Hey guys, Has there been any repercussions since this story was revealed? Or it has become business as usual? On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Alex, is there a vacancy? I seriously would not mind working at CA :) Those allowances jo.

Seriously,

We certainly need Kenyans to attend the said meetings. Imagine an ITU or CTO, or IGF or Plenipot or ICANN's GAC without a Kenyan delegation? It would rubbish our claim as being the "Silicon Savannah". Should we vilify those allowances? Ask Sarah Serem and the SRC. It's SRC that rationalized those allowances.

BUT with the same ZEAL CA are dining mid air, can they ensure USF are implemented. Yes, USF, USF, USF.

------ And after airing the allowances for all and sundry, expect every politician to get 5 relatives employed in CA. So in two years time, the staff of 180 will be 1000.

Francis Wangusi, the CA director-general, for instance, earned a total of Sh6.1 million in per diem in the year to June 2015, topping the list of managers who made a fortune out of travel allowances.

The report shows that Mr Wangusi made 16 trips and was away from office for 105 days of the year.

Peris Nkonge, the authority’s director of finance and accounting, was second in the pecking order having pocketed Sh5.7 million in travel allowances from nine trips.

“Local per diem rates have been enhanced and if left unchecked, the number of travel and allowances are getting out of control,” the auditors warned.

The CA pays its executives an average of Sh10,675 per day in per diems for local travel while foreign travel is paid at between $400 (Sh41,700) and $1,000 (Sh104,200) per day depending on the city and country visited.

The list of top travel allowance beneficiaries includes Matano Ndaro, the director of competition affairs, who pocketed Sh5.6 million followed by Martin Ngesa, the assistant director in charge of postal licensing and compliance (Sh5.4 million), Rachel Alwala, the assistant director, e-commerce (Sh4.8 million), and Gababo Wako (Sh4.7 million).

Other senior managers who strained the CA’s budget with hefty per diem earnings are Michael Katundu, the director of information, who received Sh4.5 million, Tom Olwero, assistant director, frequency spectrum management (Sh4.47 million), Mohamed Haji, the assistant manager, frequency planning (Sh4.41 million) and John Omo, the authority’s secretary (Sh4.40 million).

Rose Nduku, an enforcement officer at the CA, logged a total of 219 days out of office and earned Sh2 million in per diem. The audit did not measure the full impact that prolonged absence of the executives had on operational efficiency, effectiveness and achievement of targets.

______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson

On 5 October 2015 at 12:49, Alex Watila via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

...

The article goes on to say that

*“**In most cases, the report says, non-technical staff travelled to attend technical events such as meetings of the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union, Bern-based Universal Postal Union and Arusha-headquartered Pan African Postal Union.*

*“There were cases where travel was not in line with the official departmental mandate,” says the report.”*

*From:* Watila Alex [mailto:awatila@yahoo.co.uk] *Sent:* Monday, October 5, 2015 9:46 AM *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Subject:* Globe-trotting CA executives pocket Sh307m in one year

Senior managers went on a travelling spree in pursuit of allowances, the report says, culminating to some officials staying out of their workplace for a total of seven months.

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Senior executives pocketed Sh307.2 million in tax-free travelling allowances in the year ended June 2015, underlining continued wastage of public funds.

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First of all, nothing illegal seems to have happened, according to me anyway, because we need Kenyans to attend International meetings. It's their duty. But there have been developments. *CA orders audit of allowance payouts, suspends senior staff* http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CA-orders-fresh-audit-of-a... The Communications Authority of Kenya has sent finance director Peris Nkonge and human resource director Juma Kandie on compulsory leave for purportedly refusing to provide information to the CA board audit committee.The move comes days after an internal report revealed that senior executives spent Sh307 million on travel allowances. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has suspended two senior executives and ordered a fresh forensic audit into the entire financial dealings of the cash-rich government regulatory agency. The move comes days after an internal report revealed that senior executives spent Sh307 million on travel allowances. The telecoms regulator has sent finance director Peris Nkonge and human resource director Juma Kandie on compulsory leave for purportedly refusing to provide information to the CA board audit committee. CA director-general Francis Wangusi on Tuesday said the two suspended directors will stay out until a new audit, to be carried out by an external party, is finished. “The two members of staff have been sent on compulsory leave until the forensic audit is done. They were implicated for refusing information to the board audit committee,” said Mr Wangusi in an interview in his office. “I have asked for a forensic audit. We have started the procurement process. The request for proposals will be sent out by end of the week,” he said. Mr Wangusi said the external auditor will give an “independent” picture of the authority, saying there was “malice” in the report authored by the six-member board audit committee. He said he expects the forensic audit to be completed as soon as possible. The decision to hire an independent audit firm had already been made by the audit sub-committee at a meeting held on September 14, 2015 which also adopted the report on per diem expenditure. Forensic and investigative accounting firms such as Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young, KPMG, and Kroll are likely to battle it out for the lucrative tender to audit books at CA. The damning report revealed that staff at the telecoms’ industry regulator last year made a total of 421 trips —both local and overseas— to attend conferences, training, field visits and workshops most of which were unaccounted for and deemed irrelevant. Only 34 meeting reports out of the total were availed for audit, contrary to CA’s requirements that a report be submitted at the end of every travel, noted the auditors. Mr Wangusi on Tuesday said a total of Sh134.1 million was spent on overseas travel allowances, with the rest going to local travel. The exposè on travel allowances at CA comes nine months after a leaked internal report showed that board members had pocketed Sh11.9 million in sitting allowances in the five months to November and were yet to account for imprest amounting to Sh8.2 million. On Tuesday, Mr Wangusi justified the trips saying they constituted training and global policy meetings. On Oct 8, 2015 11:11 AM, "Jeremiah Ngure via skunkworks" < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

It is business as usual ... :-( That money is already in plots ,cars, etc

Regards

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Peter Karunyu via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

...

Hey guys, Has there been any repercussions since this story was revealed?

Or it has become business as usual?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

...

Alex, is there a vacancy? I seriously would not mind working at CA :) Those allowances jo.

Seriously,

We certainly need Kenyans to attend the said meetings. Imagine an ITU or CTO, or IGF or Plenipot or ICANN's GAC without a Kenyan delegation? It would rubbish our claim as being the "Silicon Savannah". Should we vilify those allowances? Ask Sarah Serem and the SRC. It's SRC that rationalized those allowances.

BUT with the same ZEAL CA are dining mid air, can they ensure USF are implemented. Yes, USF, USF, USF.

------ And after airing the allowances for all and sundry, expect every politician to get 5 relatives employed in CA. So in two years time, the staff of 180 will be 1000.

Francis Wangusi, the CA director-general, for instance, earned a total of Sh6.1 million in per diem in the year to June 2015, topping the list of managers who made a fortune out of travel allowances.

The report shows that Mr Wangusi made 16 trips and was away from office for 105 days of the year.

Peris Nkonge, the authority’s director of finance and accounting, was second in the pecking order having pocketed Sh5.7 million in travel allowances from nine trips.

“Local per diem rates have been enhanced and if left unchecked, the number of travel and allowances are getting out of control,” the auditors warned.

The CA pays its executives an average of Sh10,675 per day in per diems for local travel while foreign travel is paid at between $400 (Sh41,700) and $1,000 (Sh104,200) per day depending on the city and country visited.

The list of top travel allowance beneficiaries includes Matano Ndaro, the director of competition affairs, who pocketed Sh5.6 million followed by Martin Ngesa, the assistant director in charge of postal licensing and compliance (Sh5.4 million), Rachel Alwala, the assistant director, e-commerce (Sh4.8 million), and Gababo Wako (Sh4.7 million).

Other senior managers who strained the CA’s budget with hefty per diem earnings are Michael Katundu, the director of information, who received Sh4.5 million, Tom Olwero, assistant director, frequency spectrum management (Sh4.47 million), Mohamed Haji, the assistant manager, frequency planning (Sh4.41 million) and John Omo, the authority’s secretary (Sh4.40 million).

Rose Nduku, an enforcement officer at the CA, logged a total of 219 days out of office and earned Sh2 million in per diem. The audit did not measure the full impact that prolonged absence of the executives had on operational efficiency, effectiveness and achievement of targets.

______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson

On 5 October 2015 at 12:49, Alex Watila via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

...

The article goes on to say that

*“**In most cases, the report says, non-technical staff travelled to attend technical events such as meetings of the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union, Bern-based Universal Postal Union and Arusha-headquartered Pan African Postal Union.*

*“There were cases where travel was not in line with the official departmental mandate,” says the report.”*

*From:* Watila Alex [mailto:awatila@yahoo.co.uk] *Sent:* Monday, October 5, 2015 9:46 AM *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Subject:* Globe-trotting CA executives pocket Sh307m in one year

Senior managers went on a travelling spree in pursuit of allowances, the report says, culminating to some officials staying out of their workplace for a total of seven months.

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Senior executives pocketed Sh307.2 million in tax-free travelling allowances in the year ended June 2015, underlining continued wastage of public funds.

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Yesterday's Nation( 8th Oct 2015) had some info on this including comments from the CS. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Alex Watila via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Have not heard of any repercussions

Regards,

*From:* Peter Karunyu via skunkworks [mailto:skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke] *Sent:* Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:54 AM *To:* Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Subject:* Re: [Skunkworks] Globe-trotting CA executives pocket Sh307m in one year

Hey guys,

Has there been any repercussions since this story was revealed?

Or it has become business as usual?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Alex, is there a vacancy? I seriously would not mind working at CA :) Those allowances jo.

Seriously,

We certainly need Kenyans to attend the said meetings. Imagine an ITU or CTO, or IGF or Plenipot or ICANN's GAC without a Kenyan delegation? It would rubbish our claim as being the "Silicon Savannah". Should we vilify those allowances? Ask Sarah Serem and the SRC. It's SRC that rationalized those allowances.

BUT with the same ZEAL CA are dining mid air, can they ensure USF are implemented. Yes, USF, USF, USF.

------

And after airing the allowances for all and sundry, expect every politician to get 5 relatives employed in CA. So in two years time, the staff of 180 will be 1000.

Francis Wangusi, the CA director-general, for instance, earned a total of Sh6.1 million in per diem in the year to June 2015, topping the list of managers who made a fortune out of travel allowances.

The report shows that Mr Wangusi made 16 trips and was away from office for 105 days of the year.

Peris Nkonge, the authority’s director of finance and accounting, was second in the pecking order having pocketed Sh5.7 million in travel allowances from nine trips.

“Local per diem rates have been enhanced and if left unchecked, the number of travel and allowances are getting out of control,” the auditors warned.

The CA pays its executives an average of Sh10,675 per day in per diems for local travel while foreign travel is paid at between $400 (Sh41,700) and $1,000 (Sh104,200) per day depending on the city and country visited.

The list of top travel allowance beneficiaries includes Matano Ndaro, the director of competition affairs, who pocketed Sh5.6 million followed by Martin Ngesa, the assistant director in charge of postal licensing and compliance (Sh5.4 million), Rachel Alwala, the assistant director, e-commerce (Sh4.8 million), and Gababo Wako (Sh4.7 million).

Other senior managers who strained the CA’s budget with hefty per diem earnings are Michael Katundu, the director of information, who received Sh4.5 million, Tom Olwero, assistant director, frequency spectrum management (Sh4.47 million), Mohamed Haji, the assistant manager, frequency planning (Sh4.41 million) and John Omo, the authority’s secretary (Sh4.40 million).

Rose Nduku, an enforcement officer at the CA, logged a total of 219 days out of office and earned Sh2 million in per diem. The audit did not measure the full impact that prolonged absence of the executives had on operational efficiency, effectiveness and achievement of targets.

______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson

On 5 October 2015 at 12:49, Alex Watila via skunkworks < skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

The article goes on to say that

*“**In most cases, the report says, non-technical staff travelled to attend technical events such as meetings of the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union, Bern-based Universal Postal Union and Arusha-headquartered Pan African Postal Union.*

*“There were cases where travel was not in line with the official departmental mandate,” says the report.”*

*From:* Watila Alex [mailto:awatila@yahoo.co.uk] *Sent:* Monday, October 5, 2015 9:46 AM *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> *Subject:* Globe-trotting CA executives pocket Sh307m in one year

Senior managers went on a travelling spree in pursuit of allowances, the report says, culminating to some officials staying out of their workplace for a total of seven months.

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