Lugari MP, his family faces corruption charges

 

Lugari MP Ayub Savula. /FILE

Months after President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed to deal with corrupt individual in the government, another  corrupt legistature spends night in Muthaiga police station.

Now the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has ordered for the prosecution of Lugari MP Ayub Savula and his  daughter and wife Melody Gatwiri Ringera and Helen Jepkorir Kemboi for obtaining money by false pretenses from the Government Advertising Agency.

The three are directors of seven companies that fraudulently received monies allocated for legitimate media houses that have provided advertising services to the government.

Their companies are; Sunday Publishers, Melsav Company, Johnnewton Communications, Express Media Group, No Burns Protection Agencies, Cross Continents Ventures and Shieldlock Ltd.

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Others being sought by the DCI are former Broadcasting and Telecommunications Principal Secretary Sammy Itemere and Government Advertising Agency Director Dennis Chebitwey for approving fraudulent payments of Sh122,335,500 to the aforementioned companies.

“I am satisfied that Sammy Ishiundu Itemere, the then Principal Secretary, State Department of Broadcasting and Telecommunications in the Ministry of Information Communication and Technology, approved fraudulent payments of Sh122,335,5000 to the aforementioned persons and companies,” the DPP said in a statement.

On August 8, the DPP directed the DCI to carry out investigations into the procurement services from the media and the failure to honour contracts by the ministry of ICT and GAA.

GAA owes several broadcast and publishing houses over KSh2 billion.

Itemere, and 18 other GAA and Ministry of Information staff will also be charged with Commission of a felony and abuse of office on Monday.

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MP Savula was arrested on Friday by the DCI officers in Nairobi ,the three are expected to be arraigned in court and charged with corruption charges.

Barely three months ago, Lugari MP Ayub Savula said corruption suspects should be publicly executed.

Today, his words have come back to haunt him.

The MP is currently in police custody in connection to the loss of Sh2.5 billion at the Government Advertising Agency (GAA).

He was arrested on Friday evening and is currently being held at the DCI headquarters in Nairobi.

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Savula had in May proposed that suspects in Sh 1 billion and above graft cases be publicly executed.

“Someone who steals Sh1 billion is equivalent to a murderer. How many people would die in hospitals for lack of medicine as a result of the theft?”  Savula said at the time.

The legislator said there were many “big thieves” living in their homes while petty thieves rot in the jails.

Speaking during a memorial service for the late housing minister Soita Shitanda at Butali village on May 28, Savula also said EACC should be given prosecutorial powers.

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