KENYAN DETECTIVES TO PROBE KENYA AIRWAYS AS MICHAEL JOSEPH URGED TO RETURN ALL SALARY RECEIVED

KENYAN DETECTIVES TO PROBE KENYA AIRWAYS AS MICHAEL JOSEPH URGED TO RETURN ALL SALARY RECEIVED

By Chris Ojow

In a petition filed at Nairobi’s Milimani High Court, the petitioner activist Okiya Okoiti Omtata in one of his several prayers, seeks orders barring the National Government from further releasing more money to bail out limping Kenya Airways.

Certified as urgent, the petitioner is seeking the High Court to be furnished by Kenya Airways Board Members with a breakdown of the initial bail out funds, which failed miserably and want the Safaricom Boss, Michael Joseph Board Member Kenya Airways, together with other board members to return all the money they received as salaries during their ongoing term and the members to resign.

The petitioner also seeks the Auditor General to conduct a forensic Audit of the limping Kenya Airways to ascertain it’s debts portfolio and the culpability of individual members of the board of Directors, Executive Management, Consultants and other private parties.

The application asserts that the culpable members of the Board of Directors, Executive Management, Managers, and Consultants are surcharged to recover the funds the company lost under their watch.

Petitioner Okiya now want the Director of Public Prosecution and Director of Criminal Investigations to act with speed and probe the lose of public funds at Kenya Airways with a bid to prosecute the alleged offenders.

The Polish expatriates work done at Kenya Airways must be subjected to Audit, to ascertain the excess payments, the value of the money and any recovery be done speedily.

In the application filed at Milimani Law Court Nairobi County Kenya and served to six respondents, Safaricom Boss Michael Joseph, Sebastian Mikosz, Attorney General, the Treasury, and Ministry of Transport who seats in the board are being accused by the applicant for the alleged lose of Public funds in the bail out project which never succeeded.

The petitioner want the Country Chief Detective Mr. George Kinoti Director of Criminal Investigations to investigate and possibly charge the Board members with alleged misappropriation of Public funds.

The Constitutional and legal validity of bailing out Kenya Airways without charging those culpable for its collapse including its Directors and Executive Managers was a total breach of the law.

Omtata stresses in one of his prayers that several articles of the 2010 new Constitution of the Republic of Kenya was violated in the bail out project by the National Government.

The law states that the process or proposal to bail out limping Kenya Airways must be subjected to public participation and a sessional paper to be tabled before National Assembly disclosing the impact of the bail out on the public debt, viability of the Company upon Nationalisation, it must be openly stated before house if the private Shareholders and other entities will benefit from the bail out or Nationalisation, justifications of the public funds in bailing out a company who’s shareholders are foreigners, the punitive measures to be taken for those who might allegedly misappropriate the public funds and the legal framework to protect the interest of the public was allegedly never considered in the bail out of limping Kenya Airways.

During the reign of US Presidents George Bush Junior and the Son of a Kenyan Economist President Barrack Hussein Obama, two US car manufacturers the General Motors and Chryslers went down financially and the two US Presidents Obama and Bush used public funds American tax to bail out the two companies, later after the two companies picked up with good returns, Obama and Bush returned the bail out US public funds.

The petitioner now humbly prays for a declaration that the Safaricom boss and board member Kenya Airways Michael Joseph together with other board members to return all the money they allegedly unlawfully and illegally earned from Kenya Airways.

And the limping Kenya Airways should not be bailed out with the tax payers funds, National Assembly of Kenya Nationalising the Company also is alleged in the petition was a breach of the law since the public participation was allegedly never initiated.