At least 8 Kenya Kwanza uncompleted and completed projects are under scrutiny for conflicts of interest, with some directly benefiting President Ruto’s family, according to the Daily Nation.
President Ruto’s Weston Hotel won 37 tenders totalling Sh57.9 million, the most ever given to a single organization according to the public procurement portal.
Keith and Kevin, the sons of Deputy President Gachagua, are associated with a firm that is participating in a Sh3.7 billion mosquito net tender. The Global Fund cancelled a similar contract due to concerns about conflict.
President Ruto’s family, as the majority shareholder of Amaco Insurance, has appointed Silas Kibet Simatwo to lead the Digital Health Agency (DHA).
The DHA is among the institutions involved in a controversial contract with Safaricom, Konvergenz, NtWork, and Apeiro Ltd. to implement a digitized healthcare ecosystem worth Sh104.8 billion.
Mary Wambui Mungai’s companies—Pumua Holdings, Charma Holdings, Enterprise Supplies Limited, and Eversec General Trading—secured Sh6.4 billion in tenders from the Kenya National Trading Corporation for maize and rice.
She is a recognized political mobilizer who supports President Ruto’s digital pathway plan.
Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria owns a portion of Moses Kuria Invest Africa FZE, a company that won a Sh1.2 billion contract from KNTC for the supply of cooking oil.
Kuria’s companies, Smith & Gold and Grit Partners, are embroiled in controversial deals in Nairobi’s South C and Gatundu South, where construction is still ongoing.
Chepkurui Kones, owner of Shovels & Trowels, is one of two companies awarded tenders to repair the Outer Ring Road and Uhuru Highway footbridges after the Motorway.
She married Belgut MP Nelson Koech and secured the Sh1.1 billion Bomet Road Bridge project.
Mwende Gatabaki, the wife of President’s economic adviser David Ndii, is a director at a business that Apeiro Ltd., a member of the Safaricom consortium, has contracted with to digitize the healthcare ecosystem.
These are some of the companies linked to President William Ruto and associates working with his government.
Critics say this is a drop in the ocean. Allegations suggest that every project in the Kenya Kwanza administration is associated with the President William Ruto family or its associates.
