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Wednesday PAGE 1 2609.Indd INDEPENDENT CELEBRITY LINK FRESH AND DIFFERENT JACKIE MARIBE’S 26 FIANCE QUIZZED SEPTEMBER 2018 WEDNESDAY OVER MURDER OF KSh60 KILIMANI WOMAN (TSh1,000, USh2,000) PG 3 ETHICS RULING ON BAIL APPLICATION SET FOR THURSDAY AS PETITION FILED TO REMOVE GOVERNOR MCAs sign motion to impeach Obado He is charged with murder and is being investigated by EACC for siphoning millions of county funds through proxies but Obado’s fate lies with MCAs who want to impeach him SUSAN MUHINDI AND NANCY AGUTU/ Migori MCAs have kicked BREASTFEEDING off moves towards impeaching embattled governor Okoth Obado who was charged with Sharon’s HIV+ woman murder in Nairobi on Monday. By 6pm yesterday 23 of the 60 charged with MCAs roll out plot members of the county assembly had signed the petition to remove infecting baby Obado on grounds of integrity. ey say he has disgraced him- of neighbour self and his position has become untenable. A woman yesterday denied delibera- But the assembly Majority lead- tely infecting a nine-month-old baby er defended the governor and told with HIV through breastfeeding. off those scheming to impeach Initial HIV tests from a hospital to impeach Obado him. returned positive, but the court has “We are aware of those plans but directed that the results be verifi ed. nothing has been presented to the assembly yet. When they do we PAGE 9 will deal with it then,” Lawrence Onyago told the Star yesterday. Obado was arrested last Fri- ELACHI REMOVAL day after recording statements in Kisumu and Nairobi. He has been accused of killing his pregnant Mwaura Chege girlfriend, Sharon Otieno, be- tween September 3-4. named Nairobi He denied the charged before High Court judge Jessie Lessit on acting speaker Monday and was remanded at In- dustrial Area remand prison until the court rules on his bail applica- Nairobi MCAs yesterday elected tion on ursday. Majority Chief Whip Mwaura Chege Besides the murder accusations, to replace impeached Beatrice Elachi Obado and his close allies are un- as speaker of the assembly, in an der investigation by the EACC acting capacity. for alleged money laundering in PAGE 6 which millions of shillings from the Migori country have been paid out to a ring of connected compa- VOICES nies in dubious contracts. Some of the bank accounts of NGUNJIRI WAMBUGU the suspect companies, including those held by his wife Helen, have No way around been frozen after the EACC ob- tained court orders. increased taxes CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 THIRST FOR FREEDOM: Migori governor Obado listens to arguments on bond at Milimani law court yesterday / COLLINS KWEYU PAGE 21 2 THE-STAR.CO.KE Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Migori governor 13 SUSPECTS NABBED Okoth Obado’s home in Uriri /COURTESY DCI and energy agency intensify war on illegal gas FELIX OLICK @olickfelix e Energy Regulatory Commission has partnered with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to wipe out crooks dealing in illegal liquefi ed petroleum gas. ERC director general Pavel Oimeke yesterday said they have already impounded 12 bulk LPG road tank- ers at the Namanga border and arrested 13 suspects. “ e suspects were arraigned and charged with importation, transportation and sale of liquefi ed pe- troleum gas without valid licences issued under the Energy Act, 2006,” Oimeke said. Namanga border is notoriously exploited by tax FACES GRAFT CHARGES evaders to import substandard products. e DCI has been spearheading a relentless war against contra- band and has lately trained its guns on offi cers abet- ting the trade. Some 30 senior KRA and KBS offi cials were arrested early this week and charged in an on- EACC probes Obado’s going probe into the importation of poisonous sugar and other contrabands. Oimeke urged members of the public to be vigi- lant and report any suspected malpractice in the Sh100m palatial home petroleum subsector. e ERC said they have in- tensifi ed countrywide surveillance in the LPG sec- tor to curb the trade, which is a threat to lives and Firm owned by accomplices and that benefi ts from county the Kenyan economy. An evasive but ruthless cartel has been running a parallel multimillion-shilling tenders built rural residence but no record shows it was paid market in the country, putting thousands of lives at risk and minting millions tax-free. Cheap but some- times-leaky cooking gas cylinders fi lled by racketeers sources of income. has Sh784,451. ey are some of the who provide no maintenance has been a nightmare Just last month, 11 senior offi cers accounts the EACC has frozen to consumers, especially in informal settlements FELIX OLICK from Migori were charged with e EACC says Mbingo Enterpris- where the black market thrives. @olickfelix fl outing procurement rules and es, one of the dubious fi rms owned purchasing Sh20 million furniture by Obado’s accomplices, built the e anti-graft agency estimates for the governor’s house. It is un- Uriri home. Puzzling to the detec- that beleaguered Migori governor clear whether the furniture was tives was lack of evidence indicat- MINORITY LEADERSHIP Okoth Obado’s rural home is worth meant for his Uriri home or for his ing that the governor paid the con- more than Sh100 million. offi cial residence. tractor. e Ethics and Anti-Corruption On Saturday and Tuesday, the Mbingo director Ernest Omondi Commission says in court papers Star exclusively reported how Oba- was paid more than Sh700 million Baya seeks Raila WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 WEDNESDAY, that the palatial home is a sym- do and his associates registered in questionable contracts by the bol of the vast amount of wealth about 30 companies and used county. Another of Obado’s alleged the second-term county chief has them to pocket Sh2.5 billion in proxy, Jared Peter Odoyo Oluoch blessing in bid amassed. “fi ctitious contracts”, according to Kwaga, pocketed Sh1.6 million. “ e investigation team has also EACC sleuths. e EACC says they have taken all to depose Mbadi verifi ed that the governor Migori e Eliud Wabukhala-led agency the suspects to task to explain the county, Zacharia Okoth Obado, said their preliminary probe had source of their massive wealth. has a newly built palatial home established that Obado and his “ e commission has issued no- JAMES MBAKA @ eStarKenya estimated to be worth more than wife, Hellen Odie, hold numerous tices under Section 26 of ACECA Sh100 million located at Uriri,” bank accounts. to the respondents and others be- Kilifi North MP Owen Baya has written to ODM EACC told the High Court. e suspect’s accounts are at Na- lieved to be to part of the scheme to leader Raila Odinga seeking removal of John Mbadi e anti-graft detectives claim tional Bank, Diamond Trust Bank, explain the sources of the monies as National Assembly Minority leader for incompe- Obado has accumulated vast Equity Bank and Cooperative Bank. held in the above mentioned bank tence. wealth beyond his legitimate Hellen’s account at Equity Bank accounts and listed parcels,” it said. Raila yesterday met the Central Management Com- mittee of the party — a critical organ — to determine the next steps of action on emerging internal mutiny. e meeting largely focused on the party’s fi nan- STAR SURVEY HIT OR MISS cial position but failed to come up with a concrete decision on how to deal with errant MPs who defi ed TODAY’S QUESTION Raila and voted against the taxation law last urs- d ay. Have the police done Raila is said to have objected a push by a section of the CMC to whip the rebellious MPs and instead enough to end the Mau- urged them to promote dialogue at their parliamen- Narok ethnic clashes? tary group caucus to bridge the cracks. But in his petition, Baya, the party deputy organ- ising secretary, said he will take the battle to the YESTERDAY’S QUESTION House if Raila fails to act. He accused Mbadi of failing to off er better leadership to the Minority side of the IRREGULAR HIRING MIRAA LEAVES Should Governor Obado House during the chaotic enactment of the Finance Nyeri officers arrested Drug abuse on the rise in schools Bill, 2018. resign? Mbadi laughed off the push to purge him from the Seven offi cials of Nyeri county go- An Embu offi cer has expressed position. “I don’t have time to respond to idlers, who, vernment were yesterday arrested concern over drug abuse among pri- in my view, don’t know where they belong in the fi rst YES 88% and are expected to be charged to- mary and secondary schoolchildren. place and have no capacity to understand complex day. e seven are fi ve members of Gender, Children and Social Services issues,” he said. the county Public Service Board and executive Joan Mwende yesterday Baya said Mbadi, the ODM chairman, failed mis- two ward administrators. ey were said the problem is to blame for erably to convince and mobilise members to take NO 12% arrested by Ethics and Anti-corrup- increasing school dropouts and “all a common position because he was “too weak and tion Commission offi cials over irre- kinds of social evils and crime such lacks mobilisation skills”. He said most ODM MPs op- gular recruitment of subcounty and as defi lement, incest, murder, rob- posed the bill and that amounted to an indictment on ward administrators. See Page 24 bery and suicide. See Page 26 Mbadi’s leadership and infl uence in the House. Wednesday, September 26, 2018 THE-STAR.CO.KE 3 CORRIDORS OF POWER POLITICAL GOSSIP Who is doing what and where in the Left and right, Joe Irungu, aka Jowi, a security worker in a Dubai-based firm.
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