Treasury Cabinet Secretary nominee John Mbadi has dispelled reports suggesting that he embezzled funds from the University of Nairobi (UoN) during his stint at the institution’s finance department to finance his 2007 Parliamentary bid for the then Gwassi Constituency, now Suba South.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
The allegations started circulating following Mbadi’s nomination by President William Ruto, owing largely to the fact that after graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from UoN, he was employed in the same institution’s finance department,
He started out as an Assistant Accountant before rising though the ranks to become an Accountant, Senior Accountant II and then Senior Accountant I.
Addressing the allegations when he appeared before Parliament’s Committee on Appointments for vetting on Saturday, Mbadi clarified that he stopped working for UoN in 2004, three years prior to lodging his Parliamentary bid.
“I saw the issue of corruption at UoN in some email and the allegations was that while working at the university, I used the institution’s funds to campaign. The person who sent that message is probably not alive to the fact that I left the university, went elsewhere, worked for three and a half years before I became a Member of Parliament,” he said.
“I left the university in 2004. I actually resigned and got my pension back. It was Ksh.218,000. If I stole their money, they would have not paid me my pension.”
He added that despite using limited resources to drum up support for his bid, he was able to clinch the Gwassi Parliamentary seat.
“I think the person who sent the email is someone who is wondering how I made it to Parliament. I want to tell him/her that I was the least endowed (during the campaigns), in 2007,” he said.
“They used to make a joke that I was campaigning with a bicycle and made it to Parliament because of the trust my constituents had in me...CONTINUE READING>>
