Yesterday I watched the PS for Devolution on Citizen TV being interviewed by Mohammed Hussein and I must without any fear admit [SIZE=4]this guy set up Waiguru. His excuses were so lame and his responses to questions were those I expect from a neophyte and not someone with 29 years of experience.
For me, 2 things from the interview struck out to lead me to conclude that he set up Waiguru.
He says the document was bulky which led to him missing the errors! What bull crap is this? The MPs picked the errors on a new document very fast but a whole PS who had the document the entire year couldn’t see the errors.!! Furthermore, the MPs picked the errors using their eyes. The PS has a system which would have made work easy. Personally, if I had that document in excel, using filters, what ifs, Vlookup etc I would have picked the “errors” very easily in less than 2 hours. For this reason, the errors were deliberate.
Why did it take him a whole week to admit that the document had errors? In that 1 week, Waiguru has been crucified, executed, killed, hanged, punished, chastised, rebuked, tormented, persecuted, anguished, distressed, plagued, haunted and beleaguered by many including yours truly. Every newspaper dedicated acres of space in their headlines mentioning how "Waiguru is Corrupt". Now that it has been known what happened, we expect 1 one line correction and clarification by the newspapers next to diggers classified or just before obituaries. This was a deliberate move to have rise public anger against Waiguru.
I now submit whatever is going on in that ministry is way above my pay grade, I mean why would a P.S sabotage his own ministry, hata kama ni kulipwa he could easily earn that thru, kickbacks. Maybe someone under him set him up also to go look stupid in parliament, so many unknowns
In many weeks I have not watched local tv channels but last night I got that interview part. I was appalled by the a way goverment officer casually claim they erred on figures that are in millions or billions as if he is a toddler. Rather than be dragged to boiling point anger and hit my telly I started watching some series. Thanks for watching it all and summarizing here. Waikulu cord wamekusamehea.
Tulia. We didn’t have all the facts. Now we know and have admitted the mistake we made last week. I for one would like to see this guy taken to court ili iwe funzo. Some “human errors” can be very costly.
If Mangiti was talking under duress, it would have been easy to know. CORD as usual would have called a press conference to defend him. Note the silence.
neither did i, bro, but my knowledge of government accounting systems tells me if there was a mess the PS should have been the first stop for answers…
sadly, kenya has become a lynchmob country…hang them, then apologize…
Another thing that has struck me that this was a set up is because several months ago, the judiciary was embroiled in corruption. The “accounting officer” Gladys Shollei was forced to stepped aside. However, nobody, absolutely nobody, raised a voice asking the head of judiciary to step aside.
My thoughts exactly bro. Kila mtu abebe mzigo yake. The precedence attempted here would have been staggering in days to come. If you want a Cs to redign, just pay some moron to mess up then scream .
I too saw the guy on Tv yesterday acting all balled up. He said he had earlier noted the error and asked his officers to correct it, then says that they might have overlooked it when binding the final document and that its just human error. This Mangiti has alot to tell us…
@mabenda4 wrote something here about the issue while sitting on the bonnet of his Peugeot. I agreed totally. This was fixing at its best. I feel for Waiguru.
You’ re jumping into a conclusion. Set up Waiguru?? Big no from me. This guy has been told to save Waiguru’s face no matter what hence the ludicrous answers. This method of fixing is too simple more so if the target is someone close to statehouse. If indeed it is a set up, then this PS or whoever masterminded it must have been very stupid.
i DO NOT for a moment think there was any plot by the PS and his staff to fix waiguru. my take is that there was poor procurement (read that as buying at exorbitant prices for obvious reasons) followed by poor book-keeping of what was bought. what followed was a case of being unable to account because they could not produce the requisite assets registers when demanded by the Auditor General. audit querries followed and it was in the process of trying to construct the required assets register in retrospect that the embarrassing errors were made.
Some opposition MPs in the PAC then noticed the errors and gleefully pointed them out to the Nation Media Group which ran to the market with the story before they had asked enough hard questions (as they have too often been doing in the recent past!). The result is the weeklong fiasco we saw that had government critics wetting their “pannies”…and even some diehard supporters wavering and hiding their faces…
I also do not think this guy has been told by anyone to defend anyone. he is blubbering because he finds himself caught neck deep in the human waste of his own incompetence and/or complicity…