Controversial political blogger Seth Odongo alias Dikembe Disembe has taken a swipe at Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi over his involvement in the infamous Anglo Leasing scandal.
Disembe was responding to revelations by former Finance Minister Chris Obure who recently disclosed how Mudavadi, in his then capacity as Vice President, wrote him a letter in May 2002 seeking a direct procurement of Postal Corporation of Kenya (POSTA) equipment for upgrading services in the country.
This was to be done as part of the Anglo Leasing project.
Speaking to a Nairobi court at the opening of his defence testimony on Wednesday, 1st December 2021, the current Transport CAS said that Mudavadi informed him that the initiative was President Daniel Moi’s government agenda.
He also told him the postal services would be improved through a broadband network data network connecting every post office in the county to each other.
He further asked for his “assistance” in achieving the government’s intention.
Other than being President Moi’s Vice president, Mudavadi was also the Transport and Communications Minister at the time.
In his view, blogger Disembe noted that the testimony by Obure casts heavy doubts on Mudavadi’s integrity which he so confidently loves to profess.
“There goes your favourite “clean pair of hands,” he wrote on his Twitter page.
According to the radical political opinionist, the One Alliance Kenya (OKA) principal’s involvement in the Anglo Leasing scandal would be a total contradiction of his self-manufactured image as one of KANU’s few good apples.
“Mudavadi has manufactured an image of himself as one of the good ones from KANU’s basket of rot. Now?” he questioned.
The Anglo-Leasing scandal is alleged to have started when the Kenyan Government wanted to replace its passport printing system, in 1997, but came to light after a revelation by a government officer, in 2002.
A sophisticated passport equipment system was sourced from France and forensic science laboratories for the police were sourced from Britain.
The transaction was originally quoted at 6 million euros by a French firm but was awarded to a British firm, Anglo Leasing Finance, at 30 million euros.
The Anglo-Leasing sales agent was Sudha Ruparell, a 48-year-old woman who is the daughter of Chamanlal Kamani and sister of Rashmikant Chamanlal Kamani and businessman Deepak Kamani.
Businessman Deepak Kamani and several former senior government officials are currently facing trial over the scandal.
As of the publishing of this post, Mudavadi was yet to issue a comment on the matter.
