HOW KAMAU THUGGE SPENT KSH. 500,000 A NIGHT FOR EIGHT YEARS AT A LUXURY HOTEL ALL PAID FOR BY KENYAN TAX PAYER

The Weekly Vision has also leant that Dr. Thugge lost his father Mzee Kenneth Thugge just before taking up his job as CS. He lost his father in March 2013; the old man was undergoing treatment at the St Göran Hospital in Sweden from undisclosed ailment.

 

Dr. Kamau Thugge took up permanent residency at Lillian Towers soon after his appointment as CS

Dr. Kamau Thugge, the immediate former PS at the treasury is a very secretive man both at the family level and in his professional life. The little that we have gathered on him regarding his family life is that he is a married man with grown up kids. His wife and kids have all settled in the US where Dr. Thugge worked before as a senior economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Thugge is in court facing a corruption related case involving the Kimwarer and Arror dam’s scandal. In the absence of his immediate family in Kenya, Dr. Thugge decided to take up residence at a five star hotel in Nairobi and bill the treasury where he was the accounting officer until recently.

 

A presidential suite at Lillian Towers hotel in Nairobi

The Weekly Vision has also learnt that Dr. Thugge lost his father Mzee Kenneth Thugge just before taking up his job as CS. He lost his father in of March 2013; the old man was undergoing treatment at the St Göran Hospital in Sweden suffering from undisclosed ailment.

When President Uhuru Kenyatta was forming his first government in April 2013, the PS at treasury was Joseph Kinyua and since the new president was on the look out for an old hand and experience at running government departments effectively, he picked Kinyua as Chief of Staff. The gap left by Joseph Kinyua was filled when he picked Dr. Kamau Thugge as his PS and Henry Rotich as CS.

He had worked in the ministry of Finance in various capacities, among them the head of the Fiscal and Monetary Affairs Department, economic secretary and as a senior economic adviser. 

Its Dr. Thugge’s taking up residency at the luxurious Lilian Towers hotel soon after his appointment as CS that caught our eyes. Thugge is said to have checked in at hotel, picking one of the six available presidential suites on the 16th floor that goes for a discounted rate but still tidy sum of USD.5, 000 a night that is Ksh. 500,000 by the current exchange rate. The suite has luxurious amenities on offer, apart from the king-size bed, private dining area, living quarters, that are all designed to offer the special guest extra privacy and security the place just oozes luxury. Sadly for the Kenyan tax payer, the treasury was footing the bill.

In addition the suites boosts of all items that a busy man like Thugge would need to run the treasury even without setting foot at the Treasury building. The items on offer just to mention a few of them are, high speed internet, a mini bar, a safe room probably for keeping luxury Swiss watches and dry cleaning services.