Author: Khusoko

Henry Rotich, Kenya’s National Treasury Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge pleaded not guilty to corruption charges on Tuesday relating to the Ksh 63 billion Arror and Kimwarer dams scandal. Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti granted the duo bail on a cash surety of Ksh 15 million and Ksh 50 million bond and ordered them to stay out of their offices during the entire period of their case, following an application by Special Counsel Taib Ali Taib who is prosecuting the case for the Director of Public Prosecutions. “The places of work of the accused persons is considered a scene…

Henry Rotich, Kenya’s National Treasury Cabinet Secretary was arrested on Monday on allegations of financial misconduct related to the KSh63 billion construction of Kimwarer and Arror dams. Rotich will be charged along with 27 other people, including Italian Paolo Porcelli, the director of CMC di Ravenna and Treasury Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge. The charges to be preferred against Rotich include: “conspiracy to defraud”, “abuse of office”, “financial misconduct”, “engaging in a project without proper planning” and “willful failure to comply with procurement laws.” Noordin Haji, the Director of Public Prosecutions on Monday said, “The persons we are charging today were…

Kenya’s National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Principal Secretary Kamau Thugge are set to face charges over alleged irregular advance payments for the construction of Kimwarer and Arror dams. According to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji, “The persons we are charging today were mandated with safeguarding our public interest and deliberately breached this trust and not only bound Kenya to a loan but they ensured that the funds did not come into the consolidated fund, in effect guaranteeing that no one was oversighting its use, they broke the law on public finance management, under the guise of…

Diaspora remittances from Kenyans living and working abroad soared to an all-time high of KSh30.3 billion in June according to the Central Bank of Kenya weekly bulletin data. This was an increase of 21% from KSh24.7 billion of diaspora remittances recorded in May. As a result, the 12-month cumulative inflows hit KSh282.3 billion representing a growth of 13.6%, up from Ksh248.6 billion recorded in June last year. “The remittance inflows rose to an all-time high in June 2019 amounting to $295 million compared to $243 million in May,’’ CBK said. North America, Europe and the Rest of the world accounted…

Safaricom’s Digifarm, a consumer mobile app solution which aims to find sustainable solutions for smallholder farmers to expand and improve their business activities, is projected to outpace M-Pesa in performance in the next five years. “The rate of growth has been phenomenal and we expect that DigiFarm will be bigger than M-Pesa in the next three to five years,” says Chief Financial Officer Sitoyo Lopokoiyit. “Using the mobile technology platform, smallholder farmers get access to information on financial services. They also receive discounted products, customized information and tutorials on farming practices,” he added. https://twitter.com/kenyanwalstreet/status/1151770271541579776 Read: M-Pesa to pass 50% mark…

Masoko, Safaricom’s e-commerce proposition is expanding beyond Kenya anchored by the growing internet-based businesses where digital payments systems are becoming popular by the year 2020. This is on the backdrop of the expected growth of Smartphones in the region estimated to hit over 525 million users as at the end of next year. “As a telco, we are purposed to transform lives by investing in technology and knowledge that will widen the reach of the possibilities they have witnessed in the last two decades to reach right across Africa, using that pocket- sized gadget,” Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Chief Financial Services Officer,…