Uhuru petty fights with Jimmy Wanjigi to cost 22B - Kimawere will cost more

[RV Pundit]

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Kenya has opened compensation talks with Chinese firm whose contract to build second terminal at JKIA was cancelled.

The Chinese firm is asking for Shs 22 billion in compensation.

[RV Pundit]

After Wanjigi refused to let go of SGR quietly - Uhuru one day rushed to JKIA - which was a wanjigi managed project and ordered it cancelled.

If judiciary was function - Uhuru should be held personally responsible for such decision - that do not even  involve the AG.

[RV Pundit]

The Greenfields Terminal had been designed, tendered, awarded, and construction had begun. Project was however bungled as the cartels could not agree on kickbacks.

We were left with a court case where the Kenya govt will eventually lose and pay the contractor Kshs 6B damages. pic.twitter.com/L5r3BJO1oj

— Martin Tairo Maseghe (@mmtairo) December 1, 2019

[Gikomba_Hawker]

Ref B is Embassy Nairobi's request for the suspension of
entry into the U.S. (subsequently approved by the
Department) of former Minister Christopher Murungaru for
his central role in a number of grand-scale corruption
cases under the administration of Kenyan President Mwai
Kibaki.  This cable should be read in conjunction with ref
B, as it expands the case used against Murungaru to include
chief co-conspirators Getonga, Perera, Kamani, and Wanjigi.
All were central figures in a network of corrupt government
officials and private sector dealmakers that has
systematically stolen, or attempted to steal, a cumulative
sum as high as $700 million over the past three years by
exploiting a secretive system of government security-
related procurement contracts in Kenya.  These activities
have had a serious adverse effect on U.S. national
interests in Kenya, which include strengthening democratic
institutions and the rule of law and fostering economic
development.  This cable also draws heavily on, and should
be read in conjunction with, ref A.  Ref A is the first-
hand account detailing high-level graft and cover-up in the
Kibaki administration made available to the public in
January 2006 by John Githongo, the President's anti-
corruption advisor who went into self-imposed exile in
February 2005.  The so-called Githongo dossier is a
credible and detailed account documenting graft and cover-
up on the part of the aforementioned individuals.  Embassy
reporting and significant flows of sensitive intelligence
corroborate Githongo's revelations.  With indictments
looming, the Government of Kenya has ordered in recent days
that all four men surrender their passports and any
personal firearms they may possess.  Further, the Kenya
Anti-Corruption Authority strongly supports visa revocation
against the four individuals in light of the Commission's
own evidence of wrongdoing.

212 (F) VISA SAO REQUEST: ALFRED GETONGA, ANURA PERERA, DEEPAK KAMANI, JAMES WANJIGI
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06NAIROBI944_a.html

[RV Pundit]

Yes Wanjigi was a super dealer - who brought Chinese contractors - and get his 10 percent. However SGR 10 percent was a whopping 50B Kshs - and Uhuru wanted it all. Wanjigi having invested in bringing the chinese and having financed Jubilee could hear none of it. Ruto advised Wanjigi to let go of SGR - Ruto through DL was also targetting it - but when Uhuru took an interest - Ruto was smart to let go.

Uhuru went hard on him - cancelled JKIA and any wanjigi linked Chinese saw dust  - and when that did not work - he went and demolished his house to look for guns.

That has dried up Wanjigi swamp - but he trying to bring Raila in so he can go back.

Kenya contracts are almost by default inflated for 10 percent brokerage fee

[Gikomba_Hawker]

Jimmy Wanjigi: Man Who Initiated Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Idea
https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/19854-jimmy-wanjigi-man-who-initiated-standard-gauge-railway-sgr-idea