Land and Conflict Sensitive Journalism sumaries

Sub-Category : Corruption

Inside NHIF Battle to Control Billions

Saturday Nation, Pg 1 & 4
Saturday, 05 May 2012

Central to the current controversy are revelations that some companies registered for the lucratic health insurance for civil servants received hundreds of millions against clinics that did not exist. The Parliamentary committee o

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How Corruption, Abuse of Office Peaked during Kenyatta Era

Sunday Standard, Pg 10 & 11
Sunday, 06 May 2012

Corruption flourished during the Kenyatta regime due to amultiplicity of factors. The president did not bother restain ministers from looting, foreigners used African point men as directors to evade paying licences and the governm

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Tobiko Orders KenGen Boss Probed over Sh9.6bn Project

Sunday Nation, Pg 10
Sunday, 06 May 2012

DPP Keriako Tobiko has asked EACC to investigate KenGen Boss Eddy Njoroge over alleged corruption in tendering for a sh9.6 billion power project. This follows Nairobi Law publication of the scandal and subsequent forwarding of evi

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Sh380, CDF Cash Misused, Says Report

Daily Nation, Pg 8
Tuesday, 08 May 2012

More than sh380 million channelled to CDF and Local Authorities Transfer Fund during the 2009/2010 financial year was misused. NTA made the revelations in its laterst report on 38 constituencies. Gatanga constituencies had best ut

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Graft Agency Crippled as Staff Contracts End

Daily Nation, Pg 1 & 2
Tuesday, 01 May 2012

The fight against corruption is grinding to a halt after the contracts of employment for 62 staff of the EACC expired. The commission has no commissioners who are to be running it after parliament failed to agree on the proposed c

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Marende Gags MPs on Corruption Claims

Daily Nation, Pg 6
Friday, 27 Apr 2012

House speaker Peter Kenneth has stopped MPs from naming on the floor the House colleagues suspected of corrupt dealings. Instead, he asked the lawmakers to pass the information they have regarding bribery and extortion to the poli

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MP Faces Trial over Local Fund Fraud Claims

Daily Nation, Pg 6
Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012

DPP Keriako Tobiko has recommended prosecution of Eldoret South MP Peris Simam for alleged embezzling of millions of shillings from the CDF kitty. This followed investigations undertaken by the EACC and the file forwarded to him.

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Minister denies 2bn lost in printing deals

The People, Pg 4
Wednesday, 18 Apr 2012

Transport minister Amos Kimunya denied allegations that the taxpayer lost over 2 billion shillings in transactions concerning printing of Kenyan currency. Kimunya who was then finance minister told the Public Accounts Committee th

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