A MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH STEALING KSH 3 MILLION SUGAR
Sammy Kiplangat Yego was charge at Milimani law courts with stealing 620 bales of sugar valued at Ksh 3,224,000, belonging to Maisha Steel East Africa Limited which was in transit from West Kenya Sugar Company in Kakamega to Siana Trading Company limited in Nairobi.He was released on a cash bail of ksh 800,000 or alternative bond of Kah 1 million.
Paul Kitonga Daudi, Wife Stella Mary Mwangangi , Ministry of water officials face arrest over shs 342 million Mwache Dam tender scam.
The EACC and DCI have been called upon to arrest several culprits who were involved in the shs 342 million Mwache Dam tender scam.
The World Bank has also been called upon to cancel the project.
Top officials at the Ministry of water are embroiled in the shs 342 million Mwache Dam tender scandal.
Led by Frontman Director Paul Kitonga Daudi and his wife Stella Mary Mwanagangi, the ministry officials are reported to have conned several businessmen who participated in the consultancy tender.
On 20th July, some businessmen wrote to the EACC to investigate the fraudulent issuance of the consultancy services for implementation of Mwache dam resettlement action plan (rap).
The tender included resettlement of the vulnerable and marginalized group plan (vmgp) and was contract no. mows/kwscrp-2/002/2018-2019.
The businessmen said there was forgery of testimonial documents during the issuance of the tender.
“The above tender was advertised by the Ministry of Water and Sanitation in the Daily Nation Newspaper in October 2018. The tender was awarded by the Ministry to Frontman Consultants Limited in October 2019 at a price of KES 342,846,574.00 (Kenya Shillings Three Hundred and Forty-Two Million Eight Hundred Forty-Six Thousands and Five Hundred Seventy-Four),” the businessmen told EACC.
They said Frontman, used forged documents on its past experience with government and private entities in consultancy field to tender for the job.
The particular forged documents were from National Irrigation Authority (NIA) and TANATHI Water Works Development Agency.
Other anomalies are likely to have been in the bidding documents, tendering process and the awarding of the contract-the businessmen said.
“I appeal to the EACC to summon Mr Simon Mwangi, the project Manager who is based at the Ministry and Mr Paul Kitonga Daudi the Director of Frontman Consultancy Limited because they colluded to have Frontman Consultancy awarded the tender” the letter reads.
The businessmen asked the EACC to have the ministry of Water stopped from effecting any payments to Frontman Consultants.
They said the public is losing funds after the tender was awarded fraudulently.
They added that Frontman Directors who are listed as Paul Kitonga Daudi and Stella Mary Mwangangi colluded with Engineer Simon Mwangi from the Ministry to defraud them of their money which was used in the consultancy project.
“Irene Muchoki a Communication Specialist-KWSCRP-2, Mwache Dam Project and Catherine Kinuthia a Procurement Specialist, Kenya water Security and Climate Resilience Project colluded with Frontman Directors to shortchange us. They participated in letting the forged testimonials pass,” they said.
In April, the government announced that the construction of the Mwache dam in Kwale had started after the completion of rehabilitation works and the compensation of residents.
The project is funded by the World Bank
The dam will be 87.5 meters tall, targeted to impound 118 million cubic meters of water.
It will harness water from the overflowing Mwache river and strengthen daily supply of 186, 000 cubic meters of water to Kwale, Mombasa and Kilifi.
The World Bank has also been urged to cancel the Mwache Dam project.
Warrant of arrest has been issued against two people involved in car theft claims.
Court issued Cliff Nyabwendo Nyasinga and Faustina Moraa with a warrant of arrest after they failed to appear in court for plea taking.
The intended charge sheet reads that on diverse dates between October 27, 2020 and February 10, 2021 at unknown place within the country, conspired to defraud Fabrice Boyi a sum of Sh 1,087,900 by falsely pretending that they were in a position to import for him a CR-V Honda motor vehicle from Japan and subsequently retained it for their own use.
Nyambwendo is expected to be charged with obtaining motor vehicle registration by false pretense contrary to the section 320 of the penal code.
He is also expected to be charged with stealing motor vehicles contrary to section 278A of the penal code.
Nyambwendo is accused that on the diverse dates between February 10, 2021 and February 15, 2021 in Mombasa Port, stole motor vehicle registration number KDB449T of CR-V Homnda MAKE VALUED 1,700,000 the property of Fabrice Boyi.
In the last count, Nyabwendo and Faustina Moraa Nyasinga were charged with handling stolen property contrary to the law.
Nyabwendo Nyasinga and Faustina Moraa Nyasinga are accused that on May 10, 2022 at Kiamunyi Estate in Nakuru County, otherwise than in the course of stealing, retained a motor vehicle registration number KDB449T of CR-V Honda make for the benefit of Cliff Nyambwendo Nyasinga.
They will take a plea on Tuesday next week.
The Standard Chartered Bank is rumored to be planning to sell its business in Kenya and the region.
According to credible sources, this is the reason the Bank has appealed a court’s decision ordering it to recalculate former employees benefits that were slashed because of using wrong actuarial factors.
The sources said the case messes up the bank prospects and that’s the main reason its fighting hard.
“Exiting the region is a conspiracy to deny retirees their well-deserved pension because the new entrant is unlikely to honor a decade long court battle they are not aware of. This is even after the London based mother bank had released all the court verdict amount immediately after the ruling,” the source said.
On Thursday, former Standard Chartered Bank staff were taken aback by the court ruling.
They will have to wait longer for their dues after the High Court suspended a decision directing the lender to recalculate their benefits that were slashed because of using wrong actuarial factors.
Justice Anthony Ndung’u allowed the bank to challenge the decision of the Retirement Benefits Appeals Tribunal, a move that will see the 629 retirees wait longer for the dues.
The Business Daily reported.
The pensioners have been in court for more than 13 years and some of them have since died.
The pensioners sued their former employer and the Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Pension Fund accusing them of reducing their lump sum payment by using incorrect actuarial factors in computing cash values for both the deferred pensioners and commuted values for immediate pensioners.
“As regards to plea that the leave so granted operates as a stay, I have applied my mind to the facts disclosed and the applicable law. In order that these proceedings are not rendered nugatory, it is ordered that the leave granted is to operate as a stay,” the judge ruled.
The Business Daily went on to report that the pensioners moved to court in 2009 seeking to compel the lender to pay them Sh9 billion as balance of lump sum pension benefits and interest plus a refund of Sh1.1 billion to the fund and paid together with interest totaling to Sh5.79 billion.
The lender has faulted the tribunal saying the retirees failed to tender any evidence to support the claims of their allegations on the computation of their benefits.
The bank further said the tribunal erred by ordering it to disclose to the retirees all the actuarial and other factors to be used in the re-calculation of their retirement benefits.
In the decision made in April, the tribunal noted that from the programme of early retirement introduced by the bank in 1999, the retirees who left their jobs at 50 years were entitled to their commuted lump sums and pension immediately and all those who retired below 50 years were entitled to commuted lump sums immediately and their pension would be deferred until they were 50 years.
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The law firm of Musyoki Mugaka advocate has threatened to Sue the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP)over utterances he uttered on Nation TV today morning.
Lawyer Dansatan Omari said that DPP Haji has never argued even one case.
He says that Haji has called them busy bodies which is not right because they act under the instructions of their clients.
“We act under instructions that are given to us, there is no matter that we have filed in our names,” added Omari.
He said that clients instruct them to move to court to seek redress on their behalf.
Omari said that some of the statements by DPP are meant to tarnish their names and are interfering with their clients.
A huge number of investors at the Industrial Area have raised complaints against illegal traders that have invaded their surroundings around Viwandani area.
They are saying that their security is not guaranteed now that unknown people have encroached on their area near their Industries and have created illegal settlements there.
The people who are over 100 have created illegal structures and are selling brew and hard drugs.
The investors are also concerned about their health because these settlers do not even have structured toilets or better drainage systems.
The companies that are around those areas are Panari Hotel, and East African Spectre which is the only private company in Kenya that supplies gas cylinders to oil companies, it is linked to former prime minister Raila Odinga.
Other companies around that area are metals and sweat companies. Those illegal structures are holding over 100 people.
The investors are saying that big companies want to build huge investments there but these people are frustrating them and are worried about their security.
The road near the area where the structures are built joins Mombasa Road and is called likoni and enterprise Road.
An anonymous person said who is an investor said that those people who are working within those surrounding are threatening their lives.
A complaint letter was written NEMA and that Likoni Enterprise road was constructed this year. The investors are worried that if these people continue to build illegal structures there, the crime rate will increase.
“We want to build another international hotel at this area but we are worried that the crime rate might increase due to these illegal structures, “added one of the investors.
A company director has appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to Sh 3M fraud.
Samuel Githendu Mbogo and his company Golden Bridge Agencies Limited was charged with conspiracy to defraud against the law.
They were charged that on November 19, 2020 in Nairobi City within Nairobi County, in the republic of Kenya, jointly with another before court conspired to defraud Duncan Rodney Roger one of the directors of Legal Converge Limited USD 30,000 by falsely pretending that you were in a position to secure a Financial Instrument valued not less than USD 100,000,000.
They were charged in a second count with obtaining money by false pretense against the law.
Githendu was charged that on November 19, 2020 in Nairobi City within Nairobi, with intent to defraud jointly with others not before the court, obtained USD 30,000 from Duncan Rodney Roger one of the directors of Legal Converge Limited USD 30,000 by falsely pretending that you were in a position to secure a Financial Instrument valued not less than USD 100,000,000.
He pleaded not guilty before magistrate Susan Shitubi and was released on Sh 1M Cash bail or a bond of Sh 2M.
A Nairobi Court has convicted eight accused persons who falsely received Sh 90Million from a businessman claiming they were in a position to sell land.
Trial magistrate Martha Mutuku found that Fredrick Kinyanjui Kiruthi,Ngai Njeru,Irene Wangui Waweru,Charity Mumbu Njue,Gerald Maina Gachau and Regina Njeri Kinyanjui are guilty of obtaining money by false pretenses offence.
They are found guilty of receiving the money and purchasing property and registered it under the names of their relatives.
The judgment has come after the victim lawyer Charles Mugane fought a taught court battle for over 8 years to see that the victims receives justice.
Lawyer Mugane applauded the judgement saying that the old man who had been dubbed of such huge amount of money has received justice.
“We are happy that after detailed arguments in court,finally my clients have received justice, “added Mugane.
Kinyanjui,Njeru and Wangui had been charged that on March 9,2011 at Prime Bank Limited Riverside Branch in Nairobi within Nairobi County,Jointly with others not before court with intent to defraud obtained from George Gacheru Munga,trading as Thorn Hill Holdings Limited a sum of Sh 9,000,000 by falsely pretending that they were in a position to sell to him a parcel of Land nemely Kajiado/Kaputei North /1420 knowing it was untrue.
The convicts had also been charged with acquisition of property from the proceeds of a crime and anti-money laundering act.
Among the accused are Four family members and three businessmen, they include a couple and their two daughters, as well as two businessmen.
Irene benefited her two daughters as well as her husband. She bought them a Toyota Harrier, land in Ruiru, land in Nairobi, and a lorry, which she registered in the names of her two daughters.
Magistrate Martha Mutuku while convicting them said there are no genuine records from the registrar of lands and that indicates that the transactions was entered using forged title deed.
“The accused benefited from the proceeds of crime and therefore I convict them accordingly, “added Mutuku.
They will sentenced on Tuesday after mitigation.
The sentence will be virtual.
Two police officers have been charged with receiving Sh 5000 bribe.
The two Corporal Grace Wangari Wanja and Constable John Karuma Thomas denied the charges before the Anti-corruption Magistrate Thomas Nzioki.
They were charged that on January 23, 2019 fraudulently received benefits of Ksh 5,000 from George Chege Kiarii by falsely pretending to be in a position of helping him recover his civil debt of Ksh 25,000 from a motor vehicle spare parts broker.
After denying the charges, the two officers through lawyer Danstan Omari pleaded with the court to release the accused persons on reasonable bond terms stating that they are not a flight risk.
“The accused persons are not a flight risk as they are government officers and their fixed abode known. They will abide with all orders set by the court, “Omari said.
The magistrate however released the two police officers on a bond of Ksh 100,000 with an alternative cash bail of Ksh 50,000.
The case will be mentioned on July 20, 2022.
A case in which former Judge Robert Mugo Mutitu is being charged with theft of Sh 6.8 million from a client has been suspended at the lower court pending the application filed at High court.
When the parties appeared before magistrate Bernard Ochoi yesterday, the lawyer for the accused Karathe Wandugi said he has received an order of stay from the high court.
“The accused are not present in court and their plea had been deferred,” he added.
He added that they have since filed a Judicial Review at the high court which needs to be concluded first.
“We have been directed to file the main motion within 7 days but the matter has stayed pending a full hearing of that matter, “he added.
Wandugi said that after the hearing the judge may give directions. He added that they may seek an out-of-court settlement.
The former judge together with his alleged sons have been charged with theft of Sh6. 8 million from a client.
The former judge, who was axed from the Judiciary in 2003 during the judicial purge that saw 23 judges leave the bench unceremoniously, did not plead to the two charges of conspiracy to defraud and theft.
A law partner to the judge, John Njoroge Thiongo, was also summoned to appear in court to be charged alongside Mutito.
The two are accused of being agents of Wangui, and they stole the money the complainant entrusted them to purchase a parcel of land in Nairobi.
Magistrate Ochoi allowed an application by wandugi saying that the councils need to appear before judge and present their case.
The accused were dispensed from attending court.
The matter will be mentioned on August 30, 2022.Wandugi said the accused had reached the complainants to try an out-of-court settlement.
The matter at the lower court will be mentioned on JULY 20.
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