This KenRen thing is just plain, blatant theft of taxpayers' money
Folks, bear with me. I am a journalist and ought to have picked the payments to KenRen moments after the Budget was read. I did not. It is a story I have covered in the hearings of the Public Accounts Committee report on the government accounts in the fiscal year 2007/2008. So this is going to take long to read, but if you want to understand the real issue, be my guest (in a good way). Since then, I have followed it keenly, trying to see exactly if the shameless theft of money under President Kibaki's government will go on. Thank God for people like Mwalimu Mati for pointing that out to me. We met at Parliament's County Hall where he'd come before the Budget Committee, to really tell them about the theft of public funds . It is an item under Public Debt in the Consolidated Fund Services. Just check page 16 on this Treasury link and confirm that this guy knows, a lot of times, what he's talking about. So, when I asked him, how come I couldn't pick it up, he ...