Last week, The Star Newspaper was forced to pull down cartel Jaffer Mohamed’s PR article after an uproar.
This Mombasa-based corrupt tycoon Jaffer Mohamed has a habit of infiltrating government agencies vide bribes to bluff the consumers and scare away customers from his competitors.
Jaffer bluffed KEBS and killed all Mombasa based millers to set up his Ajab Unga brand now selling under his fictitious firm, Grain Industries Limited(GIL)
Cartels like Mohamed Jaffer should not be allowed, let alone corrupt the State agencies- to run any business in the country.
Jaffer Mohamed used his companies to bribe KPA bosses and transferred 75 per cent of the port operations to himself.
DWU General Secretary Simon Sang, who has been in very bad terms with the Chair also joined the Chair despite their existing differences and demanded that Kenya Ports Authority(KPA) cancels a multi-billion tender awarded to a firm associated with a Mombasa legislator and Raila’s Financier Tycoon Mohammed Jaffer.
The bad blood between DWU Chair and Secretary started in late 2019 after Mohammed Sharia accused their Secretary-General, Simon Sang of impeding the achievement of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for its 5,000 members working at KPA.
Sang pointed out that it is a conflict of interest to allow a firm associated with the Mombasa legislator Abdulswamad Nassir, who chaired a national assembly watchdog committee, was awarded a tender to conduct verification of goods and cargo at the inland container depot in Nairobi.
According to Sang, Abdulswamad’s firm has a contract to hire labour at the port of Mombasa, the Nairobi ICD and the Lamu Port.
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho and Mvita legislator Abdulswamad Nassir during last year’s covid-19 preparation. (Photo|Twitter)People worry about Joho’s Port Side CFS until they learn that they have Mohamed Jaffer’s Grain Bulk Handlers Limited which corruptly has a whole terminal at the Port.
The Joho’s control KPA like a family business. Why do you think Mvita MP was at the forefront amongst Mombasa MPigs fully backing Joho in his war against Covid-19?
Senior fuckboy and low budget Sultan Hassan Joho and his influential Joho family is the one that gifted Abdulswamad’s firm the tender
Weekly Citizen reported that the operations at one of the berths within the port have already been privatised and the tender given to a politically correct individual in the county.
In 2017, Mohamed Jaffer was a double agent, his corrupt GBHL was, through GIL supporting DP Ruto, a known maize cartel.
On the other hand, another one of Jaffer Mohamed’s AGOL-which deals in petroleum products was financing Raila Odinga. The Odinga’s have monopolized the LPG sector in East African.
Take for instance, through his ‘political correctness’ cartel Jaffer Mohamed is the one controlling the loading and offloading of imported fertiliser at berth numbers 4 and 7.
In 2018, Raila’s Political campaigns were funded by tycoon Jimi Wanjigi, low budget sultan-cum- slay-king Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho, the Mumias Sugar eater, Dr Evans Kidero, former KPA boss Brown Ondego and Mombasa-based LPG and Maize cartel Jaffer Mohammed.
In July 2018, the National Assembly’s Transport committee issued a go-ahead on the licensing of a second grain bulk handling company challenging the monopoly of businessman Mohamed Jaffer‘s company.
As by February 2019, the country was solely served by Grain Bulk Handlers Limited (GBHL) owned by cartel Jaffer Mohamed. p to date, Jaffer has crippled KPA and runs 75% of its operations.
Jaffer has come up with structures to centralise imported fertiliser at one place at the port.
DWU Secretary Simon Sang cautioned the government that they will not agree 75 per cent of the port operations to be in the hands of cartels.
KPA board is on the spot over the transfer of 75 per cent of operations at the port of Mombasa to private investors.
Three companies which won tenders for the operations are alleged to be associated with state operatives.
Firms namely Portside Ltd, Grain Bulk Handlers Limited and Mechantile Company Ltd have illegally acquired the port’s public
Last year, There were proposed amendments to give Transport CS powers to decide who should run the CT2, a move dock workers feared could hand over the facility to the Italian firm MSC.
The firm, by last year November, was holding about 33 per cent of the shares at the facility.
Jaffer is alleged to have financed Mvita lawmaker Abdulswamad Nassir(who was later on awarded a tender) and Changamwe’s Omar Mwinyi to strongly opposed the plans.
The other group including Lunga Lunga MP Khatib Mwashetani and Lamu Woman Representative Ruweida Mohamed called for caution, saying talks were still ongoing.
Nassir said the government was working behind the scenes to sell the Sh27 billion-second container terminal, codenamed CT2.
Their argument was that the Kenya Merchant Shipping Act bars shipping lines like the Kenya National Shipping Line from operating terminals.
“As it stands right now, the negotiations that are ongoing are illegal because that law has not been changed,” Nassir said at that time.
Kinango MP Benjamin Tayari said they will not entertain any nonsense from CS Macharia to transfer jobs from Mombasa to Nairobi nor support plans that will negatively affect residents.
DWU, Secretary-General Simon Sang while urging the MPs to oppose amendments to the Merchant Shipping Act, said over 4,000 workers would lose their jobs if the CT2 was privatised.
He said there was no direct link between the privatisation of the CT2 and the blue economy.
“We have agreed that we will deal with these two issues separately. We have also agreed with the legislators to engage professionals on this matter,” Sang said.
This is the same Coast-based billionaire Mohamed Jaffer, who bribed and infiltrates NEMA to stifle competition in the gas industry.
This is the same way he recently managed to kick out competitors in the milling industry when millers were banned by KEBS over fabricated toxicity claims.
Jaffer who is a close ally to the BBI hawker Raila Odinga is using State agencies to muscle out his competitors and is buying out and intimidating everyone that comes against his dark-dealings.
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