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Who in Government is protecting a billionaire businessman?
This is what some MPs want to know after learning that the trader has refused to repay a loan of close to Sh300 million he owes a State corporation.
Officials of the corporation yesterday told a parliamentary committee that all their efforts to recover the funds from the powerful individual had hit a brick wall.
“We cannot recover the money because the debtor is too connected and even has the guts to tell us that he can’t pay and won’t pay us,” one boss of the agency said, leaving the legislators shocked.
Elsewhere…
Reports that corruption investigators were probing a senior Government official may have shocked and saddened his family and friends.
However, news of the official’s troubles with the law was received with joy by some staff of a key State department.
The workers say the man, who worked at the agency before being promoted, had used his position to belittle them.
“He nearly brought the department to its knees by interfering with the management and frustrating anyone he had issues with. We are happy that the law has finally caught up with him,” one employee was overheard saying.
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