Nairobi (AFP) – Kenyan politicians are hiring armed thugs for as little as $4 per day, as poverty and ruthless political competition threaten to unleash uncontrollable violence ahead of elections next year. So-called “goons” are increasingly being hired, dozens or even hundreds at a time, to break up the rallies of political opponents and protesters, […]
Read the full storyBlacklisted in Japan for radiation fraud, dogged for fifteen years by conflict of interest allegations tying it to Kenya’s biggest car importer, accused of siphoning billions from Kenyan motorists through inflated fees, and now stripped of a Tanzanian contract for operating without basic diagnostic equipment, Quality Inspection Services Japan has survived every scandal that should have ended it. The question Kenyan authorities still refuse to answer is why.
A fresh High Court defeat has shut down the Triton oil scandal fugitive’s last legal escape hatch. What his own court filings, forensic records and a trail of vanished witnesses reveal is far uglier than one bad ruling.
Sh17,011,241.95. That is not a rounding figure invented for effect. It is the precise sum, down to the last cent, that keeps resurfacing in whistleblower complaints, union correspondence and, most damningly, in the sworn record of the Employment and Labour Relations Court, every time the question is asked of who really controls the union dues […]
Nairobi (AFP) – Kenyan politicians are hiring armed thugs for as little as $4 per day, as poverty and ruthless political competition threaten to unleash uncontrollable violence ahead of elections next year. So-called “goons” are increasingly being hired, dozens or even hundreds at a time, to break up the rallies of political opponents and protesters, […]
Blacklisted in Japan for radiation fraud, dogged for fifteen years by conflict of interest allegations tying it to Kenya’s biggest car importer, accused of siphoning billions from Kenyan motorists through inflated fees, and now stripped of a Tanzanian contract for operating without basic diagnostic equipment, Quality Inspection Services Japan has survived every scandal that should have ended it. The question Kenyan authorities still refuse to answer is why.
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