Seth Andrew, Bridge International

Seth Andrew, the founder of the Charter School, Bridge International Academies has been charged with theft of Sh21.6 million by a court in the Southern District of New York, charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a bank.

Andrew was taken into custody Tuesday in Manhattan and released on a personal recognizance bond after an initial appearance, SDNY spokesman James Margolin said. Andrew's attorney, Michael Yaeger, said Andrew will plead not guilty and is reviewing the government's case. No plea was entered Tuesday, Margolin said.

He is a former White House senior adviser for the Obama administration who helped found a network of charter schools.

Though he left the organization in 2013 for a job at the US Department of Education, and later became a senior adviser in the Office of Educational Technology at the White House. However, he continued to be paid by the charter school network.

"Seth left our network in 2013. His alleged actions are a profound betrayal of all that we stand for and to you and your children, the scholars and families that we serve. To be clear, at no time did the alleged crimes pose any risk to our students, staff or operations in any way," CEO Natasha Trivers said in an email.

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Trivers revealed that Democracy Prep alerted the appropriate authorities once it learned about the unauthorized withdrawals by Seth Andrew.

Trivers also added that the activity did not have "any adverse effect on our scholars or the functioning of our schools" and that the school system has since instituted financial safeguards, which lead to the discovery of the withdrawals.

According to a criminal complaint filed on April 20 and unsealed Tuesday, prosecutors allege that between March and August of 2019, Andrew used his former association with the network of schools to allegedly steal $218,005 of the school's reserve money by using his email address affiliated with the schools to email a bank employee and convince them that he was still associated with the school, which he was not.

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The complaint states that after allegedly stealing the school network's money, Andrew "attempted to conceal the source of the stolen funds ... and make it appear that the stolen funds belonged to a non-profit organization that Andrew founded, and currently appears to control."

Prosecutors allege Andrew misrepresented that he "lawfully controlled" the money in order to obtain a discounted mortgage interest rate to buy an apartment in Manhattan.

Yasin Yakut, Principal Light Academy Mombasa Branch. Ramazan Akkilic is the Principal of the school Nairobi branch. As you can see, they are all Turks.

Cnyakundi.com has highlighted the mistreatment and oppressive work conditions at Light Academy located in Nairobi, Mombasa and Malindi before but nothing has changed.

The school that was started by an exiled Turkish coup plotter and Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen behaves like it exists in an island where Africans or rather Kenyans are still believed to be primitive, can’t lead types.

Kenyan staff are treated worse than South Africans during apartheid.

Sources intimate that there’s an unwritten rule that only non-africans can become principals at the school. And in case a deputy is Kenyan, they hold that position without any powers to act.

“At Light Academy Karen, an African cannot and can never be a principal or a deputy. Sometimes they can prop an African as a deputy but with no powers,” said the source.

Furthermore, Kenyans are not allowed to become class teachers despite complaints by some students and parents that the Turkish imports don’t know how to teach.

The complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

It all points to the Turks low thinking about Kenyans. The lack of trust in Kenyan leadership. This is partially supported by the Immigrations department and the ministry of education.

It is truly a ‘no land for natives’ as the govt continues its elitist mentality against locals. Kenya’s historical preoccupation with being an attractive destination for foreigners and their money has come at the expense of catering to the needs and aspirations of its citizens. Dr Wandia Njoya, lecturer Light Group of School which has branches in Uganda and Tanzania treat workers in those two countries better than Kenya.

Kenya’s immigration department is full of crooks who allow foreigners to work on Kenya for more than the stipulated 2 years period and in jobs that Kenyans can easily undertake. It is illegal and against the law.

The crooks only pocket work permit money and don’t care about the constitution.

According to the law, a foreigner can come to work in Kenya in a skill that Kenyans don’t possess. In the process of working, the foreigner trains Kenyans for two years and then leaves for good.

But at Light Academy, even small jobs such as storekeeping are given to Turks. A clear indication of how the foreigners despise local communities.

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Somalia has since shut down the schools. Pakistan has handed over the schools to a Turkish government organisation. Nigeria and the US are yet to make a decision while Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have rebuffed the requests.

“Turkish officials have requested Kenya to shut down the Gulenist schools on a number of occasions before the attempted coup but the Kenyan government has not acted on them,” the source told Reuters.

The schools, based in Nairobi, Mombasa and Malindi, were set up from 1998 by the Omeriye Foundation and offer the Kenyan 8-4-4 curriculum as well as the British curriculum.

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