same issues that Lynx are dealing with. Unsubstantiated bills and huge bills from KPLC and Nairobi water, unaccountability, poor provision of services, poor customer service, theft of funds by Suraya staff, arrogance of Suraya staff etc etc? At first Suraya tried to protest and intimidate us through petty actions like collecting all the dustbins and hiding them, but at the end of the day were unable to collect service charges from residents who refused to deal with them and withheld service charges. Residents then signed notation forms to allow the residents association to administer their service charges. The Suraya management company is the future cash cow that Suraya have inbuilt into all their developments. Unfortunately for them the “dumb” residents at Fourways Junction wised up and demanded accountability and exercised their rights under the law to appoint their own managers.

FJRA then got hands-on with a very dynamic and active chairman and committee which residents had appointed representatives to. The association hired a reputable property manager who revamped accounts, security, cleanliness and through them, Fourways Junction is now boasting a safe, vibrant, clean environment with diverse, engaged, caring community unlike any other estate in Nairobi. We invite you to visit the estate to see what a difference the association has made. Kids playing in playgrounds, riding bikes on clean streets, neighbors knowing each other, talking to each other, walking with each other … visiting each other. Fourways Junction is quickly becoming an estate of choice in Nairobi, particularly with expats outpriced in Runda.

Now through FJRA, we engage with Suraya …. who are also stakeholders in FJRA. They own a number of properties in the estate, and the association is able to enforce payment of service charge by Suraya – the property managers promptly disconnect water from Suraya tenants if service charge is not paid. The association also demands from Suraya that unfinished properties are secure and maintained in a tidy manner (through payments of 50% of service charge) and also follow up with them on delivery of unfinished projects. The association has also managed to block the development of the Lynx at Fourways until Suraya have delivered on the unfinished projects at Fourways Junction including the clubhouse and swimming pool which like the Lynx are unfinished.

The association is not shy to hit Suraya where it hurts them most …. in their pockets via pursuing court cases. Suraya, from the way they operate, has a global cash flow problem, which is why they are quick to collect money from the public and slow to deliver or refund. Many of the FJRA members are lawyers and provide counsel and services pro bono.

FJRA therefore speaks for residents in all matters relating to their welfare and harnesses the efforts of residents to improve services and welfare through various committees. The association creates and enforces estate byelaws to ensure welfare for all residents and legally pursues the rights of homeowners and residents.

So hopefully the Lynx at Mbagathi and other Suraya developments can learn from Fourways to keep Suraya in line. Suraya developments may be shoddily built, but the one thing they tend to get right is location. And houses at Fourways Junction are very well designed. Owners are able to finish their units according to their standards. Lynx residents should take heart and finish their units themselves the way they would like their units finished. It hurts that after you have spent so much for a property that you have to invest more to get it habitable. …. just do it. The location is right. And it’s easier than waiting for Suraya to do it.. Get a tenant in …. then go after Suraya in court to recover your monies. It’s a long term commitment …. but in the end and together as an association, they will win.
Regards.

Watching the Romanian public take to the streets of their cities and towns in their hundreds of thousands, to protest a move by their political class of de-criminalization of certain corruption laws, and the horror stories of their citizens, you may be forgiven to imagine this was a basket-case African country. However, considering the closeness that existed between former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and former President Daniel Arap Moi, all the way until the former was summarily executed by firing squad for the crime of ‘acquiring wealth illegally’, is a pointer to the current state of Kenya.

When we talk of corruption, and in a psychological maneuver to cover it in a respectable veneer, our African minds are unable to rationalize several aspects.

The first, is the belief that Mzungu cannot be involved in corrupt activity and are sticklers to laid down financial and other procedures for the running of business. For some reason, these white people love the country and its people, deplore the corruption of the poor African sods, but somehow manage to run literal rings around these poor corrupt Africans,making billions of dollars in profits, but remain squeaky clean in the process.

The second and most widely shared and accepted fallacy is that corruption only exists in Kenya government and civil service. There is the general belief that corporate Kenya, packed with angels and proper working systems, has absolutely zero corruption.

There is nowhere more poignant to find these two myths debunked than within the largest company in East and Central Africa by turnover and corporate Kenyas blue-eyed boy -Safaricom!

It would be pointless to regurgitate here the well-known performance figures and indicators of this local success story in terms of money and accolades.

In February 2016, audit firm KPMG handed in a confidential report to Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore and Irene Miru -Head of Project management.

The first part of the report related to an ambitious project by the name ONE CAMPUS which had been suspended by Bob Collymore on 16 September 2015.

At the time of its suspension, Collymore may have had no option, and like a gangrened appendage, ordered it to be cut off. To sanitize the biggest company in the country (plus himself, we suppose) from any whiff of scandal, he invited one of the most reputable audit firms to carry out a review of systems in execution of the project.

Reputable audit firms are currently as rare as chickens’ milk in the current political dispensation. When erstwhile squeaky clean firms like Ernst & Young are being sued by Jamii Bora bank for giving misleading financial statements on the health of Uchumi or the role of audit firm PKF in the disaster that is Imperial Bank, we have much to be fearful of –but we digress…

Roy Masamba had taken up the role of Director, Resources in November 2012 and had seen the need to bring everything within the Safaricom stable under one roof, as opposed to the 4 separate sites. These included offices and call centres, a very noble suggestion. His proposal was to bring everything under a single world class facility.

This project would require the identification and acquisition of land, construction of the entire facility to World class standards with an ability to host in excess of1,990 Safaricom employees daily. It had to have adequate facilities and parking.

Enter John Tombleson (Safaricom Chief Finance Officer), a New Zealander and Richard Mureszko (Vodafone Group).

Caption :John Tombleson with CEO Bob Collymore.

In June 2016 Tombleson was reportedly recalled by Vodafone after a 5-year tour of duty and it can be surmised (despite Bob Collymores’ protestations) that the recall had everything to do with improper conduct with regard to the ONE CAMPUS and other projects.

It must be said that the 40% shareholding in Safaricom held by Vodafone gives them a lot of decision-making sway, and the one area they logically insisted upon was that they would decide who would be made head of finance at the company.

As this fiasco of Kenyan f*cking proportions unfolds from the pages of the KPMG audit report, the Kenyan shareholder cannot help feeling violated, by the sheer white collar impunity of this brazen attempt to defraud them of their money.

While Tombleson fronted a company Mentor Management Ltd (MML), Muraszko was partisan to DTZ Leadenhall as the companies that would consult for Safaricom in the acquisition and construction of the ONE CAMPUS project.

It would be instructive to note that DTZ Leadenhall had absolutely no presence in Kenya by August 2013 but was somehow expected to effectively advise Safaricom on the lay of the land locally. To circumvent this question, Safaricom supply chain (which fell under Tomblesons docket) asked another Kenyan real estate giant –Knight Frank- to quote for this consultancy.

For the avoidance of doubt, the consultancy work with went to MML.

Even more damning, is the clear trail of emails between Tombleson and MML CEO James Hoddell in January 2013, discussing the project, 7-8 months prior to commencement of any engagement. In fact, the entire idea was at conception stage. These guys get marks for vision and execution, being constantly ahead of the curve.

Unlike anywhere else, MML operated for the period without a valid contract fom Safaricom but rather through a series of purchase orders raised and varied regularly depending on how greedy the principals were feeling at the time.

MML swung into action immediately and identified got the Safaricom board to accede to 4 properties of varying sizes and locations.

The most promising properties were Nesbitt Site (probably linked to the Nesbitt family who are associated with a famous call centre) off Limuru Road, Garden City off Thika Road and another site on Eldama Ravine Road, Westlands.

To be fair, two of these sites were mere Red Herrings, to deflect from the intent and already made decision to purchase and construct at the Garden City site!

The long and short of it, Safaricom bought 4.5 acres of land at the Garden City site for the sum of Kes.1.150 Billion!!! Each acre cost the company a marvelous Kes. 230 million.

KPMG, ever the helpful, did a price comparison for adjacent land found that the most expensive piece of land, right next to the ONE CAMPUS proposed site was being off-loaded for Kes. 100 million per acre by none other than EABL!!!

We have established that the main intention had always been to purchase the land at Garden city, the question remains why?

The audit report states that MML was owned 90% by ACTIS Limited, the company that was developing Garden city mall. The business logic (before the hyper-inflation of Land and other elements) is pretty sound. To have 2000 plus Safaricom employees on-site daily would be a massive boon to the shops within the mall. Couple that with the thousands of Safaricom visitors, agents, suppliers, friends who visit daily, Garden city becomes a mini-economy.

An agency that was supposed to work in the best interests of Safaricom and by extension the people of Kenya, happened to be owned by the developers of a premier mall on Thika Road, and this agency (MML) carefully shepherded Safaricom (as though to slaughter) to this site.

What we don’t buy is the lack of complicity of the entire Safaricom Board in this fiasco and especially its CEO Bob Collymore. These guys formed themselves into an ad hoc committee, called the Steering committee and whose mandate is not clearly defined by the board.

This steering committee oversaw the clear breach of any and all known procurement procedures of the company, making utter rubbish of so-called systems in the biggest company in Kenya.

Not only did MML get the consultancy, their principal companies ACTIS and RUARAKA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT LTD sold the land to Safaricom, and in the biggest f*uck you to Kenyans, got the approval to do the actual development and construction of ONE CAMPUS!!!

These shenanigans would have continued were it not for the righteous indignation and resignation of Rob Spooner, for what he referred to as “reputational risks resulting from the exploitation of Safaricom by ACTIS…”

Spooner had come on board specifically for the ONE CAMPUS project through one of the sub-contractors- PROFICA.

Some people have probably lost their jobs while others may have dodged the bullet where the audit has been unable to find clear line of sight or paper trail. However, we cannot let Bob Collymore off the hook, the buck stops with him, doesn’t it?

Scanning through the pages of the KPMG confidential report and reading the mainstream media analysis of it subsequent to its ‘leakage’, you get the feeling that there is an attempt to shield Safaricom and the general public from each other.

Obviously self-preservation in a fast changing media industry is a strong motivator for the media considering the media buying spend available for the marketing juggernaut – Safaricom.

So, the gullible consumers of news continue to rationed despite the fact that they are also the buyers of media, they are the shareholders of media companies and more importantly shareolders of Safaricom.

Someone f*cking gets to decide what is palatable for your media consumption and what isn’t, based on commercial interest of the time.

Without serious and incisive coverage of such reports, how will the next Safaricom Finance Officer know that the public company isn’t his/her personal playground?

Enough with the rant….Let us focus on the word ‘opportunity’.

Every time a new law is crafted and enacted, especially in Kenya, it creates an opportunity for corruption. This is simply because a means has to be found to circumvent these laws and regulations. These laws create watchdogs to enforce themselves and these must be fed regularly if they are to look the other way.

Since the path of least resistance is what makes both men and river crooked, the system of laws and corruption perpetuates itself. This could be the reason that USA forsaw this scenario and included the principle of ‘limited government’ in their constitution. Red letter day!

Communications Authority of Kenya had announced clear deadlines for migration from analog to digital television. After all the shenanigans of court injunctions, political posturing and even withdrawal of service by the big broadcasters, the day finally came.

Inside Safaricom, some guys had honestly seen the opportunity made evident by Wananchi Group and with their ‘Zuku triple play’ decoders that allowed customers to watch both Free-to-Air and PayTv but also gave them unlimited internet browsing in the comfort of their homes on a single package.

Safaricom probably calculated that they could upstage the market with their own branded Set-Top-Box (STB) and mop up the remainder of the middle and upper class end of the urban market. Their STBs were never meant for the mass market.

The only handicap Safaricom probably had was that despite being the biggest regional business entity, Television content production was never their business, therefore they had to ensure that majority of the free-to-air television stations were available on their STBs.

Eventually, Safaricom launched the high profile Big-Box STB into the market.

By August 2015 however, Safaricom was forced to suspend and recall its Big-Box STBs due technical problems occasioned by “Wi-fi function NOT being strong enough to support indoor internet access”.

How did this mother of all f*ck-ups really occur? The KPMG report gives us a behind-the-scenes expose on how some greedy individuals saw an opportunity and decided to cash in on it. As with any such scenarios, weak systems and even weaker men meet at a certain point, a potent mix of the silly season and outright greed.

The procurement of the STBs was the by-product of a tender sourcing report by what is referred to as a “cross-sectional team with representations from Technology and Consumer business units”. It would good to note that the names of the members of this committee were deliberately withheld from the auditors, showing how high up the chain this rotten strand must have gone.

We have previously seen how Safaricom insiders use such ad hoc committees to sanctify their procurement actions. The only reason the names of the ‘steering committee’ in the ONE CAMPUS fiasco ever surfaced was because Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore sat on it, and some guys wanted to use this to shield themselves.

After the initial process and technical evaluations of interested suppliers, the following companies were shortlisted in order of their technical capacity to deliver a functional STB.

(1) Altech (2). ABD (3). Huawei (4). Kaon (5). Humax (5). Pace

Reasons had to be found to disqualify the strongest technical contenders from the race, the ad hoc committee already knew who they wanted for the contract. Obviously, these companies would probably be able to match their technical capacity with sound financials, so extraneous reasons had to be CONCOCTED.

In order to disqualify the 1st ranked company in the shortlist – ALTECH- it was decided that because they had previously had some engagement with competitors Kenya Data Network (now Liquid Telcom) they could not be a ‘suitable strategic partner’!!!!

We can clearly see what Safaricom holds dear, given the choice of giving its clientele a wonderful product, some obscure business relationship with an even obscurer competitor would rank higher than actual capability to deliver.

The 2nd ranked company based on technical capability –ADB – was locked out under the pretext that they were “unwilling to embed a 3G/4G module into the STBs, instead preferring to have an external dongle for this. This technical detail was said to be mandatory for Safaricom.

ADB therefore takes the medal for being the only company in the Universe that would be unwilling to bend over backwards in the interest of a big client and big business. Please note the sarcasm…

With these two out of the way, the ad hoc and shadowy tendering committee moved to phase two (2) of considering the remaining companies on the basis of the quotations they would give.

Safaricom wanted two types of STBs – a standard/regular STB and an advanced STB.

When the quotes came in, these were the rankings based on cost.

Thus, based purely on cost, KAON entered into a contract with Safaricom for the supply of 250,000 Set-top-boxes on 1st December 2014.

As happens in many such cases, the shadowy companies with insider connections, are created to rip-off the system and make a quick killing. Usually don’t have the capacity to deliver on the contract and most times cut corners to maximize on their profits.

KAON despite having a valid contract for 250,000 STBS was only able to deliver 20,000 STBs (would you believe these nutters?) and these were the units that backfired in the market. Altech and ADB must have been softly laughing in the corner somewhere, in fact had probably foreseen this would happen.

For some reason, Safaricom re-launched the Big Box STBs in November 2015 with a 50% price slash. This doubled uptake of the STBs from 1500 units to 3000 units. This was probably an attempt to kill the dead stock they were stuck with by KAON who by now had been paid for the STBs.

To illustrate the level of impunity within the company and the big F*ck you to Kenyan consumers and shareholders, Safaricom paid USD. 1,665,422 to KAON. The contract given to KAON was for USD 23.8 Million for 250,000 STBs, training and support. This just goes to illustrate the level of incompetence at play here.

Finally, clause 7.1 of the contract with KAON stipulates that all invoices raised by a supplier MUST state the PO (Purchase order) number to which the invoice relates.

The invoices raised by KAON were received on 17th March 2015, while the POs were raised a month later on 17th April 2015. Therefore, without a PO number, KAON managed to get payment for their delivery of reject STBs. Absolute insider operation.

Are these guys still in the employ of Safaricom? Is Bob Collymore still its CEO and still living in Kenya. We would only assume that this can only happen in his absence, and upon discovery, wouldn’t he be spirited away from this country? No wait! He married a local lass, probably has Kenyan citizenship to boot.

CAPTION: Bitter and sexually-frustrated feminist Betty Waitherero. 

After her failed attempt to impose a #KOT logo idea two years ago, by feigning and manipulating opinion to create a cosmetic consensus, bitter and sexually frustrated feminist Betty Waitherero is back again. She had hoped that #KOT will adopt the logo, and subliminally elevating herself as the Chairman and custodian of opinion.

Thankfully, Kenyans are extremely smart and saw through her shameless attempt to usurp and profit from their innocent online engagements. They told her categorically to take that logo and shove it up her ass. 

This time round, the conflicted Kikuyu posturing as a Somalian, wants Government to regulate social-media.

Pseudo-intellectuals in this day and age are really abusing the intelligence of their followers, because on one side, she purports to defend bloggers, while on the other she pushes for “regulation” to curtail blogging.

I don’t know where these idiots have been, but there have been two successful constitutional petitions, challenging the infringement of freedoms enshrined in the constitution, most recently last week.

But when we see moronic idiots like Waitherero, working for a few shillings to try and take Kenya back to the old days, for the sake of political expediency or financial gain, we are left to wonder if we are evolving as a race, or regressing.

The fact that she tagged Bob Collymore in her tweets shows that he is the one who is paying her, through his able “advisor” Naomi Mutua. This comes in the wake of behind-the-scenes attempts to reach an out-of-court settlement.

This shows you the two-timing nature of Corporates, who on one hand say one thing, then do the exact opposite.

Bob Collymore knows how we got here, and instead of confronting the reality, he is now hiding behind sham activists and conflicted Kikuyu’s masquerading as Somalian, trying to influence policy. Since when do foreigners dictate our laws?

We advised Collymore to stop running these parallel campaigns or trying silly stunts, but he seems to imagine that he is smart because he executed a few scams and got away with it.

With this article, we hereby declare that from Today, we will serialise the entire KPMG Safaricom Audit, from top to bottom, because we know it is the one which is causing all these ripples. We will then hashtag it and tag Vodafone in the UK, plus all law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. We know that they have oversight in dealing with corruption by British companies.

Even Nairobi Law Monthly went silent after initially running scandals at Safaricom, and yet there is no record of court-cases, gag-orders or arrests. One doesn’t need to be a brain surgeon to know what took place.

To Kenyans of goodwill out there, please note that we are not the authors of the KPMG Safaricom Audit Report. We are not creating our own theories or happenings. This is a report which is in the public domain, and with stupid journalists like Jaindi Kisero, who were paid tens of millions so as not to run it.

But when it comes to bloggers, there is this attitude by Safaricom of treating us as second-class citizens. This duplicity has to come to an end.

CAPTION: Mr. 10% Michael Joseph.

The leaked confidential KPMG dossier on the procurement weaknesses at Safaricom clearly illustrates the insider influence on virtually all the vendors and suppliers. Buffered by billions of shillings in operating profits and reserves, the company has become a self-consuming organism, everyone is on the take one way or the other.

The audit which Safaricom CEO appears to have called for unwittingly, barely scratches the surface on procurement that runs into tens of billions of shillings annually.

In the process, some employees acquired god-like status and became enslaved to the gravy-train.

The period under mercurial CEO Micheal Joseph was one of tremendous growth and dealing with a hapless competition. These other Telcos never really stood a chance.

In the process, Josephs word became law, he developed a frontier spirit, which allowed for flouting of some key procedures, in the name of the greater good of the company.

The KPMG audit only touched on the few of the key procurement heads that cumulatively add-up to billions of shillings and the picture here is not rosy. It begs the question, what of the smaller procurement bits for the running of day-to-day operations and which don’t raise red flags?

Over and over in the KPMG report, the words ‘selective tendering’ and ‘single sourcing’ hit out at you obscenely. Anything other than open tendering was clearly an avenue to play tricks and give undue advantage to a pre-determined lot of suppliers in return for some form of recompense.

The short-listing of multiple approved suppliers per category is another sordid tale, where the decision to award which job to whom depended purely on the discretion of certain individuals and who was in good books with them.

Safaricom has not had, in its 17 year history, an open system for measuring the performance of their suppliers especially those who provide services running into billions of shillings per year.

In order to keep the gravy train rolling, these suppliers have had to invest time and resources to continually court, be-friend and socialize with the decision makers, attend their occasions, drink single-malt whiskeys with them, all so that they would never forget to renew the running contracts.

Guy who supply Government tell horror stories of how easy it is to get onto the list of approved suppliers but sometimes the call to deliver or quote never comes through.

During the period under consideration, KPMG noted that one of the big cash items related to activations (customer interaction with the brand). 14 companies were invited to tender but only 7 got any work.

For the longest time it has been rumored that Mosound seems to get super preferential treatment in the award of work from Safaricom, never before have these claims been backed up by figures until this highly illuminating KPMG report.

More damning was the part of the report which concluded that the Kes. 1.2 Billion paid out during the period, Safaricom lumped together the actual activation with ‘other work’ given to these agencies.

Secondly, these ‘other jobs’ given to these agencies were never coded separately into the Oracle system thereby making the work of differentiation purely manual.

At the end of these 3-year contracts with activation agents, a new tendering process was commenced after March 2015. However, due to queries and change in strategy, this process was stopped. As a stop-gap measure, some of the contracts were extended for 5 months.

KPMG illustrates how different activation agencies were allied with different Directors or senior managers at Safaricom and who (at the exact same time) signed the renewal contracts.

The obviously most self-evident inference that we can make is that the biggest two agencies by volume of work for the period under review with well close to Kes.700 million got their renewal contracts signed off by Peter Arina (Former Safaricom No. 2 and now at EA Cables) and current Director of Risk Nicholas Mulila.

CAPTION: Shareholders of East African Cables should know that they’re in for a rude shock, with this white-collar thief Peter Arina as CEO of the company.

We will soon write a story of how Mulila handed in the report that had Peter Arina frog-marched from the Safaricom premises by security…

To revert to the earlier thread centred on the opaque procurement and vendor identification protocols at Safaricom, any current anomalies are usually a reflection of a past impunity that was taught or noted.

From KPMG report, the curious case of CELFOCUS stands out like a sore thumb, a debacle going back a decade to 2007 during the reign of his majesty Micheal Joseph. Doesn’t it make you shudder to know that he is now the Executive Chairman of Kenya Airways?

Anyhow, Safaricom required Customer relationship management third line support services in 2008. They therefore decided to identify the vendor through a closed sourcing process by inviting 4 firms. These were Satyam, ATOS origin, Celfocus and Microsoft.

After the first round of technical and other evaluations, Satyam and Microsoft were eliminated from the process for various reasons, many of which are currently irrelevant here.

The remaining two companies were evaluated based on their technical capacity and their costs with the following determination.

As would be expected, the tender committee recommended French firm ATOS Origin for the contract. The tender board upon receipt of this recommendation and report from the subordinate tender committee flatly and outrightly rejected it. They demanded that a due diligence be conducted on ATOS Origin and Satyam to determine their competence to participate in a tender of this magnitude. If you are wondering why a new due diligence on only these two firms and not the third, ditto, that makes two of us.

To further muddy the water, the tender board decided and directed that the evaluation committee should review the comprehensiveness of the Request for Proposal (RFP) and confirm that the evaluation process had not overlooked anything of importance or a critical area.

Unknown to the tender committee, CELFOCUS CEO had written privately to Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph raising serious issues and strong objections regarding the scope of the RFP and calling into question the entire tender process.

Due to the CELFOCUS complaint and the recommendation of the Tender Board, CELFOCUS and ATOS Origin were engaged in workshops and group discussions by Safaricom in March 2007 in a bid to establish gaps and deficiencies raised by CELFOCUS.

In a clear breach of protocol, Safaricom laid itself bare to these two bidders by giving them access to its (Safaricoms’) systems to enable them pin-point the or clarify what parts of the RFP were unclear.

As is normally the case in such situations, CELFOCUS were unable to pin-point any weaknesses and gaps within the scope of the RFP that they had complained about.

Subsequently, the evaluation committee received fresh proposals from these two bidders while finance did a re-evaluation based on the new proposals.

Would you believe, the new process still managed to rank ATOS Origin above CELFOCUS and the tender committee recommended them for engagement once more to the Tender Board.

The tender board stopped any pretext of objectivity and ordered the evaluation committee to conduct a specific technical evaluation, broken down into the modules that would be necessary to execute the contract on Satyam, ATOS Origin and CELFOCUS. The only reason for this new dimension can be inferred to be that in the worst case scenario, rather than lose the entire contract, some of the modules could be pawned off to one vendor and the rest to another vendor.

The tender committee had wised up by this time, so they re-issued the RFI with the new technical dimensions and corresponding cost basis in July 2007 to our 3 vendors who faithfully responded. To the tender committee, it was clear that the Tender board had someone in mind for the contract and their adherence to procedure could very well be career-limiting.

So with self-preservation on their mind, the tender committee found CELFOCUS to be best-suited for the contract because they had “a detailed program and strong technical resources…” (Yeah right).

ATOS Origin was eliminated because “their responses were not detailed”.. while Satyam lost out because “they had weaker references…” (The rest is just technical filler).

Our friends at the tender board received the report of the tender committee recommending CELFOCUS for the contract, immediately and rather gleefully concurred with the recommendation and signed the report in August 2007.

The tender board report was signed by Michael Joseph, John Barorot, Eddie Irungu and Daniel Ngobia, just to illustrate the heavy weights involved.

By 3rd October, the contract had been signed by Les Baillie (CFO) and Paul Tico from CELFOCUS.

However, in 2012 when the contract was due to expire, it was quietly renewed for another 5 years on the basis for the need for continuity. This was contained in a single sourcing justification report.

Ken Okwero, Head of Strategy at Safaricom SWORE that at the end of the 10 year monopoly by CELFOCUS, Safaricom would switch over to another more flexible system.

Then you wonder how Micheal Joseph became a ranch owner at Lewa within several years of arrival in Kenya!

Garden City Mall is right at the heart of the Safaricom ONE CAMPUS scandal, with its developers named as conspirators in the move to inflate cost of land and rip Safaricom off. 

As we continue to scour through the KPMG dossier on the procurement weaknesses (or opportunities for others, depending on which side of the feed-fest you may be currently on) over many years, it will be interesting to look beyond this report at specific individuals who remain in the company or who left but continue to live a lavish lifestyle from ill-gotten gains.

One of the most well-known of these is Hussein Mohammed, who left the position at Senior Management level with plenty of float, and rejoined society at hitherto unimaginable status.

He went on to vie for the post of Football Federation Chairman, was involved in the Kenya@50 organising committee, fronted by Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario and more recently, it would appear, he migrated with the same kleptocratic tendencies he picked up at Safaricom to the new Sportpesa-affiliated lottery, Pambazuka.

However, and with great sensitivity to our readers heightened racial sensibilities, but which we seem unable to help, going by how sloppily we continue to manage and govern ourselves.

In the 2012 movie DJANGO UNCHAINED by Quentin Tarantino and starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson (in the sterling performance of an uppity ‘house Nigga’). A specific part of this Southern Western movie appears to condense the general perception of black people (or people of African origin).

When Stephen (Samuel L Jackson) the house nigga finally figures out that Django (Foxx) and Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) were actually on the farm to purchase a single particular slave, Hildi (Kerry Washington) and draws the attention of the plantation owner and slave-keeper Monsieur Calvin (DiCaprio) to this fact, an in a well-orchestrated melt-down, Calvin paints this worrying picture.

With a human skull placed on the table infront of him, which he claimed was from Stephens’  own grandfather, who had served his (Calvins) grandfather and father previously. He claims that when the skulls of a black and a white man are pried open, one particular difference is found. In the black man’s skull, 2 nodes are found, specifically around the zone that surgeons at the time determined, control submissiveness.

The Skull of the white man would apparently not have similar nodes, thus it could be argued that the white man, in his perverse sense of manifest destiny to conquer America, was justified to use black labour. Why then would God place these nodes in the skull of Black men, if not to make them submissive enough to use as labour and cannon fodder for making the new world great?

I must admit that this was the part of the movie that completely spoilt it for me, however, it’s also the part that got me to evaluate our culture and predispositions in a new light.

Going through this KPMG report, am constrained to differentiate between how White and Black greed were conceived and executed. Greed is greed and with in-excess of Kes. 300 Billion shillings in procurement being disputed and raising various questions, this micro economy in the hands of a few must have had an impact on the economic well-being of the entire country.

We look to sample the two previously reviewed projects that came a cropper, the ONE CAMPUS and BIG BOX procurements and how they were executed.

The ONE CAMPUS procurement fiasco was basically a Mzungu enterprise, conceptualized and executed almost entirely by white executives from Vodafone, MML and Actis Limited.

For the avoidance of doubt, the coming on board of Roy Masamba as Director of Resources in November 2012 was probably not the beginning of this thought-process. We believe that it was bequeathed to him by the real master-minds of the scheme, the trio of CFO John Tombleson, Vodafones’ Richard Muraszko and MMLs’ James Hoddell.

To review this scheme, we note the take-no-prisoners attitude from concept to execution.

Eight (8) months before the real work on the project concept began, there was already communication between Tombleson and Hoddell. The later was already associated with Garden City Estate who had already planned to build a mega mall  and housing scheme at this venue.

The role of these gentlemen was to lead Bob Collymore right smack into this caper, these guys controlled every aspect of the deal. They knew too that Bob was distracted, he didn’t appear to be the same, even distracted, since he attended the fundraiser for Loreto Convent Msongari on behalf of Safaricom Foundation. ‘ello, was that a spring in his step lately? He was also distracted by all these philanthropic initiatives like Kenyans 4 Kenya and Bring Zack Back. GinaDin was Michael Joseph’s agent, sent to distract Bob Collymore to facilitate of contracts which were still pending by the time of transition.

To show the deviousness of these Wazungu, their intention was to sell Safaricom their own land at an inflated cost of 2.5 times the existing market value, at Garden City Mall. They had rigged the system to ensure that their own companies would get the tender to construct the physical HQs at prices way above market rate.

They had schemed this entire scam from start to finish, the coup de grace was that when both the Safaricom HQs and Garden City Mall were complete, it would create a self-perpetuating symbiosis that would see absolute value for the tenants of the mall by bringing these thousands of employees and visitors to their doorstep daily. Safaricom employees would also be much more likely to take up the occupation of the apartments either as tenants or as owners.

That is how these Wazungu had schemed the entire project from inception to conclusion.

What was the role of their supporting cast of African accomplices? Did Roy Masamba (Director of Resources) and Dr. David Kinuu (Head of Human Resources) have a role to play in the unfolding plan or were they kept somewhere in a box, removed occasionally to do the masters bidding?

Did they get ka-kitu for their trouble or were they expected to play ball in return for their continued stay in employment and enjoyment of salary and perks?

The only other African named in the report with regards to the ONE CAMPUS affair was one Martin Koome Gikunda, a Stanford graduate and Director of Actis, the owners of the Garden City project and owners of MML, Safaricom consultants to boot.

Compare the high thinking conceptualization and execution of the ONE CAMPUS project to the outright moronic and predatory thinking (obviously African) in the BIG BOX scam.

For instance, CAK (previously CCK) had made known its intention for digital switchover, years in advance. The fact that Kenya would go fully digital was simply a matter of “when” and not “if”.

The Zuku triple play TV/Internet option was already known in the market for several years before the push for digital migration. Anyone intent on competing in this space had ample time to cobble together a concept, procure without pressure, test the hardware to ensure it works and give Kenyans (many of whom are shareholders and thus would be naturally inclined to the product) at first rate product, in-keeping with the high standards that Safaricom like to claim aspiration to.

CAPTION: Bob Collymore and Sylvia Mulinge, while launching the Big Box units. They later malfunctioned, occasioned by reckless greed by Safaricom’s tender committee’s. 

This was an entirely African caper from inception to execution as evidence by the sloppiness in virtually every element. Secondly, these guys were Safaricom insiders, high enough the chain of command to force certain things through without the knowledge of Bob Collymore. These guys had learnt well from Big Daddy Micheal Joseph on how to bulldoze their preferred supplier through the system, by using selective tendering.

You will notice that none of the names of the people involved appeared in the KPMG dossier as the names were never forwarded to the auditors.

The rush execute this started with the deadline by CAK, giving very little time to develop the concept fully. Our guys at Safaricom love this kind of short lead times, emergencies allow them to pass paperwork very quickly.

Identification of a Korean company KAON, to deliver the STBs and the subsequent games played by the tender committees to lock out the strongest competitors.

Finally, the least ranked supplier got the tender and managed to supply 20,000 units out of contracted possible 250,000 units. The question remains of African psyche, why go through all the motions of criminal negligence and favouritism to deliver and get paid for only 20,000 units for USD I millions while you could have delivered everything and be paid USD 23.8 Million? That is Kes. 100 million versus a possible Kes. 2.4 billion…?

Our friends then rushed through the payment for the 20,000 units, leaving a clear audit trail of misdeeds, got a small cut from the proceeds of payment. They probably later met at some of the uptown joints, high-fived each other after sharing their small cut, drank expensive single malt, and got blown in the parking lot, before going home feeling heroic.

Which of these two sets of people would you propose to be locked up, to play sucky-fucky with Omondi and Kamau in Cell block D at Kamiti, purely for lack of ambition?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Mzungu and Africans differ with each other in terms of vision, follow through and execution, whether for good or for evil and played out right in front of our eyes at our very own Safaricom Limited.

Maybe Calvin from the movie Django Unchained was onto something there, Africans are created with submissiveness worked into our DNA, probably the reason we have sat happily as two generations of Kenyattas, one generation of Moi’s and one generation of Kibaki’s has stood their post as their friends and accomplices literary raped this country for 53 years.

Now they all want to come back for seconds.

CAPTION: Doctors Union (KMPDU) officials, after a Jubilee judge sentenced them to one month jail time. 

CAPTION: Behind the 20 Billion Dam Heist is none other than this alumni from the St. Mary’s School of Corruption, Njee Muturi. 

Another alumni from the St. Mary’s School of corruption Njee Muturi is on the spot. Being the godfather and person behind the appointment of Eugene Wamalwa as Water Minister, it goes without saying that this next project is their cash-cow.

They now want an unqualified contractor, one with no capacity and one who won’t complete the project, to make this massive undertaking, in a near-replica scenario as Safaricom’s procurement strategies of using red-herrings, while the final outcome is predetermined.

PUBLIC INTEREST ALERT

Subject Matter: Intent to embezzle public funds and Procurement misconduct

Public Entity: National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation

Project: CONSTRUCTION OF SOIN-KORU MULTIPURPOSE DAM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Contract No: NWCPC/RFP/016/2016-17 NWCPC/RFP/015/2016-17

Contract Award: Pending

Project Value: Approximately 20 Billion (calculated from bid bond requirement)

RED FLAG

Contract No: NWCPC/RFP/016/2016-17

Consultant: RUNJI AND PARTNERS LTD

Number of Bidders: 3

Name of Bidders:

1. Sinohydro Corporation Ltd ( China) _Failed to meet technical requirements

2. Sinotech Co Ltd ( China)_Failed to meet technical requirements

3. FRABO Construction Ltd (Kenya)

Technical Evaluation Result:

The technical evaluation committee reported a single successful bidder ‘’FRABO Construction Ltd, NBO’’

Justification for Disqualification

Failure to include all mandatory documentation in technical bid

Query?

1. How do two international contractors with a long history in the Kenyan market fail to submit basic documentation?

2. It is peculiar that two out of three contractors that qualify for the construction of projects of this magnitude are disqualified on the exact same basis.

3. It is of great concern that after multiple reviews of the RFP documentation there was no clear instruction to bidders to include the documentation stated as mandatory documentation by the evaluation team within the Technical bid. The entity did not forward the two Chinese firms a clarification letter as is standard practice to confirm if the documents were included in the Financial bid.

a. Is it a coincidence that Frabo was the only contractor not to violate these unstated mandatory requirements?

To the trained eye it is clear that Frabo is reading from a different script. This said the basis for disqualification is unjust, the first priority of any procuring entity is to ensure:

1. Cost effective services

2. Capacity of successful bidder – Usually this is based on case studies/ history (Frabo has only constructed Chemususu Dam in the history of the company’s operational history. The project was marred with a series of issues relating to; price inflation, quality of works, Service delivery time frame variations, local component and corruption allegations)

3. Service delivery within the contract period

The points used to disqualify the Chinese firms do not directly impact their ability to meet the key mandate of the procuring entity. If the entity could not find a solution to the 3 points used to invalidate the international bids, the procurement process should have been halted and the tender reissued. A simple risk assessment would have indicated that continuing with the current procurement process based on Frabo’s track record would cost the tax payer more in the long term than simply re-tendering the project and ensuring that several qualified contracts progress to the financial evaluation stage. After all the tendering system was put in place to ensure competitive bidding to drive down the cost of infrastructure development?

Frabo Construction Ltd

Water sector History:

1. Badasa Dam: Nullified by PPOA

The project was awarded to Frabo & company at a sum of Ksh 1,476,833,109.76. The award was later appealed by Midroc Water Drilling Company

Review Number: 36/2008 of November, 2008

2. Chemususu Dam:

This is a story well told but somewhat forgotten. The award of Chemususu Dam resulted in the fall of National water conservation and pipeline corporation…..This is quite literal as their offices located on Mombasa were destroyed in a fire. The fire though reported as an accident destroyed all evidence of embezzlement and intent to defraud GOK. This chain of events saw headlines such as:

1. Daily Nation: Sh6 billion looted in bogus water contracts – Monday March 21 2011 (It is intriguing that even though Frabo has been linked to several corruption cases in National Water, however, they continue to have the confidence to impede and manipulate public procurement without consequence).

I strongly urge the media to reopen the conversation of the past and shine light upon the never-ending cycle of misconduct that surrounds large Kenyan contractors. You continuously produce headline based on corruption but you seem to ignore the conduits of corruption. The vehicles of embezzlement and the outright incompetence of the KRA, CBK and other financial entities that are supposed to be drawing light to embezzlement and public procurement fraud. These entities should be the first to question how a Kenyan company meets the financial requirements of large scale international tenders? The conversation needs to shift form politicians who are relics and will become irrelevant with the passage of time and shift to the following simple question of HOW?

1. How does a Kenyan company score higher technical marks than their international competitors or consortium’s with decades of experience and experts that number in their thousands?

2. How does a Kenyan company have enough experts under their employment to meet the criteria of new infrastructure development tenders when even the government seems to have a problem sourcing local experts?

3. How does a company jump from a project of x amount to another tenfold that of their previous contract? Does this make any economical, logical or legal sense?

Simply Ask How?

The Kenyan public must take action against local contractors that continue to manipulate procurement processes in order to secure themselves lucrative contracts. Dams have the potential to be lucrative business opportunities for construction companies, however, they are also very high risk projects. The risk derived from the possibility of Dam failure usually attributed to errors during construction. Now while failure comes in many forms and in most cases, provides sufficient time to evacuate the local population. In some cases, it can be spontaneous and the results devastating. Dam construction should not be treated with the same casual attitude Kenya has shown to road construction or more recently SGR.

Though a dam provides many economic and social benefits we must be aware that they are essentially a ticking time bomb in your backyard (Look up current news on Dam failure in California). The truth is no local contractor has the qualification, capacity, experience or expertise to execute the construction of a Large Dam. This can only be attained by strategic partnerships with foreign firms…..we cannot continue to ignore incompetence in the name of patriotism/ support for local businesses. If our contractors cannot adapt to international competition in legal and innovative ways, then perhaps the fall of those companies is exactly what we require to provide room for a new generation of innovative Kenyan owned companies.

I encourage the public to monitor procurement processes…..research the bidders and demand answers when you see a serious breach in logic, law, financial sense and perhaps the Kenya you love will stand the test of time. Strong public involvement in procurement processes is the solution to the lack or principle and morals that plague our country. The answer is not a change in leaders …. the citizen holds the power to change how things are done not through your vote but by holding your leaders accountable for how public funds are spent…..when will Kenya wake up…stop participating in the never ending dance that is politics and focus on matters that can be quantified/ reasoned/ questioned / punished…… for while you participate in politics on twitter whats’app and other social media forums your future is being stolen.

CAPTION: A quote from Esther Villar’s critically-acclaimed book, “The Manipulated Man.” 

Men continue getting the short end of the stick, by engaging in these annual rituals of spending money and precipitating consumerism, all in a bid to woo and sleep with a woman, who won’t go out of her way to make your sexual-encounter extra special.

Kenyan women are the least creative in bed, with zero foreplay skills, zero acrobatic skills and no accompanying soundtracks to boot. Some of us are on Instagram and for instance on the WorldStar Hiphop page, there is a daily clip of women doing fitness/stretches/yoga, and you will be surprised by the thick women doing stretches, splits and other exciting thing.

Kenyan women don’t know how to dress in the bedroom, how to get their freak on, how to give head or even positions. Only a very small percentage of naturally gifted “freaks” exist in Kenya.

But what is rare in Kenya, seems like a flooded commodity/product in the US. And thanks to social-media, Kenyan men have finally come to the realisation that we are being overpriced for substandard “goods” by Kenyan women, whose biggest skillset is whining and asking for MPesa.

Feminism has been misrepresented by the marketing machinery, purely for commercial purposes. Movies and music videos have consistently painted Valentines as the day men have to inflict serious damage on their financial health, in pursuit of the same boring Pussy from boring Kenyan women.

CAPTION: Some of the emotional/subliminal tactics women use to undermine men’s self-worth. 

The day helps move volume’s in consumer spending, from luxury items to services, all in pursuit of tired-ass Kenyan bitches, who don’t know how to act/play the part. Many are only familiar with two sex positions (missionary and doggy) and will never go out of their way to please their men, because it’s been imprinted in their DNA’s that giving man Pussy, is a great favour, which must come with some sort of financial recompense.

Women going on dates with men make it look like it’s a big favour they’re doing humanity, as many prefer to moonlight, solicit for “bids” from various men and then pick on the most enticing one based on value/amount of spending.

But this pursuit of vanity is all a fallacy, and men should stop being trapped in this illusion, because women should also meet you halfway. This whole entitled attitude Kenyan women have, that some man must meet all these roles, from being their sponsor, private masseuse, sex-toy and worst of all, play father due to the unresolved “daddy issues” is all in the mind.

CAPTION: Activist against feminism Esther Villar saw through this warped concept of manipulating men, by feigning weakness, emotions and tears. 

Men have to stop this dependence on Pussy as a way of life. This desperate pursuit of different bitches to lay, has led many to financial ruin, and as you will all notice, none of those women will ever come to your rescue in the unfortunate event of your financial constraints.

Women in other parts of the world meet their men halfway, and go the extra length’s to make their men be the best that they can be.

Kenyan women will never buy you even a plate of chips because some feminist mother-hen, told them that it’s a man’s job. Yet they don’t know that in the 1st world, it’s the other way round. For instance this concept of going Dutch involves people splitting bills equally. So when you go on a date, both parties pay bills.

So with all the strides we have made as regards to women empowerment, from including them into the wage-economy, allocating special elective seats, partitioning tenders specifically for them and the likes, these bitches still want to feign “weakness” under the umbrella of feminism, to extort men?

CAPTION: Don’t listen to society’s prescription of success. Sometimes you’re being set-up for failure. Women, especially the promiscuous Kenyan women looking for a sponsor, doesn’t add any value to man’s life. 

So the whole “women empowerment” cause is a contradiction and a convenient argument used when it suits these bitches? On one hand they want equal rights in the workplace, and on the other hand, want to be treated as “women” when it comes to paying bills or buying gifts?

These bitches can’t even buy a man a gift on his birthday. I don’t know who taught them how to be so shady.

The hypocrisy of our democracy is real.

Men, you don’t have to be tagged along this conceited interpretation of feminism. Be bold and walk away from these latter-day extortion schemes. Only expend your time, resources, to the most deserving of women. Send your mum or sister flowers for Valentines. Splurge on your plutonic female friends that always have your back.

Don’t waste your money trying to impress entitled women who think the world owes them a favour.

Watch this video where a man snaps, when despite his effort to get his woman expensive gifts for Valentines, all she offers him back is (mediocre) sex.

CAPTION: Bob Collymore during his lavish wedding to Wambui Kamiru. 

We continue to sift through the technical mumbo-jumbo and tens of pages of explanatory excrement from the staff at Safaricom in the KPMG dossier, hoping to bring you a truly lucid and vivid picture of the official goings-on behind the curtain at the undisputed Kenyan money-spinner.

However, every so often, and confounded by the brazenness of the outright thievery we cannot help but ponder as to the “original sin” that started this company down the road to perdition, where its employees have sold their souls to the devil in return for several pieces of silver.

Mother company –VODAFONE- appears to have bought into the stereotype that Kenya (like any other African country) is hopelessly corrupt and anyone wishing to do any serious business, must be ready to ‘play ball’.

We saw for ourselves the determination of the Serious Fraud Office in the UK, for the successful prosecution and conviction of the officials of Smith and Ouzman Ltd for the crimes of bribery, in inducing Kenyan election officials to award them business in the printing of electoral ballots.

Despite a three year hiatus since the convictions of Christopher and Nicholas Smith in 2014, we saw with our own very eyes last week, the arrest of the ever sulky James Oswago, the immediate former CEO of the IEBC and more interestingly, Trevy Oyombra, a misguided young broker for Smith and Ousman Ltd.

Does someone need to make formal complaint to the SFO to occasion the opening of an enquiry file into the dealings of UK firms like Vodafone in self-evident fraudulent activities overseas?

Moreover, it’s becoming quite clear that we may have seriously underestimated current Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore, taken in by his geeky and polished demeanor. It is becoming clear from the KPMG report that all these crazy “deals” couldn’t have happened without his having an inkling, but as a new CEO, was powerless to do anything, having inherited an entire infrastructure from his mercurial predecessor, Michael Joseph.

How else would you characterize the manner in which he kicked in the door of a home (ostensibly one that had problems, like any other in the World) and made away with the wife of another, and subsequently wed her in a lavish ceremony, attended by among others, the major suppliers to Safaricom and who have made a cameo appearance in the KPMG dossier?

CAPTION: “I got her mate!”, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore appears to be saying to Scanad CEO Bharat Thakrar during his white only wedding. Collymore married his love, Wambui Kamiru.

In the case of Bob Collymore, he noted very early in his stewardship the underhand dealings being carried out by members of his board and senior management. He probably believed that these people would be a hindrance to his forging a personal brand for himself, a managerial style that suited him but most importantly, they had created individual fiefdoms within the Safaricom ecosystem, where he would never have command despite being the CEO.

To speak like a Kenyan, Bob Collymore realized that he could not ‘eat’ comfortably with all these powerful vested interests in place, thus he needed to shake the tree. So, like a female Praying Mantis normally bites off the head of the male after mating, Bob Collymore ordered the KPMG audit with which he used to quietly remove some of the more powerful individuals within the organization.

So out went the like of New Zealander John Tombleson to be replaced by Sateesh Kamath, while the eviction of likes of Peter Arina and Pauline Warui allowed the sun’s rays to settle on the more agreeable likes of Stephen Chege and Janet Atika who would probably never have seen these positions in the old dispensation.

Bob Collymore had pulled off a major coup, in one fell swoop, found love brewed in an African pot and more recently had the Board approve an extension of his tenure as Safaricom CEO.
However, the KPMG report appears to have triggered an instant reaction, with Kenyans in London protesting along the sidelines of the International Conference against Corruption. Vodafone barred Collymore from attending the conference where he was slated to be key resource person.

CAPTION: Kenyans protesting against Bob Collymore and Safaricom corruption outside the venue of the International Conference against Corruption.

The ‘original sin’ with regard to VODAFONE and its acquisition of Safaricom relates to the matter of a super-shadowy company by the name MOBITELEA. This company somehow acquired 12.5% shareholding in VODAFONE Kenya Ltd, which in turn acquired 40% stake in Safaricom.
So shadowy was this company that it became part of parliamentary debate early in the Kibaki Presidency. Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph and all Directors of Vodafone Kenya Ltd denied any knowledge of Mobitelea Ventures.

There was speculation at the time that Mobitelea Ventures had something to do with Former 1st Son Gideon Moi and other KANU orphans. These posers certainly made a tidy sum from the dividends of Safaricom.

From there, it was open season on the company with anyone in a position of influence out to exact as much from the company as possible, within the shortest time possible.

However, and probably in a legal maneuver to deflect interest of the SFO in UK over questions about how individuals used a company with UK domicile to fraudulently acquire a stake in a company that had gone public, VODAFONE Kenya Ltd re-acquired the shares from Mobitelea.
By this time Mobitelea had earned billions in Dividends for its shareholders and hundreds of millions for its Directors and nominees.

Our colonial masters are happy to vary their own rules where it suits them, simple hustlers like Smith and Ouzman Ltd will get the Magna Carta hurled at them, while the misdeeds of the likes of Vodafone, with a bigger imprint on Her Majesty’s exchequer, would find absolution and even encouragement from the relevant English authorities.

By 2015, months before the KPMG audit was commissioned, media was awash with stories of Lebanese technology firm Mobinet losing out on a Kes. 1 Billion Contract on the basis of offering bribes to Safaricom employees.

We will continue with our serialization of the KPMG report, and feedback we are getting sent to us by Safaricom insiders on continued schemes to defraud this company.

You can easily bring down an entire building by chipping away at it brick by brick, an adage that Safaricom and its people should remember. It doesn’t take a 9.8 Richter scale earthquake.

The Kenya Airline Pilots Association (KALPA), umbrella body of pilots flying the national carrier Kenya Airways, today lent their support towards the on-going doctor’s strike, which has rattled the Jubilee regime.

Jailed for standing firm, by a judge bribed by the Jubilee regime, the doctors resolve was tested to the furthest limits, and now they have crossed the psychological barrier, setting a new precedent for industrial action.

Previously union officials used to call for industrial action, and use it to extort monies from Government or companies they represented. But KMPDU, having learnt from past mistakes, was not bowing to pressure, including bribery attempts in Mombasa where they had been “summoned” for some brown envelopes.

KALPA is perhaps the most notorious union, second only to KNUT when it comes to getting hopes of its membership high, only to be bribed and calling off strikes in rapid succession.

KALPA officials have stood by and watched Titus Naikuni cannibalize Kenya Airways, and now they are in bed with Michael Joseph, who from his history at Safaricom, is set to finish the little that Naikuni left. Unlike the telecommunications industry, aviation has many players who perhaps won’t be swayed by the monopolistic tendencies Joseph is familiar with.

CAPTION: Dumb pilots were bribed to call off their strike by Transport CS James Macharia. 

These same KALPA union officials were misled to believe that Kenya Airways CEO would be sacked before June. It’s now February and the eating-fest between Joseph and Mbuvi Ngunzi continues in earnest. The expensive leases where we hear the Kenyatta Family in involved, continue to drain KQ coffers, keeping ticket prices high.

One would see their young, polished demeanour and think that these pilots are very smart, but flying planes apparently isn’t a preserve of the smartest tools in the shed. Ronald Karauri the former KALPA Secretary General was complicit in enabling Titus Naikuni obliterate KQ coffers.

However, we hope that those dumb KALPA fuckers have learnt their lesson, because we don’t expect them to behave like assholes whose work is to extort money from Government. Pieces of shit like Wilson Sossion and Francis Atwoli. We now want these revolutionary unions to cease any affiliation with COTU because Atwoli just uses it for his own private gain.

Pilots need to convene a Special General Meeting and immediately elect new KALPA officials, who will represent their interests with clarity and finality, unlike this current office whose work is to solicit for bribes from Transport CS James Macharia in exchange for calling off strikes.

Our generation of young people are the ones who will change Kenya for the better, because we don’t need these greedy, shameless self-promoters, who are attracted to life on the fast-lane and would be excited by the prospect of a cash windfall from such dubious extortion schemes. It’s time we start moving away from old motherfuckers like Wilson Sossion and Francis Atwoli.

Dumb Luhya’s who reckon that Atwoli can be a spokesman of that community, are no different from moronic Kikuyu imbeciles, who spend their days bootlicking the Uhuru Kenyatta business empire as if it’s theirs. Grow up you stupid Luhya’s! How do you allow Atwoli to speak on your community’s behalf? He tried to extort doctors, and they showed him the middle-finger. Even the Court of Appeal has removed them from the negotiating panel and instead forwarded Law Society of Kenya and Kenya National Human Rights Commission.

Because Francis Atwoli is just a retarded wanker and extortionist extra-ordinaire. He just thrives on bribing journalists to posture as some sort of enigma, but he’s just a mere extortionist.

CAPTION: One of Kenya’s most brilliant minds Mwalimu Mati penned this powerful analysis of today’s happenings at Uhuru Park. Mati is not a fake analyst like Mutahi Ngunyi of the NYS-fame.  

Caption : Edwin Kigen Who was Murdered in Madaraka Estate. We demand for answers from Boinnet !

Another young man may have been brutally assaulted and left for dead early Saturday morning,18th of February. The incident begun on the morning of Saturday 18th, when the brother was informed that Edwin Kigen aged 22 and a 4th year Student of The University of Nairobi had passed away and that the family should come identify his body at MADARAKA ESTATE AGAPE COURT BLOCK 88C.

The guards in the estate who were manning about 50m from the scene claim that he fell from the 3rd floor window of the building having tied a cable on his waist. Upon investigation it was found out that the said window had grills and it was impossible to fall to the ground from the 3rd floor window, the narrative then changed and the guards claimed that he threw himself from the roof and hit the 3rd floor window and finally the ground leading to his death.

The following scenarios cast doubt on the nature of death.

1. Who would climb to the roof of a building in an estate he has never been in just to throw himself to the ground?

2. How is it logical to fall 5 stories down a building and not break a single bone in the body? And have only one injury point (back left) of the head.

3. Why did the guards let his body lie there till morning as he bled to death instead of alerting the nearest hospital (Nairobi West Hospital) which is just 5 minutes drive?

4. Where were the residents of this building at the time of the incident and might they be involved as well?since none of them offered to help…no one- even bothered to call an ambulance?

5. Where were the police? Is it logical for Police to arrive 2 hrs later to a scene that’s 10min away. (Nyayo Police Post)…also (Nairobi West Police Post) Both 10min away?

6. Why did it take the Police an additional 2 hours before the Family was 1st called to the scene of the accident? Making it a total of over 4 hours.

7. Could the cable found tied on the deceased waist have been used to tie him up? Could the stones found beside his body have been used to hit him on the back of his head leading to the deceased bleeding to death.

A lot of questions are left asked than answered.

EDWIN KIGEN was a young vibrant man, full of life and a very brilliant entrepreneurial mind and it’s a big blow not only to the family but to Kenya as a whole.

Caption : The Lively Times Of Edwin Kigen before he was Murdered 

Real foul play is sensed on his demise.

#justiceforkigen

CAPTION: Where the body was laying upon arrival to the scene

CAPTION: Cable that was tied on the victims waist when family arrived at the scene. Guards claimed that the victim was using the said cable to bring himself down from the roof. (Movie style)

CAPTION: Where night guards claimed the late Edwin threw himself from

CAPTION: Window that the guards claim the late Edwin hit as he fell from the roof

CAPTION: Occurrence report book. 

CAPTION: The modified agricultural aircraft Kenya is spending 40 Billion for, yet Doctors are only asking for 8 Billion raise in their salaries. What they use for crop-dusting is what we are depleting our cash-reserves to acquire under the guise of “fighting” Al Shabaab.

The Air Tractor AT-802 is an agricultural aircraft that may also be adapted into fire-fighting or armed versions. It first flew in the United States in October 1990 and is manufactured by Air Tractor Inc. The AT-802 carries a chemical hopper between the engine firewall and the cockpit and another one under the belly. In the U.S., it is considered a Type III SEAT, or Single Engine Air Tanker.

But the Kenya Airforce (KAF) had not initially wanted to purchase these Air Tractors, and were instead seeking to upgrade their transport aircrafts.

The Kenya Government has misused the war against Al Shabab to perpetuate flagrant abuses on human rights, plus embed corruption under that guise. They realised how susceptible the United States Government is when it comes to its catchword “terrorism” and have used this line to bait and blackmail them into accommodating their greed for money.

Yet various occurrences show that it’s the Head of State who ignored advanced-intelligence, to almost want these terrorist attacks to happen so as to solicit cheap-sympathy and use the “cause” to seek support from Western countries. He was on a flight to go merrying in Abu Dhabi in the height of a terrorist attack, while in another instance, he continued meeting KEPSA corporate extortionists while students at Garissa University were being slaughtered, and didn’t provide transport to the elite Recce Squad.

On 19 January the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the possible sale of up to twelve Air Tractor AT-802L and two AT-504 trainer aircraft, weapons, technical support to Kenya in a deal that could be worth up to $418 million.

The prime contractor in this fishy deal would be L-3 Communications, Platform Integration Division, Waco, Texas. The AT-802L Longsword, developed in conjunction with L-3 and Air Tractor, is based on the previous militarised AT-802U, but features a number of improvements.

But prior to this announcement made a few hours before President Barrack Obama handed over office to Donald Trump, the Kenya Airforce had embarked on a three year scouting mission for the best transport aircraft including attending airshows.

The Kenya Air Force had attended airshows in Africa, (Nigeria and South Africa) and the rest in Dubai, Farnborough (England), Le Bourget (Paris), Airshow China 2014, among others.

The main reason was to scout for new aircrafts, mainly to be used for transport, since KAF’s Buffalo aircraft squadron was unable to service this huge transport aircraft anymore.

By then, Gen J Otieno, currently Kenya’s Ambassador to Egypt was the commander of the Kenya Air Force.

During these visits to the Air Shows, the command had settled for a Bombardier Aircraft but immediately after change of guard, when Gen Otieno and Karangi were sacked by President Uhuru Kenyatta, the tune changed.

General Samuel Thuita, current commander KAF took over and changed the all processes and recommended Air Tractors and Hugh Helis after sending his stooge to the US.

CAPTION: Samuel Thuita of the Kenya Air Force.

According to highly placed military sources, Samuel Thuita was appointed to front the interests of President Uhuru Kenyatta in these high-level purchases. The trio who maneuver these deals with direct communication and under the direction of the President include Defence Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Solicitor General Njee Muturi. The trio are routinely spotted at five-star hotels in Nairobi, wining and dining on boutique cuisine and choice drinks, while negotiating cuts from these deals.

This trio should by now be banned from entering the US for corruption, if this socialite-ambassador Robert Godec could do his job, instead of just hosting animal rights-activists and civil-society for cocktail parties at his residence.

CAPTION: Henry Rotich flanked by Njee Muturi whose name we have been bumping into of late. It’s not good to have your name on the radar of bloggers. You can never win that fight Mr. Njee.

We are in possession of correspondence dating back to 2013, where the proposal to upgrade the transport fleet of the KAF was mooted. One is from China and another from France’s Eurocopter, through the Military Attache of the French Embassy in Nairobi.

Indeed, to prove that this was a shoddy deal typical of everything which has happened under the tenure of Uhuru Kenyatta, the thief who has left his mother to run the country while portraying his Deputy William Ruto as the high-priest of corruption, the deal has been questioned by the US Congress. Uhuru has been portraying himself as the “helpless” President under-siege from Ruto, so that he can project the hopeless Kalenjin as the High Priest of Corruption through his Statehouse propaganda outfit.

A US congressman has asked for the sale of 12 Air Tractor aircraft to Kenya to be halted while allegations of faulty contracting practices, fraud, and unfair treatment are investigated.

On 14 February US Representative Ted Budd introduced a resolution to halt the Foreign Military Sale of the Air Tractors to Kenya. “The proposed sale would reward a $13 billion company L-3 that has never produced airplanes of this type and would cost $283 million dollars more than a small business in North Carolina Iomax, which is currently producing the needed aircraft,” Budd stated.

“This is at least the third instance the disabled veteran-owned NC contractor Iomax was passed over, despite its ability to deliver a more cost-effective option.

“My office has received credible allegations of faulty contracting practices, fraud, and unfair treatment surrounding this sale. Given that this proposed contract was decided without competition, to a company that has no experience or track record producing this kind of aircraft, and for a price that is more than double what a contractor in our district has quoted, further investigation is definitely in order.

“The resolution I introduced today would halt this sale, and give the Congress time to look into these troubling allegations. We need to ensure that Kenya, a longtime ally, is getting a fair deal, and that veteran-owned small businesses in our state aren’t getting shut out of competition because of government favouritism towards giant contractors.”

Budd said that Iomax claims it can fulfil the contract for $180 million, and it has 48 weaponized border patrol aircraft in service, as opposed to zero for L-3. Politico notes that if adopted, Budd’s measure would be the first time Congress votes to block a foreign arms sale since 1986. His resolution has been passed to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Attached, see correspondence to show that communication with various companies had commenced, and that this Air Tractor deal was a last-minute afterthought by people intending to defraud both the Kenyan and American people.

We have concealed telephone numbers and email addresses for the French Military Attache at their Nairobi Embassy, and also contacts of the Eurocopter officials as a gesture of goodwill, for future business collaboration. We have also blurred contacts of Chinese Military supplier Catic on the same grounds.

The question is, why must all our tax money be going to purchase suspect military hardware under the guise of “fighting” Al Shabab? Isn’t this line becoming stale? Why is the US Government allowing this transaction to go through?

We have unsuccessfully tried to contact the Kenya Airforce for clarification to no avail. We also welcome other interested parties to provide us with any extra information. We advise the Airforce Commander to not hire bots like Dennis Itumbi to run parallel campaigns otherwise we will reveal even more damning reports if he does so, which will be damaging to his career and the image of the Airforce.

We are tired of this Jubilee propaganda machinery!

CAPTION: Butt-Naked Kikuyu Woman who was murdered by Kamba’s in Machakos Town. 

A group of Kamba men took the law into their own hands, and mob-justiced a Kikuyu Woman in Machakos, with the video going viral on social media.

The woman had apparently spiked someone’s drink with the sleep-inducing drug, where women especially those who live in the Zimmerman/Githurai area, have perfected the art of drugging men and then robbing them off their valuables.

But what is most disturbing is the tribal connotations in the video, with the Kamba crowd getting more vexed with the tribe of the woman.

The moment they heard that she’s a Kikuyu, the Kamba’s became even more hostile, preferring to take the law into their own hands, dispensing mob-justice and murdering the Kikuyu Woman

This incident comes at a time when there was tribal tension between Kamba’s and Kikuyu’s, who clashed in Machakos town today, citing “encroachment” of their land by “foreigners” . NASA luminary Johnstone Muthama is normally the architect of such tribal Hate-Speech, and speculation is rife that he funded the rowdly Kamba youth’s today.

CAPTION: Clashes between members of the Kikuyu and Kamba Communities in Mto-Mawe Machakos earlier today over land disputes. Johnstone Muthama funded the chaos. 

Caption: Capital Markets Authority CEO Paul Muthaura. He has Overseen Impunity, Tribalism and Incompetence at Capital Markets Authority. Following in the Footsteps of his Father ?

For a Long time, This Community Site has Questioned Incompetence and Impunity at the Capital Markets Authority ( CMA ).

We Raised the Red Flag When Muthaura’s Son was Made the CEO of Capital Markets Authority But Nobody Seems to Listen. Kenya is one Toxic Jungle where people get Jobs based on Political Connections, Family Ties, Bribery or how Far Some Woman Can Spread her Legs.

Muthaura’s Son- Who got the CEO Job at CMA Simply Because he is Muthaura’s Son is the real Definition of Incompetence. Public companies are engaging in tricks on their shareholders, with directors participating in matters that contravene Capital Markets Rules with No Action from this Wanker who prefers watching Porn in his Office Jerking.

It is time for Kenyans to start demanding for Merit instead of mediocrity. For instance when Banks Collapse it is the Middle Class that suffers.

Just because some Wankers like Muthaura’s Son Can bribe Low Self Esteem Journos to Praise them doesn’t mean that everything is Ok. Some of these Pieces of Shit that the media Praises turn out to be the Biggest Crooks Kenya has ever had.

Read the Email from the CMA Employee.

The Watcher

Caption: Barclays Bank of Kenya CEO Jeremy Awori who prefers playing Golf  to handling customer and his staff complaints.                                                                                                                                                                                                     There is trouble brewing at Barclays Bank Kenya after Pensioners were Robbed off their Annual Increments (cost of living adjustment), their pension benefits recalculation exercise sabotaged, their association thrown out of pensioners owned queens way house and a suspected bribery of officials.

Barclays Bank Kenya is headed by another St Marys School of corruption Alumni Jeremy Awori who prefers playing Golf to addressing issues affecting his customers and Staff Members.

This is not the first time Barclays Bank Kenya is making a debut on this site. A Few moths ago, we exposed insider fraud within the bank with no response from the bank Jeremy the Pathetic boy heads like his bedroom.

The same Awori stalwart hosted corporate fraudster Vimal Shah in a Barclays Bank Talk leading to a Twitter storm by Kenyans who asked how he could accommodate a man accused of evading Taxes. Vimal Is KEPSA Chairman while Jeremy Awori is non-Executive Director.

Caption: Jeremy Awori Hosted Corporate Fraudster and Tax Evader Vimal Shah for a Barclays Talk. Criminals Know each other 

Kenyans must know that the Kenyan Banking industry is built on quicksand and not on fundamentals hence can collapse at any time. Listening to the sad stories of Imperial Bank Depositors reminds you that Kenya is a Bandit State where the law of the Jungle Applies.

For Instance, why is the overrated so-called Central Bank Of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge not stopping the Suffering of Imperial Bank Depositors? Why would 45 Billion Just lie there waiting for August Elections for Jubilee Looters to Steal the Monies?. 27 Banks have collapsed in Kenya, and not even a single person has been sent to Jail. Then Njoroge bribes Low Self Esteem Journalists to do PR for him citing how he is a genius and the best thing Kenya has ever had. Total Bullshit!

According to a Letter done by a group Calling themselves Barclays Colleagues, the Fellas accuse Barclays Bank of Disrespecting them

” We hope that the mighty Barclays will emulate these fellow industry players and treat its esteemed staff with similar respect and decorum.”

We have attached the Letter

Caption : Willy Bett, Mister for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. He ignored a Letter demanding that KALRO Staff be paid their January Salaries with Immediate Effect. Such a Heartless Moron!  

The Collapsing Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization ( KALRO ) Has been ordered to pay Staff their Delayed January Salaries.

In a letter that has been seen and attached hereunder, UNIRISK Laments that the KALRO Staff are suffering due to their delayed Salaries.

” However, what is factual about the positions of the concerned members of staff is that they have individually and severally been incapacitated on how to feed themselves and their families, pay school fees, secure their health obligations and further fulfill other myriads of social and economic priorities ” Reads part of the Letter.

The Letter has been copied to the Cabinet Secretary Ministry of East African Community Labour and Social Protection and Ministry of Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett.

But the Silence, especially from Willy Bett, has been Deafening revealing how most of these parastatals are being run down while Kenyans working there are getting a raw deal.

Willy Bett just like his Counterpart Charles Keter who happens to be the Cabinet Secretary  for Energy are Ruto’s Proxies put in their respective ministries to Loot for William Ruto who then uses the stolen monies to Dish out 20 Million Per Weekend in Harambess and Support his many children sired with numerous women all over Kenya.

The Imminent Collapse of Struggling KALRO can be linked to none other than William Ruto. We Now call on Kenyans to demand action against the looting of State Corporations Like KALRO and Kenya Pipeline Company. Dr. Eliud Kiplimo of KALRO, John Ngumi and Sang of Kenya Pipeline Company must be held into account for Mega Fraud and Looting.

Caption: The Incompetent KALRO Boss Dr. Eliud Kiplimo who is Ruto’s Looting Proxy at KALRO. 

That the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation is facing serious management problems is not a secret. The staff from the defunct research institutes that were merged to form KARLO are crying foul after the management seemed to backtrack on implementing harmonization of salary structures, various allowances and other terms and conditions of service. Salary delays are the order of the day.

We Now Call Upon the mentioned Ministries to act and ensure that these selfless and hardworking Kenyans are paid their salaries. We also make a Clarion Call on Kenyans to demand better from these Cash cows. We cannot claim that Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya yet crucial entities like KALRO are being mismanaged

Caption: UNIRISK’s Letter to Dr Kiplimo and Willy Bett. All these Wankers ignored the Letter as KALRO Staff Suffer delayed Salaries. 

Something is very fishy about this industry. We should do everything possible as a country to protect especially the vulnerable and the youth against this craze. Apart from cheap beer and sex many of the youth and the weak in the society are busy gambling especially on phone. The laws we have at the moment are very weak. The gambling companies are purportedly supporting one cause or another but the damage to the society through all sorts of gambling is bigger.

Gambling is not bad or evil but due to its addictive nature it should have some structured guidance in law. Unsurprisingly the gambling companies other than say supporting some sports have not found it necessary to engage the government to come up with good laws. The only attempt is that of GEM MP Jakoyo Midiwo. The proposed has its flaws and we need better than what the MP has brought.

We have quite some good number of betting companies already. If they are properly organized but not through hide and seek games, they could also help in coming up with some guidelines which government can do some import and sanitize into a good law. I have seen some of these companies in foreign countries which means they have diverse knowledge of what happens across the globe. However some of the laws there may not work here. At the same time these companies should not come up with regulations that hinder entry to the business or kill competition. Let to determine the law you can be sure some would want to kill competition. At the same time the laws should take care of all forms of gambling.

There are other lower forms of gambling which also if well controlled can be ok. The small gambling outlets if well regulated to ensure underage don’t participate and they are properly secured can still thrive. After all this our country suffers a lot of unemployment and our constitution guarantees freedoms which should be enjoyed by all without discriminating any part of the society. The SME investment in the sector should not be killed but properly regulated and controlled.

I think we are creating vacuum in this industry if we just assume all is well when it is not. We have a problem of weak laws on gambling and at the same time we are not creating the appropriate climate for investment. Like in any industry competition should be allowed and laws that ensure that should be in place. At the same time the laws must protect the youth and the vulnerable that seem to be spending almost their entire incomes to gambling. This is particularly acute in men.

The other problem is that the regulator Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) is quite reactionary. Why wait till a bill such as Midiwo come forward then start reacting which is not helpful? It is not enough to say that you developed some regulations in 2015 which are yet to be gazetted. What stopped that action? We know that the players in gambling industry at large which include Casinos can be quite shrewd playing around with the law. But the regulator seem not to be up to task. This country will be ruined by poorly regulated gambling with powerful players who are law unto themselves. On taxes are these people paying enough share of what they take from the public? There is a lot to be done on this industry, otherwise it will turn rogue or is already full of rogue-stars.

Martin Muya

Nairobi