Former Kenya Power CEO Samuel Gichuru and former Cabinet minister Chris Okemo face a jail term of up to 14 years each in the UK after they moved closer to being extradited to the Jersey Island for theft and money laundering charges.
The pair are wanted by the Royal Court of Jersey for accepting bribes from foreign businesses that won tenders at Kenya Power with the proceeds wired to the Island territory.
Mr Okemo was the Minister for Energy between 1991 and 2001, while Mr Gichuru was the KPLC Managing Director between 1984 and February 2013.
The duo is wanted to face 53 counts linked to “commissions” paid by companies to win Kenya Power tenders and held in a Jersey account in foreign currencies: £4.45 million; $3.2 million and kr790,000 (totaling Sh1.04 billion at current exchange rates), according to Jersey court papers.
The scheme was executed through Windward Trading Ltd — the entity through which Mr Gichuru reportedly received hefty kickbacks to award suppliers lucrative tenders during his two-decade tenure at the helm of Kenya Power that ended in 2003.
Gichuru ni meffi. His philandering brought them all these problems. In their sixties with grown up kids and all the wealth he abandoned his first wife who had taken a huge loan to start a prestigious school in Nakuru, Victonell Academy; he refused to pay the loan and the wife filed for divorce. When the court ordered he submit his estate to the courts, his wife ratted out that he had omitted accounts on New Jersey Island. Si angelipa tu loan
They will not be extradited, the most Powerful corrupt forces in .ke that have been protecting them will continue to protect them and stop it. Some other legal complication will pop up that will take another 10 years in the courts to resolve.
Time to shutter Kenya Power and jail everyone who ate that money. Julie Gishuru should be made homeless ndio awache kupost fake motivational chieth ya ‘hard work’
When Julie first appeared on KTN, Samuel Gichuru decided he wants that beauty for his son who was messed up and doing nothing but drinking more or less like fidel wa Raila or konyagi before 2002. Gichuru sent people to approach her on behalf of the son and the rest is history.
The wife was black mailing him, if she took out a loan then she should pay for it her own self.
The bitch didn’t out him out of patriotism or a noble aspiration but out of bitterness, they both deserve each other.
The moi family is the main protection for them, but there are many other mega rich and powerful corrupt types that have an interest in stopping the two from going to yap yap in a court abroad.
That was the crux of the divorce case. Gichuru is/was known for his open fly. His late first wife Elizabeth a former primary school teacher is the one who outed him in divorce proceedings