INDEPENDENT BIG READ FRESH AND DIFFERENT ‘USELESS’ 1 COURSES, HELB MARCH 2019 ARRESTS AND FRIDAY TRIPLING FEES KSh60 ROCK VARSITIES (TSh1,000 | USh2,000) PG 12-13 ACTION KENYATTA SAYS KEY SUSPECTS TO BE ARRESTED IN DAYS NEW RIPOFF Panic in Ruto camp over dams probe Former Sports PS Richard Ekai at Milimani law court on Tuesday / COLLINS KWEYU Deputy President’s allies once again say that their man is being targeted in witch-hunt PG 2, 4 and 5 Sh4.8bn scandal rocks Offi ce of the President FELIX OLICK@ eStarKenya / An- istry of Interior, currently headed by ti-graft detectives have unearthed an Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i. audacious attempt by state offi cials e contracts have now returned to steal Sh4.8 billion through fi cti- to haunt former Correctional Ser- tious security contracts in the Offi ce vices Principal Secretary Alfred of the President. Cheruiyot who signed the contract In an elaborate and brazen plot before he was moved to the Depart- that has baffl ed EACC investigators, ment of Post Training and Skills top offi cials in the State Department Development by President Uhuru for Correctional Services irregularly Kenyatta in July last year. awarded 10 classifi ed tenders and Prisons Commissioner General were about to pay Sh3.6 billion up- Isaiah Osugo told EACC he was not front. e State department oversees prisons and is domiciled in the Min- CONTINUED ON PAGE 45 OPENING UP Victims of police brutality stun DPP, DCI as they narrate ordeal PAGE 6 BARBARIC EASTLEIGH KILLING Girl, 14, found dead in an ambulance after gang-rape, doused in acid NICE TO SEE YOU: President Uhuru greets Justice Roselyn Nambuye outside the Supreme Court yesterday / PSCU PAGE 3 2 THE-STAR.CO.KE Friday, March 1, 2019 He eulogised him as a hard work- ing businessman who worked for years before amassing wealth. “He was a symbol of how it can be to be a great Kenyan and we would not have been here, were it not for the respect he showed in his life,” Uhuru said. He said Kabugi was a good ex- ample to his family and Kenyans. The Head of State said some Ken- yans wake up with nothing, but get rich within days. It is important for Kenyans to work together in the war on graft because it is the only way to safe- guard the country’s future, Uhuru said. “We cannot continue with this trend.” He asked leaders to stop politicking and focus on working for Kenyans. ODM leader Raila Odinga said Kenya has become like the biblical ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ because of the many graft scandals being unearthed. He said corruption sus- pects are enemies of Kenya. Raila said fighting corruption is President Uhuru Kenyatta condoles with the family of Thayu Kamau Kabugi at Gitui Primary School in Kiharu, Murang’a county, yesterday one of the nine agenda penned in INDEPENDENT /PSCU FRESH AND DEFENCE the MoU he signed when DIFFERENT KERIO VALLEY DAM he decided to work with 28 AUTHORITY EXPLAINS FEBRUARY 2019 PROGRESS IN ELGEYO Uhuru. CSS AMONG THOSE TARGETED THURSDAY MARAKWET PROJECTS KSh60 Uhuru and Raila (TSh1,000, USh2,000) PAGE 12/13 had a handshake on TARGETED THE MINISTERS ARE LIKELY TO FACE CHARGES OF NEGLIGENCE AND CONSPIRACY TO STEAL March 9 last year. “We FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2019 FRIDAY, Expect arrests in a few have to fight corruption Two CSs face arrest, without mercy so our country can move on Uhuru plans reshuff le as a free nation,” Raila said. days, Uhuru promises Raila Odinga asks President to sack CSs linked to graft as police continue probing dams scam PG 2 MP REJECT GENDER BILL FOR THE FOURTH TIME He said corruption suspects will carry President says Kenyans need hospitals, roads and jobs their own crosses and should not drag their ALICE WAITHERA/ President Uhuru achieved if the revenue collected communities into their Kenyatta yesterday promised to from hardworking Kenyans ends cases. ensure high-profile individuals in- up in pockets of individuals. Raila was replying criminated in corruption scandals The President said the Execu- to Kiambu Governor are arrested in the next few days. tive has made efforts to cleanup Ferdinand Waititu’s Yesterday, the Star exclusively the Directorate of Criminal In- FURIOUS: Women lawmakers protest against the failure to pass the two-thirds Gender Bill and blame entrenched chauvinism in both Houses of Parliament yesterday /JACK OWUOR remarks that there is published a story that two Cabi- vestigations and appointed people FREE FOR NOW LEGACY PROJECTS COMMENT a need for Kenyans to Fake ‘Uhuru’ denies attempt Uhuru’s Big Four agenda ZARINA PATEL net secretaries are facing arrests in who are ready to work. to defraud Sameer boss, not viable, ill thought out, Caroline Mwatha consider that some com- released on Sh100,000 bail says Budget Committee rejected by her Seven suspects accused of mimicking or representing MPs have poured cold water on President Kenyatta’s relation to the Sh63 billion dam The Directorate of Public Prose- the President have denied attempts to defraud Sameer legacy projects even as intricate details emerged of graft munities may be hurt by Africa boss Naushad Merali of Sh10 million. ey are Jo- gobbling billions of shillings. In a bold report to Parliament, merciful church seph Waswa, Duncan Muchai, Isaac Wajekeche, William the Budget Committee expressed doubt budgetary allo- projects. cutions has also been streamlined Simiyu, David Luganya, Gilbert Kirunja, Anthony Wafula. cations are enough to achieve any meaningful outcome. the 2022 General Elec- The President said Kenyans will and is now arraigning people in PAGE 9 that we sawPAGE 4/5 a y o uPAGE n 16 g tion. soon see action taken against those court for various offences, he said. man being arrested for sneaking “Waititu should not be scared suspected to have looted public He said he has reminded the Ju- his child out of a hospital and was because those who steal, steal coffers. diciary that Kenyans are tired of charged and released the same day. alone and should carry their own “Kenyans need hospitals, roads, seeing people being released on Why not do the same with those crosses,” he said. electricity and jobs. That cannot small bonds after being accused accused of stealing billions?” A Kenyan can live and work any- be achieved through the get-rich- ERADICATING of stealing huge amounts of public He warned the Judiciary that if where and should not be scared,” quick way, but through sweat and GRAFT IS THE funds. it does not do what Kenyans want, he said. hard work. “Today morning [yesterday], I it may reach a point where people Murang’a leaders including The President said eradicating ONLY WAY was in a meeting with the Judicia- may resort to taking action. Governor Mwangi wa Iria, Senator graft was the only way the country THE COUNTRY ry and I reminded them that Ken- The President spoke in Gitui, Irungu Kang’ata, MP Ndindi Nyoro can develop. yans are tired and watching them,” Murang’a county, during the buri- and Woman Representative Sabina He said development will not be CAN DEVELOP Uhuru said. “I reminded them al of tycoon Kamau Thayu Kabugi. Chege were present. STAR SURVEY MPS TOLD TO GIVE EXECUTIVE SPACE FOR THE RECORD TODAY’S QUESTION Power intrigues in JKIA takeover probe On Wednesday February 27, 2019, we carried a story ‘Transaction limit Has the dam bribery MOSES ODHIAMBO/ Power intrigues gives us the space to restructure the viability of the proposal also law bold step in ending illicit financing have gripped the probe into the this relationship. We are a respon- present a new twist to the probe. – CBK’ where we erroneously saga been blown out of proposed takeover of JKIA by Ken- sible government and will subject This came in the wake of Speaker quoted CBK as saying that. “A proportion? ya Airways. the proposal to the House for ap- Justin Muturi writing to the Public whole 99 per cent of Kenyans who KQ seeks to enter into an ar- proval.” Investments Committee asking it have less than Sh1 million are not rangement that would lead to it Ruto said the proposal was to stop investigations into the JKIA affected by this regulation. Why YESTERDAY’S QUESTION taking over the day-to-day running mooted in a Cabinet meeting after proposal. then should we allow few individuals of the country’s largest airport, concerns that KQ might go under The Speaker’s orders followed to get a leeway to transfer illicit Should Uhuru abandon leaving Kenya Airports Authority with the governments’ investment. protests by the Transport commit- finances that can as well be used to (KAA) to man the rest. He said the plan will help the tee that their counterparts in PIC harm citizens?” Njoroge posed. The the Big Four agenda? Critics say the proposal is a plot country save earnings in tourism, had overstepped their mandate. correct verbatim quote is, “What by powerful forces in government horticulture and revenues for KAA. The team, chaired by David fraction of our population is affected to use the public-private partner- “No transaction has taken place Pkosing of Pokot South MP, wrote by this requirement? First, less than YES 63% ship to profit from JKIA. between KAA and KQ concerning to the Speaker seeking direction af- 0.7 per cent of all bank accounts in DP William Ruto yesterday ac- JKIA. It is unfair that even before ter it emerged the two teams were Kenya have a balance of Sh1 million cused Parliament of denying the we start, all manner of allegations looking into the same subject.