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Chimu Electric

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Chimu Electric · LEAD

‘Puzzle Over Mysterious Chinese Woman ‘Chimu Electric’ With Questionable Documents Bagging Multibillion On State Tenders

She arrived in Nairobi without fanfare and left no trail in the public record. But inside Kenya Power’s procurement corridors, Du Ying Catic has allegedly become one of the most consequential figures in the parastatal’s recent history — a Chinese national operating through a constellation of proxy entities, allegedly bending billion-shilling tender processes to her will while shielded by a relationship with the very man who signs the contracts.

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