A payment subcontractor with a hundred-thousand-shilling starting capital and a director shared with that same vendor now quietly pockets a fixed cut of every shilling paid to a sick Kenyan’s hospital.
Read the full storyA payment subcontractor with a hundred-thousand-shilling starting capital and a director shared with that same vendor now quietly pockets a fixed cut of every shilling paid to a sick Kenyan’s hospital.
A decade of forged degrees, phantom warehouses, a name-changing tycoon, a fake lawyer and a shell company in a British port town, and the men who kept winning anyway.
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.
His explanation, delivered after the fact and only when journalists came calling, was that he had travelled out of the country on Wednesday evening.
A charge said to migrate a sister company’s old facility onto the judgment debtor, arranged weeks after that debtor lost its most important appeal, is not a footnote. It is the architecture.
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