shocking? Not really?
written by a guest , August 31, 2007

The first words that come to my mind are, inherited networks of corruption. It seems that all the rhetoric of 2002-2003 was nothing but an attempt to hoodwink us into thinking something had changed. Nothing changed it seemed.

Italian Mafia! Not heard of that one before. Anyhow as Mutua says, and Don admits it could all be hearsay and conjecture.

dynamite
written by Jayawardene , August 31, 2007

Nice one. Though one has to wonder why this is coming to light only now. How has it remained buried for so long? It is claimed to have been delivered in 2004.

Someone somewhere seems to be doing some very complicated calculations. I wonder who gains from all this.

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written by Sylvan , August 31, 2007

Now is the time to spread this around. Everyone must know that this is why they are sleeping together, and why they are destroying Kenya in the process.

It must be possible,if responsible Kenyans take this on, to make the British government compel Kroll to say what they know.

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written by JSW , August 31, 2007

Kibaki must do everything in his power now to avoid Moi. He must be careful that association with Moi does not destroy the good work he has spent five years doing. This is terrible news, but we must also wait to hear in court.

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written by editor , August 31, 2007

We have received a large number of emails, asking whether or not the Kroll report has been verified, and whether or not we are in possession of that report.

This article is not based on the Kroll report, but on the report by the Guardian's Nairobi correspondent Xan Rice.

Here is the Report
written by Wikileak , August 31, 2007

Most of this is old news, it has been in the newspapers before today. However as Alfred Mutua makes clear, the report is based in part on hearsay.

Link here.

No Surprises here!
written by Ruby , August 31, 2007

Why should Kibaki avoid Moi, while they have been eating together, I wonder how they managed to hide these findings, people know what has been going on and this time, wananchi, should not be hoodwinked! We need to act at the ballot! Out Kibaki together with your Croonies.

Coincidence or Calculated Move
written by ngamu , August 31, 2007

For the records, Moi ought to have been investigated and prosecuted if found culpable for any crimes, but our now illustrious opposition leading lights felt that was not proper - he still should beas there are no limitations to some of the crimes he may have commited.
It is, however, quite interesting to see the 'leaked' report so soon after the political re-alignments that seem to be giving Kibaki the presidency for another term in a silver platter. It is clear that our British friends have never been happy with the man for, among others, trying to remove from their monopolistic clutch control of most of our import business. It is instructive that he is a man who five years down the lane is yet to pay an 'official' homage/ visit to the colonial masters. In other words, there's a lot in this leaked story that stinks!

co-operation
written by Mr.Kay , August 31, 2007

Wasn't Raila Odinga and Mudavadi in cooperation with Moi when all of this "corruption" was going on?

Who let the dogs out, who, who
written by Lui , August 31, 2007

The amounts of money involved and properties are staggering, it is not possible to get used to it.
Oh God, I recall a lead member of our own opposition party campaign for Moi to be allowed to retain the state owned home at Kabarnet Gardens and further another is on public record and has on several occasions reminded Moi that he saved him from prosecution for corruption. Is this what he was saved from? Why? These are the people whose hand cheated Kenyans the opportunity to prosecute and recover this massive wealth stolen form the state. They too are culpable, and must answer to the nation why the obstructed the course of Justice.

Isn’t it strange that this report does not mention the mother of all grand corruption schemes, Goldenberg?

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written by joe , August 31, 2007

i read the report an im not sure what to think about it -im not usre if it has added any new knowledge or insight anyway my firts inkling is the report is tilted heavily towards what is owned or allegedly owned vis a vis how it was acquired

More than meets the eye
written by Man R , August 31, 2007

The question here is why didn't Kibaki release the report to the public sooner? He had the report since 2004, it's 2007 now...

Did Kibaki keep the report under wraps to blackmail Moi into endorsing him in the up-coming elections?

Whatever you say, Kibaki is responsible for the mess. He failed to act on it and we should not make excuses for him that some opposition politician protected Moi. Kibaki is the president, he makes the final decisions on these matters.

JSW

He [Kibaki] must be careful that association with Moi does not destroy the good work he has spent five years doing.

Kibaki has not done a good job buster. He's proven to be a lazy and incompetent president who has reneged on every promise he made to Kenyans in his inaugural speech. It'd be nice if Kibaki goes down with this scandal, but I highly doubt he will.

Always amazed
written by pndiangui , September 01, 2007

Now let me know whether Gideon wasnt being cheered loudly during the referendum as a champion.

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written by Mwenye Nguvu , September 01, 2007

Here is the report. For the strong of eye, 110 pages, te!

mise en scene
written by pmathenge , September 01, 2007

So perfectly captures the nature of our politics. Look at those lists, its like Goldenburg all over again, the money spread around and among those allied to both political groupings.

not much to write home about
written by Ken , September 01, 2007

The sad truth is even if this report was released officially, there is very here that you can go to court with.
I can't even see how the use of this report can lead to an arrest. It is important for Kenyans to understand that the KACC and even 3rd parties like Transcentury receive lots of such stories on a daily basis.
If you were to take of on a sprint in all this cases you would end up looking incompetent and only acting to scare the looters but not to stop them.

Kenyans
written by Man R , September 03, 2007

No, the sad part is you think nothing can be done to stop this madness. UK was ready to cooperate, all the 110 pages of the report are a result of investigations by experts. If the incompetent Kibaki government was serious about stopping corruption, it would have followed through with the investigations and brought it to a conclusion either by sending the perpetrators to jail or giving them conditional pardon. The problem here is Kibaki didn't even lift a finger. We should shun that not act as if Moi and his thieving cronies are some kind of deities.

The sad truth is even if this report was released officially, there is very here that you can go to court with.
I can't even see how the use of this report can lead to an arrest. It is important for Kenyans to understand that the KACC and even 3rd parties like Transcentury receive lots of such stories on a daily basis.
If you were to take of on a sprint in all this cases you would end up looking incompetent and only acting to scare the looters but not to stop them.

Every successful case is a result of good investigation and collection of evidence, which eventually forms a strong prosecution. From what I've read in the Kroll report, there is a lot of evidence that if followed through would bring the suspects to book. By doing nothing we're sending a very wrong message to people with corrupt ambitions.

We must bring this sad chapter of Kenya's history to a close either by prosecuting all the perpetrators or a commission geared toward pardoning. I prefer prosecution, but it's virtually impossible to do that since the evil seems to have touched every section.

It's good to hear politicians say adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward corruption, but the question we need to ask our politicians, especially Raila and ODM, is how they plan to tackle the menace.

kibaki tena
written by mbuyuse , September 03, 2007

I think this leak is not harmful to kibaki campaign as many would think, matter of fact it only goes to confirm to the rift valians why their man needs kibaki and not hao wakabila.He will claim that this is just the begining of many witch hunts to come and "they are still in the opposition".

CLEAN SWIPE
written by jemo , September 03, 2007

If ever we are to achieve any form of sanity in our country, then we should have totally new leaders people who are not tarnished by this kind of corruption. My take is the current political leadership should be swept away and replaced with leaders who are not tainted even people like Raila, Kalonzo, Ruto, Balala, Kibaki, Mudavadi etc should be kept away from political leadership.

Adminstrator
written by Paul Okong\'o , September 04, 2007

Why do you think Moi supported Uhuru so vehemently in 2002.What has the Kenya Government ever done about Grand Corruption in this Country?Who has gone to jail despite numerous Corruption bodies?I bet in the next couple of weeks they will be chasing cops given 50 bob by Matatu drivers and taking them to Court.

The Question is this If the Opposition comeds to Power will they act on the Grand Corruption or do a Kibaki?

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written by Anonymous , September 04, 2007

The Kroll Report was ordered by the Kibaki administration in 2004. Kroll is a private intelligence company that investigates cases of (normally) corporate fraud. However, maybe due to the fact the report was so damaging, and members of Moi's clique still had a great deal of power, it was withheld from the public in 2004.

Only now has it been leaked anonymously onto wikileaks (basically online, safe whistleblowing), presumably something to do with Moi's support for Kibaki announced earlier this week. It is extremely unlikely that Kroll had anything to do with this leak, and it is unlikely the British Gov't would interfere with a private business to force them to publish all their other information on Moi's corruption.

You can download the report at

co-operation
written by anonymous , September 06, 2007

Raila is clean and the govt knows that. If he wasn't clean, do you think the govt. would have been waiting to inculpate him. Kibaki and Moi are all corrupt. The truth be told.

Forget the looted Billions
written by Mr T , September 08, 2007

The Kroll report was never meant for public release. It is an investigative report and was/is to be used to recover looted funds. Any hope of recovering the looted funds vanished with the leaking of the report.

Those mentioned can now hide the identified assets destroy documents and ready their defence.

This report is obviously released for political purposes to discredit Moi and punish him for supporting Kibaki. However it also aids Moi and his looters by telling them exactly what the government knows.

The leaking of the report in britain and the subsequent British outrage and self righteous posturing indicates tome that Britain is responsible for the leak.

The British were foot dragging and refusing to help recover the funds while Moi supported the opposition, now they have ensured the funds will never be recovered and punished Moi for abandoning their chosen candidate.

It is interesting to me that even as Britain continues to lecture Kenya on corruption, tracing the stolen loot always leads to Britain.

Moi and his corrupt cronies are the beneficiaries of tribal divisons amongst Kenyans. Moi will never be prosecuted for any crimes that is the only point on which the government and the opposition agree.

President Kibaki needs Moi to retain his seat. Kibaki is unlikely to prosecute an ally.

ODM leader Raila Odinga long ago promised not to prosecute Moi and took credit for protecting Moi from prosecution when NARC came to power. Raila cannot prosecute Moi without exposing himself his Vice Presidential running mate and Ruto who were all part and parcel of Moi's corruption.

ODM K leader Kalonzo Musyoka is a Moi protege he would need Moi's support if elected to retain his seat. Kalonzo onced threatened to lead a million man march to statehouse to protest any action taken against Moi.

Britain while making lots of noise doesn't want to see the repatriation of Moi's looted billions from Britain to Kenya. Britain has put huge roadblocks in the way of African countries like Nigeria trying to recover looted funds.

British envoy: How Nigeria can retrieve looted funds
This Day, May 22, 2005
Nigeria's efforts to retrieve looted funds must be backed by concrete evidence that they were indeed looted, said Britain's High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Gozney, the Lagos daily This Day reports. "The onus is on Nigeria to prove that the suspect is a looter," said Mr Gozney, in regard to the recovery of funds stolen by African officials and stashed in western banks. "It is not enough to just shout that so so and so has money here, give it to us. It cannot work that way. Our legal system will not allow it."

Billions in stolen funds sitting in European banks

(GIN)—European banks are holding up the return of billions of dollars of stolen funds from Kenya and other African countries, according to a report presented at a recent African Forum on fighting corruption.

"We know where the funds are and in which banks," said Kenyan Minister Danson Mungatana. "But, procedures in those countries are a big hindrance to the recovery process."

More than one billion dollars in allegedly stolen Kenyan funds were identified by a UK firm, Kroll and Associates. The firm prepared the report for the meeting in South Africa.

Mungatana said Africa has more than $800 billion in Kenyan shillings in European accounts.

"When you try to get this money, you are told that there is client confidentially; banking secrecy and you are told to prove that the funds are corruptly acquired," said Mungatana. "Multi-nationals bribe our officials here and the funds are kept abroad. When you try to touch them, their countries protect them."