Leaked loan documents, bank records and whistleblower accounts reveal how the former Nilepet Managing Director allegedly pressured subordinates to borrow USD 1 million in the national oil company’s name, then routed the funds through a subsidiary to his wife’s private account to construct a hospital in a Juba property linked to a UN-sanctioned general. Now Afriland First Bank is preparing to sue the subsidiary he left holding the debt, while Amuor poses as a governance reformer.
For years, warning signs have accumulated over the management of South Sudan’s oil revenues. Resources that should have sustained a population enduring one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises have instead disappeared through opaque networks linked to a small circle of senior officials and their intermediaries. Neither the authorities in Juba nor the international […]
A month after the Celsius Riga left the mombasa port with barrels of oil worth Ksh1.2 billion ($12 million) and days after the tanker arrived in Malaysia for refining, details about Kenya’s first oil sale is shrouded with mystery. The government has chosen to withhold any important details about the crude oil sale. Since the […]
A job with the UN remains one of the prestigious opportunities many people look up to but humanitarian work is not a walk in the sandy beaches as Sid would later come to learn in life. The oomph and the glamour that the organization beams is just a painting but not really what’s inside. As […]
Being a political season in a highly contested election, candidates are putting up the best teams, arsenal and sharpest strategies to woo and win hearts of the 19M IEBC registered voters. With barely two months to the 8th Aug date with electorates, jubilee and NASA are not taking anything into chances as they go full […]
The media need to be honest with Kenyans and tell them why we are facing a food crisis. There is no greater tragedy than those entrusted with empowering the masses hoarding information that points to government incompetence and dereliction of duty in feeding its people. For starters, Kenya has a government body called the National […]
Joined at the hip, the YK92 housemates don’t seem to move far away from each other. Following public spat, by Cyrus Jirongo and Ruto, their relationship was seen to have hit final nail beyond mending. However, in politics, there are no permanent enemies just different interests. Jirongo blamed Ruto for being behind the assassination of […]
The Ombudsman has written to the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education Dr Fred Matiang’i on the above-captioned subject. In the letter, the Commission raises concerns over the directive by the Cabinet Secretary requiring the University of Nairobi Kenya Science Campus to vacate its premises on Ngong’ Road by 1st December 2016 to pave the way […]
The national carrier that has turned from a pride of Africa to being a shame continue to get hammered despite their PR exercise to sanitize the filthy profile. Genuine worries that Kenya Airways is at the brink of total collapse given massive losses they continue to make. An audit report conducted by Deloitte reveals from […]
By Nicholas Olambo The entire month of October has been declared a taxpayers’ month to appreciate every hustler paying the taxman his dues. As KRA (Kenya Revenue Authority) runs this month long futile PR exercise, its rogue officials, cartels and rogue port officials are in bed. Just yesterday KRA officers impounded two Range Rovers disguised […]
Retired soccer legend was rushed to hospital after he collapsed Wednesday while watching a football match at Toyoyo, Nairobi. Medical personnel who rushed him to the hospital said he was not breathing well amid complaints of hunger. The legend famed for ‘Kadenge na mpira’ phrase had been ailing a few weeks but got better and […]
On October 13, 2015 a major bank in Kenya closed its doors without notice, due to the unnecessary instructions from the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) by placing the bank under receivership and put in the administration of Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC), claiming the bank was trading inappropriately. Imperial Bank […]
The hawkers in Nairobi’s busy business hub, Eastleigh are left in desperation state after being left in darkness following failed promises from the Nairobi County Government and National Lands Commission to give them back their land illegally being held by Private Developers, Alfa Traders. The parcel of land that the Alfa Traders claims has […]
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