Zhu Guohua, Xiao
Huizhong and ZHANG WEI are the Chinese investors who gave Koech millions of
shillings after falsely claiming he had secured them contracts with Kenya Power
and Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA).
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MP Nelson Koech
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Chinese investors
in Kenya lost some 50 million shillings to a smooth-talking, name-dropping
Kenyan wheeler dealer who is now a member of parliament a few years ago. Nelson
Koech, the current Jubilee MP for Belgut, is the high flying businessman who
reportedly received millions from the Chinese businessmen in promise of helping
them win lucrative tenders in state corporations within the energy and
construction sectors.
Known
affectionately as Sonko by his constituents, Koech is married to the famous
Kones family. He is known for his immaculate top of the range cars and stylish
dressing. He boasts of Deputy President William Ruto and Cabinet secretary for
Energy Charles Keter as his close friends.
The complaints
against Koech have been reported by Chinese lady Caixia Xiong. Like all Chinese
expats and investors in Africa, Xiong adapted a name friendlier to local
tongues. She is therefore known in Kenya as Alice Makena.
Makena is a
consultant and earns a living chasing and securing contracts for Chinese
companies in Kenya. That is how she says she got involved with the charming
businessman -cum -politician. Zhu Guohua, Xiao
Huizhong and ZHANG WEI are the Chinese investors who gave Koech millions of
shillings after falsely claiming he had secured them contracts with Kenya Power
and Kenya National Highways Authority (Kenha).
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The MP at a public rally
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At the end, she
and her Chinese investors ended up paying Koech almost 50 million shillings and
all she got were forged tender award documents and fake bank documents. Makena
is now on the Interpol blacklist after she presented the forged bank
transaction documents to a UK bank.
A frustrated
Makena narrated to Business Illustrated how her efforts to seek justice have
hit dead end. Kilimani Police Station where she reported her complaint doesn’t
seem to be interested in investigating the case.
Despite writing
and receiving written assurance from the Director of Public Prosecution that
the matter would be investigated, nothing is forthcoming so far. To make
matters worse, she claims the MP is threatening to use his political influence
to have her deported.
This is her story.
“I am from China.
Kenyans call me Makena. I consult for some Chinese engineering companies
interested in international tender projects. I was introduced to Nelson Koech
by Zacharia Muriithi and Kenya Regiment Club chairman Peterson Maina in April
2016.
In the first case,
Koech was sent by Maina to help us file tender documents for a tender at Kenya
Power. My friends Xiao Huizhong and his business partner Hong Guang were
interested in the tender and we appointed Koech as the authorized
representative of the company.
That is when our
problems began. He claimed we had won the tender and that he needed money for
performance bond. He started asking for money for this and that. By December
Huizhong had paid him 4.1 million shillings and no tender from KPLC. He kept
saying he was waiting for KPLC MD to give him the award letter.
Second case
On June 10th 2016,
me and Koech agreed to be joint venture partners for a tender to supply cables
and conductors (KP1/6E.2/PT/3/16/A49). Koech said he would put up his land
title deed and property for bank guarantee and then asked me to transfer 4.5
million shillings to his Kericho bank account. I later gave him half million
shillings more for opening bid security. At the end of August 2016, he had
nothing to show for the money.
THE 3RD CASE:
On June 22nd 2016,
Koech sent me an email claiming he had just received 1.8 Million USD from some
German company through his Stanbic Bank, Nairobi account. This was to prove to
me that he has a lot of money. (Document attached). From there on, Koech kept
asking for money. One time, he asked for 1.5 million shillings claiming he is
accompanying Deputy President William Ruto to Beijing.
After he returned
from Beijing, without returning the money, he borrowed some 1.5 million
shillings more, claiming to have urgent matter to sort out.
During the same
period, sent him money through MPESA as follows: 05/07/2016, 50,000KSH, sent to
his brother Willy Koech, 13/07/2016, 10,000KSH, 16/07/2016, 20,000KSH,
31/07/2016, 50,200KSH +20,200KSH, 3/08/2016, 45000KSH, 9/08/2016, 10,000KSH,
11/08/2016, 50,000KSH.
On 18th August
2016, Koech told me he required a 300 million loan from his bank so he needed
to deposit at least 8 million in his account. I borrowed from a Chinese friend
while I was in Mombasa, then my friend given him 9M ksh.
He also received
from my Chinese investors as follows: 28/08/2016, 90, 000USD +1M KSH,
03/09/2016, 100,000USD, 26/10/2016, 7,475,000KSH, 27/10/2016, 1M KSH FROM MR.
XIAO. During this one year, Koech had already taken almost 50 million shillings
from me and my business partners, he was still asking for 10 million shillings
as of February 2017. Up to now he has only paid back 2.5 million shillings.
In July 2017,
Koech offered to help me pay my Zimbabwe Harare Water project fee of 300,000
USD. We agreed to use his Dubai dollar account while I would pay him in Kenya
shillings account to improve his credit rating.
Unfortunately, he
sent me emails with bank transfer records more than 4 times with different
banks. When I forwarded the same to UK my Zimbabwe project manager, they were
found to be fake. I have since been put on Interpol and warning list in UK.
In another case,
Koech received money from Shandong Tiancheng Municipal Highway Engineering Co.,
Ltd., claiming he Deputy president Ruto needed the cash asfter assisting the
company win the Isebania –Kisii Highway project. In total Koech received
290,000 USD and 9 million Kenya shillings from the company. All he gave them
were forged tender award documents.
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