Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent unusual and abrupt vanishing from public upon returning to the country from an official trip to China through Dubai was because of extreme shock on learning of provable involvement in the raging gold fraud by senior government officials.
There is emerging evidence of heavily armed policemen, including at times the use of armed officers from the elite General Service Unit to guard and protect premises used by key suspects in the gold fraud.
The cartel also hides fake gold and hold conning meetings in upmarket estates in Nairobi. Their use of VIP security chase cars, normally reserved for top government officials, puts pressure on Interior cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i and top police bosses to come out clean.
The case of Matiang’i, though he has denied any involvement, is said to have shocked the president immensely given that he is the president’s favourite CS whom he elevated to a super minister to enhance coordination of government programmes and operations.
The puzzle about top government officers’ involvement is worsened by background checks that reveal they have been close to Zaheer Jhanda the key suspect in the Dubai prince’s swindle.
The controversial businessman-cum-politician has been operating with powerful faces most of them trusted errand boys in political and business dealings, whose operations are always secretive.
That they were doing well until the latest ugly turn of events is a case in point. In fact it is said that in the SGR Ngong land compensation in which Jhanda was battling with a local church, he had on his side a one Patrick Osero, a man close to William Ruto in land brokerage matters and whose face is common at National Land Commission and ministry of Lands at Ardhi House.
Confidential sources within the corridors of power revealed that the head of state was so struck by the scam that he had to receive medical attention including doctors’ recommended bedrest, even as he ordered the police and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to carry out a major crackdown to apprehend and prosecute all culprits. That is why Uhuru went missing in action for two weeks.