Despite the authority being aware of the situation, Mr. Ruto hurriedly awarded the tender on 26th, barely 72 hours later to M/s. Jiangsu Rainbow Industrial Equipment Co. Ltd disregarding the anti-corruption body’s warning.
One insurance tender fiasco no 037 of July 2022 is haunting outgoing MD John Mwangemi. The procurement unit prepared this controversial tender that saw the head of procurement appeal board intervene. Facts emerging are that the procurement department was sidelined in the award that rested in the hands of the legal department then under Andrea […]
The Board of Kenya Ports Authority has been forced to make some changes in the senior position amidst claims that some of the departments heads are engaged in fraudulent activities. Cosmas Makori, the acting head of procurement has been axed from the positions as he was found to have overstepped his mandates. According to reports, […]
Sources at the Kenya Ports Authority indicate that a section of conniving board of directors have secretly approved the renewal of contract of the General Manager, Human Resources & Administration, Mr. Daniel Odhiambo Ogutu for five years, an issue that is causing jitters. Mr. Ogutu is on a three-year contract which comes to an end in […]
The more things change, the more they remain the same and getting the monkey to a different forest doesn’t change its behaviors. Kenya Ports Authority, one of the most powerful parastatals in the country and most sort after by hungry wolves given them attractive lucrative deals it comes with is not new to scandals. Here […]
Justice Reuben Nyakundi of the High Court has stopped Kenya Ports Authority from irregularly awarding a licence to Portside Freight Terminal Limited until a case filed against activist Okiyah Omtatah against the firm is heard and concluded. Omtatah accused KPA board of directors of going beyond the powers bestowed on them when they approved the […]
Ukir Yattani led National Treasury has said the expenditure was made without its authorisation leaving the corrupt KPA Boss Daniel Manduku on the frying pan in the fraudulent tenders worth Sh2.7 billion. In a letter dated November 22, 2019, the Treasury says the money was spent before approval of the supplementary budget. “The Cabinet secretary […]
Kinoti led DCI detectives yesterday questioned the corrupt senior Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) officials. Manduku lead management differed with junior KPA board members on the approval of multimillion tenders that have seen coffers lose billions setting a stage where arrests of KPA officials are eminent. Last week, DCI handed over the files implicating KPA boss […]
DP Ruto’s ally and KPA MD Daniel Manduku whose phone remains switched off most of the time is a panicked man who knows his days are numbered as DCI hands over three investigations files to ODPP. Embattled Daniel Manduku reported to the office over a year and four months ago as Acting Managing Director. For […]
More than 2000 members from Mombasa and Nairobi had filed a suit before the Mombasa High Court Justice PJ Otieno seeking orders to debar trustees of the Kenya Ports Authority Pension Scheme (KPAPS) from transferring management of its multimillion assets worth to Private Real Estate Agents and the planned backdoor sale of KPAPS houses. Reprieve […]
Kenya Ports Authority has lost over sh6 billion in the past one year and DCI sleuths are on their necks. According to DCI, the rehabilitation of Kisumu Port has seen the coffer lose sh2.5 billion. On August 22, Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia wrote to Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti asking […]
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 […]
