Moses Waiyaki

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@otienowill 😄

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@AnuarSaddat @MRSMuruguu 😃😄

[Manjit Singh Ghuman @manjitghuman58]

Think 🤔…

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@SariteRufis @Patwwafula @sholard_mancity 😂😂

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@Fredmunene_ 😀

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Funds meant for public services were routed through non-designated accounts.
Electronic Citizen Solutions Ltd received over half a billion shillings despite not being party to the eCitizen contract.
Pesaflow received billions without disclosure of account holders.
Webmasters Ltd mysteriously retained control of a government platform years after its supposed handover to Treasury.

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@C_NyaKundiH 😀

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

My fellow Kenyans,

For the last three days or so, I have been trying to bring you my review findings of our government’s rendezvous with Covid 19-related finances.

Clearly, someone powerful does not want you to read the findings. Every single post is being hijacked, suppressed, and slowed down.

But I will keep trying. Here we go.

These findings, which might shock you (but should not, if you know anything about our government), are coming at a very difficult time in our country.

Kenyans have lost trust in government, politicians, and organs of law and order. We are steadily descending into anarchy. We are a failed state.

Today – the constitution that we love to talk about as being the most progressive in Africa does not mean a damn thing to 99% of us. None of the rights and privileges of citizenship enshrined in that constitution mean anything, to most of us.

You disagree?

Let me ask you. Remember Albert Ojwang? He is dead. Rotting in the grave. How about Boniface Kariuki? Remember him? He just got shot dead in broad daylight in the middle of a street. Before that, countless other Kenyans have died the same way – all in the hands of a criminal enterprise masquerading as a government.

A gangster government. A totally rotten and evil, full-blown criminal enterprise.

What were their crimes?

Their crimes were being citizens with a brain, an independent mind, and the capacity to know right from wrong. Just from unjust. The ability to know when they are being mistreated and gaslit by their own government.

Those were their crimes.

The truth of the matter is this: in this purgatory that we call home, none of us can say for certain that we will see tomorrow. And it is not that God, the giver of life, can take it away any time. It is because the gangster government of William Ruto has decided that the constitution is merely guidelines and suggestions. William Ruto decides who lives and who dies. Decides what is constitutional and what is not.

This is not normal. This is evil. This is the hallmark of a banana republic. A country of men, as opposed to, the constitution.

I have told you numerous times that when the average citizen cannot tell the difference between his or her government and the thug on the street corner, that society has crossed the proverbial rubicon on its way to hell.

All Kenyans must ask themselves this question:
What, if any, is the difference between William Ruto’s Government of Thieves, by Thieves, and for Thieves, and the thug on the street corner?

That’s the question that we all must grapple with.
For myself – there is none. Both William Ruto and his Government of Thieves, by Thieves, and for Thieves, and the thug on the street, are determined to steal everything and take advantage of any weakness they perceive. They don’t give a flying you know what about your rights or mine, nor do they struggle with moral issues.

They steal everything in their sight and eliminate anyone who questions the fairness and injustice of their actions.

They are the same, by and large. But the Government of Thieves, by Thieves, and for Thieves is worse. It has no competition in terms of its ability to extort, hurt, frustrate, and kill.

Last week, in a discussion that involved @makaumutua and the general public, I talked about the depth and magnitude of the discord between the average citizen, the 99% of Kenyans, and the ruling class in this country, the 1%.

I told you that at the core of the discord, is greed, injustice, corruption (moral and financial), and the lack of humanity.

As I said last week, the 1%, the ruling class, has decided to subjugate the 99%, and avail itself of everything our country has to offer, without a care in the world about the carnage, the destruction, the pain, and the mayhem it leaves in its wake.

KSH 11 trillion in debt, about 80% of which was accumulated in the last decade. Much of the funds available to serve citizens being consumed by the government itself. Contracts worth billions being given to criminal associates of the 1%.

The result is that our country is teetering on total economic collapse. Our country today has to spend 70% of all revenue to service debt taken in our name by corrupt politicians, the 1%. The natural consequence of this, is a country of under-achievers. A generation of broken dreams.

The 1% has eaten up everything, and left fellow citizens destitute, and slaves in their own country. We now are at the point where, the only thing left to eat, is the corrupt 1% itself. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what is left. And that is why Kenyans are on the streets.

Kenyans are realizing that what we have tried before – appealing to the 1% to find a modicum of benevolence and compassion and treat the 99% with dignity and fairness in their own country has failed. It has failed because we are dealing with a people that is totally devoid of humanity and the ability to have any compassion.

It is like talking to a pig.

We are dealing with animals, ladies and gentlemen.
That is how we ended up on the streets.

I understand that am using language that is quite strong here. I grant you that.

But I want you to ask yourself, after reading my findings below, whether you still feel that my language here is stronger than necessary.

I want to use this opportunity not just to report corruption to you. I want us to confront this question:
What is the point of a government? What is its role in our lives?

That is an important question in this day and age. Think about the deaths I just talked about above. Then think about the behavior of government and corrupt politicians as described below, and then grapple with that question of, “just what is the point of government”?

Every single politician today will tell you: “Don’t burn your country”.

A totally respectable piece of advice.

In fact, just last week, William Ruto – the high priest of this gangster government, showed us that he believes that he has the right to question the patriotism of those who are trying to keep his lawless and hopelessly corrupt administration accountable.

In a shameful speech, he said:

“If you truly love Kenya, as you say, don’t burn your country.
If you love your country, don’t be part of the problem.
If you hate the leaders, hate brings conflicts. Conflicts, bring violence.
If your strategy is anchored on hate for leaders, how are you going to provide a solution for our nation?
If we continue that way, they will finish with the small enterprises downtown. They will be in Kileleshwa. They will be in Lavington. They will be in Karen.
Then shortly, we will not have a country.”

This is the man that Kenyans elected to the presidency in 2022. The man who told Kenyans that he would be their provider and protector. Their path to the future. Their path to prosperity.

The president, with that tone-deaf challenge, is questioning the patriotism of people like us who decry the historic corruption in his Government of Thieves, by Thieves, and for Thieves.

He deems unpatriotic an entire generation of Kenyans who have decided that enough is enough. People who are the victims of his administration’s massive, historic, and crippling corruption and gaslighting.

That is where we are, ladies and gentlemen.

None of these corrupt politicians are interested in asking themselves what type of situation forces citizens to consider burning down their own country.

Not one.

As you shall see below, the behavior of our government – during Covid – should be the final chapter written about the people in this and the last government.

Make no mistake about it: the people at the center of corruption and criminality during Covid are in the driver’s seat in this gangster government. So don’t tell me that this happened during Uhuru’s presidency.

They are all thieves.

A compatriot last week quipped:

“If necessary, nations must die to save humanity”.

A profound statement with potential implications for Kenya.

I agree that we need to save Kenya. But before we jump the gun, asking whether or not we actually have a “country” to save, is not a ridiculous question in 2025.

Do we have a “country”? Or do we not?
What are the hallmarks of a “country”?

Do you have a “country” when the president can usurp the constitution and render it useless? Do you have a country when the president and his criminal associates can give away key assets such as JKIA to a criminal enterprise just so that they can make a few bucks?

Do you have a country when the police and secret militia are shooting and killing people in the middle of the day without fear of prosecution, and making others like Ndiangui disappear?

Do we have a country where those entrusted with running the affairs of the state, and serving and protecting others decide to abuse that privilege and steal everything in their sight, at the expense of the entire country?

How would Albert Ojwang or Boniface Kariuki answer that question?

These are profound questions that every single Kenyan must answer for themselves.

To get started, I want to ask that you indulge me a little bit by watching the first video attached.

This video should, in my opinion, set the stage for the discussion we need to have in this country around where we are headed, and what is wrong with us.
In November of 2023, I stumbled upon the story of a young man from Turkana, Calvin Esekon Esewit, who, despite scoring an A-, and getting an acceptance into medical school, spent two years not knowing whether his dreams of becoming a doctor would ever come true. Calvin’s story had a profound impact on me. I could not understand how it is possible that, in our country, a young man who appears to be every parent’s dream child can spend two years in limbo, begging politicians to intervene and give him the opportunity to pursue his dreams.

I spent weeks trying to chase down Calvin to see how I could help him attend college. After a lot of searching, I finally found Calvin, and by this time he had managed to get some help and is now in college, which is a nice ending for sure. And while this story has a great ending, it did not have to be this way. And we know that the number of cases that end like this, with some success, are a small fraction of those ones which end tragically. With broken dreams.

This is the hallmark of a country that is overrun by corruption.

As you listen to Calvin’s story, please consider the following:

Turkana County has a population of around 1 million people. In 10 years since devolution started, the county has received KSH 116 billion, with a B, in revenue transfers from you and I.

Yes, you, and I. Wherever you are. This is because Turkana County can only raise about 1% of its approximately KSH 16 billion annual budget. This KSH 16 billion is supposed to serve citizens like Calvin. But that is not what happens, by and large.

The Governor of Turkana enjoys a basic income that is 93 times the income earned by the average citizen, such as Calvin’s parents. Turkana County has spent over KSH 210 million on a mansion for the Governor. It has spent close to KSH 100 million on mansions for the Deputy Governor, and the Speaker of the Assembly. And Turkana County frequently spends over KSH 1 billion in luxury travel annually.

Given exorbitant compensation and benefits, disproportionate allocation of funds to serve politicians, aides, friends, and county staff, wastage, and corruption, Turkana County today has a poverty rate of 83%. It has thousands of Calvins – whose dreams are dead, and who will never amount to anything because corrupt politicians have put their own greed above the public good. The former Governor of Turkana, who stole billions of shillings from people like Calvin, destroying futures of an entire generation, today, is not in prison.

He was embraced, protected, and promoted to higher office. He works at State House, courtesy of William Ruto. You and I – and all the citizens of Turkana, today pay his compensation and benefits. Because this is Kenya, where we embrace, protect, and promote thieves of public resources.

I ask you to watch that video, because I believe it is helpful in answering the question of: What the heck is the point of government?

How is our government serving Calvin? Is it serving Calvin at all?

You see, this is what our corrupt politicians do not know, are ignorant about, of don’t care about:
In order for us to save our “country”, we must all feel that we have a country.

In order to us to want to save our “country”, we must all feel and believe in the promise of our country.
Feel. Not be told about, by politicians.

We must all feel that we have a stake in the future of the country.

Here is a question: Would you expect Calvin, given his experience, to believe in the promise of Kenya? He spent two years running around from office to office. Begging politicians for an opportunity to pursue his dreams.

Begging his own leaders to give him a chance to pursue an education.

The same leaders who have received KSH 116 billion to serve him. But have chosen to steal from him and destroy his life.

@WilliamsRuto – this is the world that you have created.

When you fill your entire government with thieves such as Governor Nanok – who stole from Calvin, who your own @EACCKenya called a thief, you are sending the message that corruption is ok and normal.

When you promote and protect people like @ItsMwangiWaIria – a known thief of public resources – everybody and their grandmother can see what the message is.

When you employ thieves such as @KideroEvans – who stolen billions from Nairobi citizens – how the heck do you expect anyone not to steal and shake down innocent citizens?

The truth, the undeniable truth, is that you are the biggest promoter of corruption and theft of public resources in this country. That is the truth.

Every Kenyan must know that. Even if this is the last thing they must learn before you take their life.

Now, let’s get to the review findings.

Kenya’s Covid Heist: How a Government of Thieves Turned a Pandemic into a Payday

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Kenya, millions of citizens turned to their government for protection, leadership, and truth. What they got instead was theft, impunity, and institutionalized corruption on a scale so grotesque it borders on criminal enterprise. The Kenyan government did not just mismanage the COVID response — it looted it. And every institution that was supposed to investigate and punish this looting — the @EACCKenya , the @DCI_Kenya , @Senate_KE and @NAssemblyKE, and the Presidency — either looked the other way or actively enabled it.

A Pandemic of Plunder: The Numbers Tell the Story

The government budgeted KSH 9.2 billion for its COVID-19 response. It would secure KSH 8.1 billion in loans from the World Bank, KSH 1.1 billion from the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (“KEPSA”), and receive an additional KSH 465 million from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (“GAVI”).

But because in Kenya, serving citizens is secondary to stealing, the government secured KSH 13.6 billion loan from the World Bank — overshooting the budget by more than KSH 4 billion.

So – understand what is happening here. Covid has hit the world. Our corrupt politicians see an opportunity to make money. While the country says it needs KSH 9.2 billion to deal with the pandemic, they borrow KSH 13.6 billion, because why not use the opportunity to steal KSH 4 billion outright?

So, where did the money go?

The first thing you need to realize is that the government needed to ensure that criminal associates of politicians are guaranteed to be the primary beneficiaries of the Covid 19 opportunity.
How do you do that?

First, you need to use illegal means – but which have the cover of a formal process. Rather than engage in a competitive bidding process to procure vaccines and other suppliers, you use what is called Direct Procurement. This method can be legal if many conditions are met, but it is rarely used because its legality depends on meeting so many legal requirements.

But our corrupt politicians and government bureaucrats employed the method – even though everyone knew the conditions were not met – and selected their criminal associates as suppliers, and they issued massively inflated contracts.

It was that simple.

First, you inflate the program cost by KSH 4 billion, to be shared by the criminal syndicate.

Secondly, you employ Direct Procurement – and invite your criminal associate friends to bid.

This was done primary through Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (“KEMSA”) @Kemsa_Kenya and the Ministry of Health @MOH_Kenya.

Government auditors found that KEMSA was used as a tool to loot public funds, and that everything it did was designed with that as the primary objective.

Companies with no bank accounts, no staff, and no tax history were awarded contracts worth billions.

For example, Shop and Buy Limited, a company owned by James Kipketer Cheluley and registered in February of 2020, which had never employed anyone, had a bank account, or won even a KSH 50,000 contract to clean washrooms, won a contract for KSH 970 million.

Let me repeat that. This new firm had never supplied anyone with anything. Never had an employee or a bank account. It was not even a medical supply business. But two months after formation, corrupt politicians and this criminal enterprise took KSH 970 million through this firm. No competition, to tender process. The company charged whatever it wanted for these supplies.

Nanopay Limited, owned by Ahmed Rahim Mohamud Mohammed, also won a contract for KSH 35 million. It was formed a few months before, and had never done anything for anyone, similar to Shop and Buy.

In other words, from a KSH 13.6 billion loan taken, two new firms with 0 experience and KSH 0 in assets took KSH 1 billion.

That debt of KSH 13.6 billion is part of the KSH 11 trillion we owe today. It is why we are spending 70% of our tax revenue to service debt.

In another egregious case involving MS Gladlab Supplies Limited, KEMSA actually negotiated upward the cost of masks — from KSH 3,183 to KSH 4,500 per pack — after receiving a cheaper offer from the same supplier. The company received a quotation for a box of N95 masks at KSH 3,183 but somehow invited the company to bid – without any competition, at KSH 4,500! This company ended up selling KEMSA 30,000 units of masks, and this particular corruption scheme cost taxpayers KSH 39.5 million.

The thieves were not done. Not by a long shot.

According to the government auditor, more than 2.79 million vaccine doses (about 10% of the entire amount purchased) worth KSH 1.7 billion cannot be accounted for. Some vanished before leaving national stores. Others disappeared at the county level. Some were expired, damaged, or wasted.

Additionally, the KSH 465 million I mentioned above from GAVI? Stolen outright. No documentation. No trace. The Auditor-General simply said: nobody knows what happened to it.

KSH 169 million supposedly spent on training — yet the Ministry of Health couldn’t even produce attendance sheets. A training of 58 people? No proof it ever happened. Another in August of 2020? No cost details. KSH 30 million in “imprests” or advances? Zero documentation. This is not mismanagement — it is theft dressed up in policy.

Even worse than the theft:

Remember that the scheme required the façade of urgency? Because it is the only way the Direct Method could even be considered?

When the government received the vaccines and supplies, it left them in warehouses for up to 6 months. In fact, 97% of the purchased items were still in the warehouse when auditors came calling to see what the heck was happening.

Quoting the government auditor:

“It was established that there was no evidence that the initiation of the procurement process for Covid related supplies was triggered by a needs assessment to establish demand for these products. This is evidence by initiation of the process without planning and budgeting, use of the Direct Procurement in disguise of urgency when indeed the products are still at the warehouses (KEMSA) for 6 months. The procurement therefore was not conducted in the best interest of KEMSA or the public. There is need for further investigations on ALL accompanies engaged by KEMSA to establish acts of procurement frauds and collusion”.

The auditor – in the statement above, is recommending, indeed begging, those charged with protecting Kenyans to investigate.

Those would include the hopelessly moribund EACC, the DCI, parliament, the presidency, the Director of Public Prosecutions, among others.

These reports are at least 3-years old today.
Not one soul has been prosecuted today.

From the KSH 13.6 billion – we lost KSH 4 billion outright. Lost KSH 1.7 billion in theft. Lost KSH 40 million in over-pricing. Lost KSH 1 billion to Shop and Buy and Nanopay. Lost KSH 465 million from GAVI – again, outright.

As if that was not enough, consider this: Remember I said that KEPSA – the Kenya Private Sector Alliance essentially donated KSH 1.1 billion? This amount was to be used to purchase the vaccines, and the amount, much like the GAVI amount (KSH 465 million) was to be part of the official Covid 17 response budget.

When the government received the deposit, USD 2,000,000 (or 20% of the overall donation), rather than purchase new stock as intended, the government used what was already purchased, to disguise this as a new purchase, and the USD 2 million was left in the newly formed bank account. Nobody knows what happened to that money.

So in total, as you can, only cents on each shilling served Kenyans.

97% of the stock purchased was in the warehouse 6 months after purchase, despite the fake, invented urgency. As thousands of Kenyans were dying waiting to be served.

Billions were stolen outright. Billions more were stolen through corrupt procurement schemes.

I asked the question before. What the heck is the purpose of government in Kenya?

Covid 19 - a global pandemic hits, paralyzing travel, businesses, and healthcare systems.

In Kenya – those trusted with the privilege of serving Kenyans betray that trust – milking the opportunity, and not serving Kenyans.
The truth of the matter is this. Covid took away over 5,000 Kenyans.

Many of these deaths could have been avoided, had the government actually focused on serving Kenyans – making available vaccines and much needed suppliers, as opposed to focusing on taking advantage of the opportunity to steal.

Again, what is, the purpose of government?
I have said before that fish rots from the head.
The findings you just read, are not unknown to Ruto. Or parliament. Or EACC. Or DCI. Or whoever.

They have all that information.

But they are not interested in seeking justice for Kenyans.

When Kenyans confront the ruling class about matters such as these – we are called unpatriotic. We are called criminals. We are called arsonists. We are called confused Genzs.

The president cannot claim ignorance when he is . He has filled his cabinet and key state positions with known thieves — people who have been named in massive corruption scandals, many with active cases: Evans Kidera, Mwangi wa Iria, Wyclef Oparanya, Josphat Nanok.

Instead of jail, these men got government appointments, diplomatic roles, and praise. Why?

Because they are politically useful. Abd because the president has a particular fondness and obsession with thieves.

It is absolutely diabolical, and will require an entire sub-discipline in psychology to study.

But let’s not mince words: this is a criminal cartel in power, not a government. And the rot starts from the top.

@EricLatiff @Mizani254 @OkiyaOmtatah @MigunaMiguna @TIKenya @OCCRP

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

Attorney General Dorcas Odour fights to keep Raila Odinga's AU bid spending secret
https://t.co/yY4dV0dkCn

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

The Standard Group PLC Position

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@rotasmyth_ceo @otienowill Counting from 9th August 22, 10th August 27 is day 1 of year 6.

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@yassiroramat @AlinurMohamed_ @grok 🤣

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@ntvkenya Do ordinary Kenyan women in her county get similar chances after delivery?

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@MwangiBonnie Atī kī? Mīitū ītarī tha!

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@OkiyaOmtatah @C_NyaKundiH Legalising corruption, small greedy minds that can't implement efficiency. Disgusting!

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

Fellow Kenyans,

In continuing with civic education, I will be covering the most recent county government rendezvous with taxpayer money, which is now 2023-2024.

Because you know your government, I think you know what to expect.

I want to you to bite on this little nugget from the auditor, talking about @NairobiCityGov under @SakajaJohnson:

(1) There is KSH 140 million in duplicate payments to certain suppliers. Sometimes the same payment is sent to more than one bank statement, but for the same underlying "business purpose", around the same time.

(2) In a remarkable phenomenon, thousands of workers (between 6,123 and 7,777), received their salaries using a shared bank account.

Let me repeat that. At least 6,213 people, apparently workers of @NairobiCityGov - used a shared bank account to receive their compensation.

Are there 6 thousand couples working for the city?

As you try to make sense of number (2) above, consider this other audit finding:

(3) The County Government of Nairobi cannot account for, get ready for this: KSH 839,933,289 in "compensation.

So - understand the fact pattern. The county claims KSH 839,933,289 in salary expenses that cannot be traced - no names, IDs, addresses, departments, etc.

Then we find out that between 6,123 people and 7,777 employees, are either married or somehow decided to go open up shared bank accounts for use in their payroll disbursements.

Kenya, ni nchi ya maajabu.

Now, if you are somehow not shocked by now, consider this:

74 officers of the city that recieved compensation, shared the same details. Names, etc.

All exactly the same.

@SakajaJohnson - you sir, have some explaining to do.

Stay tuned.

@EricLatiff @Mizani254 @OkiyaOmtatah @SakajaJohnson @KenyaGovernors @MoGAbdi @daniel_muli @NGCDF_Kenya @Senate_KE @NAssemblyKE @Bright_Shitemi @kikaokenya254 @WanjiruGithiomi @EACCKenya @NairobiCityGov @MigunaMiguna

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@TabithaKaranja Aren't these gimmicks for political milage?

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@Mshomolozi @nziokamul1 @CopShakur 😄

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@TuJadili @solo_franchise @nziokamul1 @Shortthekiddo @Natiiv33 😀

[Moses Waiyaki @This_is_Moses]

@MwangiBonnie Happy new year