Two more companies have come under the scrutiny of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission investigators following their transactions with the NYS.
EACC detectives want to establish if Jumbo Commodities Ltd and OM Millers Ltd had any role in the National Youth Service scandal in which taxpayers’ lost millions of shillings.
A source at the EACC said they are investigating the relationship between the two companies, that seem to have had tenders at the NYS with influence from the Ministry of Devolution’s administrative director office.
“The two companies have raised concerns because they seem to be operated by the same people, yet they bid for tenders as separate companies,” the source, who did not want to be identified because the investigations are still at an early stage, said.
The EACC detectives want to know how a personal phone number belonging to one of the OM Millers Ltd directors is the same one used as the contact telephone for Jumbo Commodities Ltd.
OM millers is a private company registered on February 24, 2010 and whose physical address is LR No 209/8663 Monrovia Street in Maendeleo House, Nairobi.
The registered directors and shareholders of OM Millers Ltd are listed as Piyush Savla, Sunil Savla, Nayan Savla, Mili Savla, Mansukhlal Savla and Kapila Mansukhlal. Each has 3,000 shares.
Only 18,000 of the 50,000 OM Millers Ltd shares are allocated to directors and shareholders. Some 32,000 shares of the company remain unallocated. Jumbo Commodities Ltd was registered on November 17, 2014, and the physical address is LR No 209/4475, Kimathi House, Nairobi.
The listed directors are Vincent Cheruiyot and Jackson Kimeu, each with 50 shares. The other 900 shares are unallocated.