The rain started beating Kenya when we elected Uhuru Kenyatta.
It was under Uhuru that the bad habit of keeping government contracts away from public scrutiny took root.
Ruto is doing exactly what Uhuru did. That is why we cannot sit back and allow this to become normal.
In 2022, Ruto told Yvonne Okwara that secrecy was Uhuru’s fault, promising: "I am the Deputy President, but when I am President, the buck stops with me and every contract will be public."
Now that he's President, the buck didn't stop; it got passed right back into the shadows.
On The @AlikoDangote East African Refinery, President @WilliamsRuto has no escape. We have the Constitutional threshold of disclosure that must be met, politics and brainless opposition aside. Let's stop triviasing national issues. This country is not his private property.
Hi Kenya and @StandardKenya
Do you want a corrupt criminal handling the most of your Kenyan money?
Pretty sure Charles Kerich - who is responsible for more money than anyone else in Kenya as CEC of Nairobi County - has been breaking the law.
He’s been director & shareholder (via his brother Andrew as proxy) of VeGrid Ltd. For the US branch he is actually shareholder himself - check https://t.co/EvxEIg6vGR
🇰🇪 Kenyan law is quite clear about conflicts of interest for public officials.
If you are a County Executive Committee (CEC) member, you are a State officer. You cannot use public office to advance your own private business interests.
📌 Constitution, Article 75: A State officer must avoid conflicts between personal interests and public duties and cannot put private interests ahead of the public interest.
📌 Constitution, Article 77 + Leadership & Integrity Act, s.26: A full-time State officer is restricted from other gainful employment, particularly where it conflicts with the office or impairs independent judgment.
📌 Conflict of Interest Act 2025, s.19: A public officer cannot be a party to or beneficiary of a goods, works or services contract with their own reporting entity—and cannot use official power to award or influence a contract in which they have a private interest.
📌 Leadership & Integrity Act, s.35: You cannot simply do indirectly through another person what would breach the integrity rules if you did it yourself.
Oh and I have recordings and will swear under oath in court Vegrid Ltd. CEO tom ogutu told me charles kerich is the actual director, and he also admitted he is making corrupt illegal moves to benefit the solar company.
It has emerged that key documents, including the signed agreement for Dangote’s Sh2.2 trillion Lamu refinery, have not been made public as required by Kenyan law, despite Wednesday’s groundbreaking.
Aliko Dangote may need to understand that Kenya is not a place where court orders are treated as routine African inconveniences whenever they interfere with a major investment.
These are courts that have previously nullified an entire presidential election and ordered the country back to the ballot, so a multibillion shilling refinery facing questions over disputed land will certainly not be treated as too important for judicial scrutiny.
Welcome to Kenya, Mr Dangote.
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