Eveline Shigholi, KPA Officer tactical Schemes as means to Evade Arrest Exposed

Corruption at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has become the norm of the day and senior officers at the state agency have mastered ways of maneuvering the wheels of justice to avoid being caught.

Fresh details at our desk indicate how the fearless Eveline Shigholi was able to instigate the transfer of an officer whom she believed was standing on her way of looting public resource.

Shigholi worked clever to ensure the transfer of able and well informed Dan Omuyansi to marketing department.

Shigholi as per our investigations was together with other senior officers receiving millions of money from deals orchestrated by an officer identified as James Kyalo-Principle security officer.

A disgruntled contractor by the name Osman Mohamoud Athman has laid bare the rot at the Authority.

Osman Mohamoud Athman is a local business man operating in the Coast Region and has invested heavily in the transport and supply chain industry in Kenya.

Osman is said to have reached out to oversight authorities over the  massive procurement irregularities KPA.

He is believed to have provided detailing how Shigholi and team are minting millions of money from suppliers and contractors for issuance of contracts.

He highlighted how Shigholi and Kyalo masterminded looting of millions of shillings in the Bio-annual contract Electrical tender where every willing bidder had to part with Sh1.5 million.

The two are believed to have amassed over Sh50 million as kickbacks in the  dubious tender deal.

This comes at the backdrop of reports highlighting disagreements between senior officers and  KPA Managing Director Captain William Ruto and a section of the Board of Directors.

This has been  catapulted by the multi-million tenders that the state agency has access to every Financial Year.

Shigholi and Kyalo have also benefited from exaggerated tender deals among them Provision of Electrical Works, Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Intelligent Structured Cabling, Customer Relationship Management System, Provision of Rehabilitation Facilities and Services, Provision of Outpatient and Inpatient Services to staff among others.

Already the  Director of Criminal Investigations( DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission ( EACC) head offices in Nairobi are secretly investigating the matter.

This is after it was established that Kyalo and Shigoli  have been bragging of how connected they are and how unbothered they are with those threatening him with information of how the DCI and EACC are tracing his operations.

A source said that Shigoli has bribed ‘the system’ including Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign, Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi and other senior government officials.

“She always brags of Mudavadi, that no one can touch her. She gives Mdavadi millions of money every three Months.” The KPA source said

According to documents in our possession from multi agency operatives aware of their operations, the two  have been working closely with other senior officers at KPA to loot public coffers.

A source who sought anonymity said that the two  have been looting millions from unsuspecting potential suppliers in the name of linking them  to the MD Captain Ruto and other senior officers.

This comes at the backdrop of separate Media reports that KPA officials are minting millions of money from suppliers and contractors for issuance of contracts despite President William Ruto’s command that no state agency should be involved in corruption.

Some of the suppliers and contractors are believed to be MPs, Governors and senior government officials with coast based drug barons also in the mix.

With the help of Shigoli, Kyalo has managed to maneuver  conflicting interests from the board members and those of unknown senior government officials who contributed to their appointment.

Last year, irate public members called for resignation Shigoli  over the manner in which the disposal tender was awarded.

“A lot of millions were probably splashed and you can see how people like her and others at KPA are wrecking millions of taxpayers money,” a source said.

Shigoli was under siege early this year when another coast based lobby group vowed to petition the national assembly to help revoke her appointment o as the General Manager in the Supply Chain and Procurement division at the port.

The group cited  gross violation of the employment Act and KPA regulations that stipulate requisite procedure for hiring personnel to higher positions at the port.

Shigoli who has served as the Director Support Services at Kenya Coast Guards Service has previously been under probe by various investigative agencies over alleged tender related malpractices.

She has also been accused of working with well-known business tycoons in Mombasa who have held the port at ransom for selfish gains through multimillion tender awards.

Surprisingly, she managed to bribe her way to survival and was  spared in the changes that were made by Captain William Ruto with those opposed to her leadership style linking this to outsourced protection from powerful politicians in the country.

The MD made leadership changes and those who were affected included Anderson Mtalaki from General Manager engineering services to Principal officer Dockyard.

The changes saw Engineer Julius Tai take over from Mtalaki as the GM Engineering.