A Nairobi businesswoman has narrated how she got conned of Ksh 5 million in a fake maize tender introduced to her by the brother's friend.
Alice Kithome disclosed that she was introduced to Green Grain Organisation, a company that granted her an opportunity to sub-contract the tender.
Green Grain had allegedly won a tender to cushion hunger-stricken communities with relief food in Northern Kenya and all she needed to do was buy maize at the Busia border and transport it back to Nairobi.
"My brother's friend said that the company had won the tender after it was advertised. They, however, had opted not to do the manual work and decided to sub-contract me," she narrated during a YouTube show.
Kithome and the company owners signed a contract detailing that she would supply them with 3,300 bags which cost Ksh2,300 a bag. Payment would be made after her company had made five trips.
"It looked like clean business," she continued.
Hence, she requested for Ksh5 million overdraft from the bank to facilitate the whole process of buying maize from Busia border and transferring it to a hired store in Nairobi.
One day, however, a friend notified her that her maize was being moved from the stores and in canters to an unknown destination.
Alarmed, she made her way to the store only to realise that managers from Green Grain were the ones moving the maize.
She approached them and asked for her money but they promised that they had a client at hand and would finalize payments once they finished the transactions.
Inside the store, she found less than 100 bags and on walking out, the Green Grain officials had left and switched off their phones.
It is then that it dawned on her that she had been conned and reported to the Buruburu police station.
To date, Kithome is yet to recover her money.
