Economist David Ndii, on Thursday, told off President Uhuru Kenyatta for dismissing a request by governors to the national government to increase money allocated to counties.
He was responding to a tweet by Daily Nation that communicated the president’s message.
“President Kenyatta dismisses call by senators and governors for more revenue allocation to counties; says the government has no money,” read the tweet by Daily Nation.
In a reply, Ndii posted “Kaī ndūrīka īno īciragia mbeca ciothe nī cia Ngīna? The local daily translated to mean “Does this spoilt brat think that all the money belongs to his mother?”
The remarks sparked reactions from Kenyans who wondered why he had resorted to using abusive language to the president.
“I wonder what makes you stand out. Is it your level of ideology or your heightened level of disrespect? You can disagree with some maturity. Abusive language towards someone and mentioning their mother is despicable,” commented Veronica Wamuyu.
Lydia Kinyajui wondered why Ndii had to involve Uhuru’s mother in the insult.
While Robert Ndegwa didn’t agree with President Kenyatta’s stand, he corrected Ndii for disrespectful words.
“Dr Ndii, we know you don’t exactly admire Uhuru but a little politeness won’t harm you one tiddly bit,” he tweeted.
“Do what you want, call him names, tell how bad a person he is or whatever, just don’t involve one’s parents. As for you am disappointed for you no better than those politicians with a running mouth or is it for publicity?” wondered James Wanyoike.
Anonymous says
Go have sex with Ohuro Kenyatta you kikuyu defenders of dynasty thugs Go perish all in hellfire forever .
Anonymous says
well said.
the vampire brat grow up on loots and the IQ is loots all through. The faculty is full of weed and alcohol.
where on earth did this brat come from!
Anonymous says
mps plus jubilee are enemies of devolution
Anonymous says
maybe she runs the country(fact)
Anonymous says
Ndii io ni ukweli.
choice has consequences is real….
why did we elect someone to run nation yet have to be told everyday to wear underwear since is not normal…..mentally or under influence…
Anonymous says
Ndii……ata sisi tunauliza ……can the brat tell us why Kenyans have to bribe to get passports……i used old passport to travel since there was no sms from immigration three weeks after applying….though heard one must part with something to be processed/issued…
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Arrest Immigration cartels demanding bribes for passports
Officials have created a delay in order to demand bribes to release passports
In Summary
• Kenyans have a constitutional right to passports.
• Investigative agencies should probe how high the corruption has crept in the department to stop it before it gets worse.
Interior CS Fred Matiang’i, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and DCI should move to the Immigration department and stop the massive corruption that has crept back.
Thousands of passports are being withheld and one has to bribe officials with at least Sh6,000 to get their passport released on time. The officials have created gridlock delay in order to steal money from Kenyans who have a constitutional right to the document.
The government should not watch as immigration cartels steal from poor Kenyans. Such small cases in state offices and blow up to become mega graft scandals that rock the whole country.
The DPP has trained his guns on big fish but he should not spare the small ones as they still deprive Wanjiku their right to fair service.
Anonymous says
hapo sawa Ndii…..
Kenya is run by ndurika…….tutanjuta at the end everything will have collapsed….farming ,security,mass joblessness,mass poverty ,mass ufisadi,….shoddy projects,mass deprssion,mass deaths due to poor health services……….hapa kenya ni sodom na ngomora…
Anonymous says
Kenya run by ndurika that have run down everything..
look inflated power bills.
look endless traffic jams.
look nbo cbd ni soko…
look ufisadi is hyper……
look new 1000ksh is missing and ndurika thinks old will be worthless come 01st October 2019…
look harambee stars could no go past grup stage….
look kenya has become chinese traders paradiso..
Anonymous says
Ndii is right…..after all he listens to his nyina not kenyans who elected him….
mlevi mother is major single shareholder of Kenya power………….rest of monies is hidden..
Anonymous says
heard ndurika did not have house b4 becoming prezo…was living in mum house…..
Anonymous says
can ndurika tell us how all monies for first lady rn beyond zero was used…..and how many benefited………..
Anonymous says
nginna is mother of ufisadi in kenya,,,,,,shud not be celebrated …..she has lived to witness suffering of Kenyans while is family is filthy rich………is this Independence Kenyans fought,died,suffered,maimed for…………ndurika njibu this
Anonymous says
ndurika menace continues….
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NYS overshoots its Sh1.39 billion budget
Dominic Omondi 28th Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT +0300
President Uhuru Kenyatta during the last year’s Passing-Out-Parade of The National Youth Service recruits at the NYS Training College in Gilgil, Nakuru County. [Joseph Kipsang’, Standard]
The National Youth Service spent more than it had budgeted for on development, once again raising eyebrows on the financial discipline of the State Department.
Latest data from the National Treasury shows that the State Department of Public Service and Youth received and spent Sh1.5 billion against a revised budget of Sh1.39 billion during 2018/19 financial year.
Before the start of the just concluded budget cycle, Treasury had allocated Sh25.8 billion to the National Youth Service before law-makers slashed it by a third.
Ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) did not spend Sh40 billion of their development kitty, with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission and the Teachers Service Commission failing to spend even a cent of their development money.
Anonymous says
ndurika iko wapi…….same person fills cabinet with somalis that are ding nothing at all….
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is expected to deliver its verdict on the Kenya-Somalia maritime border dispute by September 19, following a public hearing a week earlier.
But whether that will close the chapter on an issue that has recently put the two neighbouring states at loggerheads is uncertain, especially since there are political connotations to it.
Gathering in Nairobi this week, legal and foreign policy experts discussing maritime boundary conflicts on the continent said legal processes often do not end conflicts, suggesting Nairobi and Mogadishu will have to eventually discuss the issue after all.
SEA BOUNDARY
Somalia sued Kenya at the ICJ in August 2014, seeking to redraw the sea boundary to a diagonal flow, an extension of the land border south of Kiunga, and objecting to Kenya’s current view where the border flows directly eastwards.
If the ICJ agrees with Mogadishu’s view, the change in the boundary could affect about 100,000 square kilometres of sea, limiting Kenya’s access to the waters said to contain valuable hydrocarbons.
POLITICAL MOOD
At the conference organised by the Horn International Institute for Strategic studies, a policy research think-tank in Nairobi, specialists poring over recent cases of maritime disputes observed that courts in the past have failed to read the political mood and other factors fuelling the conflicts.
“These are terrible ways to do business. It is a win-lose situation,” observed Makumi Mwagiru, Adjunct Professor of Diplomacy at Strathmore University.
In a paper presented to the audience on Thursday, Prof Mwagiru analysed the difference between disputes and conflicts, saying what is happening between Somalia and Kenya is a conflict that cannot be solved by the courts.
DISPUTE VS CONFLICT
In diplomatic parlance, a dispute is often a short-term disagreement on, say, Kenya’s cows crossing into Somalia to graze without permission or Kenya’s sweets confiscated in Tanzania for not showing certificates of origin.
A conflict on the other hand may be long-term, and could contain several non-negotiable issues such as whether to change the flow of the boundary or sharing resources in a contested area.
“The law settles disputes. It does not resolve conflicts,” he told the audience.
Because disputes follow a fixated process, such as orders of the court and lack of appeal in the case of ICJ, it means that a contest like that of Somalia and Kenya may be decided regardless of the forces behind it.
OTHER CASES
In fact, previous cases like that of Nigeria and Cameroon, courts decided based on previous negotiations between the two countries.
Bashir Shettima, a former Director of the National Boundary Commission of Nigeria said the ICJ delimited the boundary by following most of what the two countries’ officials had reached, but not ratified.
“It took a lot of time, mostly because the trust between the two countries was at its lowest,” Mr Shettima said.
Yet, for Somalia and Kenya, there are accusations of third parties such as oil companies and major world powers fuelling the conflict.
In addition, issues of territorial integrity and resources available in the contested areas carry with them deep political connotations that could kill careers.
FARMAAJO
“This case is giving President (Mohammed) Farmaajo the wind he needs to push the ship of re-election,” argued Prof Peter Kagwanja, CEO of the Africa Policy Institute, referring to Somalia’s upcoming elections in 2021.
“If he chooses otherwise, he is dead and buried (politically). So he has to appease the political stakeholders by ensuring it goes on.”
So what is at stake?
The Somali government has insisted on the court decision, in spite of overtures from Nairobi to have it delayed, for talks.
Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma told journalists earlier in the year that “not even an inch” of Kenyan territory will be ceded and vehemently protested oil stock marketing of Somalia in the contested area.
UNCERTAIN
In legal battles, the outcome may be uncertain, said Mr Justice Srem Sai, a lecturer of law at the Ghana Institute of Public Management and Administration.
“(International) law in most case is not predictable. So we need to use all the (alternative) means to resolve conflicts. There should be more than judicial ways to resolve these issues.”
In the contest lies issues of national interest, observed Dr Kemoli Sagala, a consultant on security, governance and strategy.
And the judges at the international court, he said, do not have a history of giving verdicts that offend their appointing states.
Anonymous says
ndurika run nations……impunity and ufisadi………
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KFS board chairman on the spot over café in middle of Karura
SUNDAY JULY 28 2019
The River Café inside Karura forest on July 26, 2019. National Assembly Environment committee has raised questions over the legality of the cafe’s operations. JEFF ANGOTE | NMG
In Summary
The café is being run by Mrs Sophie Kinyua, who is KFS board chairman Peter Kinyua’s wife.
Questions have been raised over the legality of the operations of River Café which is located in the middle of Karura Forest in Nairobi.
Chairman of the National Assembly Environment Committee Kareke Mbiuki, who is also the Maara Member of Parliament, Saturday told the Sunday Nation that the establishment of such restaurants was responsible for the dwindling forest cover as senior government officials whimsically allocate themselves spaces in the natural resource for commercial gain.
In a classic case of conflict of interest, the café is being run by Mrs Sophie Kinyua, who is Kenya Forest Service (KFS) board chairman Peter Kinyua’s wife.
“He should not hold the KFS position in all fairness and it is unfortunate he continues to operate the restaurant,” Mr Mbiuki said.
According to the MP, they were expecting the Committee on implementation to enforce part of the report which adversely mentions Mr Kinyua, who was in June last year appointed to the board by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
He said that the House has adopted the report, which found Mr Kinyua guilty of conflict of interest and that it came as a shocker when he learnt that he had been awarded another term at the board.
“It is unfortunate that he was awarded another term in office even after we raised the concerns,” he said, adding that if found guilty Mr Kinyua should be barred from holding public office. He said that Mr Kinyua contravened section 101 of the Penal Code and Public Officer Ethics Act 2003, as well as the Mwongozo Code of Governance for State Corporations.
Conservationists have in the past raised concerns over the existence of the café saying that the area where it stands was in 2014 designated as a place where indigenous trees would be planted, which led to the felling of trees and space cleared for the project.
Chief conservator of forests Mr Julius Kamau said that there were procedures that one should follow before setting up a restaurant inside a forest. However, when asked about River Café, he declined to comment on the matter.
On his side, Mr Kinyua referred the Sunday Nation to lobby group Friends of Karura over the matter.
“I can’t comment on that but it is okay if you contact the Friends of Karura they are in a better position to say something about the café,” he said.
While appearing at the National Assembly’s environment committee last year, Mr Kinyua admitted that the joint was being run by his spouse. He said that she had run it for close to two years before he became chairperson of the board.
This prompted members of the committee, including Hilary Kosgei (Kipkelion West), Charity Chepkwony (Njoro) and Sophia Noor (Ijara) to ask the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate the matter and take action.
At the time, Mr Kinyua had accompanied Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko and Principal Secretary Charles Sunkuli to a press conference over the status of the logging ban in the country.
In March last year, a task force formed to look into the issue of forest conservation and management in the country returned a report in which it accused the KFS board of wanton destruction of the country’s forest cover.
The report revealed that the forest custodian had played a part in the destruction of precious trees in the country.
It also stated that the KFS board was unable to deal with the logging menace and had even played part in, abetted, and institutionalised corruption and abuse of office.
Anonymous says
another ndurika matiangi…..look those that are upposed to protect…kwani no training……
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GSU officer manning Wilson Airport shot dead, robbed two rifles
Cyrus Ombati 28th Jul 2019 12:20:52 GMT +0300
A police officer manning Wilson Airport in Nairobi was at the weekend shot dead as he and a colleague attended to an alleged distress call near the facility.
The constable attached to the General Service Unit (GSU) and identified as Stephene Mukangi was shot at close range and died at the scene before he was robbed his AK47 rifle.
His colleague was also robbed of his AK47 rifle and shot in the leg, but managed to escape the scene.
He told police they were manning a watchtower at the airport on Saturday when two men wearing jungle uniforms similar to those used by police approached them.
According to police, the two men asked the GSU officers to accompany them to the nearby southern bypass where their car had developed a mechanical problem.
“They told the GSU officers they needed assistance from them at the scene where their car had developed mechanical problems. They claimed to be police officers,” said an officer aware of the incident.
As the GSU officers walked to the scene from where they were, two other men in jungle uniforms joined them prompting a scuffle as they tried to grab the officer’s gun.
The other men joined the scuffle attacking the survivor. Mukangi is said to have fought hard prompting one of the men to open fire at him killing him on the spot.
The surviving officer managed to escape from the scene but after losing his rifle to the said attackers. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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Langata OCPD Gregory Mutiso led a team of officers to the scene of the incident as part of the probe into the incident.
They recovered two spent cartridges, an empty butt and two magazines with 60 bullets from the scene. The airport is usually manned by GSU personnel.
Elsewhere, a police constable was arrested for alleged extortion on bars and wine and spirit shops in Langata.
According to DCI, the suspect who is attached to the Nyayo Police Post was in the habit of going into almost all of the said outlets every Friday extorting money from the operators.
Those who failed to give him money were threatened with arrest.
Anonymous says
ndurika prezo…cheki below….no wonder ur silent….
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How KPCU became the abode of thieves, charlatans
SUNDAY JULY 28 2019
In Summary
Does the President know that some senior officials in the Agriculture ministry listen more to these cartels than to the farmers?
The government watched as KPCU continued to deliver milled beans to Coffee Board, which would not pay. Farmers went for years without pay — or with nothing.
Inside KPCU, fictitious codes were created for purposes of securing funds from the bank facility while some advances were approved without going through the Board.
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There is no farmers’ institution that has been the abode of thieves and charlatans than Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU). If in doubt, ask any coffee farmer about these mountebanks.
The last time I was at their headquarters in Nairobi, five years ago, thieves had stolen one of Africa’s biggest coffee mills, towering over three floors, cut it as scrap metal and vanished with it.
So far, nobody has been charged with that theft and nobody is following the matter — which was reported to Kamukunji Police Station.
Actually, nobody claims to have witnessed the vandalisation of the multimillion shilling mill.
That is how the coffee management still treats the coffee farmers: with contempt, disdain, and a what-can-you-do attitude.
When I heard President Uhuru Kenyatta order Trade minister Peter Munya last week to restructure KPCU, I just wondered whether the son of Jomo knows the depth of the rot in that organisation.
RESTRUCTURE PLAN
Does he know that coffee cartels are still sabotaging the Prof Joseph Kieyah coffee task force — and does he know that some senior officials in the Agriculture ministry listen more to these cartels than to the farmers?
Does he know! — or he is fed with cock-and-bull stories on the coffee sector? Whoever will be asked to restructure KPCU must have a thick skin to start with.
This is because some mandarins sold some of its properties, pushed it to receivership, purported to save it — and bought shares through the backdoor.
In essence the shareholding of KPCU has been compromised, diluted, and would equal the mess in Mboi-i-Kamiti Farmers in Kiambu. If not worse.
Minister Munya will be walking into this abyss — and I don’t envy him.
MOI ERA
The KPCU was once a solid multibillion shilling farmers’ empire until President Daniel Moi and his henchmen decided to raid its coffers.
Moi had interfered with the body early after the 1988 exit of Henry Kinyua, regarded as one of the best coffee managers to date.
Actually, to soil Mr Kinyua’s name and find an excuse to wade in, President Moi had ordered a probe into KPCU in 1990 and this report was shelved with no action.
Records show that once in 1992, the then Company Secretary Samuel Chepkonga and Managing Director J.M. Nyaga took a Sh150 million loan from Coffee Board of Kenya for the organisation “at the request of the government”, according to the minutes.
This money was not to pay farmers but was used by Kanu to finance its lobby groups during the 1992 campaigns. Such groups included Youth for Kanu 92 and Operation Moi wins. It was also used to buy defectors.
The irony is that it was the poor coffee farmers who would pay for it later. That story is known by all those who have been managers at KPCU.
ROGUE BOARD
In those days, farmers’ coffee and money would pass through Coffee Board, then a regulator and marketer, which would deduct any advance taken by KPCU, and that is how farmers would be swindled.
Actually, Coffee Board was a rogue body. And for many years, the managers there had honed carpetbagger skills by selling farmers’ coffee and withholding payments.
In turn, KPCU would borrow money from banks and loan to co-operative societies and plantation farmers, sinking deeper into debts and offering farmers’ assets as collateral.
The government watched as KPCU continued to deliver milled beans to Coffee Board, which would not pay. Farmers went for years without pay — or with nothing.
Although it was a government body, Coffee Board was never audited for many years and it operated a record 32 bank accounts in 12 banks.
If you want to know how the coffee sector collapsed, look at the fortunes of all those who worked at KPCU and Coffee Board.
DEBTORS
The insiders had also hatched a scheme where KPCU could comfortably borrow close to Sh1 billion from their then-banker, Kenya Commercial Bank, to ostensibly pay farmers “in advance” — but which became a conduit to steal money.
Actually, this became the main avenue in which wayward directors and managers could easily lend cash to politically-correct individuals, and cronies — as long as they had some coffee account at KPCU.
That is how most of them got millions of shillings from KPCU and which they never repaid. The advances had no collateral and only added to KPCU’s burden.
The list of KPCU debtors once read like a political rollcall, and whether these debts will ever be repaid is another story.
Inside KPCU, fictitious codes were created for purposes of securing funds from the bank facility while some advances were approved without going through the Board.
As a result, KPCU’s non-performing loans spiralled out of control as both the regulator and marketer, Coffee Board and the miller, sandwiched the farmer and his coffee beans.
If anyone wants to find out what happened, the answers lie in the story of Abraham Mwangi and Pithon Mwangi and their cronies in both KPCU and Coffee Board.
These were the wealthy coffee barons who masterminded the collapse of KPCU, sold some of its assets to politically-correct individuals and became millionaires within a short period.
KPCU’S DEFICIT
Abraham Mwangi was a coffee farmer – a big planter. His company, Raki Investments, with a godown at Nairobi’s Gikomba, was a big roaster and exporter.
Besides being KPCU’s chairman, Mwangi was also the director of Coffee Board, the market regulator.
He was also the chairman of Coffee Research Foundation and sat in various coffee committees.
At the heart of this mischief at Coffee Board was the powerful Nandi District Kanu chairman Ezekiel Barngetuny, who had been brought into the scheme to help these barons access Moi’s State House.
By November 1997, a report prepared by Gill and Johnson observed that the organisation had an accumulated deficit of Sh708 million and its liabilities exceeded assets by Sh181 million.
What that meant was that KPCU was a walking dead agency! Its survival now depended on its financiers and Coffee Board – which was deliberately not remitting KPCU’s money.
What was not known was that even Coffee Board could not get the Sh600 million that was due to the farmers. Its coffers had been milked dry too.
KCB COMPLICIT
This was the period when Kenya Commercial Bank, too, was led by rogue managers who had taken huge unsecured and unserviced loans.
They could not ask KPCU to pay up — after all, the bank was the conduit of illegal schemes including payments of Sh5.3 billion to Kamlesh Pattni’s Goldenberg International.
In essence nobody cared. That was the kind of bank that KPCU was dealing with. Three rogue institutions, KCB, KPCU and Coffee Board of Kenya, had met.
It was only after a new KCB management was appointed by Simeon Nyachae when he became Finance minister that KPCU came under pressure to pay its debts.
Cornered, or perhaps worried that the eating could come to an end, KPCU board members then did the unthinkable.
They approached a Mauritius company, Associated Consultants, and incorporated Kahawa Credit International Limited.
This new company was registered in Port Louis, certificate no. C31043 on 22 April 1999, and then in Nairobi as a foreign company (Reg. No. F.41/99).
The aim of the company, with a registered office at 5th Floor of KPCU’s Wakulima House, was to buy the KPCU debts under a repurchase agreement, according to May 2000 minutes.
FAKE AUDITS
Although this scheme fell apart later, it helped the KPCU board members get another grace period — with farmers thinking that a solution was on the way.
Every time farmers would raise a matter, the Board had perfected the art of forming probe committees which were populated with cronies.
Audited accounts would be falsified and by the time Mwai Kibaki took presidency, nobody seemed to know the financial status of KPCU — its assets and liabilities.
The appointment of Kipruto arap Kirwa as Kibaki’s Agriculture minister had brought hopes that the previous mistakes would be undone.
But then, some of the powerful Kibaki allies were part of the coffee mess, too.
Relatives of KPCU managers and board members had become the main suppliers of goods at inflated prices.
An attempt by then-Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the vice collapsed. Word was that they had been compromised.
FINANCIAL STRAITS
The Board, in 2001, noted that KPCU was in a “serious financial position” and had only three options: “serious and aggressive debt collection; restructuring of banking facilities; and sale of idle assets.”
Although it had been part of KPCU’s problems, KCB in March 2001 put KPCU “on notice” in a letter signed by Daniel Iriga, then the Relationship Manager, with a threat: “Unless arrears are cleared … we will call up the entire debt and cancel the limits of your overdraft accounts.”
That year, according to records, KPCU reported a loss of Sh484 million and hired audit firm Deloitte Consulting to carry out forensic audit.
The KPCU allowed them to access all the company documents. But before they could hand over the report, and after receiving payment of Sh2.5 million, they returned as receiver managers hired by Kenya Commercial Bank.
The KPCU directors complained to the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAK) over what they called a “betrayal”.
FORENSIC PROBE
The receivers started selling KPCU assets and even advertised Wakulima House for sale through an auction. By this time, the Nairobi mill had been stolen.
More damage had been done to KPCU and at the moment, nobody seems to know the actual state of its assets and liabilities.
President Kenyatta’s bid to restructure KPCU should start with forensic investigations: a look at all the assets that the body had and how they changed hands; a scrutiny of the shareholders register and when some of the current barons bought shares
And finally, he must get rid of the international and local coffee cartels and their henchmen at the Ministry of Agriculture. Otherwise, we can forget the beans.
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