David Kyalo

Seasoned Banker and a Farmer

[Duke Laston 🇰🇪 @dklaston]

As promised guys… here are the pics of our new beauty 😎❤️.

Fun fact: bought this car unseen… even as I post this pics, I have not seen the car with my own eyes. 😅. My guy in Mombasa did all the groundwork for me.

Anxiety mbaya sana 🙃.

[sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹 @simscircuit]

ITALIAN COMMENTARY OF LEWIS HAMILTON WINNING!

"SIR LEWIS HAMILTON VINCE." https://t.co/la5pkqkAq2

[Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority @EPRA_KE]

In accordance with Section 101(y) of the Petroleum Act 2019 and Legal Notice No.192 of 2022, has calculated the maximum retail prices of petroleum products which will be in force from 15th June 2026 to 14th July 2026.

In the period under review, the maximum allowed petroleum pump prices for Super Petrol and Diesel decreases by KShs.0.22/litre and KShs.10.00/litre respectively while the price of Kerosene remains unchanged.

In Nairobi, Super Petrol, Diesel and Kerosene now retail at Kshs.214.03, Kshs.222.86 and Kshs.191.38 effective midnight for the next 30 days.

[Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority @EPRA_KE]

Pursuant to Legal Notice No. 70 dated 15th April 2026, the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury has revised the Value Added Tax rate from 13% to 8%.

[Central Bank of Kenya @CBKKenya]

Press Release: Kenya Banknotes

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Read that Garissa County allocated millions to build this design stadium BUT spent Kshs. 220,000,000/= to deliver the one shown! We joke too much in Kenya. I think Corrupt Governors take Kenyans for fools!

[Dr. Roselyn Akombe @DrRoselynAkombe]

As a mother, this picture of 23 year old Denzel breaks my heart 💔😭😭

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

Tatu City has accused Kiambu County Governor Kimani Wamatangi [@KWamatangi] and CEC Member Salome Wainaina of extorting KES 4.3B, holding up approvals, and demanding 40+ acres of land.

They say this has cost the country KES 16B in investment and 4,500 in new jobs.

[Auma Obama @AumaObama]

We need to listen! These are our children. They don’t want to run away and live abroad in some cold country where they are considered immigrants looking for handouts. They are demanding a country that is livable in - that they can afford! Their country! We need to stop & listen!

[Mr.Elmami @Mr_Elmami]

.@debunkdotmedia has built a tool where you can track and compare how your MP voted on the Finance Bill in both 2023 and 2024. 👇🏾 Tafuta MP wako hapa: https://t.co/bL1JyDiJOD

[Ministry of Interior | Kenya @InteriorKE]

DECLARATION OF A PUBLIC HOLIDAY

It is notified for the general information of the public that, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Public Holidays Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration declares that Wednesday, the 10th April, 2024 shall be a Public Holiday to mark Idd-ul-Fitr.

[Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority @EPRA_KE]

In accordance with Section 101(y) of the Petroleum Act 2019 and Legal Notice No.192 of 2022, @EPRA_Ke has calculated the maximum retail prices of petroleum products, which will be in force from 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.^DC

[KenyaOSINT 🇰🇪 @StratCorpGlobal]

🇰🇪 UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI STUDENT FRAUDSTER WHO BOUGHT TWO PLANES AND LIVED LIFE LIKE A KING

His uncle Muli decided to try his hand at a new type of cyber fraud called Business Email Compromis in which they would hack into company emails, identify their clients and convince the victims to divert payments to new accounts 

As Loretta Wavinya and Lillian Nzongi, in distinctive orange jumpsuits, walked into prison to start their terms as convicted fraudsters, their relative — Jeffrey Ndungi Sila — was eyeing an opportunity to run the racket.

That Wavinya had been jailed for 14 years and her sister, Nzongi, for five years for defrauding the American government of Sh975 million, was not a deterrent enough for Ndungi.

Shortly after his cousins were jailed, Ndungi jumped into the fray. And the returns were so good that, in 2012, just two years after graduating, Ndungi had bought himself two Cessna planes with registration numbers 5Y-CCN and 5Y-CCO.

Ndungi was only 23 and pursuing an engineering degree at the University of Nairobi when he started leading a flamboyant lifestyle.

A quiet and geeky person, according to those who know him, Ndungi’s personality in university was an exact opposite of who he was in primary and secondary school.

After sitting his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams at Unoa Primary School in Wote in 1999, Ndungi joined Alliance High School after posting excellent grades. His schoolmates say he was very religious and an official of the Christian Union.

He couldn’t hurt a fly, they say, although that quietness did mask his other side.

A friend who bumped into him in 2005, just two years after high school, when Ndungi was a first year student at the University of Nairobi, was surprised to see him driving a brand new Subaru. As other students were cramming themselves in hostels after lectures, Ndungi drove himself to his own house in Nairobi’s South B — a middle-class neighbourhood.

“He was wealthy when we were in campus and had several fuel guzzlers — a BMW, a Mercedes Benz and several Subarus,” a former classmate told the Nation.

With no known sources of income, Ndungi’s flamboyant lifestyle was definitely questionable, but his classmates had no clue where he was getting his money.

It was assumed that his mother, who was based in Kansas, USA, was financing his lifestyle.

But Ndungi had possibly been introduced to the vice by his uncle Paul Kilungya Nyumu — the man who introduced his entire family to cybercrime before vanishing.

Nyumu had also played a big role in laundering funds stolen by his two nieces, Wavinya and Nzongi.

It’s not known if some of this money was used to finance Ndungi’s flashy lifestyle while still in campus. What’s known, however, is that Ndungi had over a period of three years watched from the front row how the proceeds of cybercrime could finance someone’s lifestyle and he wanted in.

He was not alone. Also watching on the sidelines was Ndungi’s uncle, Robert Mutua Muli, who was by then based in Virginia, US.

Muli is a cousin of Nyumu, the fugitive and original mastermind of the tax filing syndicate.

Another entrant was Nyumu’s daughter, Monica, who had relocated to the US after abandoning her teaching career in Kenya.

Monica is Jeffery Ndungi’s mother. 

From the beginning, the family relied on Monica’s salary. But as the money started flowing — and everyone could notice —her husband, a former councillor in Wote, was forced to relocate to Mlolongo following frequent attacks by armed robbers who wanted a share of their new-found riches.

Ndungi was by this time engaged in cyber fraud in Kenya, Nigeria, North Africa and the United States. He started by hacking into Multichoice systems, which enabled him to mint cash from illegal distribution of DSTV signals.

Then, he joined the tried-and tested family business — stealing the identities of American citizens and using them to claim fake tax refunds. But since he had seen his two cousins get jailed for similar crimes, Ndungi opted to use Nairobi as his base. That way, he thought, he was safe.

Meanwhile, his uncle Muli decided to try his hand at an entirely new type of cyber fraud known as Business Email Compromise.

Muli’s gang, which comprised criminals based in Kenya, would hack into official emails of companies, identify their business partners and convince them to divert payments to their accounts.

But both schemes would fall apart spectacularly.

Criminal files and court proceedings from the US and Kenya reviewed by the Nation Investigations Desk indicate that while Ndungi was the head of a DSTV hacking cartel in Kenya, he was just an employee in the US tax fraud syndicate.

His uncle Muli, too, despite being integral in the BEC scheme, since he was based in the US, was taking instructions from people in Kenya. This is according to a transcription of Muli’s WhatsApp messages that were retrieved from his phone by the FBI and which we have obtained.

The key architect of the scam, who is saved in the messages as a Frank MA, was based in Nairobi, and had the right connections in the banking system to enable the thousands of dollars they were stealing from the US to make it to Kenya.

It is Frank who was issuing instructions to Muli on almost everything, from registering his own company — Rogram Home Improvement — which was to be the recipient of the stolen funds, to who to send the money to once it hit the accounts.

In one of the messages, Frank informs Muli that the bank manager, whose name we have withheld, had written to him about the willingness of the bank, in Nairobi’s Westlands, to take the money.

This money was supposed to be wired to a law firm that had an account with the bank.

This is how the scam worked.

Frank’s associates first hacked into Dell’s system and created clones of emails belonging to the computer firm’s finance department.

Then they took note of the companies that had running contracts with Dell for the supply of computers.

Once identified, Frank would use the cloned emails to write letters to the victims and ask them to divert payments owed to Dell to different bank accounts. Some of the entities that were conned include Fairfax County, which lost $1.3 million (Sh130 million) in the scam and the University of California, which lost $749,158 (Sh75 million). “A review of the emails from Co-conspirator 1 to Victim 1 shows the emails were sent from a single Internet Protocol (IP) address from Kenya — IP address 41.72.192.154. When Co-conspirator 1 sent these emails, travel records indicate that Muli was in the US,” says the investigation file on Muli’s gang.

The Nation has established that the said IP address that was used in the fraud is in Malindi.

This means that Frank, who has not been arrested, could have been in Malindi during the entire period of the fraud. His whereabouts or true identity still remains unknown.

Apart from Frank, other people who may have been part of the scam — since they received the thousands of dollars that were stolen — include a Francis Asanyo Mobisa, Beth Nyambura Gitau, Anthony Mureithi and Rachel Mathenge.

Beth, who is Muli’s wife and based in Naivasha, received over a million shillings on diverse dates between December 2018 and March 2019. Mobisa received Sh400,000 on February 26,2019, while Frank pocketed most of the money.

Meanwhile, as Muli sent most of his proceeds from the fraud to Kenya, he continued to lead a simple life in the US. He maintained his job as a driver and posed as a very religious family man to his neighbours. “He never went anywhere without his large bible, well-worn and with many bookmarks. He told me he had a prayer ministry for Kenyans, which he gave hours. His only day of refreshment and ease was Sunday,” his neighbour Linda Senter would later tell law enforcement agencies. To the FBI though, this was a façade.

While Muli managed to hide his criminal deeds by remaining humble, his nephew in Nairobi wasn’t. As if buying two planes wasn’t enough, Ndungi acquired two luxury cars — a Range Rover and an American Cadillac Escalade.

Multichoice, however, soon realised he was using his legally opened accounts to sell viewership packages to several individuals in Kenya and Nigeria. Consequently, Ndungi was arrested on March 31, 2015 after police raided his residence at Executive Suite Estate house number 15 in South B. He was released on bail, but as the case progressed, he continued focussing all his energies on stealing the identities of American citizens and using them to claim fake tax refunds. To avoid detection, he filed the fake returns using a computer located at a cyber café at Vision Plaza along Mombasa Road.

After what was a successful six year run in the American syndicate, Ndungi’s cookie started crumbling in 2014. He used the identity of a Cynthia H. Short, to file tax returns for the year. The returns indicated that Ms Short worked for Aureus Radiology LLC, a company based in Omaha, Nebraska and that she received wages of $116,740 (Sh11.6 million).

Short’s tax history indicated that she was liable for a refund of $76,592.86 (Sh7.6 million). In applying for the refund, “Ms Short” listed P.O. Box 925, Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi as her current mailing address.

When the US Internal Revenue Service called Aureus Radiology to confirm Short’s employment status, they discovered that the company had never even heard of her. The IRS then sent an undercover agent to pose as a client looking to buy treasury cheques.

The agent contacted Ndungi in January 2016, saying he was looking for fake treasury cheques. He fell for the trap, boarded a plane and headed to the US hoping for a Sh7.6 million payday.

In his first meeting with the undercover agent, which took place on August 1, 2016, he received $48,000 (Sh4.8 million) in cash after arguing that there were several other players in the deal all looking to get paid. The meeting took place at Korean House, 2598 Royal Lane in Dallas, Texas.

In a taped conversation Ndungi offered to bring more fake cheques.

Convinced they had finally landed their man after a six-year search, the FBI arrested Ndungi two days later as an Emirates plane he had boarded to Dubai in order to connect to Nairobi was sitting on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport. He is serving a 10-year jail term.

And Muli was arrested while at an airport trying to catch a flight to escape to Kenya after stealing more than Sh200 million by tricking American government institutions to wire payments meant for computing company Dell. He was handed a five-year sentence at the end of last year.

His extended family were behind the US-based crime syndicate that laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in the country, but had managed to escape the FBI dragnet to hide in Mlolongo, Machakos and in Nairobi.

In total, the family members are believed to have stolen more than Sh2 billion in a tax fraud, the Nation has established. It is one of the biggest cybercrime heists in the blossoming industry.

[Hussein Mohamed, MBS. @HusseinMohamedg]

President William Ruto effects changes to Cabinet, PS’s and Kenya’s Foreign Service.

[Mwenda Thuranira @mwendathuranira]

WHO BENEFITS FROM MARRIAGE?

He's 68 years old.

Retired pensioner.

Worked all his life to raise his kids.

Deprived himself of life's pleasures to pay expensive school fees and living expenses for his kids abroad.

They are now well-off in Europe and America.

His wife, 60, has relocated to live with her kids.

He's alone back in Kenya.

His kids barely call him.

He now has to start life all over as a bachelor.

He struggles with high blood pressure and other old age ailments.

How long more would he survive alone?

This is the reality for most working class monogamous men. Their old age is usually lonely and in many cases, sad.

Try as you may, women love their kids more than their husbands, no matter how good the man is. The older he gets, the less use they have for him.

Tell me then, what do men benefit from marriage?

They sacrifice so much but get little recognition for the hard work. The woman reaps all the benefits as the kids are often closer and more affectionate towards her when she becomes old.

As a man, know this. Your kids are your wife's children. You are only helping her raise them.

When last did you speak with your father? But a week wouldn't go by without hearing from your mom.

What is a man's gain when he sacrifices so much but gets little or nothing in return?

Well, that's patriarchy. It demands the man literally gives up his happiness, pleasures, resources and life for women and children.

Just make enough for your old age, just in case.

Men are you ready for this discussion? #shared

[Central Bank of Kenya @CBKKenya]

Press release: Monetary Policy Committee Meeting

[David Kyalo @DavyKyalo]

@DonaldBKipkorir Sincere condolences to you and your family.

[Vincent 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 @VinceChepkwony]

I promised and tried

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

BREAKING: William Ruto elected 5th president of Kenya with 50.49% of the vote, the country’s electoral commission announces.

The deputy president won in his 1st run, beating former prime minister Raila Odinga who ran for the 5th time. Odinga got 48.5% of the vote