“Resign or face arrest” Options Given to KPC MD Joe Sang After Miraculous Loss of Millions of Fuel

Kenyans seem to be getting fed up of the corruption mess in the Country. They want the government to take action and help do away with this menace that has robbed the Country of billions of Shillings.

Mega corruption scandals have become like a norm in Kenya with each single day bringing with it a new scandal. The latest scandal to hit the Country is that at the Kenya Pipeline Company where the Country is staring at an alleged loss of 21 million liters of fuel.

Kenya Pipeline Managing Director Joe Sang has already quit his position as the board invited the DCI to investigate the disappearance  of the fuel that KPC claimed either spilt or was stolen by vandals.

Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jnr has now weighed in on the ongoing multi-million debate. According to Mutula, KPC Managing Director Joe Sang was given two options, to either resign or face the sack.

The MD chose to Resign, a move that has elicited various reactions with many Kenyans calling for his immediate arrest and prosecution.

Senator Mutula says that he hopes that the multi-million Oil scam has already been addressed and that the perpetrators have been brought to book.

‘Kenya Pipeline MD was given two options . Resign or face arrest. He chose the latter. We assume the crime has been addressed and all is well. I must be walking upside down,” said Mutula Kilonzo.


KPC MD Mr Sang, whose first term was to end in April next year, handed his letter to the board on Tuesday morning.

In the letter, Mr Sang said that “due to personal reasons”, he would not be seeking the extension of his term, which effectively ends his troubled tenure at KPC.

In a press statement signed by KPC chairman John Ngumi, the board on Tuesday also invited oil-marketing companies (OMCs) to conduct a forensic audit of stock positions and to complete the exercise by December 31.

“The board directed management to accord maximum cooperation to both the DCI and the forensic auditors,” Mr Ngumi said.

This followed a row between KPC and major oil companies over the whereabouts of 21 million litres of fuel, worth over Sh2 billion, which the company claims spilt in the fields or was stolen in the past two years.

The 10 leading oil marketers had written a joint letter dated October 26, 2018 in which they demanded to conduct their own forensic audit to check the accuracy of stock statements issued by KPC and get to the bottom of what was turning out to be bogus records of loss.

KPC has no fuel of its own and holds stock in its system on behalf of the oil marketers and now cannot account for the missing product.

It all started on July 5, 2018, when Mr Sang wrote a letter to Supplycor Kenya Limited, the independent legal entity incorporated by the oil-marketing companies in Kenya to coordinate activities along the fuel supply chain.

In the letter, Mr Sang notified the firms that in the past two years, a total of 11.646 million litres of fuel got lost due to “vandalism and spillages of the main line from Mombasa to Nairobi”.

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