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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Nowayhaha on January 10, 2023, 10:59:58 AM
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https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/gachagua-we-ll-seize-assets-of-graft-tainted-uhuru-allies-4081126
The government will repossess the illicit wealth of senior figures in former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration who masterminded “state capture” to enrich themselves, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has said.
Mr Gachagua, however, said the government would not form a judicial commission to investigate people involved in state capture, because the priority was currently on lowering the cost of living.
Speaking during an interview on Inooro TV on Sunday, the DP said the corruption cartel comprised “about 10 people who stole billions from the economy in manipulated deals”.
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“They were very vocal in telling Kenyans not to vote for thieves yet they were the real thieves. They had started subdividing public land among themselves in Galana Kulalu [in Coast region] and in Kibiku in Ngong,” he said on Inooro TV, adding that the “thieves had even captured Kenya Airways, which charges the highest air travel rates in the world and whose aeroplanes operate on full capacity but would be said to be making losses”.
Shaming individuals
He added that the cartels owned banks and controlled interest rates and every public policy was designed to earn them handsome profits.
Mr Gachagua said President William Ruto is not keen on naming and shaming individuals in the cartel “but, certainly, we will cancel their ill-gotten title deeds, deals and interests”.
He added that the same cartels were behind police corruption and extra-judicial killings.
“All those officers and their masters who murdered Kenyans ... left people orphans, widows and widowers ... we might not come after you but you will never find peace,” he said.
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He said the same state capture cartel was behind grand corruption at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). But, he added, the fund will be restructured to assume the role of a civil service health insurer.
“We have since picked Mr Michael Kamau as the NHIF board chairman. A man who the former regime persecuted even when it was clear that he was among the most patriotic and committed civil servants. He suffered for being a friend of Dr Ruto,” Mr Gachagua said, adding that Mr Kamau will soon bar “those thieving private sector health insurers from covering government employees”.
Mr Gachagua claimed influential families were behind graft cartels in the milk, tea and coffee sectors and were blocking reforms so that they could continue enslaving farmers.
“The cartel even borrowed money to pay tea bonuses from the big man’s banks to make money and deceptively make farmers believe that the sector had been reformed,” he said.
The loan, Mr Gachagua said, left farmers heavily indebted.
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“We will not pay for that loan since farmers did not approve it,” he said, vowing that “the President will not accept since it was a creation of the big man’s cartel”.
He went on to say that it was during their four-day retreat at the Fairmont Hotel in Nanyuki that they decided to drop their quest of investigating state capture to focus on delivering on their promise to Kenyans.
Judicial commission
Before taking office, the President had announced the impending formation of a judicial commission to investigate “state capture and conflict of interest”.
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“If we keep following these people, we will lose track of our promise to Kenyans. Therefore, we are focusing on what will benefit Kenyans by reviving the economy and improving agriculture and other sectors,” Mr Gachagua said on Sunday.
The DP called for patience among Kenyans who were calling for the lowering of the cost of living, saying, the new government should be given enough time to put its house in order.
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Appears Gachagua is more keen to go after Uhuru. Or Ruro is hiding behind him,wonder how this will be carried out.
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Now they talking. They should finish kenyatta or they will crawl back & use their immense wealth to give them problems in gema. Secondly they owe Kenya debt of finishing those morons who bankrupted Kenya. Leave small matatu nonsense and focus on big things
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And what's to prevent the current administration of "capturing" the state just like the previous administration? And while at it when is Ruto returning mutara farm in Laikipia? This isn't to absolve the previous administration , their ill gotten wealth should be repossessed. The system that allowed the state capture needs to be dismantled that's what will prevent future "capture".
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Your question is answered here , only locking and executing past perpetrators like some other countries do can stop it . However that wont happen as predicted earlier ( even when the Pundits were saying Uhuru will find himself in jail or go to exile) , simply because the current administration would find themselves in the same shoes once out of power. You cant start a precedent which later will come and eat you too. Now as to getting at financial empire that is bound to happen like it happened to GEMA elite once Moi came to power and Kalenjin elite once Kibaki came to power. New Money will try to take advantage and do as much and this includes taking share of the old money.
Before taking office, the President had announced the impending formation of a judicial commission to investigate “state capture and conflict of interest”.
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“If we keep following these people, we will lose track of our promise to Kenyans. Therefore, we are focusing on what will benefit Kenyans by reviving the economy and improving agriculture and other sectors,” Mr Gachagua said on Sunday.
And what's to prevent the current administration of "capturing" the state just like the previous administration? And while at it when is Ruto returning mutara farm in Laikipia? This isn't to absolve the previous administration , their ill gotten wealth should be repossessed. The system that allowed the state capture needs to be dismantled that's what will prevent future "capture".
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I am for letting institutions do their work not Gachagua et al. Ruto himself has lots of blood on his hands. Focus of job creation.
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If they don't go after the thugs, it means they have negotiated na wamegula.
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You are asking thugs to go after thugs. Ruto became enormously rich between 2013 and 2022. Same for Gachagua. Just inform me how these guys who produce nothing significant aquired so much wealth in a short time.
You guys keep on dreaming as the old regime goes to rest and the new takes over the reigns of corruption. New boys in the club of billionaires will be Kipchumba Murkomen and Davis Chirchir.
If they don't go after the thugs, it means they have negotiated na wamegula.