Alarming details have emerged on how former Interior CS Fred Matiang’i and former PS Karanja Kibicho milked the ministry coffers dry in the run up to 2022 general elections.
The two looted billions of shillings belonging to taxpayers which they used to set up multi million investments and lay political traps for their political enemies.
Dr. Matiang’i is currently constructing a multi-million residential house in upmarket Karen area after he looted more than Sh300 million to buy the land where the house stands.
He also used other loots to purchase over 1,000 acres of land in Narok and another one-acre land LR No 11914/72 along Mukoma Road which he donated to the SDA church to cleanse his acts.
The land he donated to the church is registered under his name and former commissioner of Lands Zablon Mabea. The ownership came to the light after Karen Lang’ata District Association sued them for failing to abide by local physical development plan of Karen and for putting up such facility in a controlled residential area.
One of the conduits the duo used to siphon from public coffers was the ill-fated building bridges initiative which was a plot by former president Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga to change the constitution and cling on power.
The BBI was used to siphon more than Sh10 billion before the Supreme Court stopped it. The current administration has demanded the Auditor General carries out a forensic audit on the political initiative which was used to steal taxpayer’s money and to fund campaigns and planning of unconstitutional processes.
There are also revelations that Matiang’i and Kibicho used chiefs and their assistants to market the BBI and after they bribed them with weekly allowances of less than Sh3,000 weekly.
The local administrators were supposed to pocket Sh10,000 as mobilization allowance but Matiang’i and Kibicho pocketed more than Sh7,000 meant for each chief. Kenya has 1,450 locations which means the duo pocketed Sh1.4 every week.
Matiang’i had been implicated in many land grabbing fiascoes including the Sh3.2 billion Ruaraka land deal where he was exposed by former State House official, Dennis Itumbi.
Kibicho on the other hand used his loot to set up a multi-million residential and commercial buildings in Nairobi and Kirinyaga. The former PS also launched a wine and spirit company which is now distributing the liquor across Mt Kenya region.
Former Nairobi governor also exposed Kibicho for stealing Sh400 million in the purchase of a piece of land for Ugandan embassy when he was serving in the Foreign Affairs docket.
The outspoken politician revealed that the land was valued at Sh250 million but Kibicho hiked it to Sh650 million, leaving him with Sh400 million.
