In a press statement released today, 18th of November, Okiya Omtatah has broken down what he terms as evidence that links two powerful CSs to Anne Njeri. This is just another day Okiya Omtatah Exposes corruption.
Anne Njeri was over the last one and half weeks hit the headlines after her diesel imports was held in thr Port of Mombasa. She went missing immediately after recording a statement at the Directorate of Criminal Investigation, Nairobi. She was however found safe and arraigned in court.
Okiya Omtatah has dug deep into the oil links and the powerful people behind the scenes. Omtatah claims that after parliament approved the 5.9 B budget to the Ministry of Petroleum and mining, a total of 42. 9 B was withdrawn instead of 732M from the consolidated fund.
This was without the authority of parliament, therefore, unconstitutional and was spent on “subsidies to private financial enterprises” of which the beneficiaries were not named at the time.
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The ministry withdrew money from the consolidated fund for spending in three phases according to Okiya:
- In September 2022, the Ministry withdrew 16, 637,588, 580 from the Consolidation fund for subsidies.- Gazette no 12,580
- In January 2023,the Ministry withdrew 9,102, 983,190 from the fund in gazette notice 2071 of 14th February.
- The ministry withdrew additional 17, 224,718, 632 in June 2023 at the closure of the financial year 2023/24. This was in gazette notice 9734 of 13th July.
Therefore, Omtatah alleges that the 17B above correlates with the oil shipment between Ms Njeri and the two cabinet secretaries. Meaning that the additional 17B that was withdrawn by the Ministry was used to import the diesel through Ms Anne Njeri.
Mr Okiya Omtatah has called Cabinet Secretary Murkomen and his Mining Counterpart Chirchir to come clean. This is because he suspects that Njeri was used by the two CSs to import the diesel through her name and launder the money through the Galana Energies.
From the breakdown, Omtatah suspects that there was a fallout between the two CSs and one Ms Anne Njeri. He also pointed out other unconstitutional scenes going on at the ministry. This includes inflation of figures not approved by parliament and fraudulent change of figures.
The supplementary oringinal budget approved by Parliament to a tune of 5.9B in March was fraudulently changed to a figure of 20B. This was not approved by Parliament. This means that Mining ministry had spent over and above 14B that was not approved by Parliament.
To conceal this heist, parliament approved a supplementary budget to a tune of 43B, a 5,836.76% increase contrary to article 223(5) of the constitution. This article limits an increase to a maximum of 10%. They went ahead and did a 5,000% increase.
This goes contrary to the song sang by the government on how they found the coffers empty when they started making huge withdrawals immediately after taking over the government. Okiya Omtatah Exposes corruption has shown what this government is and what they really are.