Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s first President, Jomo Kenyatta, has stated his intention to vie for Kenya’s presidency in next year’s election. That the son of a former President is seeking the highest office is nothing new under the sun. John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States was the son of John Adams, the second President while George Walker Bush, the 43rd President of the world’s only super power was the son of George Herbert Bush, the 41st President.
Politically speaking, there is nothing wrong with the son of a former President seeking high office in any country as long as the electoral system is democratic and as long as such a candidate is not imposed on the people by powerful forces in the background. The task of a Presidential candidate (and any candidate seeking office) is to convince the electorate which decides through the ballot, on who is to lead them.
If he presents himself for election, Uhuru Kenyatta will be entering the presidential race with a lot of baggage. First, the son of Jomo is a politician by accident, having been forced into politics by former President Daniel arap Moi who wanted to impose Uhuru on Kenyans in the 2002 elections in what became known as the “Uhuru Project”. Kenyans refused to go by Moi’s schemes and rejected the Project because the son of Jomo’s presidency was seen more as an opportunity for Moi to continue pulling the strings of power from retirement, a nightmarish scenario which must have caused many Kenyans considerable indigestion. As the leader of KANU Party which lost power for the first time, Uhuru was relegated to opposition benches following the 2002 elections. The baggage here is that of Uhuru being the top player in a failed Project whose agenda was to see a former dictator rule through the backdoor after retirement.
It can be argued that Uhuru is part of today’s political crisis in Kenya because as the official “Leader of Opposition in Parliament” following the 2002 elections, it was the duty of Uhuru to keep the government on toes in the run up to the 2007 election and show alternative leadership to President Mwai Kibaki who had messed up the country totally after he came to power.
Instead, Uhuru abandoned his role as Leader of Opposition and joined Kibaki to fight against Raila Odinga’s presidential bid. For the first time in the history of Kenya, Africa and probably the world, the main opposition leader joined the government in a General election. When Kibaki lost then stole elections, Uhuru was by his side to argue that he won, all because of ethnicity. Today, Uhuru Kenyatta ought to take responsibility for lack of opposition in Kenyan Parliament. We are in a situation where both the ODM and PNU are in government although the two parties alternate on who opposes the government at any given time and on any given issue. The baggage here is that of Uhuru having abandoned his responsibility as Leader of Opposition because of ethnicity based on “House of Mumbi” politics.
It is almost impossible for one to talk about landlessness in Kenya without talking about land grabbing by the Kenyatta family. Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru’s father, is probably the most popular land grabber in Kenya. According to the Ndungu Report, the Kenyatta family has grabbed land that cumulatively is equivalent to the size of Nyanza province, home to more than eight million people. Landlessness in Central province that forced many Kikuyus to seek land in the Rift Valley or settle in other parts of Kenya was a direct consequence of Kenyatta’s (and his allies) land grabbing tendency. IDPs, who are currently living in squalid conditions in Kenya, could be resettled on a tiny piece of land of the vast stretches grabbed by the Kenyatta family. The baggage here is that of Uhuru being a member of a family which is responsible for the grabbing of land the size of a province in Kenya. How will Uhuru convince Kenyans that he is committed to fighting land grabbing when his family is the lead land grabber?
A master of hate speech
Once he supported Kibaki following Raila Odinga’s stolen Presidency, and after rotating in different Cabinet positions, Uhuru landed in the Ministry of Finance where the key word has been “looting”. The more time goes, the more Kenyans understand the extent of theft masterminded by Uhuru’s allies in the Treasury and Ministry of Finance. Paradoxically, Uhuru is a chap who gets away with theft of Ksh 8 billion by associating it to a “computer error”. Isn’t it disturbing that no one has ever followed up the “computer error” gimmick after Ksh 8 billion went missing from the Treasury?
In the latest case, the Treasury cannot account for more than Ksh 700 billion, a colossal amount of money which if split among Kenyans, could see every Kenyan end up with Ksh 18.000. I don’t have to cite other cases of corruption involving the Ministry of Finance because of limited space and time. However, the baggage for Uhuru here is that of a corrupt government Minister who has stolen colossal amounts of money with impunity but now seeking to be the country’s President.
If he presents himself for election as President, it will be the first time in history (probably of the world) that a suspect who is yet to face charges of crimes against humanity at the ICC will be seeking to become the President of a country. If the charges facing Uhuru are confirmed in September, then, it will be correct to say that someone who is suspected of having been responsible for the murder of thousands of Kenyans, displacement of hundreds of others, rape and destruction of property will be seeking to become President. The baggage here is that of a person with “blood on his hands” seeking to become President of Kenya.
As informed readers will remember, Uhuru Kenyatta is a master of hate speech and it took the intervention of the ICC to stop him from delivering speeches which were deemed by the ICC as incitement to violence. The motivating factor behind Uhuru’s hate speeches is uncontrollable ethnic chauvinism fuelled by the Finance Minister’s misplaced notion that Kenya belongs to the Kikuyu ethnic group. During the climax of Uhuru’s hate speeches in Central province, the son of Jomo was crowned the “King of the Kikuyu”, a controversial coronation that nevertheless, confirmed the atavistic nature of Uhuru’s ethnic perception of Kenyan politics. The baggage which Uhuru will be fighting here is the tag of a professed ethnic chauvinist who does not believe that Kenyans from other ethnic groups are human enough to lead Kenya.
May be, I don’t have to mention Uhuru’s shocking arrogance which he has repeatedly displayed in public especially at Press conferences and public rallies where he speaks in Kikuyu for long periods without translations thereby cutting off the rest of Kenyans from getting his message until after translations in the media. His arrogance drives him to throw basic decorum into the dustbin as he conveys charged or coded messages in vernacular. At a Press conference, he is likely to throw his hands in the air in disapproval of Raila Odinga or walk away altogether saying that “something must be done to stop Raila” etc. The baggage here is that of an arrogant bigot who addresses public rallies in vernacular seeking to become President of the Republic of Kenya.
According to a Wikileaks cable, Uhuru Kenyatta “drinks too much” alcohol. Technically, this could mean that the son of Jomo is never sober and that the myriad errors of judgment he continues to exhibit especially in public could be due to the effect of intoxicants. Can Kenya afford a “drinking President at State House?” The baggage Uhuru will be seeking to download from his profile is that of a retarded alcoholic who would rather seek the presidency of an Association at a rehab center for alcoholics so that he can represent their interest to the Management.
Under the above circumstances, can Uhuru Kenyatta redeem his image and capture Kenya’s presidency? Because of possibility of constant inebriation (if Wikileaks is correct), I personally would not endorse Uhuru for Kenya’s presidency, not because of the risk of Kenya turning into a “drinking country” but because experiments related to who drinks the most booze would rather be confined to the pub, not Office of the President.
Okoth Osewe
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We know that the Kenyattas have more than enough land to settle these IDPs. Let Uhuru lead by example and donate even 1 ha of real estate to help resettle them. Many sycophants of these tribal chiefs scream tribal hatred in Central and Rift Valley provinces mostly against Raila.
It does nobody any good to defend political conmen like Uhuru, Kibaki, Michuki, Ruto, and scores of others only interested in personal gains. They belong in yesteryears of Kenyan politics.
If only Kibaki did not swear himself in the dark of the night at the end of 2007, these IDPs would be enjoying the comfort of their homes like the rest of us. Be the Change you want!
Uhuru cannot redeem his drunken, chest-thumping and arrogant image because he just doesn’t have what it takes to be a leader. As Osewe put it, by relinquishing his official role as Leader of Opposition, he proved that all he wants is the continuation of “nyoomba ya Mumbi” in Kenya’s presidency.
Uhuru is obviously Mr. Moneybags having been born in it, but he is also spineless. If he had a clear political agenda, he could have quit KANU in 2007, formed his own political party, or could have joined PNU individually without forcing KANU into it, an idea that does not put him in good light with the Moi sons, especially Gideon. We also hear Ruto continuously threatening to quit ODM, yet he stays put. Why can’t they be like Raila who once resigned from his Parliamentary seat and won it back with a landslide.
The recent allegations that the Treaury has not accounted for over KES 700 billion does not portray Kenyatta as a competent Minister. There is a lot of suspicion that Uhuru and his fellow Kikuyu senior officers in the Ministry of Finance are busy stealing a lot of money in case Kenyatta will be convicted at The Hague and will be required to compensate the PEV victims. Also, he is gearing for next year’s presidential elections, so has to steal as much money as he can for campaigning.
The Kikuyu elites’ agenda has nothing to do with the rest of the Kikuyu who suffer similarly as other Kenyans. Theirs is to amass as much wealth as possible, that is why many top, sensitive and lucrative jobs in government are held by them. The Kibaki era billionaires are thieves who used all the loopholes in Moi’s government to begin acquiring wealth. The Equity Bank boss, Mwangi, was once behind the collapse of a finance company that robbed Kenyans of millions in the 1990s. Jimnah Mbaru of the Nairobi Stock Exchange is a thief who uses his brains to enrich himself through inside jobs. The Kenya Revenue Authority is involved in massive cash theft and supports the losses in the Treasury.
Kikuyus should stop being bulldozed by Uhuru because he has nothing to offer them, other than threatening other potential contenders like Peter Kenneth and Martha Karua.
There is one thing Kenyans have not known the differences between Kenya and Mount Kenya region. Most of the Kikuyus tribe translate Kenya to be the Central Province Mount Kenya where they still think the Jomo Kenyatta’s rule still exist. Therefore for them to crown Uhuru to be their King is right for their region to have their own Mt. Kenya King.That does not worry any one or tribe in the real Kenyan Nation.
I have repeatedly said that Kenya needs Majimbo that is the term I can say again that we need Majimbo because the name Provinces has no translation in Swahili for some people to understand. Kenya need a leader who is above tribal thinking because when you are in tribal mentality you limit your sigh to see further as a Nationalist.
It will take more years for the Central Province people to know that other tribes in Kenya can also speak in their mother tongues as they do or have different dialect of which forms Kenya Nation.Kenyans should respect each Jimbo in the Country and each Jimbo can produce a President and all tribes must support him or her.The more time we waste in a blanket unity could have brought peace instead of the divisions we are in now, and we are now going towards the Majimbo they always deny because the tribal cancer will never be healed untill we do surgery and separeted the tribal virus from the brain so that one can now be able to see the differences of the whole issue.Uhuru Kenyatta will never be a President of Kenya only in Mt.Kenya Village Headman where they crowned him as their King because their eyes can not see the real Kenya. May God bless them with their King Uhuru.
A thief is a thief so Uhuru cannot clean up that side of his image. Just like his father Jomo, Uhuru is oppressing the main Kikuyu groups to worship him. He has been declared King of Kikuyu and the only Kikuyu presidential candidate. People say Raila has captured the psyche of the Luo, but he has never forced himself on them like Uhuru has done on the Kikuyu.
Ash!!Leave Uhuru alone, if Kenyans feel for him, he wil ofcourse be the presi.What has Raila to be admired as a pesident He’s the same goat who has done nothing for wakenya nyumbani….Mind about your silly drinking habits abroad and stop poisoning the kenyans back home.
Uhuru Kenyatta needs to be washed in public like these fellow dirty Kikuyu men in Nyeri. Then we can start thinking of his tribal politics.
Uhuru Kenyatta licks the ass of white men. It was Ambassador Rannerberger who was quoted in WikiLeaks as a serious drunkard yet he went berserk insulting Raila in public for having said there are some men who wake up to drink – “Akiamuka, pombe”. Uhuru used his blood money to hire white attorneys to lead his defense team for The Hague case, coz he is never sure of the local Africans. His mother invoked colonialism in public as the cause behind her son’s Hague problems, yet Jomo, her late husband worked with the same to acquire a lot of wealth thereby betraying the real Mau Mau fighters. No way Uhuru can save his rotten image.
Koigi and Martin Ngatia said it too well: Uhuru can never be the king of Kikuyus. Ngatia emphasized that Uhuru will never be the president of Kenya…
Uhuru should know the following: 1) He’s either blind, foolish or tamed cz he seem nt 2 predict th fate of kuku, kunguru na kupe(KKK) alliance..
(2) He’s greed driven, using kiux as human shields/ steppin stones, if not; by now he shud have the answers 2 what wil happen 2 hs people incase they fell-out with the Rift Valley…
(3) Support another candidate coz he has no experience..
Hon.Uhuru, it true tht yu lost a briefcase carrying 10million dollars at the airport, en where did yu get all that money from kama si kutuibia?…
Moreover no other tribe wil support yu in yua presidencial bid unlyk Karua whoz known/respected 4 having wisdom. my advice 4 u is 2 support Martha Karua bcz Kalenjins will only support an alliance where Ruto is the flag bearer….
Uhuru’s Tribal Politics Bane of our Progress
Monday, 16 May 2011 16:14 BY TOM ALILA
The people of Kenya have followed the recent engagement between Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and an amorphous group that calls itself the Luo Nyanza professional and business caucus with much interest. Whereas inter-communal engagements are to be encouraged and should be the norm, this particular engagement in my view marks a new low point in the political development of this nation.
First of all it was a tacit admission on the part of the Finance minister that there has been a deliberate effort to discriminate, stigmatize and exclude certain regions and communities in this country from enjoying the fruits of development. This was the “siasa mbaya maisha mbaya” developmental model bequeathed to the nation by the Kenyatta and Moi regimes. The finance minister, who is the crown prince of the old order, appears hell-bent on sustaining this anachronism. A cursory glance at the profile of staff and holders of plum positions in some of the key institutions under his docket will reveal he presides over the worst cases of tribal hegemony in public institutions in the whole country.
Indeed it is precisely in response to the exclusive, whimsical, personalized and tribalised abuse of political power by the executive to reward and punish communities, groups and regions that Kenyans decided to vote for a new constitutional. The new constitution lays out the principles and institutions that will guide the hitherto manipulated allocation of resources and economic investments.
Secondly, engaging with anything with the prefix Luo, including political charlatans, would appear to be a belated attempt at fashioning some “nationalist” credentials for Uhuru.
But such is the incredulity and poverty of thought in some of our leaders that they would want us believe they have undergone some metamorphosis overnight and embraced those who were the objects of their passionate hate only the other day. This is not say that it is an impossibility for a change of heart to take place. Did not Saul, that famous persecutor of Christians, become the famous Paul who is credited with the highest number of chapters in the bible? Such a change would be most welcome, but more objective indicators would be needed to demonstrate this. A good point to start would be to detribalise the financial sector, not for the sake of Luos only, but for the sake of all Kenyans.
Kenyans remember that here is a man who inherited a powerful and national KANU political behemoth, with more than 130 MPs from all provinces in 2002, bequeathed him by president Moi. He had squandered this massive political capital in a record five years. By the time he re-joined Parliament in 2003, he had just over 60 MPs, losing more than half the MPs he inherited. By January 2008, he had only 10 MPs, and he had betrayed his partisan inclinations when he abandoned a national KANU party, and rode the dysfunctional GEMA tiger otherwise known as PNU. In the process he gained global infamy as the only official leader of the opposition not to contest national leadership against an incumbent.
Lately, we understand that women are excluded ab initio from his politburo of GEMA “elders”, yet again betraying a deeply chauvinistic bent to his persona. The politics and development of exclusion seem therefore to come so naturally to him. Impatient with functional political institutions and the rule of law and constitutionalism, he continues to toy with some loose amalgam of political opportunists named G7 (7 provinces except Nyanza), whose sole raison d’etre is apparently to leave out the so called Luo-Nyanza from the national political and developmental calculus.
Most of the country’s business is done with our regional neighbours, and Kisumu has long merited to be developed into a regional transport and industrial/business hub, given its strategic location. This has not been prioritized. Instead what we have witnessed is the frenzied development of a 10-lane Nairobi-Thika superhighway that is not even the country’s economic artery…this distinction belongs to the Mombasa-Kisumu-Busia/Malaba highway. Similarly, the world’s second largest lake has no hotel comparable to hotels in the Ugandan and Tanzanian side of the lake. Instead, what would be considered as ponds by comparison, such as lakes Naivasha, Elementaita and Nakuru, host a plethora of world-class tourist hotels. The sugar/cotton sectors that do well in Nyanza/western provinces and irrigation schemes in this part of Kenya do not enjoy the clout and policy/financial support that is accorded say dairy, tea, maize, and coffee.
It may yet be asked therefore: What inclusive agenda for Kenyans has Uhuru ever pushed? It should be re-stated for the benefit of Uhuru and his ilk, that Nyanza (whether Luo or Kisii/Kuria), Central, Rift valley, North-eastern, Western, coast, eastern and Nairobi all deserve resources from the government. There is no need to resort to developmental blackmail and the principle of Luo-exceptionalism.
The writer is the KANU Chairman Ndhiwa
Mr. Kenyatta is gay would you want him fired immediately. I hope you are not going to demand that he be locked up in the Hague pronto, if he is gay. That wouldn’t be necessary
Poverty in Luo Nyanza
As we salute Jacob Zuma on his inauguration as the 3rd Democratically elected President of South Africa, we must be all agreed that poverty is very rampant in Luo Nyanza. Is it not time enough we looked at the genesis of this poverty, the calibre of leadership that we have had since Independence, and chat the way forward? For development, is it not time we interrogated our leadership?
If we decide to be honest in tackling this issue, as it is said in the Good Book, truth shall set us free. I bet it is time the people of Luo Nyanza faced the hard facts and lived with it.
Just slightly before Independence, the Luo were marshaled for creation of an economic block under the aegis of Luo Thrift and Trading Company. The drive was a big success, not for the Luo, but for those who moved the agenda of Luo Thrift and Trading Company. That was slightly before and after Independence.
In the early nineties, again, the Luo were moved under the aegis of some company that was fronting to buy the then moribund Molasses Plant. Again, like the Luo Thrift, this became a venture that put business, big business into the hands of the movers of this agenda. The drive was a big success, not for the Luo, but for those that moved this agenda.
In the two cases, the Luo as a community was used as a door mat to enrich a cartel. The masses remained poor.
Back to the period just before Independence, the British asked the Late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga to form government. He refused on grounds that the late Jomo was the light of Kenya and no leadership would be given to none other than Jomo Kenyatta. Mzee Kenyatta went on to become the first Prime Minister and later the first President of Kenya.
Fast forward to 2002, Kenyans were ready and willing to remove Mzee Daniel arap Moi from leadership and the time was ripe for change. Hon Raila Odinga, son of Jaramogi, against all odds proclaimed Mzee Kibaki as Tosha. Mzee Kibaki went on to become the 3rd President of Kenya.
Like Jaramogi was shunted from leadership only two years after Independence, Raila was also shunted from leadership only two years into the presidency of Mzee Mwai Kibaki. Like father, like son. They had their chances to lead Kenya, and they all shied away from leadership then the people they fronted, chased them away from leadership.
Come to 2007, Kenyans overwhelmingly voted for Raila Odinga to be President of Kenya. The elections were kind of interfered with and Mzee Kibaki was declared the President and within 15 minutes, he was being sworn in at dusk. The irony was that many people seem to have been assembled to witness the swearing in ceremony. It means that it was planned.
The people revolted and the world came to our rescue and gave Raila 50% of this government. He refused to take it and chose to leave the people behind as he went to government alone. He left his troops and moved into enemy territory. They terrorized him so ruthlessly that when he got some breather, he remembered the people. When he had the chance to move with the people, he chose to move alone. When things became elephant for him, he remembers the people.
No. It is not done like this. Which honest General will forget his troops when food is on the table? You then think of your troops when you have eaten your fill and have nothing to give them? No. That is not leadership. That is puking on our shoes.
With the afore going, can we as a Luo community look at the factors that are obtaining and come up with a clear approach to politics.
I think we have been used. And I think the poverty in Nyanza is induced.
Since Independence we have been religiously electing leaders every 5 years. What have these leaders done to help the Luo?
With the biggest fresh water lake in the world bordering the Luo, what initiatives have our leaders made to empower the common man with the lake? What efforts have our leaders, since Independence, made to make fishing beneficial to our people? How can we harvest fish in Lake Victoria and transport the same all the way to Thika for processing?
Do we need to blame the government for the ineptness of the leadership that we elect by ourselves? How come it is so easy to marshal the Luo to contribute to personal outfits like the Luo Thrift and Trading Company, and again for the purchase of Molasses Plant? But when institutions like Kenya Breweries and Kicomi are closed in Kisumu, the Luo are not marshaled to raise a voice! When the rice irrigation scheme at Ahero collapses, the Luo are not being marshaled to have it reinforced!
No. Poverty is being used to subjugate our people. We are being fed on hot air as our leaders scramble for food. The Luo are being kept perpetually on political rallies at the expense of development.
What efforts have our leaders made to open the infrastructure around the lake? What initiatives have our leaders made on irrigation? What efforts have our leaders made to marshal the people into co-operative societies? What efforts have our leaders made on education? What efforts have our leaders made to bring Rural Electrification around Luo Nyanza? What efforts have our leaders made to have enough hospitals built in Nyanza?
I want to believe that time has come for the Luo to self liberate and partake of the National Cake. Our leaders have been eating on our behalf and they have eaten for so long that they have forgotten that we are out waiting. For how long will our leaders use the Luo as trading and bargaining chips?
The Luo have had three wasted chances all begging for National Leadership and the people we fronted did not rise to the occasion. They chose the easy way out.
If we can have two centres of power at the National Front, we can have the same at the Regional Front as well.
If leadership means doing nothing for your people, then the Luo have a very long way to go. And do not blame it on Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki or the government. Kikulacho ki nguoni mwako. [Garbage in, garbage out].
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Komarock Nairobi (9th May 2009)
If this article had been writen by a Kikuyu I would have at least considered it but imagine my great surorise when I realized the article was writen by Okoth Osewe. Figures. This is just a tribalist why isn’t he talking about the majority share that Raila holds in the Refinery that is to blame for the fuel price hikes? Why Uhuru and not Martha or Peter Kenneth? He chose Uhuru because Uhuru is the only one who has a chance of defeating Raila. this article is tribal to its core.
Njuguna, you should have addressed the issues Osewe articulated about Uhuru Kenyatta instead of concentrating on his ethnic origin. As a Kenyan, one has to belong to an ethnic group. Going by your logic, whatever intellectual production by Kenyans about issues are all based on their ethnic origin. Osewe wrote about Uhuru Kenyatta because he chose to. The issues are concret enough and can be challenged because they are on public record. He simply collected them and compiled an article. How can 700 billion Kenyan shillings just disappear from Treasury and when someone writes about it then the person is a tribalist? You cannot select what Osewe needs to write about. Reading your critique, I get the impression that you are actually the chief tribalist accusing others of tribalism. Osewe is one of Kenya’s most progressive writers and I enjoy his articles. He writes about anything, be it politics, humour or short stories.You are the kind of people dragging Kenya backwards. Shame on you!
John Njuguna, state facts on how Raila’s shares are causing fuel price hikes. Better also write a full tribal article on Raila then you will counter Osewe better. Dawa ya moto ni moto.
Bravo Judie Mwema for putting Njuguna in his cave. Why couldn’t he dispute facts stated clearly by Mwalimu Mati who presented the over 700 billion unaccounted for figure? He should read and focus on facts, not Osewe’s tribe.
Osewe posted the original story from Mars Group that led to the report here:
http://kenyastockholm.com/2011/05/13/kenya-new-mega-theft-at-the-treasury-of-tax-money/#comments
Is Treasury Giving Fake Cash Reports?
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 00:10 BY MWALIMU MATI
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta should fire his Permanent Secretary for failing audit tests and preparing falsified documents for Parliament.
On Wednesday May 11, Mars Group Kenya released a report entitled “Revenue Accounting by the Government of Kenya: unsatisfactory state of affairs! “
The logic behind the release of this report is that not as much attention has been focused on tracking revenues of the Government of Kenya despite frequent reporting by the Controller and Auditor General decrying inconsistent revenue accounting by the Treasury over the years. The report is intended to red-flag the issue of revenue accounting by the Treasury with a view to getting greater transparency and accountability for the benefit of Kenyan taxpayers.
There are three key points to consider.
Firstly, Kenya’s Controller and Auditor General has in his two latest reports excluded from the general certificate most Statements of Revenue of the Government of Kenya. In 2008, he certified only three Statements of revenue and only one as presenting a fair revenue position of the government of Kenya.
Simply put, the current position is that only one out of 14 accounts has passed the audit test.The total amount of the concerned statements is Kshs 714 billion for the two financial years. That would be totally unacceptable in a private company.
While refusing to issue his general certificate, the Controller and Auditor General noted that the Permanent Secretary in the Treasury is responsible for preparation of financial statements and legally shoulders the responsibility when the statements do not fairly present the financial position.
Secondly, it also appears that the Treasury has been keeping different sets of books for the revenue collected and is now involved in an intricate web of a possible cover up and deception as it continues to present different revenue figures to the Controller and Auditor General and to Parliament. The actual revenue receipts as captured by the Controller and Auditor General in the exchequer account differ significantly with the actual revenue receipts presented to Parliament in the estimates of Revenue.
Is it possible that the Treasury maintains different sets of revenue accounts? So it would be the same Treasury but with different revenue positions?
Thirdly, the estimates of Revenue as tabled in Parliament, which reflect the final revised estimates of revenue, differ significantly from the final revised estimates of revenue as captured by the Controller and Auditor General in his reports.
The approved revised estimates of revenue cannot be altered by the Treasury. This fact was confirmed by the famous “computer error” in 2010 when Parliament recalled supplementary estimates for this very reason, restating the fact that what Parliament approves is the final approval. The implications of Treasury altering these figures are very serious and grave.
Prior to the release of the Mars Group report, Hon John Mbadi requested a ministerial statement from Treasury on the revenue accounts. Three times, the Minister of Finance failed to bring this statement to Parliament, causing the Speaker on Tuesday May 10 to sanction the Ministry of Finance. The Minister and his Assistant cannot transact any business in Parliament until they bring this statement to the House following the ruling of the speaker.
If the Treasury told Parliament the truth, then nothing would be simpler than re-tabling the documents they originally laid on the table and standing by them.
But alas, that would complete the crime and the political officers (ministers) other than the Accounting Officer would be legally liable as they do now have notice that something is very wrong with the numbers.
We expect the Minister of Finance to ask his Permanent Secretary, who is his accounting officer, the following questions:
1. How many of your revenue accounts passed the audit test?
2. Do the actual revenue receipts as reported to Parliament faithfully reflect the actual receipts as captured by the Controller and Auditor General In the exchequer account?
3. Do the revised estimates of revenue tabled in Parliament reflect the actual approval by given by Parliament?
Every Kenyan knows that the Minister of Finance and his assistant minister do not write the books and neither do they prepare the accounts of the Government. This demand for accountability is not political. Mr Kenyatta should on behalf of Kenyans seek accountability from his accounting officer. In truth the minister should sack his accounting officer for failing audit tests and creating falsified documents for the minister to table in Parliament.
We ask you, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and your assistant Mr Oburu Odinga: Are you willing to ignore the reports of the Controller and Auditor General? Is the Controller and Auditor General producing rubbish or is something wrong with the bookkeeping at the Treasury?
The Mars Group report can be read at http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/revenue. Jane Mati is a director of Mars Group Kenya.
Sometimes we get it wrong, can you believe that teh country lost 415billion in financial year 2206/2007 and yet the economy grew by 7.8% the same year? The Computer error issue was settled by pac. Surely out of all things you can accuse the man one of them is not Corruption, he has introduced sweeping changes such as IFMIS that traces Gvt. Money from disbursement to spending. on Drinking, didnt Obama smoke weed? Non Issues all that..
Uhuru drinks heavily and it is a fact. It was emphasized by former Ambassador Ranneberger through WikiLeaks. Uhuru was crowned the Kikiyu King and it was mentioned by many Kikuyu politicians that no other Kikuyu contest the presidency apart from him. Peter Kenneth and Martha Karua are continually provoked because of such ambitions: fact.
In terms of the lost money, why is Uhuru running away from making a ministerial statement about it? This money was lost during Kimunya and Michuki’s tenure, yet also a big chunk of money for the last budget year under Uhuru remains unaccounted for. This is a fact that must be questioned and no matter how much we support the fake economic growth favoring only the super-rich Kibaki allies, Uhuru must be bold enough to answer why this has happened. So we should just be quiet and never ask the Kikuyu King about the lost money in his wacth as Minister? No, Kenyans must remain whistleblowers especially when computer errors are used to steal money to enrich some few Kikuyus.
SH105 BN MISSING IN TREASURY
Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:06 BY ISAAC ONGIRI
THE Treasury yesterday came under increased pressure to explain the whereabouts of Sh105 billion apparently unaccounted for in the 2008/2009 budget.
Yesterday assistant Finance minister Oburu Odinga gave an evasive answer to a statement requested by Gwasi MP John Mbadi who wants the Treasury to explain why the missing revenue, identified by the Auditor General, had been spent. “Mr Speaker, this matter is under investigation from a parliamentary committee and therefore it is also against the standing orders to discuss it here,” he told Parliament.
Mbadi has accused the Ministry of Finance of misleading Parliament by having indicated that in 2008 the Kenya Revenue Authority raised Sh516 billion in revenue.
But the figure presented before the House in June 2009 showed that only Sh410 million had been collected. No explanation was ever given for the huge discrepancy.
The Treasury has been dodging the issue since Mbadi first requested an explanation in Parliament on April 21. Until today Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Oburu had already skipped three parliamentary sessions where they were scheduled to provide a statement.
On Tuesday, Speaker Kenneth Marende forced the issue by declaring: “I am afraid, I have to impose sanctions at this point in time. I direct that neither the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance nor his Assistant Minister shall be permitted to transact any business in this House until that Ministerial Statement is delivered.”
Yesterday Marende directed that Oburu issue a comprehensive statement next week on Thursday, May 26. “It is clear that something is not adding up on this issue and we demand to be told the truth,” Mbadi told Parliament yesterday.
Konoin MP Dr Julius Kones, the current chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, said that the matter had been raised at the Parliamentary Accounts Committee and urged members to scrutinize the matter. “This House has the power to ask questions on this matter although the PAC is also looking at it,” Kones said.
On May 11, the finance watchdog Mars Group Kenya highlighted the issue in a report entitled “Revenue Accounting by the Government of Kenya: unsatisfactory state of affairs.”
It pointed out that the Controller and Auditor General has in his last two reports only fully certified one out of 14 revenue accounts. The uncertified revenue over the two years totals Sh714 billion.
Mars Group claimed that it was possible that “Treasury has been keeping different sets of books for the revenue collected and is now involved in an intricate web of a possible cover up and deception as it continues to present different revenue figures to the Controller and Auditor General and to Parliament”. “No organisation has its accounts certified by the auditors when there is no problem,” said Mwalimu Mati, executive director of Mars Group, last night. “The Auditor General qualified 13 out of 14 revenue accounts, 93 per cent of Kenya’s revenue. There is a serious problem”.
There is so much dirt happening between the Treasury and the Kenya Revenue Authority including money laundering and massive tax waivers for the rich and powerful. Even though Uhuru denied ever losing 10 million dollars from his Hague trip, so much has been mentioned in terms of how internal work is done to cook Treasury books to read differently when it comes to accounting.
Ask yourself why Kibaki’s regime sacked non-GEMA KRA Commissioners and replaced them with GEMA during his first term as president? Any cases being invesigated on fraud were simply quashed. Having enhanced the the local tax base through revenue collection, his regime could borrow finances locally and avoid the scrutinizing eyes of Western money houses like the World Bank and the IMF. The rest is history – it was their time to eat.
Osewe posted money-laundering activites from drug money citing Mwau and key personalities in Kibaki’s government. Nothing has happened to them because they call the shots.
http://kenyastockholm.com/2011/03/01/wikileaks-releases-nairobi-cable-no-23-money-loundering-at-charterhouse-bank/
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Senior Superintendent Mohammed Godana Jarssa, 28, was assigned on December 31 2004 by the CID to investigate drug trafficking and the diversion of ‘transit goods’ into the country.
The assignment was to net corrupt police officers and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officials suspected of helping these goods leave Mombasa Port.
“This ‘high-level investigation’ was a mere ploy (either from the outset, or it was turned into one mid way),” Mr Jarssa wrote in a report tabled in the House, on Thursday.
A month into his investigations, in January 2005, Mr Jarssa “unearthed evidence of high-level corruption involving sugar-barons, and the then Commissioner of Police Maj-Gen Hussein Ali, and the then deputy director of CID Mr Peter Kavila.”
He intercepted 18 containers of sugar illegally removed or “stolen” from the port and were held at a warehouse in Ganjoni.
Digging further, he found the warehouse, the containers and their contents all belonged to a prominent Mombasa politician and his brother.
On January 5, Mr Jarssa arrested three KRA workers manning the gate when the sugar left the port on grounds of corruption.
Mr Jarssa says, the investigation was put off the rails by Maj-Gen Ali and Michael Waweru, then commissioner-general of KRA.
Days later, Mr Jarssa was removed from the investigation, his firearm withdrawn, and he was transferred to Lokitang, in Rift Valley Province.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Former%20p … index.html
I think Uhuru is not being honest with Kenyans. I believe the computer only reproduces what has been fed in by human being. The minister should stop blaming the computers for the negligence of his own staff. Kenyans are enlightened people and cant buy such cheap lies. The minister should stop blaming his perceived and imaginary political enemies, politics aside. We know he is busy manipulating the accounting system to get money for his presidential campaign and the ICC fines if found guilty of involving in PEV.
Uhuru needs maombi. by being linked to the PEV his image cannot be saved.
Rob Macaire: High Commissioner to Kenya, Nairobi
Kenya’s lost money
Posted 20 May 2011 by Rob Macaire
Various disturbing reports that I have read in Kenyan media and elsewhere this week have made me wonder how different Kenya’s social and economic life would be if less money disappeared into thin air.
I read about the Comptroller and Auditor General’s last two reports, which apparently found that Sh714bn of Kenyan Treasury money over two years was uncertifiable (for readers overseas that is about $8.3bn or £5.1bn). This means that it was unclear whether or not that money existed, or if it did how it was used. This includes an unexplained discrepancy of over Sh105bn that may or may not have been in the public account.
I also read that according to the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, counterfeiting costs the Kenyan exchequer – in other words the Kenyan taxpayer – over Sh19bn (while it costs the private sector more than Sh50bn).
Other examples of alleged mismanagement, corruption and theft also cost the Kenyan public billions of shillings every year. From bribes for public officials and police, to big fraud in Ministries and parastatals. The education ministry is a particularly disgraceful saga, as corruption and financial mismanagement are harming Kenyan children and their parents across the country – some UK taxpayers’ money is involved in that, but far more is Kenyan taxpayers’ money. The Mars Group estimates that recent major grand corruption scandals have cost Kenya over Sh700bn (£5bn). That figure may be an overestimate, or an underestimate – it is for the Government of Kenya to explain to its citizens and taxpayers what is going on with their money.
How does this impact Kenya? I read just yesterday about a number of social sectors for which a great deal more public money is needed to provide basic services. Here are three examples:
•The Ministry of Education, itself subject to ongoing scrutiny over alleged fraud, has suffered a budget cut of Sh1.1bn that would have gone towards free primary schooling. It is at the same time asking the Treasury for new funds to hire an additional 10,000 teachers.
•The Water Ministry explains it does not have the funds to provide water to all. Meanwhile farmers in Isiolo divert rivers so that their communities can gain access to water.
•HIV/AIDS NGOs call for less reliance on donors and more public and private funding to fight the disease. UNAIDS estimates that 1.5m people continue to live with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, and many still have no access to life-saving anti-retroviral drugs.
So where is all this money going? Another newspaper article reports that the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) thinks that much of it goes to foreign bank accounts, one way or another. That’s why it has to make sense to pass the draft law that will make it illegal for civil servants to run overseas bank accounts, either directly or by proxy. And where we have evidence of illegally-gained assets or money in the UK, we will act: we can freeze assets, and even seize them and return them to the country concerned, as we have done with Nigeria and other countries. But we need the cooperation of Kenyan authorities to do so.
Measures to stop counterfeiting have also been in the news. One report this week said that the Kenya Anti Counterfeiting Agency was to be given a new boost to tackle counterfeit crime, which incidentally costs the world Sh48tr. I hope this bears fruit. On World Anti-counterfeiting Day on 8 June new focus must be put into stamping out this hugely exploitative and dangerous crime. Dangerous because the damage is not just economic: a huge number of counterfeit medicines contain no active ingredient at all, thus putting health and lives at risk.
I would not want to suggest that Kenyan institutions aren’t doing anything. For example the Ministry of Finance has recently conducted a forensic audit of the discrepancies within the Ministry of Education. That’s an encouraging step, and we await the publication of their findings.
All of these are examples of goodwill within government to address the culture of corruption and fraud. However goodwill is not always enough. Action is needed to implement the new overseas banking law, not just paying of lip service. Action is needed to prosecute counterfeiters – they cannot just be ignored. And action is needed to hold people to account at all levels when government (and sometimes donor) money is stolen. The examples above show just how much more money could be available to government programmes benefiting ordinary people, if the holes in the system were blocked up.
We have worked consistently to support Kenyans in the struggle against corruption. We’re prepared to take difficult and controversial steps such as banning from the UK senior Kenyans associated with major corruption. But this is not a fight that can be won by outsiders. I would like to pay tribute to the committed and principled people I have met, in civil society, the media, in NGOs at local level, and also in the private sector, who really believe in creating a society based on integrity and transparency. That is what the vast mass of Kenyans want: that is the spirit of the new Constitution. I would be interested in hearing views from the readers of this blog: how can you play your part, how can we help more?
http://blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/macaire/entry/kenya_s_lost_money
Uhuru confessed on Churchill Live that before he contested the presidency in 2002, her was an unknown figure who could sit and drink alcohol with jamaas kawaida.
WANTED: UK issues arrest warrants for Finance committee chairman and ex-KPLC boss .
Friday, 20 May 2011 15:27 BY ANDREW TEYIE
ARREST warrants have been issued in Jersey for Chris Okemo, chairman of the parliamentary Finance committee, and former Kenya Power and Lighting managing director Samuel Gichuru for defrauding KPLC and laundering the proceeds in the UK. The warrants were issued by the Chief Justice of Island of Jersey on April 20, 2011. The two failed to appear before court on May 5, 2011.
The 53 charges relate to commissions paid by international companies, mostly between 1999 and 2002, totalling 4,459,572 pounds sterling, 786,853 Danish kronor and 3,207,360 US dollars (Sh902 million in total).
All the charges relate to Gichuru but not all mention Okemo who was Energy minister from 1999 to 2001 and then Finance minister from 2001 to 2003. A former KANU vice-chairman, he is now ODM MP for Nambale.
Gichuru was managing director of KPLC between 1983 and 2003 when it was partially privatised. He supported many Kanu projects and harambees.
The arrest warrants have been handed to Attorney General Amos Wako last week but Gichuru and Okemo failed to appear before Jersey magistrate’s court on May 5.
Wako has been asked to facilitate the arrests of the two and hand them over to Jersey where the two allegedly set set up offshore bank accounts to receive illicit funds through their front companies Windward Trading and Arus Management Services.
“The volume and value of payments to Windward increased dramatically from January 1997, although not the number of payers. The analysis of all Windward receipts from third parties from January 1997 to June 2002, when the accounts were frozen, is striking,” state the court documents. The documents do not state all the projects that generated illegal payments but specifically mention the Kipevu II project.
Finnish power company Wärtsilä began construction of Kipevu II immediately after financial closing in August 2000 and commercial operation was started in September 2001. The 75 MW plant with 38 generating sets is run by private operator Tsavo Power Company.
“They knew that some such documents fraudulent documents was to be created and placed at Wartsila’s books to justify the payments for which they benefited. Gichuru and Okemo must have known that it was impossible for Wartsila to make these payments without justifying them with fraudulent documents. Okemo’s and Gichuru’s knowledge of and agreement to, this makes them party to false representation,” state the charges.
“The deponent has just cause and verily believes that the said Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo is the resident of Kenya. These are therefore to command you and everyone of you in the name of her Majesty forthwith to apprehend and bring Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo before competent court of Justice of this island the said to answer to the said information and be further dealt with according to the law,” states the warrant.
Count 29 on the arrest warrants refers to £3 million (Sh420 million) paid by Wartsila to Windward Trading for “consultancy services” when in fact they were “corrupt payments” to Gichuru, Okemo “and others”. The purpose was “inducing the Kenya Power and Lighting Company to award and approve contracts relating to the construction and operation of the Kipevu II power station”.
“The evidence proves that Gichuru’s method of committing the offence involved inflation of the contract price,” state the court documents. “Okemo and Gichuru conspired together to enable Okemo receive into his bank account in Jersey, property, namely, funds credited to the said bank account following transfers from Windward Trading and Arus Management Services, knowing the same have been acquired by Samuel Gichuru by conduct outside Jersey, which, had it occurred in Jersey, would have amounted to an offence, namely misconduct in public office and fraud,” state the warrants.
The two are also accused of misleading auditors of Wartsila that Windward Trading was receiving consultation fees. “The charges were in fact inflated to meet or recover the cost of making corrupt payments to his Jersey company, Windward ltd,” state the warrants.
According to the documents, Okemo opened up bank accounts in Jersey under his name and Arus Management service where the funds were deposited between August 1, 2000 and August 3,2001.
The alleged payments to Gichuru, Okemo, and others included £2,999,982 pounds and $500,000 from Wartsila; $779,000 from American communications company Motorola and Israel’s Coburg Investments; £451,037 from Norway’s Kvaerner and British shipbuilder John Brown Engineering; $554,000 from Spanish power company Union Fenosa, Iberia Africa, and Ashdene; £309,506 Ewbank Preece and Mott; £282,390 from Pauwels; $375,000 from Leopard Systems: $375,000 from Voith and German power company Siemens; $249,974 from Gapco Tanzania; $154,381 and £38,196 from Genzl; £107,653 from W.Lucy and Power Isolators; £129,765 from Cams International; $65,250 from JHR Consultants; £41,914 from South Wales Transformers; $24,990 from Capitan Europe; £15,978 from H Young; and £9,996 and DK786,856 from Intertec. “In addition KP, via Camargo, paid £448,667 to Gichuru’s account and $20,000 to Okemo’s account in Jersey,” the court documents state.
In August 2007, Gichuru launched a court case in Jersey to try and regain control over his offshore assets that had been frozen by police because of “suspicious activity”. Last July, he won a preliminary hearing. The British police in Jersey believed that payments that entered the company’s account between 1986 to 2002 were not properly explained.
In 2005, Gichuru’s wife claimed that he had $10 million (Sh860 million) in Jersey during a property dispute linked to their divorce. However Gichuru and his lawyer Peter Ohaga both denied that he had money outside Kenya. “My client is a patriotic Kenyan who understands the need to invest in the country. He has all his assets here, as attested by the fact that he has been in Kenya since he retired from public life in 2003,” Ohaga said.
Mars Group Report:
Annex 4 – Detailed reasons why revenue heads accounts of the GOK excluded from
certificate by Controller & Auditor General for the financial year 2007 -2008
Extracts from the Controller and Auditor General’s report for the Government of Kenya Accounts for the financial year 2007 – 2008
Statement of Revenue Head 1110000 –Taxes on Income, Profits, and Capital Gains
Paragraph 72: Taxes on Income, Profits, and Capital Gains for the year ended 30th June 2008 reflects actual receipts of Kshs
177,246,750,110.40. Records at the Kenya Revenue Authority (K.R.A) reflect actual receipts of Kshs 166,152,969,569.00. The
resultant difference of Kshs 11,093,780,541.40 has not been reconciled and explained.
Paragraph 73: The statement shows actual receipts of Kshs 177,246,750,110.40 against estimated receipts of Kshs 159,378,000,000.00. This resulted in an over-collection of Kshs 17,868,750,110.40. This over-collection has not been explained by the way of footnotes as required by the Government Financial regulations and procedures
Paragraph 74: The Statement of Revenue reflects Income Tax Share of LATF actual receipts and LATF disbursements of Kshs
8,869,837,407.80 and Kshs 8,648,006,036.00 respectively. These amounts differ with the amounts shown in the LATF Accounts
for 2007/2008 prepared by the Ministry of Local Government of Kshs 8,871,451,352.10 and Kshs 8,768,427,034.00. The differences of Kshs 1,613,944.30 and Kshs 120,420,998.00 respectively have not been reconciled and explained.
Paragraph 75: Actual receipts reflected in the Statement total Kshs 177,246,750,110.40 while the ledger shows a total of Kshs
172,965,015,195.55. The difference of Kshs 4,281,734,914.85 has not been explained nor reconciled.
Paragraph 76: The statement shows a balance carried forward to 2008/2009 of Kshs 3,148,921,514.05. The statement of Assets
and Liabilities for Deposits 07 as at 30 June 2008 shows a figure Kshs 8,647,022,282.19 against the same account. The difference of Kshs 5,498,100,768.14 has not been reconciled and explained.
Paragraph 77: The LATF figure of Kshs 2,770,184,499.70 carried forward while the LATF cashbook balance as at 30 June 2008
shows a figure of Kshs 2,361,317,517.75. The difference of Kshs 408,866,981.95 has not been reconciled and explained.
Paragraph 78: The statement does not show details of Arrears of Revenue due as at 30 April 2008 and uncollected as at 30 June
2008. As a result it cannot confirm whether Arrears of Revenue totaling Kshs 125,166,946,067.00, made up of PAYE and Other Income Tax of Kshs 8,038,915,157.00 and Kshs 117,128,030,910.00 as at 30 June 2007 had been recovered as at 30 June 2008.
Annex 4 – Detailed reasons why revenue heads accounts of the GOK excluded from certificate by Controller & Auditor General for the financial year 2007 -2008
Extracts from the Controller and Auditor General’s report for the Government of Kenya Accounts for the financial
year 2007 – 2008
Statement of Revenue Head 1140000 –Taxes on Goods and Services
Paragraph 79: The statement of Revenue for head 1140000-Taxes on goods and services for the year ended 30 June 2008
reflects actual receipts of Kshs 177,251,211,278.30 comprising of Kshs 61,586,108,468.70, Kshs 53,807,634,460.85 and Kshs 61,857,468,348.75 under local VAT, VAT-imports and Excise taxes. Records maintained at the K.R.A show a different figure for total receipts of Kshs 173,525,253,051.00 made up of Kshs 57,373,875,358.00, Kshs 53,634,410,526.00 and Kshs 62,516,967,167.00 relating to VAT local, VAT Imports and Excise taxes. The difference of Kshs 3,725,958,227.30 between the two sets of records is yet to be explained and reconciled.
Paragraph 80: The statement shows total actual receipts of Kshs 177,251,211,278.30 while the Ministry ledger shows a figure of
Kshs 117,115,861,779.90.The difference of Kshs 60,135,349,498.40 has not been reconciled and explained. Also no excise tax
was reflected in the ledger while in the statement it shows actual collections of taxes totaling Kshs 61,857,468,348.75. Again no explanation has been given for the omission.
Paragraph 81: A carried forward net balance of Kshs 446,379,166.10 made up of both VAT and Customs excise is reflected in the
statement. The statement of Assets and Liabilities for Deposits 07 as at 30 June 2008 reflects a net total of Kshs
2,177,957,773.20. The difference of Kshs 2,624,336,939.30 has not been reconciled. Furthermore no reason has been provided
for not remitting the balance of Kshs 446,379,166.10 to the Exchequer.
Paragraph 82: The statement does not show details of Arrears of Revenue uncollected as at 30 June. Due to this it has not been
possible to confirm whether arrears totaling Kshs 91,734,032,909.00 as at 30 June 2007 had been recovered
Paragraph 83: The Statement of Revenue for Head 1150000-Taxes on International Trade and Transactions for he year ended 30
June 2008 shows an over collection of Kshs 1,833,772,816.60 in respect of Customs Duties and other taxes on international trade and transactions. This represents approximately 4% of the estimated receipts of Kshs 44,024,000,000.00. No reason has been provided for the material difference between he estimated and actual receipts.
Paragraph 84:Actual receipts balance of Kshs 45,857,772,816.60 comprising of amounts of Kshs 32,944,348,580.05 and Kshs
12,913,424,236.55 under Customs Duties and Other taxes on International Trade and Transactions respectively.. Records at the
K.R.A reflect total receipts of Kshs 44,970,088,516.00. The material difference of Kshs 887,684,300.60 has not been reconciled and explained.
Paragraph 85: The actual receipts figure of Kshs 45,857,772.816.60 differs with the Ministry’s ledger balance of Kshs
45,490,323,750.75. The difference of Kshs 367,449,065.85 is yet to be explained and reconciled.
Paragraph 86: The Revenue on hand balance of Kshs 847,412,641.95 as at 30 June 2008 differs with the figure of Kshs
53,428,871.10 that appears in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for Deposits 07. This is an over payment against the revenue
head by Kshs 900,841,513.05. The difference is yet to b reconciled and explained. Also no clarification had been given as to why
the significant balance of Kshs 847,412,641.95 was not paid to the Exchequer during the year.
Paragraph 87: The statement does not show details of Arrears of Revenue due as at30 April 2008 but uncollected as at 30 June
2008 with the result that the level of revenue could not be determined as at 30 June 2008. The Statement also does not show
how much of the receivables balance of Kshs 2,130,227,040.80 due from eight organizations as at 30 June had been realized during 2007/2008.
When will the INTERPOL issue warrant of arrest to UHURU KENYATTA who has looted Billions of Tax-payers Money & stouched them in Foreign Bank Accounts?
Kenya refuses to send corruption suspects to Jersey
The Kenyan government is refusing to extradite two of its citizens accused of stealing millions of pounds on the island of Jersey. Samuel Gichuru, former head of Kenya’s power company, and former Energy Minister Chris Okemo are accused of taking kickbacks from multinationals. The Jersey authorities have issued arrest warrants. The Kenyan newspaper, the Star, broke the news and has called on the government to hand over the two men. Bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache, the top legal official on the island of Jersey, has accused Mr Gichuru and Mr Okemo, now an MP in Kenya, of 53 economic crimes. One concerns a deal with a Finnish firm to construct a power station 10 years ago near Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city. At the time Mr Gichuru was the head of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). He is accused of working with Mr Okemo to bank more than £3m ($5m) from the deal. The two are accused of taking millions more in kickbacks from British, Norwegian and German engineering firms, as well as a US communications giant. But the Kenyan government has told the BBC it will not hand the men over for now. The director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, PLO Lumumba, says other politicians are also implicated in the deals. Corruption should be declared a national disaster in Kenya, Mr Lumumba added. This is not the first time Mr Gichuru has been in the anti-corruption spotlight. In 2003, a leaked report of an investigation by the Kenyan government said he had plundered the state-owned electricity corporation for several years – an allegation his lawyer denied. That report, like several other anti-corruption investigations, was shelved.
i am a kiuk and i dont give a rats arse about uhuru ,99% of us never knew he existed until Moi dragged him from a pub in 2002, his family is responsible for the plight of our people, instead of rewarding maumau hes father the old hegoat bundled them in lorries and dumped them in rift valley as he and hes cronies grabbed 3/4 of the country.
The spoilt brat uhuru thinking kenya belongs to mama ngina sent his silly ,illiterate youth aka mungiki to kill in naivasha, now for the 1st time in his life he has learnt dunia dosent belong to the kenyattas ,it is bigger than him.
but because of retards like couchpotato kibaki who behave like the kikuyu will cease to exist if this drunk pays for the blood he shed, he still thinks he is invincible. hope he rots in hell where hes old man is.
and by the way kenyatta sanctioned kimathi’s hanging, never wanting 2 centers of power.
I have nothing against Uhuru drinking, history is littered with great leaders who were unapologetic drunks. He can do whatever it is he wants to do with his body in private, it is immaterial to me personally as a voter.
What puts me off Uhuru massively is
a) the allegations of Naivasha killings leveled against him are quite serious and it’s really annoying that he is still not only holding on to public office, but also shouting quite loudly that he will even contest for the big one. It is almost as if he is shouting in my face as a Kenyan electorate that I am an inconsequential monkey and he can do as he pleases.
b) his obvious intent to manipulate National Mechanisms to achieve his own private ends. A judicial system is meant for all Kenyans not just for his case. This entrenched impunity is the sort of cancer we need to get rid of if we are to progress. Yet irritants still think a little bit of tribal satisfaction from dancing around their tribal chief while thumping their chests as he f—s up the little progress we are trying to make because it suits him is the way to go. And some people wonder why they remain Kenya’s biggest clowns.
Tribalism Hurts Kikuyus Most
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:04 BY NGUNJIRI WAMBUGU
The last month has seen interesting messages being conveyed to members of the group Kikuyus for Change suggesting that we must stop fighting Uhuru Kenyatta. Our loud explanations that we are not fighting Uhuru but just trying to build a conversation around issues that concern Kikuyus is met with answers such as … ‘as who?’ … ‘who gave you the mandate?’ … ‘how can you have a position on the Kikuyu that is different from that of our Muthamaki?’ … ‘what kind of Kikuyu are you not to see where we are coming from?’ … ‘are you also a traitor/sell-out? …etc.
Then of course there is the usual advice that “you know he is very popular amongst us and some people might decide to discipline you for this behaviour”. A close friend even suggested I risk having people stone my parent’s house in Nyeri as a sign of displeasure while another suggested that in future when Uhuru is President some of us might be forcefully disrobed and disciplined by young men because we dared to speak against him.
Another friend in late March advised me not to write anything more and better still, go into hiding until April 15 because he suspected some people might wish me great ill. This made us very concerned with Uhuru’s comments in Muranga: we feel they get the strength to make such statements based on the statements that leaders not supporting a common position would be visited and ‘shamed’ in their homes.
What these guys (all men incidentally) do not seem to get is that our issues are not with Uhuru. We have nothing personal against him. Our problem is with anyone trying to build a political platform towards 2012, using tribe as his context. We feel Uhuru is doing it, and we believe it is divisive politics and will hurt Kikuyus more than anyone else. We also believe that if he stopped, all the other Kikuyu leaders would stop as they tend to pick their cue from him.
Plus, we think this idea that we should organize into tribes because Raila did it in 2007 is not smart. Where did it get Raila in 2007? Where did it get Kenya? Don’t we learn anything? After two years spent in inter-ethnic dialogue with various communities, we know that PEV does not just happen: it develops gradually on the back of political tribalism. In addition, it is quite clear that anytime we divide up into tribes politically, Kikuyus are the ones that suffer. The colonialists did it: Moi did it: Raila did it: we are the ones who suffer the most from this, but we are now being told to do it, again. Why would we think that if we can partner with those who believe in using violence as a political strategy, we will not get hurt this time?
That right there is our problem. As Kikuyus how do we allow anyone, even Uhuru, to develop a political strategy that risks taking us back to where Kenya is trying to get out from, especially as we head into an election where a Kikuyu is the incumbent, and he is leaving office?
How do we sit aside and watch as someone insists on building a Kikuyu tribal chief brand, so that he can then ally himself with others like himself, ati so that ALL of Kenya can be peaceful? Why then do we wonder why we are facing resistance?
We know that Kenyans are willing to vote for a Kikuyu as the President in 2012 but the only way that can happen is if the candidate somehow managed to convince ALL Kenyans, that he is a nationalist. This means that any Kikuyu wanting to take over from Kibaki should be creating the kind of brand that would be attractive to voters as Kenyans, not as tribes. Martha is on it, as is Peter Kenneth, as is George Saitoti … unfortunately it will not be done the way Uhuru is doing it.
This idea of some Kikuyus being branded as ‘community traitors’ needs to be looked at in more detail. If we do not go into the Mau Mau period and the ‘gati’ issue, the branding of Maina Kiai, Paul Muite, and even Martha Karua as Kikuyu ‘traitors’ working for the downfall of the Kikuyu community is total madness.
Maina was the first person to document post-election atrocities in the 90’s against Kikuyus. Paul has been steadfast on the rights of Kenyans, steadily walked with the Mau Mau, represented hundreds of Kenyans (a lot of them Kikuyus) who were suffering oppression, and could very well be the only Kikuyu lawyer representing IDPs at the Hague. Martha Karua keeps proving that she has more ‘chutzpah’ than many Kikuyu men assumed to be more powerful than her. The same narratives are used for other Kikuyus who don’t toe the line of the ‘owners’ of the community … Njeri Kabeberi, John Githongo, Muthoni Wanyeki, Prof Wangari Maathai, etc.
The idea that Kikuyus for Change are Kikuyu sell-outs was first introduced by Moses Kuria, and maybe this indicates where that narrative is coming from. At that time the suggestion was crafted so as to discredit what we are doing and ‘spin’ it into being something against the ‘Kikuyus’.
Kikuyus for Change have spent two years consistently and persistently pursuing inter-ethnic engagements with other communities, with the sole intention of establishing platforms where communities can discuss how our ethnic diversity can be made into a strength, rather than the weakness it has become over the years.
We spent all of July 2010 in Central Province, in an intense civic education process that included 16 forums where we met over 5,000 local central Kenya opinion leaders, and discussed the proposed constitution.
After the promulgation of the New Constitution we identified the risk of the ICC process being run at political level, without the involvement of the ordinary Kenyan citizen. We spent several months arranging forums with local people in various areas across the country, to explain what the ICC can do, and what it cannot do, for Kenya.
In February and March this year we raised 1.4 million signatures in six weeks in support of the punishment for Post Election Violence Perpetrators, and compensation of victims.
Last month we started an initiative to engage government and other stake-holders on the issue of extra-judicial killings. We have been pushing for a proper Dedan Kimathi memorial to be set up at the site where he was captured. Nearly 50 years later, only a small rock, in the midst of a Nyayo Tea Zone, indicates where this hero of the liberation struggle was captured after being betrayed.
Our Anti-Alcoholism programme is on going and it seeks to build solutions to the negative effects of alcohol on especially young men, in Central province.
Just looking at the 7 points above, one is forced to ask questions related to the these ideas since the success of each idea would only help the Kikuyu as a community. The questions one would ask are:
Who, amongst the Kikuyu, did not want the New Constitution to pass?
Who, amongst the Kikuyu, would not want the PEV perpetrators punished and/or victims compensated?
Who, amongst the Kikuyu, would not want Extra-Judicial Killings to stop?
Who, amongst the Kikuyu, would not want Kikuyus to celebrate Dedan Kimathi as a Hero?
Who, amongst the Kikuyu, would not want the issue of alcoholism dealt with?
Ngunjiri Wambugu is the convenor of the Kikuyus For Change discussion forum
The Next Kenyas President should not be a Kikuyu> Its time to give Oter tribes a chance>
Uhuru can never be the president of Kenya. Maximum he will only remain the King of Kikuyus who want him. At least Koigi Wamwere said he can never be their king. Uhuru works for Kikuyu thieves like him. He is also the head of the Mungiki murder gang. Uhuru is so stained with blood he will never be clean. Mungiki kills Kikuyus too so he cannot pretend to be for the Kikuyu.
Kibaki has let this great country down badly. In 2002 Kenyans voted overwhelmingly for Kibaki in the hope that he would bring change.
We had hoped that the old ways of doing business KANU style were over, that corruption would be a thing of the past, and Kibaki assured us; yet it is during his administration that corruption, insecurity, and impunity have skyrocketed to highest heavens! The new Kikuyu billionaires have been favored with Government contracts since most top jobs belong to them. They have been involved in mega-scandals costing the poor taxpayers a lot of money. God have mercy!!
I now believe that a Raila presidency is needed! RAO is strong, fearless and brave!
Uhuru &Ocampo 6 will follow GEN:Mradic>
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Uhuru Kenyatta will be captured just like Ratko Mladic “The Serbian Butcher”, arrested on May 26th. He is being protected by Kibaki who is also his godfather. The killing of the Luo family, forced circumcision on men by the blood thirsty Mungiki gangs in Naivasha, sponsored by Uhuru, must be paid for by the rule of law.
Uhuru’s father, Jomo the murderer and landgrabber, began impunity in Kenya, but with time, this will eventually end. Uhuru should pay for his atrocities. The Hague is the next place for Uhuru…There is evidence he sponsored the Naivasha killings.
Uhuru mwana bangi now defies the Constitution and insists on reading the 2011/12 budget the old Constitution way. Too much keroro and impunity.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Uhuru Kenyatta has dismissed the controversy surrounding the delay over presentation of budget estimates of revenue and expenditure to Parliament. Despite the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution maintaining that Uhuru has breached the constitution for failing to present the estimates 2 months ahead of the end of the financial year as required by the constitution, Uhuru argues that the country is in a transition period hence the teething problems. However, the CIC has written to the Minister asking him to redress the constitutional violation.
Uhuru cannot redeem his image. ICC awaits him for sending Mungiki to murder Luos. Also, he has now refused to respect the new Constitution that demands he presents to Parliament budgetary estimates before they are read on budget day, June 8th. Uhuru is full of Impunity.
According to the new Constitution:
221. (1) At least two months before the end of each financial year, the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance shall submit to the National Assembly estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the national government for the next financial year to be tabled in the National Assembly.
(2) The estimates mentioned in clause (1) shall––
(a) include estimates for expenditure from the Equalisation Fund; and
(b) be in the form, and according to the procedure, prescribed by an Act of Parliament.
(3) The National Assembly shall consider the estimates submitted under clause (1) together with the estimates submitted by the Parliamentary Service Commission and the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary under Articles 127 and 173 respectively.
(4) Before the National Assembly considers the estimates of revenue and expenditure, a committee of the Assembly shall discuss and review the estimates and make recommendations to the Assembly.
(5) In discussing and reviewing the estimates, the committee shall seek representations from the public and the recommendations shall be taken into account when the committee makes its recommendations to the National Assembly.
(6) When the estimates of national government expenditure, and the estimates of expenditure for the Judiciary and Parliament have been approved by the National Assembly, they shall be included in an Appropriation Bill, which shall be introduced into the National Assembly to authorise the withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of the money needed for the expenditure, and for the appropriation of that money for the purposes mentioned in the Bill.
(7) The Appropriation Bill mentioned in clause (6) shall not include expenditures that are charged on the Consolidated Fund by this Constitution or an Act of Parliament.
Reading thro’ the blogs makes me shudder at the hatred and vitriol pouring out from people intent on detribalizing the Kikuyus. Many have the same reasoning like the whites in the 1950s.
What kind of society are we bringing our children into ! that refers to other tribes as thieves ,lazy, killers , power hungry etc. yet we know that these traits are individual and personal not tribal or group based. labeling and wholesale condemnation of people lowers our guilt in hurting them and pushes or forces them to stick together thereby fulfilling our skewed profiles of them .I think kenyans will vote for Uhuru, Raila,Ruto, Kalonzo or whoever regardless of their faults based on whom they percieve will secure their interests bests.The reality on performance maybe different and politacians’words are 99% hotair
This is areal bustered can stand the test of the times he cant redeem his image alot is not told about this bustered i wish some one can tell all now is gulty keeps him high all the time .
Uhuru can go and rot in the Hague jail. Would be karma paying back his father’s ill-deeds to Kenyans.he lives on stolen wealth
Uhuru kenyatta president of kenya thats like allowing gay wedding at holly family bassilica.
I hope all the stones that I have seen thrown here are not from such people who could not cast them (stones) when asked to do so by Jesus Christ. If these are the future, Kenya got it all wrong. The question here is ‘Why Uhuru; not Raila, Ruto, Kalonzo, Saitoti etc or even you?’ In my judgement, Uhuru is just ONE of the SINNERS but not the ONLY ONE. As for his drinking habbit, is it illegal to drink beer, wine, name it? What of drinking fuel. Is it legal? Goldenberg, graveyard scandal, ‘koinange street’ issues, maize scandal etc; legal or illegal? Style up men and women. You do not mean that every evil committed in the face of the earth; some a thousand times evil, have been committed by Uhuru, or do you? Little of what happens is known to us; if only it was dooms day where everything will be revealed as if it were a mirror. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of those that have contributed here fitting their description exactly. Reason within yourselves first before trying to put up such a picture of this son of Kenya. Ever tried to ask your parents what went wrong to your wealth status? They will always blame it on tribe this or that, man A or B, incident M or N; Never ‘me’ or ‘your mother’. Yet you know to well. Probably, they spent every extra cobble on drinks and fashion, while your immediate neighbour put his in shares, land, school, business … then point fingers at others (same neigbours) when things go wrong. You cannot expect to eat your pie and still have it kept. GET OUT OF THE DARK.
ukabila wacha kikuyu hater