The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is seeking to have Senator and Senior Counsel James Orengo barred from representing Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) managing director Daniel Manduku citing conflict of interest.

Through senior assistant DPP Alexander Muteti at the Mombasa High Court, the DPP said Tuesday that it is untenable to allow legislators to represent people in court yet they play oversight roles on State officers.
On his part, Mr Orengo said there is a procedure in parliament on how to deal with conflict of interest.

“Standing orders take into consideration provisions of the Constitution. As it is, there is no complaint made to Parliamentary Service Commission or the Speaker that they have breached provisions of the Constitution,” Mr Orengo argued in court.

He now wants the DPP to file a substantive application so that the issue can be dealt with holistically.

According to media reports, Manduku’s impending arrest and prosecution which has been pending for months was the reason the President had been reluctant to launch the Kisumu Port, rehabilitated at Sh3 billion.

Manduku at one time threatened to spill the beans on how Mama Ngina, ODM leader Raila Odinga and the Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho had been benefitting from his corruption scandals.

According to Manduku, the entire Sh3 billion contract for works and supply of equipment to the revamped Kisumu Port were single sourced to firms associated with Odinga.

Additionally, KPA controversially awarded a firm owned by the son of leader of opposition Raila Odinga Junior the contract for supply and installation of a Sh1.2 billion conveyor belt system at the port of Mombasa.

To protect Manduku, Raila Odinga sent James Orengo to represent him in order to protect his interests.

About 1st February 2015, a young girl, Mary Kusa Etale from Kibera plays by the roadside on the new Southern By-pass, enjoying her life as a child should.

A Toyota Prado registration number KBU 483M driven by a drunk Safaricom Executive Sylvia Wairimu Njuguna aka Sylvia Wairimu Mulinge staggers along the road, ‘gari inajua nyumbani’ style.

The car ploughs into the child, she is injured badly and later succumbs to her injuries. Court documents, miscellaneous application NO 651 OF 2017, two years after the accident, where the murderer is trying to ‘outwit’ the long arm of the law, has a line that states that the driver now Safaricom’s Chief Customer Officer should be ‘charged with causing death by dangerous driving contrary to section 46 of the Traffic Act’.

Ms. Mulinge wanted the matter closed but it was reopened. It is very painful to lose a child. The head of Safaricom Customer care doesn’t know that for sure. She just wished the case goes away.

However, in the office of the most corrupt Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) then Keriako Tobiko, the case ‘disappeared’.

Safaricom Killer Director Sylvia Mulinge might have compromised office of the Director Of Public Prosecutions to turn a blind eye to the murder of Mary Kusa Etale.

This blog on March, 9th 2017, revealed how Sylvia Mulinge had hit a young girl Mary Kusa Etale. At the time of the fatal accident, Sylvia Mulinge was overspeeding and was drunk. The vehicle a top of the range Toyota Prado KBU 483M that was involved in the incident has Safaricom Ltd registered as its legal owners.

This blog has kept the hope of justice for the family of Mr. Zchariah Etale Elwanga and Mrs. Caroline Nasike Nanjala alive by keeping the case in the limelight.

The New DPP

Enter a new fiery DPP Noordin Haji, the man appointed from the country’s top intelligence organ NIS. Kenyans had so much hope when Noordin took over in April 2018, but that same zest that he took over office with has now faded and cases such as that of murder by dangerous driving as this of Sylva Mulinge seem a shadow and a small thing to him. However, it is not, this is a public interest case.

The DPP’s office following public pressure appealed the judgement by Judge Odunga who had prohibited the agencies from arresting or prosecuting Ms. Mulinge for the offence of causing the death of a minor by dangerous driving.

The appeal date was set for 14^th April 2019 as cnyakundi.com was notified.

However, since then the tracks have grown cold and Sylvia has cemented her position at the Telco, and god knows what she can use to intimidate those judges and prosecutors; what, with having access to most of their communication logs.

What happened to the DPP who came in with gusto much to the celebration of Kenyans that things will finally work?

A source at the DPP’s office has intimated that Safaricom’s financial muscle has come into play to ‘make the case go away’ or in lay man’s terms make it look like a non-issue.

Ms. Mulinge from the time she knew she was in trouble in 2015 compromised the relevant authorities. The girl’s family members said that the only compensation they received after the accident was just Ksh. 200,000 from Sylvia.

This case would later cause the Tanzanian government to deny Mulinge a work permit after she found a job in one of the top telecommunication companies in the country.

Inhumane would be an understatement to describe a woman who valued the life of little Mary Kusa at just a few hundred thousands.

There was a lot of pressure from this blog and other quarters to even have DPP given the appeals date of 14^th April 2019. It wasn’t easy.

But then, why has the case slowed down since then.

What is happening Bwana DPP Noordin Haji?

MORE:

1. Safaricom Should Consider Sacking Sylvia Mulinge
2. How Safaricom Killer Director Sylvia Mulinge Got Away With Murder
3. Long Wait For Justice: Safaricom Killer Director Sylvia Mulinge Walking Free Three Years After Murder
4. DPP Noordin Haji Given Appeal Hearing Date In Safaricom Killer Director Sylvia Mulinge’s Murder Saga

A study commissioned by the Energy ministry early last month, shows a silent death-trap inside homes. The study indicated solid fuels and kerosene in traditional and simple stoves are leading pollutants.

Despite the legislative ban on logging, over 70% of Kenyans still use charcoal, firewood and kerosene for cooking.

In an exclusive interview, Safari Supa Gas Head of Business Development Flora Njagi explains why LPG is a cleaner and more economical source of fuel.

Who is Safari Supa Gas Company?

Safari Supa Gas was launched in 2019 with a vision to be the largest affordable cooking gas solution provider in East and Central Africa.

What is the target market of the product?

Currently our focus is with the growing market of over 70% of households without LPG or access to it. In fact, Safari would like to go from just raising awareness within the industry, to creating employment of community engagement officers, boda boda riders to and partnering with local distributors to ensure seamless end to end delivery of gas

What are the advantages over existing gases?

Through the introduction of USSD technology, and by simply dialing *873# customers will now be able to place orders from the comfort of their home through Safari and its network of authorized dealers – meaning quality of product and service is always assured

What is the pricing of the product, especially in these harsh economic times?

The customer can always be assured that we will always provide competitive prices whilst maintaining the highest quality standards.

How long does it last (main concern of every consumer)?

We only have hospitality agreements with licensed filling stations that ensure that the cylinders we are selling are to the required standards.

Where can one buy a cylinder of Safari Gas in Kenya?

We are currently in Mlolongo, Kitengela, Kawangware, Uthiru, Pipeline, Zimmerman, Githurai, Kayole, Kibera, Machakos, Nakuru, and Naivasha. USSD is currently live in Kibera and Kawangware

Tell us a little about the charity event you held in Kibera

Community engagement events like the one held in Kibera last Sunday, which saw all the participating chama groups walk away with complimentary Safari Supa gas cylinder packages, gave a great insight into how we envisage our journey with you.

Any other thing that you would like to mention in regard to Safari Gas?

Open communication with local churches and leaders at the grass roots, means that it’s not just this generation that will benefit from more environmentally friendly cooking solutions, but also the coming ones.

We are taking the SAFARI together.

If you visit Narok, that sleepy town on the fringes of civilization, you’ll be amazed by some new properties donning the area.

One thing that has become too obvious is that most of these installations belong to the people working in government. For in Kenya, working in government pays more than an US citizen inventing the next Facebook.

It is a painful truth that young people go without jobs and are told that ‘it is hard to find employment’, yet those appointed/elected to public office loot with wanton abandon like there’s no future. They don’t even try to create jobs; all they want is to be village small gods who dish out handouts.

The looter of Narok

The Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Narok County Government Mr. Denis Parsaloi Ole Letiet was appointed to office in 2016 and in those few years earning less that Ksh400k per month, the man now owns half of Narok.

It is alleged that Mr. Parsaloi owns flats and buildings carefully spread in two counties of Narok and Nairobi.

The Bachelor of Commerce Degree holder from Technical University of Kenya has learnt the art of creative accounting that has seen him embezzled millions from the county coffers.

A source working at the county government of Narok told cnyakundi.com that Mr. Parsaloi’s fortunes have risen tenfold since he came into office in 2016.

Apart from buildings, the maasai moran is said to be the owner of 10 high-end fleet of vehicles.

‘CFO ako na magari kumi, kama mheshimiwa. In fact hizi manyumba kama Esipil na Lathes huwa hapendi zijulikane, ameweka kwa majina ya watu wengine’, said the source .

It is also alleged that the CFO has firms that do works for the county, that are owned through proxies. This is conflict of interest.

Apart from the two buildings (Esipil and Lathes) in Narok that the source stated are owned by Mr. Parsaloi, others that cnyakundi.com has received information on, that are allegedly owned by him are: Chillspot Hotel (Narok), and Coffee Shop (Narok).

As Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) goes after people driving top of the range vehicles but have salaries that don’t match those riches, one of the people they should close in on is Narok County CFO Denis Parsaloi Ole Letiet.

Detectives from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Authority (EACC) and Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) should launch investigations as pertains to these allegations.

Such cases

Recently, after KRA announced that it will hire detectives to track tax evaders, some cases involving rich junior officers who worked the National Treasury and another at National Youth Service have been covered.

In the Treasury’s case, one Elvine Leware Macager earning a monthly salary of Ksh16,772 was later discovered to have started multiple firms in which he was paid a total of Ksh600 million. The KRA has made a tax demand of ksh300 million from him.

In the NYS case, one Evans Wafula Kundu earning a monthly salary of Ksh26,000 is worth over Ksh500 million. It is reported that Mr Wafula, then in charge of mechanical and transport department, illegally amassed the wealth during the looting spree at the state agency when Ksh9 billion was lost through dubious contracts and fictitious payments.

Both of the junior officers, now rich Kenyans, invested in properties in upmarket areas of Nairobi and other town.

They also own high-end vehicles.

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

A study commissioned by the Energy ministry early last month, shows a silent death-trap inside homes. The study indicated solid fuels and kerosene in traditional and simple stoves are leading pollutants.

Despite the legislative ban on logging, over 70% of Kenyans still use charcoal, firewood and kerosene for cooking.

In an exclusive interview, Safari Supa Gas Head of Business Development Flora Njagi explains why LPG is a cleaner and more economical source of fuel.

Who is Safari Supa Gas Company?

Safari Supa Gas was launched in 2019 with a vision to be the largest affordable cooking gas solution provider in East and Central Africa.

What is the target market of the product?

Currently our focus is with the growing market of over 70% of households without LPG or access to it. In fact, Safari would like to go from just raising awareness within the industry, to creating employment of community engagement officers, boda boda riders to and partnering with local distributors to ensure seamless end to end delivery of gas

What are the advantages over existing gases?

Through the introduction of USSD technology, and by simply dialing *873# customers will now be able to place orders from the comfort of their home through Safari and its network of authorized dealers – meaning quality of product and service is always assured

What is the pricing of the product, especially in these harsh economic times?

The customer can always be assured that we will always provide competitive prices whilst maintaining the highest quality standards.

How long does it last (main concern of every consumer)?

We only have hospitality agreements with licensed filling stations that ensure that the cylinders we are selling are to the required standards.

Where can one buy a cylinder of Safari Gas in Kenya?

We are currently in Mlolongo, Kitengela, Kawangware, Uthiru, Pipeline, Zimmerman, Githurai, Kayole, Kibera, Machakos, Nakuru, and Naivasha. USSD is currently live in Kibera and Kawangware

Tell us a little about the charity event you held in Kibera

Community engagement events like the one held in Kibera last Sunday, which saw all the participating chama groups walk away with complimentary Safari Supa gas cylinder packages, gave a great insight into how we envisage our journey with you.

Any other thing that you would like to mention in regard to Safari Gas?

Open communication with local churches and leaders at the grass roots, means that it’s not just this generation that will benefit from more environmentally friendly cooking solutions, but also the coming ones.

We are taking the SAFARI together.

Donald Trump on Thursday became the third president in US history to be impeached.

Three months ago, House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, announced an impeachment inquiry against the US President on 24 September.

Congress then started investigations into an alleged plot by Trump to use the power of his office to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 election.

On Thursday, Democrats approved two articles of impeachment against Trump: one for abuse of power, and one for obstruction of Congress.

So, what next for Trump and America?

1. The selection of impeachment managers

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, must settle on a team, known as “impeachment managers”, to make the case against Trump in a Senate trial to begin next month. Prime candidates are Adam Schiff, the intelligence committee chair, and Jerry Nadler, the judiciary chair. Another name to have been floated: Justin Amash, the Michigan independent who broke with the Republican party over Trump. His presence on the slate would confer some bipartisan credibility on the Democrats’ case.

2. Referral of impeachment to the Senate

The transfer of impeachment from the House to the Senate is expected to happen in short order. But some Trump critics have urged Pelosi to consider not transferring the case immediately to the Senate, where the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has made clear his wishes to dismiss the case without calling witnesses. But with Democrats mostly arguing that the impeachment case is urgent in order to stop Trump from striking again, stalling on the transfer could be difficult to justify.

3. The Senate trial (and likely acquittal)

McConnell has said the Senate will host a trial in January on whether to convict and remove Trump from office, as prescribed in the constitution. But McConnell and the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, have staked out opposing positions on the terms of the trial, including what witnesses will be called and evidence admitted.

There is a bare-bones set of rules governing the process, but most of the substance is up for negotiation. The supreme court’s chief justice, John Roberts, is to preside at the trial and could rule to break certain logjams – or he might not.

A two-thirds majority of senators would be required to remove Trump from office. That’s not likely to happen, given Republicans’ 53-seat majority and senior party figures’ public statements that they plan on acquitting Trump.

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.

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

‘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

If you are working at Equity, Ministry of health, Ministry of Labour and social protection and are not happy with the way cash transfer funds is being used. Reach us on hello@cnyakundi.com or WhatsApp 0710 280 973

It is often said, that three things cannot be long hidden from the world; the sun, the moon and the truth. And also, throughout history, the fall of great men has been caused by a woman. In the case today, we open the lid on an illicit affair that continues to rob a county of its desired development.

The county of Narok is on sharp focus as the Chief Executive Committee Member (CEC) for Finance Mr. Morgan Siloma is said to be looting county funds and enjoying it with Nairobi Nominated Senator Millicent Omanga.

The steamy relationship doesn’t care about the residents of Narok County who continue to suffer poor state of infrastructure, underdevelopment and lack of medicine in hospitals, while the Finance Boss squanders the wealth in Nairobi.

According to a source, the senator who unsuccessfully vied for Nairobi Woman Rep position during the last elections has even received a gift from the CEC Mr. Morgan. He has bought her a multi-million house in Nairobi’s leafy suburb of Kileleshwa.

The nominated senator was adversely mentioned in the Prisons Department Ksh4.8 billion tender scandal where it is said her firm Milways Enterprises was awarded a Ksh200 million tender to supply G3 riffle slings at a cost of Ksh5000 each. She would have ripped off the government as the slings only cost Ksh200 each. The scandal is said to have been stopped by the new Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Twalib Mbarak. Mr Mbarak stopped payments right before disbursement.

It is open knowledge that Millicent Omanga was picked from the streets selling bedsheets and molded by Deputy resident William Ruto where she was appointed as a non-executive director of Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen).

Millicent Omanga has nothing more than to tow the line of a man who has been described as the high-priest of corruption.

Narok county is not heaven under Governor Samuel Tunai. The rot is deep.

The CEC for finance illicit affairs with the nominated senator is not the only illicit thing he is engaging in. He is alleged to have used his position in the lucrative docket to influence the award of tenders to his friends and his proxy firms in the county.

The CEC is stealing to fund Tangatanga and DP Ruto, as things stand.

Narok Governor Tunai

In 2013, it was revealed that the Narok Governor Samuel Tunai owned a 2,359.6 acres of land most of which borders the famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

Tunai who is rich has also stolen massively from the county. The governor who is on his second term is said to be planning to run as a Member of National Assembly for Kilgoris. A move which a section of residents has vowed to block vehemently due to his underdevelopment and corruption records.

In Tunai’s 2.359.6 acres of land, a small settlement had formed but was burned down in 2003 in the deep of the night. 300 families were left homeless.

In 2015, Governor Tunai refused to declare the total amount it collects from the Masai Mara Game Reserve before the Senate.

At that time, Tunai has given the revenue collection contract irregularly to KAPS — an electronic ticketing firm that offers car parking payment solutions, access control and revenue management systems.

This scandal was never successfully prosecuted.

However, though the Governor said that he doesn’t know the how much is collected, the firm KAPS have a figure of Ksh1.097 billion in a period of 11 months.

In 2017, ODM Party leader Raila Odinga accused Governor Tunai and DP Ruto of looting Ksh3 billion illegally from the Maasai Mara though a shadowy firm.

It was the CEC who was sent by DP Ruto and Governor Tunai to deny the above claims.

This a new untold story of Ex-Standard Group journalist Mwaniki Munuhe’s father whose ascendency into the board membership of the Kedong ranch, raised eyebrows just like his son’s quick rise to riches.

Once a Standard Editorial Team staff member, Munuhe was named as one of the notorious deplorable involved in the 2015 Waiguru-led NYS Saga. And as they say, the rest is history. The family has used their newfound wealth to buy loyalty, protection and charm.

However, the last item mentioned above, charm, they have failed to buy.

You can fool people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

The whole Muhohetu knows the Munuhe’s; the family which rose from poverty in record time to be one of the most influential.

“He also owns three blocks of apartments in Thindigua also bought cash. He also owns Dove Cage Hotel on Mokhtar Dada street, Mercury Lounge in ABC Place Westlands, and currently developing a Ksh. 800 million hotel in Rumuruti where he comes from. The contractor on site for the hotel Chinese construction company known as Hunan Contractors.”

That’s not the only stain; there’s an alleged murder. Stay with me.

There’s no doubt that Mwaniki Munuhe comes from a very humble background. His dad was retrenched by the Moi government. The dad was just a peasant farmer.

Their fortunes changed after the NYS saga.

In record time, they built a home and furnished it. They also bought a wide range of vehicles, most of the top-of-the-range.

‘The Kedong ranch story is s very sad one’, states one resident

In November 2019, over 300 people held demos at Suswa Trading Centre to protest the construction of a perimeter wall in the land locking them inside with no way out. The land had been hived off for the construction of the multi-billion Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Naivasha.

Now, before Mwaniki’s dad became a board member of Kedong Ranch, the previous board member from Muhotetu was shot dead at his home by hitmen.

Since dead men tell no tales, the man’s widow knows the hitmen since they were with the husband when he was killed but cannot dare report them.

It is alleged that Mwaniki’s father sent the hitmen.

There have been a series of murders of people involving the Kedong ranch, but this one was curious.

After the murder of former board member, Mwaniki’s father was appointed a board member in unclear circumstances.

Immediately afterwards, he went ahead to sell the Kedong ranch but to the people of Muhotetu.

It is easy to link the people who profited from the looting of NYS to the people who are going to benefit from the IC in Naivasha. Is the murder linked?

Mwaniki’s father had been a member of PCEA Muhotetu church and even elected as a leader so even when he was implicated in the NYS scandal, members were convinced that it was a witch hunt.

At that time he was working at Standard and he would attend harambees and donated millions of money within that time at PCEA Muhotetu so part of NYS money has been used to build PCEA Muhotetu Church.

Now, any person in Muhotetu can tell you how much Mwaniki has donated to that church

When they say religion is an opium of the poor, it is evident in Muhotetu. The poor farmers “sold off” the ranch which has been passed down as an inheritance for generations. To them, Mwaniki’s father cannot be wrong since he is a church member and was once a leader. This is what Mwaniki and his dad took advantage of and even donated millions to church to fool them.

As anywhere in Kenya, after one has stolen from the public, PR donations are usually not enough and so the dad tried vying for a political position but has failed. He vied as an MCA but only got votes Muhotetu.

The charm offensive of a thief of public finds and swindler of lands continues.

Mwaniki ferried people from Muhotetu on a bus to attend his ruracio. He gave out a handsome amount of money as dowry. All that money is stolen money.

Government vehicles are not supposed to be out after working hours, not least on weekends. However, this is not the case in the counties.
Even as scavenging police roadblocks are set up on every major road in the counties, these misuse of the government of Kenya (GoK) property has not been curtailed, the major thing these police officers do on those roads is to ask for bribes from Matatus, they don’t care about the law. These wretched traffic police officers.
Here below a driver at the county of Kisii caused an accident on Sunday 22nd December 2019, witnesses say he was drunk at the time of the accident that disrupted a lot of things.
There were four vehicles that rammed into each other because of his mistakes. A small roadside market was also put in disarray.
In September, the new acting CS for National Treasury announced a raft of measures to curb wastage in public spending. Among those was a directive on the use of government vehicles

No more weekend rides with government vehicles. No officer should use the government transport outside official working hours unless authorized by the accounting officer in writing – Ukur Yatani

The accident below happened at Nyosia, about 9 Kilometres from Kisii Town. As stated earlier, the driver of Kisii County Vehicle registration number 45CG205A was drunk and driving at a very high speed.

“It’s absurd that such vehicles which are supposed to be on the parking lot are used to carry out personal functions of the county bosses. It’s a Sunday and the vehicle is out. The driver and two others in the Toyota Prado are hospital”, a resident reported to cnyakundi.com

Last year a Kisii county vehicle driven by a drunk driver collided head-on with an incoming saloon car killing the occupants instantly. The driver later died while in hospital. The driver had jerricans which he went to fetch and transport water to a county boss on a Thursday evening at around 7PM last year.

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Charles Rubia the former powerful Nairobi Mayor and second liberation icon Charles Rubia is dead.

Mr. Rubia died in his Karen home, his lawyer Senator Irungu Kang’ata confirmed.

In 1990, together with Hon. Kenneth Matiba, Rubia led the calls for multi-party democracy and was subsequently detained by President Daniel arap Moi.

Rubia was 94 years.

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Egerton University based in Njoro Nakuru is at the center of an extortion ring

Most Kenyan Universities are fond of hiring hooligans to damage properties during student protests so as to charge more in ‘damages fee’ when the students are asked to come back.

It is a running thread in all universities in Kenya, for example, at the recent Kenyatta University the students intimated that the VC ‘prof’. Paul Wainana hired some hooligans from outside who brought down a wall at the institution. The goal is to maximize damage so as to charge the students premium. Which most often ends up in the pockets of the senior management if the university.

At the Maasai Mara University, students complained when the suspended Vice-Chancellor Prof Mary Walingo was said to have opened a new personal account to stash over Ksh10 million. This is apart from the Ksh190 million that the Maasai Mara VC was said to have looted from the institution.

Egerton University

Early this month, there was some protest at the institution of higher learning. A few days ago, the school Senate imposed extra ordinary damage charges to students amounting to Ksh16,862 per student which translates to over 400Million.

The students say they are aware of the damages which were made, apart from few window glasses which were broken, the students torched one lawnmower, some were lucky to have lunch at one of the Hotels within the school, maybe some Yoghurt was drunk.  

In a notice produced by the school, the students are supposed to pay the surcharge fees before 8th January 2020.

As per the picture of the letter attached below, the students’ leaders have since been suspended hence the students have no one to fight them. Their representatives are now held captive by the Senates directive, which states that ‘they should not be found in the university compound during the time of suspension’.

Do the said damages warrant the Administration to punish the students that much? Or is it the same manner of extortion as observed in other universities across Kenya.

The Egerton University admin wants to take advantage of the strike and steal money from parents.

Money for damages must be paid, but the Ksh16,862 is too high and amounts to daylight robbery,

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Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto is a man who had been mentioned in many scandals.

William Ruto doesn’t inspire any goodwill among people who know him better.

A hard-nosed rhetorician who built his politician name against the backdrop of bringing Kenya’s independence party the Kenya African National Union (KANU) to power in the multiparty election in 1992.

DP Ruto then a member of the Youth For KANU (YK92) together with washed up and broke politician Cyrus Jirongo has continued in that legacy of mostly not defending his tarnished name.

DP Ruto was a guest if International Criminal Court, a person adversely mentioned in the Ksh21 billion Kimwarer and Arror dam scandal, a person names in the grabbing of Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) and Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) lands; not to mention the many church Harambees that the DP attends and gives money that is equally to his year salary.

Yesterday, Ruto broke ground for a Leadership Institute constructed in his name at one of East Africa’s most prestigious universities.

Kenyans were up in arms against the construction of the William Ruto Leadership Institute by one of the prestigious Universities in East Africa.

Many termed it a sacrilege against Makerere University.

Read their comments.

A William Ruto Leadership Institute @MakerereU is the most absurd and utterly inconceivable blunder in the history of higher education in Africa. Today @MakerereU is the laughing stock of the world. I expect students, faculty, and staff to quickly erase this abomination. Now!

— Prof Makau Mutua (@makaumutua) December 22, 2019

William Ruto institute of African studies:
First Semester-

Basics of corruption
Tax looting
Land grabbing
Supporters blindfolding
How to lie confidently

Second Semester-

School closed, land grabbed!

— Duncan Makori 🇰🇪 (@EngnrDan) December 22, 2019

This is what we now know:

1. President Museveni bulldozed Makerere University into naming a Leadership Institute after William Ruto.

2. Makerere lecturers have raised questions on Ruto's character as a role model saying "Ruto is not the kind of leader we should be hosting." pic.twitter.com/zy8j2NXAbC

— Gabriel Oguda (@gabrieloguda) December 22, 2019

Lakini nini Usumbua Museveni. Why is he abusing a respectable university like Makerere by letting William Ruto found an institute. That's a serious crime against a academia.

— BrutalHonest🇰🇪 🇺🇬🇹🇿🇬🇭🇪🇹🇦🇪🇧🇭 (@BrutalHonest3) December 22, 2019

I WILL not be as blatant as the others but anyone calling any institution, "William Ruto Leadership Institute" is just a joker. Iam sure even TangaTanga are shocked by the level to which Makerere can take the joke.

— wahome thuku (@wahomethuku) December 21, 2019

William Ruto Leadership Institute? For his leadership of inciting Kalenjins against the Luos and Kikuyus? Or for participating in the Kiambaa massacre? Madness pic.twitter.com/yRDWhYHvHM

— Kibet Arap Kirwa BBI,OGW, HSC etc (@kibet_ndugu) December 22, 2019

97 years of hard work and dedication to build an icon, watered down by greed and selfish ambitions. Of all the universities, it had to be Makerere! WHY? https://t.co/Lx0ZiEh1Kf

— #TeamMwalimuDida (@mwalimu_dida) December 22, 2019

Jambojet, a brand of Kenya Airways (KQ), is one of the local low-cost airline.

Since inception there have been cases of delays on it routes, but the events of today at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) are something to be very sad about.

The airline discriminated against Kenyans and other black people.

In a classic case of a country which usually treats its natives as statistics selling everything to outsiders as if Kenyans don’t exist had today been represented well by Jambojet.

It is reported that the airline’s flight number 8604 to Mombasa stuck at JKIA since 10am as of 5 p.m this evening.
Black Africans were separated from whites who are boarded onto other flights while they are told to wait.

Meanwhile, National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) and the Kenya Airports Authority can’t do shit.

Jambojet will continue to fly as usual, while wasting Kenyans times and abusing them at it.

Flight Delays

It is not the first time that Jambo Jet is doing this.

In 2016, flight delays and cancellation were a norm with the airline.

The Kenya Coast Tourism Association (KCTA) chairman Mohammed Hersi observed then that the delays and cancellation of flights ‘is totally unacceptable’ and that it has ‘become more of the rule than an exception’.

On the TripAdvisor, the world’s travel and restaurant review website, one title screams of Jambojet “unnanounced flight delay of 1 hour”.

Passengers shared their bad experiences with Jambojet, which are many. But one Manish1967 who has a ranking of Very Good’ on the website wrote the following about Jambojet

The airline had a flight delay of 1 hour, which was only communicated to us after we arrived at the airport well in time for our earlier flight. Thus we had to spend an extra hour waiting, getting less of our holiday than expected.

The Kenyan National Highways Authority (KeNHA) must come to the rescue of the residents of Garissa and Tana River Counties border.

There’s the Garissa town bridge that separates the two counties, it is very busy but the pedestrians are at a disadvantage.

The lack of a pedestrian footbridge alongside the River Tana bridge has been a huge cause for worry for many years and a fraught for danger for the many pedestrians who cross the bridge on foot on a daily basis. When crossing on foot, they are left with no option but to share spaces with heavy trucks, crazily driven matatus plying the Garissa-Maroro-Madogo route, tuktuks, boda bodas, buses etc.

In a nutshell, crossing the bridge on foot is a risky venture.

It is this continuous and incessant interaction between the people and vehicular traffic on the bridge that has resulted in numerous traffic accidents over the years. Residents tell harrowing tales of people losing their loved ones through ‘accidents’ or limb.

All this could be avoided if there was a footbridge, for non-motorized transport.

In the last 2 months, 3 cases of accidents were reported. The grieving families have shared accounts of how their loved ones perished while some became disabled for life.

Petitions/Picketing

Residents are planning to increase pressure on KeNHA to resolve the issue once and for all. Together with partners from members of civil society organizations, some are planning to visit the families of the victims and if possible liaise with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) from Tana river county that specifically deal with matters Democracy, Human rights, good governance and social protection to deliberate on how they can marshal their efforts towards finding a lasting solution to this crisis.

‘I have taken it upon myself to directly engage KENHA and demand for some answers on this issue’, says a good governance activist in Garissa.

KeNHA must be responsible in these issues. This is not the first time that the residents are planning to write to the roads body.

On the 29th October, 2019, KeNHA through their Director General (DG) Peter Mundinia wrote back to the Garissa County Residents Association (GCRA) on their question about the lack of a pedestrian crossing across River Tana in Garissa Town along (A3) road.

The residents didn’t feel the response that the contractor Concordia Building & Civil Engineering Limited contract was terminated and that no payments were made to the firm in regards to the subject project.

The response has raised more questions than answers:

1. “Why was the contract terminated despite CONCORDIA BUILDING and CIVIL ENGINEERING LTD providing a performance security inform of an unconditional bank guarantee (5 per cent of the contract sum)?’
2. When was the contract terminated?

Remember according to the contract document signed by the Director General himself; CONCORDIA was awarded the contract back in February 2018 for a contract period of 15 months with defects to liability of 12months work was supposed to commence in may 2018 and be finalized by may 2019.

Many residents wonder why there is no pedestrian footbridge despite the government giving funds for roads maintenance and building.

According to the Fair Administrative Action Act 2015; if you write an official letter of inquiry to a public entity, they should revert with an official written response within 21 days. The letter was also copied to Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).

KeNHA might have written back to the residents but it seems their answers were not convincing.

This is how they feel

As we continue to engage KeNHA ; we’ll soon also explore the following avenues to help us get to the bottom of this ghost project:

1. Directorate of Criminal Investigations :

We gave copies of our inquiry letter to both DCI and EACC, but none of them was an active player in this, it was basically to inform them what was happening. In their response, KeNHA also copied their letter to both DCI and EACC.

It’s time now to call in the DCI (as an active player) to swing into action and undertake immediate investigations and solve this whole mystery.

2. The other option that is at our disposal (and which we’ll most certainly explore) is

PETITIONING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE (PAC):

We’ll petition the Public Accounts Committee to summon the Director General KeNHA , Eng Peter Mundinia and appear before the committee with clear evidence showing that the contract which was awarded to CONCORDIA BUILDING and CIVIL ENGINEERING LTD (at contract sum of over 154million) was terminated and no money was fraudulently paid upfront (as widely reported in the media ) to the well connected company linked to a ‘powerful politician’ !

A copy will be Cc’d to the house leadership , the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon Justin Muturi will get his copy, so will be the Leader of majority party in the National Assembly, Hon Aden Duale and the Leader of the minority party ,Hon John Mbadi.

We envisage this to be one big exposure, the mystery will be solved and the information regarding the ghost project will be available in the public domain!

This will be a pointer to the number of skeletons in the closet that will begin to come out eventually re all the dubious ghost projects awarded to the same company for doing zero work!

The essence of formally writing a letter of inquiry to office of the Director General was to confirm what was highlighted in the media and verify its accuracy ; now it’s time for action and we solemnly promise that indeed we’ll walk the talk!

Let’s see if the reported ‘well connected ‘ company (as reported by the daily nation on many occasions) will use it’s influence in the national Assembly and try all that’s possible under the sun to ensure our petition, when we finally table it, will be watered down!

If all attempts fail , we’ll resort to the option of Public Interest litigation (PIL) with the help of KATIBA INSTITUTE and sue the concerned authorities for inaction!

We wont stop until we lift the lid on this ghost project!

We wont stop untill KeNHA undertake fresh procurement process and eventually construct the planned Pedestrian crossing across river Tana that will bring complete harmony between pedestrians and the vehicular traffic on/across the great River Tana bridge!

Cnyakundi.com supports the call by the residents that the bridge must be built and it must be done quick.

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The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results came out in November, however, some parents have written to cnyakundi.com saying that their kids, some with good marks, have not received any placement positions in secondary schools.

‘I would like to highlight the issue of the thousands of class eight kids who were never posted on any school yet they had passed well. I know they are in thousands. My sister’s kid scored 341 marks, she was not called to any school’, a concerned uncle wrote.

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) Chairman Dr John Onsati while delivering his speech vowed commitment to ensure examination exercise is credible.

Can the Ministry of education and KNEC come together and correct this error of some well-performed students missing slots in secondary school?

Many parents have been at Jogoo House numerous times looking for answers but all they are told is that ‘there was a technical error’ yet nothing is done to correct it.

Hey Prof. George Magoha, please handles this issue.

KCPE Exams 2019

1,088,986 girls and boys sat the examination in 27,000 exam centers.

Disagreggated data shows a near 50 per cent tie for the genders; there were a total of 525,070 girls and 527,294 boys.

If you are facing the same issue, send information to hello@cnyakundi.com or WhatsApp 0710280973. Thanks

There was confusion at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport over Beth Mugo’s VIP treatment that confused Kenyans that were on a KQ plane.

People that were on board on the KQ plane from Mombasa to Nairobi were told to wait for around 20 minutes as a vehicle accessed the airside and picked the cousin to president Uhuru Kenyatta.

Apparently, only the president, deputy president and visiting heads of states are allowed to have their motorcades at the airside.

Shockingly, Beth Mugo was also provided with KAA escort, leaving many confused.

This blog wishes to confirm that Uhuru’s uncle George Muhoho is the chairman of KAA and might have given the family the special treatment, something not available to people like Raila Odinga.

In 2013, there was a storm when Raila claimed that he was denied access to the VIP lounge but the Kenya Airports Authority came out to clarify things and insited that Raila was not denied VIP treatment, but only access to the airside was denied for his convoy since it is only the president, deputy president and visiting heads allowed to access it.

Governor Ali Roba of Mandera County is today on the spotlight for theft. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is being inf called upon to investigate.

Though other governors from notable counties i.e. Kiambu and Nairobi, that is to mean Ferdinand Waititu and Mike Sonko have suffered and are ‘out of office’, Ali Roba continues to buy allegiance with looted funds from the county coffers.

Samburu Governor Moses Lenolkulal is also ‘out of office’ for irregular procurement and conflict of interest.

Their sins

Sonko is barred from office for the irregular award of lucrative garbage tenders amounting to Ksh357 million where he also paid a firm associated with his close friend, ROG Securities Ltd. In total, the governor is said to have pocketed over Ksh20 million through proxies.

Waititu is ‘out of office’ for chewing hundreds of millions (over Ksh588 million) in irregular tender awards. He is also said to have bribed judges and MCAs.

Lenolkulal robbed Samburu County of over Ksh2 billion. In February, EACC released a press statement stating the county leaders formed companies that they used to award themselves tenders worth Kes. 700 million.

‘In other cases, contractors were irregularly awarded contracts worth over Kes. 1 billion, for works that were partly or never done, after which they paid kickbacks to top County Officers.’ The statement read in part.

Ali Roba and Mandera County

All the above-mentioned governors have been barred from office while Ali Roba, the man who has aided the culture of impunity to go on at the county continues to rule from his office.

In 2018, EACC through their annual corruption report termed Mandera as the county with the highest bribe amount at Ksh35,440.

In their 2019 report, EACC puts Mandera among the top ten counties where one is likely to pay a bribe.

In June 2019, EACC pitched tent at the offices of Mandera County Public Service Board investigating an alleged irregular hiring of staff. We covered the scandal in this article.

Mr Abdifatah Ogle, a former County Public Service Board Secretary was caught as he attempted to alter a list of recently hired senior staff.

Mr Ogle wasn’t even fired he was transferred to the roads and transport docket.

As the Governor loots, medical services in his county is in tatters. The medics had threatened to go on strike last month.

Ali Roba would rather install a Ksh35 million gate at the entrance to the Mandera County Referral Hospital. Talk of mixed up, upside-down priorities.

Why is he not being investigated?

Governor Ali Roba used his contacts at EACC to bribe them in order to stop corruption investigations at the county. Roba is the most corrupt governor. What Sonko and Waititu have stolen is chicken feed compared to Roba

Who is sitting on the files of an investigation launched by EACC in 2018? (see pictures below)

What happened to the money for the construction of an Airport in Mandera?

It is alleged that Governor Roba has bought buildings in Eastleigh through proxies. It is also said that he bought a mall in South C.

A young man Abiud Wangu Maina was so depressed and couldn’t handle it anymore. His friends wrote to us sharing screenshots of his goodbye message on Facebook.

It is alleged he committed suicide by car accident at Allsopps (outer Ring – Thika Superhighway junction) in the morning today after posting the message of goodbye on his Facebook page.

A series of messages on his Facebook page pointed to a man struggling with draining thoughts, the tell-tell signs were there all along.

Mr. Maina seem to have fallen on hard times and decided that it was not worth it.

Last week was the best week for me I was able to stand before my workmate of 11 years I was able to speak my heart but one thing I learned no one notice my tired eyes , that’s how bad depression is no one can notice depressed people acts ok , but I thank God I got the opportunity to say good bye. # End of an era
# Depression is real # pay attention to your friend behavior change – Abiud Wangu Maina, 28 December 2019, 12:55 a.m.

It is in his last message, ‘friends’ have trooped in to comment ‘RIP, ‘he should have talked’ and such things. Anyway no need to blame anyone only the fucked up economy, plundered by Jubilee.

The devolution isn’t working fast enough as it should, th blame is laid upon the Central government but you are aware how Governors such as Sonko (Nairobi), Waititu (Kiambu), Awiti (Homabay), Lenolkulal (Samburu), Roba (Mandera), Nanok (Turkana) etc are looting the coffers.

Instead of providing services to the people, making the economy more inclusive, and above all devising ways to make life easier for people at the counties by providing jobs to the youths, the governors are plundering the coffers. Corruption has been devolved and it is ‘eating’ at the people including the youth.

Sonko is barred from office for the irregular award of lucrative garbage tenders amounting to Ksh357 million where he also paid a firm associated with his close friend, ROG Securities Ltd. In total, the governor is said to have pocketed over Ksh20 million through proxies.

Waititu is ‘out of office’ for chewing hundreds of millions (over Ksh588 million) in irregular tender awards. He is also said to have bribed judges and MCAs.

Lenolkulal robbed Samburu County of over Ksh2 billion. In February, EACC released a press statement stating the county leaders formed companies that they used to award themselves tenders worth Kes. 700 million.

‘In other cases, contractors were irregularly awarded contracts worth over Kes. 1 billion, for works that were partly or never done, after which they paid kickbacks to top County Officers.’ The statement read in part.

Homabay County is in tatters, the revenue collection has fallen and the governor doesn’t care. He gave the senate committee some laughable reason, ‘fish has migrated to Uganda’. Governor Awiti is a joke, there’s no other explanation other than he is stealing money massively from the county coffers to fund ODM’s 2022 campaigns.

In Mandera, Ali Roba has pocketed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). In Wajir and Garissa, the situation is the same as Mandera.

We currently have 47 plus 2 thieves at the helm of our counties and our national government.

They don’t care about our welfare at all. It is a sad state of affairs.

To the family of Abiud Wangu Maina we send our condolences. RIP