Ngumi was the single largest individual beneficiary of a transaction that left its subject Telkom Kenya unable to pay its tower bills, unable to retain its subscribers, and unable to find a strategic investor willing to rescue it.
For a man who once told Parliament he could have charged ten million US dollars for five months of advisory work, the image of John Ngumi seeking constitutional sanctuary from accountability investigators tells its own story.
In the murky world of corporate scandals, Joe Sang’s name stands out, tainted by corruption and controversy. As the Managing Director of the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), Sang has been at the center of numerous allegations of corruption, embezzlement, and abuse of office. Despite this, President William Ruto has placed his trust in Sang, raising […]
Electricity consumers have over the years been overbilled owing to malpractices in the procurement of heavy fuel oil that thermal power producers use to generate electricity. A forensic audit on the procurement of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by the thermal Independent Power Producers (IPPs) by the Auditor General shows that consumers paid billions of shillings […]
The government shot down a proposal by Kenya Power to single-source three international legal and consultancy firms the utility company had picked to review expensive power purchase agreements (PPAs) blamed for high consumer bills. Government’s reason for the red flag on McKinsey might have just been lame from the bull’s eye target shot. Members of […]
It has emerged that the scandalous acting chairperson of Kenya Power Board, Vivienne Yeda Apopo and the former chairman of Kenya Pipeline John Ngumi are the architects behind the wrangles that have rocked the loss making Kenya Power. Apopo who has a history of championing controversies is now colluding with Ngumi, the man who chairs […]
