8.08 Trillion Shillings Stolen Under The Jubilee Administration
Kenya is a corrupt nation. Other nations have the mafia but in Kenya, the mafia has the nation. The country is led by powerful cartels who are always busy looting it to the ground.
The cartels who run this country are such powerful that if you dare stand against them, you are either killed or forced into exile.
According to a list compiled by the Corruption Tracker, Kenya has lost a whopping 8,084,682,800,000 (8.08 trillion shillings) to corruption under the administration of Jubilee led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto.
Do you still remember the laptop scandal? These were funds that had been released for the purchase of laptops for standard one kids in public primary schools as pledged by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Well, the nation lost 24,600,000,000 (24.6 billion shillings). Nobody was arrested. Nobody was jailed.
Do you remember the hole uncovered by the then Auditor General Edward Ouko at the Ministry of Health worth 11,000,000,000 (11 billion shillings) in 2018? Nobody was arrested. Nobody was jailed.
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I am sure you still remember the NYS 1 that rocked the Jubilee government. More than 9 billion shillings are said to have been looted. As it is normal, those who took part were elected in big offices and some are still walking free.
Do you remember that time in 2018 when the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) could not trace 4.3 billion shillings to pay a Chinese firm that had constructed a terminal? This is a country of magicians. Money just disappears.
Here are 10 corruption scandals that came to the face in 2019 with no cash recovered:
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4 Billion Shillings At The Ministry of Health
Kenya’s Ministry of Health is ailing. It has always been ailing. The Ministry is deeply rooted in numerous corruption scandals involving billions of taxpayers’ money.
The most recent scandal is that where the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Sicily Kariuki is accused of having inflated the price of equipment by a whopping 4 billion shillings.
A Dutch firm employed to produce medical tools to hospitals in a 63 billion shilling program publicly disowned a value record tabled in Parliament by the Ministry of Well-being.
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Philips Medical Methods Nederland BV was initially contracted by the Authorities to ship Intensive Care Unit (ICU) tools at a price of 3.6 billion shillings but the fee later shot to as much as 4.5 billion shillings.
The Missing 5.6 Billion Shillings At NSSF
As the poor workers work hard to have their cash deducted and remitted to the National Social and Security Fund (NSSF), the rich, who don’t sweat at all are there waiting for it.
Statements show that at list 5.6 billion shillings are missing from NSSF’s e-book accounts, putting in jeopardy the lives of more than 1,000 Kenyan workers who retire annually.
The report tabled within the Nationwide Meeting final week says whereas the company’s restoration efforts had borne fruit, solely 771 million shillings had been collected by March 2019, leaving an impressive steadiness of 5.6 billion shillings.