A rich, powerful and extremely entitled top official from the Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA) has over the past week been under the limelight on social media after his evil scheme of bribing his way into a term extension was leaked to the public.
According to credible whispers from online corridors, KeNHA Director General Eng. Peter Mundinia is pushing for an amendment of the law that seeks to change the DG’s term from three to five years.
Through an ill-advised bill currently under review by the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Transport, the disreputed boss who is linked to William Ruto’s disgraceful Tanga Tanga faction hopes to use this avenue to illegally seek an annexe to his second term which by the law expired in June 2021.
With our well known dishonourable Members of Parliament on top of the matter, murmurs have already surfaced in the streets suggesting that the career civil servant accused of dropping KENHA’s standards since his inception into office has already lined up hefty bribes amounting to millions in order to ensure the proposal goes through.
According to an excerpt from the National Assembly newspaper advertisements published on Friday, July 2, the bill contains an amendment to the office and qualifications of the Director-General of the Kenya Roads Board and proposes to amend the Kenya Roads Act, 2007 to change the term of office of a Director-General appointed under the Act from three (3) to five (5) years.
It also seeks to change the qualifications for appointment as a Director-General of the Kenya National Highways Authority, the Kenya Urban Roads Authority and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority.
To get a clearer picture of just how much he is obsessed with the changing of the law and remaining in power, Eng Mundinia who is said to have amassed his wealth through backdoor means is yet to initiate the process of recruiting his successor weeks after the expiration of his term.
From awarding himself lucrative road construction tenders to receiving hefty kickbacks from contractors and consultants, Eng Mundinia is known as a man who stops at nothing to ensure he gets what he wants.
On social media, netizens led by some vocal Kenyans like renowned city lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi have over the past week expressed their displeasure over the controversial bill blessed by Eng Mundinia.
In a post published by the Senior Counsel on Twitter, he heavily condemned the proposed change to the law and urged his fellow learned friends like Law Society of Kenya (LSK) Chairman Nelson Havi to intervene.
“Why is the term of Director General of KENHA being amended from 3 to 5 years? Rais Nelson Havi can you please defend the public interest and stop this nonsense!” he wrote.
Under the replies section, other Kenyans, including Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) Chairman Stephen Mutoro joined in to share their views.
Mutoro specifically castigated Transport CS James Macharia for “running KENHA like a personal property”.
“They are busy coming up with illegal road tolls. I am not surprised, they might even increase the DG term to 10 years,” he wrote in frustration.
At this point, one could only hope that respective government institutions like the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) will look into the matter, but unfortunately, some of our sources on the ground have reliably informed us that Eng Mundinia, who is never short of brown envelopes to hand out, has successfully managed to pocket them all.
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