Jubilee Party Secretary-General Raphael Tuju and former Attorney General Githu Muigai are among 70 people who have been questioned over the loss of Ksh2 billion during the construction of the Lake Basin Mall in Kisumu.
The Standard indicates that the detectives questioning the suspects in the scandal wanted to find out how the cost of construction ballooned from the initial Ksh2.6 billion to Ksh4.6 billion.
The investigators also wanted to know how and why the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) took a Ksh2.5 billion loan from a local bank using government land as collateral without the consent of the Attorney General.
The title deed of the multi-billion mall land is allegedly in the hands of the Chinese developers.
“The file is with the legal department. The legal team is perusing the list and will guide on its final cut.
“The number might increase or it will be reduced based on the team’s observations and recommendation,” disclosed an EACC official.
It is alleged that the list is constituted of 26 current and former LBDA managers, three lawyers and a number of politicians.
Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission [EACC] claims the taxpayers’ money was lost due to inflated costs of construction.
DPP Noordin Haji is expected to take up to the file from EACC and begin the prosecution of those found to have had a hand in the scandal.
Sources indicate that the list of suspects cuts across the political divide with the Kisumu County Speaker also reportedly questioned.
The Mall was constructed through a partnership between Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) and Eda Man properties, a Chinese developer on a 20:80 basis.
Anonymous says
THIS IS A CLEVER METHOD OF TRANSFERRING THE KENYAN LAND RESOURCES INTO THE HANDS OF FOREIGNERS!
Kisumu is the area with minimal employment activities! Sugarcane farmers HAVE BEEN driven out of farming due to corruption by the Luo elites who depend of cartels for bribes !!
The mall will be stuffed with foreign exports or goods brought in by elites from other counties of Kenya WITH FAVORABLE FARM PRODUCE. This will make the residents of Kisumu perpetual consumers of goods brought in from Uganda, Tanzania and plastic goods from China!
Auctioning OF LAKE VICTORIA AND LAND AROUND IT TO FOREIGN INTERESTS IS NOW FULL BLOWN!
If the Luos think that what is happening in South Sudan, Gambela region and River Omo region of Ethiopia AND the Democratic Republic of Congo cannot happen to them, they have been sedated into deep slumbers!
By the time they wake up, thousands of them will be dead; with the survivors lingering in filthy refugee camps somewhere being fed by WORLD FOOD PROGRAMS !
THE ELITE THIEVES HIDING BEHIND POLITICAL PARTIES, like Jubilee Party Secretary-General Raphael Tuju, DEPEND ON BRIBES OFFERED BY FOREIGN AND LOCAL CARTELS TO ENRICH THEMSELVES AND to enrich THOSE WHO OFFER THEM BRIBES! THEY ARE AUCTIONING ANYTHING THEY TOUCH, EVEN IF IT DOES BELONG TO THEM!
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https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001273304/sh4-billion-lake-basin-mall-opens-its-doors
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The Communications Authority, Bata Shoe Company, and Best Western are among the tenants who have already booked space at the mall with a UK company also planning to set up a Casino at the mall.
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Gambling HAS ARRIVED IN KISUMU FULL THROTTLE!!! THANKS TO RAPHAEL TUJU AND COMPANY!
“A UK COMPANY IS PLANNING TO SET UP A CASINO AT THE MALL” for gambling”!! that is, CASINO ECONOMICS FOR DRAINING POOR KISUMU RESIDENCE POCKETS DRY on betting!!
BETTING is selling addiction TO DESTROY HARDWORKING STRUGGLING YOUTHS AND LOAD THEM WITH GAMBLING DEBTS!!
CUBA DESTROYED THE THRIVING CASINO GAMBLING AND PROSTITUTION BUSINESSES IN 1956!
KENYA MUST SAVE ITS YOUTHS BECAUSE FOREIGNERS WANT TO DESTROY AFRICAN YOUNG PEOPLE BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY!!!
POVERTY AND ADDICTION ARE THE BEST METHODS TO DESTROY AND MAKE YOUNG PEOPLE USELESS!!!