New Constitution – not a barrier to Corruption in Kenya.

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10/27/2011

THE GRABBING OF THE UFUNDI SACCO HOUSE – Going THE NATURE HOUSE STYLE:
The Ufundi Sacco House in Nairobi, Kenya, may likely go the Nature House style if nothing is done to save it. Recent developments indicate that, the Ministry of works employees who bought the Ufundi House through their Cooperative Society, may loose their house to six individual Kenyans, who are in the process of selling the house without the consent and/or authority of the owners.

In 1998, the then Ufundi house owned by the employees of the Ministry of Works was destroyed by a Bomb. The American Government replaced it with the new house called the Ufundi Sacco in Nairobi. According to Mr. Nelson Ngoo, a member of the Cooperative Society which bought that house on their behalf, six officials of the Cooperative Society, are in the process of selling the house. Efforts by a few members of the society to plead with the Government to intervene and stop the sale of the house, has been unsuccessful.

Without any immediate help, it is very likely that the owners of the Ufundi Sacco house will loose that house to those officials, the same way the Kenya Civil Servants lost Khs. 60 billion worth of Assets, properties and money that was in various Banks in 1980, to a few Kenya politicians. In 1980, soon after the invalidation of the then Union for the Kenya Civil Servants, through a dictatorial decree by President Moi, assets, properties and the money owned by the Kenya Civil Servants which was in various Banks, was grabbed by the Kenya politicians. Those properties included the Nature House situated at the center of the capital City, Nairobi. Today, 31 years latter, history is repeating itself. A few individuals are corruptly grabbing the property of innocent defenseless Kenya Civil Servants. The Kenya Government has adopted the similar silence it adopted 31 years ago, when it let go the properties of its workers [the Civil Servants], to a few disgruntled corrupt Kenya politicians. Every Kenyan is wondering who will stop this kind of corruption.
Isaac Newton Kinity

Former Secretary General
Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman
Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.