Top State firms yet to publish tender details

President Uhuru Kenyatta. 

THURSDA, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 BY BRIAN NGUGI

Kenya’s richest State corporations and agencies are yet to comply with President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive to publish online, details of the multibillion shilling tenders they award.

SHIRO ANN VCD LAUNCH

EACC probes Sh1bn public officers' wealth

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9 2018  

 

 

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Chief Executive Officer Halakhe Waqo. EACC sources indicate that most corruption occurs in lower cadres of the Civil Service and devolved units. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

In Summary

• Most of the money that Mr Gikonyo received was sent to him via M-Pesa by directors of various clearing and forwarding companies.
• Ex-Nairobi County government head of accounting Stephen Osiro is said to have amassed Sh340 million fortune in both cash and property between January 2011 and April 2016. 
• An accountant at the Interior ministry on a Sh155,000 monthly gross salary also amassed for himself and his family a Sh111 million fortune within 20 months.

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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has secured orders to investigate wealth amounting to Sh1 billion belonging to three mid-level government officials.

EACC sources indicate that most corruption occurs in lower cadres of the Civil Service and devolved units. It is these officers that the commission's officers are concentrating on.