Anglo Leasing: The Missing Link

As the legendary Nairobi Rumour-mongering machine goes into overdrive the mystery remains…

Despite the fact that the well-researched Nation “story of the century” has answered most questions related to the Angle-Leasing scam, and given perhaps the clearest picture ever of a scandal in a government still in power, one deeply disturbing question still lingers.

It is a sensitive mystery and yet it is one that will have to be solved sooner or later.

To understand the Anglo-leasing mega scandal, one needs to be aware of the history of Anglo-leasing-like scandals right from the government of founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. We detail this in our comprehensive earlier post (read it here)

On closer examination of all the earlier cases, you will find one consistency – a link to center of power, usually a close relative.

In the Kenyatta government a number of his very close relatives within the kitchen cabinet members were heavily involved the so called “Africanization” fund raising activities (corruption on a massive scale).

In the Moi administration the names of some of his sons were often mentioned in relation to various Anglo-Leasing-like scandals.

So even as some Ministers took time to issue a hard-hitting statement on Monday that was a warning to the media not to bring in the President’s name into the scandal, the rumour mills in Nairobi went into over-drive. It is not the policy of this blog to peddle unsubstantiated rumours, so I will just say that talk on the street is that a very close relative of the President has their name linked to Anglo-Leasing. So far this has not come out of the Nation report nor any of the statements from former ethics PS John Githongo.

Some of our sources disagree with us and claim that all the key names have already been mentioned and already amongst them, there is at least one very close relative of the President, the powerful former minister for internal security, Chris Murungaru.

Whatever the case, this is one scandal where all the truth will come out sooner or later, so just a little patience is required.

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Letter from a reader sent via email


I read the blog and am exhilarated at your very professional, informed and balanced analysis.

Kweli kumekucha!

The Nation expose’ is still baffling analysts who understand the Kenyan media.
A few weeks ago just before the referendum, it was known they had decided to back the banana-senior editors had been verbally briefed and told to toe the line or leave.

Am still reeling from the shock, and I remember asking myself twice if the two dailies had exchanged mastheads!

Why the change of heart at this hour? Why the names? Who gave the Nation all that stuff at that time? Is it not obvious that the Nation sought the story and consulted widely before going to press?

In my opinion they held on to the story for about a week.
The truth will come out shortly.