The government of Kenya (GoK) advertised a tender for construction of a technology institute at the sluggish Konza TechnoCity Project.
The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea has been a death-trap for many Kenyan students.
In June 2019, GoK signed a contract with KAIST to develop a similar institution at Konza TechnoCity.
This April 2020, a tender was floated titled’ the establishment of Kenya Institute of Science and Technology Project No: KEN – 4.
Apart from the questionable deaths of Kenyan students in South Korea, concerning a similar institute in that country, the Tender document had a clause that was very strange.
Though it is floated for all to bid (For all bidders), a clause stated, “The bidder and al other parties constituting the bidder shall have the NATIONALITY IF REPUBLIC OF KOREA.
How can this be free for all to bid when it is fixed for KOREANS?
Suicides at the Institute
Anyways, moving on, in 2019, a distraught parent wrote to a blogger who shared the following about KAIST.
Hello,
First of all, kindly keep my identity confidential because I might lose my job if anyone finds out that it is I who have leaked this document.
I work for the Kenyan embassy in Seoul South Korea and over the last 4 years I have noticed a very worrying set of events.
As you know, Kenya is currently developing a technopolis in Konza and using the Korean model under the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to develop it.
However, there have been strange events that have happened at the insitutitions that involved Kenyans that needs to be scrutinized.
Over the last 3 years, the Kenyan embassy in Seoul has handled the suicide of 3 Kenyans all at KAIST. The most recent of these was last weekend when a student studying nuclear engineering tried to kill himself by taking medicine overdose.
Instead of launching an inquiry into the reason why so many Kenyans were killing themselves at this institution, the Embassy with the help of some of the people involved in developing Konza have covered it up.
A Mrs. Caroline Kariuki, who is a director of The Konza Technopolis Development Authority (Phone number 0733514541) and email ([email protected]) has been involved in the cover-up.
Word around the embassy is that because KAIST wants to preserve its name, it has spent several millions of dollars as compensation but none of this money has reached the families of those involved.
In a typical fashion, President Uhuru Kenyatta has ignored the plight of the students studying abroad, has teamed up with a foreign government to collude and benefit off the death of students.
It looks like the Chinese and Koreans are killing our people but all that Uhuru’s regime cares about is bribes and stupid projects.
Sincerely,
Concerned parent,
