Woman owns firms at centre of NYS probe
What you need to know:
- The property management firm belongs to 33-year-old Josephine Kabura Irungu who owns two other companies implicated in the scandal.
- Two other companies, Draco Capital and Tegmen trading which were allocated Sh115.8 million each are co-owned by Mr Peter Omari Otwoma and Ms Caroline Njambi Kinuthia.
- The two interestingly switched their residences when registering Tegmen Trading whose physical address is given as LR No 209924 Kenyatta Avenue.
The six companies under investigation over the theft of Sh695.4 million from the National Youth Service had their physical location indicated by land title numbers.
The companies whose registration details raise questions are apparently owned by only three individuals.
One company, Form Home Builders, was registered on June 10, 2015, five days after Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru wrote to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to investigate its activities.
The property management firm belongs to 33-year-old Josephine Kabura Irungu, who owns two other companies implicated in the scandal.
Ms Irungu whose three companies, Form Home Builders, Reinforced Concrete Technology and Roof & All Trading were awarded a total of Sh348 million in supply tenders has her physical address registered as Plot No 209/3770 on Koinange Street, in Nairobi.
Two other companies, Draco Capital and Tegmen trading which were allocated Sh115.8 million each are co-owned by Mr Peter Omari Otwoma and Ms Caroline Njambi Kinuthia.
Registration documents show that Mr Omari lived in Thogoto when he registered Draco Capital while Mrs Kinuthia lived in Ngong. The company is allegedly located on Rose Avenue LR No 2093352, in Nairobi.
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The two interestingly switched their residences when registering Tegmen Trading whose physical address is given as LR No 209924 Kenyatta Avenue.
Their companies are registered six weeks apart with Draco Capital apparently registered on Christmas Eve of 2014.
Mr Otwoma is also the sole director of Grumum Engineering that might have benefited from Sh115.8 million, even though details at the state law office show only the name has been reserved, and the company is not yet fully registered. The progress report into the investigations show that Sh695.4 million was committed to the six companies while the amount planned to acquire road construction and building material was Sh300 million.
Director of Anti-Banking Fraud Joseph Mugwanja said six computers were seized from NYS employees are being analysed by the cybercrime unit to identify the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computers used to make the fraudulent entries in IFMIS.
Paper trail indicate 18 disputed transactions were sanctioned by Mr Adan Harakhe who has the Authority to Incur Expenses (AIE) after they were requested by a Mrs Regina Mungai. Both of them have denied making such entries.
Mr Harakhe had sought to have payments deleted from the system in which funds are allocated for specific jobs undertaken by ministries to avoid pending bills claiming his password had been stolen by unknown people.
