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Kipkurui Mutai: Cleaner Paid Ksh 257 Million for Supplying Nothing to Prison Department

by Paul Nyongesa
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In a case that has left many stunned, Kipkurui Mutai, a cleaner at Teleposta Towers in Nairobi, managed to secure a staggering Ksh 257 million from the State Department of Correctional Services for supplying absolutely nothing.

Mutai, who began working as a cleaner for the department in 2009 and was stationed in the procurement area of Teleposta Towers since 2017, exploited his position to orchestrate this elaborate fraud.

Between 2012 and 2016, Mutai created seven briefcase companies with the sole intention of entering the lucrative government tendering sector.

These companies, Homex Logistics, Hygienic Ventures, Nerimas General Agencies, Facton Logistics Enterprises, Trechris Services, White Unicorn Logistics, and Unique Supplies, were all fraudulent entities designed to siphon money from government coffers.

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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) uncovered that these companies claimed to supply a variety of goods, including groceries, vegetables, cuisine, hair and sanitary products, general goods, and even constitutional legal advice services to seven prisons in Nairobi.

These prisons included Nairobi Remand, Kamiti Main Prison, Nairobi West Prison, Lang’ata Women, Kamiti Medium, Kamiti YCTC, and Nairobi Medium.

According to the EACC, payment vouchers indicated substantial sums were paid to these companies: Homex Logistics received Ksh 62.5 million, Hygienic Ventures Ksh 56 million, Nerimas General Agencies Ksh 22 million, Facton Logistics Enterprises Ksh 13.2 million, Trechris Services Ksh 13.6 million, White Unicorn Logistics Ksh 10 million, and Unique Supplies Ksh 79.4 million.

However, none of these companies actually supplied any goods to the prisons.

EACC’s investigations revealed that the payment vouchers did not originate from the prisons.

There were no local purchase orders, inspection, or acceptance committee certificates attached to the payment vouchers.

Furthermore, none of the deliveries listed on the attached delivery notes were recorded in the prison books, and the delivery notes lacked the name of the receiving officer.

Additionally, none of the payments were charged in the vote book of the respective prisons, indicating a complete lack of genuine transactions.

Mutai’s fraudulent activities were uncovered when it was found that he had faked the payment vouchers to get the money accepted and deposited into his accounts.

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