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A senior assistant accountant general at the Interior Ministry has been ordered to forfeit Sh113.3 million to government. High Court Judge John Onyiego in a judgment delivered on December 3 agreed with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission that Thomas Gitau had unexplained assets and directed same be forfeited. Of the Sh116.5 million assets, Sh48.9 million is in cash in his bank accounts whereas Sh67.6 million is in properties. According to court documents, EACC started investigating Gitau upon suspicion of huge cash deposits at his bank accounts and those of his wife. The commission established between January, 1, 2016 and August, 31, 2017 that Gitau had assets worth Sh 111 million against his known income of Sh 1,893,414.35. Consequently, the commission instituted a civil suit in the High Court. Under Section 55 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, the commission has the mandate to undertake investigations into allegations of corruption or economic crimes and, in app...

Mudavadi reveals how PNU "stole" Raila's election in 2007 and how they were forced to share power with Kibaki. ODM's Pentagon decided to exert political pressure that would force Kibaki to relinquish power Radicals within the Orange Democratic Movement party had insisted that their leader Raila Odinga be sworn in after the disputed 2007 presidential elections. In his new autobiography, Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi reveals that there was immense pressure from their supporters for a parallel swearing in. “We were told that a judge of the High Court and a section of the military were willing and ready to come to Uhuru Park to swear in Raila Odinga as president. I never got to know the name of this judge or who in the military had been contacted,” Mudavadi reveals in Soaring Above the Storms of Passion. Mudavadi, who was Raila's running mate during the elections, further divulges that he was among those opposed to the swearing in because Kenya wou...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has dismissed Building Bridges Initiative critics and assured his Mount Kenya base that he was on top of things. Mr Kenyatta added that his focus was on ensuring post-election violence never occurs again in the country. POLITICAL NOISE “Even before we released the report, they were all over telling us about its contents. Now it has been released and they have taken us along a new direction,” the President said in Mang’u village in Gatundu North Constituency, where he launched the expansion of St Francis Mang’u Health Centre that the Japanese Embassy built. He went on: “Those are directionless people... mwananchi wants to know how their lives will be. It doesn’t matter who the leader is; it can be whomsoever. Whether it’s Waweru, Njuguna, Haji or Onyango, that person won’t change your life for the worse. I’m talking when a bit angry because every morning, one is bombarded by political noise,” he said. The President told politicians to stop taking his silence f...

Developers of an upcoming city, owned by the Kenyatta family in Ruiru, are on the spot after their dam caused rain water to flood homes in surrounding areas in the small hours of Thursday. Northlands City, a mega urban development comprising of residential, industrial and commercial units, is being set up using water from Uhuru Dam, which is also called Sukari Dam. There has been a simmering conflict between residents and owners of the project, conceived in 2016 and planned by Triad Architects, since 2015. This was after the height of the wall at the dam’s spillway was raised to accommodate more water. According to residents, the raised wall was put their lives at risk and exposed their property to damage by floods. “In our various meetings with you, we expressed our reservations on the ‘containment wall’ blocking storm water from our estate into the natural course, which is within your property,” the residents said in a letter dated September 17, 2015. The protest letter was address...