Craig, left, and Marc Kielburger walk on to the stage at the WE Day event at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary on Wednesday October 26, 2016. PHOTO BY GAVIN YOUNG/POSTMEDIA

WE Charity, the corrupt Canadian based organization promised to build schools in Kenya, however, most of the money ended up funding other activities; perhaps even illegal.

In a 45-minute documentary by the Canada Broadcasting Centre (CBC) News titled, ‘Finding School No.4: WE Charity’s donor deception in Kenya,’ the level of treachery that Marc and Craig Kielburger put donors through is insane.

Holding, rockstar-like-concerts, the twins would put out their rallying call for donors to fund education in Kenya, mostly in Narok.

According to the CBC, the money collected doesn’t tally with the reality on the ground. Even more damning is that the Kielburger’s lied about the whole thing. At the height of another scandal in Canada involving the charity, the Kielburger’s told the Canadian parliament that their charity had built 360 classrooms in and around Narok County. Armed with a spreadsheet of the project locations, the CBC crew went to each village to count first hand if that claim was true.

There first stop was at Narok Governor Tunai’s office where they were welcomed well but things took a sudden turn when the journalist confronted the governor with disparities in the project. READ: Audio: Free The Children (FTC) Charity Bribed Kenyan Officials The number of schools funded did not match the number of schools actually built.

Some donors were shown stock photos of the same classrooms as ‘their finished projects that they had funded’. VIDEO https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1999458606885891

Some finished classrooms were shown to even, over 4 donors who averaged donations of Sh1 million for each.

To understand the scam, take for example, four donors donate Sh4 million, and one classroom is built and ‘stocked’ at a cost of 1 million, where does the other money go?

As the filming of the documentary progressed, Tunai made calls, putting obstacles on the journalists.

Of course, there’s obvious transformation that WE Charity has done to the villages even as Tunai boldly stated, however, the issue is about the money and what WE Chairty told donors in its reports.

Most did not tally with what was on the ground.

Journalist: Your excellency, what would you say if more money was raised for Kenya and Narok county that what was actually spent?

Ole Tunai: Let me not comment about that. Gov Samuel Tunai at a tourism forum Samuel Ole Tunai’s govt The expansive Masai Mara Game Reserve is home to many known and unknown lodges. Some are out of reach for the common Kenyan and are not recorded on any maps.

Ole Tunai’s govt has been fingered for plundering the revenue collected from the loved game reserve. In 2015, and owing to the high ups Tunai has as friends, he refused to tell the senate how much money is collected at the game reserve.

Curiously, the park entry and exit ticketing is handled by a irregularly appointed firm, KAPS. Eleven months into the contract, KAPS had collected Sh1.1 billion. READ: Elizabeth Lolchoki: Exposing Narok County’s Madam Boss And Close Confidant Of Gov Tunai Meet The Ngiritas Of Narok County However, it was ODM leader Raila Odinga that exposed the true figure that was looted from the game reserve in the early years as KAPS took charge.

Mr Odinga claimed that Ole Tunai and DP Ruto had looted Sh3 billion from the reserve’s kitty.

MCAs have never raised an issue over this and this just fits into the corruption networks in Narok county. The same networks that supported the existence and siphoning of funds from WE Charity.

Most of those that benefited from the ‘free money’ from WE Charity are local and international politicians. The shadowy elite that deal in trafficking might also be involved here, but that’s for other journalists to write about. In 2013, it was revealed that the Narok Governor Samuel Tunai owned a 2,359.6 acres of land most of which borders the famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve. A small population that had settled there was got rid off by goons who burnt their houses to the ground in the dead of the night. In the looting of Narok County, some names come up, however, none is more powerful than Elizabeth Lolchoki, Resian Victoria Sompisha and above all Fred Ntekerei. Man of the shadows: Fred Ntekerei (circled) behind former US Ambassador Kyle McCarter. Gov Tunai is to the right of the Ambassador

It is Fred Ntekerei that handles the governor’s money read loot/kickbacks.

Remember the KAPS ticketing scandal? Mr Ntekerei handles that money.

Tunai is an investor in the Masai Mara Game Reserve, he owns a couple of luxury lodges.

Sources intimate that Mr. Tunai owns more than five Luxury Lodges in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem, which are not listed in the controller of budget reports as paying park entry fees. These luxury lodges charges on the lowest $80 (sh8000) per person per day.

Money that is stolen from the county is invested in the construction of new buildings, buying luxury hotels in Tanzania and South Africa, hidden in luxury hotels accounts that the governor owns in the Maasai Mara.

Many managers at the park only work for a few months and walk away with tens of millions which they invest in purchasing land and livestock.

Looted!

Johnson Sakaja, Senator, Nairobi County

A group of businessmen, mostly from the Somali community have decided to undermine the war against tax evasion.

The tax evaders, who don’t want to pay taxes on imported textile and shoes are fighting the Kenya Revenue Authority’s Intelligence and Strategic Operations (ISO) department.

According to sources, the group met Nairobi County Senator Johnson Sakaja and “enticed” him to raise an issue in senate.

In a senate session on 18th November 2021, Sakaja is heard standing on the standing order number 47/1 to make a statement regarding the operations of ISO.

The youthful senator accuses the ISO of overstepping its mandate and withholding relevant information from other departments, thereby, inhibiting the overall functions of the KRA.

For some reason, James Mburu has been smashing tax targets due to him being the former head of ISO and using his knowledge to crack down on tax evaders.

Sources tell nyakundireport.com that the Somali businessmen are used to tax evasion by importing and underquoting the size of consignment.

This is helped by giving bribe to officials, using porous borders (Kismayu), interfering with the security systems at the ports etc. KRA headquarters KRA officials Some KRA officials are in support of the tax evaders and are said to be behind the move to support Sakaja to raise the issues in the senate.

“Their goal is to make the department ineffective in tackling tax evasion and also relax on the staff involved in aiding tax evasion,” a source said

Narok Senator Ledama’s reference to the Sh7.6Billion lost in oversees, was making reference to the recent Pandora’s papers where prominent Kenyans were mentioned. READ: Abdi Malik Hussein: The Dreaded KRA Port Boss Pockets Ksh. 500 Million In Kickbacks A senior KRA commissioner behind the evasion has been quoted by our sources as being uncomfortable with the departments work.

VIDEO Sakaja Video tax evasion

Wycliffe Wangamati - Bungoma County Governor

Bungoma County Government is being accused of neglecting a school project that it began befooe the 2017 General elections.

The county which collected Sh662 million in the financial year 2015-2017 has an unfinished business in Bumula Sub County.

“Hello Mr Nyakundi, kindly help us as Lunao secondary school in Bumula sub county Bungoma county. This photo below shows an incomplete the dormitory stated by the last regime of the county government year budget 2016/2017”, said the source.

Parents and Teachers have tried to reach the current Governor Wycliffe Wangamati to salvage the project in vain. Lunao Secondary School dormitory building whose construction was abandoned

Wangamati took over from the current speaker of the senate Ken Lusaka.

Mr Lusaka once bought wheelbarrows worth over Sh100,000 each and tried to use big words such as ‘non-carcinogenic’, to try to wow his electorates.

It seems the money was chewed by him, but this doesn’t let Wangamati off the hook, he needs to answer the cries of Lunao Secondary School PTA.

According to the Commission of Revenue Allocation, the revenue collection of Bungoma county has rapidly grown in nominal terms.

The county with a population of over 1.6 million received an equitable share of Sh8.9 billion in the FY 2019/2020.

The major revenue streams for the county includes hospital fees and public health services, single business permits and parking fees.

“Kindly try to address the current governor Wangamati to finish it kindly We have tried to reach him in all ways but I had gone in vain. Help us end the suffering at the school”, the source pleaded.

Raymond Omollo, Managing Director Lake Basin Development Authority since February 2019

If the Lake Basin Development Authority Director Raymond Omollo is still walking with his head high after orchestrating the looting of Sh200 million; it only means that EACC has been compromised.

And indeed it has according to a source who asked to remain anonymous.

In mid 2020, it emerged that Mr Omollo and his legal department hatched a plan and allegedly stole the money that was meant to pay former staff of the agency who had been retrenched some 20 years ago.

It all began after President Uhuru Kenyatta directed that all state agencies should clear their pending bills.

Mr Omollo, Mr Clifford Otieno, Michael Okuk and a HR guy immediately set works in motion, came up with over 100 names of those who had been retrenched and were seeking justice through the slow and painful court system in Kenya.

They communicated to some of them to accept an out of court settlement, paid them monies and all seemed well to that point.

However, it later emerged that some of the retrenches had not received their share of the ‘out of court settlement’. Some due to lack of knowledge of the new development, others had died.

The trio had pocketed huge chunks of the money and to make matters worse, those who were paid are said to have received between Sh50,000 and Sh200,000 from the pool of the Sh200 million that Mr Omollo and company had charged LBDA. Honest man Nonetheless, that was not the only crux, one man had stood in the way of this scandalous scheme.

A Mr Obiero who worked in the legal department had been approached about the scheme, but he refused to partake in it.

He was unceremoniously demoted and hounded out of office for his honesty. Cabinet Secretary East African Community & Regional Development , Hon Adan Mohamed & Lake Basin Development Authority Managing Director, Raymond Omollo before the senate committee on t he Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations in 2019. The scandal got bigger as most of those retrenched who had not received their compensation got wind of it.

They filed a suit in court, saying they were not party to the deal and that they never instructed their lawyer, Owala Advocates, to agree on an out of court settlement.

They also wrote to the EACC and DCI about the crime, but since May 2020, the investigations seems to have stalled. Cover up The first cover up that Mr Omollo and the other LBDA managers did was t threaten those that had been paid between Sh50,000 and Sh200,000 not to raise any troubles.

Apart from compromising the employee lawyer, they also bribed one of the retrenched staff, a Mr Samuel Opondo to sign off on behalf of the other 107.

LBDA was represented by Olel Onyango and Ingutia Advocates and the employees filed a mutual consent in the Labour Court in Kisumu before Justice Mathews Nderi, who allowed an out of court settlement.

In the scandal that have ravaged the agency, including the LBDA Mall construction, money was flowing. It is from all these that the investigating officer from EACC are said to have dipped their fingers to remain silent over the matter.

The controversial Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru is 'facing' eviction from her luxurious home in Kitisuru, Nairobi over what is reported as rent arrears totalling to Sh44.5 million.

Waiguru who became a tycoon after looting from the NYS coffers when she served as the Devolution secretary has rushed to the court to seek protection from the alleged property owner, Kihingo Village Ltd.

The realtor claims that the governor must pay them the said amount or vacate the Sh80 million house after she failed to meet the deal signed in September 2015. Waiguru argues that she paid Sh40 million for the property in cash and the agreement was that KCB Bank was to offer an additional Sh40 million as mortgage.

Some criminals use loans and mortgages as a cover for laundering looted funds, and their repayment can be used to mix illegitimate with legitimate funds.

In this case, Kihingo Village has denied receiving any payment from the defendant claiming that the tycoon governor is just a mere tenant and not a homeowner in what looks like a calculated move to clean looted funds.

Waiguru has been facing graft charges that pushed the members of the Kirinyaga county assembly to threaten her with impeachment but she hired ODM lawmakers to 'save herself' at the senate.

Kihingo claims that Waiguru has not paid rent for the five years she has lived in the spacious home and now risks asset seizure by Chardor Auctioneers.

“The applicant is apprehensive that unless the orders sought herein are granted, the consequences of the eviction will be dire as the suit property is her residential home where she resides with her family. The damage will be irreparable,” Waiguru told the court. Phony tycoons and looters resort to real estate to clean dirty money  because it is vulnerable due to the easy mixing of clean and dirty money. To disguise the authorities and the public, maney looters create controversies as evictions, auctions and suits before the money is cleaned. Looters buy real estates through proxies or people with clean criminal records to pose as the legal owner but the scheme is actually to buy the property with stolen funds.

The war  between the embattled Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko and Nairobi Metropolitan Services ( NMS ) Director General Mohammed Badi has stalled the utilisation of Sh127.2 million.

The disputed money was received as a grant from the World Bank and the Danish government after the National Treasury suspended the operating system of the budget sector.

Sonko who appeared before the senate's health committee said that the condition of the grant was to support  Level 2 and Level 3 hospitals under the Universal HealthCare projects.

The governor had transferred four functions including health to the NMS in line with Article 187 of the Constitution.

Sonko transferred the functions to the National Government through the NMS in March but supremacy wars later erupted between the governor and Badi resulting to hampered service delivery to Nairobi residents.

Treasury CS Ukur Yatani has refused to release the funds to NMS claiming that move lacks a legal backing.

Sonko tabled a letter by the treasury CS which explained that the funds can only be given to Nairobi County Government through the County Revenue Fund.

The CS cited Section 4(2) of County Allocation of Revenue Act, 2020 which stipulates that each county government allocations shall be made to the respective County Revenue Fund.

“The funds are still lying idle in the Central Bank account as a result of suspension of the health sector budget Integrated Financial Management Information System (Ifmis) operating system by the National Treasury whereby it is now impossible for our accounting staff to process any payments for the transferred function through Ifmis,” Sonko told the Senate's Health committee.

The Senate Health committee was also told that Sh17.6 million conditional grant from the Danish government were received on April 30, 2020.

The funds are still idling in the County Revenue Fund account since the county has been blocked from accessing Ifmis.

“The funds are currently held at the County Revenue Fund Account as it has become practically impossible to utilise them due to Ifmis budget withdrawal thus the county cannot process their disbursements,” Sonko said.

Sonko also added that his administration owes the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency ( Kemsa ) Sh374.9 million noting that debt was incurred before the health functions were transferred to NMS.

“The health sector has pending bills amounting to Sh1,072,998390 comprising Sh801.9 million being recurrent expenditure and Sh270 million being development expenditure pending bills,” he added.

N HIF Board Chairperson Hannah Muriithi. Hannah embodies what is wrong with Kenya. She is the defacto CEO despite being the board chair. She is involved in a Sh0.5 billion scandal. KEMSA/NHIF have cost taxpayers billions of shillings.

After the Ethics and anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) failed to do the proper investigations and prosecuting of individuals who fraudulently got tenders for supplies for Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) and costing government losses of over Sh10 billion.

Ministry of health through National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has illegally broken all basic rules of tendering and NHIF has gone ahead to award a tender at an exorbitant price of Sh6.3 Billion to privately selected group of companies to manage group life, last expense for civil servants, National youth services.

The process to manipulate tenders at NHIF started with the recruitment process of the new C.E.O. Peter Kamunyo Gathenge. ALSO READ: NHIF And Kenya Red Cross Ambulance Scandal – Part 10 of 20 The first process was stepped on when the likely top candidate seemed not favorable to the cartels. The second interviews were held despite the current C.E.O. Kamunyu being an underdog he was confirmed CEO illegally and EACC was silenced from questioning the process.

The CEO is related to the current Minister for health Mr. Mutahi Kagwe. The first move was to target non-Kikuyu/Meru communities heading various departments.

All of them were moved to NHIF far flank counties. Peter Kamunyo Gathege, NHIF CEO. His appointment is contrary to the law and activist Omtata moved to court, “The Board abandoned a responsive recruitment process which commenced in the July 2019, and resulted in names of the top three successful candidates being presented to the Cabinet Secretary for appointment, although this was not necessary because the CS’s powers to appoint the CEO were extinguished vide amendments made to the NHIF Act by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, No. 18 of 2014.” The NHIF procurement manager called Wasike and several others from Nyanza, Western and Rift Valley were all removed from key managerial positions and transferred immediately when they gave professional opinion contrary to NHIF chairperson Hannah Muriithi and CEO to renew the multi-billion tenders without advertising they transferred procurement officers who some are not even procurement specialist others don't have the Kenya Institute of supply chain management qualification to procurement office. ALSO READ: NHIF Untouchable: Corrupt Hannah Muriithi And The Board Stay On Amid Scandals Currently, NHIF has been harassing staff to send to management all their updated CVs intimidating whoever fails to sign documents as required by CEO.

Earlier this year, NHIF had tried to irregularly award group life tenders but reversed quickly, when the KEMSA scandal came to play. Yesterday (3rd November) in a well-organized scheme the NHIF/IRA/Treasury /Ministry of health crooks took matters serious and awarded a tender directly ignoring all set procurement regulations.

The NHIF went further to calculate premiums on its own supported by Kiptum CEO of IRA to excessively exaggerate the premiums from the past tender to Jubilee insurance at Sh889 million to Sh6.33 billion yet the population is the same. (comparative numbers NATIONAL POLICE MEDICAL MOST RISK BUSINESS OVER 130K members minus dependants costs 4.5B, national police group life/GPA cover cost 2.2B). ALSO READ: Huge: NHIF Board Chair Hannah Muriithi Linked To A Ksh. 500 Million Scandal With MMC Africa They cooked figures to reflect fake COVID-19 risk and increased the cost six times the market value. The same cartels that have been under investigation Pioneer insurance company, Britam insurance company, CIC insurance company and the new kids ABBAS and Sanlam (Same companies involved in the fraudulent TSC medical scheme under investigation by senate) are set to benefit from the illegal process, a cut and paste formula borrowed from KEMSA; where the agency was calling and awarding tenders as if it is a personal business.

This kind of price-fixing and tendering is illegal, the law clearly states open tendering and competitiveness

The CEO NHIF has lost control to IRA, TREASURY, MINISTRY OF HEALTH cartels trying to milk NHIF money by manipulating tenders.

In all the years the Government of Kenya has procured for services there's no day state agencies or ministries have called top suppliers set prices and told them to agree among them self's how to share tenders, this is day time robbery and abuse of office by NHIF board members and CEO should all be arrested. The den of thieves.

As the President is working hard to improve health sector, the cartels at the ministry of health are busy undermining the universal healthcare bill being pushed by Government and County Governments. It is important to note that IRA is supposed to act as the regulator and it is illegal for it to be part of procurement process that favors a particular group of companies over the rest. ALSO READ: “Let It Collapse’, Kenyans Express Anger At Hannah Muriithi’s Mismanaged NHIF Kiptum has turned IRA into his money-making machine.

He pretended to block NHIF from previously procuring insurance services till when he was looped into benefiting from kickbacks from the insurance cartels. Behind the whole scheme, there is common names that have been identified where at least Sh3 billion is to be channelled back through a certain agent called Maina.

Zamara Insurance brokers and two other insurance agencies belonging to the chairperson of NHIF and Treasury representative at NHIF by the name Mwaura Kamau. We call on the DCI, EACC, PPRA, and Competition Authority of Kenya to intervene and save taxpayers money. (NOTE THAT THE ABOVE BUDGET IS NOT ANYWHERE IN THE PROCUREMENT BUDGET PLAN APPROVED BY BOARD FOR CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR SEE ATTACHED)

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Kenya's biggest collegiate research center- the University of Nairobi (UoN) has been ordered to pay one of its graduates Sh500,000 for postponing his graduation for more than four years.

Paul peter Makanda Makokha, a class 2016 graduate had complained that his supervisor had delayed his Masters' degree graduation.

According to Paul Peter's petition, he joined the UoN 2009 after he got admitted to pursue a course that would ordinarily last for two years.

In 2011, he was through with his coursework and was assigned a supervisor, Robinson Ocharo, who cleared him to graduate in 2016.

Makanda successfully argued in court that Mr Ocharo was rarely unavailable for supervision which led to the postponement of his graduation.

In his ruling, Justice Weldon Korir noted that the delay in Makanda's studies was not his fault and ordered the university to compensate him. "The petitioner has also established that the unwarranted delay in the completion of his master's studies violated his right to Education. He had a legitimate expectation that he would complete his degree course within two years, as indicated in the letter of admission," ruled the judge. In court, Makanda stated that his supervisor took him round in circles when he was working on his thesis which messed up the set preparation period resulting in unnecessary delays.

Makanda told the court that he, after filing hundreds of complaints, was assigned another supervisor and graduated in 2016 although he complained that UoN foul-ups had ruined his chances of securing employment.

According to Makanda, he argued that the delay did not paint his resume in a positive light showing that he spent five years on a 2-year course.

In their defence, UoN lawyers had argued that Makanda was not guaranteed he would take two years to complete a course because thesis writing was an academic process and not an event.

In June this year, 80 law school students filed a petition against the University of Nairobi and asked the court to stop the institution from going on with the online classes. In their argument, they said that the UoN through its senate arbitrarily and without consultations and public participation made the decision to commence online learning.

“ The online program has no access to face to face consultation with the lecturers, has limited access to the library and access to physical-based program facilities that it is only fair that the fees is reduced,” the students argued. In 2019, a master's degree holder in actuarial science took the University of Nairobi (UoN) to court for employing him as a messenger since 2005.

Stephen Otieno Ogutu argued through his lawyer Titus Koceyo that the High Court should compel the university to offer him a job matching his qualifications.

And besides, his lawyer Titus Koceyo told the Employment and Labour Relations Court that Mr Ogutu had not been paid for the last nine months. The unpaid salary, he says, amounts to Sh310,806. He also sought compensation for wrongful and unlawful withholding of his pay.

The Acting C.E.O of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Hussein Marjan has said that Kenya will need Sh14 billion to conduct the BBI referendum.

Hussein who spoke on Wednesday when he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee at the National Assembly also revealed that IEBC has already listed the requirements for the plebiscite and is ready for the referendum.

"It will cost Sh14 billion though we are still fine tuning." Hussein said.

The electoral body considered the 19.6 million voters which has increased given the continuous voter listing exercise.

This comes after IEBC unveiled its own reforms, days after the Building Bridges Initiative report recommended its overhaul before the country gets to 2022 polls.

The same report will also see the country's executive expanded and wage bill ballooned. BBI is proposing the creation of a Prime Minister's office and two deputies.

If the BBI report is adopted through the Sh14 billion shilling referendum , the senate will be expanded to 94 members and National parliament to 360 members playing duplicated roles.

IEBC in its report to parliament wants the number of commissioners reduced from the current seven to five, including the chairperson. The IEBC also expressed opposition to BBI's proposal to allow political parties to nominate commissioners arguing that it will be a drawback on their independence. “Political parties' interests are sufficiently catered for in the vetting process since the selected commissioners are approved by the National Assembly,” the report reads in part.

The report that aims to amend the 2010 constitution was launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta at Bomas of Kenya on Monday.

The BBI report also enjoys sycophantic backing of the president's handshake partner Mzee Raila Odinga who believes that creation of more seats at the top will solve the question inclusivity.

After the launch the BBI document at the Bomas of Kenya on Monday, the next step is to redraft it into a BBI Bill, and that will come easy for its proponents.

The product of the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM's Raila Odinga was not designed to fail like OKOA Kenya that the system crashed because it had signatures of cows and rats.

Or like the Pungumiza Mzigo that was grabbed by it's ankles and thrown out of the window.

BBI is crafted in a way that the proponents will not struggle to collect one million signatures to move to the next process.

The document is proposing the creation of Ward Funds for MCAs, which is literally 'a bribe' for the grassroots leaders to back it.

But BBI is actually unpopular for expanding the executive, parliaments and again watering down the senate and giving the government minister control over police.

The report is proposing the creation of a prime minister's office and two deputies. Positions that in the current political environment would be considered 'dynasties'.

But it gets the backing of the hungry politicians who will use it to spread propaganda and confuse the people.

The proponents are already burning to move and sell it though it is still being touted as a discussion draft.

BBI is intending make amendments to 58 Articles of the 2010 Constitution by applying Article 257.

Crafters would opt for Article 256 but it would face many hurdles given its unpopularity. Tangatanga would make it impossible to achieve the 2/3 majority win.

The report wants to amend 58 Articles of the 2010 Constitution when only 10 require a referendum including the Bill of Rights (Article 31); Functions of Parliament (Articles to 113 and 123), Independence of Judiciary (Article 172) and Devolution (Articles 177, 179, 180, 202, 203 and 207).

Article 256 would have been options to pass the amendments but the proponents fear that The option then is to use Article 257 - and amend the law through a popular initiative (referendum) where state machinery can be employed to crash any little resistance.

The only would be 'hurdle' that the handshake would face would be in passing the BBI Bill in at least 24 County Assemblies before it heads to Parliament but that is already sorted by the proposal to create Ward Funds.

MCAs will pass it for that and parliament will pass it because weak Women Representatives will pair up with popular senatorial or gubernatorial candidates to ride to the senate where they will go in pairs.

Members of parliament will also pass the Bill because almost 70 sycophants will be 'nominated' and some can be appointed as ministers.

Governors have already been instructed to lobby MCAs. Sycophants like Kakamega's Wycliffe Oparanya will not sleep on that job, he wants to be a deputy prime minister.

Thirdway Alliance's Punguza Mzigo Bill flopped after it was rejected in 24 counties.

After the entire process from IEBC, to counties and the parliament, the owners of the draft will have it 'passed' by the people.

It shall be approved by a referendum if at least 20% of the registered voters in each of at least 24 counties vote in the referendum.  It should also get the support of  a simple majority of the citizens voting in the referendum.

Up to 100 constituencies will lose more than Sh771 million in National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF ) allocation if the Parliament adopts new proposed changes in distribution formula.

The National Government Development Fund (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which has already been adopted by the house’s Select Committee on the NG-CDF.

The bill proposes that the 290 constituencies equally share 75% of the annual NG-CDF allocation and the rest will be distributed based on the number of wards per constituency.

“Using the annual allocation for 2020/21 of Sh41.7 billion the proposal resulted in a high of Sh156.8 million and the lowest at Sh124.2 million, creating a variance of Sh32.5 million. The effects of this is that 190 and 100 constituencies are better and worse off respectively” reads part of the committee report.

The proposal will see 190 constituencies gain between Sh6 million and Sh13 million while the rest will lose Sh158,155 to Sh13 million.

But all the 290 constituencies receive a flat rate of Sh137.4 million annually after the National Treasury allocated Sh41 billion to the NG-CDF in the current financial year.

The committee wants the budget ceiling for each constituency to 3/4 of the amount divided equally among all constituencies and 1/4 divided among all constituencies based on the number of wards in each constituency.

The formula is similar to that of the senate where 47 counties are allocated varying amounts based on a range of parameters such as population size, land area, health care and roads.

The NG-CDF board said the proposals will lead to a huge variance in allocation of funds to constituencies. “Scenario developed by the board and working with the 2020/21 financial year allocation results in a wide range variance of Sh113,322,255 where Turkana West and Lamu East would receive the highest and lowest at Sh220,675,608 and Sh107,453,353 respectively.

Tongaren MP Eseli Simiyu who is the man behind the amendment bill wanted to amend Section 34 the NG-CDF Act, 2015 to introduce a new budget ceiling for constituencies.

Simiyu proposed that 3/4 of the CDF cash be divided equally among all constituencies and an amount equal to a quarter be divided by the national poverty index multiplied by the constituency poverty index.

The Tongaren lawmaker claimed that the equal share as stipulated in the NG-CDF Act, 2015 is unconstitutional since constituencies vary in terms of needs and levels of poverty and many constituencies are below the poverty line. “It is worth noting that equal sharing of the fund would not close the poverty gap index,” Simiyu said.

The NG-CDF board also claimed it had been exploring a number of variables to improve the basis of sharing the constituency funds.

NG-CDF is meant to support projects under the functions of the national government in schools, education bursaries and security-related projects such as police stations and police posts.

CDF is popular with MPs who use it to initiate development projects at the constituency level to 'market' themselves to the electorate as top performers.

Counties have moved a step closer to getting the much-awaited revenue after senators voted on Tuesday to approve the bill and pave way for disbursement of cash.

The Bill will dictate how the Sh 316.5 billion allocated will be split among the 47 counties in the 2020-21 budget.

The relief comes after the disputed Bill had stalled in the House for six months following an impasse over the third basis for sharing revenue among the devolved units.

The Bill is now awaiting the approval of the National Assembly before it is sent to President Uhuru Kenyatta for signing into law.

The County Allocation of Revenue (CARA) Bill, 2020 was supported by 38 senators.

On September 15, President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted top senate leadership at the State House Nairobi before a crucial vote on the bill that was slated for the afternoon session.

Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, Majority Leader Samuel Poghisio and Minority Leader James Orengo attended the meeting but the bill still flopped for a record tenth time.

Speaker Lusaka was blamed for failing to sanction a meeting to find a common ground between two opposing camps whose arguments delayed the Bill.

Top senate leadership is currently meeting President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House ahead of this afternoon's crucial vote on the disputed revenue sharing formula.

Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, Majority Leader Samuel Poghisio and his minority counterpart Senator James Orengo are attending the meeting.

Senators will reconvene for a record tenth time on Tuesday to debate and vote on the contentious third basis for sharing revenue among 47 counties.

A heated showdown is expected in the house that remains divided even after Speaker Kenneth Lusaka postponed last week’s debate to create more time for building consensus.

On Monday a kamukunji failed to sit as had been ordered by the speaker to brief the senators on the position of the House leadership on to strike a deal on the formula before today's vote.

The committee had presented two conflicting reports to the leadership led by Majority leader Samuel Poghisio  and Minority leader James Orengo.

The panel recommended to the leaders to consult President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga in efforts to build more consensus and strike a deal. Team One Kenya senators [p/courtesy] Lusaka has been criticised for failing to sanction a meeting as the two opposing camps refused to back down as they dared each other of a showdown in today's sittings.Senators are divided deep in the middle. The proposal by ‘Team Kenya’, a clout of averagely young senators led by Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja provides for an eight-parameter formula, with the biggest weight placed on basis share (20%), health (18%) a population (18%) and Agriculture (10 per cent). The proposal does away with fiscal prudence and fiscal efforts as parameters for sharing revenue as it recommends that Sh273 billion of the Sh316.5 billion allocated to the devolved units in the budget be shared equally.

The remaining Sh53.5 billion be subjected to the parameters. It projects that in 2021-22, the Treasury would allocate the counties Sh325 billion, Sh331 billion in 2022-23 and Sh341 billion the next financial year.

The second proposal has received the backing of ‘One-man, One-shilling’ proponents provides for 10 parameters.

The proposal gives health 20% and basic share 20%, population 16% and Agriculture 12% but will see 16 counties lose more than Sh15 billion.

'Team Kenya' has vowed to reject the second proposal, saying it cannot support a formula that takes away money from other counties.

Mombasa Senator Mohammed Faki has distanced himself from the Kemsa theft where billions meant to combat Covid-19 were lost.

Faki is among the seven senators said to have been awarded irregular tenders by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority.

Speaking in Mombasa before flying to Nairobi for Senate Covid-19 Ad Hoc and Senate Health Committee over Kemsa theft, Faki claimed he is being targeted by the very thieves the senate is probing.

“If somebody has any evidence that I received a tender, let them bring it out. We are being targeted because we are members of the Senate Covid-19 Ad Hoc Committee and we are the people who are investigating the Kemsa issues,” Faki said.

The low lying senator also said that President Uhuru Kenyatta's statement on Kemsa theft would have come earlier as he called on the DCI and the EACC to speed up their investigations and uncover the truth.

Faki further condemned the police for applying excessive force against protestors for raising their voices against the theft of the Covid-19 funds.

Police arrested and brutalized six activists in Mombasa on Tuesday for protesting against the theft of funds donated to Kenya the international community.

The six activists including Muhuri's rapid response officer Francis Auma, were charged with gathering, failing to maintain physical distance and failure to wear face mask.

They were released by Mombasa senior resident magistrate R Amwayi after paying a Sh20,000 cash bail each and will appear for mentioning on September 8

Faki who is a professional lawyer also added that the current constitutional dispensation allows people to picket or demonstrate.

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National Assembly Minority Leader John Mbadi has called on Mps to put their weight behind their colleagues in the senate who are being arrested.

Mbadi said they should condemn the arrests because the same thing might equally happen to them.

“When we see senators being harassed and arbitrarily arrested, we should not keep quiet as it could also happen to us. We must condemn such acts regardless of our political persuasions,” said Mbadi. The Suba South lawmaker was speaking during the Third Leadership Retreat of House Leadership held at Ole Sereni hotel on Tuesday. His remarks were made in reference to last week's arrest of senators Cleophas Malala (Kakamega), Christopher Lang’at (Bomet) and Steve Leleg’we of Samburu.

They were arrested on August 17 and released later,pushing the  Senate Special Sitting to debate on the Third Basis Revenue Formula to be adjourned. Mbadi said that there have been cases where MPs have been targets of harassment by other forces outside the parliament to gag their voice on the floor. “It is paramount for MPs to stand together and condemn such acts in the spirit of the Doctrine of Exclusive Cognisance.” The event was also attended by the Speaker of National Assembly Justin Muturi , Majority leader Amos Kimunya and the House Committee Chairs. The meeting will assess the success so far of transacting House business and consider avenues for continuity of House business, both in plenary and in Committees during the current covid-19 pandemic. Mbadi, however, accused the senators of missing the opportunity to put the country first in approaching a suitable formula. The debate has hit a snag nine times.

Detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission raided Kirinyaga Governor Ann Waiguru’s offices and Nairobi homes on Thursday.

EACC detectives who raided the embattled governor's homes had a search warrant to look for documents linking Waiguru to abuse of office among other charges.

It comes just one month after she survived an impeachment plot by MCAs after she was saved by the senate.

Waiguru pleaded with the senate committee to dismiss the MCAs’ impeachment case against her claiming it was not important and full of innuendos. She also sought the help of the ODM Chief Raila Odinga to survive the onslaught. The Senate concluded that there was a well-orchestrated and complex web of corruption in the tendering process at the county government of Kirinyaga, headed by Waiguru. EACC now wants to access and scrutinise all the documents relating to the controversial procurement and money swindling going on in Kirinyaga county.

MCAs claimed that Waiguru received irregular payments as travel allowances amounting to Sh10.6 million yet she did not travel.

The governor is also accused of presiding over a corrupt and joint criminal enterprise where only her close associates preside over the evaluation and award of tenders. Lucrative tenders are also won by people close to her. Governor Ann Waiguru's home. [p/courtesy] On June 10, EACC Central Regional Manager Charles Rasungu revealed that cases leveled against the Governor includes involvement in a number of tenders.

Documents cited in the impeachment motion also claimed that Waiguru was  influencing tender processes in favour of Velocity Partners Limited.

The sleuths are also probing some 38 officers from Kirinyaga County Government who have been summoned to record statements.

Governor Waiguru spent over nine hours at the EACC offices being interrogated over claims that she she siphoned Ksh.6 million from the public coffers.

Her relationship with the County Assembly has deteriorated as it was witnessed during the hearings by the senate devolution and intergovernmental committee.

The MCAs who appeared before the Moses Kajwang led committee expressed lack of confidence in Waiguru’s style of leadership.

Deputy President William Ruto has hit out at the DCI detectives for bullying some senators over their stand on the disputed revenue formula.

DCI detectives made dramatic arrests of three senators leading to a political storm in the floor of the Senate where some senators accused the executive of trying to circumvent the will of the people exercising their mandate through leaders they elected.

On Monday, senators blamed state functionaries for being behind the arrests of their colleagues who hold divergent views on the disputed revenue formula.

Contingents of DCI detectives pitched camp at the home of Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala in Kitengela where he was later arrested and driven to Kakamega to face charges of 'flouting covid-19 rules'.

DP Ruto on Tuesday posted on twitter that "The abuse of police and criminal justice to bully citizens, threaten and intimidate leaders and now blackmail senate is wrong.The bipartisan Senate Committee to build win-win consensus is great wisdom and leadership. The abuse of police is wrong..very wrong. It's not the reason millions woke up early to vote for us," he tweeted.

The country's second in command posted minutes after the Opposition Chief Raila Odinga to newsrooms over the same. Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala after he was released in Kakamega. [p/courtesy] Odinga accused the state of pulling back the gains made by the new constitution on the path to democratization by referring to the state as the warlords. "The warlords need to stop beating the drums of war or financing the divisive rhetoric and our legislators involved in this matter need to search their souls in all honesty and put public good above private gain," Odinga said. Senators linked the arrest of their colleagues on their stand on the contentious formula for sharing revenue allocation for the 47 counties that has hit a snag, for a record nine times.

The arrests that remain under unclears circumstances forced the senate to suspend their special sittings on Monday morning.

All the three senators who have since been released are aligned to a group dubbed 'Team Kenya' which brings together marginalised and less populated countries who claim to be standing with the ordinary Kenyans.

Public Accounts and Investment committee in the senate has implored the Ethic and Anti-Corruption Commission ( EACC) to fast track investigations into the sh51 million fraud in Kilifi and recover the cash.

The oversight committee led by Senator Sam Ongeri appealed to the EACC following the lamentations by the county government that the watch dog body was hampering the recovery of the money.

While appearing before the committee on Wednesday, Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi told the panel that the commission has stalled the recovery of the cash after it obtained a court order that stopped negotiations. Prof. Sam Ongeri, County Public Accounts and Investment Committee chair at the senate [p/c] "The commission went to court and obtained a stay order. All the civil cases that we had filed in court to recover the money were all affected and now there is nothing we can do,” said Kingi. Kingi said that all the firms that reportedly manipulated the financial system and wired county funds into their private accounts had agreed to refund the cash in a settlement that was reached outside the court.

EACC however, moved in to probe the fraud that involved over Sh59 million. Kingi also revealed that some Sh8.3 million had been recovered by the time the restraining orders were issued otherwise the entire amount would have been recovered.

Rogue businessmen and county officials gained access to the county’s bank accounts in 2016 after they manipulated the electronic money transfer system – Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS).

They allegedly stole passwords belonging to 10 officials, accessed the system and transferred the cash from the county’s account at the Central Bank of Kenya.

The fraud was flagged by Kilifi county's    internal auditor.

Eve Wachuka, the EACC liaison officer who is attached to the committee said the commission sought a stay order to freeze any negotiations and investigate the matter and bring the perpetrators to book.

Kingi told the commission that the admission by the firms and recovery of the cash would have strengthen the ongoing investigations only if the order would have been lifted.

Committee chairman Sam Ongeri directed the clerk to write to the commission to fasten the investigations and enable the county government recover the money.

In the 2017-18 audit report on the financial expenditure of the Kilifi county executive, Audit General flagged the loss but had different figures of the actual amount lost.

“The schedule availed for audit review revealed that the total amount of cash lost before recovery was Sh51.5 million, out of which an amount of Sh8.3 million was recovered leaving unaccountable loss of Sh43.2 million,” reads part of the report.

Governor Kingi maintains that the amount lost was Sh59 million and already Sh8.3 million has been recovered.

Kingi was unable to explain how irregular transfer of Sh105.3 out of Sh163.3 million from the retention bank account to the payment of salaries was made.

His explanation that the funds were channeled to pay staff salaries due to delays of exchequer by the finance ministry was not satisfactory.