However it was not until claims were made in parliament this June about Charterhouse's involvement in money laundering and tax evasion that Finance Minister Amos Kimunya put the bank under statutory management pending further investigation...
Vol 47 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
With Finance Minister Amos Muhinga Kimunya he was making a virtue of necessity: most aid has been suspended or cut because Western countries think President Mwai Kibaki's government is not doing enough to stop corruption or drug exports...
Amos Kimunya was promoted from Lands to Finance Martha Karua from the backwater of Water Resources to Justice...
Kimunya's call to the bank The urbane new Finance Minister Amos Kimunya must persuade the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that Kibaki's fight against corruption is serious this time...
So some of Kibaki's closest allies have had to split their portfolios: Kiambaa member of parliament Njenga Karume was named Defence Minister but the Special Projects part of the portfolio went to Ford-K's John Munye; rising star Amos Kimunya kept the Lands portfolio but had to give over housing responsibilities to Malava MP Soita Shitanda...