Chaos are looming at the Kenya Ports Authority Pension Scheme (KPAPS) where employees are opposing a plan by the trustees to illegally sell the scheme’s assets including houses that they are currently occupying.
The employees who are also the tenants in the houses that have been earmarked for sale have opposed the plan that will see KPAPS leadership disposing their houses to outsiders.
The scheme is led by a cartel that has been going around the country to coerce KPA retirees to sell the houses at a throw price without the workers approval.
The trustees are collaborating with powerful barons to sell the houses then evict KPA workers who are occupying them.
They are going around the country under guise of educating KPA retirees on ways of boosting their pensions as they lure them with Sh500 hand outs to sign forms.
KPA workers claim that the trustees are using the forms signed by the retirees to forge minutes to back their plan to illegally sell the Agency’s pension scheme assets.
The plot to sell the assets which include houses is spearheaded by Salim Chingabwi, Conrad Thorpe, Yobesh Oyaro, Daniel Ogutu, Moses Otieno, Maurice Munyao and Secretary Stephen Kyandih.
The are using elected trustees including Violet Mugambi, Ferdinand Mulambo and Paul Muthwii who are camping in Nairobi to meet ministry officials and seal the illegal deal.
Employees have raised alarm over the questionable disposal of the assets without their approval since they are also members of the scheme and have been paying rent in houses which are located in Nyali, Tudor, Kizingo and Mombasa CBD.
In Nairobi the KPA houses are located Siwaka off Ole Sangare Road where 23 employees occupying them have written to parliament and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission swing into action and stop the sale of the properties.
They also want the parliamentary committee for lands
and settlement and EACC to stop registered trustees of Kenya Ports Authority Pension Scheme (KPAPS) from transferring management of the scheme’s assets to real estate agents.
A similar plot which was hatched two years ago saw former KPA directors being charged with fraud.
Former chief administrator of the scheme Maurice Amahwa, KPA head of audit Fredrick Oyugi, former Dock workers Union shop steward Renson Juma and former KPA director Joy Mudavadi were accused of swindling KPA Retirement Benefit Scheme of Sh700 million.
KPA scheme trustee Joan Karema, Jane Karanja (businesswoman), businessman Ephraim Rwingo and employees from Selina Consultant Company and Kikambala Development Company were also joined in the case.
