who has ever been convicted of corruption in this country. swali tu …
Small fish e.g traffic cops caught on tape receiving bribes. Big fish…none
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…no one and not anyone soon.
Are we seriously waiting for the government to tackle corruption, if so we are doomed.
How about we start demanding for services.
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How can we start demanding for services when the same common mwananchi will defend his/her political bigwig tribemate if/when they face a corruption scandal. How many times have we seen these bigwigs being escorted to courts or EACC Hqs by their sycophants ati oooh we are being targetted. Saw on youtube Kidero lying to villagers pale nyalgunga how 200mill cannot fit in 2 briefcases. Nikka has the audacity to even demonstrate the amount of space 200mill can take and then u see foolish villagers who survive on a dollar a day clapping for him…SMH
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Sometimes you prove me wrong - kumbe sio cotton wool between the ears!o_O
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Did you see who and who were in attendance when the IEBC verdict on Wetangula bribing voters was being delivered. Never mind the fact that he had been found guilty by the courts and a by election ordered. Did you see how they were celebrating that he hadn’t been struck from the voters register?
Now those and the others in Jubilee are the thugs we expect to seriously fight corruption in Kenya.
Any hope?
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Tutaanza kudeal na corruption style ya Arrow…"you have failed the country…puff:eek:
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The bribe givers in the chicken gate scandal, are in jail in U.K, While the bribe takers are free here in kenya, reason given, no evidence…
Let’s just accept corruption as a way of life
And forget about ‘Kenya is about to take off’
And that is how waiguru joined politics in preparation for running mate 2022
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ongeza Mugo Wairimu hapo
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Achieng’ Ong’ong’a and Rebecca Nabutola are in jail, or so I believe. They served or are still serving time for attempting to defraud the govt as officials. But I think their mistake was not being aligned with the powerful people who could protect them then. If we all watched news and followed events keenly, we would know about this.
By PAUL OGEMBA [email protected]
Former Tourism permanent secretary Rebecca Nabutola and Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) ex-managing director Achieng Ong’ong’a have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the ministry of Sh8.4 million.
The two will pay the price of a trip that was organised for permanent secretaries to familiarise themselves with the marketing of wildebeest migration in Maasai Mara in June 2007, a function also attended by President Mwai Kibaki.
Senior principal magistrate Lucy Nyambura on Monday ruled that the money requested by KTB from the Treasury was for marketing and asked how KTB ended up paying Sh8.4 million for a trip budgeted to cost Sh900,000, and which was to be funded by stakeholders in the tourism sector.
“The cost of the entire trip was Sh1.8 million which was to be sourced from stakeholders. No documents are there to show the other payments even after one stakeholder paid Sh500,000 for the trip.
"In fact the other accused (Duncan Muriuki) opened a fixed deposit account for the money and withdrew it soon after the trip was over,” said Ms Nyambura. The magistrate jailed Nabutola for four years while Ong’ong’a will serve three years.
The jail terms could increase to six and five years, respectively, if they fail to pay a fine of Sh1 million and Sh1.5 million, respectively.
Their co-accused Duncan Muriuki, the managing director of Maniago Safaris and a former board member of KTB, got seven years in jail and a mandatory repayment of Sh18.6 million to the Tourism ministry.
Ms Nyambura ruled that the prosecution had proved beyond doubt that the three had jointly conspired to defraud the ministry of the funds despite being public officers entrusted with the management of public funds.
“In convicting them, I have considered that they were public officers entrusted with public funds but they breached that trust put on them by their offices,” said Nyambura.
Nabutola and Ong’ong’a join former Home Affairs permanent secretary Sylvester Mwaliko in a group of ex-government officials convicted of economic crimes committed during their tenure in office.
Mwaliko was last week handed a non-custodial sentence and fined Sh3 million for abuse of office over the Anglo-Leasing scandal.
Nabutola, Ong’ong’a and Muriuki were charged with a total of 11 counts of conspiracy to defraud, failure to adhere to rules governing procurement and abuse of office.
They were all found guilty of the first count of conspiracy to defraud KTB of Sh8.4 million to fund the permanent secretaries’ trip and will each serve three years in jail.
On the second count, Nabutola and Muriuki were charged with conspiracy to defraud the ministry of Sh400,000.
Found guilty
The magistrate ruled that it was evident Muriuki’s company received the money from the ministry even though the trip was funded by stakeholders and sentenced each to one year imprisonment.
Nabutola was also convicted of wilful failure to comply with public procurement rules and abuse of office and fined Sh1 million or serve additional two years in jail in default.
“Nabutola improperly conferred a benefit to Maniago Safaris without following procedures and abused her office as the chief accounting officer,” ruled Ms Nyambura.
Ong’ong’a was found guilty of two other charges of paying money for services not rendered and for failing to comply with procurement rules.
Ms Nyambura ruled that he failed to offer any explanation why the budgeted money increased from Sh1.8 million to Sh8.9 million and why he single-handedly gave the nod for the money to be paid to Maniago Safaris even though the company was not approved by the Tourism Board.
Muriuki will serve the additional three years for conspiring to defraud the ministry as well as refund Sh18.6 million, which is double the amount his company received from the tourism ministry.
In addition, he will a Sh500,000 fine for improperly receiving a benefit or serve additional one year in jail in default.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1501450/-/xulpydz/-/index.html
Corruption should be added as a subject in our education System that we all have the know-how.
spoke like a true diasporan…youtube? definately not around kenya…a dollar a day …really? 1$=101.89 thats too much.people survive with half that.guess you been away for too long when the dollar was at 33 bob or something
i say that for as long as wetwetwet was not struck off, that he was even given a hearing, is proof that politicians are untouchable.
2017, i am not voting. i will be deep in the village enjoying fresh air.
Hehehe I saw that one. Ati “…ata hii tent ni ndogo”
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