.@InfoKfcb has appointed Christopher Wambua as its acting chief executive officer effective August 6. - @NationAfrica
Paskal Opiyo, the acting chief manager of corporate services, informed staff of the appointment in an internal memo on Friday.
The appointment follows an investigation into CEO Ezekiel Mutua, over alleged payment of irregular salaries and allowances. @EACCKenya has been investigating Mutua since May 6.
On Thursday evening, Makueni Senator @SenMutula sparked speculation when he wrote on Twitter that Dr Mutua had been fired unlawfully by @MoICTKenya Cabinet Secretary @mucheru.
Dr Mutua denied the claims of his sacking dismissing the reports as “malicious rumours”. 😂😂😂😂
Last month, Dr Mutua was accused of planning to extend his term in office without following due process. bit.ly/3Aigyce
In a letter to CS Mucheru, the State Corporations Advisory Committee (SCAC) mentioned that Dr Mutua orchestrated a plan to extend his term in office before his current one had expired. His second term expires on October 25, 2021.
SCAC, whose mandate is to provide directions for effective governance and oversight of State corporations, urged the CS to crack the whip by kicking Dr Mutua out of office with immediate effect. bit.ly/3Aigyce
.@InfoKfcb has a new acting CEO as pseudo-moral cop and Deputy Jesus Ezekiel Mutua is sacked on the advice of State Corps Advisory Committee and faces investigations by @EACCKenya over embezzlement of funds. bit.ly/3xnNI8t
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The following paragraphs have been rated GE, and they are, therefore, suitable for general family reading. - @NationAfrica
However, because they tell the story of a moral policeman who is being accused of not being too moral with term limits and public funds, some sentences may upset taxpayers below the age of 120.
The paragraphs are about @EzekielMutua Nyithya, the man who – since his appointment as CEO of @KFCBarstool in October 2016 – became a moral policeman with something to say on events, adverts, films, songs, pastors, name it.
A Ugandan company that Deputy President William Ruto claimed this week he had helped to get Sh15B loan to set up a factory had its accounts frozen on suspicion of money laundering at around the same time the credit facility was advanced to it. - @NationAfrica
While the information surrounding the money laundering accusations against Dei Pharmaceuticals has remained a tightly guarded secret....
....President Yoweri Museveni waded into the matter on June 4, 2020, accusing State figures in Uganda of undermining his authority by flagging and stopping inflows of billions of shillings to the company’s accounts.
Just hours after he was sent on compulsory leave yesterday morning pending his retirement later this year, @EACCKenya has swung into action, further compounding the woes of the moral policeman.
With his departure effected, the controversial KFCB boss leaves office with his head down, barely two months to the end of his second term.
Ethiopia has cleared the way for @SafaricomPLC to introduce its popular M-Pesa in the market of 110M people after deciding to include the mobile phone-based financial services in the telco’s licence offered in May. - @BD_Africa
Ethiopian authorities told @BD_Africa that the @SafaricomPLC licence will be upgraded to include mobile financial service when it completes bidding for its second telecoms operator permit. The bidding will be opened this month.
A consortium led by @SafaricomPLC secured the first licence, which doesn'tt have a permit for mobile financial services like M-Pesa, in May. The consortium will start ops next year when Ethiopian authorities say the telco will have the right to operate mobile financial services.
.@KarauriR a jovial, flashy former pilot at Kenya Airways, never saw himself as the man who would fly SportPesa from a small struggling company into East Africa’s largest betting firm. - @NationAfrica
.@KarauriR needs no introduction to Kenyans after his public role as the @SportPesa CEO.
A passionate poker player and son of a politician, Karauri first met Guerassim Nikolov, the controversial and principal @SportPesa founder, at a poker table on the first floor of the dimly lit Finix Casino in Hurlingham, Nairobi in 2014.
.@WorldAthletics President Sebastian Coe believes the steeplechase is still very much a Kenyan event despite Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali breaking the stranglehold by winning the #OlympicGames gold here last Monday. - @EliasMakori
Kenya has dominated the water jump and barriers race since 1968 when Amos Biwott won the Olympic Games gold in Mexico.