EXPOSÉ; CORRUPTION, THEFT ROCK BUNGOMA REVENUE DEPART AS EXECUTIVE EFFECTS MASS TRANSFERS TO COVER UP
In Summary;
- Plan inspection scandal
- Theft of impounded vehicle’s parts
- Greenline Bus scandal
- Rewarded for aiding corruption?
- Job Protection fee
- Ng’arisha Sacco mistake
- Faded/Torn Uniforms
- #iKUWEiKUWE Corner
The rotten Bungoma Enforcement depart has been rocked with massive corruption and theft claims that have prompted massive transfers meant to cover up the river of vice and crime. It all started with enforcement officers unearthing a major scandals that are still ongoing as Bungoma County executives look the other way.
Executive’s need to cover their corrupt tracks has provoked massive and irregular transfers of enforcement officers via letters carrying lots of errors where one would find his/her personal number wrongly quoted. Those who have bothered to ask for a properly done letters have been chased out of office with all sorts of abuses and threats of possible sacking if they don’t report at new stations ASAP.
Bungoma County enforcement officers were first employed on 21 March 2017 by the Lusaka regime before being trained by Wangamati’s administration in 2018 at Misikhu with a pass-out parade was done in August the same year. They have since worked on probation for four (4) years with no hope of being confirmed by the Wycliffe Wangamati regime.
The ongoing mass transfers therefore have not been well received by most of the affected officers who received their letters immediately they were paid their delayed May salaries with banks deducting their two-month loan arrears. This has caused depression as cases of one officer attempting to commit suicide while another is hospitalized with a heart-attack and the recent death of an enforcement officer under unclear circumstances among the few notable reported cases. Some officer confronted the Chief Officer Public Administration Mr. Abidan Kapchanga who they blame for the irregular drafting of transfer letters inquiring on among other things why the personal numbers quoted on those letters did not match names as per the payroll. The arrogant and defensive Chief Officer is alleged to have chased them away warning them of dire consequences should they fail to report at their new work stations.
This prompted ikuweikuwe.com to investigate the mass transfers.
Kimilili town being identified as the second top ranked corruption-hotspot after Chwele market has seen its fair share of incidences in-line with revenue collection that point to a cartel that the executive seems keen to keep. The operations of this cartel is duplicated across the county
Plan inspection at Construction sites;
The genesis of these irregular and uprocedural transfers started when enforcement officers made arrests at construction sites that had not made required payments to the County Govt. The clients are alleged to have later while in police custody claimed that they’ve been paying money to some senior officers. This then angered the revenue bosses who demanded that their juniors stop disturbing “their” clients as an order from above … talks of mass transfers started here
Theft of impounded vehicle’s parts;
About two months ago, Kimilili revenue office watchman was arrested by enforcement officers as he was in the process of selling a part he had picked after dismantling a tractor that is parked at the yard. When the officers handed the watchman to a enforcement in-charge called Dennis Murongoro expecting him to pick up the case and report at Kimilili Police Station with the purposes of suing the thief. On the contrary he released the watchman without documenting the incident. A move that has left the junior enforcers thinking their boss is an accomplice in the dismantling of the tractor, theft and selling of its parts.
Greenline Bus scandal;
Greenline Bus company is said to have entered into an MoU with Director Martin Sichangi such that they do not pay the required Kshs. 6,000 monthly per bus through the electronic system but instead pay Kshs. 3,000 monthly per bus which is collected in cash by Sichangi. When the enforcement team clamped the untouchable buses unaware of the deal, they were victimized, abused, threatened and in some cases verbally suspended
At one time 3 Greenline buses were clamped prompting the in-charge Dennis Murongoro Sangura to give stun warnings to the enforcement officers while blaming them of not adhering to their bosses’ instructions. He promised to ensure that they are redeployed to serve as a lesson. It’s at this point that it was discovered Kshs. 54,000 had been paid in cash but none of the clamped buses appeared in the system.
Greenline has the following number of buses operating in Bungoma County;
- 18 operating in Kimilili, 24 in Webuye, 12 Chwele
Each bus is otherwise expected to pay Kshs. 6,000 monthly (by 10th), a 100% penalty for delayed payment (Kshs. 6,000) while an extra Kshs. 10,000 is paid upon impound
Rewarded for aiding corruption?
Concerned officers have also raised concern on the planned promotion of Dennis Murongoro Sangura from Kimilili to Kanduyi (County HQ) after the retirement of inspector Munialo of Kanduyi Subcouty. Its alleged that Dennis has no papers and therefore his colleagues are wondering why competitive recruitment is not been preferred. Is it because he aids corruption and crime???
Officer In-charge grazes Livestock in town:
Dennis Murongoro’s animals do graze in Kimilili town with a lot of impunity while all enforcement officers are under instructions never to lay hands on them
Job Protection fee;
Speaking to ikuweikuwe.com some disgruntled enforcement officers laid blame of Director Martin Sichangi who in the case of Kimilili who has Dennis Murongoro Sangura as his accomplice and therefore mtu-wa-mkono. Dennis being a senior officer at the station is accused of collecting money from his juniors every week and forwarding it to Sichangi as protection fee. This means the much hyped electronic system is yet to be FULLY implemented due to the thirst for corruption contrary to what the county executives would want the public to know
Ng’arisha Sacco mistake;
Immediately after pass-out the county govt forced all enforcement officers to subscribe with Ng’arisha Sacco without properly enlightening them of the consequences and/or allowing them to make independent decisions whether to join or not. In the process most of them were forced into over-committing most of their salaries only to realize at the end of month that out of Kshs. About 20,000 they had as little as Kshs. 2,000 to 4,000 as take-home as Ng’arisha took Kshs. 13,000 from each of them. Along the way Ng’arisha would lured some into taking top-ups as some officers opted to offset their loans in favor of KCB, Family bank and Faulu
Faded/Torn Uniforms;
The County govt has never offered them extra uniforms apart from the single unit provided to each of them at pass-out in March 2018. They are expected to use the same pair for six days a week as some opt to buy using own money since the governor’s promises running three years down the line to provide uniforms has turned to be a white lie. The officers have been paying for own uniforms despite the fact that …. Millions have been allocated ever since towards that.
No Promotions and remunerations despite the fact that some are used to do dangerous jobs as being goons at funerals
All the adversely mentioned individuals did not respond upon being reached
#iKUWEiKUWE Corner;
- The revenue collection system supplier was single sourced that’s why we still have the loopholes that allow theft and corruption.
- I know that transfers are normal and the Chief officer has a sizable say in it… But when the HR depart is clueless of then there is a problem
- What’s the difference between LAP trust and LAP fund?
- 4 years down the line, enforcement officers are still on probation?
- Is this a way of frustrating some of them to quit so that Wangamati employs his sycophants?
- I believe Dennis and Martin ni watu wa mkono
- May DCI and EACC move with speed and investigate the two plus Kapchanga and other executives including Wangamati… and prosecute where necessary
#eDDUHSimiyu
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