Dam yields traced to high-end properties with addresses within Nairobi

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Kenya has contacted the National Crime Agency based in London to assist with crucial details in investigating the Elgeyo – marakwet dam scandal which has stalled despite payments made to the Italian contractor.


Investigation teams are dealing with several companies with different directors. …” That is why we are going through this methodically and clinically. But the net is getting wide,” Mr Kinoti said

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Properties suspected to have been bought by proceeds from questionable multibillion-shilling dams deals will also be confiscated.

“Investigations that may lead to identification of any properties that are proceeds of crime be given a top priority,” the DPP said.The detectives, including officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and prosecutors from the DPP’s office, are looking at the entire tendering process, the awarding of tenders without project designs, attempts to manufacture designs after the fact and failure to secure any of the land required for the projects.

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In his statement released late,Mr Haji said the properties, which have already been identified and mapped out by investigating authorities, belong to high level government officials involved in the dubious tendering and procurement processes of the dam projects.

Some of the projects in question include Itare, Embobut, Kimwarer and Arror dams as well as the Napuu II irrigation project.
The DPP said several key witnesses have already given evidence with regard to the possible corruption in the tendering and payment for the projects.

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The properties believed to have been purchased from proceeds from the dams fiasco are residential and commercial properties spread across the country, with a majority of them located in high-end addresses within Nairobi.

Mr Haji added that the teams are also investigating the disputed ownership of the land for the projects, the failure to compensate landowners, the payment of Sh21 billion to contractors notwithstanding the anomalies in the tendering processes and the legal status of the alleged contractors in their home countries.

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His Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge has also visited the DCI headquarters. Last week, KVDA Managing Director David Kimosop and several board members of the state corporation were questioned by the DCI. The KVDA, which contracted Italian companies CMC Di Ravenna and Itinera for the projects, is at the centre of investigations into allegations of payment of kickbacks to officials.
KVDA procurement boss William Maina Kiprotich, and the authority’s engineer Paul Serem were also questioned.

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The authority has maintained that only Sh7.8 billion was paid for the project while DCI says their probe shows up to Sh21 billion has been released so far.
This includes Sh6.3 billion mobilisation funds. Investigators believe Sh4 billion of the amount was used to pay kickbacks to various parties. Detectives have questioned about 100 people so far.

The DCI appeared to get a boost from Britain this week, when British High Commissioner Nick Hailey pledged “international support to root out corruption” and asked anyone formally indicted in corruption to step aside to allow an unfettered investigation.

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Mr Kinoti did not declare to the Nation whether he was treating Mr Rotich, who is now under pressure to quit, as a suspect or as a witness, only saying that the CS is “a person of interest”. This week, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he had confidence in investigative agencies and took on those “releasing statements” to defend projects riddled with graft.

“This is not a war against an individual or a community, but against a crime that robs us the opportunity to build a nation,” he said at the opening ceremony of the Sixth Devolution Conference in Kutus, Kirinyaga County on Tuesday.

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