A delivery of towels worth 20-million Kenyan shillings — to build a dam. A wall that costs R50.5-million a kilometre. A whopping R640 000 paid for just five 70-inch TVs — to compound the crime, only 65-inch screens arrived. State capture, Kenyan style.
A delivery of towels worth 20-million Kenyan shillings — to build a dam. A wall that costs R50.5-million a kilometre. A whopping R640 000 paid for just five 70-inch TVs — to compound the crime, only 65-inch screens arrived.
The firm is now bankrupt, and the dams were never built. A hefty chunk of the misspent money — R6.7-million — was paid to Sanlam General Insurance, in which Osinde is a director. He denies any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, members of Parliament this month demanded an investigation into how a 10km section of wire fencing cost $350-million to build. The fence is supposed to run along all 700km of the Kenya-Somalia border, apparently to deter infiltration by terror groups and to discourage immigration, but construction has been halted.
But any investigation into the wall — which must be a contender for the world’s most expensive — may run up against another kind of barrier: this being a military project, the detailed accounts are classified.
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