The directors of an Italian firm have recorded a statement with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in connection with the allegations of three Cabinet secretaries for receiving kickbacks from contractors engaged in State projects.
According to sources, the three were in a group of Government officials that flew to Rome, Italy, to receive kickbacks from a contractor who was controversially paid Sh7 billion.
“Some of you contractors pay tickets for Government officers to travel to European capitals to receive the kickbacks and we know,” said one of the top officials, according to a person present at the meeting.
A source explained that the official cited a case where a State agency paid a contractor Sh7 billion in advance, yet the process of acquiring the land for the project had not been concluded.
Contractors and senior State officials have come under investigation over a growing trend where hefty bribes are paid out, mostly in foreign capitals, to influence peddlers.
Powerful individuals, including members of the Cabinet, principal secretaries and parastatal chiefs mainly handling key infrastructural projects, are said be involved.
Over 500 contractors attended the meeting in which the Government warned foreign contractors that they would be jailed or deported for bribing public officers.
The money involved is normally from projects funded by international donors and financiers, where crooked public officers facilitate advance payments (mobilisation fee) that are then wired back home.
Anonymous says
IT IS INCONCEIVABLE THAT AN APPOINTED CABINET SECRETARY WOULD HAVE THE SOLE POWER DOLE OUT ANY KENYAN RESOURCE THAT FALL UNDER HIS/HER JURISDICTION TO ANY FOREIGN ENTITY WITHOUT OBTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE BOSS WHO APPOINTED HIM/HER TO THAT POST!!!
THE KENYA RULING ELITES WERE HANDED OVER THE BRIBE-TAKING SYSTEM BY THE COLONIAL MASTERS ON 12/12/1963! THIS DRACONIAN SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO KEEP THE 99.9% OF KENYAN CITIZENS POOR AND SUBJUGATED. THE ONLY PROFITEERS ARE THE ARMED ELITES AND THE FORMER COLONIAL RULERS THEY WORK TIRELESSLY TO PLEASE!
YOU MUST BLAME THE THOSE WHO DOLE OUT BRIBES AND THOSE WHO HAVE WRAPPED THEMSELVES AROUND BRIBE TAKING SYSTEM AS THEIR TRADEMARK!!
IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO! THE BRIBE GIVERS AND TAKERS WORK IN A VERY, VERY CLOSELY GUARDED TANGO RELATIONSHIP! THEY MANIPULATE AND DESTROY THE POWERLESS WHO ARE KEPT OUT OF THE LOOP: