Youth Fund Scandal: Businessman Mukuria Ngamau Jailed for 27 Years or Pay Sh720 Million Fine
A suspect accused of defrauding the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) of Sh180 million was on Thursday sentenced to 27 years in jail.
Mukuria Ngamau and his company Quorandum Company Limited, where he is the director, were found guilty of five counts of conspiracy to commit an economic crime, unlawful acquisition of public property and making false documents.
Milimani Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti ordered Ngamau to pay a fine of Sh720.8 million or serve a 27-year jail sentence in default. The court dismissed his appeal for a non-custodial sentence, saying the sentence is dictated by Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act.
Ngamau had been charged alongside his wife Doreen Waithera, who was acquitted of the charges after she entered into a plea bargaining with the the prosecution.
During an inquiry into the Youth Fund scandal, parliament's Public Investment Committee (PIC) heard that two multi-million-shilling contracts were awarded through single sourcing contrary to public procurement regulations.
Ngamau admitted that he executed the disputed payment where Quorandam Limited was to provide consultancy services for an ICT strategy design within a period of seven days for Sh65.9 million. In the second contract, the company was to provide consultancy services on specifications of the software to be used in managing operations at YEDF for Sh114.9 million.
After securing the second contract, Ngamau told members of the committee that he paid Sh115 million to an American national identified as Donnie Collins Reeves for part of the work.
A search of Reeves' details online by the MPs led to the discovery of an obituary of an American national who died at the age of 61. Ngamau told the committee that he had never met Reeves despite sending him millions of shillings through his Chase Bank account.
Detectives later established that Ngamau made several withdrawals from the fund and transferred the money to personal accounts of persons closely related to him, including his wife and mother Tabitha Wanjiku Ngamau.
Comments (9)
When I read of such crimes happening in my beloved motherland, I become ashamed yet I am not the one that committed them.
All Kenyans should be ashamed of these nasty kind of stealing acts! He should be jailed for the 27 years without an option to pay the fine!
Hii ni sarakasi za kufumba wajinga macho tu. Hivi karibuni, mtaelezwa hakimu ameamua tena kuwa kiasi cha kitita hicho ni kikubwa mno ikiwemo faini iliyotolewa. Hakimu kesha kula millioni 150 haoni mbele haoni chochote. Endelea kusoma taarifa hii.
No peace Mr. Handsome...not until you taste the famous ugali mbusha in a Kenyan jail. Served you right. "Get rich quick is not a thing'....pls preach that to all you meet...twill make a good opener or closer...or just a good teachable-moment story.
No peace Mr. Handsome...not until you taste the famous ugali mbusha in a Kenyan jail. Served you right. "Get rich quick is not a thing'....pls preach that to all you meet...twill make a good opener or closer...or just a good teachable-moment story.
@ Just me, I guess you are attracted to the bad guy mystique .
Anyway, this relentless pressure,to smoke out thieves,and punish them is they only way we shall make a dent in combating corruption.
Now what they government needs to do is send our a bulletin giving all thieves of more than 10 million shillings to come out in the open and confess,otherwise if they force DCI to prove them guilty,the punishment is doubled...or some kind of amnesty.
Ooh, I forgot.... shame on you!
I wish Kenyans elected their own Ramaposha to enforce the law.Such a person should not entertain murderers like Raila.The constitution should not be amended to enable individual criminals evade court process after committing crimes.Although DPP,Haji has done a good job than both thugs Wako and Tobiko combined,I cannot understand his way of selective prosecutions.Why hasn’t he ordered investigations on yearly looting of shs 730b by elite thugs led by Uhuru?Why hasn’t he acted against the shs 217b COVID loan looters led by Uhuru & his siblings,Mutahi,Murathe etc?
Raila was part and puzzle of the missing billions...how comes he hasn't been charged yet??
Just like the euro BONDS...
Just like waiguru who stole billions ,but ended up charging the low hanging fruits.
UJINGA tutawacha lini??
REVOLUTION Kenyans REVOLUTION.