Ben Gethi, 31 of NYS Fame Defends Himself on JKL

[b6k]

[mwalimumkuu]

B6K

Many questions than answers from this interview. It was billed to be weird from the time Jeff announced on social media who his guest was going to be. I can tell from the demeanor of and a few pronouncements by the interviewee that he's as shady as they come. He may not have anything to do with the millions in question at NYS, but he's been in many questionable deels.

Here's a sneak peek

rasqoh.com/7-crucial-questions-jeff-koinange-forgot-to-ask-ben-gethi/

~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~

[jakaswanga]

Haha b6k, while I was wondering how to attack the problem, you already cut corners. Nevertheless I will give it the go I intended!

THE NAME IS GETHI, BEN GETHI BEN GETHI

1. OF NEW DYNASTIES AND WET DEPARTMENTS.

You know the disturbance, like when you are enjoying music on earphones from a light-touch-come-wifi-sensitive smart gadget, and you venture into a so-called hotspot radius; there shall the software receptors on your device be compelled to instigate a momentary bleep, alerting you to the availability of the Internet service if you care. And these days we ever care to be online for what it is worth. Thus does the bleep cuts across your ahangla jingles or dichotomous classical chimes, or whatever audio it is you are on to, fantasies apart.

So was it then, that when it emerged the name is Gethi, Ben Gethi Ben Gethi, the receptors in my head issued a all systems alert. I leaned back, tapped my nose and waited for my alcohol-eroded memory to light up, or, perhaps, return from other revelry's generated by other beverages than gentlemen partake. And no, I was not rolling the plum figure of queen Anne around and around weird places, I wouldn't dare go there even with an ex Queen. The jealousies of a King extend even to former territories and, historically, a commoner fantasising a queen has been equivalent to defilement and treachery, and I know my history lessons. It is not for nothing one had to be a eunuch to serve the Emperor's court or the Sultan's harem. So I sue for peace and long life, except with Boko Haram.

The name is Gethi, Ben Gethi Ben Gethi.

Apparently the name had not so much rang a bell as banged a gong in my mind, for immediately did a cascade of treasures come tumbling out of the trove. There is a Ben Gethi whose name is indelible from the history of Kenya, if only because of several key historical events tied to his notoriety.

1. The murder of JM Kariuki and
(2) The assassination of Tom Mboya. And
(3) the Ngoroko conspiracy as in the Kenyatta succession, as in blocking the Moi ascension.
(4) Bomb blasts in public transport that reminded of recently departed Licio Gelli, grandmaster of the P2 lodge in Italy.

Italy: ‘Puppeteer’ former Masonic lodge head Licio Gelli dies, 96
16/12/15
Licio Gelli, the former head of Italy’s outlawed P2 Masonic lodge, has died, at the age of 96.
Nicknamed ‘The Puppeteer’, he has been linked to some of Italy’s shadiest incidents in modern times.
During his time as head of the secretive P2, he was believed to have held a powerful influence over a network of officials within the government, the intelligence services, the military, the financial sector and the media.
All are thought to have been involved in covert anti-Communist and anti-democratic operations.
Over the years, the former financier was convicted on a number of counts of conspiracy and tax fraud.
He was linked to cases such as the Banco Ambrosiano bankruptcy, the deadly 1985 Bologna train station
bombing and the 1978 murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro.
The P2 was outlawed upon discovery in 1981.

Yes, so dark do I register the name Ben Gethi. A key to a a chapter in a nation's path. An archive worth a read.


Ben Gethi.

Author says GSU boss Ben Gethi and other officers had accosted JM Kariuki outside a Nairobi hotel before he disappeared

By KENNETH KWAMA Updated Thursday, November 7th 2013

The GSU commandant who is believed to have lured Josiah Mwangi Kariuki into the hands of his killers in 1975 wielded immense influence in founding President Jomo Kenyatta’s government. So powerful was the GSU boss that no major security decisions were made without his input. When Kenyatta’s guards killed some civilians who had pelted the presidential motorcade with stones in Kisumu in 1969, it is Commandant Ben Gethi and another officer who prevailed upon the founding father to hang around until things normalised.

Those present during the event were unanimous that Gethi and a Mr Njino, then head of Presidential Escort, consulted with Kenyatta before they decided he would stay put until he accomplished the mission that took him there, which was to officially open Russia Hospital.

In his book, Kenya: A History Since Independence, author Charles Hornsby linked Gethi to the murder of JM Kariuki in 1975. The author states that on March 2, 1975, the day after a bus explosion, security officials including Gethi had publicly accosted JM Kariuki outside the Hilton Hotel before his disappearance. “He had been followed by the police throughout the day, including European police reservist Patrick Shaw. Gethi asked Kariuki to accompany the security officials to a convoy of cars and took him to an unknown destination,” states the author.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000097072/author-says-gsu-boss-ben-gethi-and-other-officers-had-accosted-jm-kariuki-outside-a-nairobi-hotel-before-he-disappeared

A story is told on how a senior Kamba General had not yet figured it out and needed a dress down. Cannot remember whether it was Ndolo or Mulinge. Ben Gethi did the job. The army was under his GSU and that was that. And this GSU was the private paramilitary force of Jomo Kenyatta. Period.

Was this NYS scamman going by his name, the son? Or they just –-coincidentally-- shared names?


Ben Gethi

I did not ask myself that question in the surface sense of the word, but in the male, old-fashioned sense, here: Is he cold ash from a once mighty fire that raged unstoppable, or is he a true like-father- like-son fella, old school, forged of the same constitution and aptitude? –-The infamous Gethi senior was a man with aptitude. The cruel-heart calibre required to kill both a Mboya and a JM Kariuki in one generation isn't given to many men. If the Kenyatta dynasty has taken root, it is the frontline calibre of men like Ben Gethi and John Michuki which shines. (Guess which Gethi!)

I am not doing romantics now. Muigai wa Jomo would do well to remember the kitchens of history where debts are accrued. His Kingly and mama Ngina's billions wouldn't be here without Ben Gethi senior. He should mind the people prodding him to throw a Gethi to the meat grinder within only one generation of dynasty gone.

But young Prince Muigai surely can't be that foolish I know. When a family sheds that kind of holy blood for your family, you are in debt, and anybody who tells you different is a fcuck out to bring you down. Instinct alone is enough to tell. Yet comprador consciousness with its obsessive use and discard commercial short-termism may not have inculcated a sense of historical purpose and destiny. So take a lecture thus: Dynasties going places must have loyalties to 'wet department' warriors, even after death. Don't betray a Gethi yet, Ouru. No gethi no kenyatta. Mboya or JM, take your pick, would have wiped out your father Jomo at any subsequent free and fair election. A Gethi wiped them out instead. (Even if it happens young Gethi has been bedding your favourite Anne, still that does not rank personal enough as to derail a royal magnanimous pardon for his leecherous excess! The red line would be a coup plot! But even then, a discrete execution without public humiliation would be the smart-asz thing.)

Boy, this aint romantics. This is a history master class and sh!thead titles like your excellency bothers one no sh!t. You are a Kenyatta dynast, beneficiary of murderous purge. Murderous purge itself is standard procedure of course.

Too, I remember the shetani ashindwe day when candidate Ouru Kenyatta was on the verge of a mental collapse, ready to hand the ticket to Musalia Mudavadi. Howbeit it the feeble-minded crown prince was frogmarched back to the top of the ticket by forces he himself knew not; nor, I suspect, did the son of Jomo know the details of the formulaic TYRANNY OF NUMBERS that hosted him atop, nor, I am sure, did young Muigai know of the invicible steely hand that kept on dead dropping would-be Mungiki witnesses warming up to Ocampo and co.

Anyway, both of them, Kenyatta jnr. And Gethi jnr. could of course be the generation of dust, cold ash left after giant fires are gone. An aristocracy, or oligarchy, can be kept in power long after its historical death-knell has been sounded. It then runs on, on the volcanic momentum generated by the founding fathers, but in effect sleepwalking towards its extinction like a Romanov in 1914.

Aristocracies overlording feudal paradises in the age of industrialised go-getter nations is a tough act. Something has to be done to accommodate the aspirations of millions of the young, educated and dreaming, of best futures.

Academic interest:

Ben Gethi Ben Gethi is a double name. The circumstances under which he was named after his father to the letter, or adopted his father's full and official names later, will be as interesting as to force me to find time to visit the nomenclature of aristocratic names after a founder of a dynasty, like Bhutros Bhutros Gahli Gahli, or why, after a kilometre of paper, all names of Saudi princes end in Al-Saud! Brunei (His Majesty Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah) and Kuwait (Emir Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ….)
will be of academic interest too.

But take this if you like it light

Who is Ben Gethi?

BEN Gethi is a 31-year-old businessman born, raised and educated in Nyeri.
He is the first of three children of Charity Wangui Gethi.
An old boy of the respected Catholic-sponsored St Mary’s Boys’ School in Nyeri, he completed his Form Four there in 2002.
After high school, he tried his hand at several projects, including construction, before partnering with senior government officials who introduced him to the world of lucrative state procurement business.
He is married and has one child.

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2015/12/15/who-is-ben-gethi_c1261060

ASSETS worth Sh585 million acquired using funds from the National Youth Service have been traced and the recovery process started.
The properties include prime plots in upmarket Muthaiga in Nairobi, a new Range Rover and cash in various bank accounts. The assets were purchased through proxies and lawyers and some registered using lawyers.
According to court documents obtained exclusively by the Star, the Assets Recovery Agency filed an application in Milimani Court in November to recover the assets.

On December 11, the Kenya Gazette recorded preservation orders under the Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering Act to prohibit the transfer of the properties and the car.
Most of the assets traced and frozen belong, directly or indirectly, to 31-year old businessman Benson Gethi.
Besides Gethi, the Assets Recovery Agency has also named his mother Charity Wangui Gethi as a respondent along with his sister Jedidah Wangari Wangui; Nairobi hairdresser Josephine Kabura Irungu; John Kago Ndungu, a driver at KCB; Sam Mwadime; and lawyers Patrick Onyango Ogola and Martin Muthomi Gitonga.
Gethi is currently facing criminal charges of stealing Sh791 million from the Department of Planning in the Ministry of Devolution.

Twenty two other people, including former employees of NYS, are facing related charges including the former Devolution PS Peter Mangiti and former NYS boss Nelson Githinji.
The scandal of inflated payments by NYS brought down the former Devolution CS Anne Waiguru who was forced to step down on 22 November.

he stole 791M that is why he is in court?

Does not look like the real reason to me! For if that is so, then nearly every who is who in the country is boarding the Kamiti express! And that does not look plausible.

[kamalet]

Dec 19, 2015 16:02:28 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Haha b6k, while I was wondering how to attack the problem, you already cut corners. Nevertheless I will give it the go I intended!

THE NAME IS GETHI, BEN GETHI BEN GETHI

1. OF NEW DYNASTIES AND WET DEPARTMENTS.

You know the disturbance, like when you are enjoying music on earphones from a light-touch-come-wifi-sensitive smart gadget, and you venture into a so-called hotspot radius; there shall the software receptors on your device be compelled to instigate a momentary bleep, alerting you to the availability of the Internet service if you care. And these days we ever care to be online for what it is worth. Thus does the bleep cuts across your ahangla jingles or dichotomous classical chimes, or whatever audio it is you are on to, fantasies apart.

So was it then, that when it emerged the name is Gethi, Ben Gethi Ben Gethi, the receptors in my head issued a all systems alert. I leaned back, tapped my nose and waited for my alcohol-eroded memory to light up, or, perhaps, return from other revelry's generated by other beverages than gentlemen partake. And no, I was not rolling the plum figure of queen Anne around and around weird places, I wouldn't dare go there even with an ex Queen. The jealousies of a King extend even to former territories and, historically, a commoner fantasising a queen has been equivalent to defilement and treachery, and I know my history lessons. It is not for nothing one had to be a eunuch to serve the Emperor's court or the Sultan's harem. So I sue for peace and long life, except with Boko Haram.

The name is Gethi, Ben Gethi Ben Gethi.

Apparently the name had not so much rang a bell as banged a gong in my mind, for immediately did a cascade of treasures come tumbling out of the trove. There is a Ben Gethi whose name is indelible from the history of Kenya, if only because of several key historical events tied to his notoriety.

1. The murder of JM Kariuki and
(2) The assassination of Tom Mboya. And
(3) the Ngoroko conspiracy as in the Kenyatta succession, as in blocking the Moi ascension.
(4) Bomb blasts in public transport that reminded of recently departed Licio Gelli, grandmaster of the P2 lodge in Italy.

Italy: ‘Puppeteer’ former Masonic lodge head Licio Gelli dies, 96
16/12/15
Licio Gelli, the former head of Italy’s outlawed P2 Masonic lodge, has died, at the age of 96.
Nicknamed ‘The Puppeteer’, he has been linked to some of Italy’s shadiest incidents in modern times.
During his time as head of the secretive P2, he was believed to have held a powerful influence over a network of officials within the government, the intelligence services, the military, the financial sector and the media.
All are thought to have been involved in covert anti-Communist and anti-democratic operations.
Over the years, the former financier was convicted on a number of counts of conspiracy and tax fraud.
He was linked to cases such as the Banco Ambrosiano bankruptcy, the deadly 1985 Bologna train station
bombing and the 1978 murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro.
The P2 was outlawed upon discovery in 1981.

Yes, so dark do I register the name Ben Gethi. A key to a a chapter in a nation's path. An archive worth a read.


Ben Gethi.

Author says GSU boss Ben Gethi and other officers had accosted JM Kariuki outside a Nairobi hotel before he disappeared

By KENNETH KWAMA Updated Thursday, November 7th 2013

The GSU commandant who is believed to have lured Josiah Mwangi Kariuki into the hands of his killers in 1975 wielded immense influence in founding President Jomo Kenyatta’s government. So powerful was the GSU boss that no major security decisions were made without his input. When Kenyatta’s guards killed some civilians who had pelted the presidential motorcade with stones in Kisumu in 1969, it is Commandant Ben Gethi and another officer who prevailed upon the founding father to hang around until things normalised.

Those present during the event were unanimous that Gethi and a Mr Njino, then head of Presidential Escort, consulted with Kenyatta before they decided he would stay put until he accomplished the mission that took him there, which was to officially open Russia Hospital.

In his book, Kenya: A History Since Independence, author Charles Hornsby linked Gethi to the murder of JM Kariuki in 1975. The author states that on March 2, 1975, the day after a bus explosion, security officials including Gethi had publicly accosted JM Kariuki outside the Hilton Hotel before his disappearance. “He had been followed by the police throughout the day, including European police reservist Patrick Shaw. Gethi asked Kariuki to accompany the security officials to a convoy of cars and took him to an unknown destination,” states the author.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000097072/author-says-gsu-boss-ben-gethi-and-other-officers-had-accosted-jm-kariuki-outside-a-nairobi-hotel-before-he-disappeared

A story is told on how a senior Kamba General had not yet figured it out and needed a dress down. Cannot remember whether it was Ndolo or Mulinge. Ben Gethi did the job. The army was under his GSU and that was that. And this GSU was the private paramilitary force of Jomo Kenyatta. Period.

Was this NYS scamman going by his name, the son? Or they just –-coincidentally-- shared names?


Ben Gethi

I did not ask myself that question in the surface sense of the word, but in the male, old-fashioned sense, here: Is he cold ash from a once mighty fire that raged unstoppable, or is he a true like-father- like-son fella, old school, forged of the same constitution and aptitude? –-The infamous Gethi senior was a man with aptitude. The cruel-heart calibre required to kill both a Mboya and a JM Kariuki in one generation isn't given to many men. If the Kenyatta dynasty has taken root, it is the frontline calibre of men like Ben Gethi and John Michuki which shines. (Guess which Gethi!)

I am not doing romantics now. Muigai wa Jomo would do well to remember the kitchens of history where debts are accrued. His Kingly and mama Ngina's billions wouldn't be here without Ben Gethi senior. He should mind the people prodding him to throw a Gethi to the meat grinder within only one generation of dynasty gone.

But young Prince Muigai surely can't be that foolish I know. When a family sheds that kind of holy blood for your family, you are in debt, and anybody who tells you different is a fcuck out to bring you down. Instinct alone is enough to tell. Yet comprador consciousness with its obsessive use and discard commercial short-termism may not have inculcated a sense of historical purpose and destiny. So take a lecture thus: Dynasties going places must have loyalties to 'wet department' warriors, even after death. Don't betray a Gethi yet, Ouru. No gethi no kenyatta. Mboya or JM, take your pick, would have wiped out your father Jomo at any subsequent free and fair election. A Gethi wiped them out instead. (Even if it happens young Gethi has been bedding your favourite Anne, still that does not rank personal enough as to derail a royal magnanimous pardon for his leecherous excess! The red line would be a coup plot! But even then, a discrete execution without public humiliation would be the smart-asz thing.)

Boy, this aint romantics. This is a history master class and sh!thead titles like your excellency bothers one no sh!t. You are a Kenyatta dynast, beneficiary of murderous purge. Murderous purge itself is standard procedure of course.

Too, I remember the shetani ashindwe day when candidate Ouru Kenyatta was on the verge of a mental collapse, ready to hand the ticket to Musalia Mudavadi. Howbeit it the feeble-minded crown prince was frogmarched back to the top of the ticket by forces he himself knew not; nor, I suspect, did the son of Jomo know the details of the formulaic TYRANNY OF NUMBERS that hosted him atop, nor, I am sure, did young Muigai know of the invicible steely hand that kept on dead dropping would-be Mungiki witnesses warming up to Ocampo and co.

Anyway, both of them, Kenyatta jnr. And Gethi jnr. could of course be the generation of dust, cold ash left after giant fires are gone. An aristocracy, or oligarchy, can be kept in power long after its historical death-knell has been sounded. It then runs on, on the volcanic momentum generated by the founding fathers, but in effect sleepwalking towards its extinction like a Romanov in 1914.

Aristocracies overlording feudal paradises in the age of industrialised go-getter nations is a tough act. Something has to be done to accommodate the aspirations of millions of the young, educated and dreaming, of best futures.

Academic interest:

Ben Gethi Ben Gethi is a double name. The circumstances under which he was named after his father to the letter, or adopted his father's full and official names later, will be as interesting as to force me to find time to visit the nomenclature of aristocratic names after a founder of a dynasty, like Bhutros Bhutros Gahli Gahli, or why, after a kilometre of paper, all names of Saudi princes end in Al-Saud! Brunei (His Majesty Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah) and Kuwait (Emir Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ….)
will be of academic interest too.

But take this if you like it light

Who is Ben Gethi?

BEN Gethi is a 31-year-old businessman born, raised and educated in Nyeri.
He is the first of three children of Charity Wangui Gethi.
An old boy of the respected Catholic-sponsored St Mary’s Boys’ School in Nyeri, he completed his Form Four there in 2002.
After high school, he tried his hand at several projects, including construction, before partnering with senior government officials who introduced him to the world of lucrative state procurement business.
He is married and has one child.

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2015/12/15/who-is-ben-gethi_c1261060

ASSETS worth Sh585 million acquired using funds from the National Youth Service have been traced and the recovery process started.
The properties include prime plots in upmarket Muthaiga in Nairobi, a new Range Rover and cash in various bank accounts. The assets were purchased through proxies and lawyers and some registered using lawyers.
According to court documents obtained exclusively by the Star, the Assets Recovery Agency filed an application in Milimani Court in November to recover the assets.

On December 11, the Kenya Gazette recorded preservation orders under the Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering Act to prohibit the transfer of the properties and the car.
Most of the assets traced and frozen belong, directly or indirectly, to 31-year old businessman Benson Gethi.
Besides Gethi, the Assets Recovery Agency has also named his mother Charity Wangui Gethi as a respondent along with his sister Jedidah Wangari Wangui; Nairobi hairdresser Josephine Kabura Irungu; John Kago Ndungu, a driver at KCB; Sam Mwadime; and lawyers Patrick Onyango Ogola and Martin Muthomi Gitonga.
Gethi is currently facing criminal charges of stealing Sh791 million from the Department of Planning in the Ministry of Devolution.

Twenty two other people, including former employees of NYS, are facing related charges including the former Devolution PS Peter Mangiti and former NYS boss Nelson Githinji.
The scandal of inflated payments by NYS brought down the former Devolution CS Anne Waiguru who was forced to step down on 22 November.

he stole 791M that is why he is in court?

Does not look like the real reason to me! For if that is so, then nearly every who is who in the country is boarding the Kamiti express! And that does not look plausible.

jakaswanga

Just because he is called Ben Gethi does it make him the off-spring of the late commissioner Ben Gethi? In gikuyuland, many people share family names without necessarily being related. I recall in my school days we had two Tom Mboya's that were not related and neither were they rrelated to the legendary Tom Mboya the Luo MP of a Nairobi Constituency.

You will note that the guy appears to be the son of a single mother.....

[jakaswanga]

BUSINESS WARS AMONGST AN EMERGING QUISLING (COMPRADOR) ELITE

I will start with a curious quote from the star's JOE ADAMA, pondering the Gethi arrest.

Ben Gethi is not a major player in the corruption food chain. The coming year must produce multiple, preferably more than 100, instances of the corrupt big fish investigated and audited up-to-the-minute just like Gethi and then swiftly prosecuted on the basis of this credible evidence.

a sacrificial lamb then? considering the amounts mentioned in the defence docket, starring Kimemia and Iringo, one might be tempted to sympathise with the young billionare:

In the Kimemia/Iringo case of long fingers, the figure was ~8 billion. At 8bn, 500M suddenly looks peanuts, eh!? So why pick on me!? Young Gethi may ask, theatrically perplexed at Jeff Koinange Live!

PS: B6k was there, cyclopic eye on a tour of duty for Mighty Jukwaa, search-lighting the government corridors. Let us jog our memory before we continue our tale. And hold in mind that Young Ababu Namwamba, then chairman of PAC, had a mathematical problem between two billions figures: 8.2 and 2.8. and what is the credibility of a Mpig, thinking of Pavlov's dogs in a famous experiment?

How Harambee House gang stole Sh2.8bn from taxpayers

Senior Government officials used a secret account at NBK to siphon billions in taxpayers’ money

Senior Internal Security ministry officials used a secret account at National Bank of Kenya to siphon billions in taxpayers’ money from public coffers in the run-up to last year’s General Election, we can reveal.

The money disappeared into a slush fund whose purpose remains unknown.

A report on government spending for the year 2012 says auditors unearthed the existence of a secret account at National Bank where Sh2.8 billion was wired and spent on items marked as ‘confidential’.

It points an accusing figure at former accounting officers in the security docket at the Office of the President.

The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says in its audit report for the year ended June 2013 that former Head of Civil Service Francis Kimemia and the then PS for Internal Security Mutea Iringo were the accounting officers at the time.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9234/mutea-iringo-francis-kimemia-unaccounted#ixzz3uqblJxP3

All is silent on that security bosses front. But young Ben Gethi is served, to the dogs.

Then, this game would really be deep. But however deep, let us not forget the basics. Economic interests at play, jostling for position, angling for market shares, out to control resources. We will therefore have to look at the land properties Ben Gethi owns around Nairobi, and who is interested in them and who he has refused to sell to. And what the real-estate monsters are planning for Nairobi in the next 50 years of PROJECTED urban development and middle class explosion in East Africa, Nairobi the capital city of all that. –--And look around you, the architecture of fear is the future.
From that perspective, this story will be a significant clue. CLUE!

www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Son-of-former-police-chief-Ben-Gethi-to-build-Runda-mall/-/539550/2470752/-/c4ta6xz/-/index.html

Son of former police chief Ben Gethi to build Runda mall


An artist’s impression of Rosslyn Riviera. (Inset) Peter Gethi. PHOTOS | COURTESY
By VICTOR JUMA, [e-mail]

Posted Tuesday, September 30 2014 at 21:35

In Summary

Dubbed Rosslyn Riviera, the mall is being set up on a 4.5-acre land along Limuru Road, next to Centum’s upcoming Two Rivers shopping complex.

The shopping complex is within reach of Runda, Rosslyn, Kigwaru, and Ruaka residents.
Mr Gethi said he is building the over 157,380 square feet complex on land inherited from his father, a powerful figure in the Moi government who owned coffee plantations in the area.

PS: As the world gets dangerous and castes condense, the rich will want to shop in totally risk free areas. A richman's mall, a kind of fort, is the architecture of the future in wealthy neighbourhoods. I once heard the name the couveuse principle used in Mumbai India. It is also used for Israel building anti-Palestinian walls.

Two couveuse's from two continents to jog our memories at what goes.



couveuse's are for when babies are prematurely born, a germ free environment!

Son of former police chief Ben Gethi to build Runda mall

it will also host News Café, a South African brand of restaurant, cocktail bar and entertainment. Other restaurants that have signed up are German Point and Coffee Nove

The mall has attracted fashion brands Accessorise with Style, Bianca Nero, Basic Intimates, and RAGS. Other businesses that have booked space are forex bureaus, drycleaners, and jewellers.
Rosslyn Riviera, which will have more than 350 parking bays, is designed as a family-friendly establishment where residents can frequent for shopping and fun activities.
The upcoming mall signals a rush by investors to tap the growing consumer spend in the affluent neighbourhood. It is located next to Centum’s upcoming 620,000 square-feet mall expected to be completed by October next year, with Carrefour as the anchor tenant.

ALSO READ: French retail giant Carrefour books space in Karen mall

Village Market, which houses Nakumatt Holdings, is also in the middle of a multibillion-shilling expansion.
The malls are targeting rich and middle class residents, including Kenyans and expatriates living in Runda, Rosslyn, Gigiri, Nyari, and Muthaiga

That is a mouth-watering itenerary of clientele. The landlord {rentier} is made forever.

But Pirates and vultures may have a different opinion about that forever. (rentier is parasitic capitalism)

ELSEWHERE IN THE SAME CITY. Another whiff of a trend.

The company said the Two Rivers Mall, its flagship property project being built in a suburb of the Kenyan capital, would be completed early in 2015.
"We are on track to hand over the mall to Carrefour in March of next year," Chief Executive James Mworia told an investor briefing where executives announced the firm's results.
Carrefour, Europe's largest retailer, will be the main tenant at the Two Rivers Mall when completed.
The arrival of a big European retail brand name will offer a boost to Kenya almost nine months after confidence was shaken by the attack on Westgate mall, which had been one of the city's smartest shopping centres.

www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Centum-s-profit-rises--flagship-mall-progresses/-/539550/2342824/-/r4nha4z/-/index.html

Contours of a futuristic trend. So business wars will erupt.

Back to Young Ben Gethi's mall on former coffee farms of disputed ownership, with land moghuls like Arap Moi and Jomo Kenyatta dynasties once the partners in the old crime of grabbing.

However, ours is different because it is styled as a neighbourhood mall,” he added.
The shopping complex is within reach of Runda, Rosslyn, Kigwaru, and Ruaka residents.

He declined to reveal the cost of the project, which real estate experts estimate could top Sh2 billion depending on the scale of the construction and quality of finishing, and also after factoring the value of land in the prime location.
Mr Gethi said he is building the over 157,380 square feet complex on land inherited from his father, a powerful figure in the Moi government who owned coffee plantations in the area.

The senior Gethi was appointed police commissioner by President Moi in November 1978, augmenting his career as a civil servant and businessman.

Can't figure out the financing yet. Which banks put down the loan, or was the money otherwise sourced but dried up ----such details are important, did a cash-crunch bite---- forcing a run at the NYS system?

Mr Gethi teamed up with Moi and other notable personalities like former Attorney-General Charles Njonjo and former head of Civil Service Jeremiah Kiereini in acquiring substantial stakes in public companies.
The individuals, through the Africa Liaison & Consultant Services (Alico), made investments in Credit Finance Corporation, Barclays Bank, and Heritage Insurance, among others.
Mr Gethi, however, fell out of favour with the former president who sacked and detained him for days in the wake of the August 1982 coup, an incident that fuelled mistrust of key government officials at the time. He passed on in 1994
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His son Peter is a director of some of the entities where Alico invested, including Heritage Insurance, Liberty Holdings, and CfC Stanbic Holdings. He has several residential properties, with Rosslyn Riviera being one of his largest commercial projects.
The mall is scheduled to open its doors in March 2016 and has already signed up major local and international retailers. Chandarana Supermarket, an Asian family business, will be the anchor tenant at the mall.

Young Gethi may be small fish to fry, but he could have been identified as a pin which, if removed, a dam can be drained and land reclaimed.
Economic warfare.

SKY FALL and swords in the shadows

Now let us read Adama in full.

Is Gethi audit the beginning of an era?

By JOE ADAMA
Dec. 20, 2015, 10:00 am

Kenyans have never seen the level and depth of investigation produced by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission or the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Ben Gethi’s case in real time.
The template has been that millions, even billions, go missing, suspects are named, selected senior ministers and other officials are also named, even briefly arrested, and, or step aside and resign.
The money is never recovered, no arrests are ever made and no one goes to jail.
Where did the EACC and DCI suddenly get all the personnel, equipment and complete element-of-surprise tactics and strategies?

It would appear the EACC and DCI are both rapid response beneficiaries of anti-corruption funding, equipment, personnel, trainings and oversight obtained through a number of anti-graft agreements signed between President Barack Obama and President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi in July.
That something major is in the works was also signaled by unprecedented visit of 11 Western powers’ envoys to Kenya to the EACC’s Integrity Centre HQ on November 12. Afterwards they issued a joint statement on US State Department letterhead, declaring corruption in Kenya a crisis.

Led by US Ambassador Robert Godec, UK High Commissioner Christian Turner, Canadian chargé d'affaires Jamie Christoff, Finish Ambassador Tarja Fernández, French Ambassador Remi Marechaux, German Ambassador Jutta Frasch, Japanese Deputy Ambassador Mikio Mori, Dutch Deputy Head of Mission Marielle Geraedts, Norwegian Ambassador Victor Rønneberg, Swedish Ambassador Johan Borgstam and Swiss Ambassador Ralf Heckner insisted those named in graft must be probed and prosecuted if there was credible evidence linking them to misuse of public resources.

Ben Gethi is not a major player in the corruption food chain. The coming year must produce multiple, preferably more than 100, instances of the corrupt big fish investigated and audited up-to-the-minute just like Gethi and then swiftly prosecuted on the basis of this credible evidence.
No anti-corruption case should take more than a year and the sentences must be truly deterrent, particularly the seizure of the assets of graft.
In the digital era surveillance, forensic audits and assets seizures should not involve armies of detectives and investigators that make a living out of concealing the sort of information and data the Assets Recovery Agency has gathered in the Gethi case.

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2015/12/20/is-gethi-audit-the-beginning-of-an-era_c1262755

So it takes Imperialist nations to have us do the right thing! Obama has to fund anti-corruption hardware in Kenya, and his european vassals have to do teamwork, banging heads and bodies together to get them to a rattling start!

I am lost yawa! never more a bad word against the West! (the other Boko which obviously is not in practice within Kenya!)

People in office in Africa really can be dumb at times! 2015 and Greeks tell you how to fight corruption! Ouru Kenyatta, you know what that makes you? A goat.

PS

ASSETS worth Sh585 million acquired using funds from the National Youth Service have been traced and the recovery process started.
The properties include prime plots in upmarket Muthaiga in Nairobi, a new Range Rover and cash in various bank accounts. The assets were purchased through proxies and lawyers and some registered using lawyers.
According to court documents obtained exclusively by the Star, the Assets Recovery Agency filed an application in Milimani Court in November to recover the assets.
On December 11, the Kenya Gazette recorded preservation orders under the Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering Act to prohibit the transfer of the properties and the car.
Most of the assets traced and frozen belong, directly or indirectly, to 31-year old businessman Benson Gethi.

[b6k]

Dec 18, 2015 18:49:28 GMT 3 mwalimumkuu said:

B6K

Many questions than answers from this interview. It was billed to be weird from the time Jeff announced on social media who his guest was going to be. I can tell from the demeanor of and a few pronouncements by the interviewee that he's as shady as they come. He may not have anything to do with the millions in question at NYS, but he's been in many questionable deels.

Here's a sneak peek

rasqoh.com/7-crucial-questions-jeff-koinange-forgot-to-ask-ben-gethi/

~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~

I couldn't agree more, Mwalimumkuu. When you see someone saying something in the affirmative while shaking his head no you know he's telling some major fibs. These tenderpreneurs need to be culled.

The truth will eventually come out. This chap will find he'll need a lot of that 3 billion shillings to clear his name.

[b6k]

Jakaswanga, I thought the most prudent way to approach this hot potato was to let the suspect speak for himself....fry himself in his own fat as Mig2 would say.

I've heard Ben Gethi is Ben Gethi senior's junior. I've also heard he's not. Kamale saying he was raised by a single mother doesn’t really add much since if he was Ben Gethi junior, by definition his mother being a widow for a couple of decades would be a single mother too...

[kamalet]

Dec 21, 2015 0:19:18 GMT 3 b6k said:

Jakaswanga, I thought the most prudent way to approach this hot potato was to let the suspect speak for himself....fry himself in his own fat as Mig2 would say.

I've heard Ben Gethi is Ben Gethi senior's junior. I've also heard he's not. Kamale saying he was raised by a single mother doesn’t really add much since if he was Ben Gethi junior, by definition his mother being a widow for a couple of decades would be a single mother too...

Unless he is a grandson....it is quite rare in gikuyu custom to name a child after their father.

[jakaswanga]

Dec 21, 2015 21:54:19 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Dec 21, 2015 0:19:18 GMT 3 b6k said:

Jakaswanga, I thought the most prudent way to approach this hot potato was to let the suspect speak for himself....fry himself in his own fat as Mig2 would say.

I've heard Ben Gethi is Ben Gethi senior's junior. I've also heard he's not. Kamale saying he was raised by a single mother doesn’t really add much since if he was Ben Gethi junior, by definition his mother being a widow for a couple of decades would be a single mother too...

Unless he is a grandson....it is quite rare in gikuyu custom to name a child after their father.

Even in Luoland double names are so rare that, come to think of it, when a double name emerged as a most strident critic of Emir of Lakepeople, endless in frothing-mouthed delirium did the a large chunk of that group convulse, as they spewed and heaped ridicule and abuse on the tribesman gone rogue.

2. I considered the double name Ben Gethi Ben Gethi sufficiently curious to warrant mental note for, later, an academic insight in name-callings or ceremonies: a whiff at intent at dynasty? an audacious statement on heritage since family fall outs can lead to excommunications, denunciations of 'bastard', with tremendous consequences in terms of inheritance I suppose!

NB: In Luo History, some of the most savage intra-family murders we have in legend have to do with heirlooms. Sometimes a heirloom being ogayi, a kind of scepter which confers divine kingship!

Come on Kamalet, give us the more background you are hiding! must we scour the grapevine while you are here, O great source!