According to an audit commissioned by Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu, the money may have been stolen in the past financial year or paid to fake companies. That files of some suspected companies have suddenly and strangely disappeared from the Registrar of Companies points to a well-orchestrated cover-up. At the heart of this plunder – the latest in a series of mind-boggling misappropriation of public funds under the Jubilee Government - are well-connected senior Government officials. The arrogance with which a senior ministry official threatened a journalist and even hinted at hacking newsroom computers and individual bank accounts points to an inexplicable belief of being above the law. It also demonstrates a bottomless contempt for the Kenyan public and the institutions which hold government to account.

Source: Standard Digital October 27, 2016 21:00 UTC