In a classified file from the American embassy dated March 2,2006,the names behind controversial payment of Sh.1.3 billion recently approved by the president citing obligation and ‘containing damage’ have been revealed.
According to the exposing site,these are the people who will pocket the billions which has incited the opposition to plan a nationwide protest
◆Alfred Getonga,
◆Anura Perera,
◆Deepak Kamani,
◆Joseph “Jimmy” Wanjigi.
The cable goes further to give the sequence of how the fleecing was conducted
ANATOMY OF A CORRUPTION NETWORK
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3. (C) In April 2004, information emerged publicly that a
shadowy firm, Anglo Leasing and Finance Limited (Anglo
Leasing), had secured two bogus contracts with the Government of Kenya (GOK). The first was for the supply of new secure passport issuing equipment, and the second for
the construction of a police forensics lab. Together, the two contracts were worth a combined $90 million. Anglo-
Leasing, it turned out, was no more than a “PO Box company”
with fictitious offices in the UK and Switzerland and no identifiable officers or management.
The Anglo-Leasing scandal was aggressively investigated at the time by the then-Permanent Secretary for Ethics and Governance, John
Githongo. Githongo’s investigations revealed Anglo-Leasing to be only the tip of an iceberg of grand-scale theft.
They forced the Ministry of Finance to suspend payments and order forensic audits on 18 secretive security-related
procurement contracts that followed a very similar pattern to that found in the Anglo-Leasing cases.
4. (C) This pattern involved a small clique of private- sector dealmakers working together with an equally small
cadre of senior government conspirators. Together, they
would generate proposals for large-scale government procurement contracts. Because these contracts involved national security equipment of one kind or another, they
fell well outside the normal (and already weak) systems of
scrutiny and oversight found in other parts of the GOK and Parliament. The proposals frequently requested goods not needed or desired by the line ministry targeted to pay for
them, and involved large upfront payments or commissions
financed by loans arranged by the businessmen.
The goods or services were either vastly overpriced or not supplied
at all. This kind of scam generated enormous illicit profits, much of which were recycled by the businessmen who
received the payments to the concerned GOK officials and
other middlemen for personal gain or to finance future political campaigns.
Adapted From Wikileaks
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