Dr Mutua, on the other hand, is in trouble for buying 14 used Subaru vehicles for county executive committee members.
Five Cabinet Secretaries on the
list had their identities disclosed over the weekend when they “stepped
aside” as requested by the President to allow for investigations.
They include Charity Ngilu
(Lands), Davies Chirchir (Energy), Felix Koskei (Agriculture), Michael
Kamau (Transport) and Kazungu Kambi (Labour).
Mrs Ngilu is alleged to have
colluded with Mr Evanson Waitiki, a Likoni landowner plagued by
squatters, to inflate the market price of his farm by Sh110 million
ahead of a sale to the government. She is also accused of scheming to
drive a landowner off a parcel of land near State House, Nairobi.
Agriculture CS Koskei is accused
of renting government land in Tigoni from the Kenya Veterinary Vaccines
Production Institute to plant potatoes. EACC is looking into conflict of
interest issues surrounding Koskei’s 100-acre potato farm. He is also
accused of secretly allocating sugar import permits, demanding bribes
from parastatal heads and intimidating those who resist.
Mr Kamau stands accused of
illegally contracting a local clearing and forwarding firm to handle
cargo belonging to the Chinese firm contracted to build the standard
gauge railway. He is also alleged to have colluded in the irregular
trashing of a road design “leading to massive embezzlement of funds”,
manipulated road tender awards and directed billions of shillings of
SGR-related in consultancy work to a firm associated with him.
The allegations against Energy
and Petroleum CS Chirchir also relate to the tender and procurement
process. In one deal, he is accused of trying to influence the award of a
$500 million (Sh45.5 billion) Kenya Pipeline Company Tender to a
Chinese firm in return for a $15 million (Sh1.4 billion) kickback to be
shared with Nairobi senator Mike Sonko.
Labour CS Kambi is alleged to be
involved in corruption deals at the National Social Security Fund. The
main accusations revolve around the Tassia Phase II project, whose cost
estimates were revised from Sh3.3 billion to Sh5 billion without the
approval of NSSF’s Board of Trustees.
One of the more intriguing
investigations involves Ms Marianne Kitany, the chief of staff at the
office of the Deputy President. Apart from allegedly misappropriating
Sh200 million, she is accused of diverting Sh100 million from a liaison
office budget to “mobilise MPs” in the abortive campaign to impeach
Devolution CS Anne Waiguru in June last year.
The EACC is expected to bring investigations into these and other cases to a conclusion within two months.
The commission on Monday formed a
130-member special team to expedite investigations and possible
prosecution of CSs, PSs and parastatal heads who have stepped aside
after being named in their status report.
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