Post by tiskie on Jan 15, 2009 2:43:49 GMT 3
Day Kibaki was duped
As the Kenya Pipeline Company scandal continues to unfold, it has emerged that President Kibaki may have been duped into commissioning an Sh8.5 billion white elephant two months ago.
The projects began in 2007 and were expected to double the flow of white petroleum from Mombasa to Nairobi from an average of 440 cubic metres to 880 cubic metres an hour.
However, shoddy construction work thrust the entire plans into disarray. But the President’s handlers had no way of knowing the intrigues behind the scenes as Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi, Assistant minister Maalim Mahmoud Mohammed and the Parliamentary Committee on Energy, Communication and Public Works had only a few days earlier toured the project.
According to the KPC website, they all gave it a clean bill of health.
Committee Chairman James Rege said they were optimistic the project would be unveiled within the stipulated period of 18 months.
Other members in the tour included MPs Charles Lugano, Charles Nyamai, Emilio Kathuri, Kambi Kazungu, Maina Kamau and Isaac Muoki.
Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi, Assistant minister Maalim Mahmoud Mohammed
YET AGAIN SAME OLD SAME OLD THIEVING THUGS UNDER KIBAKI'S DIRECT ORDERS.... 2007- WHEN KIBAKI WAS COZY WITH CHINA- IS THIS A SURPRISE TO KENYAN.... NOPE MOST OF US UNDERSTAND CHINA'S TYPES OF SHODDY DEALS IN AFRICA... KIBAKI AND HIS TEAM OF LOOTERS ONLY WANTED TO POCKET MONEY TO USE DURING THE 2007 DECEMBER ELECTIONS..
LET US SEE WHAT THEY TELL KENYANS THIS TIME.... NO NO... NO MORE INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEES- BULLSHIT!!
Project Design
During the design of the project, the Chinese contractor is said to have insisted on maintaining an old pump operational philosophy of the 1970s, namely fluid coupling instead of modern technology of frequency control, which saves energy.
This led to a disagreement with then KPC chief mechanical engineer who was withdrawn from the project and transferred.
The project design is then understood to have duplicated existing stations with no net improvements.
In the fluid coupling method, the mortar drives the pumps to run constantly at full energy consumption.
It is understood that engineers in the Line One Capacity Enhancement project failed to offer engineering design that would have seen the project meet the requirements of the flow rate envisaged. This led to an oversight in the design works and the source of oil products at the Kipevu Oil Storage Facility (KOSF) was never taken into consideration.
Capacity Enhancement Line I (Mombasa to Nairobi) and Line II (Nairobi to Eldoret) acknowledge that the rising demand in petroleum products has put a strain on the Pipeline, which is operating at threshold.
www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144004095&cid=4&
As the Kenya Pipeline Company scandal continues to unfold, it has emerged that President Kibaki may have been duped into commissioning an Sh8.5 billion white elephant two months ago.
The projects began in 2007 and were expected to double the flow of white petroleum from Mombasa to Nairobi from an average of 440 cubic metres to 880 cubic metres an hour.
However, shoddy construction work thrust the entire plans into disarray. But the President’s handlers had no way of knowing the intrigues behind the scenes as Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi, Assistant minister Maalim Mahmoud Mohammed and the Parliamentary Committee on Energy, Communication and Public Works had only a few days earlier toured the project.
According to the KPC website, they all gave it a clean bill of health.
Committee Chairman James Rege said they were optimistic the project would be unveiled within the stipulated period of 18 months.
Other members in the tour included MPs Charles Lugano, Charles Nyamai, Emilio Kathuri, Kambi Kazungu, Maina Kamau and Isaac Muoki.
Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi, Assistant minister Maalim Mahmoud Mohammed
YET AGAIN SAME OLD SAME OLD THIEVING THUGS UNDER KIBAKI'S DIRECT ORDERS.... 2007- WHEN KIBAKI WAS COZY WITH CHINA- IS THIS A SURPRISE TO KENYAN.... NOPE MOST OF US UNDERSTAND CHINA'S TYPES OF SHODDY DEALS IN AFRICA... KIBAKI AND HIS TEAM OF LOOTERS ONLY WANTED TO POCKET MONEY TO USE DURING THE 2007 DECEMBER ELECTIONS..
LET US SEE WHAT THEY TELL KENYANS THIS TIME.... NO NO... NO MORE INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEES- BULLSHIT!!
Project Design
During the design of the project, the Chinese contractor is said to have insisted on maintaining an old pump operational philosophy of the 1970s, namely fluid coupling instead of modern technology of frequency control, which saves energy.
This led to a disagreement with then KPC chief mechanical engineer who was withdrawn from the project and transferred.
The project design is then understood to have duplicated existing stations with no net improvements.
In the fluid coupling method, the mortar drives the pumps to run constantly at full energy consumption.
It is understood that engineers in the Line One Capacity Enhancement project failed to offer engineering design that would have seen the project meet the requirements of the flow rate envisaged. This led to an oversight in the design works and the source of oil products at the Kipevu Oil Storage Facility (KOSF) was never taken into consideration.
Capacity Enhancement Line I (Mombasa to Nairobi) and Line II (Nairobi to Eldoret) acknowledge that the rising demand in petroleum products has put a strain on the Pipeline, which is operating at threshold.
www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144004095&cid=4&