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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has confirmed that Marsabit County Senator Mohamed Said Chute is currently at the Commission for statement recording and an interview with investigators.

This follows an EACC summons as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of massive corruption involving the Senator.

According to EACC Spokesperson Eric Ngumbi, Senator Chute is being investigated for conflict of interest and theft of public funds related to tenders worth Ksh 365 million.

“The tenders were allegedly fraudulently awarded to two companies owned by him and his wife, Lidia Gode Yussuf,” EACC said.

It further reveals that the companies involved are Blue Nile East Africa Ltd and Midrock Water Drilling Company Ltd.

Preliminary investigations indicate that part of the funds paid to Senator Chute and his wife’s companies by the County Government were subsequently channelled to the sitting Governor, Mohammud Ali.

In a separate case, Senator Chute is also linked to the embezzlement of public funds through fraudulent tenders worth Ksh 2 billion.

These tenders, awarded to Midrock Water Drilling Company for the construction of Badasa Dam in Marsabit County, were granted by the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation (NWCPC).

Investigations suggest that the company was not qualified for the tender and has received payments for no services rendered.

“The EACC continues to probe these allegations as part of its mandate to combat corruption and promote transparency in public service,” Ngumbi stated.  

By Beth Nyaga, KBC
President William Ruto gives a State of the Nation address on Thursday, July 11 at State House, Nairobi.[PCS]

President William Ruto has fired all Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) save for Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi who also acts as Foreign Affairs minister. 

The Head of State has also dismissed Attorney-General Justin Muturi. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is unaffected.  

“Upon reflection and listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have said and after holistic appraisal of the performance of my Cabinet and its achievements and challenges, I have today in line with the powers given to me decided to dismiss with immediate effect all the CSs and AG except the PCS and CS for Foreign Affairs and the office of the DP is not affected in any way,” announced Ruto. 

The president said that he will announce additional measures ‘soon’.

“During this process, the operations of government will continue uninterrupted under the guidance of Principal Secretaries and other relevant officials,” said Ruto. 

Broad-based government

Ruto said that he will engage various stakeholders to set up a government that will help him deliver on campaign promises. By Esther Nyambura, The Standard

World Bank President Ajay Banga, President William Ruto and President Emmanuel Macron of France at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact on June 23, 2023.

The National Treasury is poised to receive Ksh60 billion in the form of external funding from 14 countries to fund its 2024/25 Financial Year development budget. 

This is a Ksh6 billion drop from the amount received by the Kenyan Government in the 2023/2024 Financial Year from its allies. Apart from loans, the Treasury will receive a further Ksh5.5 billion from different countries in the form of grants to fund development projects in the 2024/25 financial year. 

Countries that will advance Kenya loans include: Finland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, China, Israel, Poland, and Hungary. 

Denmark, Sweden and the United States will also support Kenya’s development agenda through grants.

Japan will advance Kenya the highest sum of Ksh14 million in the form of a loan and a further Ksh353 million as a grant.  

France, a major ally of Kenya, will loan President William Ruto’s government Ksh11.7 billion and an extra Ksh828 million in the form of grants.

Germany will loan Kenya the third-highest amount of Ksh9 billion and close to Ksh3 billion in the form of grants.

China which accounts for the majority of Kenya’s foreign debt will loan President William Ruto’s administration Ksh7.3 billion with no grant. 

Scandinavian countries and Finland are major development partners for Kenya with most of their help advanced in the form of grants rather than loans.  

To that end they will contribute: Finland (Ksh970 million and a Ksh500 million grant), Denmark (Ksh100 million grant) and Sweden (Ksh60 million grant). 

Other countries in order of their contribution are: Italy (Ksh2 billion), Italy (Ksh2 billion), Saudi Arabia (Ksh1.2 billion), Israel (Ksh1 billion), Poland (Ksh1 billion) and Kuwait (Ksh919 million). 

The United States through USAID will issue a Ksh231 million grant for various US-sponsored development projects. 

It should be noted that Kenya will borrow an extra Ksh53 billion from international financial institutions including the World Bank, African Union, and European Investment Bank amongst others. 

In total, Kenya seeks to externally borrow Ksh113 billion and receive an extra Ksh31 billion in the form of grants for the 2024/25 financial year. 

This amount is expected to rise significantly after President William Ruto forewent Ksh346 billion which was supposed to be raised through Finance Bill 2024. By Kioko Nyamasyo, Kenyans.co.ke

Doris Uwicyeza Picard, of the Rwandan ministry of justice, says she believes 'good faith will remain' between Rwanda and Britain - Anadolu

Britain will not get any refund on the £270 million paid to Rwanda for the Conservatives’ asylum scheme, Kigali has said after the new Labour government scrapped the programme.

Dr Doris Uwicyeza Picard, of the Rwandan ministry of justice, said the country had upheld its side of the deal to help the British government deal with what was a “UK problem”.

She told the BBC World Service: “We are under no obligation to provide any refund. We will remain in constant discussions. However, it is understood that there is no obligation on either side to request or receive a refund.” 

The UK has already paid £270 million to Rwanda as part of the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, but not a single migrant has been forcibly deported there. Only four failed asylum seekers have voluntarily flown to Rwanda after being offered £3,000 to do so.

British ministers have yet to formally give Rwanda the required three months notice to end the five-year agreement, although Dr Uwicyeza Picard said the country had “taken note” of Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to scrap the deal the day after he won the general election last week.

Under a break clause in the agreement, Britain can withdraw from two further payments of £50 million in 2025 and 2026 without any penalty, but it is likely the Government will have to continue to fund the four asylum seekers flown to Kigali.

Dr Uwicyeza Picard said: “We were informed of the UK’s decision. We take note of the UK’s decision to terminate the agreement.

“We just want to reiterate that this was a partnership initiated by the UK to solve a UK problem and Rwanda stepped up, as we have always stepped up in the past, to provide safety, refuge and opportunities to migrants.

“Rwanda has maintained its side of the agreement, and we have ramped up capacity to accommodate thousands of migrants and asylum seekers. We have upheld our end of the deal.

“We have put in a lot of effort and resources to accommodate those migrants. We understand that changes in government happen and incoming governments have different priorities and different policies.

“However, this was a state to state agreement and we believe this good faith will remain.”

Dr Uwicyeza Picard expressed concern at the criticism that Rwanda had faced as a result of entering into the deal with the UK.

She said: “It was because of this misconception that it was a Rwanda deal. Rwanda is not a deal, it is a country full of people whose policies are informed by the country’s recent history.”

She implicitly attacked the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency and a major critic of the Rwanda scheme as being “unsafe” for migrants, but which uses Rwanda to accommodate asylum seekers.

“We work with organisations to take people from countries like Libya and provide them with opportunities in Rwanda,” she said. “It beggars belief as to why Rwanda would be safe with these migrants rather than those migrants just because of the country they are coming from.”

The ending of the agreement will be complicated by a group of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who were transferred to Rwanda from the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian ocean.

The four, who landed in Diego Garcia in October 2021 hoping to sail to Canada to claim asylum, are Britain’s responsibility. They told the BBC last month they felt “isolated and unsafe” in Rwanda.

They said they have become too scared to go out and are hoping that the UK will find them a more permanent place to live away from Rwanda. Three members of the group have had their claims for asylum approved by British Indian Ocean Territory authorities.

At the weekend, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, ordered an audit of the costs and liabilities of the Rwanda scheme, which she hopes to publish before the summer recess at the end of July.

Labour says scrapping the Rwanda scheme will free up £75 million in the first year of government to set up a new border security command with Border Force, MI5 and the National Crime Agency (NCA) to crack down on people-smuggling gangs.

 

Sir Keir pledged that the £75 million would be used to hire hundreds of extra investigators and “intelligence agents” who will be given counter-terror-style powers to prosecute gangs operating small boat routes across the Channel.

More than 90,000 migrants who were earmarked by Rishi Sunak’s government for deportation to Rwanda will be transferred to the asylum system entitling them to apply for leave to remain in the UK.

The Government also faces a multi-million pound compensation bill by more than 200 migrants who claim they were wrongly detained for flights to Rwanda this summer when there was no “realistic” prospect of their removal within a reasonable timescale.

The migrants were detained from the end of May – some in raids at their homes – but were subsequently bailed after courts ruled that there was no imminent prospect of their deportation to Rwanda. The Home Office said it had scheduled a flight for July 24.

A spokesman for Ms Cooper said: “This demonstrates a scandalous lack of care for taxpayer’s money – hundreds of million of pounds wasted on a gimmick that only saw four people removed in over two years. Imagine what that money could have done if it had been channelled into boosting Britain’s border security?

“Enough is enough. A Labour Government will invest in our border security with a new Border Security Command with hundreds of enforcement officers and investigators working across Europe to smash the criminal smuggling gangs making vast profit from small boat crossings.” By Charles Hymas, The Telegraph

By JULIUS MBALUTO 

President William Ruto assented to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries (IEBC) Bill 2024 on Tuesday at KICC (Kenyatta International Convention Centre) paving the way for the appointment of Chairperson and Commissioners of the electoral body. This commits the government to fully implement the new electoral law in line with the recommendations of the NADCO report.

“This historic action paves the way for appointing the selection panel that will recruit IEBC’s new commissioners. I am fully behind the process and committed to ensuring its full implementation,” said Ruto on Tuesday.

The President shared that a task force comprising 150 people from stakeholders' groups including the Youth will hold a dialogue to chat the way forward for the country. Gen-Z were quick to reject the dialogue. Gen -Z raised the following questions,

Do we need dialogue to arrest killer cops? Do we need dialogue to sack corrupt government officials? Do we need dialogue to audit public debt? Do we need dialogue to post medical interns? Do we need dialogue to end incompetence? To all this questions, Gen -Z said the answer is NO. 

Some were not pleased to see opposition leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka at KICC with President Ruto. They insisted none spoke for them as they are leaderless, tribeless and fearless. On different platforms on social media, the youth led movement comprising Gen-Z and Millennials shared their frustration arguing that Raila was standing next to their oppressor. 

A Message shared titled, "Agwambo kaa home", reads:

"Dear Raila Odinga, your decision today to stand with our oppressor validates our choice for not wanting you involved in our protests from the beginning." It goes on to say that they will not dialogue with the oppressor, declaring at the end that they are the new opposition.

Speaking at KICC, Raila had criticized the electoral commission's incompetence during last general elections saying: 

 

“What example are we showing the world? In the midst of such an important exercise, who were we to believe between the two sides of the IEBC? It's a shame! Kenya has men and women who can do better jobs, and this Act will help unify the country,” 

In the same meeting the Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka  highlighted the importance of involving Gen Z in national matters.

“If we are not careful, all of us will be thrown out by Gen Z because they say they have come of age. You say we are leaders of tomorrow, but we are leaders of now. We can't dismiss them,” 

However, Gen-Zs want their demands addressed, those who killed innocent protesters arrested and prosecuted, public debt audited and telling all Kenyans the exact figures the country owes, to whom it is owed, explanation of the borrowing and evidence of the how the money was spend. Gen -Z have lost faith in the current regime, they want parliament dissolved and the country to hold general elections. 

Critics of Gen-Z have also come out defending dialogue saying they too are stakeholders and unlike Gen -Z  they have leaders they still respect. These Kenyans argue dialogue involving all is the way forward. 

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