It also shields those politicians who were accused by anti-corruption czar John Githongo of involvement in heavily over-priced procurement contracts notably the Anglo-Leasing passport scandal...
Little has been achieved though in the fight against corruption and Kibaki's anti-corruption czar John Githongo has fled into exile claiming that officials and business people enjoy immunity from prosecution as they did in the Moi years...
Justice Minister Karua who has disputed the validity of the initial detective work by former anti-corruption czar John Githongo will doubtless claim vindication...
The value was disputed by KACC and John Githongo who ordered the suspension of payments on the project (AC Vol 47 No 3)...
Back in January his government looked shipwrecked facing a daily deluge of press allegations of complicity in grand corruption fuelled by an inside report from its own former anti-corruption czar John Githongo...
The United States' decision to bar four prominent businessmen - Alfred Getonga Jimmy Wanjigi Deepak Kimani and Anura Perera - named in former anti-corruption czar John Githongo's dossier (AC Vol 47 No 4) breaks with Western governments' usual practice of sanctioning politicians rather than business people in Africa...
The former Finance Minister David Mwiraria and Karua's predecessor at Justice Kiraitu Murungi had to resign in February after the disclosure that the former anti-corruption czar John Githongo held tapes concerning their relationships with government contractors...
The political crisis created by the revelations of the former anti-corruption chief John Githongo in February had forced Kibaki to act on the Anglo-Leasing scandal...
Africa Confidential has listened to a covert recording of a conversation between anti-corruption czar John Githongo and the then Justice Minister Kiraitu Murungi...
The dossier's power is its author former anti-corruption czar John Githongo who relentlessly probed the network of fraud and front companies organised by officials at the heart of government...
Why did the lawyers of Cyprus-based businessman Anura Perera try to arrange a private meeting with anti-corruption czar John Githongo in a London hotel in late 2004...
Perera accuses John Githongo of using 'intimidation on a grand scale' in a bid to write-off the alleged loan to his father...
Perera's lawyers insist their attempts to arrange a meeting between their client and John Githongo were centred on securing repayment of the loan contracted by Githongo's father...
Perera's lawyers appeared to want John Githongo to be present at the meetings because of his father's history of ill-health attested in medical letters presented to the court...
In August 2004 Perera's lawyers proposed a confidential meeting in a London hotel with John Githongo to discuss the loan dispute...
In a lawyer's letter seen by Africa Confidential John Githongo's lawyers wrote to Perera's lawyer Muin Malik: 'Should Mr...
Perera want to meet him [John Githongo] on any other issue please provide me with the details of those matters and John will then inform me whether he considers a meeting desirable...
' John Githongo utterly rejects Perera's version of events...
'Perera's claims are preposterous ' John Githongo told Africa Confidential...
John Githongo refers to a meeting on 20 May 2004 in the office of the then Justice Minister Kiraitu Murungi in which the Minister produced a lawyer's case file on the loan to Joseph Githongo which he said was provided by AH Malik & Co...