Mombasa court scheduled to rule on KPA officials’ corruption case as the runaway vice gnaws Kenya’s state corporations
Simon Otieno Alloo and Alootek Systems Limited face a second count of fraudulent practice in procurement, stating that between March 13 and 23, 2018, they allegedly engaged in fraudulent conduct to influence the tender award by falsely claiming Alootek Systems Limited was the sole distributor of Atlas Copco equipment in Kenya, thus qualified for the tender.
Citing police and military sources, widely read newspaper says abducted Tanzanian former envoy Humphrey Polepole was assassinated
Scores of high profile personalities and frustrated youth that have been exerting pressure on governments in eastern Africa to institute economic, political and democratic reforms have become targets of abduction and disappearances as governments in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda resort to repressive tactics to hold onto power.
$1.7 billion of $2.2 billion stolen: UN accuses South Sudan state officials of ‘ruthless’ theft of public funds as food crisis deepens
South Sudan has long been plagued by corruption and theft of public funds, multiple investigations have found. A 2021 report by the UN uncovered tens of millions of dollars in unaccounted for government revenue, in what it said amounted to “a tiny fraction of the overall pattern of theft.”
