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Efforts by
the County Government of Kisumu to provide decent houses to its residents and
county public servants through a check off system may have been hijacked by
individuals close to the governor for selfish gains, The Weekly Vision has established.
The housing plan was designed to benefit county
employees with a repayment period of 10 years through a check off system; it
now appears the well thought out housing plan may have collapsed.
Crooks and busybodies who hang around the
governor may have taken advantage of their close proximity to him in
swindling millions of shillings from an innocent yet gullible contractor by flashing
around the Kisumu County Integrated Development Plan on housing. The Kisumu
County Integrated Development Plan is the County’s development blueprint that
outlines the programmes and projects which Kisumu County intends to implement
during the five-year period starting 2018 to 2022. Among plans highlighted in
the document is the construction of decent houses. It’s the housing sector that
seems to have attracted crooks perhaps due to the huge budgetary allocation
involved.
A suspicious looking document inform of an
agreement now in our possession, was signed on the 8th March 2019 allegedly by
governor Peter Anyang' Nyong'o on behalf of Kisumu County Government and Mr. V.
C Ganti for Capital construction Co. Ltd The agreement gives the mandate to the
later to put up 5,000 units on land that is to be provided by the county
government. The cost of the project is a staggering $125,000,000.00. The county government website https://www.kisumu.go.ke
was down at the time of doing this story.
According to the agreement, the project shall be
funded by Capital Construction Co. Ltd which is subject to the Sovereign
Guarantee issued by the Kenya National Government and the CEO of the
implementation committee of the housing project is also the chairman of Capital
Contraction Co. Ltd, in this case the contractor will be supervising
themselves.
The Weekly Vision has however learned that no
such land is available at the moment and that the chairman of Capital
Construction co. Ltd Mr. Ganti never travelled to Kisumu for the signing
ceremony putting into question who signed the document on his and the
governors behalf?
After thorough investigations by our team we strongly
believe that this project was a scheme cleverly designed to hoodwink a
contractor who was made to believe that by releasing “facilitation fee” upfront
he or they would at the end be awarded with the contract to build the 5,000
houses in Kisumu.
There was no public participation which is a
constitutional requirement specifically, Article 1 that states that sovereign
power belongs to the people and Article 10 (2) (a) and the Fourth Schedule Part
2 (14) of the Constitution of Kenya.
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION CO.LTD
The construction
company has in the past been a subject of a court disputes, once with Equity
bank; the directors accused the bank of attempting to appoint receivers to take
over the firm for defaulting on a loan of Sh 650 M. The High Court directed
three of the firm’s directors to pay Equity Sh650 million plus a 24 per cent
annual interest from July 2010, until payment was made in full. The default
judgment was entered after the contractor failed to appear in court to defend
the counter claim.
Yet in another
Civil Case number 312 of 2012 between Capital Construction Company and a state
agency the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation, the company
was sued by the agency for failing to complete the construction of the
agencies’ headquarters on time. Construction for the headquarters, through
contract no. NWCPC/HQ/13/06/07 for the amount of kshs. 485,400,820/- was to
have commence on 24th April, 2008, but probably due to the companies inefficiency
they never completed the project.
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