One of the mysteries that will hopefully be solved in the near future is how one Samuel Gichuru has remained a free man even after a 2003 probe into the financial mismanagement of the giant Kenya Power And Lighting under his tenure as the managing director unearthed numerous irregularities.
An extremely hilarious incident took place the other day when shortly after a divorce case involving Gichuru—that mainly centered on financial settlement—went public, it was reported that the KACC was investigating the former power boss. I say hilarious because it would seem that this so-called commission that is using up millions every month in taxpayers money, is filed with staffers who comfortably sit in their offices and reads the newspapers to look for whom to prosecute. This happens as the big looters get "cleared" to re-occupy public office that they left only a few months previously under intense public pressure.
There is no doubt that Gichuru's vast wealth, now being fought over by women seemingly emerging from the woodwork, was accumulated during his tenure at Electricity House.
There were many rather creative ways Gichuru and his cronies within the company came up with to raise extra revenue to keep the largest power distribution company in East Africa running amid massive looting. For instance the charge for reconnection of disconnected electricity rapidly rose within a very short time and so did the efficiency in disconnecting electricity right n the dot when the due date arrived.
It is said that another scheme involving insurance coverage for the vast valuable assets of the state corporation also put a lot of money into Gichuru's pockets. As did sales of generators during the power crisis of the year 2000. Even the purchase of transformers at inflated prices (very clever because how many people would know the correct price for a transformer?) helped lace the pockets of the KPLC boss.
Every man who suddenly comes into unlimited wealth tends to end up in some vice. For Gichuru it was always obvious what that vice was. It was women. It is from this weakness that the then fledging new gutter press cashed in, in a major way the late 90s and beyond. It reached point where any new gutter press publisher would simply typeset a Gichuru story detailing his escapades with somebody's wife and they would then go to Electricity House and collect Kshs 100,000. Incidentally this is how one of the most popular and widely read weekly gutter press newspapers was launched.
The consequence of this behavior apart from the court cases is now said to be Aids. It is claimed that the former KPLC boss is HIV positive and this is one of the reasons why there seems to be a desperate battle for his estate being waged by at least three women.
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What kind of a subject line is that? and so what if he has Aids? I guess it was just a misfortune
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