A fresh constitutional petition accuses three of the Mara’s most expensive addresses of colonising a protected migration corridor under the cover of a presidential exemption, a 26-day environmental study and a county government that cannot even account for its own gate receipts. This is the story of how it happened, who let it happen, and why it is not the first time.
A contract meant to widen 1.4 kilometres of tarmac inside the Port of Mombasa has ballooned into one of the costliest road jobs ever signed by a Kenyan state agency, with taxpayers funding air-conditioned engineer suites, fleets of diesel 4WDs, twenty Android handsets and a Sh1.89 billion contingency cushion that a commercial lawyer says was built to hide human intervention. At the centre of it sits Managing Director Captain William Ruto, a man already facing a Sh31.2 billion procurement petition and questions from Parliament over a separate Sh1.9 billion discrepancy.
A road agency that has paid out billions for its own contractual sins, run for seven months by a man the High Court had just convicted of contempt, handed a Sh3 billion tarmac contract to an outfit with no comparable highway pedigree on the strength of a Chinese contractor’s name it stole and a stamp it forged. The whistleblower told them in March. They waited until a judge was watching in May.
A whistleblower dossier now in the hands of investigators in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo lays bare how East Africa’s biggest betting platform allegedly built a continent-wide financial crime operation from Nairobi’s Parklands. Investigations are active. The right of reply was sent. The silence that followed spoke louder than any denial could.
A fresh constitutional petition accuses three of the Mara’s most expensive addresses of colonising a protected migration corridor under the cover of a presidential exemption, a 26-day environmental study and a county government that cannot even account for its own gate receipts. This is the story of how it happened, who let it happen, and why it is not the first time.
