INDEPENDENT FRESH AND CALLS CRITICS MYOPIC DIFFERENT DP RUTO SAYS TAX 25 INCREASE IS SLIGHT SEPTEMBER 2018 AND NECESSARY FOR TUESDAY COUNTRY’S OWN GOOD KSh60 (TSh1,000 | USh2,000) PG 6 FALLING OUT SUSPICIOUS DEALS JARED KWAGA WAS AWARDED CONTRACTS WORTH SH1.6BN Chebukati fi res Chiloba, cites gross misconduct e IEBC yesterday formally sacked Obado’s proxies CEO Ezra Chiloba who has been suspended since April. Chiloba was indicted by the commission’s internal audit report which revealed taxpayers could have lost millions in fl awed procurement s and services for the general election. got Sh2.5 billion PAGE 2 AUDIT REPORT Why former REA boss in tender scams Ng’ang’a is EACC obtained orders to freeze six bank accounts and preserve 37 parcels of land in trouble An internal audit by the Rural Electrifi cation Authority Board has exposed blatant abuse of offi ce and manipulation of tenders putting former CEO Ng’ang’a Munyu in the spotlight. Munyu was kicked out by the board and is now being pursued by the anti-graft agency. PAGE 7 POISONOUS Senate grills KRA, Kebs over rotting maize in silos A Senate committee has quizzed Malaba Border Agencies over the entry of Sh8 billion maize that is now rotting in silos across the country. It also grilled Kebs, KRA and Kephis offi cials. PAGE 8 VOICES KENNETH LUSAKA GOVERNOR CHARGED WITH MURDER, REMANDED Senate visits IN THE DOCK: Obado at the Milimani law court yesterday where he was charged with the murder of Sharon Otieno. He denied the charge / COLLINS KWEYU the grassroots FELIX OLICK AND SUSAN MUHINDI/ funds to local and off shore accounts. county for the “high value contracts” in Australia, Hong Kong and China, PAGE 20 The Ethics and Anti Corruption According to EACC documents after which they would wire the mo- as the Star reported exclusively on Commission is pursuing a trail of fi led in court, Obado and his asso- ney to Obado’s accomplices, espe- Saturday transactions involving an intricate ciates registered about 30 compa- cially one Jared Peter Odoyo Oluoch According to the documents, web of suspected proxy companies nies soon after he became governor Kwaga. Kwaga’s companies have been paid through which beleaguered Migori through which they have pocketed Kwaga, investigations reveal, also Sh1.6 billion since 2013. governor Okoth Obado is believed Sh2.5 billion in “fi ctitious” contracts. made huge international transfers to have siphoned billions of county e fi rms would be paid by the to, among others, Obado’s children CONTINUED ON PAGES 45 2 THE-STAR.CO.KE Tuesday, September 25, 2018 PHOTO STORY MAN KILLED An accident on Waiyaki MPs in blame game Way where a military truck hit a motorist over Narok clashes yesterday /DOUGLAS OKIDDY LUKE AWICH AND RITA DAMARY/ A war of words has erupted between Kalenjin and Masaai lawmakers over the Narok clashes. One person has died as 26 have been hospitalised following clashes in Olposimoru at the border of Nakuru and Narok counties. Hundreds of residents have been displaced and 50 houses were torched. ree Rift Valley MPs want Narok senator Leda- ma Olekina, Narok North MP Moitalel Kenta and former Nairobi speaker Alex Magelo investigated over a spate of violence that has rocked Narok and Nakurui counties. e MPs - Nelson Koech (Belgut), Hillary Kosgei (Kipkelion West) and Kipsengeret Koros (Soin-Sigowet) - also want President Uhuru Kenyatta to sack Environment CS Keriako Tobiko over what they claim is “open bias” on the issue. e lawmakers claimed the clashes along the border of Narok and Nakuru counties is politically instigated. ey accused the three MPs of inciting members of their community against Kalenjins. “On July 27, Masaai leaders organised a rally and gave the gov- 10 SUSPECT CONTRACTS ernment a 14-day ultimatum to remove some com- munity from Mau or they would do it themselves,” Kosgei said. Koech said, “As an immediate measure, let me beseech the Government to stop any eviction or threat of eviction.” IEBC sacks Chiloba But in a quick rejoinder, Moitalel dismissed claims of incitement claiming they only supported government’s eviction programme contrary to the claims by the Rift Valley lawmakers. He accused after long suspension the MPs of creating unnecessary tension to stop the ongoing Mau eviction urging the government not to stop the exercise. CEO had been indicted by commission’s internal audit report “Eviction from Mau is unstoppable. It is actually those three MPs from Rift Valley that should be in- JAMES MBAKA the Wafula Chebukati-led commis- I am aware of,” Limo said when re- vestigated. ey don’t come from Narok so what is @onchirimbaka sion in a protracted legal duel to keep sponding to the Star’s inquiry if the their interest in Mau?” Kenta said. his job after he was sent on compul- commission had made a decision to e government has beefed up security in Olpo- e Independent Electoral and sory leave to pave the way for an in- sack Chiloba. simoru. Peter Kimutai, a resident in Olenguruone, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 TUESDAY, Boundaries Commission yesterday dependent audit. But when he received the audit said the reemergence of clashes in Olposimoru formally sacked CEO Ezra Chiloba Yesterday’s decision to fi nally sack report, Chebukati had indicated that started after assailants allegedly killed a man with who has been on suspension since Chiloba for gross misconduct was a copy had been submitted to inves- arrows, sparking outrage. OCPD Joseph Kisombe April. arrived at after a meeting attended tigating agencies to probe the pro- said the man is believed to have been following Chiloba had been indicted by the by Chebukati and commissioners curement and hold to account cul- his stolen cows. Angered by the action, a section of commission’s internal audit report Boya Molu and Abdi Guliye. prits even as he hinted at sweeping the villagers mobilised themselves and trailed the which revealed taxpayers could have e commission had invited Chi- changes at the secretariat. animals deep into Olposumoru but were accost- lost millions in fl awed procurement loba to appear before its disciplinary “ e report confi rms the concerns ed during the mission leaving several with arrow of goods and services for the 2017 committee yesterday morning but raised by the plenary before com- wounds. General Election. he failed to show up. After the audit missioning of the audit. e report e report, which was published report indicted him, the commis- will inform internal actions the com- on August 20, examined Sh6.2 bil- sion wanted Chiloba to explain some mission will take in terms of dealing lion worth of 31 contracts the com- of the decisions he made leading to with the issues raised,” he said in a ‘UNABLE TO CONCEIVE’ mission entered into during last possible loss of public funds. statement then. year’s general and repeat presiden- Last evening, Chebukati did not Following the decision to send tial elections. e auditors conclud- respond to calls and texts from the the CEO on compulsory leave in ‘Kidnapped’ woman ed that after reviewing the tenders, Star to confi rm the latest develop- April, three commissioners - Con- there was no value for taxpayers’ ments. However, IEBC communica- nie Maina, Paul Kurgat and Margaret money in 10 contracts worth Sh4.6 tions manager Andrew Limo said he Mwachanya - announced their resig- was not pregnant billion. Chiloba has been engaging was not aware. “Not anything that nation on April 16. BRIAN OTIENO/ e abduction saga surrounding 20-year-old Saida Abdulrahman, who is said to have been abducted last ursday, has taken a dramatic STAR SURVEY HIT OR MISS twist after police revealed she was never pregnant as she claimed. Mombasa DCI boss Jacob Kanake told TODAY’S QUESTION reporters tests reveal she was not pregnant. “In fact, doctors say she is unable to conceive Should Governor because she has a problem with her uterus,” Kanake said. He spoke in his offi ce. Saida has made Okoth Obado resign? her family believe she was eight months pregnant. Her mother Khadija Bwanaomar and husband Mohamed Abdulrahman said they had no reason to doubt her story. “I raised her well. I don’t know why YESTERDAY’S QUESTION she would do such a thing to us,” the woman, who at one point appealed to her daughter’s supposed RAILA ODINGA BORDER AGENCIES Do you think the abductors to let her go, said. Says war on graft won’t stop Official quizzed over maize imports Kanake said he had ordered Saida to undergo handshake is to blame for gynacological and psychiatric tests. “ e gynaecol- the increased taxes? NASA leader Raila Odinga (pictured) e Senate ad hoc committee qui- ogist’s report indicate she never conceived. Neither has warned that the war on corruption zzed Malaba Border Agencies over did she have an abortion.” YES 52% has just begun and he and President the entry of maize worth Sh8 billion Muslims for Human Rights, the lobby group Uhuru Kenyatta will not relent until that is now rotting in silos across that was following up on the story, said they did Kenya is rid of the vice. He said those Kenya. e maize crisis ad hoc com- their work. “We are equally shocked by the turn who have stolen public cash have to mittee led by Uasin Gishu senator of events,” said Muhuri chair Khelef Khalifa. ey NO 48% be arrested, prosecuted and jailed, Margaret Kamar (pictured) took Kebs, spoke at the Urban Police Station where police and the cash recovered. Raila spoke KRA and Kephis to task on whether handed Saida to the family.