Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Georgesoros on January 12, 2016, 08:23:20 PM
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Not the current politicians who want as much wealth as they can accumulate while children learn in mud huts. He has ETHICS. I also recall Cherserem who single handedly brought CBK from its ashes.
http://www.nation.co.ke/business/CBK-Governor-interview/-/996/3031054/-/gtp4p2z/-/index.html
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Not to throw water on the CBK govenor, these are the entrenched interests he's going to be fighting against:
OUTGOING Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has said Kenya is run by mafia-style cartels of political chiefs and corrupt business people.
Eighty per cent of political leaders are not fit to hold office and corruption has never been worse in the “bandit economy,” he said.
In an interview with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published yesterday, Mutunga said Kenya harbours mafia-style criminals like Al Capone’s mob in 1920s America.
They “collect millions every day,” he said. “The influence of the cartels is overwhelming. They do illegal business with politicians.
If we do not fight the cartels, we become their slaves. But leaders who do take on the cartels must be prepared to be killed or exiled,” Mutunga said.
His five-year term expires on June 1 and the 69-yearold jurist has already made waves by saying hate speech has pushed Kenya to the edge of an abyss of ethnic violence in next year’s election.
In his interview, Mutunga said President Uhuru Kenyatta is dedicated to fighting corruption and this has set cartels against each other.
“Whenever President Uhuru talks about cartels, he is angry, maybe because the cartels are messing up his political programme or he genuinely wants to dismantle them. He is serious,” Mutunga said. Corruption reaches from the very bottom to the very top, he said.
“Yes, I am now at the top. I’m riding a tiger, hoping the monster will not devour me. But as long as I fight the cartels and they are protected, you cannot achieve anything.
You are taking these people into a corrupt investigating system, through a corrupt anti-corruption system, and a corrupt judiciary,” the CJ said.
He added: “If our constitution and clause Chapter 6 about corruption were implemented, I am sure 80 per cent [of politicians] would not be suitable for political leadership.” Mutunga said a bribe collected by a policeman from a motorist is shared all the way up to police headquarters.
“Larger cartels make money through trafficking illegal migrants, counterfeit money, weapons, drugs and consumer goods,” he said. Some operate along ethnic lines, sometimes overshadowing the government, the CJ said.
“In Kenya, the counterfeit economy is worth $1.2 billion (Sh122 billion) annually, according to the Kenya Association of Manufacturers. It supports politicians in a big way,” Mutunga said.
He said the $3.8 billion (Sh388.7 billion) standard gauge railway being built by a Chinese company should have been divided up among different companies in Kenya’s best interest.
“Now we deal only with the Chinese. The deal is based on commission. Guys are saying: we just had expensive elections where we spent Sh10 billion ($100m).
We have to get it from somewhere. Or we have to think about the election in 2017 and we need a war chest. So you have all that stealing.”
Losers on big tenders “come to court and say: ‘under the constitution this tender for the railroad did not have public participation. It was single sourced, it was corrupt’,” Mutunga said.
He Kenya’s army fighting militants in Somalia protects traders smuggling goods into Kenya through Kismayu port. He cited a UN report and Journalists for Justice. The army denies the accusations.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/13/kenya-is-a-bandit-economy-cj_c1274990
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I pray he succeeds.
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Kenya has corruption cancer that has metastasized to all levels. It needs the most radical therapies to treat it. In order to get the right therapy you to have to recruit the right people. People who are ethical and have the most knowledge about corruption. Current prosecutors are either unwilling or do not have the knowledge of the kind cancer they are dealing with. Take for example Chikenngate - Even after UK convicted their people, nobody in Kenya has even gone to court!!! and people are being paid.
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Its spread to every nerve of society....
A county executive's wife was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly defrauding the Kitui government of millions of shillings through cybercrime.
Faith Kathele, a gospel musician and wife to Kitui Minerals Development executive George Mulatya, was arrested alongside two others.
“The minister’s wife and two other people are connected to a Sh27.8 million theft, while one is connected to an earlier Sh65 million fraud,” said the county CID director.
Shem Nyamboki said on Wednesday that Kathele is held at Kitui police station. He said police have orders to hold the suspects as they investigate.
“We want the suspects to lead us to the arrest of the real fraudsters. These people appear to have ignorantly given their companees' and business account numbers through which the stolen money was channeled," Nyamboki said.
The three are "the key to a breakthrough in county funds fraud" , he told the press in his office, adding three people colluded with fraudsters to fleece the county government.
Last week, the Cyber Crime Unit confiscated mobile phones from some county employees after CID officers raised suspicions of electronic theft. The phones were returned to their owners.
In November 2015, six Kitui government officials faced the sack after their passwords were used to siphon cash to a number of private accounts.
Finance and Planning executive Simon Muundu said Sh65 million was stolen from the county's accounts at the Central Bank of Kenya.
Muundu said the officers’ Ifmis and G-pay ID codes were used for the fraudulent transactions.