Author: David Wanjala

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has asked SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA), Government agency charged with the supervision and regulation of savings and credit cooperatives to collaborate with it in enhancing compliance with ethics and integrity laws. Speaking during week-long capacity building for senior officers of SASRA in early November, Dr. Emily Mworia, EACC’s Deputy Director Education and Public Awareness, said the Commission is ready and available to assist the government agency in its endeavors to entrench good governance in the running and management of SACCOs. Dr. Mworia stressed that the training of senior officers of SASRA on anti-corruption…

Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Chairman Archbishop (Emeritus) Dr. Eliud Wabukala has called on stakeholders to go beyond the law and target the spirit in the war against graft and unethical behaviour. Noting that corruption still remains Kenya’s greatest challenge, Dr. Wabukala said that it is desired of all the stakeholders in the fight against the vice to look beyond the anti-corruption laws and regulations for a sustainable and impactful long-term strategy. He said that from experience, corruption is majorly a consequence of avarice and an entrenched cynical culture that requires the infusion of positive social norms and values in…

Prevention is the way to go in the war against corruption. It is cheaper than enforcement in terms of resources and time. According to Fredrick Mainda, a senior education officer at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the damage corruption causes in society is, more often than not, irreversible since stolen resources are hardly recovered, adding that the vice undermines the rule of law and democracy and leads to violation of human rights. Mr Mainda facilitated EACC’s training of Konza Technopolis Development Authority’s (KoTDA) Corruption Prevention Committee (CPC) that was recently held in Naivasha. Through his presentation, Corruption Risk Assessment…

By David Wanjala Corruption, fraud, and unethical conduct remain the biggest cancer that eats into public and private institutions and retards their growth, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission CEO Major Twalib Mbarak has said. In a speech to open a three-day training workshop for Corruption Prevention Committee members of Konza Technopolis Development Authority in Naivasha that was read on his behalf yesterday by the Commission’s South Rift regional head Mr. Ignatius Wekesa, Major Mbarak called upon Public officers to shun the culture of self-gratification, kickbacks, favoritism, laziness and misappropriation of resources if they are to help their institutions realize set objectives.…

Corruption, fraud, and unethical conduct remain the biggest cancer that eats into public and private institutions and retards their growth, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission CEO Major Twalib Mbarak has said. In a speech to open a three-day training workshop for Corruption Prevention Committee members of Konza Technopolis Development Authority in Naivasha that was read on his behalf yesterday by the Commission’s South Rift regional head Mr. Ignatius Wekesa, Major Mbarak called upon Public officers to shun the culture of self-gratification, kickbacks, favoritism, laziness and misappropriation of resources if they are to help their institutions realize set objectives. The Konza Technopolis,…

By David Wanjala A storm looms in the real estate, especially in the retail and office space segments of the sector. A struggling business long before the advent of the devastating global health pandemic due to oversupply against low occupancy, the sector is now on its knees. This is so especially with the Covid-19 battered economy that has not only affected the masses’ purchasing power, but that has also induced change to the reining social norms. Man has had to change ways, to reinvent to survive the pandemic, especially the health protocols that mainly took away long enjoyed freedoms, particularly…

By David Wanjala Government has terminated some of the tax relief measures that it had extended to cushion households and businesses from the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. How untimely? The corporate tax rate, for instance, reverts to 30% from 25% as value added tax reverts to 16% from 14%. On the other hand, the CBK has also ended the free M-Pesa transaction of up to Sh1, 000 even as it rejected banks’ push to reinstate fees on transfer of cash between accounts and mobile phone wallets This comes at a time when the grip of the impact of…

By David Wanjala The global second wave of Covid-19 is vicious. It is defying scientific statistics that had been gathered in the first wave, which were informing interventions. It is now no longer about age or pre-existing conditions. It is roping in the young and the healthy, lots that were initially thought to be beyond its reach. Globally, Europe is bleeding once again. There’s no respite. UK, France among other countries have began closing down some of their cities again, amidst resistance from the masses. The USA, showing unprecedented numbers of infections and hospitalisation will definitely follow suit after they…

Measures imposed by the Government to curb the Covid-19 pandemic’s spread as well as the global lockdowns have suppressed construction activities while housing demand has remained sluggish as investors and homebuyers adopt a wait and see stance as incomes are severely dented BY DAVID WANJALA In 2019, the residential sector was marked by increasing affordability concerns amongst homebuyers amidst rising costs of living coupled by massive job losses and general economic uncertainty. However, according to KNBS Economic Survey 2020, despite the slow economic growth in 2019 which came in at 5.4%, the real estate sector, and by extension the residential market,…

By David Wanjala It is really difficulty to be Allan Kilavuka at this time. The national carrier’s group managing director and CEO was appointed to the prestigious, albeit challenging position in acting capacity in December last year after the former boss Sebastian Mikosz, a Polish national, announced his resignation from the loss-making airline in a huff in the middle of a re-nationalisation process. He was confirmed effective April 1. Mr Kilavuka was plucked from the airline’s low-cost subsidiary, Jambojet where he had served as CEO from January 2019. Prior to joining the national carrier, Mr Kilavuka had served at General…