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Ethics And Anti-Corruption Commission Sitting On Files Exposing A Multibillion Syndicate At KURA

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Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has been petitioned to investigate the manner in which Kenya Urban Rural Authority favoured in awarding a construction firm named Stecol Corporation to do works in Nairobi, Kajiado and Kiambu counties, Citizen Weekly Reports

According to sources within Kura and the road construction industry, three counties will consume Sh19.20 billion.

Documents reveal that the controversial road tender award has been clustered into Kasarani-Mwiki-Njiru road, Kingara/James Gichuru Road, Limuru road, Red Hill road, Juja Farm road and Kajiado town to the bypass.

What has surprised industry players is the fact that the same Stecol Corporation has been involved in upgrading of Outering Road. It has also been mentioned in the construction of a bridge at AllSops that will join Outering Road and Thika Superhighway.

Stecol was awarded most of the contracts in the so-called regeneration of 38 roads in Nairobi Eastlands.

Already, insiders within Kura claim that the plot was hatched to milk the Ruaraka overpass project by extending, the project duration and inflate bills.

The project was supposed to be ready by July 18 2019 but has been extended for next two months although the authority claims it is a month.

Key masterminds in Kura road deals with Stecol, a Chinese firm, are Ahmed Mohammed, acting director urban road development and Daniel Muchiri, the acting director urban roads, planning and design.

Engineer Mohammed and Engineer Muchiri are being blamed for the current mess at Ruaraka overpass.

This month, Mohammed and Muchiri were instrumental in the release of a statement that did not give the date when the controversial project will be completed further raising eyebrows.

Mohammed and Muchiri feature prominently in the controversial Nairobi Industrial Area road project that was awarded to a Nigerian firm Regnolds Construction Company (RCC).

The works involved Enterprise-Likoni road junction. For over five years, the project had stalled until recently when works resumed.

The project is part of Sh4.26 billion Eastern missing link roads. We also have information that Kura officials colluded with rogue European Union (EU) officials to front RCC.

An informed source says that RCC won the lucrative tender despite the fact that it had not done any road project in Kenya.

To favour RCC, the crooked EU officials and a section from Kura had been compromised by SBI International based in Switzerland. RCC is said to be a partner with SBI.

What surprised many is the fact that the Nigeria firm had been paid upfront for the project by Kura.

EU had given a grant of Sh3.4 billion to upgrade 16 kilometres roads in Industrial Area. Kura cartel are said to have been bribed by RCC directors to facilitate payments.

A source at EU  revealed that they are investigating why Kura decided to pay upfront for the project that has not been completed and if a section of their staff are linked to the scandal.

Mohammed is also linked to controversy surrounding multibillion bypass project in Meru town coasting Sh2.9 billion. Together with Abdul Rashid of Kura, they have allegedly been receiving kickbacks from the contractor.

Rashid using millions received in tender awards has constructed residences in Niarobi upmarket areas that are rented out.

Part of the money is also used to entertain women who he dates in apartments located in Kilimani area.

Silas Kinoti is the acting Director General KURA and his continued to hold the position in acting capacity has left many questions.

It’s imperative to note majority of senior managers at KURA are holding the positions in acting capacity with word they are parting with millions to have their contracts renewed after every six months.

Due to kickbacks running into millions received on weekly basis they are unable to control their zips and engage into sex exploits.

Back to Stecol project in the three counties, sources reveal that the costs have been inflated since the same firm, apart from construction works, will also undertake design that involves dualing, environmental and socio-economic feasibility studies. The contractor is to finance, implement and maintain the road for eight years.

According to sources, the contractor has been given a blank cheque on the said project as he influences almost each and every division in the project with Kura without an independent entity to oversee it.


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In Defence Of Arts: An Arts Lecturer Opinion On Citizen TV 10 Over 10 Show And More

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Dr. Wandia Njoya, Lecturer and Blogger.

AS AN ARTS teacher and a Christian, I find the conversation on #10over10 extremely disappointing. Christians are itching for a quick win issue and getting that program banned is the cheap victory they want. It’s for the optics, rather than the substance.

Last year in April I flagged that show as artistically bad. It uses our youth as props. The kids are not creative, they just to populate the stage and gyrate. That’s exploitation. Even without the intimate moves Christians wait for before they see a problem, it’s a bad show.

That show demonstrates how the media is exploiting the youth to tantalize viewers in the name of entertainment. It presents a country that won’t do the work of providing arts education and a decent entertainment policy that allows creative Kenyans to produce good content.

That show is also about a skewed market and a pirate sector that has a lot of bile for the arts. The media, Ministry of Education and Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) have attacked the arts as not useful for the country. Youth no longer study arts. They do communication and sijui creative economy instead.

Our youths survive on raw talent, often poorly paid. That means that even if they get bigger, they don’t get better. And now Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) endorsed this mediocrity by changing the education system to talk of “talent” instead of arts education.

Basically, that makes Kenya is an artistically unsophisticated country. Look at Churchill show, for instance. Our comedians are finding it difficult to graduate to comedy of the calibre of the shows of John Oliver or Trevor Noah, because we don’t train or employ comedy writers.

I talked about improving our comedy at The Nairobi Satire Fest some years go.

I’ve offered a comedy class three times now and had to cancel because students are told by pirate sector and Christians that the arts are not “relevant.”

So the kind of comedy we require needs investment. But where are the pigs and pirates to provide it? Incognito. Artists who want to do good work are thus forced to ask donors for money. And donor begging wastes creative time to write proposals for money with strings attached.

When I’ve called well placed Christians for support and explained this problem, they tell me they are more concerned about the church’s image in the media.

So what do those Christians offer to replace #10over10? Nada. And the need being met by that show will be met elsewhere.

Some church youth groups have been brave to invite me to talk about the arts. At one church, the elders initially refused to allow the meeting, and later accepted because an elder had to attend to spy on us. When I talked to our young people about these issues, the elder was shocked.

We have great young people who already know that there are issues.with the arts space. They need clarity, not bans.But instead of the church providing support, it hides in the bush and waits for intimate content and then spings out of the bush to tell us about morality.

My own career as a scholar of the arts has been destroyed by this toxic anti-arts environment. I’ve had to talk about politics and education because we can’t do arts work in the education system. Pirate sector, GoK and church keep fighting us. So I’ve had to study and fight them.

Now #bbireport has proposed to crush the little arts and humanities space we had left.

Kenyans, this is madness. There is no sane or “middle income” society without a thriving arts culture, but as we know, the goal of GoK, the church and businsses is to NOT have a sane society.

These arts conversations between media, state and church, the trinity of capitalism, are not about the arts or about us, the people. The fights are between the three pillars of the hegemony about power and money. So the church isn’t fighting porn. It’s fighting for control of us.


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Illegal Suspension of ‘Mum Tuna Fare’ Kenyatta University Student

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Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor Paul Wainaina

The bootlicker Vice Chancellor of Kenyatta University ‘Prof. Paul Wainaina has suspended the student whose video, asking his ‘mom to tuma fare’ went viral.

The October 7th 2019 students protests made the school to be closed indefinitely.

Mr John Ngige who hails from Kitale in Trans Nzoia county was accused of taking part in the strike despite his own account in a local TV station that he was minding his own business.

“I was coming from the hostel, wanting to go out of school when I noticed that students were being chased from the gate side in the hostels side”.

The first year student said he panicked and wanted nothing to do with what at that time he saw as a deadly situation, so he made the video to send to his mom but accidentally uploaded it on the student WhatsAPP group.

This site has called out the management of the KU for hiring goons from outside to destroy property at the school then accuse the students of doing so and asking each one of them to come with money for repairs. The money ends up being pocketed by senior management at the university.

Mr. John Ngige

According to other students, Mr. John Ngige was suspended because he was in the wrong place.

What kind of reason for suspending someone?

Mr. Ngige, by all accounts, was not participating in the protests but was suspended while goons that pulled down the wall are still in session.

This targeted poverty making machinery that has been used by the Kikuyu-mafioso from politics to academia must end.

The petty VC

Fake Professor Paul Wainaina was also called out for hiring social media digital terrorists to ‘fix’ Kenyatta University Student Union President Joshua Ayika.

The VC dished out Ksh500 to a few Twitter users who went on to demonise the students leader.

The digital influencers leaked the academic results of Ayika alleging that he is an academic dwarf.

As the hashtag #AyikaTheAcademicDwarf trended, a fake memo generated by the university IT hitmen was doing the rounds on social media as they struggle to link it to the KUSA president to push for his arrest.


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French Embassy Flies The LGBT Flag High In Kenya

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Homosexuality is a crime in Kenya. According to Section 162(c) of the Penal Code, any person who permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.

LGBT means: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

The French Embassy has flouted a lot of Kenyan laws. We recently received documents that allege the embassy to be a conduit of contraband god, evading tax and illegal immigrants working in Kenya.

Today, there’s the elephant in the room, Kenyan law doesn’t allow homosexuality but there’s a staff that cnyakundi.com has received information about who is secretly engaging in homosexual activities.

The man is none other than Cyril Gerardon from the French Embassy in Kenya has the title of COCAC (Conseiller de Cooperation et d’Action Culturelle).

Mr. Gerardon is also the headmaster of Benoit KEIREL, the manager of the French school, most likely on a fake tourist or a diplomatic passport for work at the Embassy.

Cnyakundi.com has been sent evidence that Mr. Gerardon’s personal status is in complete violation with the Kenyan law, because he is married to another man, which is forbidden as stated in the Penal Code above.

To keep this hidden, his husband is presented as his cooker and does not have also any legal documents in Kenya.

The man Cyril Gerardon should be deported.

READ MORE:

Diplomatic Impunity: French School Nairobi Accused of Tax Evasion, Discrimination


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Exiled South Sudan Minister Learns of His Wife’s Sex Escapades In Nairobi

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cnyakundi.com understands that a suspended senior official in South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s administration has been shocked after learning of his wife’s promiscuous activities in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

According to a local news source, South Sudan’s former Minister of Petroleum Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth was surprised when he learnt from his network in Nairobi that the wife, Martha Nyanuer, has been engaging multiple illicit love affairs with men of “questionable backgrounds.”

Martha Nyanuer

Nyanuer is a powerful woman in South Sudan’s government and is currently serving as an MP but her operations in Nairobi are said to be raising eyebrows.

A blog reports that the controversial lady who is the sacked minister’s second wife, recently caused a stir at RKL International Casino located at the Intercontinental Hotel when she arrived half naked with a white pant before gambling a cool 2 million dollars, but lost.

After the embarrassing moment, accompanied by a prominent Kenyan man, Nyanuer retreated to her room only to emerge back in changed attire “generously exposing her boobs.”

Privy sources claim that the husband has been grappling with the woman’s worrying appetite for men but the latest incident where she has resorted to gambling and unending expensive partying with Kenyan men has left the man emotionally devastated.

President Salva Kiir fired Gatkuoth on matters relating to corruption running into millions of US dollars.

It is believed that upon his sacking, Gatkuoth was helped exile into America by Martha Nyanuer; where he stays with children of his late wife but with his ears firmly on the ground as far as the woman’s movements in Kenya is concerned.


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Man Arrested Along State House Road After Begging Uhuru Kenyatta For A Job

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A man was on Tuesday arrested after he reportedly blocked President Uhuru Kenyatta’s motorcade along State House road to beg for a job.

According to a police report seen by Citizen Digital, the motorcade was headed towards State House from the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) where the Head of State had attended the 9th African Caribbean and Pacific Summit of Heads of State and Government.

The suspect, identified as Uvinalies Nyabuto, obstructed the convoy while displaying a placard bearing the words, “YOUR EXCELLENCY KINDLY OFFER A CHANCE TO JOIN THE DEFENCE FORCES AM SORRY FOR DISRESPECT YOUR SECURITY. PLEASE MR PRESIDENT. NYABUTO.”

The man was immediately arrested by the Presidential Escort Unit who then confiscated the placard.

He was later transferred to Kilimani Police Station where he was detained.


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WATCH: Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti’s Full Oder On Mike Sonko’s Release

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Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has this noon been freed on a Ksh. 30 million bond, a surety of a similar amount or a cash bail of Ksh. 15 million.

Chief Magistrate in the Anti-Corruption Court, Douglas Ogoti, released the governor, who was arrested last Friday on suspicion of misappropriating Ksh. 357 million belonging to the taxpayer.

The magistrate ordered that Mike Sonko shouldn’t be allowed to access his office without being accompanied by a law enforcement officer. Consequently, Sonko has been barred from dispensing his gubernatorial duties.

The governor was ordered to surrender his passport to the court, and that he shouldn’t publicly comment on the case.


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WATCH: Moment Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti Schooled Amateurish Murkomen In Court

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There was a light moment in court earlier this afternoon as Elgeyo Marakwet County Senator Kipchumba Murkomen got schooled by Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti.

This was after Murkomen unsuccessfully attempted to justify their decision (Sonko’s defence team) of bringing an ailing person to court.

“Do you know why am smiling?”, Ogoti asked Murkomen.

“No”, he answered

“It’s because you don’t practice in this Court. The order was given at a Machakos court that any accused person appears in court singularly. Keep that order, it will help you one day if you would wish to practice. You didn’t have to disturb a sick person from hospital, I still would have gone ahead and given directions.

Here is the video below.


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‘Kleptomaniac Harlot’, Moses Kuria Attacks Kirinyaga Governor Waiguru

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Moses Kuria (Left), and Anne Waiguru

Gatundu South Member of National Assembly Moses Kuria has waded into another controversy after his comments on Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru went off.

Waiguru who was being interviewed on KTNPointblank show talked tough about corruption and other array of issues. However, it seems like the issue of National Youth Service (NYS) in which the governor was adversely mentioned following the loss of over Ksh700 million just won’t go away.

Moses Kuria, who is known for speaking without thinking fired straight at the governor, at the end of the show, through a tweet:

#KTNPointblank I sympathize with President Kenyatta. If there was a project that could have transformed Kenya more than the Big 4 combined it was the NYS as originally designed. The President meant well. Till he entrusted the program to a kleptomaniac harlot’, he wrote.

The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has in the past harrased bloggers but left politicians like Moses Kuria off easily.

What does Chapter 6 of the constitution on Leadership and Integrity say again?


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Inside The Suffering Of KeMU University Medical Graduates

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  • Hello Cyprian Nyakundi,

I am a graduate student Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences department of Medical laboratory science (laboratory medicine). We graduated this year October amidst lots of issues facing KeMU.

First, we cannot do our board examination to get the license since the school was totally not in compliance with the regulatory board, so we decided to walk to the board offices ourselves to know exactly what’s going. The board told us that there is a program the university is secretly offering, a long distance learning module.

Surely how can a university offer distance learning module to a practical oriented course like this?

So to cut the long story short, we’ve tried many ways to make the university comply with the standards of the board but in vain. When we were in school we were very vibrant. We even met the Vice Chancellor of the school concerning this matter and we were almost suspended for the same.

We were not desperate doing this course as we had qualifications to do other courses as well but we chose this course because we love it and now our future is in jeopardy because of some few catawampus who are making this to be very hard for us, in the name of making extra cash.

Imagine finishing school and having nothing to do. We cannot go for internship; neither can we work without the license because the university wants to make an extra coin for distance learning.

Please expose KeMU, if they don’t want to comply with the board then they should close the whole program than to make students suffer after school.

Thank you.


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DPP Asks Samburu Governor’s Bond Terms Be Reviewed

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Moses Lenolkula, the corrupt Samburu Governor is a man who will get into more trouble very soon as the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji demands cancellation of his bond for repeatedly flouting the terms.

The high court gave tough conditions in April 2019 for the release of the Governor who is facing Ksh84.7 million corruption and fraud charges.

The governor also faces abuse of office charges.

He has flouted the bond terms and the DPP wants it cancelled.

The Governor was in trouble in April as he was required to pay a cash bail of Ksh100 million but he protested and it was later reduced to Ksh 10 million cash by the High Court.

On December 5th, the DPP warned the Samburu and Kiambu governors from opening parallel offices.

“Korti ilisema hawa magavana wawili wasirudi ofisini lakini sasa mkono mwingine ambao hauna nguvu wa kuvunja hukumu la korti imefanya hivyo. Tujiulize sisi wakenya ni kwa ajili gani?” he said.

According to him, the judiciary is also at fault for allowing suspects in public office to defy orders and this goes against the Constitution.

He issued a warning to the Senate saying this should not me made the norm because it will also set a precedence for members of Parliament.

It remained to be seen how the Judiciary will act on the DPP’s wishes.

Here is how we covered the Samburu Governor in the past:

  1. [BREAKING] DPP Recommends Samburu Governor, Deputy and 12 Others Be Charged For Fraud
  2. Contempt: Samburu Governor Moses Kasaine Disregards Court Order
  3. This Is How Rogue Samburu Governor Moses Kasaine Is ‘Washing’ His money
  4. How Samburu Governor Moses Kasaine Lenolkulal Used His NGO To Siphon Samburu County Funds
  5. Corrupt Samburu Governor Moses Lenolkulal Wants Access To His Bank Accounts

 


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Donor Fraud: Equity Bank Mismanaged Ksh500 Million with The Blessings of DFID and GoK

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James Mwangi, Equity Bank CEO who has learnt the ropes of the cartel world and wants to be head of the bank till death do them apart.

One of the most corrupt and ‘don’t care’ bank in Kenya is Equity Bank of Kenya. It has recently celebrated 35 years of existence.

Founded in 1983, the bank concentrated on the on this poorer segment of the retail

banking market since 1984 and revolutionized the banking industry in Kenya.

In those years, Kenyans have seen the worst of the so-called revolutionary lender. It is hard to imagine that the level of theft happening at the once touted as the bank that brought Kenyans from the ‘mattress banking’ into the mainstream one, can just go on and not acted upon by the Central bank of Kenya (CBK).

Equity has over the years fallen short of being a great bank by many standards, yet over 14 million Kenyans (as per 2019 figures) chose to bank there for reasons mostly due to ignorance, the other reasons are a classic Kenyan case: Tribalism and corruption.

Why corruption? It is easy to get jobs, favor and everything if you are from a certain tribe in this country.

Now, that’s not the point

The point is: Equity Banks’ Special Projects Director, Mr. Allan Waititu, should explain how the bank opened over 20,000 accounts for beneficiaries without the required Know Your Customer (KYC) verification.

Thousands of beneficiaries in the Arid and Semi-arid areas were opened for accounts in order to enable them to receive the Hunger Safety Net Programme Cash transfer monies.

ALSO READ: Equitel: The Weakest Link In Equity Bank’s System, Conmen Are Having A Field Day

The programme

In December 2007, Financial Sector Deepening – Kenya (FSD Kenya) issued a Terms of Reference (TOR) requesting expressions of interest (EOI) for a pilot project to distribute cash payments to 60,000 beneficiaries in the most remote parts of northern Kenya. FSD Kenya was a specialist development programme originally established by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) to provide a continuing mechanism through which donor agencies in Kenya could pool their efforts to support the development of inclusive financial markets. In addition to DFID it was funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), World Bank, Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and the Gates Foundation. Because of its local expertise and experience in financial service development, FSD Kenya was asked by DFID to take responsibility for developing a solution to the payments element of HSNP. FSD undertook a long process of market preparation before issuing an open call for tenders to provide payments services. The continuing objective of the HSNP was to deliver long-term guaranteed cash transfers to chronically food-insecure households. The pilot programme was aimed at 60,000 households in the four northern districts of Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera, and Wajir.

Then Equity Banks Special Project person was Paul Waihumbu.

As of 2014, the HSNP was hailed as a success despite the many challenges. However, what was not being paid even by the many reports online, some of which have been deleted, by the respective donors was how in a third-word country, the banking laws never really work.

Many Kenyans were scammed to open accounts without valid National Identity Cards (ID) but were later denied to withdraw monies from those accounts that were opened for them.

Deleted evidence

It seems Equity bank, either (i) just wanted to meet the threshold of beneficiaries set out by FD and UKAid/DFID or (ii) they just knew that there was a chance for them to make money. And as long as the monies remained in those accounts the bank’s senior managers can use it for other purposes.

‘It is a pity that most of the Ksh500 million shillings set aside for the cash transfer project is still held at Equity accounts. And I know for some of the managers who are using that money for personal gain’, said our source on condition of anonymity

For a project that started to disburse funds in 2014, most of the beneficiaries in Phase 2 of the project, have not received their monies as of 2019. The beneficiaries in phase 1 received their monies because they were on a smart-card kind of a system.

ALSO READ: INIQUITY BANK: Equity Bank Steals Ksh2 Million From A Sick Grandmother

The mismanagement of the Ksh500 million kitty should be something that cnyakundi.com calls upon the CBK, EACC and DCI to investigate.

Those answerable are flouting banking codes and stealing funds are:

  1. The National Drought Management Authority
  2. Officials at the UKAid and Department for International Development (DFID)
  3. Senior Managers at Equity bank (James Mwangi, Paul Waihumbu and Allan Waititu)

Donors have colluded with Kenyans to bend the banking rules and in turn, use the weakness if the system to hold monies in bank accounts that cannot be accessed due to KYC issues that they created and they are using the monies to do business with.

Some of these projects are not that great in terms of what the Terms of Reference say. Poverty still rages in the counties where the projects

Deleted.

‘The project was badly thought-out, there’s no impact on the ground because whatever that has been used; has catered mostly on administrative costs by Equity bank and NDMA’, said our source

As it stands over Ksh100 million cannot be accounted for.

How does DFID plead?

ALSO READ: Donor Fraud: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative – Chapter 1 of 3

Other case of fraud in the cash transfer schemes in Kenya

It is not the forst time that this site is raising serious issues of mismanagement of donor funds, some of which we are supposed to pay back as a county.

Even still, why would the donors remain silent while we expose this?

The World Bank led cash transfers namely: Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities (KYEOP), Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) and the Cash Transfer for the Elderly have all been misused and the beneficiaries haven’t received anything.

Fr the CT-OVC, a source tell me that some of those Orphans are well-off families linked to people working at the ministry f Health, others are now grown and moved on but the families that used to host them still receive those monies.

The accountability in this cash transfer scheme is zero and curiously the donors don’t care.

ALSO READ: Donor Fraud: How World Bank Funds Are Diverted To Personal Pockets

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Mombasa Government Accused Of Neglecting Nurses

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Mombasa County’s Chief Officer of Health Dr. Khadijah Shikelly

A source says that nurses in Mombasa County who were employed 7 months ago on permanent and pensionable terms have only been paid the October salary and nothing more.

The nurses don’t even have a medical cover for which they are entitled.

They are accusing the Joho empire of crooks and slayqueens for being so uncaring of their plights.

“Dr Khadija Shikelly who is director of medical services is mum, toeing the Joh dynasty line while we are suffering”, said one doctor on condition of anonymity.

We’ve been informed that Dr. Shikelly’s office is rife with nepotism and swahilism (tribalism).

How are this Kenyans expected to survive with no salary? They have families.

While the governor is overseas slaying. Nurses are suffering.

Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho, A Slayqueen

Health workers’ woes

In August 2019, Health workers in Mombasa County downed tools over delays in salaries.

The workers who were protesting their delayed July salary, numbering 4000, paralyzed critical services including health were among the hardest hit after doctors and nurses boycotted duties, leaving patients to be attended to by trainees.

The strike which was led by Kenya National Union of Nurses Mombasa branch secretary, Stanley Mwailogho, raised the same issues as the ones we’ve written about above.

Nothing has changed since.

Then as now, the words of the Mr. Mwailogho rings true, “We cannot be cheated every now and then. We want money, we don’t care if there is a problem between the national and county government,” said Mr Mwailogho then.

It looks like the only language the county understands is total disruption of services.

What is happening in Mombasa County?


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CYPRIAN NYAKUNDI EXCLUSIVE: MASSIVE CORRUPTION BY LAPFUND CEO – DAVID KOROSS

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Kalenjin Thief David Koross. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NMG

Note: This email was sent to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Director Of Public Prosecutions, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption commission in September this year but the three offices ignored the big scandal.

These offices are known to use whistleblowers reports sent to them to extort the accused hence no action, hence the need for pressure from independent bloggers like Cyprian Nyakundi, who posts what the offices and mainstream media try to cover up for the cartels.

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Dear Sirs,
Find a report attached on massive abuse of office, plunder of public/pensioners funds, corruption practices and other evils at LAPFUND.
The CEO and a few members of staff in conjunction with business cartels and brokers have stolen over 2 billion shillings from the funds.
The CEO is known to own properties and assets worth over 1 billion illegally acquired with stolen funds from the corporation. He has money stashed in local and foreign accounts. Some of the funds are wired to his brother residing in America.
We request urgent and swift action from the investigating bodies.
Regards
Austin Onyango (On behalf of Concerned staff)

 

18th September 2019 URGENT

 

 

Chief Executive officer

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission

Integrity Centre

Nairobi

 

 

RE: CORRUPTION BY LAPFUND CEO – DAVID KOROSS & COHOOTS

 

Local Authorities Provident Fund (LAPFUND) is a state corporation located on 9th Floor, JKUAT Towers, Kenyatta Avenue Nairobi. The corporation manages pension funds for employees of County Governments and other bodies like water companies etc.

 

 

The Chief Executive Officer (MR. David Koross) in cahoots with Head of Finance (Mr. Mbogo) and Head of Procurement (Mr. Kibet) are involved in massive plunder of the corporation resources. Below see list of areas to be investigated among others:

 

a) Development and Construction of Mavoko Gardens Estate in Syokimau. The construction was estimated to cost 700 million but to date we have sunk 1.2 Billion shillings. The CEO pocketed 60 million in kickbacks.

b) The Development, Construction and renovation of Golf View Apartments has cost the fund over 1.5 billion. Currently the Building is closed for renovation at an estimated cost of 133 million shillings. The same contractor was involved in both Mavoko Gardens and Golf View Apartments.

c) The CEO and his cahoots have engaged in purchase of properties at exaggerated prices and others with fake titles. The 30 acres in Kitengela was bought at exorbitant price of 10 million per acre from a broker, while the market price at the time was 5 million per acre. The land is disputed by the owners and they have taken LAPFUND to court. The land in Bellevue South C was purchased at 500 million per acre. A suspicious payment of an extra over 300 million was paid in early 2019 one year after the transfer was done.

d) The CEO has been sending select members of staff for suspicious international training, seminars and trips that are not beneficial to the organization. Some of these have love relationship with CEO. Next week the CEO and more than nine members of staff are going on a tour of America which is against the treasury recommendation of a maximum of four staff at a time.  

e) Procurement of Architectural/property development consultants amounting to over Ksh 150 million was done through restricted tender against the PPAD Act regulations in June/July 2019. LAPFUND is not a security body thus should float tenders publicly. Many other tenders amounting to millions of shillings are procured through quotation i.e. Valuation of properties at Ksh 32 million was done in July/August 2019

f) Illegal recruitment of staff without approval by the National Treasury or the board.

g) The property portfolio is over 10% threshold recommended by Retirements Benefits Authority.

h) Funds amounting to over Ksh 11 million stolen from Golf View apartments has been written off in as Bad Debts                                                                                                         

i) A property agent selling Mavoko Gardens was allowed to reta                          in 8 million money received on behalf of LAPFUND for over two years

j) Contributors funds are not properly reconciled and statements not issued due to plunder of the resources.

k)  

We request for a forensic audit of the fund by RBA to establish the lot and misuse of pensioners funds. 

The CEO survives by bribing and compromising anybody who tries to raise a finger and if the trend continues the fund will be depleted of pensioners’ benefits. Politicians and other cartels collect money at will from the fund. He has protection from political players and other business cartels.

 

We request EACC and DCI to move with speed to investigate, arrest the culprits and secure the files before they tamper with the records.

 

Regards

 

Concerned Staff


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Water CS Chelugui Laundering Proceeds Of Crime As Arrest Looms

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Water Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui has invested his proceeds from the Sh19 billion meant for the Itaare dam project in the real estate even as the state refuses to freeze his accounts and assets.

DCI is at the moment in liaison with Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions preparing for the cases whose arrests may come soon.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has summoned 11 people among them former board members of Rift Valley Water Works Development Agency ( RVWWDA) over graft in Sh38bn Itare Dam project.

Among those summoned to appear at the DCI headquarters on Kiambu Road on Monday to record statements over the multi-billion dam scam is Ms Lydia Ntimama, daughter of former Cabinet minister William ole Ntimama and several senior government officials.

Water CS Simon Chelugui was on Wednesday grilled for over five hours following misappropriation of Sh19 billion meant for the Itaare dam project.

Chelugui arrived at the Muthaiga DCI headquarters on Wednesday mid morning to record statement on the whereabouts of the money.

It is said Chelugui took over the mantle at the Ministry in February 2018 and thus he is responsible for the missing cash.

The ministry has already spent some Sh11 billion yet the project is only 10 percent complete.

Simon Chelugui has been laundering the proceeds of crime to the real estate sector, especially in Karen as will be revealed in the next article.

Chelugui, operates through a notorious real-estate company that launders for the cartels in the private sector and government officials stealing from public coffers.


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More Intrigues In On-Going UoN Vice-Chancellor Recruitment

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Prof. Isaac Mbeche, the Ag. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi.
The on-going recruitment of the University of Nairobi (UON) Vice-Chancellor (VC) is gaining steam with interviews for the plum position scheduled for 18th December, 2019. Already the Public Service Commission (PSC) has indicated that the basic salary for the Vice Chancellor shall be between 420,567 and 744,078 per month, putting the job in the same category as Cabinet Secretaries, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
It has now emerged that the Chair of the UoN Council, Prof Julia Ojiambo, the immediate former Vice Chancellor Prof Mbithi, the acting Vice Chancellor Prof Mbeche and the acting Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of human resource and administration are working in cahoots to prevent the appointment of a distinguished scholar as the substantive Vice Chancellor. They plan to move to court anytime to stall and prevent the appointment of a substantive Vice Chancellor.
The reason for the cabal’s approach is that they fear an independent Vice Chancellor will expose the financial rot at the premier institution. The four “Professors” have looted the institution dry, it is public knowledge that the University is insolvent, and already the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti has forwarded files to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji, seeking his approval to arrest them on corruption charges involving non remittance of Pay as You Earn (PAYE) Tax running into the billions.
Prof. Peter Mbithi handing over power to Prof. Isaac Mbithi
In fact the four have already moved to the High Court seeking to block their imminent arrest, a move which the courts have rejected. President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered that all Vice Chancellors, Deputy Vice Chancellors and Council Chairs involved in corruption, particularly, regarding PAYE tax, ought to be charged and tried in court.
What is more intriguing about the move of the four is that they have brazenly attempted to lobby State House and the Deputy President’s office to back their position.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto are keen to have the Public Service Commission run the recruitment independently and are not taking any sides in the matter. In a bold move, the four learned “Professors” are therefore taking on the State head-on.


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Did Ketraco CEO Fernandez Barasa Bribe Detectives To Avoid Arrest?

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A scandal where taxpayers lost as much as Sh14.2 billion through fraudulent payments to landowners by the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco), may have been swept under the carpet, even though Directorate of Criminal Investigations had commenced investigations.

A source that spoke to this site confirmed that detectives that were following the matter suddenly lost interest, raising eyebrows.

The scandal happened in such a way that on paper, the money was paid to genuine landowners on whose property Ketraco put up electricity transmission lines, but detectives alleged that a huge percentage of the money was swindled by officials at the State agency led by CEO Fernandez Barasa.

Detectives say one case in Kisaju, Kajiado County, where a landowner was paid 10 times more than the value of his land, mirrored hundreds of others during the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi transmission line.

They proposed that some of the officers be charged with failure to comply with the law.

Investigators said they were combing through land compensation documents related to the 450-kilometre, 1,500-megawatt Mombasa-Nairobi power line — the biggest such project by Ketraco — whose mandate is to build infrastructure for high-voltage electricity transmission.

At one time in August, there was drama at a five-star hotel in Nairobi last week when the CEO of a parastatal took refuge in the washrooms when DCI George Kinoti checked in.

The official was reportedly having fun with friends when Kinoti turned up. He was later squirrelled out through the kitchen back door.
Kinoti was apparently at the hotel on private business.


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Celebrity CEO Julius Kipngetich Fired From Standard Group Board

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Celebrity CEO Julius Kipngetich has been fired from the Standard Media Group Board, we can confirm.

This site has always questioned the integrity of the crooked Kipngetich who was fired from the Kenya Wildlife Service over incompetence. He also made his money through illegal poaching and poaching rose to record highs during his tenure.

Kipngetich had his last board meeting last week, we can confirm.

According to our highly placed sources at corporate Nairobi, The Moi family is keen on replacing him with an insider after realizing that he is very aligned to Deputy President William Ruto who lobbied for his CEO post at the Jubilee Insurance.

Kipngetich is accused of influencing the editorial policy to eye state house favours. He had been boasting of being close to Kenya’s defacto president Muhoho Kenyatta and wanted to appease him so that he can be appointed the head of civil service to replace the ailing Kinyua yet he has been a double agent.

The sacking now means the job of CEO Orlando Lyumo is at stake as he has failed to turn around the fortunes of the SG. Kipngetich had pushed the sacking of sex addict Sam Shollei and influenced the appointment of Orlando on grounds that he was the best to turn the company around.

The Ksh. 324 Million KWS Medical Insurance Tender That Has Exposed Jubilee Insurance Crooked Boss Julius Kipng’etich.

Kipngetich, once he joined the board, served as the chair of the editorial board from where he pushed his agenda. He was instrumental in the hiring of Ochieng’ Rapuro as Editor in Chief instead of Tanui Kipkoech.

His last gaffe was to push Rapuro to fire political reporter Geoffrey Mosoku

Rapuro in a show-cause letter had accused Mosoku of failing to protect a board member (Kipngetich) when he wrote about an investigation by DCI on NHIF on a Sh970 million contract that had been awarded to a consortium led by Jubilee Insurance.

This is in spite the story meeting all editorial threshold.

Mary Yatich is likely to replace Kipngetich as she has been approached to take the job. It’s now clear if she has accepted it.


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‘Wewe Ngoja Utaona’, Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua Claims DP Ruto Threatened Him

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Governor Mutua at the DCI, Kilimani

This morning the Machakos Governor Dr. Alfred Mutua went to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices in Kilimani to report threats to his life.

The flamboyant Governor says Deputy President William Ruto, National Assembly majority leader Aden Duale (Garissa Town MP) and Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen (Elgeyo Marakwet) threatened his life.

“William Ruto looked at me with very strong eyes and tough face and told me “I will deal with you. Nitakugonga sasa.” I dont know what he meant but should i suddenly dissapear or anything happen to me, hold him accountable”- Dr Alfred Mutua

In the past, slain Kenyan Businessman Jacob Juma better known as Kabetes on twitter also claimed his life was in Danger and that his assassination had been planned in statehouse, the government went a head to ban private citizens from owning bullet proof vehicles.

The businessman was felled under a hail of bullets with the CCTV cameras in the area curiously switched off.

Here is Gov. Mutua’s statement:


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Embakasi West MP In Trouble Over Pool Tender Scandal

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George Theuri, Embakasi West MP at the said swimming pool

Embakasi West MP George Theuri set to be arrested over the mismanagement of 2014/15 NG-CDF, cnyakundi.com has learnt.

This was necceciated by the complaint lodged by Concern Citizens Alliance, a lobby group in Nairobi, over the construction of a swimming pool in Umoja Primary School, Umoja Estate, Eastlands Nairobi whose costs were overpriced from an initial Ksh5 million to a whooping Ksh18 million.

This matter has caught the attention of the Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti who has called the leaders of the group to record a statement about the scandal.

Bradley Ouna

‘Tomorrow the organization (Concern Citizens) Kenya has been summoned to appear before the DCI to write a final statement on the same by the officers of the DCI’, said Bradley Ouna, the Executive Director

Embakasi West Constituency received 98 Million Shillings CDF money in the year 2015/2016 from the national government.


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