The BANK ACCOUNTS of Kenyan Policemen!

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The bank accounts of Kenyan policemen.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Love and wealth: Police chiefs’ rich wives

This is a good, good old story. Good old stories begin with cliches and conventions. Boy meet girl, woman eat man, man eat man, once upon a time.

And so

Once upon a time, the republic of Zamunda woke up and realised the old constitution had grown somewhat stale and was in tatters. The document left a lot to be desired; it let a lot of rot to be seen, and because this brought shame, a new one had to be deviced and promulgated. This was easier said than done. Nevertheless it was said, then done, with mixed results a few years on.

Well, they say you can not have it all. That is where such slogans like the struggle goes on comes from.
The new constitution had an ambitious chapter on something called integrity. But the republic soon found out such talk was asking for too much. Integrity was a word whose meaning had not yet been internalised in the culture of Zamunda. It was like some clouds high up in the sky which shall condense in a rain that shall fall somewhere in the future. Unknown, but surely shall fall.
This left us with hilarious first attempts at comprehension –----vetting boards and more attempts at vetting boards, most of them false-starts like a baby's tentative first attempts at an upright position. These are in the rule clumsy, but they hint decidedly at potential, that the baby is already a full pre-programmed homo erectus. Going places.

Zamunda may not know the meaning of integrity, but there are clear signs she is in a healthy wrestling match with herself, going through the necessary primary birth pangs, or may the first assaults of labour pain. Zamunda is going places. Weak-kneed, wobly gait, but upright here I come.
This is the other, silent wonderful story of Kavaludi and his police-vetting panels. Like some stern gods at the table of judgement separating the damned and doomed from the heaven-bounds, the vetting panels have been wreaking emotional havoc amongst the top ranks of the police force at large. They have been prying into the bank accounts, BA's, of top cops.

That is worth repeating. The panels have been confronting the senior ranks of the police with the contents of their bank accounts, and prodding them to explain HOW THEY EARNED IT.
Surely this is no longer Kenya, this is Zamunda.

(later we discuss Innocent until proven guilty? Right to privacy? Self sought transparency?)

A panel, by proxy, is actually asking Deputy President William Ruto, to table all his earthly earnings and EXPLAIN IN DETAIL how he earned the keep!
And you, the Elephant Mother, too, given the family's land holdings are half the country and the paters des familias was you know who, similar question bang your door!?
But nay, we move too fast. These are the gathering clouds of the rain which shall beat Zamunda tomorrow.

FOR TODAY, let us consider the reality of OTHER professions, professions apart from our POLICEMEN whose sufficiency in ENGLISH tended to be even lower than b6k's opinion of the skills of Mudavadi the Musalia, when the son of Mudamba explained why he would have made a better prezzo than Muigai –--should the young man have let ''shetani have the day''!
1. The Judges simply had enough of the vetting nonsense and had the Chief Justice appoint one of them to kill it off with a ruling.
2. The collective of politicians simple assembled in one the greatest quorums ever and uprooted chapter six from the constitution
3. The men in charge of security just ordered laws passed which allows nobody to neither ask nor know nor reveal what they do with public money.

AND LAWYERS?

They are suing the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission left and right. The example of Professor Tom Ojienda being the most extraordinary. –--Apparently he was confronted with the contents of his accounts, private and business, and told the money smelled so richly sweet, it came right out of Mumias Sugar Mills!
Ojienda reacted like an inflamed Zeus defending High Olimpos. Thunderbolt after thunderbolt he aimed at everything on sight: ----gagging orders for newspapers, lawsuits against EACC, libel against repeaters … etc etc.
While road-toll policemen have to explain every single cent openly before a panel, crooked city lawyers allied to moghuls of corruption like Kidero and cosily seating next to the slimy Chief Justice in the corruption-ridden JSC are shamelessly free to GAG the free press! using the law!

That is worth repeating. The Kenyan police are being hung out to dry, named and shamed in public, because they lack the legal finesse and social sophistication to scuttle the process –-l----ike the judges did, like the politicians did, like all those other star lawyers do...
Their [police's] class-determined lack of sophistication shows, so does their educational class base, these top cops. Just like the public appearance of the airwing commandeur (Mbithi I think) who leased out the RECCE helicopter in waiting, and had it double for family transport. He did not look too coherent, savvy nor fluent.

PANDORA'S BOX.

But at the start I said this is a good story. Like the opening of the box of Pandora. The djini is out of the bottle. Kenyans can actually be forced in public to declare how they accumulated wealth, cash or property. After all the front-doors have been slammed shut, this backdoor looks to be the way in which the new constitution is fighting back. Squeezed, but not down and out. Groggy but keeping the vigil. –-----If coppers, why not politicians? If coppers, why not senior civil servants? If coppers, why not judges? If top coppers, why not top lawyers? After all, checking our corruption ranking in the Transparency International list, we can not fool ourselves can we?

Who amongst thee is vouching for the good name of the Mpigs?? Is there reason to suspect the … random 175 could be more? Why was it again, Zamunda at large convulsed in hilarious coughs when a Hustler-Jet-Set-Man publicly declared he had denounced his Christian born-again robes and converted to a Punjabi religion? head gear and all?
Did I not hear a Kenyan today thus: ''Julius Karangi retires as the CEO of the biggest Charcoal Dealing Company in Africa. If new kid Muthethe is minded to suxeed him in this trade too, one hopes his choice business partner in Somalia will not continue to be Al-Shabaab.''
No, Kenyans know. They know their country. And how the money is made.
Even great kids with lots of brains between their ears become shady on this one. Never as chair of PAC and parliamentarian, did he ever suggest we do to his class what we do to the cops.

THE WIVES OF POLICEMEN.

VITALIS OKUMU:
When asked why he had failed to submit his statements to the vetting panel on Friday, June 13, 2014, the Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police said that his wife had refused to give him the bank statement.
He said he had asked his wife to hand him the statements on time but she had refused to give him when the vetting date arrived.
“When I asked her about the bank statement, she told me not to disturb her, and that she did not want to be connected to any vetting. I do not know if she earns a salary,” said the officer.
He said that he had pleaded with her and she later agreed when he told her that he risked being dismissed from the service.

A good wife, is a great asset. And as the BA's of the top cops have come under scrutiny, Ihave been struck by the quality of their wives. Stand by my man types whom Hilary Clinton once ridiculed and disdained as she sat next to a Bill Clinton pumped up with lies. –--''I am no TaMmy Wynette crying fowl ...…''
America was aghast and Hilary spent the rest of her days standing by her man, ultimately peaking in the Lewinsky affair when, knowing Clinton was lying like a hungry hyena promising to take care of sheeplings, she stood and sat by him in public even as she banned him from her nightly favours.

MAUNDU MUTIA:
He was then asked to explain the origin of the hundreds of thousands of shillings in cheques deposited in his account from his spouse’s bookshop and printing business in Nairobi.
He said that he and his wife were running a business that was “booming” but could not explain the nature of his “esteemed” clients.

CONTINUED

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Love and wealth: Police chiefs’ rich wives


Senior Superintendent of Police Joshua Ongoro Aseto during vetting in Eldoret on March 16, 2015. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

In Summary

Top cop cries when asked to explain how millions stay in his account idle.

By STELLA CHERONO

In the second part of a series on how police mint millions, officers’ spouses are conduits of wealth but others portrayed as source of anguish.

7. Augustus Maundu Mutia

When Senior Superintendent of Police Augustus Maundu Mutia appeared before the National Police Service Commission panel on Tuesday March 17, he was asked to explain what he did with Sh24,000 paid by Hass Petroleum Station for services offered by two Administration Police officers whom he assigned.
The panel claimed they had information that a sub-county commander under the command of SSP Mutia wrote to the owners of the petrol station demanding the monthly payment. He was tight-lipped.

He was then asked to explain the origin of the hundreds of thousands of shillings in cheques deposited in his account from his spouse’s bookshop and printing business in Nairobi.
He said that he and his wife were running a business that was “booming” but could not explain the nature of his “esteemed” clients.

The panel claimed they had evidence that Sh7 million had been deposited in his account through cheques and the cash was withdrawn immediately after deposit
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Commission Chairman Johnston Kavuludi asked Mr Mutia to explain the origin of each cheque transacted in the business and why the cheques are not deposited in his wife’s account since he claimed she owns the bookshop and printing business in Nairobi.

8. John Partrick Ochieng – Senior Assistant Inspector-General

Mr Ochieng, who at the time of his vetting on December 17, 2013, was the Director of the Kenya National Focal Point on Small Arms, was taken to task to explain the source of the Sh3.7 million in his account and why he was earning two salaries.
The commissioners asked him why he was still earning a salary as a police officer. Former Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo asked him if he had written to the police service personnel section telling them that he was earning two salaries.
“I have written to the Personnel Section but they continue placing money in my account. I wrote to them,” he said.
A member of the panel, Mr Joseph Kaguthi, read a letter written to Mr Ochieng by the then Police Commissioner Matthew Iteere asking him to refund Sh3.6 million and warning him of the consequences of earning two salaries.
He answered that he had been in and out of the offices asking them to pay him what is only due to him but it had not been effected.
“I will pay you back what you need from me,” he said.

9. Interpol’s National Central Bureau Chief Vitalis Okumu

When asked why he had failed to submit his statements to the vetting panel on Friday, June 13, 2014, the Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police said that his wife had refused to give him the bank statement.
He said he had asked his wife to hand him the statements on time but she had refused to give him when the vetting date arrived.

“When I asked her about the bank statement, she told me not to disturb her, and that she did not want to be connected to any vetting. I do not know if she earns a salary,” said the officer.
He said that he had pleaded with her and she later agreed when he told her that he risked being dismissed from the service.
He was among the officers of the ranks of Assistant Commissioner of Police and Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police to be vetted in March last year, but their results were withheld after more complaints against them surfaced, prompting further questioning.

They were recalled on June 13 for further vetting and were cleared to continue serving
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Among those who were cleared together with Mr Okumu at that time were former police spokesman Eric Kiraithe, Washington Ajuonga (Marsabit AP), Pius Barasa of Inspection Section, David Bunei (GSU Training School), Pius Macharia (Machakos County CID), David Cheruiyot (Kisumu Police), Patrick Ndunda (CID Headquarters) and Francis Kirathe (Nakuru AP).

The Interpol chief also complained about the trauma and anxiety he had undergone since the results were withheld.
“I have had it rough. Friday, I got a call from Tanzania asking me why I had to be vetted again,” Mr Okumu said.
10. Senior Superintendent Joshua Ongoro Aseto

This Senior Superintendent of Police cried before the panel, forcing it to take a break, when he was asked to disclose how he made the millions in his account.
Mr Aseto wept as the panel sought to know why he hardly makes any withdrawals from the account, which had a whopping Sh8.5 million.
When the panel resumed, the officer, who is based at the Kenya Police Service’s Vigilance House headquarters, said he was moved to tears when he recalled how he struggled to make the money.
“The Sh8.5 million in a fixed deposit account was genuinely earned. It’s my hard-earned savings and I vowed never to misuse any money I make since I was raised in poverty,” he said.

The officer who is attached to the liaison department in the office of the Director of Operations started narrating his journey from poverty to millionaire.
“I earned Sh800 a month when I secured my first job as an untrained teacher in 1984 after my ‘O’ Level exams. Getting absorbed into the police service in 1986 came as a miracle as my pay shot up to Sh2,500 a month,” he said.
“I had to scavenge on what others ate in school because my father, who was a stone cutter, could hardly make ends meet,” said the tearful senior officer.

11. Former Machakos County CID boss Pius Macharia

“I saved my money after a trip to Singapore for investigations,” CID Chief, Pius Macharia told the commission during his vetting in May last year.
The panel wanted to know the origin of the cash deposited in the officer’s account at Equity Bank, Taj Mall branch in Nairobi.
He explained that they were dollars he had saved during the trip.
He was among the nine officers who had been recalled for further interrogation after an initial vetting two months earlier.
Mr Macharia told the panel that his wife of 27 years had refused to give him her bank details, a requirement from the vetting panel.

“I requested the statements at least four times. She has maintained that the account belongs to her,” said Mr Macharia.
When he failed to convince her to hand in the documents, Mr Macharia had to request a sworn affidavit indicating that she would not submit the documents to the panel.

The nine officers, among them, Mr Macharia, were recalled on June 13 for further vetting and were cleared.
Two other senior police officers, among them Mr Kiraithe , recounted frustrations they underwent in trying to convince their spouses to furnish them with bank statements required by the vetting panel.

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charles owino.Charles Owino: I will have more millions from fish.

Kenya’s police officers are some of the wealthiest public servants, banking hundreds of thousands of shillings monthly from their “businesses”.

In their testimonies before the team vetting them, senior police officers have explained how they have been making millions of shillings from rearing chicken, rental income and fish farming among other money-making ventures.
Their testimonies, if true, put Kiganjo Police Training College at par with the region’s top business schools in producing entrepreneurs of note.
However, in an indictment of the vetting process, none of the senior officers has explained how they cracked a major crime and secured convictions or the innovative things they did to reduce or eliminate crime in their regions.
The following are excerpts from the testimonies given by top police officers during the vetting by the Johnston Kavuludi-led National Police Service Commission (NPSC).

1. Nandi Central OCPD Joakim Mecha

His account was probably the most shocking to the National Police Service Commission panel on Monday, February 9, 2015.

His payslip indicated that he earned Sh26,000 as salary in 2011 yet the commission led by Mr Kavuludi stated that he transacted up to Sh440,000 in a day through his M-Pesa account.
“In my family, I was the one who was relied on to pay school fees for my siblings. I do get money from my wife and from consultation duties,” he told the vetting team.

According to the panel, Mr Mecha deposited more than Sh122,000 in his bank account in less than a week.
On April 19, 2014, he deposited Sh159,000. On the same day, a deposit of Sh500,000 was made into the account.

The commission alleged that he deposited a further Sh50,000 on January 12, 2012, and on the same day, Sh150,000 was deposited into the same account.
He also said that he got money from his engineering consultancy and that another Sh500,000 was from a loan he had applied for.

Mr Mecha, an engineering graduate, said he also performed the M-Pesa transactions when he was buying file cabinets, desks and seats for a new office in his division.

2. Former AP Senior Staff College Commandant Eusebius Laibuta

He told the Johnston Kavuludi-led panel that retiring him from the service before he completes his few remaining years could kill him.
“I personally appeal to you not to spell doom on us by taking away our jobs, because if you do so, you may find some of us on the obituary pages of newspapers,” Mr Laibuta told the panel.
He was at pains to explain the source of his income other than his salary. He could not explain clearly the source of a Sh3 million annual income listed as coming from miscellaneous and rental payments.
He failed to explain huge deposits made to his account on November 30, 2012.
“Kindly consider the length of our service to this nation before you spell doom on our careers. We may have erred here and there, but please forgive us,” he pleaded.

3. Former Director of Police Reforms Jonathan Koskei

The officer was not consistent in explaining why he had been receiving millions of shillings from his junior police officers, among them World Champion David Rudisha.
The panel alleged that Mr Koskei had received Sh900,000 twice from the athlete, saying it was meant for purchasing some farm inputs.
“Mr Rudisha deposited the money into my account for the purpose of purchasing some machinery” he said.
The panel also wanted to know why the athlete again deposited a cheque of a similar amount and Mr Koskei said the money was meant for the purchase of dairy cows.
“The farm and the dairy project are two different projects with different entities,” he said and could not explain why his juniors deposited some money to his account from time to time.
The panel vetting him learnt that Mr Koskei was not aware of basic police reforms.
The director was also accused of having sacked 15 officers, including two assistant commissioners of police, during his tenure as a provincial police boss.

4. Former Deputy Police Spokesman Charles Owino Wahongo

Mr Owino amused the panel when he said that he was the only solution to the problems affecting the police service and asked the panel not to be surprised about the millions of shillings in his account.
He even told the panel to expect more millions in case there would be another vetting of him this year, as he was planning to make more from his fish farm where he is about to harvest 20,000 tilapias which will sell at Sh250 each.

“Unilever and National Housing Corporation have been sending me between Sh9 million and Sh10 million from time to time,” he said.

“I am the solution to the problems police officers are facing and I am sure God will make someone see that. I am the change the Kenya Police Service needs, not unless I die,” he told the panel in Nakuru on March 5.
Mr Owino said he had learnt how to make extra money from his agricultural practices as he could not survive on salary alone. He said he had earned his money genuinely and would encourage other officers to do the same.
He agreed corruption was rampant in the police service but quickly added that this mirrored the situation in the society.

[OtishOtish]

Interesting. These people have full-time jobs, but, if they are to believed, they can in their spare time make as much money as they otherwise would in the equivalent of 10 full-time jobs. An excellent case-study for someone in the Harvard Business School.

For Kenyans, there is a useful lesson: if you want to have a nice retirement nest-egg, plan to throw in a couple of working years as a copper, f*cking serving the nation.   (Being a legislature is even better, but, alas, there are fewer positions, and too many hands to be greased.)

But perhaps their is no lesson there. Going by the recruitment exercises, many Kenyans already know where to "invest". Guaranteed returns, all cash money!

[b6k]

I fail to see the logic behind the panel noting red flags in the coppers transactions yet clearing them to serve anyway. Who said only their wives bank accounts can be used as proxies? Why can't the panel simply subpoena the bank in question wherever a wife has refused to comply? It's little wonder the Al Shabaab who are pretty liquid don't have problems moving around KE.

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KIGANJO POLICE COLLEGE AS THE IVY LEAGUE BUSINESS SCHOOL, OUR HARVARD.

Alas, Mr Ibrahim is otherwise engaged, and I have come to realise that we might not, in fact, need him.
There is enough homegrown but under-appreciated talent to keep us busy, and thankfully we are all gradually waking up to it. As one of the dailies pointed out in a subtly funny piece of writing on Monday: ‘'In their testimonies before the team vetting them, senior police officers have explained how they have been making millions of shillings from rearing chicken, rental income and fish farming among other money-making ventures.

Their testimonies, if true, put Kiganjo Police Training College at par with the region’s top business schools in producing entrepreneurs of note.”

See what I mean? It is all here: the success stories in agriculture, real estate, fisheries and professional services. The kaleidoscope of the Kenyan economy.
Nandi Central OCPD Joakim Mecha was found to have made deposits of Sh122,000 a week or Sh159,000, Sh500,000 and Sh200,000 a day.
These were, he said, from his engineering consultancy and from a loan.
Former AP Senior Staff College Commandant Eusebius Laibuta was a little selfish about sharing his commercial skills: he ‘could not explain clearly the source of a Sh3 million annual income listed as coming from miscellaneous and rental payments.’
This clearly dwarfs his police income, and yet confusingly, he appears very attached to that underpaid job: ‘I personally appeal to you not to spell doom on us by taking away our jobs, because if you do so, you may find some of us on the obituary pages of newspapers.’

In contrast, former director of police reforms Jonathan Koskei claimed that he received hundreds of thousands of shillings from junior officers for ‘farm inputs’ and the purchase of dairy cows (note those are not cheap!).
We take it that he generously invited his younger colleagues to participate in his impressive business acumen?

Former deputy police spokesman Charles Owino Wahongo, in turn, lucked out with his fish farm: ‘Unilever and National Housing Corporation have been sending me between Sh9 million and Sh10 million from time to time.’ Nice one!
As David Ndii said in his column: Uninvite the gentlemen from the police force already. So much shining talent is just wasted there and they should really make space for less entrepreneurial officers.
So much talent. Maybe we need to take a closer look at the recruitment procedures for the Kenyan police to understand how they hit on such an entrepreneurial talent pool?
Yes, if you check the barely-accounted-for revenues of those senior police officers against what they earn officially, you see that there is a problem.

- See more at: the-star.co.ke/news/kenyas-police-chiefs-have-homegrown-entrepreneurial-talent#sthash.svgheji6.dpuf

[kamalet]

Apr 18, 2015 6:39:13 GMT 3 b6k said:

I fail to see the logic behind the panel noting red flags in the coppers transactions yet clearing them to serve anyway. Who said only their wives bank accounts can be used as proxies? Why can't the panel simply subpoena the bank in question wherever a wife has refused to comply? It's little wonder the Al Shabaab who are pretty liquid don't have problems moving around KE.

I have a view that the whole process of vetting was flawed and only served as a public relations exercise. Police officers like very many Kenyans should be allowed to have side hustles. It is clear to anyone who has dealt with the police that the bribes they get can only finance a lifestyle and would never lead to any sensible investment. Kenyans through the SACCO movement (and am not talking about matatu SACCOS) have created a lot of wealth and for those in the know are aware that the Police SACCO is one of the bigger investment movements with considerable property in the city of Nairobi. I am aware of police officer who have created a lot of wealth for themselves through SACCO loans so one being rich is not necessarily a result of graft.

I am not suggesting that there are cops who have not enriched themselves with graft money. If you look at officers involved in the drugs and money crimes investigations, their wealth would need a closer look and would need a lot of tracking. Unfortunately bank statements are never a good place to start investigating a clever cop especially if they receive large amounts of graft money. Neither is the bank account of the missus. I think it is a constitutional violation of the wife's privacy to insist on seeing what she has in her account. A simple lifestyle audit will quickly reveal a dirty cop and that is how this vetting thing should have been conducted!

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Apr 27, 2015 8:50:50 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Apr 18, 2015 6:39:13 GMT 3 b6k said:

I fail to see the logic behind the panel noting red flags in the coppers transactions yet clearing them to serve anyway. Who said only their wives bank accounts can be used as proxies? Why can't the panel simply subpoena the bank in question wherever a wife has refused to comply? It's little wonder the Al Shabaab who are pretty liquid don't have problems moving around KE.

I think it is a constitutional violation of the wife's privacy to insist on seeing what she has in her account. A simple lifestyle audit will quickly reveal a dirty cop and that is how this vetting thing should have been conducted!

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you forget that every time the cons vetting the cops sit they draw allowances. so starting from the cons themselves they are keen to sit until kingdom come drawing hefty tax payers hard earned cash to embarrass a few cops. who knows like the Mumo Matemu of EACC they may also be hustling cops at nite and asking friendlier questions during the day

Following shocking revelations that most senior cops are millionaires, with millions of shillings lying idle in their bank accounts, the Government has formed a commission of inquiry to investigate the curriculum of Kiganjo Police College. This is after it emerged that the institution may not be dedicated to training cops after all. “There is strong evidence that the college has ignored its core mandate, and has secretly been turned into a business school. The number of shrewd businessmen and millionaires, masquerading as cops and graduates from there is mind boggling. The institution is giving Strathmore Business School and Harvard School of Business a run for their money. If the task force confirms that indeed the curriculum is for entrepreneurship instead of police training, heads will roll,” an official told journalists.

Read more at: webmail.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000159841/kiganjo-to-be-probed-over-business-school-claims-as-socialites-stalk-cops

in South Africa and most European countries lifestyle audits usually reveals not only cops but generally civil servants and members of parliament who are living well beyond their lawful earnings. what follows, again using South Africa, is what results in deterrence of this obnoxious habit.

Business Day newspaper adds the usefulness of lifestyle audits as an indicator of possible fraud and corruption was highlighted last week when suspended SAPS criminal intelligence head Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli surrendered himself to the Hawks over fraud and corruption charges. He is alleged to have used taxpayers’ money to help pay for his private BMW.

Lifestyle audits also gained prominence when demands were made for a probe into the source of the extravagant lifestyle of African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema, who was later alleged to have received commission from government tenders.

www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19428:lifestyle-audits-to-tackle-crooked-police&catid=3:Civil%20Security&Itemid=113

[b6k]

Kamale, so the violation of the cop's wife's bank account trumps the public good? Corrupt cops lead to the challenges we've seen dealing efficiently with Al Shabaab. As public officers they should be scrutinized at a higher standard than your average John Doe to make sure they're actions are not compromising not only public safety but the economy in the long run.

Also, can a non-cop join this Police Sacco that is miraculously making millionaires out of ordinary afandes from what are honestly speaking crappy salaries? I'd really like to put some cash into such a sure thing coz it sounds better than the NSE as far as ROI is concerned...

[kamalet]

Apr 28, 2015 8:45:35 GMT 3 b6k said:

Kamale, so the violation of the cop's wife's bank account trumps the public good? Corrupt cops lead to the challenges we've seen dealing efficiently with Al Shabaab. As public officers they should be scrutinized at a higher standard than your average John Doe to make sure they're actions are not compromising not only public safety but the economy in the long run.

Also, can a non-cop join this Police Sacco that is miraculously making millionaires out of ordinary afandes from what are honestly speaking crappy salaries? I'd really like to put some cash into such a sure thing coz it sounds better than the NSE as far as ROI is concerned...

There is a law called the Public Officers Ethics Act that required all public officers to make wealth declarations including those of their immediate families. Whilst this was intended to be an annual undertaking the failure of the Anti-corruption commission to enforce the law meant that people got away with literary theft. I know that all those in service at the time of enactment made their wealth declarations and the senior guys being vetted actually made the declarations. What would have been so difficult to use that data to undertake a lifestyle audit? I will tell you that the problem is the law! Only the anti-corruption authority had access to the information so the NPSC cannot access that information and is left speculating how these guys became rich!

As for the police sacco - you need to save and borrow and with the ability to borrow three times your savings at an interest rate lower than banks offer, a person with good investment sense can make money with investments that return value higher than the borrowed money! I am beneficiary of a sacco facility previously when I was much younger.....and I know the value!

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b6k,

I feel like being very protective of our coppers. They are a very visible aspect of the corruption in our society, because, in road blocks, in full view of the public they pocket the proceeds of their moonlight work.
However, this does not make them the most corrupt institute in the republic, merely the most dramatically visible; neither does it make their proceeds the greatest loss to the tax-payer, nay, deeper within the state is where the rats pile away real fortunes to the detriment of Wanjiku.

Road block tolls, or even the bond trail are peanuts. Yet the coppers are in the front row of the chopping axe in the corruption war. Even their training college Kiganjo is to be probed if we believe Podp!

This stupid witch hunt must stop. Coppers can not go on strike like us teachers and our KUPPETS, KNUTS, UASUS. If they do, that is mutiny, and court martial and the rest. So they suffer in bitterness.

Politicians as we have seen, can set their own wages and allowances, and the minister of finance just grins like some lame sheep. Coppers can not. They are an ignored group, some of them in urban areas but living in slum mud houses.
So naturally some of them will rent out their firearms to violent criminals.

This national farce of hanging out the cops to dry must be revealed for what it is: a side show. When the EACC came up with a list, the ink was not even dry before the already lacklustre body was decapitated and sent to RIP.

And the anglo-leasing maestros go scot free.

Sunday, April 26, 2015: Police earn Sh100m a month from illegal bail

Police officers are pocketing up to Sh100 million a month collected from suspects who are misled to believe that they are paying cash bail.
Investigations by the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of security, show that unscrupulous officers involved in the racket have devised ways to evade anti-corruption officials by insisting that suspects deposit the cash at police stations. Many of the cases are not taken to court after the suspects pay the bail. However, those who pay are later coerced to forfeit the money.

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How much is earned in the Judiciary in the ''sitting allowance scams?''

[b6k]

Apr 28, 2015 12:39:00 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Apr 28, 2015 8:45:35 GMT 3 b6k said:

Kamale, so the violation of the cop's wife's bank account trumps the public good? Corrupt cops lead to the challenges we've seen dealing efficiently with Al Shabaab. As public officers they should be scrutinized at a higher standard than your average John Doe to make sure they're actions are not compromising not only public safety but the economy in the long run.

Also, can a non-cop join this Police Sacco that is miraculously making millionaires out of ordinary afandes from what are honestly speaking crappy salaries? I'd really like to put some cash into such a sure thing coz it sounds better than the NSE as far as ROI is concerned...

There is a law called the Public Officers Ethics Act that required all public officers to make wealth declarations including those of their immediate families. Whilst this was intended to be an annual undertaking the failure of the Anti-corruption commission to enforce the law meant that people got away with literary theft. I know that all those in service at the time of enactment made their wealth declarations and the senior guys being vetted actually made the declarations. What would have been so difficult to use that data to undertake a lifestyle audit? I will tell you that the problem is the law! Only the anti-corruption authority had access to the information so the NPSC cannot access that information and is left speculating how these guys became rich!

As for the police sacco - you need to save and borrow and with the ability to borrow three times your savings at an interest rate lower than banks offer, a person with good investment sense can make money with investments that return value higher than the borrowed money! I am beneficiary of a sacco facility previously when I was much younger.....and I know the value!

The law may not itself be the problem. Those who make the law should ensure the Public Officers Ethics Act can be used across the board. Being public officers themselves it's clear they'd rather it were not.

As for the Sacco, wouldn't the same investment conscious police officer be more inclined to use the millions he has amassed legally to plug them back into the same Sacco and generate three times more millions over and over again rather than leave them untouched and unutilzed in dormant accounts as has been the case with several of your Sacco made millionaires?

[b6k]

Apr 28, 2015 19:03:01 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

b6k,

I feel like being very protective of our coppers. They are a very visible aspect of the corruption in our society, because, in road blocks, in full view of the public they pocket the proceeds of their moonlight work.
However, this does not make them the most corrupt institute in the republic, merely the most dramatically visible; neither does it make their proceeds the greatest loss to the tax-payer, nay, deeper within the state is where the rats pile away real fortunes to the detriment of Wanjiku.

Road block tolls, or even the bond trail are peanuts. Yet the coppers are in the front row of the chopping axe in the corruption war. Even their training college Kiganjo is to be probed if we believe Podp!

This stupid witch hunt must stop. Coppers can not go on strike like us teachers and our KUPPETS, KNUTS, UASUS. If they do, that is mutiny, and court martial and the rest. So they suffer in bitterness.

Politicians as we have seen, can set their own wages and allowances, and the minister of finance just grins like some lame sheep. Coppers can not. They are an ignored group, some of them in urban areas but living in slum mud houses.
So naturally some of them will rent out their firearms to violent criminals.

This national farce of hanging out the cops to dry must be revealed for what it is: a side show. When the EACC came up with a list, the ink was not even dry before the already lacklustre body was decapitated and sent to RIP.

And the anglo-leasing maestros go scot free.

Sunday, April 26, 2015: Police earn Sh100m a month from illegal bail

Police officers are pocketing up to Sh100 million a month collected from suspects who are misled to believe that they are paying cash bail.
Investigations by the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of security, show that unscrupulous officers involved in the racket have devised ways to evade anti-corruption officials by insisting that suspects deposit the cash at police stations. Many of the cases are not taken to court after the suspects pay the bail. However, those who pay are later coerced to forfeit the money.

www.nation.co.ke/news/Police-earn-Sh100m-a-month-from-illegal-bail/-/1056/2698234/-/106udfj/-/index.html

How much is earned in the Judiciary in the ''sitting allowance scams?''

Jakaswanga, I agree with you that as far as abuse of public funds go the true fat cats are elsewhere. But the reason I support a purge in the Police Farce is because they tend to be the public officers on the ground where it matters most be it policing our borders or highways where the likes of Al Shabaab move undisturbed. In fact we are even told they are granted safe passage by the same officers if they part with something.

We should have pride in our country as you see in other poor countries. I doubt any Tanzanian immigration officer would stoop as low as Maurice Okinyi Osero did when he allowed the racist Chinese restaurant owner to flee Kenya via Namanga for a handful of cash.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000159988&story_title=kenyan-immigration-officer-charged-over-escape-chinese-racist-restaurant-owner

It is such actions that put all Kenyans at risk since the Odero's of this world are just looking out for themselves at our expense.

[jakaswanga]

Apr 29, 2015 5:59:07 GMT 3 b6k said:

Jakaswanga, I agree with you that as far as abuse of public funds go the true fat cats are elsewhere. But the reason I support a purge in the Police Farce is because they tend to be the public officers on the ground where it matters most be it policing our borders or highways where the likes of Al Shabaab move undisturbed. In fact we are even told they are granted safe passage by the same officers if they part with something.

We should have pride in our country as you see in other poor countries. I doubt any Tanzanian immigration officer would stoop as low as Maurice Okinyi Osero did when he allowed the racist Chinese restaurant owner to flee Kenya via Namanga for a handful of cash.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000159988&story_title=kenyan-immigration-officer-charged-over-escape-chinese-racist-restaurant-owner

It is such actions that put all Kenyans at risk since the Odero's of this world are just looking out for themselves at our expense.

B6k,

Indeed Okinyi Odero has found himself transformed into the poster-boy personifying the rot in our immigration department. From the in-and-out visas of the Artur brothers, to the recent return of passports to the anglo-leasing crew (the Judiciary plays a crucial dirty role herein of course), this department can adequately be classified as a national security risk. The elevation of the soldier [Gordon Kihalangwa] to its head does not seem to have changed matters. It remains a rot in progress.


Retired Major-General Gordon Kihalangwa when he was appointed as the new Director of Immigration. .

NB: Is it the same (ret) General Kihalangwa now promoted to replace Iringo in the recent chair-dance choreographed by the All-Wise digital duo!?

THE VETTING FARCE.

1. The police farce: do you remember the days when killer-cops reasoned that, no sooner had they apprehended criminals than these were given bail or released forever by the learned judges. Then the criminals came back to laugh at the cops: ''afande, ungekula kidogo. Sasa Jaji amekula yote peke yake, kajinga kiki!!''
Then some enraged cops became Judge Juror and executor. But the ones who had passed Kiganjo business school with distinction disagreed: they rather monopolised this bribery circuit and cut the judges out.

2. Now, the chicken or the egg farce: Coppers or Judges first on the purge!?

NB: Need I remind you what the Judges did with the ''board meant to purge them!?''

[b6k]

Everyone knows our legislators are a lost cause. When the gatekeepers, be they cops or immigration officers, join them in the game of compromising our security for a handful of coins, then no one is safe...

[jakaswanga]

THE MASHEMEJI'S DERBY: THE POLICE VERSUS THE ARMY

Who goes away with the Institutional corruption championship cup? coppers or soldiers?

One always had the feeling they are being taken for a ride, watching this expensive vetting commission interviewing top cops about their earnings. The naming and shaming of traffic cop bosses (whose accounts are clearing houses for road tolls) is fun of course. Just like the ''toll stations'' themselves, which are an open secret, are moments of ritual humour. Yeah, it is a bit like listening to a straight-faced adult explaining to a curious 5-year old where babies come from. The five-year old wants to know why it is necessary to insert a whole baby up mummy's tummy, only to pull it out again. ''Why all that round about trouble?

Now, Daddy, speak!''

Behind the scenes, we always know, is the real murk. ''Police corruption'' are, to use Mwalimumkuu, kaka mbweha tales of babies coming from supermarkets!

I guess we are too young, too much of infants to be told, and shown the truth. Even the fake list of EACC 175 was too hot for us babies.

A hint:

WHAT DO THE BANK ACCOUNTS OF THE MILITARY ELITE SAY?

1. Is Lanet, Gilgil, Embakasi, or wherever they train our officer core of the army, as an elite business school as Kiganjo ''Harvard constituent''? Or do our KDF gladiators graduate from American football universities which, as I commented once, are dump-yards for the brain-damaged?

2. Are our top dogs of the brass order as scared of their wives as the top cops, when the issue is bank accounts? or do they have hardier balls, unfearful of an irritated wifely squeeze?

Alas, we will never know, for no one dare ask them in public; or, may be Dr. ex Gen. Julius Kirangi will have a Saul-to-Paul bolt of consciousness and, huraah, write his uncensored memoirs, piously confessional. However, before that report from the accounting frontline is filed in, there is something we know, and the rest we can think.

The military, and the top honchos at the department of Defence or Ulinzi House, are not any better than your village chicken thief. The department of defence, is the department of Theft.

But of course an emotional and pathetically helpless H.E president Uhuru Kenyatta himself told us that in public! –-- ''defence: hapo ndipo wanaunda pesa!''

Let us get an intimation by some random figures. And then ask if the new kid in command, Fat Navy Seal Mwathethe, has the balls to stop the DoD being a den of robbers in uniform, or whether he too, be just another aspiring Field Marshall in Graft.

The military is in a spot over failure to account for millions of shillings.

By Alphonce Shiundu. Saturday, May 9th 2015

Audit queries Kenya’s military expenditure

Kenya’s military is on the dock over hundreds of millions of shillings in questionable payments, unexplained spending, payment for shoddy work and failure to channel billions of shillings from the United Nations to the public coffers.

In an audit report seen by The Standard on Saturday, Auditor General Edward Ouko has revealed that the military flouted financial regulations, and ignored queries from the auditor on how public money is spent. The Auditor General, who has scoured the books on military expenditure at the Department of Defence (DoD) for the financial year 2013-2014, revealed that the spending of a colossal Sh320 million in the first financial year of President Uhuru Kenyatta as the Commander-in-Chief, was questionable.

So with a gun to his throat, the men in uniform ordered Adan Duale to propose that law which

1. banned financial audits from the military being made public … = treason
2. reduced the powers of the auditor general to pry in to military expenditures
3. Gave total financial autonomy to the defence/security tabs, even as it is public money.

It is a manifesto for the total theft. Robbery at gun point.

Why on earth would an Aden Duale in command of his head propose such a stupid law? Duale is not a moron. My calculated explanation is this: blackmail and fear. '' Your double-dealing family are a fwacking terrorist racket, Duale. Cover our backs, we cover yours. Quid pro Quo!'' A colonel visiting from Somali must have proposed.

There is no other rational explanation for the leader of government business in a struggling democracy to move, in parliament, a bill to exempt a wing of the state from open audit of its expenditure of the public funds disbursed to it; and billions and billions they amount to.

The revelations come after Chief of Defence Forces Julius Karangi retired and handed over the leadership of the Kenya Defence Forces to General Samson Mwathethe, a career naval officer. The report shows more than Sh150 million was pocketed in per diem (daily allowances for travel out of station) and in imprest payments (the out-of-pocket cash which has to be accounted for at the end of a specific task or mission). Kenya, which has troops in the Africa Union Mission in Somalia, and in different peace-keeping missions around the world, got Sh6.1 billion from the UN. The auditors got the documents showing the money came in, but they say in their report that they had no “evidence of the actual transfer to the exchequer through bank statements and g-pay records”.

See also: Audit shows Kenya Airports Authority land grabbed

That means either the military got the money and spent it; or that when the auditors were camping at DoD as late as December 2014, the documents to show the money went into public coffers were not ready, and last month when the report was finalised, DoD had not accounted for the money.

Relax, fellows. Military people, even if they spot double degrees like Dr. Msc Karangi, were always slow in the head. That is why MacNamara, when he was American defence secretary during Vietnam war, told off the army elite thus: ''War is too important to left to mere Generals!''

I think we can add this: leaving financial decisions to the Kenyan army is like leaving a goat in charge of a basket of millet. The He-goat will eat its fill, knock the basket over, dance around it yelling mbee-mbee in heat, then run off to water and harass the she-goats, leaving the rest of the spilt millet for the birds to scavenge.
Now, you come in the evening when the goat is chewing cud and you expect the goat to show you book-keeping?

That is how I explain the DoD could not PRODUCE RECORDS. Methinks Records will be produced by humans, for it takes humans to falsify and COOK BOOKS when there is fraud. And at the Kenyan defence headquarters, they never heard of keeping books, leave alone COOKING them!

So they are goats. As illustrated above. Major Dr. Goat; colonel Bsc. Goat; General prof Goat. They need a Kiganjo in-service crash-course!

Remember it is not that police bosses EMBEZZLE, no, they run a BRIBERY conglomerate or kartel. And in an ingenious scheme, the police in some areas force business men to hire police drivers for long distance journeys, for their safety of course, which is true. The police is not an embezzling force. Kiganjo, dubbed Harvard, is not like that defence college churning out goats as we have reasoned above.

When an official from the Office of the Auditor General visited DoD he realised Sh74 million was paid to officers said to have travelled to UK, Sweden, Canada, Cuba, South Korea, Malaysia, Oman and Kuwait, but after getting the money, they never reached the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. “Available information and records show the 42 officers did not travel outside the country during the purported period... no surrender vouchers have been availed for audit verification,” the Auditor General noted in his report that will be submitted to the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee.

The army needs a consultant to help them falsify vouchers. Or, at this rate, they need to intensify their intimidation of Mpigs to pass laws shielding them from intrusive questions about unkept books.

The auditors also have queries about Sh31 million in imprest paid to clear military goods from Mombasa and accommodate a team from Serbia. There’s no record that the money was surrendered or used for the purpose, and therefore the auditors insist it was difficult for them to confirm the expenditure was “authorised, lawful and that value for money was obtained.” “No explanation has been given for the direct procurement of accommodation, transport and provision of food for the Yugo Import team (Serbians) through imprest,” the Auditor General noted in his report. There is also another Sh56 million in imprest paid to officers to cater for hotel accommodation on their trips to Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret, Gilgil, Isiolo, Rwanda, France, Ethiopia, France, Tunisia, United Kingdom, South Sudan and China.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000161578/revealed-sh320m-military-scandal?articleID=2000161578&story_title=audit-queries-kenya-s-military-expenditure

And so when 4 Al-Shabaab struck Garissa University, the nearby Military garrison was not going to put up much of a fight, was it? ---Ordinary soldiers knowing how richly corrupt the officer core in Nairobi is, and how difficult it would be for those surviving them to get money from the DoD, needed must keep a slow profile in the face of determined Al-Shbaab fire. It is not that they are cowards ---and the RECCE are super braves. It is just that the lower ranks know how the army works. Dying for a corrupt institution isn't bright, mere instinct will inform. (we saw the GSU seniors let walk their naive krutus into the Baragoi valley; and, days later, hyenas and jackals were still having the day of their lives, feasting. And the relatives of the slain!?

These are hard lessons men learn. And revise their behaviour. And so four gun-men can run amok a whole day next to a military barrack, and kill students until they run out of ammunition.

Now, Maj Gen. Mwathethe: toward a military reform? or is it business as usual? will you be the Chief of General Thieves?

In the latter case, spend some money on technical expertise at cooking books, General. I am tired of goats at the top of anything, even other goats. ---Mbeeee!

It is so innocent, it is endearing. One is moved to tears of sympathy, and risks adopting Uhuru as one would a simple minded villager girl dating a brothel supplier of fodder. Hmmm.

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