From “I will jump from KICC” to “I don’t care how you report it” the Health CS’s contempt for scrutiny is not a bad week. It is the operating method of a 19-year career built on the same five moves, now playing out over Ebola beds Kenyans cannot find.
Read the full storyA law firm’s own lawyers sit on the shareholding register of a company that has quietly moved from the ownership chain of a Sh104.8 billion state health platform into a quarter of Kenya’s biggest betting operator while the men who built that betting brand watch their stakes evaporate to single digits, and a new gambling regulator’s licensing clock starts ticking.
Seven of Africa’s most powerful drilling rigs. Twelve cementing trucks. A decade-old software contract nobody can find. A parade of managing directors who inherited the wreckage and changed nothing. This is how a state corporation turned Sh15.93 billion of public money into scrap metal, and dared the taxpayer to ask why.
A Dubai gold trader wired half a million dollars into the trust account of a Nairobi advocate with a Global Trade Centre address and a polished website. Months later, a Syrian-linked timber exporter’s money landed in the same account through a fake ambulance tender staged inside Harambee House itself. Court records, DCI statements and a trail of unpaid judgments now paint the picture of a law firm whose trust accounts keep turning up wherever foreign money disappears.
A year-long audit of presidential decrees shows a regime cannibalising its own institutions: four intelligence chiefs cycled through in eighteen months, a hand-picked heir demoted from general to private overnight, the president’s daughter installed at the centre of state power, his son commanding the praetorian guard, and his last serious rival on trial in a converted wedding hall. As South Sudan counts down to its first election since independence, our investigation maps the architecture of a man who no longer trusts the state he built.
Behind the low prices and the KEBS stickers lies a pattern: goods that reach Kenyan shelves with their most dangerous information locked away in a language almost no Kenyan can read and a corporate ownership structure built, from day one, to keep the real decision-makers just as illegible.
New regulations require platforms to verify users’ ages, suspend underage accounts, and comply within 12 months
