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Nov 21, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa |Sam Kiplagat
From 2020, Indian billionaire Guatam Adani and his associates allegedly offered bribes estimated at more than $265 million (Sh34 billion) to government officials in India to hand lucrative contracts to a subsidiary of Adani Group, US prosecutors allege.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Alex Ndegwa |Kamore Maina
Habari za Kitaifa Utahitaji Sh600,000 mkononi kupata kazi ya polisi, ripoti ya Maraga yaonyeshaUFISADI wa hali ya juu katika Huduma ya Kitaifa ya Polisi (NPS) unaojumuisha hongo katika uajiri na jinsi wakuu wa polisi wanavyoingiza mabilioni ya pesa kupitia rushwa kutoka kwa madereva wa magari umefichuliwa katika ripoti iliyokabidhiwa Rais Ruto, ambayo pia inaelezea mpango wa kisasa wa Sh106 bilioni.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa |Kamore Maina
The runaway corruption in the National Police Service (NPS) including bribery in recruitment and how police chiefs pocket traffic bribes has been exposed in a report handed to President William Ruto, which also details Sh106 billion modernisation programme. Far from the belief that merit and physical fitness guides police recruitment, the report reveals a slot is sold for Sh600,000, with those who have paid the bribes spared the rigorous exercises including road races.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Peter Mburu |Alex Ndegwa
The government has maintained a veil of secrecy around a new banknotes printing deal awarded to a German firm, extending a web of mystery that has masked multibillion-shilling money-printing tenders that have cost taxpayers over the years.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa
What you need to know:Captain Charles Wachira has been in the cockpit of military and civilian helicopters for nearly 40 years. Ruto is among the jovial guests to fly- and quite generous too. Once Captain Charles Wachira flew then minister Nicholas Biwott, popularly known as ‘Total Man,’ to Eldoret. Upon landing, there was a fuel truck on standby to refuel the helicopter. After refueling, the truck driver handed the keys to Biwott who drove away alone. That was vintage Biwott. Ever paranoid.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa
It should have been an uneventful flight as the veteran pilot and his VIP passenger flew in a helicopter on the morning of Sunday, June 10, 2012. Except that this particular 10am flight would be anything but routine. And the dramatic events that fateful day would thrust Major (rtd) Charles Munyeki Wachira in the spotlight of a controversial air accident investigation into a national tragedy.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa
Charles Munyeki Wachira’s first train ride from Kisumu to Nakuru cost him Sh10. Wachira had enrolled at Eregi Teacher Training College for two years between 1973-74, graduating as a P1 tutor. At the time, trainee teachers had a Sh20 monthly government stipend. Barely in his twenties, the young man who had missed by a point selection to join Alliance for A-levels had resolved that setback would not put them down.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa
Interviews with retired military officers who had a frontline role in suppressing the August 1, 1982 coup and subsequently in interrogating mutineers reveal that there is one coup plotter who got away. Although there is no perfect crime, reports have emerged that one air force soldier involved in the mutiny actually fled the country. This account emerged during interrogations of suspected mutineers at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison, Nation.Africa has established.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa
Young Air Force pilot Michael Gichangi found himself among hostile army men at Lang’ata barracks on August 1, 1982, the day rebel Air Force soldiers staged an attempted coup. This is the untold story of his ordeal and subsequent rise to become Kenya’s spy chief. Fighter jet pilot Michael Gichangi reported to 7KR Lang’ata Barracks to find out what was going on as rebel Air Force soldiers staged a coup that would change Kenya’s destiny on August 1, 1982.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa
Days to the August 1 1982 coup, Captain Hussein Ahmed Farah (now a retired colonel) was in a military parade during an event in Nyeri where President Moi had the last public engagement before the attempt to overthrow his government. He sheds new light on events leading to the mutiny. It was a chilly Wednesday, July 29, 1982. Kenya Air Force officers had mounted a colourful military parade rehearsal.
