This archive report was first published on 28 June 2020.
On June 26, the Senate's 11-member committee cleared Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru of impeachment charges, but one name kept cropping up during the heated debate: Pauline Kamau.
As a personal assistant to Waiguru, Kamau quickly rose through the ranks to become one of her most trusted confidantes, despite lacking the qualifications for her position.
According to Kennedy Ngiavi, chairman of the Kirinyaga Public Service Board, Kamau was appointed as Director of Administration without the required undergraduate degree and 10 years of experience.
‘I told the governor that Pauline was not qualified for the directorship but she (Waiguru) was adamant. She has no undergraduate degree required for the position, but she was hired for the job,’ Ngiavi told the committee.
As a result, Kamau was not supposed to sit in any tender committee, but she did, raising concerns about the likelihood of detectives from the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) uncovering such violations.
