Raudha Wardha

Child of the Universe

[Raudha Wardha @RaudhaW]

@princejeff001tv Moha wa Nyayo house.Exemplary Officer.

https://t.co/EvTvn6RDSd

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Happening at Karura Forest along Limuru Road.

[Jude @jude_muema]

Did you guys notice that the Dollar ($) momentarily dropped from Ksh 128 to Ksh 73.50 and then back to Kes 129. What's going on!!

[Raudha Wardha @RaudhaW]

@henokmulubrhan Congratulations!Am so proud of your win!

[HENOK MULUBRHAN @henokmulubrhan]

I’m extremely happy and proud to bring this victory to Eritrea. I dedicate this win to my country and my family! This is my third consecutive victory in the African Championships, which no one has achieved before. I’m proud of this and very happy to have done it

[Raudha Wardha @RaudhaW]

@hawelti @biniamb They’ve done amazingly well!!Am so so proud of team Eritrea!😍

[African Vision Sport & Education Development @4AfricanVision]

Eritrea 🇪🇷 is once again poised to shine in the U23 race, with Kisanet Weldemichael among the top contenders for gold. Wishing the entire team the best of luck! Eritrean athletes have been making waves recently, and it’s exciting to see them continue their winning momentum.

[CAC AFRICAN ROAD CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS @cacafrican2024]

For the country! Podium status!

#CACAfricanCycling2024

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

How President William Ruto's Son-In-Law Alexander Ezenagu Was Implicated In Africa's Biggest Money Laundering Scandal

An excerpt from prolific Nigerian investigative journalist @DavidHundeyin's book "#BreakingPoint" mentions how Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) kept surveillance of suspicious financial activities by fintech company 'Flutterwave' and reveals how millions of dollars were shuffled through poorly documented transactions, ultimately leading to a year-long negotiation where the ARA used account restrictions as leverage rather than pushing for prosecution, culminating in the case being dropped in July 2023 despite media resistance to bribery and pressure.

Nigerian tax expert and legal practitioner Alexander Ezenagu was strongly implicated in fraudulent activities at Flutterwave and named multiple times in the ARA lawsuit.

On one hand, the case against Flutterwave is believed to have been manufactured by the then-ruling administration to thwart Ruto’s Presidential bid due to his proximity to the company.

Many had anticipated that the case would be withdrawn following William Ruto's successful bid for the presidency due to his perceived ties to Flutterwave.

President Ruto is the father-in-law of Alexander Ezenagu, husband to the President’s daughter, June Ruto.

There was talk of Flutterwave’s alleged role in financing President Ruto’s bid for office.

During the 2022 election campaign period, Ruto was often seen in close proximity to Flutterwave’s co-founder/CEO Olugbenga Agboola.

Despite Flutterwave’s press release claiming they had been "cleared of wrongdoing" High Court judge Nixon Sifuna’s judgment made it clear that the ARA's withdrawal was due to dishonesty, openly accusing the ARA officials of bribery, racketeering, and corruption.

Flutterwave’s payment trails were anything but clear and simple.

Instead of a clearly identified payment for a clearly identified good or service from a recognised entity to another entity, what the ARA noticed was that millions of dollars were being rapidly passed through Kenya’s financial system through a maze of corporate bank accounts belonging to dozens of businesses with no clearly defined reasons for these financial flows.

These were purported payments for services rendered and the documentation provided included Service Level Agreements (SLAs) purporting to back these up.

On close examination, many of these SLAs turned out to be poorly edited templates, often direct copies of each other.

That was the first red flag from a regulatory point of view.

Who makes multiple business payments for millions of dollars to multiple accounts belonging to multiple businesses that are also paying millions of dollars to each other, and all this is based off of a few template SLAs which they hurriedly edited, in some cases with spelling mistakes?

A lot of this money appeared to originate from Nigeria, but what was its true source?

What was in fact happening was not a series of business transactions but one of the most egregious instances of ‘layering’ ever caught by an African regulator.

Layering is the process of shuffling money across multiple accounts, banks and financial institutions so as to obfuscate the true source of the funds by adding layers of artificial legitimacy to funds.

The idea is that if the money is shuffled around sufficiently, whatever underpaid compliance/regulatory staff member whose job it is to spot suspicious transfers will not be able to find the true source of the funds due to the dizzyingly complex maze of transfers that make it extremely difficult to track and locate.

Layering is extremely difficult for a financial regulator to defeat because short of physically shutting down the infrastructure of modern electronic banking, which permits vast volumes and amounts of transfers to take place almost instantaneously, there are only so many eyeballs and so much computing power to keep track of suspicious financial flows.

But the real juice of the story here is that ARA’s freeze on Flutterwave’s accounts was never to push through a proper prosecution, ultimately resulting in forfeiture of clearly laundered funds by Flutterwave to the Kenyan government.

The clever folks at the ARA knew that if they did that, the funds would go into the Treasury and be lost to both Flutterwave and the ARA.

It was much better to use the account restrictions as a bargaining chip to force the “Nigerian boys” to the negotiation table.

And that is exactly how it panned out.

There was more than enough documented evidence available for the prosecutors to obtain a criminal conviction for money laundering, and ultimately forfeiture of the seized funds but that was never the intention of the folks at the ARA.

The whole thing was just manufactured drama for the benefit of the ARA’s bargaining position.

When the negotiations were not going so well, a little tidbit of information from the court files would be leaked to journalists at the Business Daily who would in turn, publish the story, which would receive widespread attention and then Wendy the Flutterwave PR lady would start buzzing around him trying to put out the latest fire whose sources she could not even begin to understand.

Former Nation Media Group journalist Adonijah Ndege resigned due to internal pressure while reporting on the Flutterwave money laundering investigation.

Despite Flutterwave's attempts to bribe him to stop his reporting, Adonijah continued his investigative work.

He experienced increasing criticism, sidelining and rejection of his work by his editors, who eventually made it clear that reporting on the Flutterwave-ARA case was no longer a priority.

This pressure and the deliberate obstructions led him to resign from his position.

ARA ended its prosecution of Flutterwave in July 2023 after a year of intense negotiations.

Judge Nixon Sifuna furiously rejected the withdrawal and demanded an explanation for the mountain of evidence previously presented, showing Flutterwave's engagement in money laundering.

Despite his outrage, Hon. Sifuna was limited in his role and ultimately had to agree to the case's withdrawal, albeit with a scathing written judgment accusing ARA officials of bribery, racketeering and corruption.

"Today the suit is filed, tomorrow it is alive, and the next day it has been suffocated to death by its own initiator - the Agency," he lamented.

He openly accused the ARA of cutting a deal for a share of the dirty money being laundered by Flutterwave and its associates in Kenya.

Justice Sifuna said the prosecution should be transparent in their actions and their motions should not be question-begging and inviting scrutiny.

The court wondered what happened to the volumes of documents that accompanied the suit when it was filed.

Judge Sifuna noted that when thet withdrawal file was taken to him, the agency and lawyers representing the firm requested the case to be mentioned in camera as there were ongoing negotiations.

He added that when the case was mentioned, the prosecution did not give reasons for the withdrawal but only stated that there was no evidence to sustain the case, hence no reason to ‘waste judicial time’.

Unsurprisingly, Fluterwave did not mention any of this in the cheerful press release they immediately sent out to newsrooms around the world announcing that the company had been “cleared of wrongdoing” in Kenya - something that categorically did not happen.

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

In 1999, the world was mum & mainstream media cheered as NATO bombed Serbia into smithereens. NATO destroyed Schools, Hospitals, Churches, Theaters & Bridges ..

In 2003, US under false pretext, led 49 Countries in bombing Iraq into Stone Age & unleashing sectarian violence that has refused to stop .. The World was mum & mainstream media cheered relaying LIVE BREAKING NEWS!

In 2011, once again, NATO on flimsy grounds bombed Libya to ground zero & opened blood gates of hell. Libya thst was then Africa’s richest country has been reduced into a slave-trading nation … Mainstream Media cheered the bombing …

As Israel begins its extremely disproportionate destruction of life & property in Gaza, the world is mum as Europe & US cheer the destruction … Gaza, a 365 sq km concrete prison of 2m people has had its power, water & food supply cut off by Israel …. Its Schools, Hospitals, Ambulances & Mosques are being bombed … Residential homes are flattened … For Western Media, it is fodder for Breaking News ….

YET, when Russia exercises its preemptive right to enter Ukraine, the same mainstream media expresses horror & shock at perceived wrongs of Russia. It is like only Russia isn’t allowed to bomb another country!

[Raudha Wardha @RaudhaW]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Pauline Njoroge @paulinenjoroge]

During the campaign, Ruto lied to some gullible Kenyans that he was an economy genius, and likened himself to Kibaki. But the reality is what Ndii said the other day; the guy is clueless in matters economy and his pronouncements are uninformed.

A friend of mine keeps saying that by the time Ruto is done with our economy, Moi will look like saint. When I remember the oil deal he got us into, the current situation with the exchange rate, then his attitude towards investors who he is now threatening to send to heaven, I am compelled to agree with my friend. Meanwhile, the NSE index has fallen back to where it was in 2002 when Moi was exiting. That is the clearest indication that we are headed south.

[Eric Theuri SC @etadv]

This is a chilling statement that constitutes;-
1. A threat to right to life
2. A threat to access to justice & right to seek judicial intervention
3. A threat to the independence of the judiciary
It explains the recent abductions & sends a strong signal of the return of extra judicial interventions

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Europe colonized Africa & exploited & continues to exploit its natural resources for free!

Russia, China & Cuba helped Africa’s liberation movements.

China now provides Africa with massive infrastructure projects with no strings.

Russia provides us with fertilizer, free grain & security from terrorism.

India provides technical support in Agriculture & technology.

Cuba provides Doctors and medicine.

Europe gives us democracy & LGBT & tell us China , Russia & Cuba are our enemies!

[Raudha Wardha @RaudhaW]

@Kenyans Pedophilian remarks shouldn’t be tolerated.

[Kimuzi @Kimuzi_]

I wanna make a thread about Judy Chepchirchir, the untouchable Uasin Gishu swindler.

The Lady in red. Apparently hosted by Alfred Mutua, another fraud. It seems she is deeply rooted in the current regime.

A thread.

[MethoDman @polo_kimanii]

Those submarine tourists must be scared,kuna siku pia mimi nimekwama kwa tank nikiosha,9am to 8pm usiku,walinitafuta wakanikosa,nilikua naenda kupanda nateleza,najaribu kupiga nduru kumbe tank ni sound proof,ilibidi nipige magoti niombe mungu asiitikie nikufe kando ya Machura

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Oh hi lol

[Henry Kabogo 💧 ❄ 🇰🇪 @Kabogo_Henry]

To: @KRACare cc:@KRACorporate @CG_KRA
There is no decorum in pain; it is facilitated pain.
I am coming here a deeply troubled person who runs a water bottling company and represents people in the same industry as the Chairperson of the Water Bottlers Association of Kenya (WBAK).

[Raudha Wardha @RaudhaW]

@DCI_Kenya Am so upset with how carelessly this is reported..A teenage girl has been raped by two adult brothers!https://t.co/3c0acUh6w0’s sad the parents never intervened even when she got pregnant and had a stillbirth.