Antony Wamukota is the current GM design and construction in charge of constructing the transmission lines. He has been only in that position for less than 6 months.
One of the key factors for one to occupy such office is to have a master’s degree, Wamukota does not have that. The rogue chairman, Joe Mutambu who joined KETRACO in AprilL 2021 ensured he put Wakukota in this position. This was after Wamukota bought 3 land cruiser VX, V8 as a gift for himself, also gifting MD Fernandes Barasa and the rogue chairman Joe Mutambu. This is what is in the public domain.
On the other hand, DR Siror is an engineer, with a masters and PhD in electrical engineering, he is the man in charge of the Maintenance of all high voltage power lines in the country.
The olkaria-Lessos-Kisumu power line was commissioned in June last year, there was embezzlement of billions of funds. Antony Wamukota was fingered for the looting.
Some questions that need answers:
These are the few cases of massive embezzlement of funds by Wamukota.
Fernandes Barasa is resigning from his position in February to run for the seat of the governor Kakamega County.
Wamukota has been appointed acting MD though Barasa is on his terminal leave. This is where the trouble started.
According to insiders, Wamukota has seen Dr Siror as a big competitor for the MD position, he is doing all efforts to frustrate Siror.
It all started from Siror being a compulsory leave which he refuted since the Ag MD can’t order him to such unless the board agrees. From the clip where Siror powers are being stripped, the repercussions are that for the last one week, no maintenance works have gone on on the power lines. The current acting MD is not approving the usage of budget, this is to frustrate Dr Siror and label him a failure so that he can have his way as the MD.
The CS energy Monica Juma should move with speed and save KETRACO from this.