Details have emerged on how the Kenya Pipeline Company staff and Oil managing Companies are in cahoots including the Managing Director Sang to steal billions from the Company. The incident has annoyed Kenyans who are lamenting on twitter.
At a time when Supplycor one of the KPC’s OMCs placed a loss of Sh1B to oil spillage and vandalism. DCI opened investigations into the alleged embezzlement of funds through theft by some oil marketing companies working in cahoots with Kenya Pipeline Staff By way of unapproved Fuel advancement to the OMCs.
Private investigations were initiated as well to ascertain if indeed upto 11,000,000 of oil was lost to spillage and of losses registered were genuine.
The CS for @MadiniKenya John Munyes acknowledged in a letter that he knows of the #KPCBillionOilScam yet took no action since he’s alleged to be a beneficiary.
I don’t get how @UKenyatta expects to win this war with such characters & treatment of oil cartels. pic.twitter.com/LffTNIxRte
— Kenya West© (@KinyanBoy) October 23, 2018
Methods such as selling Jet fuel is one of the strategies the criminals use.Investigators were deployed within terminus and JKIA compound. In an instance during the investigations, a bridger, cleverly not with active tracking device, was spotted at a petrol station in Mlolongo selling jet fuel as kerosene. The Investigators established that, there were missing Aviation Delivery Receipts(ADRs) and that KPC don’t have control of refueling at the air side leaving everything at the mercy of the OMCs. A disaster.
Another scheme used is defective meters whereby it was astonishingly discovered that despite no physical proof of spillage of oil, the OMCs continuously to report loses as a part of the theft plots.
A huge disparity was noted between the ATG movements to the UFM meters and this how a scheme was unearthed. A KPC official liaised with OMCs to wrongly calibrate the meters a fraudulent plot that led to an average loss of 50,000L monthly. Money which goes into their pockets and those in the chain.
Investigations following into an alleged water drain done in May 4th this year leading to a loss of 86 c.u M due to apparent water ingress opened yet again another scandal.A deliberate effort was initiated by the staff to transfer the cooked loses from the drainage to the western line.
Investigations also found out that KPC seemed to be holding less physical stock in the storage than what the OMCs books were. As of 30th June, a check on physical stock and book balances, investigations found out that KPC was in the negative by 23,117,720 litres. The theft is in the books.
There was also pumping of water in place of oil.It was established that some KPC staff were compromised by OMCs to pump water instead of oil. The water pumped is then accounted as stock leading to more losses to KPC. There are ATG water detectors in all tanks such that water can’t pass through undetected, however, when pumping the water as oil, the detectors are strategically disconnected.
Today we’re going to break down #KPCBillionOilScam & how Oil Managing Companies(OMCs) have been working with KPC staff to register fake oil spillage claims, pumping water instead of oil & claiming billions annually in a busted crime. @DCI_Kenya it’s time to strike @kenyapipeline
— Kenya West© (@KinyanBoy) October 23, 2018
KPC staff suspected to be deeply involved in this oil theft syndicate;
- Mr Joe Sang
- Madam Filicity Biriri
- Gloria Kafafa
- Mr Samuel Odoyo
- Samson Soimo
- Antipas Tirop
- Felix Relimoi
- Pius Mwendwa
- Francis Cherotich
- Carol Kiplangat
- Beatrice Ogutu
- Mr Juma Amina
John Munyes the Petroleum and Mining CS has already received the report in a replying letter to KPC MD Sang he says, “the findings of this report seems disturbing noting its conclusions.” Despite having full knowledge of the scandal, the CS is yet to take an action on this theft .
