President Uhuru Kenyatta’s uncle is among several contractors paid millions for the supply of goods and services to the National Youth Service.
It has been established that a company indirectly contracted to supply diesel to the service this year belongs to the younger brother of the President’s mother.
Petrokenya Oil Ltd, an entity owned by Paul Gathecha Muhoho was paid millions for supplying diesel to NYS through a tender awarded to another company.
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Mr Gathecha is the younger brother of Mama Ngina Kenyatta and the dad to former Kiambu County Women Representative Anne Nyokabi.
Initially, NYS had contracted businessman Ben Gethi’s Horizon LTD to supply the fuel but the company subcontracted Petrokenya in an extension of the deal. Gethi is among those implicated in the NYS scandal under probe.
These two companies ended up in a prolonged legal battle over payments but it has emerged the president’s kin was eventually paid at least Ksh63 Million, the Standard reports.
The legal stretch saw part of the Mr Gethi’s Horizon LTD's property attached over controversies.
The main shareholder at Petrokenya is former Youth Fund chairman Gor Semelango who controls 53 percent while Mr Gathecha owns 47 percent of the business. Gathecha and Semelang'o moved to court over unpaid dues.
Former AG Githu Muigai's office intervened on the matter advising NYS to pay Petrokenya after Mr Gethis property was attached in the row.
An estimated 500,000 litres of fuel were supplied to NYS at a cost of Sh104.4 per litre. Mr Semelango says their business innocently supplied the fuel to the NYS storage facilities.
"I delivered the fuel to NYS in the tender awarded to Gethi's Horizon Ltd, but we did not know he would be unable to pay for it," Mr Semelango told the daily.
The payouts are yet to be flagged as part of the irregular Sh468 Million surrounding the jailed NYS officials and businessmen.
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A senior director at the Ministry of Public Service and Youth Affairs Bernard Masinga approved the Sh63 Million payment to Mr Gathecha’s company.
He wrote a memo to PS Lillian Omollo informing the boss of the decision. The two are all implicated in the scandal.
Mr Masinga lives like a King despite his Sh160,000 salary. His lavish life on trips abroad and mansions in the city’s posh estates and back in the village, Busia county attracted investigators to his throat.
